In a recent interview, The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan revealed that the band may be done making albums: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-billy-corgan-1210dec10,0,6681423.story Im lot sure how I feel about this. It could maybe be cool, we would get material faster which is always good. However this would mean that they're ditching the concept album they were doing, which sucks. In any case, they need a new producer. GLOW could have been awesome if it had better production. Get Flood/Alan Moulder back!
Or they could do what Linkin Park did with Hybrid Theory and make every song sound as if it was meant to be a single. While Hybrid Theory now may show it's age (it was a staple of cliche teenage angst) the reason that album sold as many records as it did is that you could literally picture almost every song on that record being a single, and being a top 10 hit. Then again, many of the songs on that CD were re-written over the course of 3-4 years, so it makes sense. This could be a smart move for Smashing Pumpkins, but if you want my honest opinion...a return to their old style is what they need more than anything.
Zeitgeist was an incredibly sub-par album, especially by Smashing Pumpkins standards. Music has been the same way for a long time, and it's pretty simple: If you want people to listen to your entire album, don't put any songs on it that sound like filler. It has nothing to do with iPods or kids with short attention spans.
To say that his fanbase who could have loved the album just skip through the songs on their iPod is kind of a slap in the face to fans. He talks like EVERY listener skips through it, I know some people who love it and listen to the whole thing through. He should still make music from his heart (If he can) and not worry about what the listeners do.
Well, if the albums are going to be like Zeitgest, they would be better off not putting out an album. That CD only has 3 or 4 good songs...the rest is decent at best.
It depends really. I can understand a band like Ash doing it but with Smashing Pumpkins, unless they'd be able to release a steady stream of singles, it could pretty easily be construed as laziness. I guess it's one way of avoiding filler though.
To me it sounds like he's just fed up and used this interview as an outlet so the interviewer clearly took advantage to blow this out of proportion.
I really dislike Billy Corgan, and he came off as a huge douche bag in the interview, but the concept of only releasing singles instead of albums is kind of neat. I doubt it'll work, though. No one really buys singles, unless they collect them.