11:32 pm - 06/12/2012
Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan has laid into Radiohead, declaring them "pompous".
The singer, whose band release their new studio album 'Oceania' on Monday (June 18), said that Oxford band were a symbol of the current culture of "valuation" which he despises.
Speaking about how rock music is viewed in popular culture at the moment, Corgan told Antiquiet: "I can't think of any people outside of Weird Al Yankovic who have both embraced and pissed on rock more than I have. Obviously there's a level of reverence, but there's also a level of intelligence to even know what to piss on."
He then went on: "Because I'm not pissing on Rainbow. I'm not pissing on Deep Purple. But I'll piss on fucking Radiohead, because of all this pomposity. This value system that says Jonny Greenwood is more valuable than Ritchie Blackmore. Not in the world I grew up in."
Corgan went to compare Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood to Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore and himself and said that the veteran was better than both of them.
He added: "So I find myself defending things. Is Ritchie Blackmore a better guitar player than me and Jonny Greenwood? Yes. Have we all made contributions? Yes. I'm not attacking that. I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that. I'm so fucking sick of it, and nobody seems to tire of it."
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Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan: 'I'll piss on Radiohead'
Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan has laid into Radiohead, declaring them "pompous".
The singer, whose band release their new studio album 'Oceania' on Monday (June 18), said that Oxford band were a symbol of the current culture of "valuation" which he despises.
Speaking about how rock music is viewed in popular culture at the moment, Corgan told Antiquiet: "I can't think of any people outside of Weird Al Yankovic who have both embraced and pissed on rock more than I have. Obviously there's a level of reverence, but there's also a level of intelligence to even know what to piss on."
He then went on: "Because I'm not pissing on Rainbow. I'm not pissing on Deep Purple. But I'll piss on fucking Radiohead, because of all this pomposity. This value system that says Jonny Greenwood is more valuable than Ritchie Blackmore. Not in the world I grew up in."
Corgan went to compare Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood to Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore and himself and said that the veteran was better than both of them.
He added: "So I find myself defending things. Is Ritchie Blackmore a better guitar player than me and Jonny Greenwood? Yes. Have we all made contributions? Yes. I'm not attacking that. I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that. I'm so fucking sick of it, and nobody seems to tire of it."
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...idgi, what is his actual point?
fuck u.
I remember a Kim Deal quote about him way back when SP & Breeders were on Lollapalooza tour together. "I want what he's on. I want that pill that makes him so fucking important."
Kim Thayil explodes: “What do you mean? You write all the songs, and you do all the interviews. You play the instruments on the album. You control the band to the extent that most people think of Smashing Pumpkins as the Billy Corgan Experience, and all you care about is some photograph?”
“But I hate it,” Corgan says, “it means they don’t think I’m the cute one.”
“Ooh,” Thayil says a little too loudly as Corgan walks away, “I’ll bet he’s going to call his therapist in Chicago, wake her up at four in the morning, and tell her about that big, mean bear who made fun of him.”
The next day at the Big Day Out festival, Thayil is talking to Kim and Kelley Deal in the Breeders’ dressing room when Corgan walks past wearing a long-sleeved Superman T-shirt like the one your four-year-old nephew probably owns.
“You hurt me deeply,” Corgan says, touching the giant S on his chest and pouting. “You hurt me deeply in my heart."
ps when my friend puts stocking on his head he looks just like him but cuter
I have to ask you-what is your view of his Landslide cover? Honestly I want to like it (I used to very much so) but his arrogance has gone so full throttle of late I can't even separate it from his music so I can enjoy it (it sounds dramatic I know but it has killed his music for me).
ETA: Does he even make music any more?
Edited at 2012-06-12 09:02 pm (UTC)
my friend and I both walked out about half-way through, agreeing that the highlight of the night were the opening bands.
they weren't bad, just really boring. I like their albums well enough, but I felt like I should have brought a sleeping bag and some pillows to properly appreciate that show.
but then again i loved in rainbows and it was the bulk of the songs
STFU & GTFO.
id piss on you given the chance.
tbh what he say i really don't care but idek if the ages make Billy Corgan and Trent Reznor like they are now (old douches, don't care about their fans, one has a 40 something men crisis and married a look alike younger tranny mess) or they where always like this and since in the 90's the where so little internet we didn't knew. I think both tbh
I will never forget my mom that didn't allow me to go to the gig of smashing pumpkins in 98 when they where epic
Edited at 2012-06-12 09:00 pm (UTC)