Moody Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is looking to start a beef. But it's not with Axl Rose or some rapper, it's with your iPod. He's blaming it, and iTunes, for the supposed "demise" of the album in the Chicago Tribune.
In the Q&A, Corgan tells critic Greg Kot that after the (poor selling) "Zeitgeist," he's "done with that" when it comes to albums: "There is no point. People don’t even listen to it all. They put it on their iPod, they drag over the two singles, and skip over the rest."
This, of course, ignores the fact that much of the history of rock is about singles, not albums, which didn't even really become the preferred way of listening until around 1967. There's also the fact that Coorgan may be a bit out of touch -- a few people have been known lately to listen to albums while working on a computer or driving a car.
Oh, and speaking of beef, when we hope Timbaland doesn't take offense when he reads this quote about how Corgan and co. intend to stage a comeback:
"We will crack the egg like we did in ‘92, without doing something embarrassing like working with Timbaland. " A quick glance at the site's commenters reveals words like "tool" and "egomaniac." [Techradar]
Yeah, because you certainly can't skip across tracks with those darn old CDs.