Smashing Pumpkins may work on new studio material in August
Bill Palmer of Beatweek Magazine has published a wide-ranging new interview with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan. In the interview, Corgan discusses the dynamics of the current Smashing Pumpkins lineup, their plans for future recordings, and how the Pumpkins’ reissue project has influenced their live performances, among other topics. Below are three excerpted quotations.
In which Corgan evaluates his albums, specifically Zeitgeist:
I think in that way I’ve never made a bad album. I would say the album that was the least fulfilling of its potential was Zeitgeist…I think every other album was in the range of its potential as an A or a B. I wouldn’t necessarily rate Zeitgeist as a C, it just didn’t hit its potential and it kind of got lost somewhere along the way in the process. Some of the best songs are in the demos that didn’t get recorded and that kind of shit. I think it’s up there, but I also think it has to do with familiarity. There’s a certain ring here that people are comfortable with, and I’m okay with it or obviously I wouldn’t have put it out. But I think TheFutureEmbrace was a great album, and it was completely overlooked, my solo album. Over time now, over the last seven years, now people are starting to really get into it because it’s got a bit of a visionary aspect to it. So again, what was the point of the album? The mainstream always assumes that every album you’re throwing yourself out there with your bust, and I’m not that type of artist. I pick my spot and I go for that spot, and I rate it on whether or not I hit my spot.
Of the first Teargarden by Kaleidyscope songs, Corgan says that “I think there were ten official Teargarden releases. In those ten there was at least two or three really good songs.”
On the future of Teargarden, Corgan had this to say:
I’m kind of mulling that around. There’s a lot of demos that are really fairly quality at least in terms of the songs. They’re just interesting, dusky sketches. The problem with the world we live in now is everything is judged so fast so hard and is given too much power, for lack of a better word. Three months from now I would love to just reach in and toss out a couple of those demos from 2009 so people could hear some different songs, maybe some things that helped lead to Oceania. But then invariably some asshole with a blog is going to write about the new Smashing Pumpkins song and how it sucks. I’m mature enough now that I don’t really care, but at this point we’re in a positive place and maybe we just need to play a positive game. Maybe we just need to be like everybody else and shine it up real nice and bright before we put it out. We definitely want to do another album. We’re already talking about starting to do some demos in August. It’s tough. I do want to put out some of this stuff that I’m sitting on. I do want to finish the project as I sort of originally sketched out. But right now we’re riding a wave and I’m not really sure where that wave takes us.
“The thing I learned most from [William] Burroughs is he was willing to put words together that don’t belong together. In that, he created a form of violence. It’s like a messy landscape by making uncomfortable word choices.”
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Billy Corgan on whether he would perform with the original members of Smashing Pumpkins:
“There’s a wonderful book called A Course in Miracles. You can expect miracles to happen. I don’t think they have anything to offer me musically. I’d be much more interested in [mending] the personal relationships with them. Without that, the other situation doesn’t have juice for me.”
It's been a long road to Oceania, the seventh LP (eighth, if you count the first free internet release by a major artist, 2000's Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music) by the Smashing Pumpkins.
After reviving the alternative rock juggernaut for 2007's Zeitgeist with only drum deity Jimmy Chamberlin remaining from the classic line-up, mastermind Billy Corgan was met with a lot of scepticism for heading the only group among his '90s contemporaries to reform with the express purpose of creating new music. "If we don't lead with new music, we don't lead with anything," Corgan says. "We've had to go out of our way, and in many ways have suffered to paint that picture. Then you deal with this blog crowd that think you haven't written a good song since 1995." Corgan laments.
"That's a strange position to be in, but I think we've persevered and Oceania is the beneficiary of our collective will to continue to push forward no matter what." With a revamped group of tremendous players comprising a new incarnation of the Pumpkins since the launch of the wildly ambitious 44-song Teargarden by Kaleidyscope (of which Oceania is a part), Corgan has reached another period of peak song creation within the framework of epic, progressive space-rock, or what used to be simply referred to as "alternative music."
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- What are your current fixations?
BC: - Don't really have any. I think that's the point of my life at this point. I'm getting rid of all the fixations. If there's any left I'd say it's just music.
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Australian edition of Rolling Stone puts dated photo of Billy Corgan on its August cover; Corgan says the magazine “insisted” on using a picture from the 1990s, declining his offer to pose for new pictures.
Корган утверждает, что журнал отклонил его предложение разместить на обложке агустовского номера новое фото
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Billy Corgan performs new song at memorial for Dennis Flemion
A memorial service for Dennis Flemion was held yesterday in West Allis, Wisconsin. Flemion, who for over 30 years had recorded songs together with his brother Jimmy Flemion as the Frogs, died unexpectedly on July 7.
During the service, mourners could view Frogs memorabilia including costumes worn onstage by Flemion and the original artwork from the Frogs’ first album. Both Jimmy Flemion and Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan performed music at the service, with Corgan’s contribution being a newly written song that he plans to make available online soon.
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BILLY CORGAN TO RELEASE DENNIS FLEMION TRIBUTE SONG
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan performed a new song at Frogs drummer Dennis Flemion’s memorial service on Saturday in Wisconsin. The song is said to be a tribute to Flemion, and according to Crestfallen.com Corgan intends on releasing the song online.
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Corgan in Australian Rolling Stone, Triple J Magazine Out Now
If you haven’t had a chance to get along to your local newsagency but would love to check out Rolling Stone’s (Australia) interview with Billy Corgan, we’ve gone to the sourcing and scanning for your reading pleasure (we suggest you still go and pick up a physical copy too for the 3 star review of Oceania and blurb about Siamese Dream in the 50 Greatest 90s Alt Records article).
• ‘Billy Corgan vs. history’ Rolling Stone (AU), August 2012 - PDF (3.4 MB)
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