For those of you who saw the latest Batman movie over the weekend you were treated to a trailer for the film Watchmen in which venerable Chicago faves the Smashing Pumpkins make a conspicuously appearance.
What’s this, you say, a new Smashing Pumpkins Remix? Not exactly. Instead of harking back to an era when the Smashing Pumpkins were gods this song appeared in 1997, when a billion of you bought the Aeroplane flies high and the Smashing Pumpkins really were gods. The song (aptly titled ‘The Beginning is the End is the Beginning’, god you’re so clever, BC) first appeared as a b-side to the Batman and Robin track ‘The End is the Beginning is the End’. The Smashing Pumpkins were riding a tidal wave of popularity coming off the success of Mellon Collie and everyone was waiting to hear what they would sound like next. Of course, 1998 hit and everyone was disappointed by Adore, but for a time we were hopeful.
The video aged better than I thought it would. At the time, I thought remember thinking how bored James Iha looked, that he’ll never show up playing a normal looking guitar in a video again. The only real failing of the video is the stupid looking drumkit (which in retrospect, prefigured the entire Adore ablum) that replacement drummer Matt Walker was forced to drum on standing up. Really guys, standing up and drumming is completely blowing it.
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