ZWAN/Billy Corgan/Smashing Pumpkins

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man, this is the week for leaks.  corgans debut solo album TheFutureEmbrace here...

http://rapidshare.de/files/2124943/abiggf.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/2125324/hhiigfcd.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/2125659/zhgfh.rar.html

PASSWORD: sth1453

[bigperm]

Billy wants his band back, from the Chicago Tribune today. . .
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/acrobat/2005-06/18118271.pdf

[mogwai]

he's been writing his "confessions" online for about a month or so. he seems to miss his old band. but i doubt a reunion will be happen.

[Myxo]

he's been writing his "confessions" online for about a month or so. he seems to miss his old band. but i doubt a reunion will be happen.

What, like the rest of his band has anything better going on? Hehe..

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saw solo Corgan tonite in NYC.  it was cool, but you know..... no Smashing Pumpkins.  hell, it wasn't even Zwan, though i never go to see them live.  it is the weirdest thing to, on the day of your solo release announce you want to reform your old band.  almost like a surrender before a battle.  oh well.  the show was pretty cool.  funny how he always has 1 girl in the band.  the album grew on me since i didnt really care for it at first.  now i really like Mina Loy, The Camera Eye and Walking Shade.

[Ghostboy]

I haven't picked up the new album yet, but I've found myself listening to the entire Pumpkins catalog lately and really hoping that planned reunion goes through (it's funny that he was downplaying the possibility all the way up until last Tuesday - and then he takes out a full-page ad saying that it will happen).

[Ghostboy]

I bought this album today. It sort of fills the same place for me that the new NIN album did...namely, pleasant nostalgia. This isn't as good as the NIN album, though. Maybe it has subtle depths I'm not penetrating yet, but it ain't no Adore (its most obvious precedent) and the most interesting thing about it is Billy Corgan's embrace of his birthmark in the liner notes, which I remember he used to stridently cover up.

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"It's official, The Smashing Pumpkins are currently writing songs for their upcoming album, their first since 2000. No release date has yet been set, but the band plans to begin recording this summer."

http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/

[RegularKarate]

It's official, this album will suck ass.

[mogwai]

it's official, billy corgan is a woman.

[MacGuffin]

The Smashing Pumpkins have entered a recording studio with producer Roy Thomas Baker, according to a post on the band's Web site. Baker produced Queen's A Night at the Opera, which included their classic "Bohemian Rhapsody," and also has the Cars, Journey and Cheap Trick on his lengthy résumé. The band announced in April that it had reunited, though Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin are the only members who have been confirmed for the comeback so far.