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“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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...another thread, another interview.
With all that's been said and done the last few days, Billy finally lets loose on a few frustrations he's had. In his most recent conversation with Rolling Stone he talks about everything from the lawsuit, to the no more albums confusion, and the state of the music industry. Billy never spells everything out, but this is meant to clear up all the confusion.
Corgan's Fury: Exclusive Q&A
The Smashing Pumpkins leader sounds off on his label lawsuit and the state of the record industry
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/19801847/corgans_fury_exclusive_qa
Bits and pieces:
RS: A lot of artists love the album form or have some connection to it. Is it going to bother you to be more single-focused?
BC: No, we're still going to do albums. I think we're going to do it in a different way. I can tell that our plans right now are to do an album over two or three years and put it out in pieces and then maybe eventually bring it all back together. The album doesn't have to be perfect. It doesn't have to be ten songs.
...The first thing we're talking about doing is in essence not doing an album that has any walls. So we'll release the album in different forms in different places. Not just one CD with twelve songs. Our next album might be forty songs.
On the lawsuit and label issues:
...It's a very difficult position because whether it's blogs or people posting on Web sites, fans can get very frustrated about what they perceive about how you do your business, not being aware of how we continually have a gun pointed at our head.
RS: Is there a moment you can pinpoint that demonstrates your mistreatment at the hands of a label?
BC: I'll give you my favorite line of the past three years. I was talking to the label president from Warner Bros., Tom Walley, and we were having a call. They were actually thinking about dropping us, which in retrospect probably would have been good. I was in Arizona, we were starting to write the album, and so I said things are going great. And he said, "What's the difference between Zwan and Smashing Pumpkins?" And I was like, what do you say? What do you say to a brick wall? What's the difference between your side band and the band that was your blood and your sweat and your heart for fourteen years? So we're out of Purgatory. And we're excited now.
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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Pretty cool.
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"I like the put on the Backstreet Boys and have men hit me with wet towels."
-Billy Corgan
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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One more...
RS: It seems like the last decade or so, we haven’t seen many superstars emerge. Do you think it’s because of the focus on singles or the fickle market?
BC: Number one, I think there’s just too much. I mean, how can you ask an eighteen-year-old to sort through everything that they’re presented with? Realistically, just being hot and talented and having a good single isn’t enough anymore. You really need like the extra story, like Amy Winehouse had, or a Britney freak-out. Like, Radiohead putting out a great album is not enough of a story. Radiohead putting out a free album, and blah, blah, that’s the story. So it becomes more media-driven, event-driven, than music-driven.
I mean, if the Pumpkins were coming out as a brand-new band now I think it’d be very difficult for us to be found like we were found then. There’s no MTV like what it used to be. There’s no way to focus everybody on one thing and get everybody to agree, yeah, this is really good. And sometimes things just take time. [Now] twenty-four hours is too long. Literally a person would have to be born, live, freak-out and die in one three-year cycle for it to work. It’s sad, because there’s a whole generation of music that isn’t there that should be. I mean, I’m not crazy. We should be able to sit here and talk about the fifteen, twenty great songs that came out for the past ten years. And I think we’d be hard-pressed to do that.
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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This is the Billy I miss. The one that comes out of the woodwork to stand up for himself/the band and what he believes in. And as always, the big fuck you to all the naysayers and pessimist. It seems they've got their confidence back and are ready to "bleed in their own light" - Sorry about the last part.
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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blech
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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I'm going to comment now before I read the rest of the post...
FORTY SONGS???????
FUCK YEAH!!!
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Dance, Billy, dance.
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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PistolPete wrote:
One more...
RS: It seems like the last decade or so, we haven’t seen many superstars emerge. Do you think it’s because of the focus on singles or the fickle market?
BC: Number one, I think there’s just too much. I mean, how can you ask an eighteen-year-old to sort through everything that they’re presented with? Realistically, just being hot and talented and having a good single isn’t enough anymore. You really need like the extra story, like Amy Winehouse had, or a Britney freak-out. Like, Radiohead putting out a great album is not enough of a story. Radiohead putting out a free album, and blah, blah, that’s the story. So it becomes more media-driven, event-driven, than music-driven.
I mean, if the Pumpkins were coming out as a brand-new band now I think it’d be very difficult for us to be found like we were found then. There’s no MTV like what it used to be. There’s no way to focus everybody on one thing and get everybody to agree, yeah, this is really good. And sometimes things just take time. [Now] twenty-four hours is too long. Literally a person would have to be born, live, freak-out and die in one three-year cycle for it to work. It’s sad, because there’s a whole generation of music that isn’t there that should be. I mean, I’m not crazy. We should be able to sit here and talk about the fifteen, twenty great songs that came out for the past ten years. And I think we’d be hard-pressed to do that.
He speaks the truth.
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Dance, Billy, dance.
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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I love interviews!!!
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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this is very exciting stuff to read!!!
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Destroy the mind, destroy the body, but you cannot destroy the heart!
Tell me, tell me what you're after...I just wanna get there faster.
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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40 songs, time for another double album. corgasmic.
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"The impossible is possible tonight!"
"Love is suicide!"
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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i'd rather have one smashing hit than 40 lousy songs
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In Billy We Trust
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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MklCorgan wrote:
i'd rather have one smashing hit than 40 lousy songs
Ouch... 
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Rejection is one thing but rejection from a fool is cruel.
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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YAY! Good news! Albums!
I just posted on the Spinner article thread, doon't read that now!!! I didn't know this!
Anyway, it's not our fault, it's Jimmy and Spinner's fault. You need to be more clear, J! |
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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i'm extremely glad billy did this. it's a very good article or phone interview, but he makes some valid points and clears a lot things up.  |
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"The impossible is possible tonight!"
"Love is suicide!"
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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Nice.
The man needs to be more vocal like this, more often.
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Re:“Corgan’s Fury”: the Rolling Stone interview 8 Months, 1 Week ago
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MklCorgan wrote:
i'd rather have one smashing hit than 40 lousy songs
Well, would you rather have one hit or 40 hits?
You never know, the new stuff might be great.
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