#and of course never miss an opportunity to dunk on clapton at TWO

[stenka-razin]

You voted right? If you did, here's something not Election Day related to preoccupy your brain with. Billy Corgan is making a stink about not being on those Best Guitarists Ever listicles. Now I've read a few of these and the rankings are all bull, but that said?? I think King Clown WPC has a point! Anyone who has suffered through a Smashing Pumpkins reissue bonus disc knows the dude is a dispensary for riffs. Half of these bonus discs are sick ass riffs he never bothered making into a full song. Even his new stuff which, let's be honest, IS BAD, has lot's of good parts to it. And he has range! Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (dumb title btw) has some beautiful melodic passages (Tonight Tonight) walls of atmosphere (Porcelina) sludge ugliness (X.Y.U.) and even the almighty rockety rocking riff (Bullet). And they all sound like Corgan through and through. And not to underplay Iha (who is also great, and wrote Blew Away god damn it) but the fact that these elements are preserved on later, Ihaless albums does make me willing to give it to Corgo as a guitarist if nothing else. It's also telling that, when Iha did come back they didn't get good again so hmmm I dunno, discussion for another post. But yes, I will give Billy Corgan props as a guitar dude.