Shortly before I officially lost it and became an “old man” no longer “hip” to the music you young ‘uns like, I was a big fan of the Smashing Pumpkins.

I know, I know, didn’t they disband like twenty years ago?!

Yikes.

They did, in 2000, and then Billy Corgan, the front man of the band, reunited the band with only himself and his drummer Jimmy Chamberlain and they released a bunch of stuff which wasn’t terrible by any stretch but neither did it approach, IMHO, the excellence of the band’s first run.  In fact, of the music they released “post-breakup”, I felt the best single song was Ma Belle, released as a bonus track in the “first” reunion album of 2007, Zeitgeist…

Now, it appears Mr. Corgan has gotten the entire band back together… with one notable exception: Bassist D’arcy Wretzky.  Corgan and company claimed they made overtures to have her return but she wasn’t interested.  She’s saying that’s not the case and it looks like the band’s reunion still bears some big scars.

But at least it led to this amusing article by Steven Hyden for Uproxx, where he muses on the passive-aggressive relationship between the two…

The Smashing Pumpkins Reunion is Imploding – And Therefore Is Already a Great Success

Love his take on the texts D’arcy had supposedly released.  If you’re a fan of the group in spite of or even because of all the internecine wars, this article should give you a chuckle.

As for me?

I’m curious to hear whatever new material they’re about to release… when the band was good, they were damn good, easily among the best rockers of the 1990’s.

REQUIRED: Get off my lawn!