Billy Corgan - ASK:REPLY

Billy Corgan - ASK:REPLY
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Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan answers fan questions in this exclusive Vevo ASK:REPLY!
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[@minimaster197]

"That would be the last one because it means we actually finished the record" haha classic Pumpkins

[@XMattingly]

Billy Corgan :Smashing Pumpkins Homer Simpson :Smiling Politely

[@euminkong]

Favorite scene ever

[@rubbersole79]

"...when I woke up, from that dream. I was happier, than I've ever been..." That line from "Hummer" stirred a lot of emotions for some reason.

[@Happyingaloshes]

Not dream, sleep

[@Albert-Freeman]

hummer best sp song period

[@malikjohnston3883]

"come save me from the awful sound of nothing" chills me every time

[@karlanadia2012]

ahhhhh, Billy!!!!!!!!!!!!! My biggest Idol ever, songs like Siva, Snail, Rocket ...... made my young days !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@oliverharper7411]

Siva is one of my favourites. It's fantastic!!!

[@SaulmanPhishbass]

Oliver Harper i'm really into the song Oceania crazy song!

[@mikemarquez1211]

Ikr...!

[@nickkozanas1147]

Mayonaise was my favorite

[@aegisreflector1239]

Love Snail

[@joshserna5299]

Billy corgan is an amazing poet

[@iamsheep]

Siamese Dream is one of the best albums ever and its hard to create even a good album.

[@AltCTRLF8]

iamsheep Siamese Dream has no filler songs. Beautiful from start to finish.

[@mrpaddy3318]

Yes 1993 the year siamese dream appear what a Album

[@jameslaurent6491]

iamsheep Siamese Dream is a master, and I it’s slave

[@beohyl]

Or even the difficulty of creating a good single😆

[@feliciakidd9358]

It sure is!

[@MizzzyMike]

Awesome! I love Bill Burr

[@josephgoodrow3804]

God I loved the response to the first question. Holy shit

[@JarredStover]

No kidding. That was raw and remarkably open. I love instances where abusers unwittingly create wonderful things. His abuser had no way of knowing she was driving the creation of an album so magnificent and significant that it would help heal Billy and also countless others the world over for decades. Not to mention driving the creation of an album that flat out kicks ass.

[@Liamnerfdude1]

@@JarredStover who?

[@JarredStover]

I think it was a stepmother, but that's just based on what I've read. I shouldn't have commented on details I don't know and stuck to what I do know; his early hurt drove the creation of a massively impressive body of art.

[@bohemiandream6259]

@@JarredStover yes it was his stepmother

[@tirtunemdouq]

I LOVE this man. Such a beautiful soul! He made me laugh when he said 'no ukulele on this album' :D

[@nathanschoeder9902]

Smashing Pumpkins🙌

[@rikointernauta4293]

Concordo!

[@PartiallyAgonized]

Billy seems like the best example of someone rocketed into mainstream and not only SURVIVED IT but came out the other end in a pretty awesome way. He's lived through a lot

[@tristan_840]

Like Thom Yorke

[@feliciakidd9358]

I love Siamese Dream!❤

[@Ktalks100]

Youre so highly intelligent and I just love your music.

[@skippydeenice]

I'm actually surprised the first question wasn't "Why didn't you play 1979??????" followed immediately by Billy storming out of the interview

[@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes]

Good grief

[@scottemiller8095]

Nice to see Billy answering questions that I *think* he would have rejected in the past. :)

[@TheSickNeeds]

he gets to breath these days....its easier to open up when the world isn't choking you for answers.

[@lachlanhiggs]

Thank you for inadvertently helping people like me strive for authenticity

[@matty6427]

Thank you for all the amazing music. Melon Collie and Infinite Sadness changed my life. If I had to listen to one album before I died, it would it!

[@sadiesleepwalker646]

I love Siamese Dream with all my heart 💙 thank you

[@davidberggg]

Absolutely love this man! And his beautiful music!💙

[@1986beasty]

I'm so glad hes survived this long and seems so with it. So many musicians lose the battle with life early on. Rock on.!!

[@destroyermaker]

"Nothing like sitting around the pool and hearing about things you can't believe even happened or were physically possible with another human" Bless you, Tommy Lee.

[@carterheekin1974]

I like him.

[@Lgykas]

Wonderful interview ❤️

[@PartiallyAgonized]

I do love this man.

[@adamkolendorski9953]

thank you Billy ya saved my life love ya

[@bigangel9145]

Thanks for your Great 🎶.

[@emeraldcitymystic]

Billy, Your vocals are so amazingly perfected yet unique. Can one learn or is it natural?

[@yourpersonalhatecomment2025]

That ending lmao, “thank you very much vevo goodbye...”

[@courte28]

They don't have a lot of articulate musicians anymore.

[@greysuit17]

Who’s they?

[@PartiallyAgonized]

@@greysuit17 stop talking.

[@PartiallyAgonized]

This man is very hard to be

[@greysuit17]

Cousin Kyle I wasn’t talking... I was writing.

[@greysuit17]

Zettel 9016 technically I was

[@StephenAndrew777]

I love P.J. Harvey albums.

[@dillonn5507]

They were amazing last night in Chicago along with noel gallagher and AFI

[@rocketrynerd]

Yep!! 3rd row!!! 🖤

[@US395Official]

Why does Billy always look so sad? :(

[@TheSickNeeds]

infinitely?

[@siddhant717]

The SickNeeds haha

[@lachlanhiggs]

I think it comes from understanding things on a hugely complex level. I don’t think he’s sad. I think he understands what he’s talking about with a real life perspective and genuine willingness to be open and honest

[@FishbowlPhenom]

He was bitten by a vampire 387 years ago, and still hasn't come to terms with it.

[@d00mboy13]

@Tyler Mod your name is tyler lol be quiet

[@los_reyes9517]

Cool

[@SofiaLopez-ym6ue]

Billy :D, great

[@ANNIHILISTIC]

I only know like half a dozen Pumpkins songs, but I've always enjoyed listening to Corgan speak, he always struck me as a really intelligent person.

[@ditavee]

Love Willy Corrigan 👍👍

[@HeartOfGrief]

🌻thank you🌻

[@Crokodilian]

things arent as complicated as billy makes them seem

[@ToothyMTG1]

You don’t know Billy then. He is one of the most complex people maybe ever.

[@timothyhalldorsson5476]

Love the album... 1979 is a bomb!

[@juanmora553]

Smashing Pumpkins had a concert on my birthday on Dec 11, 2014 in SF, I wanted to go so badly, but I was broke >:(

[@cuteasxtreme]

that's my birthday too and least you had a chance of going

[@johnfire3194]

Third pumpkin fan of the 12/11

[@pentexsucks43]

Strange, that's also my birthday, and they were playing at a venue near me that I missed on that date.

[@Rapuk]

They did a gig in Manchester in about 2005 and I travelled from Wales, I sat on my seat in the arena and just before the band car on stage I got thrown out by security, I've never seen them live, I've been a fan since 95

[@joedoorknobs]

He has to be referring to Ozzy snorting ants at the end, right? Lmao

[@staylucky4727]

It's like he's staring into my soul

[@alphadraconian3483]

❤️🖤🖤🥰❤️🖤❤️

[@Remedy462]

I wonder if we shine the goblins head and make a wish, he will return to making Shoegaze rock?

[@rebeccalachance1624]

\m/ SMASHING PUMPKINS! \m/

[@siddhant717]

Rebecca Lachance fuck yeah!

[@FindingNorcal]

Pisces power!

[@slimyfisher1370]

Billy got to hear about all the Motley Crue rape stories that didn't end up in the book...and he was pleased.

[@davidmays7102]

I wanna know whats the hardest song for him to play and does he get tired of performing certain songs every night on tour

[@rocketrynerd]

He has said that he cannot watch the slideshow that is shown behind him during Disarm, and he has at times been frustrated be some people's misunderstanding of Today (it is not a shiny happy song).

[@whitneybennett9045]

I would have considered you way above my class and speaking to your generation as well as mind I think we were no different we had the same struggles in different circumstances

[@whitneybennett9045]

And beautiful ways and Harsh Times we were able to overcome those Beautiful Moments and make them special

[@whitneybennett9045]

I don't care what my friend says I think you're okay

[@MrNelsom]

This guy looks like pitbull the latin singer hahaha MAMACITA 🎶😂

[@andymccoy8370]

either you're blind, stupid or trying to be funny. he does not look like pitbull

[@Stephen-zq2wf]

Billy Patrick > I Noticed that You are More Mentioning Your Family / Wife / Children in your Public Communications .. IMO .. The Family is the Grounding Core around which EveryThing Revolves .. So Glad .. and Keep HP Rocking !

[@jamesconnor5463]

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[@davidkenneth3983]

Siamese dream disarm ,were great songs i thought nothing of your band it was very good without sensoring yor thoughts its was buetiful i have respect for truth and truth has respect for art the hole to thesource opens up and feeds the receptors or anteni that have tried it not hide it.blow a hole through the univervse to the source and you will reap the source. You know i know peace source tap.when you do.its the fundamentall key to all.

[@waynegray7923]

i dont want to be wierd but hes classified as a tenor but is voice type sounds like a baritone

[@texmontana420]

it really doesnt

[@Mattwest1985]

It’s funny how he says Siamese dream now instead of sea-amese dream like he used to back when.

[@seagull8415]

I just love the way Billy speaks normally and intelligently, rather than trying to be a cool, aloof, eccentric rock star.

[@inutero10]

Tonight tonight:. Maybe the best song ever written. Remarkable.

[@jamescaudill6004]

Your interview with Alex Jones was wonderful! You presented your points so well. It's one of my favorites on this show. Thanks!

[@thomasallen3631]

This comment is really personal. Cant elaborate

[@deadlegs187]

LETS ALL GO BUY FUR COATS

[@justinkrann7406]

red hand

[@hifi6660]

Bullet with butterflie wings sounds like (spie of a Rena still just running pain)

[@nderohan]

hmm i wonder what he was talking about with that last comment about motley crue

[@seekah1]

You don't wanna know.

[@nderohan]

i do actually thats why i asked;)

[@jsegovia]

+Nick de Rohan Extreme drugs and sexual activity, probably combined.

[@sadiesleepwalker646]

isn't it sad that kids appreciate and long for parents, who don't deserve it, they left them with no love, left alone..(I won't be relating this to Billy Corgan, cause I can't know his private situation)

[@swisscheeseplease97]

Oh come on. It’s not so black and white. It seems from this comment you think that parenting is an easy job. It’s the hardest thing anyone will ever do

[@sadiesleepwalker646]

@@swisscheeseplease97 I didn't say anything that parenting an way job, at all. It was about the other thing :s

[@x97s]

@@swisscheeseplease97 bs its not easy but its not impossible either

[@swisscheeseplease97]

@@x97s Are you joking me? They have to form and raise a child’s mind . They teach little human beings how to be a human. And if they make any slight mistake in doing that it’s catastrophic. Gtfoh you don’t know what you’re talking about

[@Mcshitlove]

He looks nearly identical to Phil selway

[@bohemiandream6259]

Personally I don’t see it at all beyond them both being bald

[@qnnikqs]

HA HA HA HA

[@pandaath]

Hey billy, how old were you when you started losing your hair?!

[@southsider3542]

He shaved his hair in the mid 90s.

[@mickeymcgee2657]

southsider 35 After his failed experiment to produce anti-matter, his hair just never grew back.

[@theflyletmepetit]

Think he did it do support his mom with cancer. Back in like 95ish 96

[@Liamnerfdude1]

@@theflyletmepetit no you can clearly see he was going baldd...

[@motherbear6146]

Did Billy just imply the album is only going to be available digitally ?

[@McFlurryMachineIsDown]

No... it's on cd and vinyl also

[@kidamnesiac6823]

Mother Bear because our generation now is digital. music is digital now. back then it felt like it had more emotion and feeling for how they used to make the music back then. but for today’s music industry, it’s just repetitive rap music and sexual pop music. people are wanting for rock music to comeback to when it took over the billboard charts. just my opinion.

[@yessidolemerchant5143]

billy really needs to learn more synonyms for personal lol

[@MotoGreciaMarios]

Flood ruined Mellon Collie & T. I. S. It's so muddy that pigs want to splash around in it. And it's such a shame since it's one of the biggest records of all time in rock music.

[@jwebb6352]

'Flood ruined Mellon Collie', listen to what you are actually saying mate he helped create it; you don't have a clue what you are talking about

[@MotoGreciaMarios]

@@jwebb6352 Just because you don't understand what I'm saying doesn't mean I don't have a clue. YOU don't have a clue. Listen to the two Nevermind mixes, the Butch Vig and the Andy Wallace one and maybe you'll get a hint.

[@jwebb6352]

@@MotoGreciaMarios, I have the biggest clue, the best clue, bigly. I would suggest that firstly Corgan was happy with it and secondly that the pumpkins at that time were primarily a psychedelic rock band, with a gothic visual element. it takes a slightly different mix to open up the inner world of psychoactive drugs rather than just a 2D mix as i would call it. I dont think it is a fruitful comparison either, nirvana were an outright rock grunge act Cobain was revolutionary and iconic, paved the way; but in terms of texture, detail, range of emotion I think billy was way ahead with the pumpkins as a grandiose, epic rock band at the time.

[@MotoGreciaMarios]

@@jwebb6352 I welcome the civilised discussion. Now on the details: I didn't compare Nirvana to Pumpkins. I only wanted to show you that the composition and musicians' performances is the root of the music and the recording, mixing & mastering are its interpretation onto the reproductive medium. And this means that a mixer can do a disservice to the quality of the compositions and the performances by not recording it in a good way onto the medium. I used Nirvana to show you this only because it's the only example I know of of an album that has been mixed by two different people and I have heard both mixes. Now regarding all you said about the musical and visual character of the Sm. P. I agree but dude all other records produced by them did not have that problem, no matter who produced them. I'm sure Flood has produced wonderful records in his career- it's just "Mellon Collie" that he botched. The fact that Billy liked it means nothing to me - maybe he got carried away, maybe he thought it's cool this way or maybe he was just too depressed to bother with steering Flood away from his own vision. Thankfully the problem is not that evident with the calmer songs, but the hard and aggressive ones like Zero, Bullet W. B. W., X.Y.U. and the rest, are to my ears a medley of various shades of mud. It's not by luck that the 2012 remasters tried to ameliorate this problem.

[@Dyrwlf]

​@@MotoGreciaMarios As great an album Mellon Collie is, I have to agree about the original mix. I always felt the harder songs on the album were indeed muddy. "Jellybelly" is a good example of this. Although it's been slightly improved on the 2012 Remaster, the original mix of Jellybelly sounds like one big noise. It sounds compressed; the instruments blend together too much, like listening to the radio. Billy has stated that they switched producers to get a fresh start, but I feel they should have stuck with Butch Vig. Butch Vig's method of recording/engineering/mixing is a significant reason why Siamese Dream was so successful; he also produced Gish and Nirvana's Nevermind.

[@NoSuchThing99]

I’m a drummer and I can tell you, tommy lee is at the bottom of the list as far as drummers go. He may have a big personality but as far as drumming goes he doesn’t have the chops and he doesn’t have the technique.

[@brennen2268]

Billy Corgan looks like a bald Matt Bellamy

[@codyclark8533]

siamese dream sucked

[@codyclark8533]

what would deep blue dream be now, by the way Billy your looking healthy and good rock on!

[@JackKnight762]

jeebus... full boring mode

[@ronaldstam6175]

Siamese dream is probably the best album ever.....