HOME RUN DERBY reports that Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan last night dropped a wrecking ball on Eddie Vedder’s Cubs-themed song “All The Way!“, which was released just before the Dodgers dispatched the North Siders in an embarrassing three-game sweep.
(Eddie Vedder, Billy Corgan slapfight for Bull Durham’s affection)
Chicagoan Corgan, during a break in his show last night at the Chicago Theater said,
If … If … IF … the Cubs did have a chance this last year that just passed … F—in’ Eddie Vedder killed that sh– dead. Last I checked Eddie ain’t living here, Okay?
Eddie ain’t living here to write a song about my f—in’ team.
Coincidentally, that was kind of how I felt at the time the song came out.
Vedder’s song, which has since been released and sold online, seemed more like a pathetic attention grab than a heartfelt tribute by a long-suffering Chicagoland inhabitant (which he currently isn’t, as duly noted by Corgan).
So it was all the more appropriate that Lou’s troops soon collapsed after Pearl Jam’s main man marketed the (attemped) anthem.
What seems more genuine to you, Corgan’s frustrated f-bombs about the Cubs’ demise, or Vedder cooking up the song once the Cubs were on top of the standings and then charging his kooky, Kool-Aid drinking fans?
Reminds me of the types who put out greatest hits albums and attach one new song on it to get the diehard fans to buy the whole thing. Thank god for iTunes!
5:27 pm on November 20th, 2008
Eddie Vedder needs to write more ballads about the Mariners.
5:31 pm on November 20th, 2008
On the flip side, who would the Cubs rather have as their celebrity musician fan, Vedder or Corgan?
5:41 pm on November 20th, 2008
We already have the billy goat & Bartman - do we need an Eddie Vedder curse?
5:45 pm on November 20th, 2008
If Billy's so upset, why doesn't he write & perform a Cubs ballad?
6:16 pm on November 20th, 2008
Corgan did threaten to write a Cubs song.
6:29 pm on November 20th, 2008
I'm guessing these guys won't be touring together anytime soon.
6:33 pm on November 20th, 2008
What would Harry Caray say?
6:57 pm on November 20th, 2008
Nick:
"Holy Cow!", usually.
8:44 pm on November 20th, 2008
Billy doesn't live in Chicago anymore either, so who is he to say anything? And again, 'journalist', check your facts - Vedder has been enough of a fixture at Cubs games over the years that Ernie Banks asked him to write the song. I'm guessing Ernie has never heard of Billy or his current band (that does not include D'arcy or James Iha any longer…but the SP name sells more tickets than anything called Zwan or solo gigs…who is the sellout again ?)
Here's a review typical of the current tour:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/reviews/live_review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003889455&inp=true
4:35 pm on November 21st, 2008
The song was actually written in 2007. Pearl Jam played it at the Vic Theater in Chicago in two nights before they played Lollapollooza last year. So actually, it could have jinxed them both years.
9:03 pm on November 25th, 2008
um, Ernie Banks asked vedder to write that song. So f**k that dress wearing f**k corgan.