The Pumpkins' full-length debut is a straightforward indie-tinged rock album, before Corgan began his quest for world domination in earnest. Although it's often overlooked...
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Arriving several months before Nirvana's Nevermind, the Smashing Pumpkins' debut album, Gish, which was also produced by Butch Vig, was the first shot of the alternative...
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Lull is a four-song EP the Smashing Pumpkins released as they were preparing to enter the studio to record their second album, Siamese Dream. Essentially the "Rhinoceros"...
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The Butch Vig-produced album that propelled the quartet from semi-known alternative musicians to full-blown stars, which includes such MTV megahits as "Disarm" and "Today."...
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While Gish had placed the Smashing Pumpkins on the "most promising artist" list for many, troubles were threatening to break the band apart. Singer/guitarist/leader Billy...
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The Smashing Pumpkins are certainly not a band short of material. They very well may have set a record for non-album B-sides and repackaging, but they've never put out a...
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Although the Smashing Pumpkins had only released two studio albums by 1994 (1991's Gish and 1993's Siamese Dream), they had an overflow of songs that were either relegated...
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The Smashing Pumpkins didn't shy away from making the follow-up to the grand, intricate Siamese Dream. With Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the band turns in one of...
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While Gish had placed the Smashing Pumpkins on the "most promising artist" list for many, troubles were threatening to break the band apart. Singer/guitarist/leader Billy...
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An EP that's 40 minutes in length (but comparatively brief next to Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness), it includes the album track, some outtakes, and the 20-minute...
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If Billy Corgan & Co. were bent on covering all of rock's bases, they were well on their way before the release of Adore. But where past discs were hit-and-miss, the...
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Left without a drummer after Jimmy Chamberlin's dismissal, the Smashing Pumpkins took the opportunity to revamp their sound slightly -- which is what Billy Corgan claimed...
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The Aeroplane Flies High contains all five singles -- "Bullet With Butterfly Wings," "1979," "Zero," "Tonight, Tonight," "Thirty-Three" -- from Mellon Collie and the...
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Siamese Dream is to Smashing Pumpkins as Green is to REM, if one is game for analogies. The albums pushed their respective bands to the top of the charts. Though REM has...
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Billy Corgan and Co. wussed out big-time with Adore; its mopey songs and
keyboard-dominated textures failed to play off the group's big-guitar
assets, so key to the artistic...
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