- The Everlasting Gaze
Infobox Single
Name = The Everlasting Gaze
Artist =The Smashing Pumpkins
from Album =Machina/The Machines of God
Released =9 December 1999
Format =CD
Recorded = November1998 -October1999
Genre =Alternative rock
Length = 4:01
Label =Virgin Records
Writer =Billy Corgan
Producer = Flood andBilly Corgan
Chart position = * #4 (USModern Rock Tracks )
* #14 (USMainstream Rock Tracks )
Last single = "Perfect" (1998)
This single = "The Everlasting Gaze" (1999)
Next single = "Stand Inside Your Love " (2000) | Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate Cover
Type = single
Lower caption =VHS single cover Extra tracklisting
Album =Machina/The Machines of God
Type = studio
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next_no = 2"The Everlasting Gaze" is a song written by
Billy Corgan and recorded byThe Smashing Pumpkins . It is the opening track and first single from the2000 album "Machina/The Machines of God ".The unique guitar sound in the song was achieved by using a small Crate practice amp.Thomas, Richard. "Signal to Noise: The Sonic Diary of the Smashing Pumpkins". EQ Magazine. October 2008.] 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". [DeRogatis, Jim. "Corgan speaks truth: He's grown up".
Chicago Sun-Times : 2000-04-11.]The music video was directed by
Jonas Åkerlund and is a performance basedmusic video , the first to featureMelissa Auf der Maur , playing bass with the band after the departure ofD'Arcy Wretzky . Originally, the band had consideredJonathan 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, adisco technique. The final chorus was cut from the final version, though ana cappella section was added.The Everlasting Gaze will be one of three Smashing Pumpkins songs available as a downloadable track in the upcoming video game Guitar Hero: World Tour [http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/news_8163]
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