Bigmouths Strike Again: Bashing Pumpkins Edition
Been a long time since rock festivals were about peace, love, and understanding, and that anti-maxim goes triple for the Carling Weekend. Still though, you'd think the bands would present a unified front and show a little love for each other. And, you'd think wrong. Here's what a big Reading/Leeds scheduled artist had to say about bill-mate Billy Corgan et al.
I was never a big Smashing Pumpkins fan back when they were the Pumpkins, not to shit on Billy (Corgan) or anything but I don't hear anything that would make me want to care.Guess the Pumpkins smasher, take the jump.I think trying to resurrect the name Smashing Pumpkins .........its all a bit corporate for me.
(via NME)
Posted at 2:29 PM in Bigmouths Strike Again
YA GOTTA LOVE TRENT.
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im right there with trent, and that 'Net interview they just posted last week, pushed me far beyond 'not caring'..
at least there's always disarm. and soma.
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I like them both, but isn't it a bit corporate to label everything from stickers to lunchboxes with little NIN's? Or releasing 1,000 differant "remix" and single cds for the kids to buy? The NIN logo might as well be the Coca Cola ribbion or the Nike swoosh
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Y'know, I didn't actually need to jump for this one!
DwD
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And how is Billy Corrigan going as "Smashing Pumpkins" for the money any different from Trent Reznor appearing as "Nine Inch Nails" for the money. They are both has beens.
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No love lost for either Pumpkins or NIN, but Trent has a couple things going for him: he never mistakenly thought he could shed the Nails tarp and the world would follow him. He also never threw the tarp back on himself when it was clear that's what was expected of him.
"Year Zero" is his stab at cyberpunk which, in retrospect, isn't much different from "Pretty Hate Machine" aside from snazzier patches on the Yamaha. "Zeitgeist" desperately wants to be "Melon Collier". Same boat, different oars... But Trent never pretended his was a yacht.
DwD
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I don't mind Zeitgeist, even though it's not that great, but Trent is spot-on. There's nothing new or compelling there. I'm not a big NIN fan, but Trent's a smart, interesting guy.
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Zeitgeist was streaming for a week on aol and from other sources before its release. I had a chance to listen to it a number of times. It is better than most music out there right now, but I doubt it will crack my top ten from this year, although I am sure it will grow on me some.
I have yet to purchase the album and have no plans to do so in the near future. In fact, I picked up Spoon's new release first even though I used to consider myself a huge SP fan back in the day and did the preorder bs. I will eventually own the album, but must admit I am somewhat soured by the obvious money grab surrounding it...
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Trent speaks the truth--to believe otherwise is to live in your wasted youth.
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possibly the first time ive agreed with trent, but yeah, he's a bit hypocritical. and i've never been a fan of his.
i still swear the "push the button" song steals its vocal cadence from "extraordinary machine" by fiona apple...
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trent rules
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Odd part about this pot is that Billy and Jimmy basically were the only musicians on Siamase Dream. Trent has a very similar deal on the early NIN albums.
You kind of wonder if Trent looked and Billy and saw a lot of himself in Billy... and didn't like what he saw.
Just a thought...
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Trent has a lot of nerve. Like he hasn't always mined the same easy well of teen angst that Corgan has.
I'm still waiting to hear Stephen Malkmus' take on the newly version of the Pumpkins.
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i feel the same way about both of them. both showed early promise and then got too full of themselves.
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they're fighting over courtney
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