Smashing Pumpkins' classic line up recording a new album & tour*

So, at this early juncture we have purple, clear, gold and glow-in-the-dark. I am sure there will be an “indie exclusive” color, and a few more music store and retailer exclusives.

Yes, I saw those. It seems to be the current “thing to do”. Well, it’s all fun.

 

I'll take the download please, Bob.

 

This is starting to remind me of the different colour Zeitgeist covers. Glow in the dark sounds interesting but I've made my order for the gold now so I'll stick with it.

 

It all seems far to commercial to me.

 

In the KROQ interview yesterday Billy mentioned mixing a new solo record starting in the next few days. He said the first part would be released digitally the early part of next year with the complete album released physically on vinyl later in 2019.

 

At least each one doesn't have a different tracklist this time around.

 

Yes, I was going to mention that. That was very annoying.

 

It would have been annoying if the album was worth buying.

 

Well, as it turned out, some of the bonus tracks were of a better quality than those on the album, IMO.

 

Almost anything would have been better than United States you’d think- and then along came “Death From Above” - Jesus!
To think it’d get worse for a while; G.L.O.W, Superchrist
I actually enjoyed some of Oceania much to my own surprise- The Celestials was excellent.

 

I know it's important to change things over periods of time, but I wish that either Butch Vig or Alan Moulder and Flood were producing. Rubin has worked with some great bands and has dome some good work but likes everything loud and that's not the best dynamic for the Pumpkins.

 

I enjoyed a lot of Oceania too but yeah, there were quite a few poor (almost generic) tracks around then - Superchrist, FOL, some of the Teargarden stuff.

 

Agreed SP are a very dynamic band. Super quiet passages and hard hitting crunchy guitars=Smashing Pumpkins

 

Not a fan of random inserts and glow-in-the-dark vinyl generally sounds terrible - comparable to picture disc sound.

 

Counter point- The new songs are good.

 

Are they? I'm not finding them particularly memorable .

 

I love the riff of Solara and the 1979-esque feel of Silvery.

That's the thing about art though, it's subjective. I was just providing another perspective from the guy who was declarative in his disappointment.

 

Well I'm disappointed so far, solara is ok live, not sure what the point of Silvery is. 1979 had character, this doesn't.

 

And that's a totally valid opinion. But I like them.

 

I see that a lot of people like them, which is good. For me, I think Corgan sounded way more energized and inspired with the material from Oceania and Monuments to an Elegy. Not perfect albums by any means, but these new songs have no life for me. Glad people are still enjoying them, though.

 

I've been listening to the new songs for some time now, and I've gotta say that I do like them a lot. Here's something that was showed to me today that should give some retrospect on the new Pumpkins:

 

Anything interesting/noteworthy come out of it? Zane Lowe can be fairly insufferable as an interviewer/host.

 

I'll answer my own question - SMASHING PUMPKINS Have 'Hundreds Of Songs' In The Vaults Ready For Release

"According to The Pulse Of Radio, SMASHING PUMPKINS frontman Billy Corgan told Beats 1 in a new interview that there are vast amounts of previously unreleased music from the band in the archives that he's excited to finally release thanks to the strength of both vinyl and digital music sales.

Corgan explained: "I'm really excited by the re-rise of the vinyl record shop and the fact that there is there is this beautiful balance now between vinyl releases and streaming services. We're going to just start unloading the archives — and we have archives for decades."

Asked about the extent of the archive, Corgan replied: "You can't even imagine," while drummer Jimmy Chamberlin added that there were "hundreds of songs," all in a finished state.

Corgan remarked: "It's insane how much work there is. We could literally never record another song and have a release every two months for the next 20 years. Easy. There's alternate versions, there's live versions, there's acoustic versions. So we're going to actually kill people with content."

We've been down this road so many times that, again, I'll believe it when I see it.

 

Im ready to actually die from content.