Jellybelly

"I felt really close to 'Jellybelly', because it sounds to me like a classic Pumpkins song from a third album. It sounds to me like the manifestation of everything we've ever done on a third album, whereas 'Cherub Rock' sounded to me like a second album single."

1995 - Chart Magazine

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CORGAN: But then there'd be a song like "Jellybelly," where Flood said, "On this song, you need to do the "Pumpkin guitar overdub army" thing. You'll hurt the song if you don't." So it was a good, healthy balance.

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CORGAN: We're pretty firm believers in super-tight rhythm guitar playing. There's definitely a poignancy to four people playing together in a room - the feeling that you get from the miasma of everyone's own rhythms against one another. But if you're not specifically going for that kind of feel, then you've really gotta build the song from the bottom up, layering the rhythm guitars one track at a time, very precisely. To me, a song like "Jellybelly" is most effective when it's built like that super-tight chopped rhythm playing honed to a razor point. Played live, it's powerful but, to me, not as effective.

GW: Do you ever detune for things like "Jellybelly" - the chunka-chunka thrash numbers?

CORGAN: Yeah, yeah, we use the "grunge tuning."

IHA: Dropped D only the first string.

CORGAN: Yeah, but then we detuned everything on the album down a half step. So, like, the bottom string on the bass was E flat. And the dropped D stuff is really C sharp. We just wanted to make the music a little lower, that's all.

-Guitar World -1995

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Corgan: "Jellybelly" is a good example of the Marshall rack and Alesis compressor guitar sound, which is the basic "fat" rhythm sound I use. "

-Guitar School 1996

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