I don't want songs. I want a cd. I don't buy/download songs from the internet anymore. I want a cd with more than four songs on it. wtf.

I love the album as a way to listen to music, as long I can listen to SP music Ill be happy but no more albums (if this is what this means) sounds like a sad thing to me. but on the other hand if as Jimmy says ''The record or CD format places too many limitations on your piece of art'' then I respect them as artists to do what they need to do make the best songs possible.

Mind you radiohead realased in rainbows a little differently but that was still an album and a master piece at that as well.

Also, If a lot of under 24 yr olds are just buying songs instead of albums is that really the pop oririented attitide and cherry picker attuitude artists want to promote (I like a whole album so I can have songs grow on me or get into a song ive skipped many times before). Are these under 24 year olds the same that sort have a favourite band more a favourite scene- thats the attiude now it seems to me (proberbly emo-ugh) and listen to simple plan and MCR? if so I wouldnt pander to them.

Please note the last comment above there I posted Is just a museing. I have a lot of respect for the opinions of Jimmy 'master of the pots' C.

wow billy and jimmy are making it even harder for the hardcore pumpkin fans to like them jesus just release albums goddamn it!!!

sorry meant to say favorite scene instead of band (and they dont seem to listen to music outside that scene).

Will the songs be on CD as well as the net I wonder? not everybody has the internet. Also I think people are still buying records.

This could either be the best or worst decision they've ever made. I'm eager to see which it is.

whatever happened to the next album being something like Mellon Collie...i want the next album...silly idea just releasing songs.

If they release these "blocks of songs" on the net or as a sort of EP, then afterwards release them all together as an album i would be fine; but as for no album at all ... me no like this idea.
I want an album to hold and look thru or even a record ... i don't do iTunes, it doesn't appeal to me at all even as a 17yr old, who is supposed to "just buy songs" ...

I want a CD goddammit!
Im 19 and dont download songs, only buy full album cds.

If they only release songs I wont be buying them.

Songs and albums. I'm curious to see what he's hinting at, in regards to having songs or song cycles come out that lead up to a larger body of work.
The comment about what people under 24 bothers me however, whether or not it's actually true, because I don't understand why one would artistically focus on that age bracket. Financially, perhaps.

Firstly: I am under 24 and love bying and listening to albums
Secondly: A couple of songs can't create the same impression as a whole album
Thirdly: Why brings this reinion mistake after mistake???
Fourthly: Now the Smashing pumpkins really begin to suck

Hang on:
Is Billy even too lazy to create albums as every other band???
Who does he think he is???
Sorry, it's really getting on my nerves, in nearby one year of runion, the succeeded in destroying nearby everything that made them my fovarite band (once!!!)
The songs suck, the new members suck and even the way of releasing the new songs sucks

I never buy individual songs. Do they think their only fans are under the age of 24 now? LAME!!!!

Heehh ..There is no article .. empty site ?

don't worry...they first release the songs and after, with those songs, they made an album....double profit

I knew this was going to happen
I like to listen to an album as a whole, not one song at a time. Whether not most people under 24 don't buy albums anymore (pretty unlikely anyway if you ask me), surely the Pumpkins have a lot of fans OVER 24... or do they not care about the old fans now?

And I guess they might release them all on a CD every 12 songs or so. But will it even feel like an album if all the songs are recorded at different times? And as someone already said, if this is the case, it's for extra profit, not any artistic reason.

I have no intention of paying to download an MP3, but I'll happily pay for an album on CD. Either way, I'll be getting new Pumpkins songs...

i'm under 24, in fact i'm a teenager and i never download songs, CD is the only way for me, and i'm like many people i know. Iwould love it if the Smashing Pumpkins released another CD. It would be the best thing ever!

"...music ain't just something you download – it's something that's created..."

I agree with this fully. I will always enjoy a new direction from this band, but what about the addition artistic statements of the album itself? Music is the main piece, but the rest, to me, comes from the message and artwork that is included with the album itself. Think of Machina without an album?

I am just about in tears. What the fuck do they think they are doing? catering to some little 13 year old cunt who gets a couple of tracks of itunes? yeah thats right billy, who cares about fans who want a collective body of work from the band they love totaly, how about you just worry about some fucking little scene kid who will leave you as soon as the fad has passed.

We need to invent a time machine, go back in time to 1995, bring billy from '95 into the present and get him to beat 2008 billy senceless.

Final thought: what a fucking travesty

Some people are saying that if they put together all the songs at the end and call it an album then that will be ok. How can you say that? for me, i never realy pay a large amount of atention to individual songs, its all about the album as a collective work. With a good track order that breathes and feels. Not just a string of 4 songs on an EP every few months, that method of releasing is far more limiting aristicaly than releasing an album, saying otherwise is bullshit, its just pathetic profiteering, and im saddened that a band i love so much would reduce themselves to this

I think that if the band were to name the album, design the cover art and put it up on the official site to download and encourage fans to compile thier own tracklist it could be great publicity for the band. Also no more problems with Billy leaving songs like Ma Belle and Saturnine off the album. As someone else said if Radiohead had done this everyone would be cumming thier pants over this but the Pumpkins do it and they're morons.

i can not believe the people writing these post call themselves pumpkins fans. its not the 90's anymore. if you like Siamese dream and MCIS so much, just listen to it again. what billy is doing is saying "fuck you" to the record companies that put restrictions on bands and their musical talents. billy and jimmy are about the fans and the music first. to me, they have never disappointed me with the musical approach they have took. you are obviously just fans of a certain sound and not fans of the artist. record companies are going to be pissed when they see the pumpkins selling out most of their shows and they are going to want to make money off of them and billy is just gonna say "fuck you". so everyone dont get your panties in a bunch just yet. its not a reunion tour, so get over it. i think the pumpkins did something like this before, it was called Machina II, which happened to be an amazing album.

Poor dougy ... he's getting angry at you bily, i think you should listen otherwise dougy will come get you

ps. I'm on your side dougy
the idea of no full album recorded at one time, i don't like it ... give me a CD over an mp3 any day

@ the guest who said radiohead doing it would be great, but the pumpkins doing it is moronic.

I would think radiohead to be equaly moronic, i think in rainbows is a stinking pile of shit, its only popular because peolpe could get it for nothing.

And @ pitboss, i am a fan of the band, not a certain sound, i am a fan of the ideas they held, in fact adore and machina are my favourite albums, i dont want them to copy any album again, i want them to progress, but i dont want them lose the ideals they once had. The dangerousness they once held, thats what is most dissapoitning about 2007/2008 pumpkins, it isnt dangerous, they are just another mediocre rock band on a long list of mediocre rock bands.

Hahaha, Snail_Rocks rocks

Hey Thanks Dougy.....

This aint all bad peoples. Geez, if the Pumpkins are so close to your heart just be greatful they are still writing and putting out great music. Sure I love albums too, especially Pumpkins albums where each has their own feel and sound but they gotta try something different. If it goes to poo and no-one buys their music then maybe a new album will surface later. Let 'em try it.

i still want a goddamn album putting 10-14 tracks together isn't that hard release it on your website its just dumb im under 24 and mostly buy albums not songs its just a dumb move.

has never heard of the smashing pumpkins. it has been all down hill ever since 96

i was not saying you personally at all dougy. its just a lot of people are expecting the pumpkins to be the band they used to be. and like you said, "the ideas they held", but the reality is they are not that band anymore. thats all i was trying to say. and if people dont like it, its just too bad. once again, not saying you dougy.

I don't have an ipod, don't care about downloading off some website and then having to burn the shit onto a cd anyway. It'd save me a helluva lotta trouble to just give me a goddamned cd and be done with it.

Yeah, i understand pit_boss, i guess im just a little bitter, but i think years of loyal service and support has earned me the right to be bitter haha. Im not a very serious person dont worry about it.

Once again: this is a dumb move

I want albums!