BIlly Corgan talks shit on PJ on Howard Stern show..

vaggar99

no one listens to the Smashing Pumpkins anymore. They are the musical equivalent of Tommy Hilfiger shirts. cheap crap that we all thought made us cool at the time

HughFreakingDillon

vaggar99 said:

no one listens to the Smashing Pumpkins anymore. They are the musical equivalent of Tommy Hilfiger shirts. cheap crap that we all thought made us cool at the time

well, a sold out crowd here in winnipeg for the oceania show would say different. and I personally don't listen to music to seem cool.

lolobugg

vaggar99 said:

no one listens to the Smashing Pumpkins anymore. They are the musical equivalent of Tommy Hilfiger shirts. cheap crap that we all thought made us cool at the time

wow, that is a WEIRD comparison.

Dr. Delight

I still listen to the SP's all the time. Some of this shit you read here you cant make up.....

lolobugg

Lot of hate for Mr Billster....
personally I can separate the man from the music.
and I don't think they were ever cool... that's what is so funny to me.
it's like the nerds became popular.... only in the 90s.

I remember getting made fun of for wearing their t-shirts in like 92/93.

mookeywrench

Sounds like a refreshingly honest opinion. I'd rather hear that than him sounding like some smiley glad-hand politician. Kudos to Corgan.

marcos

ComeToTX said:

I think I like a total of 2 SP songs. He seems like a bitch.

As others have said I think Howard is a big pj fan and would love to have them in.

Howard is a fan of Pearl Jam's and Foo Fighters music. I think he has Corgan on the show because he's opinionated, Howard just likes when someone expresses themselves and are definitive.

Corgan seems to always be running his mouth about the Seattle music guys in general; he ripped Soundgarden a few months ago as well. It's really the only way Billy can get attention anymore it seems. So I would concur he's a bitch at this point; a very bitter, jealous, & irrelevant bitch known more for his soundbites than his music, sad.

vaggar99

i apologize to the SP fans I might have offended. To make up for it, I'll send each of you a pair of my old Z. Cavaricci pants.

pearlgirl52

He is not even worth it.

lolobugg

vaggar99 said:

i apologize to the SP fans I might have offended. To make up for it, I'll send each of you a pair of my old Z. Cavaricci pants.

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no thanks

tominzinga

love corgan hahahahah hes a really smart guy but he obviously has extreme jealousy issues and some very deep self confidence problems so i tend to take what he says with a grain of salt. He doesn't like eddie? who gives a fuck? Kurt Cobain hated pearl jam and their sound this is a pearl jam forum so obviously people are gunna get butthurt over corgans comments but yall have to realize that not everyone in the world loves this band as much as us

Suziemay

vaggar99 said:

no one listens to the Smashing Pumpkins anymore. They are the musical equivalent of Tommy Hilfiger shirts. cheap crap that we all thought made us cool at the time

Tommy Hilfiger shirts were cool?

callen

mookeywrench said:

Sounds like a refreshingly honest opinion. I'd rather hear that than him sounding like some smiley glad-hand politician. Kudos to Corgan.

Nice take.

aspoonfulweighsaton

Sure he sounds like a whiny bitch, but I'd put Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie against any other band's top back-to-back output. Those albums are beyond classic.

Last-12-Exit

Sorry Billy, the smashing pumpkins not only are NOT one of the 2 most influential bands from the 90's, you're barely in the top 10. Maybe #10.

I'll repeat, he's a fucking douche bag

PA Jammer

Who is Billy Corgan? What has he done?

my2hands

DewieCox said:

TJ25487 said:

How has time not been that great to PJ and what luck have they received? IMO Their legacy is top notch in the music industry not the publics as the general public doesn't understand the band and what they stand for. We do naturally blow their relevance out of proportion on this board because it is deserving of it. IMHO of course.

True, they do have quite a bit of respect in the industry, but I think the general public is equally important. The fact is they've not aged well to the majority of music fans and that includes people that are into similar music.

They've made alot of their own luck, but I could see where things could've turned out differently. Stuff like keeping virtually the same lineup and having a very devoted fanbase is incredibly lucky and has had a major impact on alot of the decisions they've made through the years.

ummmm, correct me if i am wrong, but in the last 12 months didnt they put out a #1 album and sell out arenas from Seattle, to Sao Paulo, to San Siro, to Syndey?

yeah, they havent aged well at all and will be on the casino circuit any day now... lol

keelycan

ComeToTX said:

I think I like a total of 2 SP songs. He seems like a bitch.

As others have said I think Howard is a big pj fan and would love to have them in.

Howard is a fan but only wants eddie on the hot seat. I remember back at krock the band was doing an interview with the dj and mike wanted to come in with Howard after but he declined because he only wanted to talk to Ed. Billy screwed up the original sp lineup it's been all downhill from there

PJ_Soul

lolobugg said:

vaggar99 said:

no one listens to the Smashing Pumpkins anymore. They are the musical equivalent of Tommy Hilfiger shirts. cheap crap that we all thought made us cool at the time

wow, that is a WEIRD comparison.

Lol, it is.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is fucking GENIUS.
I don't like anything that Corgan has done recently though. "The Corgan Comeback" just isn't doing anything for me music wise... and his totally repellent personality is just the rotten cherry on the shit cake.

goldrush

I still listen to the Pumpkins every now and then - they easily make my top 5 bands that I spent the 90s listening to (and Nirvana don't, by the way) - but Billy has always been this way. Can anybody remember an interview where he didn't talk shit or make himself out to be the messiah? It wouldn't make a difference if he was talking about Eddie or One Direction, it's just Billy being Billy. He's nuts, and he'll never change.

The first 4 SP albums were really good in my opinion, and Siamese Dream is a masterpiece. It all started to go wrong with the 2 Machina records but he can still come up with a few decent tunes. You just need to remember to not take Billy seriously and concentrate on the music