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(LA Times) Stupid "A new multi-year, multi-release concept album": How Billy Corgan plans to ruin all the positive buzz he's getting from the "Watchman" trailer   (theguide.latimes.com) divider line 40
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HotLonelyTeenageGirl [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 09:35:54 PM  
First Darfur and now this. I just can't take all the misery and horror in the world anymore. =(

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 10:00:04 PM  
Using a toned-down version of the song from the Batman and Robin soundtrack had to be intentional.

/never read Watchmen
//sure it's great, like everyone says
///despite the characters looking farking retarded
////except the blue guy

 
Terrx [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 10:31:48 PM  
Mugato: /despite the characters looking farking retarded

They're meant to look outdated and silly.

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 10:36:23 PM  
Terrx: Mugato: /despite the characters looking farking retarded

They're meant to look outdated and silly.


Oh. Good. Like I said, I heard the book was good from a variety of sources so I'll check the movie out.

 
Glitchwerks 2008-07-29 10:48:27 PM  
FTFA:

"What has been Smashing Pumpkins fan reaction toward the use of the song in the trailer?

My fans seem to be confused when the outside world appreciates our work, so I can only imagine this terrifies them."


Are Smashing Pumpkins fans cavemen who are confused and frightened by the rest of the world?

What a pretentious little twat.

 
Krayon 2008-07-29 10:49:46 PM  
"A new multi-year, multi-release concept album": How Billy Corgan plans to ruin all the positive buzz he's getting from the "Watchman" trailer

www.tvhistory.tv

Somebody had to do it.

 
maximum_jack 2008-07-29 10:50:15 PM  
www.jimhillmedia.com

 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 11:36:57 PM  
As opposed to the buzz he was supposed to receive from the song he did for the Batman & Robin movie?

/yes, I know they won a Grammy for that
//it doesn't make it right

 
TyroneShoolaces 2008-07-30 12:06:14 AM  
It's getting harder and harder to keep liking these guys. But at the end of the article he says it's gonna be trippy and he's good at writing trippy (i.e. Silverfark).

 
frostus [TotalFark] 2008-07-30 12:59:18 AM  
It would be nice if he'd start writing decent music again.

 
Crocodile 2008-07-30 01:38:51 AM  
Man, I do love that trailer.

 
Merkin For The Weekend 2008-07-30 08:14:58 AM  
This just in: The title of Billy Corgan's "multi-year, multi-release concept album" will be "Billy Corgan Rips Off Sonic Youth."

 
I Like Bread 2008-07-30 10:01:46 AM  
"Multi-year, multi-release"? Isn't that a fancy way of saying you're releasing a bunch of albums with the same subject matter? Sounds great.

 
FeedTheCollapse 2008-07-30 10:45:51 AM  
Glitchwerks: FTFA:

"What has been Smashing Pumpkins fan reaction toward the use of the song in the trailer?

My fans seem to be confused when the outside world appreciates our work, so I can only imagine this terrifies them."

Are Smashing Pumpkins fans cavemen who are confused and frightened by the rest of the world?

What a pretentious little twat.


yeah, because SP is some obscure indie band flying under the radar.


well, maybe so if you include sales of Zeitgeist.

 
MmmBadEggs 2008-07-30 12:31:32 PM  
Will his terrible, nasally voice be featured?

 
TSE 2008-07-30 12:33:16 PM  
TyroneShoolaces: It's getting harder and harder to keep liking these guys. But at the end of the article he says it's gonna be trippy and he's good at writing trippy (i.e. Silverfark).

i.e. the entire first album

 
carmody 2008-07-30 12:59:44 PM  
I saw the Watchmen trailer and cringed when I heard Billy's mewling little piq-squeak voice on the soundtrack. When will he stop!?

 
irockalot 2008-07-30 01:10:37 PM  
Merkin For The Weekend: This just in: The title of Billy Corgan's "multi-year, multi-release concept album" will be "Billy Corgan Rips Off Sonic Youth My Bloody Valentine."

Fixed it for you.

 
busy chillin' 2008-07-30 01:10:51 PM  
i34.tinypic.com

 
tical 2008-07-30 01:38:06 PM  
Glitchwerks: FTFA:

"What has been Smashing Pumpkins fan reaction toward the use of the song in the trailer?

My fans seem to be confused when the outside world appreciates our work, so I can only imagine this terrifies them."

Are Smashing Pumpkins fans cavemen who are confused and frightened by the rest of the world?

What a pretentious little twat.


Yo!

/its true

 
Agamemnon 2008-07-30 03:04:18 PM  
big fan, here.
too bad bill has shoved his head up his ass to the point of no return.

ohh and this:
"My fans seem to be confused when the outside world appreciates our work, so I can only imagine this terrifies them."

that sounds about right, B0lly.

 
astro716 2008-07-30 05:11:21 PM  
"My fans seem to be confused when the outside world appreciates our work, so I can only imagine this terrifies them."

Am I the only one that found this kind of funny? Methings Fark has damaged your snark detectors.

 
Asperger Jones [TotalFark] 2008-07-30 05:14:05 PM  
upload.wikimedia.org

Unimpressed

 
jaharley 2008-07-30 05:51:40 PM  
As a Smashing Pumpkins fan, I'm really getting a kick out these replies ... seriously though, it is a little frightening when any band I like gets "mainstream" attention, because I figure that I might be one step away from listening to John Mayer (I tried to think of another comparison since someone had already called out Mayer, but really is there any other John Mayer?).

 
Glitchwerks 2008-07-30 06:06:23 PM  
jaharley: As a Smashing Pumpkins fan, I'm really getting a kick out these replies ... seriously though, it is a little frightening when any band I like gets "mainstream" attention, because I figure that I might be one step away from listening to John Mayer (I tried to think of another comparison since someone had already called out Mayer, but really is there any other John Mayer?).

Smashing Pumpkins is as "mainstream" as "mainstream" can get. Whatever that means.

 
ConnieLingus 2008-07-31 12:48:25 AM  
Smashing Pumpkins is as "mainstream" as "mainstream" can get. Whatever that means.

What the fark do you call Fall Out Boy then?

Am I the only one that found this kind of funny? Methings Fark has damaged your snark detectors.

1. I thought it was funny. Mainly because most hard core crazy SP fans are aloof as he says they are. He's not far off the mark people!

2. Psychedelic Pumpkins? Hell yeah!

 
MikoSquiz 2008-07-31 07:17:10 AM  
Here's an idea, Billy: Just do singles from now on. You do great singles. You don't do great concept albums. SINGLES.

 
Glitchwerks 2008-07-31 08:59:03 AM  
ConnieLingus: Smashing Pumpkins is as "mainstream" as "mainstream" can get. Whatever that means.

What the fark do you call Fall Out Boy then?


I lump them and John Mayer in with Smashing Pumpkins. They're all on RIAA-approved major labels, on MTV and the radio, and have exclusive album offers available at Target. If that's not "mainstream," I don't know what is.

 
ConnieLingus 2008-07-31 09:18:11 AM  
I lump them and John Mayer in with Smashing Pumpkins. They're all on RIAA-approved major labels, on MTV and the radio, and have exclusive album offers available at Target. If that's not "mainstream," I don't know what is.


Dude, that's just about every single band that has or had a major label deal in the past 15 years. These bands didn't invent Big Box exclusives. While you alienate them, do the same to Bowie, The Decemberists, and basically anyone who has been written about.

 
ConnieLingus 2008-07-31 09:20:07 AM  
p.s. Pumpkins aren't on a label anymore. You can take them off of the RIAA list written in the blood of puppies and screwed-over songwriters. :rolls eyes:

 
Glitchwerks 2008-07-31 09:42:14 AM  
ConnieLingus:
Dude, that's just about every single band that has or had a major label deal in the past 15 years. These bands didn't invent Big Box exclusives. While you alienate them, do the same to Bowie, The Decemberists, and basically anyone who has been written about.


I'm not alienating anyone. I'm simply categorizing bands and artists as having a mainstream appeal and agenda.

ConnieLingus: p.s. Pumpkins aren't on a label anymore. You can take them off of the RIAA list written in the blood of puppies and screwed-over songwriters. :rolls eyes:

Couldn't care less honestly. Please don't misconstrue my view on this as anything more than it being my opinion that Smashing Pumpkins, Fall Out Boy, etc. are mainstream music. I could care less if it's good or bad.

Honestly, I lump the Pumpkins fans in with the Reznor fans as being a bit too emotionally involved and suffering from a strange sort of desperate infatuation with their preferred music artists.

 
ConnieLingus 2008-07-31 10:08:32 AM  
Couldn't care less honestly. Please don't misconstrue my view on this as anything more than it being my opinion that Smashing Pumpkins, Fall Out Boy, etc. are mainstream music. I could care less if it's good or bad.


Then why bring it up in the first place?

 
ConnieLingus 2008-07-31 10:19:37 AM  
Honestly, I lump the Pumpkins fans in with the Reznor fans as being a bit too emotionally involved and suffering from a strange sort of desperate infatuation with their preferred music artists.


no shiat.

 
Glitchwerks 2008-07-31 10:31:54 AM  
ConnieLingus:
Then why bring it up in the first place?


I didn't. Someone else said that they were worried that Smashing Pumpkins might be associated with John Mayer with "mainstream" attention. That's a bit of a ridiculous assertation, as for a while you couldn't go anywhere without hearing the Pumpkins.

 
rerigger 2008-07-31 11:48:47 AM  
Glitchwerks: Couldn't care less honestly.

He's at the 30! The 20! The 10!

Please don't misconstrue my view on this as anything more than it being my opinion that Smashing Pumpkins, Fall Out Boy, etc. are mainstream music. I could care less if it's good or bad.

FUMBLE!

 
ConnieLingus 2008-07-31 05:10:46 PM  
I didn't. Someone else said that they were worried that Smashing Pumpkins might be associated with John Mayer with "mainstream" attention. That's a bit of a ridiculous assertation, as for a while you couldn't go anywhere without hearing the Pumpkins.

and you're implying that I'm worried? I haven't for the past 15 years I've been a fan....all during which they were on a major. And true, you couldn't go anywhere without hearing SP....but that was, say, 1996.

To bring you up to speed, you're the one that said this:

I lump them and John Mayer in with Smashing Pumpkins. They're all on RIAA-approved major labels, on MTV and the radio, and have exclusive album offers available at Target. If that's not "mainstream," I don't know what is.

and I was the one that said something about fall out boy, i.e. a band that all the kids are listening to, all the endorsement deals are going to, and the act which its parent label (I believe its Warner Bros...correct me if I'm wrong) is investing in. My point being that "mainstream" does not instantly equal being on a major label, having an exclusive deal with Target, or having a video played on MTV (are you farkin' elderly? Since when are videos played on MTV?). Case in point, Rilo Kiley is a band on Warner Bros. but I would hardly call them mainstream. Decemberists are on Capitol, had a big box exclusive deal....would you call them mainstream? I'm just pointing out that your definition of mainstream is a bit warped......and 15 years behind. I'd call Miley Cyrus mainstream, Madonna definitely...mainly because they garner a lot of media attention and sell a lot of records. But they aren't currently "major label" artists. Hollywood Records (Miley's Label) is a Disney label...not a traditional major. Madonna just upped with Live Nation, i.e. she's out of her Warner's contract. In fact, Fall Out Boy is probably the closest example I mentioned to a mainstream artist since they are the ones coddled by their label, you hear them everywhere, and have every fart reported.

 
Glitchwerks 2008-07-31 06:06:49 PM  
ConnieLingus, I am not implying you are worried. I was referring to someone else's post.

This is the original quote I was responding to.

jaharley: As a Smashing Pumpkins fan, I'm really getting a kick out these replies ... seriously though, it is a little frightening when any band I like gets "mainstream" attention, because I figure that I might be one step away from listening to John Mayer (I tried to think of another comparison since someone had already called out Mayer, but really is there any other John Mayer?).

That's it. I sort of defined what I see as mainstream in further discussions with you, and you disagree with my semantic definition of mainstream. That's fine. You haven't and won't change my opinion. Yes, I think when you have a "Target Exclusive" that pretty much means you're mainstream. You can disagree with that all you want. John Mayer, Smashing Pumpkins, Miley Cyrus, the Decemberists, etc. That's not my type of music. That's all.

You're not reading clearly enough because you're beginning to think some of my points are addressing you when they are not.

 
mofomisfit 2008-07-31 08:32:58 PM  
Someone will have to remind me what The Decemberists big box deal was, because as far as I can remember, it never happened.

 
mofomisfit 2008-07-31 08:34:49 PM  
And just for the record, I would classify the Decemberists as mainstream.

 
ConnieLingus 2008-07-31 09:19:47 PM  

You're not reading clearly enough because you're beginning to think some of my points are addressing you when they are not.


You've been talking to me for the past few posts.....who are you addressing then?

 
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