Is anyone else sick of Billy Corgan? D:
He's on a mission. He's definately going to ruin the good name of the Smashing Pumpkins single-handedly (literally, because his new "band member" pawns don't matter) by diluting the pure, raw emotion of their previous great legacy with politics, religion, and an "always moving forward" attitude. I'm sick of it.
Listen to Gish (the first Smashing Pumpkins album) and then listen to Zeitgeist (arguably the latest SP album, unless you really count "American Gothic" which isn't more than a single, I don't think). There are a couple good songs on Zeitgeist (Neverlost and... something) but I HATE that his music has become about subject matter so goddamn much that it's to the detriment of his ability to communicate emotion as deftly as he did in the 90s.
I'm not saying Gish was their best album at all, but the music is raw. It isn't crammed with politics and finding god/renewed faith and synths and studio overworking. It sounds like somebody recorded it in the bathroom. It's simple, it doesn't make you think, everyone can connect to it in some matter even though the words don't always make sense (Rhinoceros). There is feeling.
Mark Rothko's ultimate goal was to be able to communicate emotion and/or a story without any words and without relying on cultural references. He wanted to be able to touch EVERYBODY with his work. It wasn't extravegent. It wasn't $55 a ticket to see his bloated corpse dance across the stage at the fox. He stuck to his art with a dedication that is astounding and so hard to find today. He didn't put his art in commercials, either, and still claim that he was still only working "for the music". I think, if anything, that Corgan needs to get real. He let Visa murder TODAY for a commercial that made no sense. He's continuing a brand (the Smashing Pumpkins is a brand, there, I said it) down the shitter, and taking everything that that collective had made and that was beautiful, and prostituting it so that he can live off that money while he puts out self-indulgent bullshit about the very things people want to escape from.
Nobody wants to hear about how great your relationship with "god" is, or how much America sucked under Bush. We want to hear about the sometimes agonizing, always difficult journey that is life. Not your arrival. We want to put on a cd that reminds us that even in our most trying times, there is always someone else going through the same thing and that these trials don't escape even those with million dollar mansions and 30 cars and model wives. I want to hear someone's raw emotions on display, because I'm sick of seeing everyone's glorious arrival at the top. And I may be a cunt saying this, but I'm pretty goddamn sure I'm not the only person craving this internal, emotional connection with music that has been slowly cut off since D'Arcy left in '99.
Listen to Gish (the first Smashing Pumpkins album) and then listen to Zeitgeist (arguably the latest SP album, unless you really count "American Gothic" which isn't more than a single, I don't think). There are a couple good songs on Zeitgeist (Neverlost and... something) but I HATE that his music has become about subject matter so goddamn much that it's to the detriment of his ability to communicate emotion as deftly as he did in the 90s.
I'm not saying Gish was their best album at all, but the music is raw. It isn't crammed with politics and finding god/renewed faith and synths and studio overworking. It sounds like somebody recorded it in the bathroom. It's simple, it doesn't make you think, everyone can connect to it in some matter even though the words don't always make sense (Rhinoceros). There is feeling.
Mark Rothko's ultimate goal was to be able to communicate emotion and/or a story without any words and without relying on cultural references. He wanted to be able to touch EVERYBODY with his work. It wasn't extravegent. It wasn't $55 a ticket to see his bloated corpse dance across the stage at the fox. He stuck to his art with a dedication that is astounding and so hard to find today. He didn't put his art in commercials, either, and still claim that he was still only working "for the music". I think, if anything, that Corgan needs to get real. He let Visa murder TODAY for a commercial that made no sense. He's continuing a brand (the Smashing Pumpkins is a brand, there, I said it) down the shitter, and taking everything that that collective had made and that was beautiful, and prostituting it so that he can live off that money while he puts out self-indulgent bullshit about the very things people want to escape from.
Nobody wants to hear about how great your relationship with "god" is, or how much America sucked under Bush. We want to hear about the sometimes agonizing, always difficult journey that is life. Not your arrival. We want to put on a cd that reminds us that even in our most trying times, there is always someone else going through the same thing and that these trials don't escape even those with million dollar mansions and 30 cars and model wives. I want to hear someone's raw emotions on display, because I'm sick of seeing everyone's glorious arrival at the top. And I may be a cunt saying this, but I'm pretty goddamn sure I'm not the only person craving this internal, emotional connection with music that has been slowly cut off since D'Arcy left in '99.