The End is the Begining is the End

"At one point I found myself going, "I can't write a song about Batman, I'm in an alternative band." And I thought this is stupid, if I can write a song about Batman and it serves the purpose, which is to make it happen and connect with the movie, and connect with something that is unique and original, then, why not? "

1997 - week in rock

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Billy: For me it was kind of a very artistic thing to do because it was very free. You know I wasn’t talking about myself or I wasn’t trying to represent the Smashing Pumpkins but I was trying to represent Batman.

Joel Schumacher: What he managed to do was kinda take all of the Batman legends from 1939, the TV show, the movies and capsulate it into this fantastic sound.

Billy: It’s probably what you’d expect from us in the future. It’s such a large leap from the last album that I think people are going to be pretty surprised. It’s just the sound I’ve had mulling around in my head for a year.

1997-week in rock

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"Well the soundtrack work is very kind of junior techno/progressive shit," he says. "I'm just beginning to get my feet wet. The basic idea as I see it now is to start from the atmospherics of electronic music; people like The Orb who are geniuses at that sort of thing. I want to write really excellent songs and apply them to that process and just keep on applying them until they cease to resemble what anybody else is doing. "

1996-Mojo