New Music: Smashing Pumpkins: "Tarantula" [Stream]
The Smashing Pumpkins, on this decent quality, non-radio-rip first single from forthcoming reunion album Zeitgeist, are not the sensitive Smashing Pumpkins. From the start, Billy Corgan, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, and whoever they have filling in for D'arcy Wretzky and James Iha kick straight into overdrive.
Except for a brief tender section about 3/4 of the way through, the whole song chugs forward relentlessly, with a few semi-arbitrarily placed (but also semi-awesome sounding) guitar solos included for good measure. Corgan's voice hasn't changed, and Chamberlin's still a killer drummer. But what's perhaps most interesting? That the whole thing goes by so quickly it cuts right through the pomp and circumstance of hearing the first new Smashing Pumpkins track in years.
Stream: > Smashing Pumpkins: "Tarantula"
[via Spinner; from Zeitgeist; due 07/10/07 on Martha's Music/Reprise]
Except for a brief tender section about 3/4 of the way through, the whole song chugs forward relentlessly, with a few semi-arbitrarily placed (but also semi-awesome sounding) guitar solos included for good measure. Corgan's voice hasn't changed, and Chamberlin's still a killer drummer. But what's perhaps most interesting? That the whole thing goes by so quickly it cuts right through the pomp and circumstance of hearing the first new Smashing Pumpkins track in years.
Stream: > Smashing Pumpkins: "Tarantula"
[via Spinner; from Zeitgeist; due 07/10/07 on Martha's Music/Reprise]