The Everlasting Gaze
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| Single by The Smashing Pumpkins from the album Machina/The Machines of God |
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| Released | 9 December 1999 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | November 1998-October 1999 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative Rock | ||||
| Length | 4:01 | ||||
| Label | Virgin Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Billy Corgan | ||||
| Producer | Flood and Billy Corgan | ||||
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"The Everlasting Gaze" is a song written by Billy Corgan and recorded by The Smashing Pumpkins. It is the opening track and first single from the 2000 album Machina/The Machines of God.
Corgan has said that this song "has a lot to do with spirituality and trying to find my place in the universe and sort of humbly accepting limitations and the things I've been graced with. It's more of a humanistic world view. I'm not writing anymore for the tortured teen--both me and whoever was listening. I'm writing with the idea that everybody's experiencing these things all the time, and even if they're not experiencing them personally, they're affected by them. You can live in the street and write about the garbage, or you can try to get up a little higher and look down and try to see the bigger picture".[1]
The music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund and is a performance based music video, the first to feature Melissa Auf der Maur, playing bass with the band after the departure of D'Arcy Wretzky. Originally, the band had considered Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris to direct the video.
During the recording of Machina/The Machines of God, an early version of this song with very different lyrics had the working title of "Disco King". The final version of the song retains Chamberlin's consistent use of offbeat hi-hat beats, a disco technique. The final chorus was cut from the final version, though an a cappella section was added.
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The Everlasting Gaze "The Everlasting Gaze" from Machina/The Machines of God (2000) - Problems playing the files? See media help.
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[edit] References
- ^ DeRogatis, Jim. "Corgan speaks truth: He's grown up". Chicago Sun-Times: 2000-04-11.
