Playing By Ear
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Mini-Sode: The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning (Smashing Pumpkins)
October 27th, 2026 | 17 mins 55 secs
Alternative, DC, DC comics, adore, batman, batman & robin, comics, music, smashing pumpkins, songwriting, watchmen
Originally written as "The End Is The Beginning Is The End" for the film "Batman & Robin, it was reworked into this newer, darker, and hypnotic new version by Billy Corgan and company. Lost on various b-sides and rarities compilations, it resurfaced for the trailer of a different DC comics film, "Watchmen". The song remains powerful and entrancing, and like that film, a seeming harbinger of apocalyptic doom.