Billy Corgan, the front man of Smashing Pumpkins, according to himself, is still the god of alternative rock. He recently appeared on "The Howard Stern Show" and told Stern that the Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam are very much inferior next to his own band and Nirvana.
"I know Pearl Jam has a tremendous fan base, and they should," Corgan said, referring to the band as "derivative." "They're a great band, but I'm a Beatles guy. I'm a Stones guy. I'm a Kinks guy. To me, a lot of other bands don't have the work."
He then added, "I think if you stack my songs up, Cobain's songs up, and that band's songs, they just don't have the songs. They're a great band. They're still an arena act. They've gotten it done for a long time. I have to bow to that. That's a mystery to me, because I don't get it."
Moreover, it would appear that Billy Corgan's biggest beef with the Foo Fighters is that they are a long way from being Nirvana, despite the fact that, Dave Grohl, the former band's founder and front man used to be the drummer of the latter band.
"Dave is a great musician, a great songwriter, and has done the work. But, to me, my criticism of the Foo Fighters, if I'm being a music critic, is that they just haven't evolved and that's sort of the recent rap on them is, you know, making the same music," Billy Corgan continued.
The Smashing Pumpkins singer then added, "Obviously, I've put my whole life on the line for making different types of music as I've gone along. We've talked last time I was here about playing old songs, evolving and it's just my mentality. I know it's not for everybody. Listen, Dave's getting it done. So, it's, like, if you want to be competitive, my philosophy against his, he's the one winning."
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