Behold! The Smashing Pumpkins

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Pitchfork gli molla la sufficienza

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ragazzi, questa è fantastica:

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan discussed Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder on Opie and Anthony on Thursday, “You can’t manufacture people like me. Maybe you don’t want to. How many Eddie Vedder clones have they marched out? And I’m not a big Vedder fan, but at least he’s Eddie Vedder. You know who he is, you know what he’s about. Okay great, these other people I don’t know what they think. They might be from Mars for all I know.”

A few years ago, onstage during the Smashing Pumpkins 20th Anniversary Tour, Corgan talked about Vedder’s song for the Cubs, “If the Cubs did have a chance this last year that just passed, fuckin’ Eddie Vedder killed that shit dead. Last I checked Eddie ain’t living here, okay? Eddie ain’t living here to write a song about my fuckin’ team.”

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Io continuo a dire che è scoppiato, e non sa che inventarsi per far parlare di se, dal momento che con la pura musica non ci riesce più a quanto leggo (non ho ancora ascoltato).

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ecco cosa ne pensiamo anche noi http://www.panopticonmag.com/v3/recensi ... eania.html

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sulla pagina facebook vari commenti... sembra che i fan siano coscienti perlomeno

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Forse i fan dei Pumpkins ci stanno con la testa un po' più di Billy ma anche di altri reduci dei 90s

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Corgan a cuore aperto su Oceania, il rock attuale, Soundgarden, e anche un po' di Radiohead

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Come saprete ha aperto una tea room in periferia a Chicago



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Corgan contro tutti, in particolare contro Pitchfork e Malkmus

riassunto da grungereport

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has again gone after Pavement and their frontman Stephen Malkmus in a new interview with Stereogum. The feud dates back to 1994 when Pavement released the song “Range Life” which mocked The Smashing Pumpkins and Stone Temple Pilots. Here are some of the lyrics from the song, “Out on tour with the Smashing Pumpkins, Nature kids, I- they don’t have no function, I don’t understand what they mean, And I could really give a fuck, Stone Temple Pilots, they’re elegant bachelors, They’re foxy to me, are they foxy to you? I will agree they deserve absolutely nothing, Nothing more than me.”

Corgan talked about the hipster mentality of the Alternative community these days and sites like Pitchfork, “Don’t punish me for wanting to be an entrepreneur, don’t punish me for wanting to be independent. If you think it’s bourgeois that I talk about business, well sorry, but I’ve gotta fucking pay the bills. Would you rather have me exploited by a record label, and be sent back in by some asshole behind a door and say, “Make it more like Siamese Dream.” I hear those stories all the time, and I’m sure you hear them too. So don’t castigate somebody for trying to make the new models. Don’t castigate somebody for trying to survive. Don’t castigate somebody who wants to just do weird music the way he wants to do it. Don’t have fickle rules for one guy and don’t apply them to me. I mean, where was the outcry when Malkmus went on his money-run? I mean, he should have been slayed by the indie community. Absolutely slayed, and they didn’t say a fucking peep. You know why? Because they all wanted to go. They all ranked that record high, and they wanted to go. They said that was money well spent. Total hypocrisy.” BillCo elaborated regarding being trashed by people in the alternative community, “I’ve been dealing with it for years. I’ve been dealing with it since ’94 when that shit came out of Malkmus’s mouth. He made it like I was the one. He made me the target.”

BillCo also talked more about why never fit into the alternative community while others did, “It’s easy to pick on the geek. He’s nerdy. My clothes are too tight, I’m always 10 pounds overweight, I’ve got crooked teeth, one of my eyes is bigger than the other one, I’ve got no hair, I sing with a funny voice. It’s easy to pick on the geek. They didn’t pick on Kurt because they all wanted to be Kurt. They all wanted to be Beck, they all want to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke’s okay because he’s “the right look” funny. I’m not “the right look” funny, I’m 6’4″, I’ve got my mother’s hips, people are like, “Who is this guy?” I wouldn’t be up there if I weren’t talented, you know? And music saved my life. Music is a sacred thing to me, and I jump up and down about it, get silly about it, but I obviously have a holy reverence for it I don’t get where it gets to be so strange. I mean to me, look, if the tongue is in the cheek on both sides, let’s have some fun. A good debate. I’ll make fun of your handlebar mustache, your Freddy Mercury look, you know what I mean? And you can make fun of my ill-fitting Gap pants. But then when it gets to be truly invective and you see that the source of the invective is because it’s a new business model, it’s just dumb. Let’s destroy this to build this. Let’s celebrate the exclusion of that. Let’s celebrate the kid in his basement, and the next year let’s pretend that the kid in his basement sucks, and let’s celebrate the new kid in his basement. Just call it for what it is — it’s a dumb game, and nobody’s winning. Where’s this starship of movement? Where are the record sales? I mean there’s a lot of festivals, there’s a lot of bands, but in to address it in wrestling language, I don’t see anybody getting over.”