The Screaming Trees in what appears to be a 2012 retrospective in the pages of Russian Rolling Stone. (H/T Max Lardin)
Listicle Without Commentary*: The Year in Billy Corgan’s Disdain for His ’90s Alt-Rock Peers, as Told Through GrungeReport.net Headlines

- BILLY CORGAN CRITICIZES 90′S BANDS FOR LACKING ENERGY & ‘MAKING CARBON COPIES OF WHAT THEY ONCE DID” [28 Dec 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN SAYS OCEANIA IS A TIMELY RECORD, UNLIKE OTHER BANDS PRETENDING IT’S STILL 1997 [30 Nov 2012]
- CORGAN SAYS GENERATION X BANDS THAT LACK CONFIDENCE TO PLAY NEW MATERIAL ARE DONE [30 Oct 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN TRASHES PAVEMENT AGAIN, TALKS HIS FRUSTRATIONS WITH RANGE LIFE BECOMING AN ANTHEM FOR ‘EVERY GUY WITH A FUCKING BEARD’ [24 Oct 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN COMPARES HIMSELF TO PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING VILLAINS, TALKS CHRIS CORNELL FEUD [24 Oct 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN: “DAVE GROHL GETS TO BE A NEW ARTIST, BUT SOMEBODY ELSE DOESN’T?” [20 Oct 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN ENCOURAGES GRUNGE ERA BANDS TO ‘MAKE NEW STATEMENTS’ & STOP CASHING IN ON NOSTALGIA [18 Oct 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN: “ME PICKING ON SOUNDGARDEN IS A HEADLINE? SERIOUSLY?” [3 Oct 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN DISCUSSES HIS LOVE OF GOD & DISLIKE OF NOSTALGIA REUNIONS AT PRESS CONFERENCE IN MEXICO [24 Sep 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN TRASHES PAVEMENT REUNION, SAYS MALKMUS ‘MADE ME THE TARGET’ [21 Sep 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN REVEALS BACKSTORY TO HIS FEUD WITH SOUNDGARDEN, RIPS ON CHRIS CORNELL’S SCREAM [31 Aug 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN SAYS SOUNDGARDEN’S REUNION IS FOR MONEY & NOSTALGIA [14 Aug 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN RIPS THE GRUNGE GENERATION & PAVEMENT FOR BEING NOSTALGIA ACTS, CALLS FOR ROCK REVOLUTION [28 Jun 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN SAYS HE’S NOT A BIG EDDIE VEDDER FAN, BUT RESPECTS HIM OVER IMITATORS [24 Jun 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN TRASHES ‘ITUNES FRIENDLY CUDDLY’ MUSIC & SAYS HE’S WRITTEN MORE HIT SONGS ‘THAN JUST ABOUT ANYBODY IN MY GENERATION’ [11 Jun 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN TRASHES COLLECTIVE SOUL, CALLS ‘SHINE’ THE WORST SONG EVER [9 Apr 2012]
- BILLY CORGAN SAYS FEW 90′S MUSICIANS HAD THE TALENT THAT HE & KURT COBAIN DID [6 Feb 2012]
*With apologies to The Awl. (Scribbled-upon image via PerezHilton.com.)




