The funny thing is that I’ve spent some time with more recent Pumpkins stuff — there’s a few real winners on that new dvd, I got an mp3 rip of it — but he still leans on the bad ideas harder, I think because he just wants to fuck with people. The problem is stuff like “Set the Controls,” which is terrible and a time suck, and the fact that in that first night setlist, it’s just like no reward whatsoever for longtime fans, unless you want to count the three or four huge radio hits thrown in. The new music is not presented in a way that makes an older listener feel invited into it, it’s all done in this way that is intentionally awkward and off-putting.