I haven’t been posting here for a while. Apologies for that.
Smashing Pumpkins’ have just released their latest single a few days ago, That’s The Way (My Love Is). It’s a pretty decent track, somehow managed to remind me of Try, Try, Try from the Machina-era (must be the beat).
What I don’t get is the political-themed CD cover. What’s up with that? First it was Paris Hilton on Tarantula, now it’s Death’s turn. Watch out Mr Eddie Vedder, Mr Corgan is joining politics with a (so-called) love song.
Oh, and the video to the single? It was OK, typical Pumpkins style. Watch it for yourself.
The track list for Zeitgeist, to be launched July 7th, 2007.
“Is everyone afraid? Has everyone changed?,” Corgan sings on opener “Doomsday Clock,” a big, loud rocker in the vein of Geek U.S.A. from Siamese Dream.
I still remember when the Pumpkins were about to release Machina back in 2000, the media compared it to Gish, the whole back-to-roots thingie. When it was finally released, they tanked it for not living up to hype. Bastards.
Personally, I don’t think the Pumpkins need another Gish or even Siamese Dreams. Both the albums are irreplaceable. And frankly, the Pumpkins can never go back to their glory days of selling millions of albums and topping the charts, not when today’s charts are covered with artists that feature other artists (just take a look at Billboard’s chart, 6 out of 10 of them have artists featuring artists, it’s a trend).
