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Pumpkins back in studio
The Smashing Pumpkins are back in the studio, according to a post on their website, here.
Singer Billy Corgan (pictured) and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin are working with Darkness and Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker. No other contributing musicians have been mentioned by name, but Corgan has hardly hidden his displeasure at the behaviour of bassist D'Arcy Wretzky and guitarist James Iha around the time of the band's split in 2000. In 2004 he said the Pumpkins were "a dream I still believe in".
The band is currently being managed by Irving Azoff, who also handles The Eagles. Classic rock, yay! This news comes courtesy of Billboard.com.
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True.
Although at least there'll be some ace drumming in there somewhere.
I dont think they have topped Siamese Dream
But Melancholy and Adore were close.
Still looking forward to hearing the new stuff.
bah
The only album Siamese Dream topped was Gish, Adore shits upon all of the others. Siamese Dream is ok if you are 13 and you are a "grunger", but they have bettered it .
no no no no
the point of siamese dream was that it wasn't grunge, it was somethign wholly different. grunge never had solos like that. but yes adore is the shizzle.
mellon collie
is better than siamese dream. Adore is good but needs repeated listens. 'machina' is not as bad as people think. first album is good too. i've listened to all these albums about 6 million times.
chamberlin is the best rock drummer of the last decade. but if they go back to playing live they need iha on board or its just gonna suck like guns n roses.
as cliché as it is to say
mellon collie is too long.
adore, however, beats the crap out of siamese dream. it's one of the most subtle, beautiful records i've ever heard and - as you say - it took me a long time to realise this.
i'm interested to see how this pans out.
the production
on machina is so lush its like earsex.
nah,
the first side of mellon collie is all filler no killer. the only song on the whole thing i don't like is the one that james iha wrote. there is that crazy heavy metal one with the silliest lyric ever 'and in the eyes of a jackal i say kaBOOM!' Great stuff.
i totally agree about adore.
This is the best news story ever
And Siamese Dream was the bestest.
I can't be arsed with most of 'Mellon Collie' -
Corgan had started doing his horrible, nasal, proto-Molko pity-me-I'm-a-teenager-inside thing by then, and most of the lyrics are just bad.
Siamese Dream's awesome. And they've NEVER topped 'Hummer' or 'Geek USA'.
I pretty much
love anything that comes out of his mind to behonest, apart from the poetry....
Has anyone else heard MACHINA 2? That has some pretty cool stuff on. I am sure this will be a very good album indeed, yet I do not quite understand how it will be smashing pumpkins, it is just as much zwan as it is smashing pumpkins right? Unless he is returning to his angsty ways ;)
Didn't he
play pretty much everything on 'Siamese Dream' except the drums?
Well
I guess we'll have to disagree.
I think there are better songs on Siamese Dream, let alone the rest of their discography
heretics!
the pumpkins couldn't have been a tighter unit right at the end, the almost telepathic link between billy and jimmy was amazing, so even if a lot of the songs were a bit new wavey and curey the ones that rocked were probably some of the best rock in the last two decades-
oh hold on, his last album was GASH, fuck him then.
i wonder
what kinda sound billy aproaches with this one.
his last 2 records(Solo & Zwan) were complete opposites.
I hope he returns to the old school sound.
Mellon Collie's brilliant and epic, Machina's Rockin' and Adore is gorgeous BUT Gish and Siamese Dream are the ultimate Pumpkin records, hands down.
Boring.
Doesn't really matter. They'll obviously never top Siamese Dream.