Sharizal told me that Smashing Pumpkins have disbanded. It probably happened a long time ago, but I have been so out of touch with these things ever since I joined the rat race. I used to listed to them as a university student.
Their mass appeal was the beautiful way they expressed those feelings that makes us young - mood swings between a sense of immortality and hopelessness as our youthful ideals clash head on into the real world.
I went to their concert once. Didn't regret the AUD40 I spent on the ticket or the t-shirts or the tapes and CDs (we couldn't download songs way back then!). Now, Smashing Pumpkins is no more. Billy Corgan has a new band called Zwan, haven't heard it yet. But at least I still have Coldplay. More sedate, but just as melancholic.
Posted by Najah Nasseri at 2003年01月17日 13:42