Corgan wants to reunite Pumpkins

gldstwmn · #1 06-22-2005, 11:05 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Musi....ap/index.html
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- On the same day Billy Corgan released his first solo album, he revealed that he wants to reunite his band, The Smashing Pumpkins.

"For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep," Corgan wrote in a full-page advertisement published Tuesday in Chicago newspapers.

"But now I want you to be among the first to know that I have made plans to renew and revive The Smashing Pumpkins. I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams," he wrote.

The Smashing Pumpkins, a leader in the early 1990s alternative rock revolution, broke up in 2000 after winning two Grammys and selling millions of albums during 13 strife-ridden years. Corgan's subsequent project, Zwan, dissolved after only one album.

Corgan, who lives in the Chicago area, did not reveal any details of a Pumpkins revival, including a possible timeline or what form a lineup might take.

Band members included drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy Wretzky, who left after the final album's recording and was replaced by former Hole bassist Melissa auf der Maur on the subsequent tour.

Corgan's solo debut, "TheFutureEmbrace," was released Tuesday. Drummer Chamberlin -- who also played in Zwan -- is featured on the album, which takes an electronic turn.

GardenStateGirlie · #2 06-22-2005, 11:16 AM

Wow. Apparently even HE thinks his album is going to flop

I love Melissa auf der Maur but if they reunite, i'd want D'Arcy to come back...wonder what the chances of that will be.

gldstwmn · #3 06-22-2005, 11:17 AM

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Wow. Apparently even HE thinks his album is going to flop

I love Melissa auf der Maur but if they reunite, i'd want D'Arcy to come back...wonder what the chances of that will be.

That's what I thought too. Way to publicize the new record. I love D'Arcy too.

dissention · #4 06-22-2005, 11:18 AM

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Wow. Apparently even HE thinks his album is going to flop

It will because it's unlistenable swill.

I was truly shocked at how bad it was from the stuff I heard.

GardenStateGirlie · #5 06-22-2005, 11:27 AM

I refuse to listen to it because I don't want to be totally put off. His best work has always been with that group of people (along with the work he did for Hole's Celebrity Skin). I would think he'd be incredibly lacking on his own.

dissention · #6 06-22-2005, 11:39 AM

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I refuse to listen to it because I don't want to be totally put off. His best work has always been with that group of people (along with the work he did for Hole's Celebrity Skin). I would think he'd be incredibly lacking on his own.

I didn't have any expectations, really, but when I heard it, I knew I wouldn't be buying it. It's pretty bad, right up there with Courtney Love's solo album in terms of sheer awfulness. His voice is very obnoxious on the tracks I heard, moreso than before, and the production is so muddy and amateurish.

sparky · #7 06-22-2005, 11:41 AM

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His voice is very obnoxious on the tracks I heard, moreso than before

I find this difficult to imagine. That is one shrill, whiny instrument.

hayley · #8 06-22-2005, 12:01 PM

He is such a lamer. I actually did a real life -_- when I read it.

The solo album is terrible. He sucks. But I've always had a hard time liking the Smashing Pumpkins.

dissention · #9 06-22-2005, 12:17 PM

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I find this difficult to imagine. That is one shrill, whiny instrument.

Ha. You called it an actual "instrument." How generous of you.

I've always liked the Smashing Pumpkins (nothing after Mellon Collie, though), but his voice can be the most obnoxious thing in the world. Like nails across a chalkboard.

GardenStateGirlie · #10 06-22-2005, 12:29 PM

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I've always liked the Smashing Pumpkins (nothing after Mellon Collie, though)

Agreed. 1979, Bullet With The Butterfly Wings, Tonight Tonight, etc. It was a kickass album.

sparky · #11 06-22-2005, 12:37 PM

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I've always liked the Smashing Pumpkins (nothing after Mellon Collie, though), but his voice can be the most obnoxious thing in the world. Like nails across a chalkboard.

Ya think ? At proper volume, I suspect it could peel stucco.
It could certainly strip the paint off a car.

chiliD · #12 06-22-2005, 01:03 PM

He probably needs the money so he can keep his Cubs season tickets.

trackaghost · #13 06-22-2005, 02:37 PM

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Ha. You called it an actual "instrument." How generous of you.

I've always liked the Smashing Pumpkins (nothing after Mellon Collie, though), but his voice can be the most obnoxious thing in the world. Like nails across a chalkboard.

Up until Mellon Collie (which is such a stupid title) they were great!
Then Corgan got too self-indulgent.
Their last album was called Machina: The Machines Of God

I mean, honestly.

Let us gaze upon the awfulness of his latest look:

Corgan is such an idiot. He was slagging off Zwan the other day, saying that he let others come in and ruin his music, but that one album was a hell of a lot better than the music he's making now, or even the last few Pumpkins' albums. It's disrespectful to the people who worked hard on that record.

Billy played London recently and I found this review in The Guardian very amusing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/revie...510297,00.html

The best bit:
"Live, Billy wears black, displays a Lex Luthor-style shaved skull and handles guitar and vocals, but has surrounded himself with a trio of musicians - one of them female, exactly as in his previous two bands - playing synths and electronically-enhanced drums. Watching them standing at their stylised music stations wearing quaint techo-goth costumes was like stumbling into a Depeche Mode gig from 1988, except shorn of the hits and silly PVC hotpants. The wall of tiled lights behind them, flashing up shifting shapes and colours, suggested we were trapped in an enormous urinal."

sparky · #14 06-22-2005, 02:42 PM

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The wall of tiled lights behind them, flashing up shifting shapes and colours, suggested we were trapped in an enormous urinal."

How fitting ! I believe that to be one place he belongs.

dissention · #15 06-22-2005, 02:45 PM

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Let us gaze upon the awfulness of his latest look:

How absurd. He makes Stevie look like the grand dame of fashion.

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The best bit:
"Live, Billy wears black, displays a Lex Luthor-style shaved skull and handles guitar and vocals, but has surrounded himself with a trio of musicians - one of them female, exactly as in his previous two bands - playing synths and electronically-enhanced drums. Watching them standing at their stylised music stations wearing quaint techo-goth costumes was like stumbling into a Depeche Mode gig from 1988, except shorn of the hits and silly PVC hotpants. The wall of tiled lights behind them, flashing up shifting shapes and colours, suggested we were trapped in an enormous urinal."

LMAO!

I saw the Pumpkins live years ago and thought the show really sucked. There aren't enough roofies one could slip me that would make me go to a SOLO concert of his. I'd rather blow Saddam.