I think that for many of us the lyrics to Soothe by the Smashing Pumpkins represents the possibility, if not the ideal, of what we can realistically hope for when it comes to dealing with ugly situations in the past and present.
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The Smashing Pumpkins are on tour again, and this time they are finally going to grace Chicago with their presence. Ungrateful muffins that they are…
I do love their new artwork, though.
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The other day I talked about how I thought Zeitgeist was pretty sweet, and today Rolling Stone agrees with me. It’s nice not to be entirely in the minority on an artistic opinion for once.
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The cardinal sin that almost every review (positive and negative) of Zeitgeist has committed so far is interpreting it strictly as a referendum on Billy Corgan and his other efforts to date. Certainly that history is significant (you can read it all here), but it is an oversimplication to simply denounce the new album as Billy Corgan’s personal hand at work, or to rehabilitate it because the same has always been true.
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