SP再結後のサウンドは？

wctrib.comのコチラの記事に、地元シカゴのパンプキンズにゆかりのある人物や音楽に関わる人物達が（シカゴトリビューンのライターやレーベルのオーナーなど）が新生スマッシング・パンプキンズに関してコメントをしていますが、バンドの再結成に関しては冷ややかな反応を示しているよう人物が多い様子。
彼等のコメントを読むと「基本に戻り”Siamese Dream”のような物を期待するけど、面白みに欠ける作品になる気がする。かつての栄光を取り戻そうとがんばるだろうけど失敗するんじゃないかな？（Pitchforkmedia.comのAmy Phillips氏）」や、「ビリーの自己満足になると思う（かつてのレーベル、リミテッド・ポテンシャルのオーナー、Mike Po氏）」といった厳しい意見が寄せられています。その中でシカゴのクラブ、メトロのオーナーでパンプキンズの生みの親とも言えるJoe Shanahanは「これまでの全てのアルバムから発展した作品となると思う。ビリーとジミーのソロ作に、SPがブランド付けた90年代の代表的サウンドを兼ね備えたものになると思う」という心強い発言もしてくれています。とにもかくにも夏以降ですね。
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MUSIC — Smashing Pumpkin picking
By CARYN ROUSSEAU
Published Friday, April 28, 2006
The message came cryptically and quietly on SmashingPumpkins.com: “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.”
The questions quickly started flying: Will Billy Corgan, along with drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, bassist D’Arcy Wretzky and guitarist James Iha resurrect the Smashing Pumpkins in all its former glory? Or will there be replacements for any of the original members? Will Corgan try to control everything as usual? Or will it be a Pixies moment?
The Smashing Pumpkins earned a place in Windy City rock history as multi-platinum hometown heroes. They’re loved (and hated) in this “city by the lake,” as Corgan lovingly called Chicago on 1995’s epic album “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.” The band started here and broke up here, too.
MUSIC — Smashing Pumpkin picking
asap tracked down members of Chicago’s rock ‘n’ roll establishment — critics, writers, club owners, label owners — and asked, “What will the new Smashing Pumpkins album sound like?” The response? A little bit ouch, a lot depressing and with a slight dash of optimism.
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“It’ll sound like a Billy Corgan solo record with Jimmy Chamberlin drumming on it.”
— Greg Kot, the Chicago Tribune’s music critic.
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“I predict a ‘back to basics’ record that will attempt to recreate the sound that originally made them popular. Unfortunately, that’s the template that most bands usually follow when they reunite and record a new album. So I expect to hear something that sounds like “Siamese Dream”: shoegazy and grungy, with big, radio-ready hooks. But it won’t take many risks, and it won’t be very interesting. The Smashing Pumpkins became more experimental later in their career, and simultaneously less popular. I think Billy Corgan will try desperately to regain the level of fame he once enjoyed, and I think, like most comeback attempts, it will fail. Miserably.
Of course, I hope to be pleasantly surprised by an engaging and successful album. But the cynic in me has watched this happen too many times to honestly predict otherwise.”
— Amy Phillips, news editor at Chicago-based music Web site Pitchforkmedia.com.
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“It’ll sound like Billy masturbating himself to his third consecutive critical and commercial solo flop, is what’ll sound like. Are you kidding me? Smashing Pumpkins was a band with James, D’Arcy, Jimmy and Billy — and that was a long, long, long time ago. Had a couple of good tunes once … that was about it. Whatever THIS current lineup of Zwan is, it ain’t Smashing Pumpkins.”
— Mike Po, whose now defunct indie Chicago label Limited Potential helped launch the Smashing Pumpkins.
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“I think that the band has evolved from every record. I think it was an evolution of their sound. I expect it to be not a formula sound. It will have a contemporary feel to it, what an almost new band will sound like because it’s sort of still being led by Billy Corgan, because it’s going to have his stamp of melody and heaviness. But it’s going to have an edge to it. Basically Jimmy did a kind of prog-rock record as a solo record so his jazz and rock sort of fusiony drum playing has stayed intact. And Billy went and did a personal electronic record. So I think the two of them together, they’re going to go back to their sound. The sound they branded in the ’90s. And it’s a deep history of great heavy melodic rock material.”
— Joe Shanahan, owner of the rock venue Metro Chicago, where the Smashing Pumpkins played their last show in December 2000.
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“After making such a fuss about this, he’s going to have to come with the goods; despite his track record of hits, after the final-few Pumpkins albums and tepid reception of the Zwan album (err, not to mention his poetry book), he has something to prove again: that he’s still got it.” — Chicago-based rock writer Jessica Hopper, whose work has appeared in Spin magazine and The Village Voice.
See the message for yourself at: http://www.smashingpumpkins.com
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asap’s Midwest writer Caryn Rousseau is based in Kansas City, Mo.
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