Smashing Pumpkins, "SuperChrist"

The blogosphere may be pushing this new Pumpkins track down your throat like it's the best thing to drop from Corgans guitar and Chamberlain's drums since Mellon Collie, but it's still missing something.

You want to buy into the heavy guitar riffs, Chamberlain's thundering drums and the all-so welcome violin interlude, but somehow the song just never moves past the sonic insanity into coherency. It starts strong, but for some strange reason stays in 1st gear without shifting up to 5th, or even 3rd.

Ultimately the song reacts the same to this treatment as my aging 1993 Ford Escort, it screams loudly, threatens to blow up, and finally grinds to a stop. It's got so much potential, unlike most of Zeitgeist, but Corgan just can't turn it all the way on.

Turning up the volume just isn't the same.