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Who watches the Watchmen? Well, I know that Bob watches the bloggers who slack off.

I was first exposed to Watchmen during my early college years (OK…last year), so imagine my surprise when I heard an 11 year old Smashing Pumpkins tune from a lousy Batman flick backing up the teaser trailer for the Watchmen movie.

I was surprised. It’s hard to imagine it.

I could have lived without ever knowing that SP was lending its songs to wrestling composition videos.

www.rohwrestling.com was generous enough to use “Doomsday Clock” as the backdrop for one of their wrestling compilation videos.

Well, here’s a blogger’s rendition of what might be next:

I chose Heavy Metal Machine. Were I aiming for complete tastelessness I might have chosen Tear instead.

The Smashing Pumpkins released American Gothic — a 4 song acoustic EP — today, exclusive to iTunes that you can either download on its own or as part of a deluxe version of Zeitgeist.

Tracklisting:

1. The Rose March
2. Pox
3. Again, Again, Again (The Crux)
4. Sunkissed

• HipstersUnited lazily reviewed it yesterday.
• A blog in another language (Italian? I’m terrible at identifying languages…) has an MP3 of Again, Again, Again for your preview listening pleasure.
• Billy announced the release of American Gothic at smashingpumpkins.com back on Dec. 18th
• You can get the American Gothic EP on iTunes

Merry x-mas everyone!

I ask because according to Glamour magazine, that’s the year in which the “last truly good song by the Smashing Pumpkins” came out.

In a supplement entitled “Movies Rock” that was bundled with the latest issue of Glamour, the editors list the 50 greatest soundtracks ever. Compiling and publishing lists of this sort are always a good way to generate publicity/controversy, but I think that the claim regarding Drown (the Smashing Pumpkins song included on the Singles soundtrack) is outrageous.

Don’t get me wrong, Drown is an amazing tune. Here’s a contemporary performance, from Sept. 15, 2007:

Truly good indeed, but was it the “last truly good song by the Smashing Pumpkins” or wasn’t it? Below is a list of 10 songs (linked to YouTube videos so you can hear for yourself) that are as good or better, all released after 1992:

• Mayonaise (Siamese Dream, 1993)
• Disarm (Siamese Dream, 1993)
• Thru the Eyes of Ruby (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
• Muzzle (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
• Shame (Adore, 1998)
• Pug (Adore, 1998)
• Wound (Machina/The Machines of God, 2000)
• Untitled (2000)
• Bring the Light (Zeitgeist, 2007)
• Superchrist (2007)

So in conclusion, Drown wasn’t the “last truly good song by the Smashing Pumpkins” as clearly demonstrated by the list above. Also, I need to stop reading my fiancé’s magazines.

The show last night was pretty good. I recorded (audio) this acoustic performance of Perfect and uploaded it to dailymotion. Listen below.

JillySP live-blogged the show over at Hipsters United, and reports that the recording is amazing.