BILLY CORGAN PRAISES KORN AND LIMP BIZKIT, SAYS THEY DID ‘REALLY GREAT WORK’
Here is a quote from Rolling Stone‘s new interview with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan. BillCo did the interview for the nookie.
“The grunge era was the last era where a whole host of people were able to charge up the hill together. Because they didn’t like one another. It was sort of a collective thing. I can’t really think of another time with a sustained sense that something was happened. You had the late Nineties with Korn and Limp Bizkit, they did some really great work. But it seems like that was the last era where it seemed like there was this bigger thing happening beyond the music.”
Ok now that just confirms Bill Corgan (whining bitch) is a F-ing idiot! This guy is such a has been. I’m sure he love Insane clown posse too! What a tool!
Haha, I was CERTAIN that you would pick that line for the title!
korn is a great band
Everyone always considers these two bands “douchey” but they have some really decent albums.
I like the Limp Bizkit songs Build a Bridge, My Way, Hold On (featuring Scott Weiland), and a few others. Mainly their songs that focus more on melody/rock than rap rock do it for the nookie type stuff.
I understand where he’s coming from.I feel like a lot of the people that are commenting on this website are probably kids that were born in the ninety’s and still suckling on their mothers tit when those bands came out
Limp Bizkit and Korn suck balls.
Early Korn is ok but Limp Bizkit sucks balls.
Korn made some awesome stuff. Not Bizkit though… I see what Billy means that said.
Korns first three were really good and a lot of good songs on later albums too. Bizkit had two really solid albums. Don’t forget Deftones kind of fall into that category too.
Also I think a lot of people are missing the point about what Billy is saying and instead focusing on something that gives them a reason to bitch, whine and trash someone… so surprising
Wow, Corgan badly needs a PR rep to make him shut up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jppqa77Tjzg That’s Build a Bridge. Limp Bizkit could have been a solid band if they had stuck to writing melodic songs like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX0s_p0XycU&feature=related Hold On, featuring Scott Weiland.
Most reports from other grunge acts say that majority of the grunge bands actually got along and hung out… of course, “Bill Co” would say something different.
Soundgarden and Pearl Jam got along and still do.
Nirvana and Soundgarden got along.
Pearl Jam and Nirvana were rivals.
Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana/Pearl Jam/Soundgarden were (and still are) rivals
Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam/Soundgarden were rivals (STP and Soundgarden still are)
Alice In Chains have always gotten along with all of the Seattle bands and Stone Temple Pilots/Smashing Pumpkins. They basically get along with everybody in rock.
Why do you guys bother with Billy Corgan/Smashing Pumpkins news? He and his new band are no longer relevant. The guy is clearly trying to get media attention. Time to stop reporting on comments like this one.
ANYONE GET REAL TIRED OF CORGAN’S BITCHING YET??????
1990s. American Rock rule the world. And now worldwide era.
Unglued, the 90′s were great. Not the fucking late 90′s and early 2000′s with shit like Korn and Limp Bizkit.
@Brett,
It’s definitely a common misconception that the Pumpkins were “rivals” with those bands. It was more of SP being outsiders and not part of the Seattle scene conversation that made people think they disliked each other. Granted, Billy had (and still has) publicized issues with Kim and Chris, but I’ve never heard anything other than praise from him for Nirvana, PJ and AiC.
Why does Billy Corgan have such creepy pictures taken of himself?
@Britney,
I agree that a lot of that scene was terrible, but it really was the last marginally big rock movement into the mainstream. I remember everyone going apeshit over bands like Korn, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, etc.
I liked Korn and Limp Bizkit’s early work and I think Corgan does have a point.
Stranger things have happened.
Deftones is by far the best band from that era Billy is talking about. Great from A to Z.
You guys are clearly missing the point. Corgan means that that was the last time there was a really big rock scene that was hugely popular.
And Limp and Korn had some pretty good early shit… Sure it hasn’t really aged well but they sure had energy and rocked the fuck out live…
Just watch Limp Bizkit from woodstock 99… Most awesome performance ever.
Billy has officially lost his fucking mind.
I agree strongly with Alternadude, deftones by far are the best that got lumped unfairly in to the nu metal tag. deftones have been going strong since 88 and have made it through the nu metal explosion.I’d say bizkit an korn started out as good bands but lost their credibility and quality. The 90′s had so many great bands from all over the planet that its tough to keep up. If Bill wants a new music movement to happen then he needs to be patient and get off his high horse.
This is his dumbest statement ever. I was in high school when that crap was big (hence why I started listening to grunge!).Korn had some interesting stuff at first but that whole scene was idiotic and Limp Bizkit, Coal Chamber, Adema and all the others were terrible bands. I think what hes trying to say is this is the last time there was a really big rock movement. And that is true and a shame. But it was a terrible time for music really, though today isn’t much better.
Here’s for you Brett:
https://mobile.twitter.com/robdelaney/status/270637674719744000
Corgan is a hack
You can call the guy an idiot, a douche, whiney, whatever, but you can’t call him a has been. His last album is possibly his best. I believe Oceania’s better than all his albums except Adore.
Agree Big M. Also most of those bands aren’t even around anymore. Where Limp Bizkit today??? Playing shows in their garage???
well, thats the final straw for me…he has lost every tiny shred of credibility with me now.
“…. because they didn’t like each other…”? What?
Billy, I don’t want to scrape the gish tattoo off of my wrist, please stop talking.
Apparently Billy missed the bands who played at Lollapalooza 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5….. Oh wait. Maybe they just didn’t like him. I used to adore him, all these ‘news’ on interviews are making me sick. How am I supposed to listen to the 300 songs I have when he won’t shut up. Is he going to start kicking puppies and juggling kittens next? I mean come on!
“they did some really great work.” Wow, people get THIS worked up over that quote. Fucking relax. Musicians are friends with other musicians, and sometimes you say something about your friend to give their band a positive plug. He didn’t say they were the best bands out there, and didn’t even say he listened to them (we know Billy’s not a huge fan of recent music), so seriously, calm down. This isn’t a big deal so don’t make it one.
I did it all for the nookie so you can get a cookie & stick up yer ass!!. Tell me Billy did you miss that one?
Some of Limp Bizkit’s slower songs are great but people will never give them a chance because it’s Limp Bizkit at the end of the day, my favourites are:
Nobody Like You (Featuring Scott Weiland on chorus)
Re-Arranged
Walking Away
Drown
Hold On (Featuring Scott Weiland)
The songs I’ve mentioned are nothing like ‘Rolling’ or ‘Nookie’ and people should check them out to see a different side to Limp Bizkit. They did do some more serious songs too!
Billy’s hands are different colors.
The most important thing bigger than the music itself is love for the world in a micro and macro sense of both caring deeply for the creation process rather than measuring the success by how much money or even how many fans. In the bigger picture, it’s all about making something else that isn’t already being done and that’s giving to the world and making it a better place for people. New music genres, new sub-genres, new styles, etc. which, while often named by someone else later, are always in the process of being created whether observed as such when it’s happening or not. That’s pretty darn cool if you ask me.
I don’t know — and this is to Britney Spears comment here — and if they are in a garage, I’d probably want to be there watching them perform. You can come along too and that would be a good time.
Two of the best albums near the end of the 90′s were “Dots and Loops” by Stereolab and “How It Feels to Be Something On” by Sunny Day Real Estate and I bought both CDs.
no matter how much I dont like either of these two bands, Billy is actually right in the reference to what these two bands have achieved. Family values tour I and II was huge indeed. Probably no other bands since that time have achieved such success of following and touring together.
Most of the people who slate Limp Bizkit only know the singles but there’s so much more to their albums. Wed is a highly regarded guitarist so its not really a stretch the Billy would like them. Wes’ other band Black Light Burns are amazing. Kind of Nine Inch Nails meets A Perfect Circle with elements of QOTSA & Helmet thrown in.
speaking as a child of the 90′s… i hate rap/rock. except for ratm, who are ‘the greatest band in the fucking universe’.
I think the further away from the “soul” and “roots” of music -THE BLUES- you go, u end up somewhere thats no longer rock n roll. It becomes this gimmicky fake non-organic plastic exploitive predictable commodity shit called nu metal and dubstep!!! and those nu metal mutherfuckers just wont die already! their still going..news flash korns new album will be called something along the lines like-TRAGIC-DEFORMITY. You get fucking picture. just pathetic guys. go make another album with skrillex or something!
What Billy says is 100% true. He doesn’t say he is a Korn or Limp Bizkit fan. I agree this is the last time a rock movement car, say, coherent, cohesive. Sure it was far from being as good as the grunge movement, come on.
And yeah if that movement only created Deftones, it was worth it. One of the best bands ever. Deftones are clearly influenced by the Pumpkins a lot actually, and Chino’s always acknowledged it.
Korn have made quite a lot of killer songs in the past.
Limp Bizkit not for me I admit it, except for some guitar riffs but those are so influenced by Stephen Carpenter and Deftones.
@ Is he one?
Agree with you dude, althou Deftones were part of that movement, they quickly parted their ways with Korn and Limp Bizkit assosiated acts and this was probably right before the White Pony came out.
Deftones lyrics and always progressive style never really complemented any of the nu-metal bands of that time and more importantly now. Just take a look at their discography from first to last album and not a single album is the same as the one before it. Sure they overlap but they progress, so what i mean if you take Adrenaline and White Pony you wouldnt be able to compare them, if you take Around the Fur and SelfTitled same thing can be said and so on.
Korn are a good band and i always thought limp bizkit had good musicians but fred durst has no talent what so ever , Think of what a good band they could have been with a great singer !
Ya, if you don’t think the first 2 LB albums, and the first 3-4 korn albums didn’t kick ass – get to a record shop, your a douche… Just like posting a Gold Cobra video, douchey, of course all the new stuff sucks. So does PJ, Soubdgarden, SP, and just about everybody else…
Go to school little kids
I can say with no regrets that I really dug the first two records of LB and first three of Korn. But for some reason I got tired of the same stuff and more cheesiness applied on the new albums that were coming out one after another. The titles were whacky the lyrics were lame, so I just went and sold all my CDs of these two bands along with Staind, Cold, sevendust and so on. The only two bands from the late 90s are that are still good and I care about are Deftones and Soulfly. Anything else is just same old shit. I believe there was an interview on MTV 120 min where someone said that LB fucked up the whole nu metal genre, cas one reason Fred Durst was selling out and was signing new mediocre bands at the crazy rate to his flipside record. Secondly his irrogant act at Woodstock, where he just wanted to show how fucking “cool” he is. Lastly his relationship with Britney or whatever that was is a showcase that he was there for the nookie and cash. So there, after that ppl stopped paying attention to him, to his label and the acts associated with him.
Brett mentioned this and sorry to go off topic but Pearl Jam and Nirvana weren’t rivals at all. Not in a sense that they disliked each other personally, Kurt didn’t like Ten but I assume he grew to appreciate PJ after a while.
The majority of the bands were/are tight with each other, some more then others and then you have STP and the Pumpkins, which really aren’t in that territory of hugging and making in out with the Seattle bands.
That being said, Corgan is talking shit once again. Sure he’ll make up for it tomorrow when the next headline is “Corgan finds todays music biz quite shit”.
Say what you will but Corgan is the most interesting person covered on the site this year. And the last. And next year I’m sure.
I love him. He’s earned my unconditionnal love and trust.
Hey Brett,
What did you mean by stp and soundgarden being rivals? I’ve never heard that one before
i like limp bizkit because they tune really rocks.*
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