It's been a bad decade for Billy Corgan thus far. Zwan acrimoniously broke up while working on an aborted second album, his solo album couldn't break 75,000 in sales after most of the Smashing Pumpkins' records went multi-platinum, and while the Pumpkins' comeback album Zeitgeist did go gold, a lot of people saw it as a disappointment and a cash-grab (especially considering the only original members involved were Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, who was in Zwan). This year, he's made headlines for playing setlists that are upsetting to the fans.
And now Billy says the Pumpkins won't make albums anymore, just singles. The trend's already started, with "G.L.O.W.", from earlier this year. It's done fairly well on the modern rock charts, getting up to #11.
What do you think? Are albums as dead as Mr. Corgan's making them out to be? Or is Billy just frustrated by a decade's worth of diminishing returns?
Monday, December 22, 2008
Oh, Billy... Pumpkins abandon albums
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I think Billy makes a good point that the album as an art form may be increasingly irrelevant in the ipod generation era, but if people don't care as much about what the Pumpkins are doing now I think its more because this new Pumpkins stuff is pretty lame (this coming from someone who considers smashing pumpkins to be his favorite band).
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