The Smashing Pumpkins played a 2-night stand at New York City’s United Palace last week and reviews have been pretty bad. One would assume the reviews are bad because the band really isn’t The Smashing Pumpkins and because Billy Corgan is a bat-shit-loco douche (this is common knowledge right?).

Yes folks, he may have been cool during a very small window of time in the early 90’s but he’s sucked since probably around 1996 or so. According to RollingStone “Things quickly fell off a cliff, bogged down by tuneless dirges like the reworked version of ‘Heavy Metal Machine’ and a noisy, directionless cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.” Billy Corgan has always been a pretentious fuck, but damn, a reworked “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” cover? Wow.

Obviously hurt by the bad reviews of the night before, the next night Billy Corgan invited a fan onstage to express his opinion. In what seems like it could’ve been a scripted event the fan said “Last night’s show fucking sucked.” What then ensued was Billy Corgan trying in vain to make a joke about the kid. He used the old “Oh yea, well what song’s have you written?” comeback and then made a joke about an imaginary song the kid wrote which Billy Corgan titled “Take Your Dick Out of My Ass and Stick It In My Mouth.”

To me, this says more about Billy Corgan than anything about the fan himself. How many sharks can Billy Corgan and “The Smashing Pumpkins” jump? Where will it end?

Just check out the YouTube clip, it’s really painfully awkward to watch.

P.S. - When the fuck are Soundgarden going to do a reunion? They are one of the few bands that actually could pull it off better than most. And we all know big bucks would be on the table for such an event. I think the rock world needs Kim Thayil back.

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Tags: Alternative Rock, Billy Corgan, Billy Corgan Sucks, Grunge, Jimmy Chamberlain, Smashing Pumpkins, Smashing Pumpkins at The United Palace, Smashing Pumpkins NYC, Soundgarden, Soundgarden Reunion

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