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wildflowersoulSo the 4 week Treasury bond interest is at 0%? That is crazy.
In less important news, but amusingly dramatic shenanigans: Billy Corgan has officially gone off the deep end. I've been following news of the disastrous SP tour, and according to this recent interview, he's taking his toys and going home with a big middle finger thrust up.
Tribune: So “Zeitgeist” was the last album?
Corgan: We’re done with that. There is no point. People don’t even listen to it all. They put it on their iPod, they drag over the two singles, and skip over the rest. The listening patterns have changed, so why are we killing ourselves to do albums, to create balance, and do the arty track to set up the single? It’s done.
Tribune: So how will you release music?
Corgan: Our primary function now is to be a singles band, that drives Pumpkins Inc. through singles. We’ll still be creative, but in a different form. We won’t do shows like this anymore, where we try to draw a good crowd and balance the past with the present. We’ll go small and do exactly what we want to do and stop playing catalogue.
It's true that the way a lot of people listen to music has changed since the advent of mp3 players, I won't deny that. But to think that there's no place for an album anymore is a convenient cop out when the truth is it appears that the Pumpkins aren't capable of producing a cohesive, strong album anymore. Sure, there's a lot of crap out there, and plenty of people listen to a lot of terrible music, and lots of people listen to only singles they hear on the radio. That's always been the case. It was the case in the 90s, it will always be the case. Not everyone cares about music that much. But to think that no one cares about albums at all any more is foolish. Just because the last Pumpkins album received a tepid reception at best doesn't mean that everyone is stupid for not recognizing its inherent genius, it means the album itself is flawed.
In less important news, but amusingly dramatic shenanigans: Billy Corgan has officially gone off the deep end. I've been following news of the disastrous SP tour, and according to this recent interview, he's taking his toys and going home with a big middle finger thrust up.
Tribune: So “Zeitgeist” was the last album?
Corgan: We’re done with that. There is no point. People don’t even listen to it all. They put it on their iPod, they drag over the two singles, and skip over the rest. The listening patterns have changed, so why are we killing ourselves to do albums, to create balance, and do the arty track to set up the single? It’s done.
Tribune: So how will you release music?
Corgan: Our primary function now is to be a singles band, that drives Pumpkins Inc. through singles. We’ll still be creative, but in a different form. We won’t do shows like this anymore, where we try to draw a good crowd and balance the past with the present. We’ll go small and do exactly what we want to do and stop playing catalogue.
It's true that the way a lot of people listen to music has changed since the advent of mp3 players, I won't deny that. But to think that there's no place for an album anymore is a convenient cop out when the truth is it appears that the Pumpkins aren't capable of producing a cohesive, strong album anymore. Sure, there's a lot of crap out there, and plenty of people listen to a lot of terrible music, and lots of people listen to only singles they hear on the radio. That's always been the case. It was the case in the 90s, it will always be the case. Not everyone cares about music that much. But to think that no one cares about albums at all any more is foolish. Just because the last Pumpkins album received a tepid reception at best doesn't mean that everyone is stupid for not recognizing its inherent genius, it means the album itself is flawed.
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Date: 2008-12-10 02:35 pm (UTC)interesting !
Date: 2008-12-10 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-10 03:10 pm (UTC)