First Spin: Smashing Pumpkins
July 3rd, 2007
The motherlode is dropping next week on July 10 - it’s the highly anticipated album of brand new material from Smashing Pumpkins! Get this - MuchMusic.com is streaming the album in its entirety right now! Zeitgeist is the band’s first studio album since 2000’s Machina/The Machines of God. Which, as you’ll recall, wasn’t exactly a great album.
But Corgan and crew have had seven years to rejig their priorities & musical stylings, and get stuff out of their systems. In the last few years there have been many events leading up to this reunion:
2003 - Zwan.
2004 - Corgan writes a book of poetry (Blinking With Fists) and then embarks on a whirlwind book signing tour.
2005 - Corgan releases a solo album, TheFutureEmbrace.
2006 - Corgan places that ad in the Chicago Tribune announcing that he wants a Smashing Pumpkins reunion. People finally start to take notice.
2007 - Smashing Pumpkins officially announce in April that they are reuniting to record a new album. Coinciding with the release of first single Tarantula in May, a poor quality version of Zeitgeist is leaked online.
NOW - Smashing Pumpkins are set to release Zeitgeist for real this time (July 10), play Live Earth (July 7), and VirginFest in Toronto (September 9)!
Do original SP members Billy Corgan & Jimmy Chamberlin still have it? You’ll have to listen to decide for yourself!
Posted on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 6:44 pm by Kat and is filed under Music & Videos.
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Smashing Pumpkins go political!!! Very Cool!! First Single (Tarantula), amazing!!
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I love billy corgan!! and the others but i think that they did their best work on their older albums like Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. But i’m sure that everything that they do will be good but not as good as their older albums.