Billy Corgan: Radiohead choose publicity over music

im a big bald cock!

I used to be a huge SP fan, but Billy has turned into quite an idiot. Particularly when he said he doesn’t care if the old fans don’t like the new material. He totally lost me as a fan right there, as I vowed to never buy another SP album. He has no right to comment on other band’s ideas.

If I were Billy Corgan, I would retire to the mountains and never bother a soul again. I can’t listen to old Pumpkins stuff, knowing what he’s become.

billy corgan is a washed up, self absorbed has been. who cares what he says. he wishes he would have thought of it. And billy, apparently no young bands have been kicking your ass lately because all your new stuff sucks.

the earlier version of that interview reported:

Billy Corgan: Number one, I think there’s just too much. I mean, how can you ask an eighteen-year-old to sort through everything that they’re presented with? Realistically, just being hot and talented and having a good single isn’t enough anymore. You really need like the extra story, like Amy Winehouse had, or a Britney freak-out. Like, Radiohead putting out a great album is not enough of a story. Radiohead putting out a free album, and blah, blah, that’s the story. So it becomes more media-driven, event-driven, than music-driven.

God knows why RS deleted this portion of the interview (surely not because of publicity eheh)..
you can not agree with him, but he’s not just ranting on them

Half the things he said didnt even make sense.

“Well, you know what? I don’t think the Beatles would be making an album right now.”

what the hell does that even MEAN?

billy = meh

is it just me, or is the headline for that news item misleading? it doesn’t look like Billy said In Rainbows was about publicity at all. I think he’s talking about the fact that its release is overshadowing it. he even said “no disrespect to them.”
oh, but i’m not forgetting Billy has become an mega huge hypocrite/sell out. christ, he once gave an entire album away for free.
but like i said, i think his point was that a lot of people cared more about how In Rainbows was released rather than the fact that it was a good album.

So the media reporting on radiohead’s method of releasing an album and amy winehouse’s drug habits is their fault? They didn’t hype it, the news did, billy go back to zwan you tool.

Says the guy who puts money before music and release 4 different version of the same album after bringing an unrelevant band (says Corgan himself as reason for breaking it up in the first place..) back from the grave. Shame on you Corgan.

wow what a bitch. that’s the definition of oxymoron…talking shit about publicity while trying to drum up his own publicity by such a useless and meaningless figure in music

Went to Smashing Pumpkins a few weeks ago and I quite like Billy. He’s a complete nutter and a hypocrite, but that doesn’t change the fact that he wrote some of the best songs of the 90’s.

Also, I think the interview title is misleading. He was really referring to the media, twas not an attack on Radiohead.

In a way Billy is right, and just because we are all die hard Radiohead fans here doesn’t mean we have to attack him for what he said. However considering his statement is completely hypocritical considering his much more commercial marketing strategy, its almost as if he’s mocking himself. So, let him.

this guy it´s living in the past.
goodbye

Isn’t this the guy that took out an ad in the friggin’ Chicago Tribune to beg his once-former band mates to get back together? Yes, yes it is. I think the British would call him a “twat”. Not me, though, I’m much more restrained.

Thanks for that left-out excerpt, Beckless. I guess Mr. Corgan isn’t necessarily criticizing Radiohead, as much as the media’s interpretation: putting out a great album isn’t as important as what drew in everyone’s attention of the pay-what-you want system. Maybe he accidentally chose the word “publicity”, when he meant the media were publicizing the album that way.

do you morons need to read this again? RS edited the interview to get some sensationalism out of his words.. he was complimenting radiohead and commenting on how the media ignored the fact that they had released a great album (made a more of a big deal out of the release method).

the earlier version of that interview reported:

“Billy Corgan: Number one, I think there’s just too much. I mean, how can you ask an eighteen-year-old to sort through everything that they’re presented with? Realistically, just being hot and talented and having a good single isn’t enough anymore. You really need like the extra story, like Amy Winehouse had, or a Britney freak-out. Like, Radiohead putting out a great album is not enough of a story. Radiohead putting out a free album, and blah, blah, that’s the story. So it becomes more media-driven, event-driven, than music-driven.”

way to go RS! twist the words up a bit and get some more hits!

You’d have to really be an idiot (which Billy definitely is) to deny the fact of how powerful the internet currently is for promoting and distributing music.

Look at MySpace, fool! It’s loitered with everyone and their brother trying to solicit themselves.

Billy’s just pissed cause the last decent record he made was over ten years ago. He’s a fucking ‘has-been.’ Go away, Billy!

“I can tell that our plans right now are to do an album over two or three years and put it out in pieces and then maybe eventually bring it all back together” <– wasn’t this thom’s plan? i remember him saying something about putting out songs one by one/not using a conventional “album” method so they could let us hear them more immediately.
…and by corgan’s “standards”, wouldn’t this be considered a gimmick? what a tool.

Corgan should worry about his own ‘message’ of “Whinging & complaining is better than music”. All the hoopla for the new album–one so grand that half the member didn’t even want to play on it–and it came & went just like that. One single that *might* have been okay as a Pixies b-side 17 years ago, but has showed no progress or ingenuity since the last mediocre album. Corgan has no right to be whining about about others when his own music is so bland.

I think it’s funny he says he thinks they feel publicity is more important than the music when they spent so long working on the tunes. haha then at the end has the balls to say he doesn’t give a fuck that his music is shit now and he can’t connect to the youth of america anymore, let alone anywhere close to the scope radiohead connects on. Zwan didn’t self enough records for billy to remain popular so he makes the new SP with pretty much nobody from the original band. irony.

So Billy Corgan whines about Radiohead doing this just for publicity (minus the label) and then pulls the same shit himself? Talk about a hypocrite. Oh, and at least Radiohead had release albums that aren’t complete and utter shit since 1996.

The words were taken out of context, and Rolling Stone didn’t quote the whole thing. Bastards. He meant that the media made a bigger deal of the way they released it, and not how the record actually was.

This divisive rhetoric shall have no place in this campaign. Oops…wrong message board. Pick a nominee already!!

what a tit.
this is the man who released his last album in four or five diffferent versions with tracks only available at walmart and best buy, effectively pissing on indie stores.
stick it to the man.

just vexted the has-been didnt come up with idea himself radiohead are so clever they have peple like him giving them FREE publicity what a fool! Andhow dare he compare radiohead to the talent free zone that is winehouse.

It seems the title posted here is misleading and the way RS presented this interview was intended to fan flames of anger. Corgan was NOT implicating radiohead to be publicity whores…ponder his comments for a moment and consider them. “Hail to the Thief”, despite having a title that *may* be considered controversial, did not receive near the same publicity. Everyone knew about this album…EVERYONE….

…or did they? I would venture further to say EVERYONE knew about the albums method of release, not the ALBUM. This method certainly overshadowed the music that was delivered with it.

Where I don’t agree with Corgan is his belief that this has all been bad. I believe this has allowed positive growth for the band (more people appreciating their music) and served as an additional testament to why we all love them sooo much!

well, he’s right.. radiohead and smashing pumpkins still make good sales because they were popular in the 90s.. Nowadays you need something else to rise above the rest in terms of popularity, and music simply isn’t enough.. and if you play music you want people to listen to you.. Corgan is not so hypocrite to deny it.. he’s just telling how he sees the music biz.. people now just have to browse the internet to find a good band.. you don’t even have to download stuff, you just go to their myspace or last.fm.. it’s not like listening to shit bands all day from the radio and watching an hour a day of “alternative nation” from mtv and choose a band among the few who had made it till there.. major labels still think that they’re the “gate-keepers” of the music market and that they can sell anything with some ready-made articles and reviews for the press.. to them it’s never about the music..

I still love SP and look foward to the
new stuff. But I think what Radiohead did
was cool. I mean all they did was do it
their own way. It was very atypical like
their music and I loved that! I think they
did do the right thing and simply announced
that they were doing something that wasn’t
about the money. THat they were doing it on
their own. So its a Good example to young
bands not a bad example as Billy said. It
shows YOU CAN DO THIS if you’re a young band/artist
.You don’t need the big dick labels . So I’
simply disagree with him. I do agree that much
the music business-mainstream-label oriented stuff
is NOT about the music and has a lot of BS nand
sell outs.. But Radiohead is NOT a part of that BIlly IMO . Nevertheless I look foward too
new SP!

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