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Originally Posted by narlus
wait, what? 1100? link, please.
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About 10 years ago, I was looking up smashing pumpkins lyrics, and counting covers, unreleased demos, etc. I remember a site listing 826 songs he had written
then.
Now, with Zwan, the solo shit, more Pumpkins stuff, etc... I'm just taking a guess here, but I don't think 1100 is too unlikely, and I'm sure it's highly probably he's written more than that.
Casey Chaos from Amen once said he wrote and recorded 70 demos in a month for a band to pick through for his new album, and he's completely scrapped full albums and has appeared in tons of bands and always has had tons of b-sides and so on, and said once he's written and recorded a thousand songs, and those songs aren't simple at all. He wrote B.Y.O.B by System of a Down!
Rivers Cuomo, another extremely prolific songwriter, though his music has gotten simpler and simpler (though THE GREATEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED has to be one of the craziest songs ever). He was once quoted as saying he wrote and recorded like 200 songs over the summer many years ago.
So, yeah, once a person understands the language of their music or whatever, it's not too surprising that these guys can write thousands of songs and whatever. Especially when most of them are pretty simple.