Pumpkins’ new music strikes out again in Pazz & Jop critics poll 1:08 am // Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Posted by jjb in criticism, news, teargarden by kaleidyscope.trackback
Neither of the two singles released by the Smashing Pumpkins in 2011 was mentioned by any of the 700 music critics casting ballots in the annual Village Voice Pazz & Jop singles poll.
In the accompanying albums poll, one Pazz & Jop voter allocated some points to November’s deluxe reissue of the 1993 album Siamese Dream, thereby preventing the Pumpkins from being entirely shut out of the poll for a fourth consecutive year.
“Lightning Strikes,” from the Pumpkins’ Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project, debuted March 17 on the website of Rolling Stone. Another Teargarden song, “Owata,” appeared May 3; the band later promoted the track with a short film and music video.
Wheelchair Sports Camp’s cover of the MC Meals on Wheels freestyle “My Vagina Ain’t Handicapped” is among the 2,225 singles receiving at least one mention in the poll.
So does this prove how irrelevant SP is or does it prove that they have bad taste in music…
Aren’t we all irrelevant this point?
Yeah, but Owata wasn’t worth mentioning in it’s synth-form, and Lightning Strikes is nowhere near as good as the songs from EP2.
I think the point here is that the protracted absence of any Smashing Pumpkins’ song from such a wide selection of music is rather suspect. I’m not saying that something has been organized on purpose (an anti-SmashingPumpkins “secret” movement? No way…), but rather that old and new bias/preconceived ideas against the band are by this time undeniable.
I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve had a conversation with someone that is surprised that the Pumpkins are even still performing. Outside of this little bubble, no one really cares anymore.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/jan/16/indie-rock-slow-painful-death http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/18/george-lucas-abandon-blockbusters-star-wars
Oceania will turn this ship around, my spidey-sense is tingling…
i no longer have any interest in oceania, i just want billy to make a grilled cheese sandwich.
…and then give me the sandwich.
swimming in a pool of falafels
Wheelchair sports camp – my vagina int handicapped(cover) > owata synth version