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The Smashing Pumpkins
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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.
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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Bullet With Butterfly Wings
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Today
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Tonight, Tonight
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Zero
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Ava Adore
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Perfect
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Mayonaise
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Stand Inside Your Love
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Here Is No Why
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Rocket
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Quiet
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Jellybelly
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Shoutbox
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gaz_nokiamusic wrote:
Nice!... Why don't you tattoo Billy's fretboard hand on your hand to scale!... but seriously, almost anything from the MCATIS sleeve is awesome and it's mostly been drawn with dots already!
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dreamelectric wrote:
"I'm so tempted to get a Smashing Pumpkins tattoo. " already have three. giant sp heart on my ribs, adore on my left wrist and the words "when your life is so, so dreary, dream" across my chest.
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CjFlannery wrote:
classic!
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gaz_nokiamusic wrote:
I quite like listening to music in the toilet... good acoustics!
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clowezra wrote:
only just got properly introduced to them, and im falling in love
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optimistic_tour wrote:
music is best when listening 'in a toilet'!
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kittensanddoves wrote:
I used to listen to TSP a lot a few years ago, and got bored of it two years ago after Zeitgeist. I just rediscovered it tonight. Fortunately I didn't delete all my TSP because wow I forgot how great Billy Corgan is. :) I'm going to go find The Aeroplane Flies High box set now!
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right33 wrote:
from life.. with love...
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augurim wrote:
Smashing PUmpkins never get old for me, lol.
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Mellow_Dude wrote:
Well, if Pumpkin's music is toilet, your music must be honey bucket. eeeeeew.
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Iced_Out wrote:
how do you fit in a toilet to listen to such music? please remove yourself from making illogical statements. nub.
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Carn1fex wrote:
Such music is not worthy respect!!! It is not necessary even for listening in a toilet...
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Bolshevized wrote:
Why did Billy have to postpone Teargarden until January? Ah well, probably can't hurt the quality of the project.
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d1sord3r wrote:
"these guys WERE the music".. I like that statement =)
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solemdal wrote:
The true stars of the 90s.
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right33 wrote:
i agree with dandy-jon. Billy is free to do what he pleases without any distractions. this IS the smashing pumpkins
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Rogar wrote:
I wish Corgan would just change the name of the band already. This isn't Smashing Pumpkins anymore.
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thekillingspree wrote:
I'm so tempted to get a Smashing Pumpkins album.
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Know_Yr_Rights wrote:
"I DON'T miss Jimmy, James and D'Arcy, band politics ruin the music." -For more than a decade, these guys WERE the music.
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Br4dy wrote:
I'm so tempted to get a Smashing Pumpkins tattoo.
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