Who is this "Smashing Pumpkins" a-hole - claiming "moral compass"

[UTUSN]

He's telling Piers he don't like Ler-Obama-man because there's no "MORAL COMPASS" there. I hate your guts you moral-compass-Smashing-Pumpkin-ASSHOLE.

[clang1]

1. re: Who is this "Smashing Pumpkins" a-hole - claiming "moral compass"

Really? I kinda sorta always thought the Smashing Pumpkins sucked anyway.

[jp11]

2. Billy Corgan

Don't watch Piers Morgan.

[clang1]

10. Don't watch Piers Morgan.

heh noshite on that. he is just another talking head.

[Politicalboi]

3. What a surprise

Piers has an Obama hater on. Shocked I tell ya. Smashing Pumpkins is a one hit wonder band. Just like REM saying The Beatles music is elevator music. REM sucks as much as Smashing Pumpkins. Both bands will never be remembered 50 years from now.

[Cooley Hurd]

14. facepalm

Smashing Pumpkins was the most prolific and important band of the '90's. Not even close to being a one-hit wonder.

Stipe was talking out of his ass (re: Beatles) but he admitted doing so shortly after Kurt C died. He developed a respect for the Beatles through Kurt.

[JI7]

17. "Smashing Pumpkins was the most prolific and important band of the '90's"

really ?

[Cooley Hurd]

20. *sigh* really...

[Warpy]

22. Eeeew. Only if you liked slick, overproduced, mass marketed crap.

Seriously, they impressed the MTV crowd but not much beyond it.

[sadbear]

24. Nu-uh!

The most prolific and important band of the '90's was the Spin Doctors. Duh!

[xmas74]

27. He took Cobain's death pretty hard.

Stipe has said that he really wanted to work with Kurt but it just didn't happen.

I wouldn't call them the most important band of the 90's but they did have a number of songs.

[REP]

18. 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness' had 5 Top 40 Singles

Not that he isn't an ass, but just that one album had more than one hit.

And him being an ass won't keep me from still liking Zero.

[JVS]

32. "Both bands will never be remembered 50 years from now."

Yes they will be. The current crop of small children born to people in their 30s will remember that their parents had both REM and Smashing Pumpkins in their collections.

[Chan790]

4. Is he bald? Cueball bald?

If so, that's Billy Corgan. You can ignore him, he says crazy shit and I do believe he's a libertarian.

[MADem]

8. That was him--inarticulate buffoon. nt

[JI7]

5. are they not able to get guests for this show or something ?

[DonCoquixote]

6. and they trot out the younger ones

To make the young kids feel that sticking it to Obama iz kewl....

[MADem]

12. I think the teens in the youngest generation of my family would call that guy an old dork.

I don't think they'd regard him as "kewl" or "hip" or whateverthehell is the current phrase to indicate that the person's opinions are noteworthy and they are worthy of emulation!

[LeftyMom]

15. Younger? He's 45.

That's not young by any reasonable definition.

[laundry_queen]

21. Yeah, my daughter thinks he's ancient

I liked Smashing Pumpkins when *I* was a teen. Now my daughter's a teen. I don't think Billy's had a hit since before my daughter was born....

[LeftyMom]

23. Next to *me* he's ancient.

I think I was in high school for the last one?

[MADem]

7. Is he trying to get a gig at the Republican Convention? Ha ha ha!

I watched him for fifteen seconds and said "Boring. Asshole. Idiot." Click!

He should check Dennis Miller's career trajectory! What a maroon!

[Angry Dragon]

9. Another private in Satan's Army heard from

[Make7]

11. Rock stars are who I typically look to for a moral compass... ( n/t )

[n2doc]

13. Another rocker talking about morals?

Wonder how many under age groupies he did earlier in his life?

[randome]

16. The GOP is a vampire, sent to drain.

Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames.

[abelenkpe]

19. Billy Corigan?

He's fond of conspiracy theories, lyndon larouche and angry twitter tirades about ex girl friends. One of my hubby's good friends from grad school used to play drums for the Smashing Pumpkins. (they've had several over the years.) He said Corigan was an impossible control freak. But yeah....he's not known for being very stable. Why would he be discussing politics on Piers Morgan? He's a musician who is past his prime.
Love 1979 though. Now I'm gonna go listen to it

[taught_me_patience]

25. Billy Corgan pumping the new Smashing Pumpkin's albumn

he's a great musician but a bit of a loon.

[Scurrilous]

26. He's slogging a new album:

‘Egomaniac’ Billy Corgan Says He’s Sick of Radiohead’s ‘Pomposity’

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"To coincide with the release of Oceania — the upcoming studio album from the latest iteration of the Smashing Pumpkins (now featuring the girl from the cover of Siamese Dream!) — frontman Billy Corgan decided to drum up some publicity by picking a fight with Radiohead.

Speaking with Antiquiet, the aging rocker, who readily admits to having a "need for attention, and ego gratification," said he'll happily "piss" on Radiohead "because of all this pomposity."

http://gawker.com/5917838/egomaniac-billy-corgan-says-hes-sick-of-radioheads-pomposity

[xmas74]

28. And Radiohead will just ignore him

while receiving tons of praise from the critics.

[TlalocW]

29. I wish I could find it online

I know I have it on an old video tape. Comedy Central in the 90s did these commercials with comedians talking to kids. The humor was the kids didn't know what the hell the comedians were talking about, but the tagline was, "Don't take comedy from strangers." Janeane Garofalo did one where she was warning the little girls about Billy Corgan for some reason, showing them pictures of him (some of them made appropriate "ick" faces). It ended with one little girl going, "I think he's cute," and Janeane honestly sounding like her heart had just broken, replying, "Oh, Cindy..."

TlalocW

[Marr]

30. It's amazing how horrible an artists' work becomes as soon as they say something

you disagree with.

I don't know the context of his comment, but it would be pretty damned hard to argue that *none* of the Obama Administration's policies have been... let's just say morally questionable.

[cwydro]

31. yep

this board would be all over Bush if Fast and Furious happened on his watch...

[Quantess]

33. My condolences. You will never get that half-hour of your life back.

But, it is your own fault that you sat there and watched Billy Corgan talk politics with that insufferable Piers Morgan. Next time, change the channel.