Billy Corgan

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Y'know, Corgan really isn't an unhandsome man. Why does he insist on looking like a cross between Uncle Fester and Mister Roarke?

so creepy

He said something at the time about wanting to be cured of his vanity or the like. Which was funny because his short hair dyed black look in mid to late 1995 was probably the best he'd looked yet.

condescending old fossils whose attention spans are so "long" that they only show up on threads about acts that peaked before 1996

I'm sure you will give up hobbies you no longer enjoy someday, and the Moldy Peaches peaked in 2001.

nicknaming your balls is not a hobby

sorry. i love "Party Rock Anthem" and "Super bass."

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:34 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry for morby doc'ing

just gotta swing in to say how much I hate this guy's music it's so horrible thanks for listening everybody

He feeds on your hate and shits out pure love.

(Which he then sells.)

Intoxicated with the madness.

just gotta swing in to say how much I hate this guy's music it's so horrible thanks for listening everybody

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 15, 2012 9:37 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some people make music with an audible Sabbath influence, some people just write books about them

the Alternative dream

aero otm.

Attention SXSW showcasing artists: Billy Corgan has some fighting words. "I'm shocked by the lack of evolution in alternative rock music," he told me backstage after his Interactive panel with author Brian Solis on Monday. "Let me put it this way: I should not be here to the level that I still I am. If the music out there was that fucking great, where is someone crushing me on the numbers? They're not. Our generation crushed a lot of bands right out the fucking door. And they had to sit on the sidelines for 20 fucking years until people got nostalgic and brought that stuff back." His Smashing Pumpkins are readying the release of a new album, which Corgan says will be more of a multimedia experience. "I'm standing exactly where every artist should hope to stand," said Corgan, who remained in town to see the Yahowa 13 documentary The Source, which screens one last time Friday, 6:45pm, at the Alamo Lamar B. "The only thing left to do is be great."

hate to say it, but he's right. mainstream 'alternative' music is a wasteland compared to early 90s.

I was going to say, cut through the self-aggrandizement and there's a defensible point there, even if it's undercut by differences in the market.

my no pumpkins bashing policy in full effect. but aero on the money.

bashing by proxy is excused in your policy scott?

Attention SXSW showcasing artists: Billy Corgan has some fighting words. "I'm shocked by the lack of evolution in alternative rock music," he told me backstage after his Interactive panel with author Brian Solis on Monday. "Let me put it this way: I should not be here to the level that I still I am. If the music out there was that fucking great, where is someone crushing me on the numbers? They're not. Our generation crushed a lot of bands right out the fucking door. And they had to sit on the sidelines for 20 fucking years until people got nostalgic and brought that stuff back." His Smashing Pumpkins are readying the release of a new album, which Corgan says will be more of a multimedia experience. "I'm standing exactly where every artist should hope to stand," said Corgan, who remained in town to see the Yahowa 13 documentary The Source, which screens one last time Friday, 6:45pm, at the Alamo Lamar B. "And my interviews are hotter...Holla."

"And my interviews are hotter...Holla."

just please fucking stop

Corgan, who remained in town to see the Yahowa 13 documentary The Source

never forget
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i can't tell if jon is telling corgan to stop or if he's telling me to stop putting fake quotes in corgan's mouth

telling corgan but, tbh, i had no idea you added that fake one, he's said some really cringeworthy shit lately and i would not put that one past him in the least, given his attempts to be "funny"

today is the greatest day, holla

Corgan, Kanye, Albini...is there something about Chicago musicians who can never stop saying horrible bullshit in interviews?

In the spirit of ILE crediting Poltergeist to Steven Spielberg, BC gets no props for writing a couple Hole albums?

I think he really only mostly had a hand in Celebrity Skin, right?

The difference is that Corgan actually got credit on CS, Morbs.

Don't think he was even credited, was he?

Wait, I guess he was. So what was Courtney Love doing at the time claiming he didn't do anything if he's credited all over it?

iirc, she was just claiming that he didn't "write" the songs, but the general understanding was p much that he did, she was just trying to downplay his contributions

I thought the actual issue was that everyone assumed Billy wrote everything by himself and Courtney just sang them and her assertion was that they wrote them together as a collaborative effort; she definitely gave him a ton of credit in her most recent Behind the Music special.

oh boy, this thread is gonna be fun when the c-love stans descend on it

the golden age of alternative...stone temple pilots, smashing pumpkins, hum...billy's right...bring back them golden days when bands were awesome

collective soul you guys

literally impossible to dislike any of these bands without some hidden motive other than "they're horrible"

it's true, though, who is corgan referring to when he talks about this golden age? smashing pumpkins, nirvana ... pearl jam? who does he see as the really great bands of the alternative era?

him, himself and he

Zwan, too, I guess.

all those excellent bands who you don't remember because all the good music of the era was actually rap & metal & dance music

i listened to a Hum record on spotify, that band was fuckin' tight man, honestly

i saw spacehog live but i got a free ticket from this guy at work.

he ended up being a xian weirdo. another guy went to his "fun" church with him and this other dude was with the spacehog christian and his gf, and all of a sudden the spacehog christian and his gf started rolling on the floor and speaking in tongues and shit and the regular dude was like "holllly shiiit this is fucked up" and then told me about it at work on monday. but i did go to see spacehog with him and he didn't do anything weird at the show, but the guy from spacehog mooned the crowd and took a beer bottle and shook it up and then popped the top and pretended to jack off on the audience with beer foam. don't know if it was the one that married liv tyler or not.

sorry i just want to get some 90s stuff that happened to me out there in the world.

"The only thing left to do is be great."

It's actually pretty humble of Billy to admit he hasn't gotten around to this yet.

i did go to see spacehog with him and he didn't do anything weird at the show, but the guy from spacehog mooned the crowd and took a beer bottle and shook it up and then popped the top and pretended to jack off on the audience with beer foam. don't know if it was the one that married liv tyler or not.

I love you forever.

I need a brainwash now

the guy from spacehog mooned the crowd and took a beer bottle and shook it up and then popped the top and pretended to jack off on the audience with beer foam

a fair description of the 90s, also

corgan just sounds cranky to me with his whole 'we sold WAY more albums than they did and you ppl think THEY'RE famous? pssht.'

Well, to be fair, he did sell a fuck load of records, and he did it pretty much without compromising, for better or for worse. I mean, the sprawling double album sold something like 10 million copies. I'm not sure what Corgan's point is, and he is a sour grapes sort of why am I not invited to the party boo hoo dude, but if ever there was affirmation for ego, Corgan got it in droves.

Personally, I never bought an album beyond "Gish," so I blame all of you for enabling him.