Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan: “In five minutes I could write you something that would sound like a song that would’ve been on ‘Siamese Dream'”

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Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan has said that he can write songs that sound like any era of the band, explaining: “in five minutes I could write you something that would sound like a song that would’ve been on ‘Siamese Dream.'”Speaking about his creative process to Premier Guitar, Corgan said he could create another song like from one of the band’s most acclaimed albums, ‘Siamese Dream’ if he wanted to.Corgan told the outlet: “I think it’s more trying to find something that seems to signify whatever’s happening at the moment.

It’s a truthfulness. You could say to me, ‘Hey, play me some ‘Siamese’-type thing that you would’ve done in ‘92,’ and in five minutes, I could write you something that would sound like a song that would’ve been a ‘Siamese’ song in ‘92.”He continued: “I can dial in any era of the band or my writing at will, because they’re all based on methodologies and certain emotional templates.

So, I’m trying to do that for today. What is the 2024 version of that that makes me feel something — anything at all?“If I pick up a guitar, I’m looking to play something that surprises me.

It’s whatever comes out. And sometimes you hit the wrong chord and go, ‘Oh, that’s interesting.’ Or you find a new inversion or something that you never thought of before.