Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins has revealed to The Chicago Tribune that his band will not be releasing any new albums. Apparently:
“People don’t even listen to it all [an album]. They put it on their iPod, they drag over the two singles, and skip over the rest.” He also stated that the band will no longer be laying traditional tours adding “We’ll go small and do exactly what we want to do and stop playing catalogue. We’ll be like a new band that can’t rely on old gimmicks“
I wish he would realise 2 important things here: Firstly, if he released an album worth taking notice of people might actually go out and buy the whole thing. More importantly the reason he is even able to consider playing small one off shows for a wage is because in the past (millions of) people have bought his releases. Those same people want to hear the tracks they fell in love with all those years back, By all means mix some new stuff into the set but remember the tracks you built your reputation on that are now allowing you the privilege to act like a spoilt brat.
I honestly think Billy Corgan is an amazing songwriter and Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie are albums I loved, it is precisely for this reason that those tracks deserve to be heard. Now, can anyone give him James Iha and D’arcy‘s numbers!
