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FRIDAY APRIL 21 2006 11:00 AM

Smashing Pumpkins Working on New Material

Submitted by B_Werner

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Billy Corgan. His solo career kind of fell flat on its face and he no longer seems to be dressing like a Cenobite. What else to do, but get the band back together? You know, stop fucking around with poems and acoustic guitars and get back to trampling balls with a wall of arena rock. According to their homepage, the Smashing Pumpkins have officially reformed and are working on a new album.

For a while now, Corgan has been kicking around the idea of writing new material for the band, but nothing was officially announced until this week. The lineup has not been confirmed, and there is no release date for the record yet, but MTV News claims that a source "close to the band" revealed that the Pumpkins are in "pre-production" mode. From what people have said about Corgan, this means that Billy is saying "can you please" instead of "do this or find a new band".

Fans are going to be stoked, as well as some ex-members. Melissa Auf der Mar is ready to reclaim her spot in the lineup.

My services are there for him whenever (Corgan) needs them," she said in February. "Assuming I'm not on tour but even then, we can cross paths. I love the Pumpkins, and to play those songs again would be nothing but fun for me. It was a big part of my life."

Insert sound of cash register here.

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Comments

TAFKASP

Oakland, CA

June 2003

APR 21, 2006 11:04 AM

Auf der Mar makes my pee pee tingle

twiglet

United Kingdom

December 2005

APR 21, 2006 11:05 AM

w00t i say!

lowroller

Australia

May 2008

APR 21, 2006 11:07 AM

B_Werner said:

Insert sound of cash register here.

Indeed.

Bev_Antain

Italy

February 2004

APR 21, 2006 11:13 AM

Too bad that after the pumpkins' demise anything that had to do with the Corgan/Chamberlain duo was really disapointing. Maybe it's true that Corgan needs only a drummer to make a record and that it was always this way, but probably Iha and Wretzky brought something in the air that added that extra touch of magic to those records. The fact that Future Embrace and Mary Star Of The Sea were so so has nothing to do with who's name is on the sleave. Having said that, if it's fate to see the Pumpkins again, i hope it won't just be Corgan solo effort No2 disguised in order to sell more but a band reunion, at least with James Iha and Melissa Auf Der Maur since Wretzky could be behind bars or dead for all we know.

Jordan

SUICIDEGIRL

New York, USA

APR 21, 2006 11:24 AM

thank christ. burn plastic pop to shit already and get rock's balls sewn back on.

PointBlank

New York, NY

November 2004

APR 21, 2006 11:31 AM

They don't have no function.
I don't understand what they mean
And i could really give a fuck.

fictionalsounds

Alva, OK

April 2004

APR 21, 2006 11:40 AM

PointBlank said:
They don't have no function.
I don't understand what they mean
And i could really give a fuck.

that made me laugh
rawk!

girlafraid

I'm lost

October 2005

APR 21, 2006 12:16 PM

oh, fuck, i hate the smashing pumpkins and whiney corgan

Idjit

HOPEFUL

I'm lost

APR 21, 2006 12:20 PM

If Billy makes the next record a concept album about travelling through his GI tract and back out his own anus, I might actually listen to it.

PointBlank

New York, NY

November 2004

APR 21, 2006 12:24 PM

Idjiit said:
If Billy makes the next record a concept album about travelling through his GI tract and back out his own anus, I might actually listen to it.

"Mellow Colon and the Infinite Sadness"?