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Chicago, United States (1988 – 2000, 2007 – present)

The Smashing Pumpkins are an influential American alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Billy Corgan and James Iha met in a record store, and began performing in local nightclubs with their bassist, D’Arcy Wretzky, using a drum machine. Playing with a drum machine frustrated both the band and their audience, and so Chicago jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was hired soon afterwards.

Less influenced by punk than many of their contemporaries, the Pumpkins had a densely layered, guitar-heavy sound, with powerful loud-to-soft-to-loud transitions, while still picking up grunge, heavy metal, power pop, psychedelic rock, shoegaze-style production.

In later recordings, namely Adore, the fourth album, an electronica flair filtered in after Jimmy Chamberlin temporarily left the band for drug rehab. Though Jimmy Chamberlin returned for their fifth album, Machina/The Machines of God, electronica undertones remained. The emotional tone of bandleader Billy Corgan’s songs ranged from angry (

X.Y.U.) to dour (

Disarm) to jubilant (

Cherub Rock).

Selling more than 18.3 million albums in the United States alone (as of 2006), The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s. However, internal fighting, diminishing sales, drug problems, cultural vitality, and what is speculated to be improper treatment from their record company, hampered the band in their later years, leading to the 2000 break-up.

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BN84 wrote:
2 hours ago

In my opinion 'Porcelina of the Vast Ocean' is their most beautiful song.

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ekko66 wrote:
2 hours ago

The Church reciproked Billy's gesture of doing a cover of their song Reptile, when The Pumpkins visited Sydney last time, by doing a version of Disarm in concert in Byron Bay last night. Hope it'll soon show up on YouTube.

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star_shaped_man wrote:
6 hours ago

What if, what is, isn't true?

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ontheupside wrote:
yesterday evening

go>to>the>fucking>radiohead>page. - Mechanical Animals and Adore were recorded around about the same time, Manson and the others used to visit the Pumpkins in the studio during the Adore sessions, in fact (I wonder if that's how Billy kept getting the ecstasy shipped in *rolls eyes*) - but yeah, I can see a few stylistic parallels between them.

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right33 wrote:
yesterday evening

no

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clowezra wrote:
yesterday evening

MCaIS>Gish>Siamese Dream>Adore>Machina I>Machina II>Zeitgeist k.

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quicksand89 wrote:
yesterday evening

rose march?

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Mellow_Dude wrote:
yesterday evening

naa naa naa naa naa naaaa ... naaaaaaaaa na na guess what song it is :D

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quicksand89 wrote:
yesterday afternoon

I think we should just wait til he releases a couple of songs before we judge the new material already. I mean, song for a son was actually a pretty good song when i saw them perform it live at the 20 yr show in chicago, so i mean that might be good. and the demoes of the teargarden stuff they have performed so far make it seem pretty good, so lets just wait until he FINALLY gets around to releasing them.

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Spaceboy0 wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Zeitgeist<Gish<Machina II<Machina I < Adore < Siamese Dream < MCaIS And I have problem with Siamese Dream and Adore. This two should have second place...

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Spaceboy0 wrote:
yesterday afternoon

@quicksand89 I also like everything what SP has put out, but one song I like more than other. Simple. @AprilPhantom I think that they should stop recording CD after Adore. That woud be great.. And now they should reactivate and play ONLY old songs. Not make trash...

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quicksand89 wrote:
yesterday morning

Haha, i agree, Mellow_Dude. I like everything SP has put out

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thekillingspree wrote:
Thursday evening

@gaz: yes I do have some rare occurrences of sheer brilliance. Next one is schedule to happen in about 873 years. I'll probably be dead by then, though :|

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Mellow_Dude wrote:
Thursday evening

@AprilPhantom: And Machine and Zeitageist

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nancykitten wrote:
Thursday evening

C'mon billy, release some more of your rubbish.

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gaz_nokiamusic wrote:
Thursday afternoon

@thekillingspree: Adore - Mechanical Animals: What a brilliant association... uncanny really considering certain parallels in conversation I've had with a forum buddy. I'll PM you a link, you should join!

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Corblimeyguvnor wrote:
Thursday afternoon

I'd hazard a guess that the people who regularly post on this page are not the people keeping Gish songs out of the top 15.

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Bub_Clifton wrote:
Thursday morning

No Gish songs in the top 15 what's wrong with you people?!?!?!

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AprilPhantom wrote:
Wednesday evening

adore is the last genuine and good pumpkins record, that is for sure.

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corganfan89 wrote:
Wednesday evening

Haha, good comparison though!

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