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Originally Posted by wHATcOLOR
i really don't think he's understanding it right when he says that everyone selects 2 or 3 songs from an album and never plays the others again. he selects as proof reactions of people at the concerts.
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He's referring to the mainstream audience, not Pumpkins fans. I see it all the time. Most bands have a small amount of material that crosses over to the mainstream (e.g. a couple of songs on an album). I'm guilty of having a few tracks from bands who I don't care for other than a couple of singles. I even have a handful of CDs that I have ripped off a few songs into MP3 and never so much as looked at the disc again. In the past it was easier (at least in Australia) to buy a full album than to get singles (before Napster and iTunes). Now people can easily buy a single without b-sides (which might get you interested in the band more).
Most people think of the Pumpkins the way you think of any band you don't know much about but like those two songs you've heard on the radio.
I think the Pumpkins' work is particularly prone to this as they are not mainstream enough for many people, but they have a few songs that were bona fide hits and/or have real mainstream appeal (BWBW, Disarm).
Hell, judging by the whining 12-year-olds on Netphoria, most 'fans' only listen to a couple of songs on any Corgan album since Adore.
I agree with you about not liking the sound of 3 songs a year. To me the Pumpkins are an album band. What makes many of their songs important to me is their context within an album. I would probably never have listened to half the songs on MCIS a second time if they weren't a part of a larger piece of music. Now I love pretty much every song on that album.