William Patrick Corgan

I think sometimes that Billy just sits around sometimes on the computer, looking up weird words to put into song titles. 

Half Life of an Autodidact. 

what in the sweet fuck is an autodidact?

Amarinthe? Antitam? Zowie? come on, Billy. stop flipping through your thesaurus on the shitter. 

HughFreakingDillon said:

I think sometimes that Billy just sits around sometimes on the computer, looking up weird words to put into song titles. 

Half Life of an Autodidact. 

what in the sweet fuck is an autodidact?

Amarinthe? Antitam? Zowie? come on, Billy. stop flipping through your thesaurus on the shitter. 

funny!

HughFreakingDillon said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

Love everything this guy has done musically - I don't get too concerned with it all outside of that. Guy was horribly abused as a child. He's a living miracle if you ask me, but didn't come away from that abuse unscathed. The behavior you see (sorry, putting my clinicians hat on here) is quite typical for someone with a traumatic past. Anyway, cut him some slack, or don't, but there's founded reasons that explain his behavior.

interesting. I didn't know that. 

sometimes it's hard for me to enjoy his music because he comes off as such a dick, but he is still incredibly talented. 

I don't care how much of a dick he is when I'm hearing his music .... I just think his music pretty much sucks now. He is certainly talented... but i feel like his craziness must have gotten in the way of that talent in more recent years. Either that, or he just ran out of good ideas.
It is sad that he had a traumatic youth... I'm never really quite sure how to deal with that kind of info when it comes to dickweeds (or worse) though.

4 great albums is license to be an ass.. besides most of it is tongue and cheek..how do you rate his contemporaries new music these days?? Thats right you cant since they are dead or not making music anymore..

Pearl jam?? - hardly any new music..average at best.

Wma31394 said:

4 great albums is license to be an ass.. besides most of it is tongue and cheek..how do you rate his contemporaries new music these days?? Thats right you cant since they are dead or not making music anymore..

Pearl jam?? - hardly any new music..average at best.

um, no, it's not. most of it is not tongue in cheek. he's actually been apologetic lately about being such a dick. 

WPC has a history of releasing every single thing he writes, at least eventually. he throws all the shit at the wall and sees what sticks. that's part of the reason people can't get into his music; there's too much water to wade through. 

that comment about his contemporaries was gross. 

HughFreakingDillon said:

Wma31394 said:

4 great albums is license to be an ass.. besides most of it is tongue and cheek..how do you rate his contemporaries new music these days?? Thats right you cant since they are dead or not making music anymore..

Pearl jam?? - hardly any new music..average at best.

um, no, it's not. most of it is not tongue in cheek. he's actually been apologetic lately about being such a dick. 

WPC has a history of releasing every single thing he writes, at least eventually. he throws all the shit at the wall and sees what sticks. that's part of the reason people can't get into his music; there's too much water to wade through. 

that comment about his contemporaries was gross. 

Gross??? Its a fact..Why would all the shit against the wall bother anyone? If you dont like it..fair enough...i dont like 75% of it. 

Wma31394 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Wma31394 said:

4 great albums is license to be an ass.. besides most of it is tongue and cheek..how do you rate his contemporaries new music these days?? Thats right you cant since they are dead or not making music anymore..

Pearl jam?? - hardly any new music..average at best.

um, no, it's not. most of it is not tongue in cheek. he's actually been apologetic lately about being such a dick. 

WPC has a history of releasing every single thing he writes, at least eventually. he throws all the shit at the wall and sees what sticks. that's part of the reason people can't get into his music; there's too much water to wade through. 

that comment about his contemporaries was gross. 

Gross??? Its a fact..Why would all the shit against the wall bother anyone? If you dont like it..fair enough...i dont like 75% of it. 

it was the way it was put. 

because there's too much to wade through, as I just stated. when he re-releases an album, he makes it fucking 300 tracks with 14 different versions of Starla on it. If the guy didn't learn from his "one song every 3 months" thing to keep people's attention, no one's going to give a shit about a gaggle of songs that are all different demo versions that are all basically the same. 

Fair enough what pj does is irrelevant in this discussion..but like many say here on these boards about pj..just be happy hes still making music and touring after all these years. Some new material youll like and some you wont. To your point i dont think how he releases his art should factor in anything..the music biz has changed. If he wants to release a synth album at a tea shop thats his choice.

PJ_Soul said:

I'm not happy Billy is still making music or touring because I think he's doing a terrible job of both. But I am happy for those who do enjoy it!

Ha..this tour is billy at his best..acoustic songs spanning his whole career. Many songs we haven't heard live since the early 90s...and Ogilala in its enterity. Also different versions on piano that Hugh will appreciate 

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Tim Simmons said:

been really turned off to the guy and his music since he started doing appearances on Alex Jones' show.

Haha, yeah. What the fuck is that all about. Corgan is a loon.

I'm not one to bad-mouth any music.  If it's out there, somebody must like it.  So be it.

But I'm with you guys.  I think Corgan is out to lunch big time which makes it more than a little difficult to care much about what he is doing musically.