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...head off for a Smashing Pumpkins concert. I'm as much of an political junkie as the next guy--I'm dying to find out how the Parental Rights Amendment fares in Colorado, and of course, what becomes of California's Proposition 215, the medical marijuana provision. Still, Billy Corgan only makes it to beantown so many nights a year...
...AWARDS] SMASHING PUMPKINS singer Billy Corgan, who said, after winning five awards, "I think, in the end, all videos kind of ruin the song...
...SMASHING PUMPKINS Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Virgin). Raucous and sweet, pretentious and populist, this Chicago-based alternative rock group's hubristic double CD soared as high as its lofty ambitions, an Icarus with wings that worked. Bandleader Billy Corgan is adept at turning out swift, radio-ready hits, yet he also excels at creating epic art-pop songs that explore enigmatic ideas and twisting melodic pathways. For listeners looking to take a journey, not just a joyride, this is a trip that shouldn't be missed...
...Corgan, 28, who grew up listening to bands like (surprise!) Led Zeppelin, is blunt in his criticism of some current trends in pop music. Punk rock, for instance, is "not what it was in 1977," he asserts, "and anybody who is old enough to remember knows the difference. It's being heralded as a new movement, and we all know it's bogus." On rock stars who moan about the high cost of fame: "They're total hypocrites. No one's putting a gun to your head to do videos, to do tours, to do interviews...
...Corgan ridicules the recent and heavily hyped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum all-star concert: "This is what sickened me. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, those people have earned their place in rock history, and I want to hear them anytime. But where was the representation of rock right now? Bon Jovi does not represent rock right now, O.K.?" And he expresses scorn for rockers he sees as imitations: "Let's face it, Alanis Morissette is like a tame Courtney Love [a former girlfriend of Corgan's who now heads the punk band Hole]. What is Alanis Morissette...