[Redpyramidhead]

This should truly be interesting. Smashing Pumkins reformed and ready to rock again in the near future. I dont know about you cynics, but I think this is just what we need much in the same way Audioslave or A Perfect Circle is refreshing for a guy like myself who loved 90's alternative to hear a perfect hybrid like its meant to be done now in the 2000's. It's still got that old incredibly nostalgaic flavor but its still new and fresh and modern. Could this be what the new Smashing Pumpkins will sound like? There's really no way to know yet, but listening to the way Billy Corgan speaks of it, as if it is still completely fresh to him and where he feels he belongs, then I dont think we will be dissapointed.

As for teenage angst? Pumpkins weren't just all about teenage angst. Its a way of interpreting the feel of the song and how you enjoy it when you listen to it based on your state of mind in that particular time of your life. I often find going back and listening to some of my old favorite bands I find myself hearing the songs in a whole new way based on the way I interpret thing in my twenties. As opposed to depressing, a lot of the songs sound more full of some energized thirst for life now while shedding the skin of depressing environments they may have originally been more conducive to when I was younger. I am older and more experienced now and realize that life does not have to be all doom and gloom, even though I may love the sound of it in a song, but a shout from the depths of one seeking life in melodic genius in a unique alternative rock voice is much more exhilerating than a pathetic whimper. This is why bands like Korn have failed to stay fresh and will dissapear soon if we can help it.

With all things said, right now is probably the perfect time for the Smashing Pumpkins to come back. Let's see where it helps take us all musically.

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