Is this the album Billy Corgan and/or Trent Reznor wrote? I can't keep up with the hot goss. The best thing about this record is that Samantha Maloney got to be their drummer for the tour and in the videos, and that Steve Pedulla and I saw her play drums for a great post-hardcore band called SHIFT at some tiny club in Chapel Hill or somewhere while we were in film school. SHIFT is/was great. Hard not to be happy for her. And then she played for Motley Crue at a point where Tommy Lee must've been doing his nu-metal solo thing? And THEN she played drums for Peaches?? What a strange career path. Surprised she's not the new drummer for the Foo Fighters at this rate. Anywho, yeah the songs just aren't as strong on this album as I'd hoped. I like the opener and I liked "Playing Your Song." "Awful" is catchy. But there's a lot here that plays like filler - which probably would've worked better if it still retained the bite of their earlier material. Alas, the riot grrrrrl grunge was exchanged for more of a mild-mannered meeting grrrrl and, ironically, I think the album ages worse because of it. And I'm going to blame Billy Corgan regardless. Just because.