| I Of The Mourning | ||
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Billy: "It is about things that are much grander than the radio, the radio being the analogy that I use to put across other ideas. I mean right now we're being bombarded by Beatles songs and unfortunately Celine Dion songs and, sorry all you Canadians, there's something sort of perverse about the idea that we're constantly assaulted by these waves and we're not really, no one knows if they're actually changing us. You know there's a reason that when you look at photographs from a hundred years ago the people look different. Because the air they breathed was different, the food that they ate was different, it's all the same DNA but the energy going into their bodies, they weren't standing underneath electrical wires, next to cable TV's, having rayon tubes shoot lord knows what into your eyes." The Raft. The Raft: Can you give me an example of one song from MACHINA that seemed to take a pound of flesh off of you....a song that was just the killer? Billy: "Well I think one song on MACHINA that's a good example of a long walk is the song I of the Mourning, which was originally two different songs. One song called Radio and one song called I of the Mourning. So it became commonly referred to as I of the Radio. And we worked on that song probably for about three months on and off. There were at least five or six different versions of the song with five or six different arrangements and at different times Flood kind of tried to talk me into basically letting go of it and setting it adrift in the sea of B sides and I just couldn't let it go 'cause it had a certain draw to me and that's the funny thing is it's almost begging you and daring you to keep mining until you find the spot and then one day it just was like a crack in a safe, the whole thing just came together." The Raft. |
Written by Billy Corgan
Radio
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