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| |1={{#vardefine:title|Now (And Then)}}"'''[[Now (And Then)]]'''" is a single from [[Billy Corgan]]'s debut solo studio album, ''[[TheFutureEmbrace]]''. The song was released with the album on June 21, 2005, and charted well on the ''Billboard'' 200.
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| {{cquote|1=Then Bon [producer] said he really loved the song, and thought it was the best thing we'd worked on. He said, "Mind if I fuck it up for you?" So then I went away, came back and thought what Bon had done was really beautiful. Then the whole song clicked for me.|author=Billy Corgan|source=[[w:SheKnows Media|SheKnows Media]] interview, August 2005}} | |
| |2={{#vardefine:title|A Song for a Son}}"'''[[A Song for a Son]]'''" is a song by [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] from the ''Songs for a Sailor'' segment of ''[[Teargarden]]''. [[Billy Corgan]] consciously set the song in 1975, the year he started listening heavily to rock music, attributing the extended guitar solo to Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, UFO, and Rainbow. Producer Kerry Brown wrote:
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| {{cquote|1=Billy broke out the Farfisa today and we ran it through a 'secret weapon' It won't be such a secret on Tuesday when I showcase it and its history in the Tech Tuesday blog ... but for those of you curious as to what it could be... *Hint*(Pink Floyd) used one of these devices on some of their recordings.}}
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| The "secret weapon" was a [[w:Binson Echorec|Binson Echorec]].
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| |3={{#vardefine:title|Drum + Fife}}"'''[[Drum + Fife]]'''" is the third single from [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]' ninth studio album ''[[Monuments to an Elegy]]''. The track was premiered through ''NME'' on November 21, 2014. Corgan had originally written it as a folk song, but drummer [[Tommy Lee]] helped shift it into rock territory. The song was well-received by critics, with Consequence of Sound describing it as "a melodic, yet rallying rocker", and Corgan's vocals as "tenacious".
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