BILLY CORGAN TALKS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RELEASING A TRIPLE ALBUM
In a recent interview with Sound Magazine Billy Corgan the following quote about possibly releasing a triple album:
“Actually we’ve talked about making a triple album, not with this current album, but the next one. We started talking about what that would mean. I would like to do another big work but that just takes so much energy and commitment. It just takes over your life”
You can read the Sound Magazine interview here.
Ummm, even the undisputed masterpiece Mellon Collie had a few fillers, and it was a DOUBLE album! Exaggerating much, Billy?
yes, it’s hard not to emphasize that better one almost good album than a triple shit
Nah the more songs Billy produces, the better the result is.
First, I don’t consider there are fillers on Mellon Collie. Plus, if you had the “The aeroplane flies high” with Mellon Collie, you have the most impressive, substantial batch of songs ever.
This tripe album thing makes me SO excited!
I meant if you “add”, not “had”, sorry.
Anyway, thrilling news!
about one week ago he declared that mellon collie would have been better as single album… way to be coherent…
anyway, can you imagine a triple album on the levels of teargarden?
I’ve been listening to MCIS a lot again recently due to it being reissud (not that it ever stays off my playlist for too long) and it really is Billy’s finest and most daring work, a double album that blends lots of different styles was pretty ballsy when he could’ve took the easy option and just put out another Siamese Dream (not taking away from that excellent album though). I’d love to hear another epic 2 or even 3 disc album if it’s of the same standards, perhaps having a loose concept again and some 7-10 minute epics like ‘Porcelina’ and ‘Ruby’… That would be amazing, but then again it’s not 1995 anymore so who knows how it’ll turn out… If he can keep working at the standards he has been most recently with ‘Oceania’ then it could be great buy if they were songs in the vein of the teargarden sessions or Zeitgeist then yeah not so good!
@Pris Have you ever listened to TAFH? There was a huge body of work to put in MCIS and some of those songs were consistent ones, not filler. You don’t do a double album (or any kind of album) with only mega hits… you need small songs, fillers, instrumentals, crazy tracks. Specially back in the days, when we used to listening album from track #1 to the end.
Billy’s songwriting doesn’t benefit from the “one song at a time” format. In fact the exact opposite works best for him. When he has a huge quantity of songs and he lets himself explore all kinds of genre.
-Add TAFH Mellon Collie
-Add Pisces Iscariot to Siamese Dream
-Add Machina 2 to Machina 1
-Add the residency songs, American Gothic and Zeitgeist b-sides to Zeitgeist.
All of those addition make the original album even better.
For a fan of the band, a triple album would be the best thing to happen.
Yeah some of the songs from ‘The Aeroplane Flies High’ like the title track, ‘Set The Ray To Jerry’ and ‘Cherry’ are, in my opinion, stronger songs than a few that actually made their way onto MCIS such as ‘Take Me Down’, ‘Tales of a scorched earth’ and ‘Fuck You (An ode to no one) but I guess it came down to sequencing and diversity and which songs Billy felt fit the concept of the album best. I’m just glad he puts all the songs out there and doesn’t keep them locked away in a vault.
Terrible idea in my opinion. In a world where no one buys albums and most fans want to hear only older songs live, this wouldn’t make sense. It would take too much of the band’s time with little reward.
Happy birthday baby Jesus, I hope you like crap.
@Versus
That I agree with, But I consider the fact that every additionnal year, every additionnal song from SP is a gift. I feel like time is running out in a way, so I’m thinking more about the artistic bagage of the band than the commercial success I’ll admit it. Although maybe this would attract a lot of attention too, who knows…
@Versus
You have a good point but I’m not sure how much Billy cares about album sales and commercial success at this point in his career, I mean he didn’t do much to promote ‘Oceania’ really, there was no music video made, was there even an official radio single?? I just look at him as one of those great songwriters who just writes hundreds and hundreds of songs and just wants to get them out there, for example with Teargarden (whilst not great) he was just releasing the songs for free on the website with an optional physical release for the hardcore fans.
@Blue:
I like quite a few of the Mellon Collie B-sides and feel that they would fit perfectly on the double album, but that doesn’t change my opinion about the said album’s 3-5 fillers. Mellon Collie comes from an age where B-sides were still a major part of a band’s mythology. Hell, I (like many others) collected those CD singles even before the box set was officially released. I know the songs come from the same batch, but I never considered the B-sides to be a part of the album. I’m not saying that Billy wasn’t able to pull it off in the past, but considering his recent inconsistency, I fear that a triple (?!!) album might end up being a total mess, something like Oceania with Kaleidoscope songs in-between. This approach would justify not listening to albums from start to end and skipping to hits/favorite tracks, don’t you think?
BC needs to start concentraing on one project at a time.
I agree with what Pris is saying. Whilst I don’t consider any of the songs on MCIS filler, because they do all fit the concept Billy had going on even if there are 3 songs on there that I personally don’t particularly care for (mentioned in my post above), if he wants to do a TRIPLE album it needs to be consistent and of similar quality to MCIS or (more realistically) ‘Oceania’. Songs in the vein of ‘Spangled’ or ‘Widow wake my mind’ must not be on there under any circumstances, they’re not even conceptually acceptable, they’re just very very weak songs and an obvious low point in Billy’s songwriting which seems to thankfully be back on track.
I think Billy Corgan should put 1979 in a Subway commercial.
Just listening to ‘Fuck You (an ode to no one)’ as I type this and I feel o was a bit harsh, it’s sounding pretty fucking good on this remaster through my headphones
so I retract my earlier comment, ‘Take Me Down’ and ‘Tales of A Scorched Earth’ are the 2 weakest cuts from MCIS.
3x the shit to digest. Billco is nuts if thinks this is going to work. More shit is still shit. Fuck that jobber.
“Tales of a scorched earth” definitely isn’t one of the strongest track on MCIS but it opened my eyes/ears to brutal metal. It’s been very important in my life and I think MCIS wouldn’t be the same without the most brutal song in the history of the band…
Honestly the only song I consider a bit weaker is “Love” and I know many would disagree.
The fact that everybody has their own opinion in which tracks are the weaker shows that there aren’t clear “fillers”. Some people would have lost with whatever song they would have taken off.
I guess I understand what a lot of you are saying. My biggest concern is the time it would take to write, record, and release the album. I also thought playing Oceania in its entirety in arenas was a horrible idea, and I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Billy seems to be writing songs all the time and I’m sure he has hundreds unreleased but wether they’re strong enough to form a triple album… Who knows? The songs on the ‘If All Goes Wrong’ DVD that were never released in studio form were pretty damn good though, not sure what he was thinking shelving them in favour of songs like ‘Spangled’ and ‘Widow wake my mind’ which actually got recorded in a studio and released on CD.
So in summary… If it were a band like STP, Soundgarden or AIC talking about releasing a triple album I’d be much more worried about the length of time it was going to take to write/record and release it but I think Billy could pull it off in a timely manner… Having said that the 3 bands I mentioned have never put out anything as bad as those Teargarden songs so sometimes it pays off to take your time!
Its great that Billy Corgan puts into heart and soul into his songs and never stops writing matieral, unlike bands like Pearl Jam and Tool who are too lazy to put out a new album. If you guys rather listen to crap like The Fixer instead of good music, suit yourself. And who says a triple album could fail??? He made Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, a double album released right after a Mult-Platinum record done of the best albums of the 1990′s!!! So I am pretty sure he could pull it off.
If someone can pull it off…
I’m thinking fans of the band Outshined just mentionned might be jealous that SP fans are treated with that much of new music!
Mellon Collie is their masterpiece and would be hard to ever top it. If the album can have heavy hitters (XYU, Ode To No One), epics (Thru The Eyes, Porcelina), and artsy tracks would be great. Also, unsure why many people find Tales of a Scorched Earth is weak. Probably the heaviest song they’ve made and so much energy. I really need to get the reissue.
There are NO fillers in Mellon Collie. I would take any song off that album over any other grunge / 90′s artist. It really is THAT good.
A triple album sounding anything similar to Oceania would make me want to pull a Tony Scott.
William Patrick always impresses me. However if he really wanted to take it to the next level he would star in a sex tape with Taylor Momsen.
B.I.G. Life After Death > Mellon Collie
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