The Smashing Pumpkins Release Demo 8-Track Version Of 'Drown'

If you listened to the radio during 1992 there's a chance you know the Smashing Pumpkins song "Drown" already. But you've probably never heard it like this before.

To kick off the Smashing Pumpkins Record Club (SPRC), a club for fans that will give out lots of free rare tracks in exchange for your email address, the band has released an 8-track demo version of "Drown."

Billy Corgan introduces the track, and the club, in a brief video that runs after you sign up to download the track. According to Corgan, there are "some minor differences" between the album track (which first appeared on the soundtrack for Cameron Crowe's movie "Singles") and the demo.

"It's kind of exciting because you do get a sense of what the band sounded like unfiltered, playing the song live," he says, calling "Drown," "one of my favorite songs that I've ever written."

The demo was recorded in downtown Chicago, along with another four or five songs that will also be released through SPRC. All you have to do to get it is head over to the Smashing Pumpkins website and enter your email address.

Or, Corgan notes at the end, "You can get the song for free with technology -- I don't know. I don't understand. That's for someone else to figure out. I just write the songs."

LISTEN to the track:

Comments

[Catters]

12:08 AM on 09/05/2011

thank you, Mr. Corgan, thank you.. it's about time.

[Nic the wonder puppy]

03:03 PM on 09/02/2011

I was going to have a band Nic and the scooper poopers

[jason9045]

08:14 AM on 09/02/2011

He's a guy with whom I wish I could separate the man from the music. I loved the band in the 90s before I discovered what a phenomenal toolbag Corgan is, and it sort of crossed over and ruined the music for me.

[Harvo]

07:18 AM on 09/02/2011

Here's a little something to broaden your horizons a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsjYqm-2PDk

[lastpost]

06:14 AM on 09/02/2011

"You can get the song for free with technology -- I don't know. I don't understand. That's for someone else to figure out. I just write the songs."

No matter where you are
We can still drown-load even to your car
You may have traveled very far
But these bits can burrow, even through the wire

[Jennifer Hagan]

05:29 AM on 09/02/2011

I absolutely used to love this song. I'm going to see them in Paris. I saw them in a bar in the early nineties after Gish and that was amazing.

[Happiness1999]

03:45 AM on 09/02/2011

This reminds me —– what the hell happened to music? Remember music? It died and they replaced it with manufactured patterns.

[bryan broome]

07:28 AM on 09/02/2011

It'll come back. Remember disco.

[ryantherusskie]

12:40 AM on 09/02/2011

The 90's get better and better as the years go on. Blessed nostalgia, smoothing over the Milli Vanillis and MC Hammers of a decade, and leaving only the genius of the Smashing Pumpkins.

[jsgaetano]

11:58 PM on 09/01/2011

Just when we thought Billy Corgan couldn't get any douchier.

[llibsetag]

02:20 AM on 09/02/2011

Hahaha! Word Of The Day: "douchier".

[laywastethesky]

06:42 AM on 09/02/2011

I can see how someone with preexisting bias against Billy Corgan can mistake his humble generosity for douchiness.

[GraphicMatt]

08:25 AM on 09/02/2011

There never was, nor will there ever be anything "humble" about Corgan.

[jsgaetano]

01:39 PM on 09/02/2011

Generosity and douchiness aren't mutually exclusive.

[Ryosuke91t]

10:53 PM on 09/01/2011

I soooo needed this...

[ridethewave]

10:34 PM on 09/01/2011

Nostalgia at it's finest, loved the early 90's scene, and this
album one of my favs.....

[robbor]

09:27 PM on 09/01/2011

great song except the dog whistle stuff at the end

[JohnMavis41]

09:26 PM on 09/01/2011

not bad -- sans the whiny vocals, but that's the Pumkins

[JesuisFrederique]

09:17 PM on 09/01/2011

1979..

[TheIndependentView]

09:11 PM on 09/01/2011

Soma is my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song.

...and I like them all.