September-October 2014 – Pumpkinland II: Difference between revisions

The '''September-October 2014 Pumpkinland II''' sessions were for the eventually-abandoned ''[[Day For Night]]'' album. Meant as the dark and proggy sister to the light and poppy [[Monuments to an Elegy|''Monuments to an Elegy'']], [[Billy Corgan]] and [[Jeff Schroeder]] began the sessions by recording tentative B-sides for the ''Monuments'' singles (such as "Queen of the Meadow" and "[[Roustabout]]"). Using this as a warm up, the band moved on to the eight songs from the ''Monuments'' B-list as the core to ''Day For Night'', then focusing on additional songs. After nearly three months of work, Corgan scrapped ''Day For Night'' entirely, deeming the material not up to standard, save a few songs. While "[[Burnt Orange Black]]" and "[[Cardinal Rule]]" were both performed live in 2015 and 2016 respectively, "[[The Spaniards]]" was re-recorded for ''[[Ogilala]]'' in 2016, "[[Solara]]" was re-recorded for [[Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.|''Shiny and Oh So Bright'']] in 2018, and "[[Ramona]]" was re-recorded for 2020's [[CYR]].

I think the 14-year-old me would say that ‘Monuments…’ is a little bit too comfortable. ‘Day For Night’ is going back to something that would appeal to my teenage self. ‘Monuments…’ is really cool and I love having re-embraced my pop leanings. But is that why I really started the band? Is it what drove me forward? Not at all. ‘Monuments…’ is me solving a problem of how to get The Smashing Pumpkins back into the mainstream. I had to solve that problem before I can solve problem two, which is where ‘Day For Night’ comes in. That’s why I’d thought ‘I’ll do the thing I should do, then I’ll do the thing I want to do.’ But now what I want to do is kick people out of the way.|author=Billy Corgan|source=NME interview, December 30, 2014}}{{Monuments sessions}}