The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
It made me sad to see Billy act like such a fool in front of his hometown crowd in November. It made me feel worse to read the Pitchfork review of Zeitgeist, an album that I welcomed as a return to the old Pumpkins--more based in guitars than synthesizers. The review lambasts Corgan for r(e)aping the treasures of his long-dead-Pumpkins brand. All the while I had naively gone along, imagining that the relationship between James Iha, D'arcy and Corgan was okay, that at the very least they didn't hate each other. But in case you didn't know either, apparently the lastest rendition of These Smashing Pumpkins are not the same as the one from the nineties.
But that's not news--consider this an eulogy.
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I was excited about Zeitgeist as well before I found out that the only consist member was Corgan, which is not bad, but I always found it a pet peeve to re-use a band name when most of the members or the lead is not there. In this case, Corgan was still there, and the sound was not that far off, but it still felt different. This sort of made me reconsider why the whole thing annoyed me in general. Personally, I liked Zeitgeist, but just not as much as the older stuff.
ReplyDeleteBilly Crogan needs a hug and maybe go back in time, since I blame both the fans and the group as to why it's harder making it work now. It's a whole new group of kids going to concert and some of them really have no idea what they missed not hearing SP as a kid.