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I've been following this album since they announced it back over the summer. Im not concerned so much about d'arcy being in the band, though she was pretty awesome her bass lines didn't contribute anything really to the band's sound, where as james iha Im really hoping will be on the album which looks unlikely. I loved machina, their last album I thought it was a perfect mix between siemese dream and adore. Though I have a feeling Corgan and his holier than thou attitude is going to try something over the top with this album which could be a plus or a minus. Im not going to assume anything right now but either way Im excited to hear it, whether or not Zeitgeist (which is a pretty stupid name in my opinion) will be good or not.

viva la pumpkins

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And to answer the subtitle question, I think they'll make a wicked comeback whether the album is even good or not; kids these days will eat it up even if it's shit.

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I don't know, if this album turns out to be epic, me bet is it will be way over the kiddies heads.

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I do agree with Foldered. The Smashing Pumpkins will be able to make a comeback for a few reasons. 1) People my age who grew up with the Pumpkins but didn't experience the Pumpkins (By the time I was 12 they were gone). 2) People who were huge Pumpkins fans when they were teens. 3) The modern rock kids who look upon the Pumpkins as some sort of mythical gods. It would be like if Nirvana released a new album. The Pumpkins haven't had to deal with the demise in sales and, usually, quality, that a lot of their contemporaries did when modern rock became modern pop at the turn of the millenium.

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I've been following this album since they announced it back over the summer. Im not concerned so much about d'arcy being in the band, though she was pretty awesome her bass lines didn't contribute anything really to the band's sound, where as james iha Im really hoping will be on the album which looks unlikely. I loved machina, their last album I thought it was a perfect mix between siemese dream and adore. Though I have a feeling Corgan and his holier than thou attitude is going to try something over the top with this album which could be a plus or a minus. Im not going to assume anything right now but either way Im excited to hear it, whether or not Zeitgeist (which is a pretty stupid name in my opinion) will be good or not.

viva la pumpkins

One of my roommates has loose connections with Iha, friend of a friend and what not. Anyways, Corgan managed to piss Iha off, because Corgan is a perfectionist and did a my way highway deal.

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dnn dnn dnn dnn WANNA GO FOR A RIDE

Oh man there are so many rocking tracks on that album. Where Boys Fear to Tread, Bodies, Tales of a Scorched Earth, X.Y.U., Jellybelly, Zero, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Fuck You (an Ode to No One), Love, Muzzle. And the slow tracks are often better; 1979, Thirty-Three, Stumbleine, Tonight, Tonight, Cupid de Locke. Fuck you could have made a greatest hits album just from tracks off of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Saddness.

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[speaking to RollingStone.com's Rock & Roll Daily blog today, NYC man-about-town and label honcho James Iha revealed that he will most certainly not be a factor in the recently announced Smashing Pumpkins reunion hysteria.

"I'm not part of the current Smashing Pumpkins album or tour," claimed Iha. "I haven't spoken to Billy [Corgan] in years."]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news...umpkins-reunion

well that covers that. :( So lame.

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According to a posting on Buddyhead.com, the latest additions to the "reunited" Smashing Pumpkins are bassist Ginger Reyes (ex-Halo Friendlies) and guitarist Jeff Schroeder (ex-The Lassie Foundation).

So far there has been no official confirmation of the new members' identities, although original guitarist James Iha did reveal to RollingStone.com past week that he is not part of the current Smashing Pumpkins album or tour. "I haven't spoken to Billy [Corgan, Pumpkins mainman] in years," he said.

The only confirmed original member besides Corgan is drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.

In a February 2007 interview with MTV.com, Pumpkins manager Paul Geary hinted that the relaunched Smashing Pumpkins would not include original members Iha on guitar and D'Arcy Wretzky on bass. Geary said, "I've been involved with bands whose members can't stand each other, and over time they run out of dough and that's why they [reunite]. But Billy's making a great record, and for the sake of a younger generation that he wants to turn on to the band's music, he is doing it with a band that will more faithfully re-create the old songs than ever before."

Corgan often expressed irritation in the past with Iha and Wretzky's playing, and it was rumored that he recorded all of their parts himself on much of the Pumpkins' recorded output.

As previously reported, Smashing Pumpkins have announced their first live performance since December 2, 2000 — a very special and intimate theatre show to take place May 22 in Paris, France at the historic and elegantly appointed Grand Rex. Tickets will go on sale April 11.

Man, Corgan is an asshole, but I fucking love it.

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