Billy Corgan Talks Watchmen Trailer, "G.L.O.W." Single
As you may have heard, the trailer for Zach Snyder's The Watchmen features a Smashing Pumpkins song, "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning." That's different than "The End Is the Beginning Is the End," which appeared with the former on the Batman & Robin soundtrack, but the reference is intentional. The placement of the song has given on-line sales a serious boost. La Times's blog was curious about all of this so they emailed Billy Corgan. He's a tad defensive at first ("My fans seem to be confused when the outside world appreciates our work, so I can only imagine this terrifies them") and doesn't say too much ("Before this I'd never heard of the 'Watchmen' series, but from what I've seen it looks very interesting"), but then he digs in a bit ("I love the way it's used in the trailer. I've asked the movie people if it's possible we could release it as a music video. Still waiting on that one"). Maybe more interesting to Corgan fans are his thoughts on new Smashing Pumpkins' song "G.L.O.W.":
Just finished recording "G.L.O.W." in Memphis at the famed Ardent Studios and hope to release it in early September. We feel we have finally turned the corner with these last 2 releases ("American Gothic" and "G.L.O.W." to come) where it's starting to feel like our music again, and not theirs, whoever "they" might be. Have plans to start recording a new multi-year, multi-release concept album by the end of this year. It will be very trippy and hopefully unique, and we'll probably keep putting out singles here.
Surprisingly, we found a leak of "G.L.O.W."...
So good to see the Pumpkins together again. For those of you who are still talking to us, you can see the rest of the Corgan interview at the LA Times blog.
Posted at 5:51 PM by brandon in Video
Tags: Billy Corgan | The Smashing Pumpkins
**Nerd Nitpick Ahead**
This may lead to me admitting that I owned the Batman and Robin soundtrack during darker days, but both songs were on the original soundtrack. "The End Is The Beginning Is The End" started off the album, while "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning" closed it off and I believe both were in the movie...
**Nerd Nitpick Done**
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OK, it's been rephrased. You were brave to come forward like you did ... thanks.
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jordan you are perfectly right ;) looking forward to hear the single! what a great teaser so far hahah
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There was also an official EP of the soundtrack released. It had The End is the Beginning is the End, The Beginning is the End is the Beginning, and then two instrumental versions of the two previous songs.
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also the batman & robin soundtrack wasn't too bad, it had underworld's moaner on it
actually nevermind, it had gotham city by r kelly on it
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I don't really like Baman & Robin movie, but OST is good enough. :)
Smahing Pumpkins is great! I'm very glad they are together again!
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I like Smashing Pumpkins and I absolutely love The End Is The Beginning Is The End (and the alternate version described in this article), but my favourite song is Eye (from the Lost Highway soundtrack). I wish SP would make more dark techno-fused songs like these.
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The funny/sad/funny again thing about this "leak" is that it will invariably be better than the actual song. It's basically a female "Super Bowl Shuffle," and that ain't a bad thing at all!
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I never understand where Corgan and his fans get the idea that his band is not the most mainstream thing since mainstream bread. You were on the batman and robin soundtrack and the watchemen one, that's over a decade of pure uncool american primetime popularity.
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http://www.ardentmusic.com/blog/2008/07/smashing_pumpkins_at_ardent.html
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I can't believe I used to get aroused by those fugly lady wrestlers. I was a seriously desperate 14-year-old.
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At fourteen, we all were.
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FUCK the smashing pumpkins. oh im so weird. oh im so disturbed. fuck billy corgan. hes never heard of the watchmen? i serioussly doubt the cred of anyone calling themself odd or disturbed that has never heard of the watchmen. FUCK BILLY CORGAN.
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FUCK THE FACT THAT WATCHMEN IS BEING DIRECTED BY ZACH SNYDER DIES DIES DIE DIE
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fuck the fact that it's being made into a movie at all
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Fuck the Watchman. Some of us like music more than comic books, or video games, or whatever the hell that nerd shit is.
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