Billy Corgan, Chicago restaurateur and frontman for the rock group Smashing Pumpkins, has quietly won a decision in a battle over that very question.

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The winner of the first round was Nicole Fiorentino, a 33-year-old with red lips, black hair and black-rimmed glasses, who plays bass in the rock band the Smashing Pumpkins.

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They make a gleeful racket, smashing together French chanson, American garage rock, and Beatle-esque pop, with Casio keyboard vamps and quirky computer sampling.

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Decades before hip-hop-style cut and paste became the norm, this band was smashing together elements of samba and psychedelic rock into totally delightful collage.

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