The Smashing Pumpkins
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Chicago, United States (1988 – 2000, 2007 – present)
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 (
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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Disarm
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Cherub Rock
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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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Stereogum review of Backwards Clock Society show
10 Nov 2009 | from www.smashingpumpkins.com/
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Backwards Clock Society videos online
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'Glass and the Ghost Childen' on list of top 15 'Ghost Songs'
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Full video of Billy Corgan visit with DLF.tv
3 Nov 2009 | from www.smashingpumpkins.com/
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