Rock Writers...

Found this little "gem" today scanning the internet:

"Corgan's voice is not a pretty thing, reminiscent as it is of an angle-grinder. It's probably mostly to blame for keeping the Pumpkins' best songs off mainstream radio in their day. When he turns his pen to ballads, Corgan can be as anodyne as any top 40 hit-maker - witness Pretty Pretty Star and All Things Change. If someone else was singing it, it'd be almost easy listening. Then again, Corgan's aggro mode always felt overwrought. He's at his best in this sort of icy, dark sonic territory with a little industrial-strength glam thrown in."
- Reviewed by Kelsey Munro

What? The Pumpkins songs were never on mainstream radio? How about MTV? I seem to remember that they were able to get at least a couple of songs on there and the radio.
Let's recap shall we?

-Cherub Rock
-Today(Hardly ever heard this, right?)
-Disarm
-Rocket
-Bullet With Butterfly Wings
-Tonight, Tonight
-Zero
-Muzzle
-Thirty Three
-1979 (Barely heard this one at all)

I'm sure there are a couple I'm forgetting, but it seems to me these could be found on "mainstream" radio in the Pumpkins heyday dipshit. Honestly how do these "writers" end up covering music? Another rumor that's floating around is that Billy Corgan "stormed" off the stage in Melbourne Australia after fans pelted him with calls for Pumpkins songs. The only issue with the story is that it's not remotely true. Rock writers are right up there with the newspeople that cover presidential campaigns. Neither group can ever seem to get any stories to the people that actually happened, the way they happened. Their motto seems to be, "if it didn't happen, make it up."