The Official Smashing Pumpkins: Zeitgeist Anticipation and Reaction Thread

Smashing Pumpkins announced via MySpace bulletin this morning that they will release a new album, Zeitgeist, on July 7 of this year. 07-07-07! How'd they land that lucky date? Well kids, it's a Saturday, proving that Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, and whoever the hell else is in the band think they are above and beyond the ways of the music industry (most albums come out on Tuesdays, see). Thanks to various reader tips for keeping us posted on this info.

Yip!

It's not an album I'm assuming will be amazing just because it's by a band who previously made amazing music, and are now coming back, as many people do.

I'm very curious about it, because there's obviously a possibility it WILL be remarkable.

-AC

Guess Zwan didn't work out, huh?

Zwan have been gone for a good few years, but I still maintain that their one and only album is really good.

-AC

Zwan wasn't half bad.

As much as I disliked the Pumpkins last album, can't help but be excited by this.

I liked Machina (even if it was no Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie)... And Zwan. So Im hopeful.

01 Doomsday Clock
02 7 Shades of Black
03 Orchid
04 That's the Way
05 Tarantula
06 Starz
07 United States
08 Never Lost
09 Bring the Light
10 Come On (Let's Go)
11 For God and Country
12 Pomp and Circumstance

Don't get me wrong, it's entirely up to musicians what they sing about, but if this is another "Look how war conscious we are." album, it's going a bit far.

Not that this will matter to me if the music's good.

-AC

I'm anticipating it... Not so much with excitement as curiosity.

Ditto.