Billy Corgan contributed six tracks to the soundtrack of Ransom: Rats, Worms, Spiders, Lizards, Worms Part 2 and Squirrels With Tails.

On November 6 1996, Addicted to Noise ran this article (note that some of the titles are wrong):

Addicted To Noise staff writer Gil Kaufman reports: "Hey, Billy Corgan, your band sold seven million copies of their double-CD set. So what are you gonna do for an encore?" Take Hollywood, perhaps? Addicted To Noise previously reported that Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan whipped up some instrumental music for Ron (Backdraft , Apollo 13) Howard's new action thriller, Ransom, starring Mel Gibson and Rene Russo. Now we've learned why the Artist Formerly Known as Opie Cunningham feels that the solo sounds crafted by Corgan are perfect for the film. It seems the moody, driven, not un-Pumpkins-like music is played by the kidnappers in the hostage's room, where Gibson's character's son is being held. Here's what the director himself has to say about working with Corgan: "Billy Corgan brought a powerfully disturbing urgency to the music that our kidnappers listen to throughout the ordeal. It was great to have someone with such vision help us musically shape these scenes, instead of the usual series of unrelated songs by different artists. Billy's complete understanding of our movie and his wide range of musical styles made him an inspired choice. Beside that, I just got a big kick out of working with him." According to a source at Hollywood Records, the company releasing the soundtrack, which also features a score by award-winning composer James (Braveheart, Cocoon) Horner, Corgan whipped up seven "musical cues" for the film. The cues, which feature Corgan playing everything except drums (handled by Filter drummer Matt Walker, the man who has been behind the kit for the Pumpkins tour), have typically Corganesque names like "Lizards," "Rats," "Rats with Tails," "Spiders," "Squirrels," "Worms 1," and, the only track with vocals, "Worms with Vocals." The source described the music as "mid-tempo guitar-driven rock, Pumpkinsy stuff, not a tremendous departure." You know, your typical kidnapper music.