wow new album, new drummer? no one bought there last 3 albums.this guy needs to go away.clearly he doesn’t have the same clout he once did. can you say “has-been”?

Hey, I bought the last 3 albums and they were great. There are millions of pumpkins fans buddy, and we cant wait for Billys new music. Go listen to Fall out boy cuz u obviously suck.

haha that must be billy corgan tooting his own horn.he’s pretentious enough to post his own comments. hey smashing i hate fall out boy too but at least they got a career and aren’t some bald vampire freak who doesn’t even relate to emo kids anymore!

change the name already, Billy!

why is this “band” even called Smashing Pumpkins?

he should call this band “hanging on to the past” or “even courtney love doesn’t return my calls”

Great pic! Love it.

Corgan can’t go away. The world needs him. Rock on Billy… f#ck the haters.

Best guitarrist alive!

I agree, they should really just change the name. However, smashing pumpkins was an amzing band, the reason they were amazing was billy corgan so im not concerned about new band members.

Ignorance is Billy’s new best friend
Ignorance is Billy’s new best friend
Ignorance is Billy’s new best friend.

I really liked ZEITGEIST and most of the songs he’s released since then, so I’m definitely going to check this out.

Why does everyone hate on Billy? I mean sure Zeitgeist wasn’t the best pumpkins album, but I still really liked it! Shouldn’t we be happy that the pumpkins are back and making wonderful music again?

nah, he should pack it in. quit buying his albums so he goes away. just download them for free and delete them when you realise they suck. your welcome.

Billy is more pathetic than Axl Rose.

How bout the name
Sucking Dick-ens
Go away you bald headed goof. I would rather listen to hippos mate than your worthless music.

there you have it billy. the masses has spoken. (opens door) there you go billy, (hands billy tissue) don’t cry buddy.you can still re-issue siamese dream and put a bunch of useless b-sides and maybe a live dvd on it.(smirking)

@ Jono:
“Best guitarist alive”? So where does that place Slash, Brian May and Jimmy Page, just to name a few?

Billy Corgan IS Smashing Pumpkins, he always has been, always will be. The rest of the bandmates are a revolving door of musicians that still try to cling to their Pumpkins fame.

Zeitgeist, while not their best album, but all these little pompous crybabies flip out because it didn’t sound anything like Gish. Cry me a river you tools.

I read a few topics. I respect your work and added blog to favorites.

Finally Corgan will be playing with a drummer as mature as he is.

Did someome say atleast “Fall out boy has a career?” Compared to the pumpkins? HAHAHAHA. Wow your poor little minds are warped. Yeah Fall out boy only has to sell another 25 million copies of recordings to even be considered in the same class of career…Moron.

Newbie drummer-boy beware: Billy Zero will make you his tool. Get off that sinking ship NOW!

We have to draw the line here. There are two Smashing Pumpkins. Pre-2002 and Post-2002… I’m a Pre-2002 Smashing Pumpkins guy.

Honestly, still my favorite band of all time, but this new stuff? I can’t listen to it… why should I? It’s not very good, it sounds overproduced and there is no heart in it.

By the way whoever wrote:

“Finally Corgan will be playing with a drummer as mature as he is.”

That was funny.

Billy always said the Pumpkins were him and Jimmy… Jimmy is gone, as the pumpkins have been since 2000.

Give it up Billy, at least I could enjoy your solo work and Zwan.

@ gurney:
Hmmm… That’s my opinion. And this is an opinion section.

I’m not dissing your guitarists though. They are geniuses!

Don’t forget Prince.

“Finally Corgan will be playing with a drummer as mature as he is.”

lol

Billy Corgan doesn’t write good songs anymore.

Billy is the man, granted he is not Jack White, who can do no wrong. Billy Puts together great songs. Zeitgeist was great, not Siamese Dream, but because it was totally different. He’s good and if this kid is good enough to replace Jimmy he must be great

1. Billy is an awesome musician/singer and writer.
2. Why don’t you people ever take into consideration guys like Robert Smith of The Cure who also have had a changing list of band-mates and kept the same band name? Why is it some big deal when it is a guy who thought up the name and hired ALL of the other band members in the first place?
3. The Smashing Pumpkins music is maturing and developing over time. Maybe your expectations should also.

@annoyed with haters:

fuck you, how could you say that the other members are still clingingto the fame that SP brought them? if they were, they would have reunited with Bill, for cash’s fucking sake. you’re the tool here. and no, i am an SP fan but only the earlier stuff. the way he fucking trampled over James and D’Arcy and how those two ignored his pleas for a reunion? serves Corgan right. i’d be more interested in what james Iha and d’Arcy would be doing than listen to this bald freak. and no, not everyone who hates Zeitgeist wants them to sound like Gish again. Zeitgeist fucking sucks, period.

It’s Billys band anyway, he can do whatever he wants. Jimmy rules and sad to see him gone. I don’t miss iha or d’arcy at all.

Should be interesting to see the new drummer.

Lets face it… anybody that writes negative comments about the pumpkins have not put in the time to listen to the new music.

The mighty SP were great and ARE great!

Billy give it up. Your music has zero relevance today. Your sound is out dated and no one can stand to work with you for longer than a year or two. Where is Zwan?

pewey

this guys still around?

What is sad is that this man has become somewhat an in-joke of the industry, and dragged a legendary name with him.

I’d prefer Billy would become a guitarist of a good hard rock band. I like his guitar on all the albums, but the pumpkins are an ego thing for him now.

Pumpkins ended it in 2000. And will never be again.

Shaving his head was the worst decision Billy ever made. Well the worst desicion next to kicking out his former bandmates. But when I look back on his days when he had long, flowing hair, he looked like a perfect cross between Marc Bolan and Axl Rose, he was so beautiful. Now he looks like Lex Luthor. Which is so funny, because it’s as if the outside matches the inside. If he were still good-looking, I have a feeling that there’d be more Corgan defenders on here, and they’d all be female.

He looks like a constipated Uncle Fester that is strung out on crack.

I don’t think any creative person, (and we all are by different degrees in different ways)is a “has been”. We are transforming ourselves and changing with each new moment. Music is just a way of living, and expressing this. All the bands mentioned here are on that endless treck, to better understand our condition, and our potential. I thankfully accept that gift, from all musicians. If we all just try, we’ll all get by.

I don’t really care who is in the band; I have just given up on the guy. I was one of the few people who staunchly defended Adore when it came out (and still do), but I thought Machina, Zwan, and Zeitgeist were downright awful.

This kid has nothing to lose. No one expects anything from the band anymore, and at least he’ll get the experience of dealing with someone like Billy Corgan for no matter how long. Oh, the stories he’ll tell his children . . .

Billy, let it go.
Please.

Sure, it sucks it’s not the original Pumpkins really, but some of the new stuff isn’t THAT bad. Some, Yes, BAD! But some isn’t bad at all. Is it wrong to just enjoy the music, despite where/who it comes from?