http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/09/jessica-simpson-the-great-pumpkin-connection/
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
that pic looks like this cover by german band
http://dreamchimney.com/slvs/Kopfsalat_20071005075249.jpg
― jaxon, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
The "I Think That I'm In Love with You" v.s. "Disarm" mash-up should be made any day now to celebrate this absurd pair.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 December 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
ok that close up of corgan's face made me lol. "WHAT HAVE I DONE."
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 December 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"he's too old for her
looks more like he's stalking her than dating her"
lolol
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 December 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
he looks more like billy drago with each passing year
― you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon (omar little), Thursday, 17 December 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/fringe-the-observer.jpg
― krampus activities (latebloomer), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
The new Pumpkins song is actually not surprisingly not horrible. The drumming sucks, but thats to be expected when you replace Jimmy Chamberlain with a 19 year old. I really dig the guitar solo. So much better than the Zeitgeist stuff.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 December 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/23/smashing.pumpkins.ppl/index.html?iref=obinsite
oops
― jaymc won $5800 on day 1! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 July 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
The Grunge Book? Photo of 'ol SP? HORRIBLE. You'd think we were unattractive trolls...coming off digging for truffles in shit.about 3 hours ago via txt
BillyBilly Corgan
― markers, Monday, 26 July 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
confirming, in case there was any doubt, that it was NOT a stage move.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 July 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
wow there is a decent chunk of crazy there
# Soon the governments in western nations will be changing the temperatures in your home over-riding your control, all in the name of green BS 7:47 AM Jul 24th via txt # Don't believe me? Look up 'smart grid technology'. All new control boxes will have wireless technology by law. Why?Because U use 2 much NRG! 7:49 AM Jul 24th via txt
# Don't believe me? Look up 'smart grid technology'. All new control boxes will have wireless technology by law. Why?Because U use 2 much NRG! 7:49 AM Jul 24th via txt
― jaymc won $5800 on day 1! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 July 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
My parents (74 years old) live in northern CA, and my dad was ranting about this temp-control thing in their house.
― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Monday, 26 July 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
sorta wish that shit were true
― iatee, Monday, 26 July 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
State Proposes to Take Control of Home Temps
― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Monday, 26 July 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, waht a dick
http://origin.avclub.com/chicago/articles/billy-corgan-gets-in-a-nasty-internet-fight-with-a,60967/
― dougie instructor (jjjusten), Friday, 26 August 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
ah crap i didnt see that somebody bumped a smashing pumpkins thread about this already
― dougie instructor (jjjusten), Friday, 26 August 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
S'ok. But yeah, Corgan is an utter asshole, proven more and more every day.
Tempted to start a taking sides thread, T/S Billy Corgan vs. Morrissey: which is pissing away goodwill with his own fans faster?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 26 August 2011 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the funny thing is i have known a lot of people that have dealt with devi over the years, and she is kind of notoriously honest and nice for the boutique pedal world - so this is particularly offensive imo.
― dougie instructor (jjjusten), Friday, 26 August 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
A couple of days and a harrowing plane flight later, the band makes it to a resort town called Surfer’s Paradise, which is more or less the Miami Beach of Australia, a skinny coastal town about an hour south of Brisbane, pounded by waves and plagued with jellyfish, crowded with high-rise hotels popular with Japanese honeymooners. Surfer’s Paradise is the jumping-off point for the Big Day Out tour, a sort of Australian Lollapalooza that Soundgarden will headline this year. In the lobby bar of one of the tallest hotels, Cornell and Thayil are settling back with a couple of beers when Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins wanders through, and decides to join them for a strawberry margarita. Corgan chatters about the pain of his life, the supposed incompetence of his band (everybody rolls their eyes), the lifesaving virtues of Jungian therapy, bands that suck. Cornell gets up to leave. Corgan tells Thayil how important Soundgarden used to be to him, and he baits him by saying that the Pumpkins sometimes do a cover of Soundgarden’s “Outshined” that segues into a Depeche Mode song or something.“I’m thinking of making my next album really new wave,” Corgan says, “like ’83-’84 new wave, not like Berlin. I spend all my time doing things that may be a bit tangential, but I think I’m going to go back to the core, the heart music. Echo and the Bunnymen.”This is standard stuff to anybody who has read even a single Billy Corgan profile, the basic curriculum of Pumpkins 101. But Thayil isn’t buying. He’s sore.“Don’t you see,” Thayil says, “you’re this incredibly talented guy. People like your music. You have a good band. You sell a lot of records. You don’t need all this…stuff.”“What sign are you?” Corgan asks.“What do you mean, what sign am I?” Thayil says. “What difference could that possibly make?”“C’mon,” wheedles Corgan, “when is your birthday?”“All right, goddamn it: September 4th.”“Aha!” Corgan says. “A Virgo. You’re argumentative.”“Damn right, I’m argumentative,” Thayil says, and takes a long, angry pulll at his beer, “which you should know because I’ve been arguing with you for half an hour, not because of any sign.”“I’m a Pisces,” Corgan replies. “We pick up on those things.”A minute later, Corgan, still probing, finally finds the key to Thayil’s heart: “I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back.”Thayil explodes: “What do you mean? You write all the songs, and you do all the interviews. You play the instruments on the album. You control the band to the extent that most people think of Smashing Pumpkins as the Billy Corgan Experience, and all you care about is some photograph?”“But I hate it,” Corgan says, “it means they don’t think I’m the cute one.”“Ooh,” Thayil says a little too loudly as Corgan walks away, “I’ll bet he’s going to call his therapist in Chicago, wake her up at four in the morning, and tell her about that big, mean bear who made fun of him.”The next day at the Big Day Out festival, Thayil is talking to Kim and Kelley Deal in the Breeders’ dressing room when Corgan walks past wearing a long-sleeved Superman T-shirt like the one your four-year-old nephew probably owns.“You hurt me deeply,” Corgan says, touching the giant S on his chest and pouting. “You hurt me deeply in my heart.” The Pumpkins go on to play the best set anybody has ever heard them play, their usual passiveness and precision overlaid with an unfamiliar scrim of anger that throws their music into brilliant relief.
“I’m thinking of making my next album really new wave,” Corgan says, “like ’83-’84 new wave, not like Berlin. I spend all my time doing things that may be a bit tangential, but I think I’m going to go back to the core, the heart music. Echo and the Bunnymen.”
This is standard stuff to anybody who has read even a single Billy Corgan profile, the basic curriculum of Pumpkins 101. But Thayil isn’t buying. He’s sore.
“Don’t you see,” Thayil says, “you’re this incredibly talented guy. People like your music. You have a good band. You sell a lot of records. You don’t need all this…stuff.”
“What sign are you?” Corgan asks.
“What do you mean, what sign am I?” Thayil says. “What difference could that possibly make?”
“C’mon,” wheedles Corgan, “when is your birthday?”
“All right, goddamn it: September 4th.”
“Aha!” Corgan says. “A Virgo. You’re argumentative.”
“Damn right, I’m argumentative,” Thayil says, and takes a long, angry pulll at his beer, “which you should know because I’ve been arguing with you for half an hour, not because of any sign.”
“I’m a Pisces,” Corgan replies. “We pick up on those things.”
A minute later, Corgan, still probing, finally finds the key to Thayil’s heart: “I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back.”
Thayil explodes: “What do you mean? You write all the songs, and you do all the interviews. You play the instruments on the album. You control the band to the extent that most people think of Smashing Pumpkins as the Billy Corgan Experience, and all you care about is some photograph?”
“But I hate it,” Corgan says, “it means they don’t think I’m the cute one.”
“Ooh,” Thayil says a little too loudly as Corgan walks away, “I’ll bet he’s going to call his therapist in Chicago, wake her up at four in the morning, and tell her about that big, mean bear who made fun of him.”
The next day at the Big Day Out festival, Thayil is talking to Kim and Kelley Deal in the Breeders’ dressing room when Corgan walks past wearing a long-sleeved Superman T-shirt like the one your four-year-old nephew probably owns.
“You hurt me deeply,” Corgan says, touching the giant S on his chest and pouting. “You hurt me deeply in my heart.” The Pumpkins go on to play the best set anybody has ever heard them play, their usual passiveness and precision overlaid with an unfamiliar scrim of anger that throws their music into brilliant relief.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 August 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
wait i thought slash fic was supposed to end with corgan and thayil boning
― dougie instructor (jjjusten), Saturday, 27 August 2011 06:20 (twelve years ago) link
Billy is fucked up and wrong here, obviously, but I could only make it about 3 minutes into Ever's response video. Sorry, that person is insufferable.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 27 August 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
the smashing pumpkinshttp://c438342.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/the-smashing-pumpkins-2011.jpg
― tylerw, Saturday, 27 August 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
I'm guessing she plays bass then
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
That's actually Billy Corgan, post-op. They founds some girl who looks just like old Corgan to play bass.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
looooool @ that picture
first iteration Pumpkins >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Zwan record >>>> Zeitgeist >> Corgan solo record >>>>>>>>> everything since
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 27 August 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
I liked his solo album better than Zwan!
― ۩ (crüt), Saturday, 27 August 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
the worst thing about Corgan getting some 19-year-old kid to replace Chamberlain is that he's not even some phenomenal prodigy or anything, the show i saw last year the drumming was kinda lame
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
i really like "G.L.O.W." and "That's the Way (My Love Is)" and a couple of Zwan songs, could probably put together a mix of awesome songs Corgan has done since the first SP breakup but i'd have to slog through a lot of shit to get there
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
is "G.L.O.W." a paean to gorgeous ladies of wrestling?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 August 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
Unfortunately no.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of places reported that it was (which would make sense given Corgan's wrestling fandom) but i haven't seen it confirmed w/ any official quotes or analyzed the lyrics or anything to be sure
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
it's kind of cool that john cusack is in the band now
― IT IS EXECUTION (Z S), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
young cusack too, fresh out of his hot tub time machine
― some dude, Saturday, 27 August 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
Vaguely inevitable
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 October 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/30il5z4.jpg
― wrestlingisreal420 (crüt), Friday, 14 October 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
:O
― fried chicken makes Alex cry, who'd vote for such a wimpy guy? (Abbbottt), Friday, 14 October 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
the day Moses received the download on Mt. Sinai!
― tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
All I'm interested in at this point are the reissues, once those are out, I'm severing all ties with this assclown.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 14 October 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
waitaminit - Fancy Space People played with Smashing Pumpkins?!
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 October 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― wrestlingisreal420 (crüt), Friday, 14 October 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
two things really bummed me out when clicking around on related links:
1. D'Arcy's mugshot2. "Watch Shia LeBoeuff's Marilyn Manson music video"
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Friday, 14 October 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, October 14, 2011 12:38 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
serious question -- what would reissues have to offer? the old records already sound pretty good, don't need remastering, and there's so many dozens of b-sides and non-LP tracks readily available that i don't imagine there'd be much new to bring to light for bonus material.
― some dude, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
although fwiw i posted that without realizing that reissues actually have been announced and saw an interview w/ corgan where he talks about how much unreleased stuff there is for the gish reissue in particular so nevermind i guess
― some dude, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Very fair question. I agree that the originals sound good, for the most part, but I feel like Gish could use some sprucing up. As far as new stuff goes, it looks like there are quite a few things that I've never heard before (at least if the bonus disc stuff listed on wiki for the first two albums right now is accurate). And, even though I have stuff like the Real Studio demos and stuff, it'll be nice to hear those cleaned up.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
1. "Starla (2011 mix)"
2. "Siva (Peel Session)"
3. "Honeyspider (Real Time Demos/2011 mix)"
4. "Hippy Trippy (Crush Music Box demo)"
5. "Snail (live radio performance)"
6. "Plume (2011 mix)"
7. "Bury Me (Real Time Demos/2011 mix)"
8. "Daydream (Old House demo)"
9. "Tristessa (Sub Pop single/2011 mix)"
10. "Girl Named Sandoz (Peel Session)"
11. "Jesus is the Sun (Apartment demo)"
12. "Blue (Gish sessions demo)"
13. "Smiley (Gish sessions demo)"
14. "I Am One (Real Time Demos/2011 mix)"
15. "Seem (Suffer/Aparment demo)"
16. "La Dolly Vita (2011 mix)"
17. "Pulsczar (Gish sessions demo)"
18. "Drown (alternative guitar solo)"
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
Those are the Gish extras, sorry for the fucked formatting. Thats what I get for c+p from wiki.
would literally prefer eating a plate of human shit to having to listen to this even once
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 14 October 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
our intrepid time traveler storms in once again, fresh from a decades-old culture war nobody else cares about
― some dude, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't that pretty much the same kind of posts that aero gets all aggro about when someone makes them in the direction of something he likes?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Vogon_jelzt_reading_poetry.png
― Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 11:17 (eight years ago) link
I was not expecting this at all
http://pitchfork.com/news/64406-smashing-pumpkins-reunited-with-james-iha-for-first-concert-in-16-years/?mbid=social_facebook
― Nourry, Sunday, 27 March 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link
Cripes!
― Todd Palin in snowmobile crash (I know it's serious) (stevie), Sunday, 27 March 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
anything is possible in this world
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
crying
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 March 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I got choked up. Great to see...and a really nice version of "Mayonaise." Always loved James the best.
― Sam Weller, Sunday, 27 March 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
i watched the status quo documentary last night on bbc4 (never been a fan, but got sucked into the story), there is something special about bands who go through court cases, media based slanging matches and then .. after a few years (a very long time in the case of quo) grow the fuck up and realise that its time to acknowledge the good times and just get on with getting on.hopefully this is the start of the same kind of process for billy and the others, as i would suggest that this is a band that could still make good music together ...
― mark e, Sunday, 27 March 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/v4RbFj9.gif?5952
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 March 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
That was great - the "Mayonaise" video
― van smack, Sunday, 27 March 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
literally anything is possible
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 28 March 2016 05:02 (eight years ago) link
oh lol i see i echoed flappy bird there
It's good to see this happen, but I'd be far more impressed if I saw Billy and D'Arcy share a stage again.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Monday, 28 March 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
Sadly I think that's out of Bill's control...D'arcy hasn't played music since she left SP in 1999. Toward the end, she couldn't even remember the songs. She was totally fried on hard drugs and judging by recent pictures and that radio phone call in 2009, she's still drinking and using and basically out of commission...somehow, I'm friends with her on Facebook, and she's totally unrecognizable. The damage with James was entirely interpersonal, I don't think D'arcy could play with SP again even if she wanted to. Billy said a lot of awful shit about James since 2000, but he's never talked shit about D'arcy behind stating the obvious, "she has a lot of problems..."
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 March 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
Yes. Hence why I would be impressed.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Monday, 28 March 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
Having 3/4 of the original lineup on good terms bodes well for a Hall of Fame nomination in the next few years.
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 March 2016 23:53 (eight years ago) link
Billy's new solo album is called The Land of Maybe. Recording finished, only needs to be mixed & mastered.
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14680700_10154271739673005_2497008279490373018_n.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/Swan5/photos/a.312898373004.150334.116888938004/10154271739673005/?type=3&theater
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
are you not entertained?
http://soundcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/billycorgan.jpg
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
Boy, these Corgan appearances on the Alex Jones show are, uh, something else. (Available for your viewing "pleasure" on YouTube.) I had a tough enough time defending my love for BC's music after I found out he was a run-of-the-mill prick; now I can see he's also a total wackjob hateful conspiracy crank.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 13:29 (seven years ago) link
http://consequenceofsound.net/2017/01/billy-corgan-defends-trump-blasts-fake-news-in-new-interview/
I hate to make the most obvious point: If you’ve got 10 billion dollars, you’re not hiring hookers.
??????
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 16 January 2017 03:58 (seven years ago) link
right, he never defends Trump in there, he's wrong about the hookers thing, it's the same tip he's been on for years: spiritual with a dash of conspiracy theory/new world order crank, disdain for the major media organs that made him a star and now no longer have any use for him. also he only ripped on anderson cooper because anderson cooper dedicated a 5-minute segment to mocking bill's cat magazine cover unprovoked. look, he was on mancow and mancow asked him if he understood why the pictures of him at disneyworld were funny. "no, i don't get it. we seem to live in a culture that thrives on misery..." and then wouldn't let it go for 10-15 minutes. it was great
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 January 2017 04:09 (seven years ago) link
"Allow me to explain Bitcoin."
"It's crashing."
"Well, someone will say what is lost can never be saved, sure, but."
Caged Rat, 2017 pic.twitter.com/vGseaAIjKv— Bruce Tennant (@BruceTennant) December 22, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 December 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
Looking more and more like Walter Becker every day
I liked his comment about people hung up on the name change- "it's my real name, it's not like i named myself Quasar 47."
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link