Siamese Dream

The songs were great but they were a little bit the same

A couple of all time classics on this one. A great album that I haven't had the chance to listen to in full.

Wasn’t into it when it dropped, but now I see the appeal

E-Gitarren Klassiker

Another album that’s better than its mediocre hits! At its best it’s grooving and beautiful — at its worst it’s Billy Corgan complaining on top of guitar noise.

Thoughts before listening: Well this is one of my favorite albums of all time. This came out when I was 12 and just getting into music. It blew my mind then and continues to blow my mind when I listen now. It’s such a big rock sound for an alt rock band whose peers mostly leaned heavily on the punk rock aesthetics of angst over technique. Really helped them to stand out from the pack, and the songs from Siamese Dream remain absolute top of the heap of 90s alt rock. Review: This album still just sounds so modern and vital. Many of the Smashing Pumpkins' contemporaries are starting to sound dated 3 decades past their primes, but Siamese Dream could be released today. Its a timeless record that has been an absolute joy to revisit after a few years without listening. Many of these songs will get added to the playlist, but I especially like "Cherub Rock", "Today", "Hummer", "Disarm", and "Mayonaise". This is a 5-star album.

Excellent.

Always thought I disliked The Smashing Pumpkins. Turns out I was very wrong. Absolutely loved this album.

The smashing pumpkins might not be for everyone, but my gosh are they for me

Fool enough to almost be it Cool enough to not quite see it Doomed Pick your pocket, full of sorrow And run away with me tomorrow June We'll try and ease the pain But somehow, we'll feel the same Well, no one knows Where our secrets go I send a heart to all my dearies When your life is so, so dreary Dream I'm rumored to the straight and narrow While the harlots of my perils Scream Mother, weep the years I'm missing All our time can't be given Back Shut my mouth and strike the demons That cursed you and your reasons Out of hand and out of season Out of love and out of feeling Fool enough to almost be it And cool enough to not quite see it And old enough to always feel this Always old, I'll always feel this No more promise, no more sorrow No longer will I follow Can anybody hear me? I just want to be me And when I can, I will Try to understand That when I can, I will This is just straight up an amazing album. 5/5

Sonido y voz vibrantes y hermosos

Amazing album! Listen to it twice in a row. So many great songs and powerful yet tender melodies, with an melancholic sound and thoughtful lyrics.

Love it! Love it! Love it!

Really good album, with a couple heavy hitters

A distant cousin to Nirvana with plenty of grunge, angst, and sound. Never quite soaring into melodies or singable lyrics/hooks, Corgan does have musical moments. The bells on “Disarm”,

It's not a bad album by any means, it just didn't hook me. I wouldn't feel the need to skip past any of the songs but I also wouldn't pick one of them to play on purpose. I personally found the quiet moments stronger, the end of Hummer stands out, and overall that's probably my favorite song from the album. I do agree with some of the other reviews that said they found the guitar to be strong and the vocals kind of held it back, I definitely appreciated the melodies more than any of the singing.

Absolute masterpiece, IMO their best album

songs were good but I can't stand the vocalists voice

I love it, the soundtrack to my teen years

Fantastic

Verrassend muzikaal, en ik waardeer de "artistry". Wanneer de gitaarmuziek niet te hard is, is dit echt goed. Voor de muzikaliteit en het gebruik van toffe klassieke instrumenten in o.a. Disarm net 4 sterren.

I like it but without à big enthusiam

Some classics on this album, didn't think I liked them but their stuff was pretty interesting

So many notable singles on this list, but I don't really love them like I used too. I do still like Disarm a lot and it's probavly my favorite on the album. I also liked Soma into Geek U.S.A. The rest of the album, however, was pretty bland to me. And while Crogan's voice is certainly unique, I dont know if I really wanted an hour of it.

2nd Smashing Pumpkins since I started this gig. Song structure and guitar sound is good although the leads are weak and sloppy for the most part , the drummer is excellent. This would be a lot better if the singer didn’t blow.

4/5. A very expressive and loud album. Simple instrumentation and mostly simple lyrics as well, it's somehow easy listening despite the wall of sound of every song. It has a buzzing and shoegaze feel yet the production is really good that it takes away the annoyingness of what shoegaze usually feels like. It's not a perfect album but I did not enjoy more songs than I was expecting and appreciate the unique sound. Best songs: Disarm, Mayonnaise, and Silverf***.

Ok but pretty average stuff ngl

I just can't enjoy the monotonous sludge of distorted guitars and Corgan's petulant whine.

Heavy metal with different moods

Okay

Alternativ rock, 90’er, grunge

Instantly recognizable as a band. They found their space in the scene and I understand their popularity. The songwriting is alright, and the band also sounds tight. But I just can't tune into their music, stylistically the production sounds too crisp. Corrigan's voice is grating and the songs don't stick with me. I appreciate the fact that the lyrical themes are dark, in a way that seems genuine. But it's easier to relate to that if you dig the music (which I experience when I listen to Alice in Chains)

A couple months ago I decided that this is probably my favorite album. Whenever one song comes on shuffle I almost always listen to the entire thing. I listened to this a couple of hours ago and I am typing on my phone so I am just going to list a bunch of things I love off the top of my head. 1. This album probably has my favorite production and mixing of all time 2. That layered big muff guitar tone is my favorite guitar tone, especially on mayonnaise 3. All the drum parts are killer and all the fills have so much energy and weight to them 4. The bridge in geek USA maybe the greatest minute of music ever recorded and it gives me chills every time. 5. Geek usa is probably one of my top 10 all time favorite songs. I love how it mixes all the different parts together. 6. This album has great lyrics vocal hooks/melodies and Billy's singing has so much emotion behind it 7. Cherub rock is such a good song and is so much fun to play on guitar 8. Soma is such a great song. It may be my favorite solo of all time, there is so much emotion and power behind it 9. Idk what that string synth sound thing is on space boy but it reminds me of a melatron and I love it 10. I love all the mini solos Billy and James throw in between the vocal parts Ok I think 10 is enough but I could keep going 10/5

Too much screaming and minor chords

I'm not really a smashing pumpkins fan but this is probably my favourite album of theirs, for what it's worth.

A good album for sure, a great album? Not for me. It was acceptable and nothing more than that.

i liked the band, nostalgia helps them gain 3 points, 2 under normal conditions...

Great alt rock / grunge album. It's a lot more polished than the other albums of the time. Had a great balance of sounds and styles. Good listen that didn't get boring

I was pleasantly surprised by this album. In general, "grunge" isn't a genre I gravitate towards, but this album was cohesive, moving, and fun. I also enjoyed the lead singer's vocals a lot in the context of the songs and the album.

A reminder of my teenage years, great album. 7/10

There are few more distinctive voices than Billy Corgan's and this album is a belter.

Good Pumpkins

if only the Pumpkins just kept doing this, instead of seeing the success of "Disarm" and deciding to make a bloated double album.

Pretty good grungy stuff ye

Absolutely amazing mid 9 alt rock masterpiece

...und wieder sehr lauter Gitarrenrock, eher langweilige Wiederholungen ohne Erkennungswert. Es ist nicht erstaunlich, dass die Klicks im zweistelligen Millionen Millionenbereich eher die ruhigeren balladenartigen Songs betreffen. Zu den 100 Alben gehört dieses für mich nicht.

Wow. I was just listening to this tonight thinking I can’t wait until it comes up on my list. It's a top 5 album for me. Not a song I don't love, and as a whole the production is as close to perfect as you can get with this type of music. They're absolutely on their game, and the combination of influences from My Bloody Valentine, to Black Sabbath, to The Cure, to Rush, all shine... and packaged up so well. The guitar tone, the solos, the drumming, the vocals (yes I dig Corgan's vocals). Great mix of quiet and loud, the dynamics are absolutely dialed in! Love it! 5/5

This is a great album, truly representative of the 90s alternative rock. It feels sad but energetic, raw and angsty but still fun. The guitars are a blast.

Slow rock, easy to listen to, a couple of popular songs on it

Better than I expected it to be. Some great guitar tones. But the whole thing is just too long and too dense for what it offers.

wonderful album, something special in the early 90s while being in the grunge vein but somehow still outside it

Smashing.

very solid record

This album is peak 90s alternative, it really exemplifies the Era. Songs like Today, Disarm, and Mayonnaise off this album are basically a prototype for other bands of the time. Heavy distortion, quiet lyrics that suddenly get loud to punctuate. Great album

i hated this i hate the nineties goodbye

I hate being a contrarian, I really do, but the general confusion to the Smashing Pumpkins' success and popularity has always been nagging at me. Their unnecessarily long, bland alt-rock that was so terminally 90s seemed more a contemporaneous fluke rather than a testament to some musical prowess. Listening to 'Siamese Dream' and comparing that to any of the much maligned recent releases, it does feel like the band has not changed at all, but the sudden clearer production shows that their music has never been good to begin with. Basically, I am not eloquent enough to properly describe my dislike of the band and the album, but it does feel like I am not getting "it" for the same reason I could give a shit about Tagamotchis. I am not a 90s baby, nor do I hold some nostalgic hard-on for 90s stylings. For that, the album sounds to me utterly lacklustre, bearing all its emotional weight in its lyrics (those too can be quite dumb, though), rolling on with some exceptionally weak writing, practically non-existent hooks, godawful unfitting vocals, trite production that makes each song like a bleached monotone mess, and unjustified runtime. And I feel bad for feeling this way, because it seems like I am missing out on some amazing masterpiece everyone else figured out and I am just some Debbie Downer scratching his head.

Sonido rocanrolero indi. Canciones cañeras y otras más suaves. Me gusta.

Bit of a strange case in the sense that while I enjoyed this overall, I don't think I like their songwriting. Not for a whole album at least. It just gets too samey yknow. 3 and a quarter stars.

Wouldn't revisit this for sure. It was a bit too long for that, and not really diverse. Wouldn't say I disliked it either, but it's just meh. Middle of the pack album, which is not bad, but I'm not here for these meh experiences.

I quite liked the shoutyness, but wasn't really taken by any of the songs, and on Friday I wasn't in that much of a shouty mood anyway. I think this wouldve got a higher rating if it was a different day

Mayonnaise is one of my favourite songs of all time. But some songs are not very memorable - 4.5 rounded up.

👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

It was better then I thought but the are still not my favourite band.

In truth I was never a fan of Smashing Lumpkins, however, this album has all the ‘90s rock edge and not the alt-emo-nasal-whine of their later work. Key tracks for me are Hummer (which my copy has a skip in due to a scratch on the CD and it sounds weird not hearing it on Spotify), and a Cherub Rock, a song that was inescapable in the ‘90s. This is overall a great flashback album even for the non-radio hits you may not have heard.

I like this album even better than I did in the 90s. I wasn't much of a Smashing Pumkins guy tbh. I was ride or die for Stone Temple Pilots. (I guess I needed a little more hair metal and glam in my grunge.). Anyway, this is an awesome grunge record. Disarm is so good. Also, I heard on a podcast recently that Courtney Love wrote in a letter to Billy Corgan the words: "the killer in me is the killer in you." Mind blown. Cherub Rock is also one of the better rockers from the 90s.

Surprised by how much I liked it.

Not a fan of rock or it's alternatives.Too noisy for my liking. Like a few. The least noisy ones. Ones that seem like they were recorded simply to balance out their noisiest bangers, almost as an afterthought.

Nada mal, crecí oyendo sobre el grupo pero nunca lo había escuchado. Tengo una sensación mezclada de las canciones. Hay algunas que me gustan, otras que no y otras que me gustan a partes. Aún así el disco es ligero y se disfruta.

Good variety of styles. Some cool riffs. I always found Billy Corgan's vocal style kind of interesting especially when he goes from strained (if that's the right word) to a soft voice. It kinda tugs at the heartstrings

Nope.

Ja, dit is gewoon een rock album. Niet te verwarren met een ruk album. Ik vind er niet heel veel aan, vind de rustigere nummers wat mooier dan de schreeuwende gitaren nummers. Maar altogether vind ik dit niet een heel erg bijzonder album. Het voelt voor mij echt als een 13 in een dozijn rockalbum. Ik vind zijn stem ook niet zo prettig, das beetje jammer want ik denkd at als dit je ding is dat het een sterk album is. FAVO: Disarm, Soma, Spaceboy

liked

I'm still fresh from not really liking another Smashing Pumpkins album just three or four days ago so hopefully after two I'm done with them. I still don't like the singer's voice and I'm just not a grunge fan.

I like it Will I listen to again: 80%

Tremendous!!!!

it was fine

Great!

really dig the first half...

Smash this record

Pure nostalgia

I’ve listen to this before….. loveeee

3.7

Ok.

Perfect example of 90’s alternative rock

Some good songs but didn't really enjoy the album as a whole

I love this album still listen to the damn thing! Reminds me of high school. Gen-xers unite!

Sorry, Smashing Pumpkins is not for me. This one is better than Mellon Collie, but only just.

Another great one. Never gets old.

Disarm alone is a 5.

i never gaved to much of a chance for Smashing Pumpkins when i heard the first album but they showed to had their unical sound, One of the most influentials introducers of Shoegaze-ish, and also one of the most memorable Grunge bands, this album is so noisy, ethereal, so sweet, 1990's music as it core and unical. 8.5/10

I got through 2 songs, they kinda overplayed and whiny… if I want that vibe I’ll listen to the deftones as they make me head bang 🤘🏼 more … pumpkins are just melancholy without the metal

Good, but somewhat whiney 90’s rock. Yeah, that’s all I feel like saying about it.

4/5 ⭐️ Best song: Luna Worst song: Silverfuck Comments: Loved this album and its grungy, whimsical energy. Reminds me of my best friend from school who used to listen to Mayonnaise all the time. Also very jealous of my girlfriend who is seeing them later this year

Meh

46/1001 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

This was great. Some songs are too long, and as a whole sometimes songs sound sort of similar. But the highs on this album are incredibly high and the lows aren't very low. Came very close to 5 stars for me, but didn't get all the way there.

Monster production, grungy riffs and layers and layers of overdubbed angst. “Today” and “Disarm” two particular standouts.

Favs: disarm, soma, spaceboy

One of my all time faves.

amazing album

Probably the better album from the Pumpkins... but I still think they're very overrated, despite the rave reviews others seem to wax lyrical about them.

Dislike: Meh: Quiet Sweet sweet Like: Cherub rock Today Hummer Rocket Disarm Soma Geek usa Spaceboy Silverfuck Luna Added to playlist: Mayonaise

Well, I wondered when Smashing Pumpkins would appear, although it's a bit disappointing to get them right after another 1990s phenom (Offspring), as they share some of the same general wall-of-sound 90s thing. (To be fair to Offspring, though, their lyrics are *much* easier to distinguish than Smashing Pumpkins. And to be fair to Smashing Pumpkins, they're so much less annoying/offensive than Offspring.) I own this album (apparently one of 6 million others), and at one point enjoyed listening to them more than I do now. Listening to this album again makes me think more of a time and place (1990s, DC) than it does of whether this is a "greatest" album or not. And I think even when I bought the CD I felt like they kind of had one song in them that they found several variations of to put together a full-length album. (I suspect if I ever took the time to decipher the lyrics, or ever watch their videos, I might be slightly disabused of this monochromatic image. And hits "Cherub Rock" and "Today" *are* somewhat different, I'll admit. "Rocket" not so much, and "Disarm" maybe the most distinctive, but I never really liked that hit.) Fine, but nothing special (despite the Wikipedia entry describing the album as "widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of the 1990s and of all time"), and a nice blast from the past. That said, I wish I knew then about what went into making this album (thanks, Wikipedia people), as it would have made the context of the album a lot more interesting. Talk about stressful and harrowing! And shades of the film "Whiplash" with the suicidal lead singer making the junkie drummer perform "Cherub Rock" until his hands bled....

Nice recording with good musicians but I just never got that into it

Riffs changing from rock to heavy metal to gothic to psychedelic. Provoking lyrics carried with the range of vocals. Will be a new band to commit to now.

Cannot argue with this album. Many people like Mellon Collie... more, but I never really connected with that in the way I did this when it came out. It is absolutely of an era, but is standing the test of time very well. I sound old to say: they don't make 'em like this anymore.

The only thing more amazing than Billy Corgan playing all the instruments on this album is that he slept with Jessica Simpson … and dumped her.

I like them a lot somehow

In a nutshell: sweet dreams are made of this. So close to perfect. I can only nitpick. The outro to Hummer was too long. Sweet Sweet is nice but only a filler track. I would have placed Luna elsewhere on the album and ended the album with Silverfuck. This was a first time listen for me, and it was a joy. Overall: 9/10

Been years since I listened to this & I had forgotten how strong the song writing is on this. Disarm is emo perfection.

Alternative classic takes me back to my teenage years.

Quintessential rock album of the 90s.

Iconic. 4 stars because their 5 start album was their next effort.

I keep trying to listen to The Smashing Pumpkins but fine I get a headache. I think it's his voice. 1 star

The smashing pumpkins help create the sound of the 90s. From disarm to cherub rock, to today these dreamy, crunchy, and raw songs helped the mainstream move past the overproduced pop music of the 80s.

Not much of a Pumpkins fan but there are some decent songs on here.

I'm a '90s kid - I never owned a Smashing Pumpkins cd or listened to one of their albums straight through but I know most of these songs from alternative radio/my brothers' cd collections. Cherub Rock, Today, Rocket, Disarm, and Mayonaise were the singles. Disarm especially stands out as the song with the church bells and string arrangement- very grand! This is a consistent set of 90s alt rock jams

Billy's voice is very distinctive. I've had a hit/miss history with the band but I like the orchestral slant here. Quite extravagent in places and quite thrashy in others places which demonstrates variation. Still on the fence though.

Good head nodding rock

Great 90’s rock

I have heard this band a bunch obviously, but have never listened to them outside of the stuff playing in the world, radio hits and what have you. They are certainly a very easy band to goof on which I enjoy doing. This was about what I was expecting, a bit dramatic, but cool guitar tones, and the songs are catchy for sure. Decent album.

I don’t know why I’ve slept on Smashing Pumpkins for so long, they’re right up my alley. This is gorgeous.

Great reintroduction to an album I never fully absorbed. Guitar play, lyrics, tone, all there.

Un lindo disco, pero demasiado largo para mi gusto. Se nota las influencias de otras bandas, pero también como crearon un estilo y una estética propia más allá de eso.

I knew the hits, the album is pretty heavy and it sounded great on the buds. My first time listening through. I thought it was great, if I was a teen in the 90's this would have been on heavy rotation. The girl on the right looks like my buddy Bledsoe.

It's fine, like a couple songs and have heard most of them but never in one go. Worked well with my run.

TSP’s sound is what I mostly associate with 90s rock/alternative genre. This is probably from the ridiculous amount of 90s movies using “Today” on their soundtracks. The whole album gives me that “after high school 90s cd that you’d play in your parent’s basement at full volume” vibe. The lyrics are angsty, angry and depressing. I thoroughly enjoyed listening it even though I’m not in my parent’s basement anymore.

Didn’t know so many of their singles were on this album. Greatness all around

One of the greatest albums that ever has or will ever be. Sonically daring, Corgan tortured himself (and his bandmates) to achieve this and we get to reap the reward forever. This is one of those albums I would call important, because to me, it changed the game.

I didn't realize that I knew more than one song on this album. I like Cherub Rock, Today, and Disarm but never got into the band enough to buy or download a full album. I also don't know that I ever knew the names of these songs :) The album makes me feel nostalgic for a time in the '90s when I was too young to really know what kind of music I actually liked. I remember friends who were into rock liking them but I don't think I fully appreciated what they had to offer.

"Cherub Rock" and "Today" are awesome songs. The rest are definitely grungey, angsty time capsules of the 90s. The Smashing Pumpkins mix emotion and rock really well. Great album.

Honestly, boring.

Hadn't listened to this in ages. They were always adjacent to the grunge scene, and they were on the Singles soundtrack -- so I knew them from there. Then came "Mellon Collie" and I wrote them off. Revisiting was...much as I remember. Several bangers (Cherub Rock, Disarm, Rocket, Mayonaise), but then a whole lot of fuzz. I mean, no one needs 8 1/2 minutes of "Silverfuck" unless you're feeling nostalgic for Metal Machine Music or something. Anyway, some good, some bad.

It is an amazing album, really loved all of the songs, specially Luna, it was super fun.

8/10 I prefer Mellon Collie, but this is still a really great album

2nd best album of the pseudo-shoegaze strain of music (albums like you'd prefer an astronaut - HUM, fantastic planet - failure) mayonaise, silverfuck and Luna are the standouts here. seeing sp live in june so this album has been in heavy rotation for me in recent months. 9.4/10

This is one of my favorite albums! I listened to it for the first time last year and fell for it instantly. Those iconic guitar textures are on another level and the general vibe of the entire album just rocks! A must listen for alternative rock fans. “Mayonaise, “Geek USA,” and “Silverfuck,” are favorites.

Great 90's rock.

Deep, layered

Really, really good album. I'm biased because this was around during my late teens / early twenties but I never listened to the band at that time, and as such I don't really have any Rose tinted view of it - it's just a superb album. Also, I don't get people hating on Billy Corgan's voice when there are plenty of other things to dislike about him

Pretty good

A classic of my youth. Holds up so well to this day.

I hadn't expected to enjoy this as much as I did. Spaceboy really spoke to me. An all around good listen. Would revisit again.

Incredible album, with many beautiful songs and also many angrier songs. Absolutely zero skips here which is impressive for an hour long album, there's no way The Smashing Pumpkins can top that, right?

I went to a Smashing Pumpkins concert once. They had an energy that got you hyped. "Today" is probably my favorite song of theirs. I've never really been crazy about Billy Corgan's whisper-shout singing style, but it does have a charm and it's growing on me. I am really liking the guitar sound in this album.

Das Album hab ich schon früher gemocht

Banger

I loved this album as a teenager, and many of the songs still hold up, but there is also a good deal of filler on this. Not as cohesive of any album as I remember.

Cherub rock is such a great opener. Highlights: cherub rock, today, disarm, silverfuck (love some good drum drives)

Great album one of my favs

One of my favorite records from that time period.

De que me suena a mí esto??

Un clásico

Fucking amazing album; one that grew on me a lot over the years, as I didn't like most of it when I first listened back in high school or something. In fact, it's still growing on me to this day, as I only saved Spaceboy and Luna after this listening session (I only have Quiet left). Billy Corgan is honestly an underrated guitarist and he rips on a ton of these songs, a handful of which I consider perfect (a large handful tbh). Not a bad song on this thing though. The drumming is also insane. Deservedly ranked among the best albums of the 90s, as it truly captures the "sad happy music" sound that makes so many of the best albums of that decade so great. If you like this album, you must watch the acoustic album release show they did, especially the Cherub Rock performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwOwzGtiZw

Can’t 5 star this album fast enough. Once I hear that opening drum roll of Cherub Rock, the emotions of the album come rushing back and I get excited for the next hour of listening. Aside from all of the amazing sounds and creative guitar work, I love how personal to Billy Corgan it is. As much as Billy Corgan is an egomaniac, control freak, and unpleasant pontificator, you can’t help but to feel bad for him as you start to understand that there is a deep insecurity rooted within him. This album feels like it’s Billy’s way of showing that insecurity to the world; of psychoanalyzing himself for all to hear. The record starts with and has some of its strongest moments in the grand, arrogant, powerful chords that capture Billy’s harsh side; the lust for greatness and belief in supremacy over all of the other poser musicians in the world (including those within his own band). While it progresses, it starts to see-saw between the grandiose and a milder, sweeter, sadder sound. As the Pumpkins guide us into these more melancholic moments, it begins to feel like you’re hearing the truth of how Billy feels inside. That he would gladly return all of the stardom and fame and acclaim for the chance to go back in time to those days of his childhood when he was the most disconsolate and make them just a little bit better. That every extra bit of fame makes him feel even worse for carrying around all the pain and makes him want to withdrawal from the world to spend his days in bed alone. The album is magnificent, anxious, dejecting, angry, calm, and, most of all, beautiful. 10/10 — best non-singles: Hummer & Silverf***

Definitely some absolute bangers on this album. The last two songs on the album are pretty weak to me that give it a 4. First four songs come out absolutely ripping

I remember Cherub Rock from Guitar Hero. At the time, it was one of my least played tracks on the game but it’s definitely grown on me a lot over time. I hadn’t really paid much attention to Smashing Pumpkins in general until a few years ago. Let’s listen! Songs I already knew: Cherub Rock, Today Favourites: Today, Mayonaise I’ve said it many times before, but I love the unnecessary level of distortion found in a lot of 90s alt rock, and Siamese Dream is absolutely no exception. Each song would sound perfectly fine as an acoustic song, but that ridiculously heavy guitar tone adds so much punch. For a long time, I’ve been unsure of if I like Billy Corgan’s voice, but it suits every track here perfectly. There are no bad tracks here, and I found myself loving everything I heard.

Sometimes, an album is ruined not by poor craftsmanship, but just the sheer overwhelming presence of ego. This is one of those albums. It's got some great songs, but they're completely overshadowed by Corrigan's ego and conceit.

I certainly know OF the Smashing Pumpkins, though I couldn't name any songs off the top of my head. Digging into this, the sound is certainly familiar, and I'm pretty sure I've heard a few of these songs. But after an hour, it starts to blur together. Yeah it's grunge, and you can certainly hear similarities to Nirvana. It OK, and has a few points that are higher than the rest. but nothing that hangs with me 30 years down the line. Solid 3, but nowhere near making 4. 3/5

8/10 Highlights: Disarm Cherub Rock Soma Today Silverfuck

Manchmal verleiht man ein Album oder ein Buch und sieht es nie wieder. Das ist mir mit diesem Album passiert. Jetzt habe ich also Gelegenheit gehabt, es nochmal zu hören. Ungefähr 25 Jahre später. Einige Songs gefallen mir immer noch. Für mich der Auftakt zum noch abwechslungsreicheren Mellon Collie Album. Das habe ich nicht verliehen.

Easiest 5 star I've given. Every song is an absolute banger. And, kills just as much now as it did 30 years ago.

So my first two days using this app I got two Smashing Pumpkins albums. I really regret not being more scathing in my review of Mellon Collie cause after having to sit through another Smashing Pumpkins album in a consecutive day, I can honestly say that I hate them. Billy Corgan has a huge ego and no talent, he uses random lines of teenage poetry and slaps them together without any actual meaning or substance, and his voice drives me up a wall. The only way in which Siamese Dream is better than Mellon Collie is that it is shorter.

Que tostón, tío. Suenan a lo mismo que weezer, pero con un rollo de adolescente castigadito insufrible. No es mal disco. Pero tío, que castigo.

90’s music- all the same and all awful. I couldn’t make it through.

Awesome album

Absolutely incredible, mayonnaise is a masterpiece, Luna and sweet sweet too

Hat für mich keinen krassen Wiedererkennungswert. Songs 1-5 klingen finde ich sehr gleich. 2,5/5

Ich habe zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch nichts gehört, muss vorweg sagen, dass deren Live-Auftritt beim Hurricane 2013 mit das unerträglichste an Live-Performance war, was ich bisher erlebt habe (bitte stimme mir zu, Moritz). Das soll ich ja nicht beurteilen, ich gehe aber seitdem sehr vorsichtig mit der Band um. Oft hilft es, mit wenig Erwartungen an etwas ranzugehen. Den Intro-Song fand ich schonmal ganz cool. Die weiteren Songs auch. Habe dann aber vergessen es bis zum Ende aufmerksam weiterzuhören. Der Sound hat mir aber insgesamt gut gefallen.

- Der gelungene Abschluss einer wunderbaren Woche bei diesem schönen Game - Fuck ich liebe die Smashing Pumpkins. Und wie fett ist dieses Album?! - Dieser untenrum so wahnsinnig gut ausproduzierte Bass, wunderbar eingebettet Billy Corgans einmalige Stimme, die sich irgendwo zwischen Engel und Dämon hin und herbewegt, und dann natürlich diese dicken Fuzz-Gitarren, die in meinen Augen bei keiner Band so gut klingen wie bei den Pumpkins. - Erst letzten Sommer habe ich in Spanien am Strand wieder viel Smashing Pumpkins gehört. - Ich habe zugegebermaßen einen starken persönlichen Draht zu dieser Band. Wir hatten zuhause zwei Alben von den Jungs und Mädels auf CD, die ich irgendwann gekapert und in meine eigene Sammlung habe einfließen lassen: Siamese Dreams und Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Die Alben haben mir in irgendeiner Phase mal sehr aus der Seele gesprochen. Auch wenn ich damals nicht geahnt hab, wie düster manche Texte doch sind. - In dem vermeintlich melancholisch/schönen "Today" geht es um den Suizid, vor dem Billy Corgan kurzzeitig stand. Trotz der inhaltlichen Schwere ist der Song einer meiner Lieblingssongs aus der Ära 90's Grunge/Alt-Rock (und die Konkurrenz ist groß). - A pros pros Konkurrenz. Billy Corgan hat sich zu der Zeit stark mit dem ebenfalls schwer depressiven Kurt Cobain verglichen. Er war quasi besessen und von Ehrgeiz zerfressen auch den großen Durchbruch zu schaffen, wie Nirvana mit Nevermind. Es muss sehr schwer gewesen sein, zu dieser Zeit und in den Folgejahren mit Billy Corgan zusammenzuarbeiten. Das Album ist unter viel Streit und fast Auflösung der Band entstanden. Später zerbrach die Band daran. Bis Corgan sich Hilfe holte, die Band etwas umformiert wurde und schließlich ihre Reunion feierte. Inzwischen ist Corgan mir sogar echt sympathisch geworden. - Doch bevor ich hier ins Plaudern abdrifte: An Nevermind sind die Smashing Pumpkins natürlich nicht ansatzweise mit dem Album herangekommen, dennoch haben sie den weltweiten Durchbruch geschafft und sich zu einer Genregröße etabliert. Gleichermaßen gefeiert von Fans und Kritikern. - Das Album, sowie der Sound der gesamten Band sind absolut einzigartig. - Und bevor der Kommentar von Lassi kommt: Die waren nicht kacke live, der Mischer hat die Gitarren leider einfach ohrenbetäubend schmerzhaft eingestellt!! Rating: 4,25/5

- Habe mich nie näher mit den Smashing Pumpkins befasst. Kannte nur ein paar Songs und fand die "ganz gut". - Dieser Eindruck hat sich nach dem Hören wirklich gar nicht verändert. Gut, dynamisch, aber berührt mich nicht. Ansonsten ist mein Kopf dazu irgendwie leer, sry. 3/5

Ganz solides Album, das ich mir bestimmt mal wieder reinziehen werde. So richtig hängen geblieben ist bis auf "Disarm" allerdings kein Song, was den Wiedererkennungswert für mich etwas schmälert.

MY YOUTH.

Very Varying

Feels like high school

Didn’t like this album. I give it 1 star.

His voice grates on my ears after awhile. Appreciate the history and what it did at the time, but damn its like a railroad spike on a chalkboard

One of the better alt rock albums from the 90s

"Today" and "Disarm" are the obvious standouts, but this is solid all around.

This was one of Gen X's defining albums. Perfect 90s rock.

Lots of memories come along with this one.

Ganz ok

I liked Rocket, but I found the album kind of boring. I have never been a huge fan of Billy Corgan’s voice outside of select tracks, so I won’t hold it against them. I liked the use of strings and varied percussive elements, I just wanted something with more hook, admittedly more like Bullet With Butterfly Wings.

The album I would to choose to send into outer space.

I hate Billy Corgan so much. I hate him. And I hate how good this album is. It is so good. From such a douche. Hate that I have to give it a 4. it's so good though.

Bill Pumpkins has his head so far up his own ass that he's a brilliant songwriter.

Standout: Mayonnaise

Heavy

90's alternative rock at its best. Billy Corgan captures the sentiment of the era with his heavily distorted guitars that also sound like what somebody from the 90's thought the future might sound like. Siamese Dream doesn't growl so much as it snarls. It's got attitude, but the attitude of an art school loner rather than a tattered-jean-jacket-wearing rocker.

For strong of a full album listening music fan that I am I'm really surprised that I've never listened to this album in it's completion before because this was really popular when I was a returning student at UCSC and there must have been somebody I knew that had a copy of it but I never made an effort to listen to it. I have mixed feelings about this album, so far it's kind of been a little disappointing because it just sounds like a swamp of like sounding songs but then KILLER IN ME KILLER IN YOU comes on and I have memories of thinking oh this must be a really good band but yeah, after listening to the other songs on the album it's just they're just kind of okay. the lead singers voice wears on me after awhile.

I went to Secondary School in a different town to where I lived. My hometown had a School, but I so hated the town, and the fuckers that I’d previously been at school with that I wanted out. A few years later, when I was in Uni, I went back to the town on the same train that I must’ve caught a thousand times before. As it started to pull up to the station, my phone started to play Mayonnaise, and as I walked up the slope and saw the town centre for the first time in years, the heavy riff started, and for a moment I was transported into the start of my very own Teenage Romantic Drama, the protagonist coming home for the holidays, going to a party, seeing everyone from school, and how they’ve changed, inevitably falling in love with his former best friend. It was a perfect moment, one of only two I’ve had regarding music. The other involved Road To Nowhere by Talking Heads and another train, thinking about it. Huh, weird. Maybe it’s because Alt Rock in the 90’s has always been so intrinsically linked to adolescence and so revisiting is invariably going to feel nostalgic, but Smashing Pumpkins always felt particularly nostalgia fuelled to me. I was never even the biggest fan of them. They were a bit too Proggy, too much guitar noodlery, not enough Punk. But relistening at a time when I have less teenage angst and more genuine Existential despair, I better understand it. The problems of your 20’s are similar to those of your adolescence, but if anything as a teen I felt more hope. There was possibility, there was a chance of getting out, of opportunity on the horizon, even if the present was less than shining. Nowadays, ‘I’m not living, I’m just killing time.’ But at least the music is beautiful. Bleak and despairing, but Beautiful

February 5, 2024 HL: "Disarm", "Cherub Rock", "Today", "Hummer", "Soma" When I implied earlier that "Blitzkrieg Bop" was the greatest opening song, I forgot about "Cherub Rock" :/ Now, I gave Mellon Collie a 5er back in '22, but part of me feels that was temporary insanity, considering I revisit several of the other artists generated around that week (FKA Twigs, Spiritualized, MBV) a lot more. However, today is a reminder that I continue liking the Smashing Pumpkins' music, even if Corgan's angsty lyrics don't always hit the spot.

It is iconic 90's alt rock with the depth of Corgan's lyrics and skill at guitar shining at their brightest. The signature sound doesn't vary much and the tracks do begin to run together. Good emo vibe for an extended pity-party.

An amazing classic alternative album. A favorite.

Disarm and Today are good. As I’m not into grungy and grungy riff rock the rest of the tracks are not so good 2.6

4.1/5 Best Track: Disarm

It's a cool album, but as with so many albums that are considered "normal rock" I miss something. I could also not stand that singer of the length of an album.

Much better than I remembered/expected. I was never a fan of Pumpkins but I really liked this album. Age changes taste. Pretty cool demos, etc. at the end.

Nice. Love cherub rock!

This was good. High 3*

Just sneaks in at a 4. It was a 3 for most of the day.

not as Whininy ans nasal as I remember it. but it is still very whiny and very nasal. i am not at all a fan. but people around me are. and I have never understood why I really tried. I went in trying to fight my bias and be objective. but I failed. I just dont like his voice. but many others do. and that is fine. Personally if I never need to hear Billy Corgon again i will be very happy. the music was great but

Good can be a bit repetitive but overall good

Very nostalgic of that nineties emo, angsty teenage vibes. But not for me. But not bad!!

My girlfriend likes to call this the Hard Rock Cafe band/album, and I say it fits. Love this album.

As much as I'm trying to, I'm having a tough time distinguishing the tracks from one another. Would probably have to listen a bunch more to do that. But I like the vibe of the music in general, definitely smashed some pumpkins. There's a lot of electric guitar... sludge? And it makes me feel like a tragically misunderstood 2000's teenager dissociating in their room and playing this cd on repeat, simultaneously driving their parents insane. And I'm into that sorta vibe. Very cool and recognizable album cover. Wonder whats the story behind it and the two girls.

Alternative music staple

Luka is wrong about the Smashing Pumkins, they're great

Enjoyed!

This album was the soundtrack to my first broken heart. This tells more about my age, than the quality of the record. But I like it. Couldn’t listen to it a while, but I’m enjoying it right know. It’s a kind of angry and depressed Black Sabath sound. I prefer the Pumpkins.

Now this is a really good album, with some excellent songs on it! Knocked it down a star, as there are a couple songs that aren't as good. Overall love it though!

I think usually people consider Melancholy the SP magnum opus, but this album is absolutely fantastic. Everything I like about Melancholy I like about this album as well. Top shelf. 4.3.

Großartig. Die unterschiedlichen Stile, die Mischung. Ich lieb‘s.

I'm disappointed to say this, thinking I was a fan of the Smashing Pumpkins after Mellon Collie, but I found this to just be alright. There isn't as much variety in this album, and it leads to a lot of songs that feel like the stereotypical image of "alternative rock" were it to be formed as one, singular album. There are great things here, stuff I already know, such as the hits which are stellar, but I felt much of the rest of the album often had a decent hook, but felt aimless by the end, or just feels like a lesser take on one of the singles from the album, and it makes it so I can't help but feel this project is bloated. On the bright side, again, those hits are fantastic, and the instrumentation is great, it just feels like its missing something that made Mellon Collie special. Perhaps I shouldn't be comparing them, but its hard not to, because this pales in comparison.

Bonafide classic, probably in my top 25 albums of all time. The guitar tone is just incredible

Solid album. Forgot (never knew) just how hard Smashing Pumpkins is. Couple forgettable tracks, but this album hits you immediately with the riff on Cherub Rock. Hummer and Disarm stand out as well. I didn't care for Soma or Quiet. 4 stars.

Cherub Rock - 7.5/10 Quiet - 8/10 Today - 9/10 Hummer - 8/10 Rocket - 7.5/10 Disarm - 9/10 Soma - 9/10 Geek U.S.A - 7.5/10 Mayonnaise - 10/10 Spaceboy - 7.5/10 Silverfuck - 7.5/10 Sweet Sweet- 7.5/10 Luna - 9/10 TOTAL - 87/140

worse than i expected but still has some bangers

Enjoyed it more then I expected. Way more recognizable songs then expected. Not my favorite singer, but still way better then the pearl jam guy.

I love Siamese Dream. Great album, with a lot of fun memories associated with it.

Noisy, disruptive.

I liked it! Need more listens to solidify my opinion and find favorite songs.

Great Album

Fantastic album! I knew a lot of the songs already, but the whole thing really works! I Know Billy Corgan is an asshole who actively has made the sport of pro wrestling worse, but he’s got a cool rock voice.

Not as good as I remember, love the fuzz guitar. Today, Soma and Disarm are standout tracks for me.

Love it. Today and Disarm are the two most well known tracks and are probably the standouts.

Man, I know I'm conditioned due to what was popular when I was growing up, but boy do I love this sound.

Classic alternative rock / grunge album, very emo vibes. As opposed to Radiohead, this was a good album in a genre I like. Kinda similar to Nirvana, slightly less depressing, slightly more to the point. Apparently a band that inspired Fall out boy, MCR and Silversun Pickups.

Didn’t hate but didn’t love. It was alright but not my type of genre

Love me some pumpkins. 5/5

I like Smashing Pumpkins, but for me, there's something lacking.

Not as good as Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, but still good. Rocket and the song before Rocket where very good.

I always get the Smashing Pumpkins and Scouting for Girls mixed up even though they sound nothing alike. After listening to this album, it’s no longer a mystery; they’re utterly forgettable!

Have listened to a bit of the Smashing Pumpkins in the past and liked what I heard, never listened to a full album before though. So I’ll check out some more

Another great album. 2 days in a row we've had some classic Guitar Hero tunes, so much nostalgia. What a tune Today is.

Really slow and they all sounded very similar. Maybe that's just the signer voice over the music doing that but it did nothing for me. Petty sure I have heard some of these songs in the background of films/ TV shows. Probably won't go back and listen again This is not what I needed on a Saturday. I wanted something to get me moving

I wanted to like it more, don’t know if I had a better sound set up I’d enjoy it but I struggled to hear the music cutting through the noise. No songs stood out to me but I liked how it finished

My first real listen to a Smashing Pumpkins album. Musically it was fantastic, layered and complex with just the right amount of 90s angst. You can tell Billy C is a perfectionist, but I think my feelings are best summed up by a comment I saw on a Reddit post about the band - “Imagine being a perfectionist with the voice of Billy Corigan”. The music kept me listening, but at times the vocals were excessively whiney and high. Solid album, 4/5 smashed pumpkins.

I cant. Bad mems lol

Pretty awesome actually. I had only listened to Melancholy before front to back and kind of thought it was more of a singles album with a lot of filler but this was the opposite, I liked the deeper cuts better than the singles that made the radio.

2.8

Billy Corgan's vocal style gets a little old after a while for me. Lots of really great guitar tones all over the record. Impressive how many big hits are on this record. Geek USA and Mayonaise were highlights I had not heard before. They definitely have their own sound. Solid listen overall.

Outstanding album. not only amazing "classics" but a few you should listen to again for the first time.

Zu der Zeit war ich eher bei Motown und Funk unterwegs. Heute denke ich: Klasse!

I liked it. Very rock and good!

Actually worse than I remember - I really like a lot of the songs I've always loved from this album, but I'm not sure it ties together the way I once thought it did when the sound was so unique.

Great. second half better than first.

Buen disco y buen sonido reconocible indiscutiblemente Smashing Pumpkins

Great alt rock

Great LP, never realised how good these guys actually are!

Wenhui says it sounds like white noise

Deftones but less heavy

good guitars!! really nice strings on disarm. technically well-executed but gets repetitive, which i think is my opinion for a lot of the albums that aren't quite my usual style

Bastante meh 💀

Best heel nice. Had Disarm 'ontdekt' tijdens de afgelopen top2000 en vind dat een erg mooi nummer. Kan ook wel van zn stem genieten

Pure herrie maar soms wel lekker

Disarm is echt prachtig Zanger klinkt soms een beetje als mick jagger

What a bad album for the weekend.

I like it, and it's nice to chew on something that a millennial would recognize.

Excellent album. Great sounding and lots of good tracks.

You know I think I would find this music listenable if it weren't for Billy Corgan's absolutely Z-tier garbage voice. He ranges from soft whisper singing like someone attempting to conceal a fart to his higher pitched yell singing that sounds like someone playing a kazoo while also pinching their throat shut.

Nicht meins

Better than the other one (the triple LP)

I love the slow songs, very dreamy

Cool rock album. Some of it is hard and stoned out, and some is more soft.

Excellence throughout.

Never really listened to The Smashing Pumpkins and this album won't change that. A couple of songs are ok, the rest I found quite boring. Not the right band for me.

Has a cool sound where it seems like classic rock but at the same time kinda modern. I was jammin to this album, granted I was at the gym at the time so idk if I would listen to it casually but if u need to get amped, this is an album to do it

Guitar Hero 3! A lot of recognizable sounds and good songs.

Billy Corgan’s voice is like a double IPA. Abrasive at first and definitely an acquired taste, but once you’re about it, by god you’re about it. The album starts off loud and rock heavy but slows down by the end. And it keeps that classic Smashing Pumpkins grunge sound the whole time. ‘Cherub Rock’ and ‘Today’ take me right back to those Guitar Hero and Rock Band days in the late 2000s. ‘Disarm’ is another classic that will have me saying “the killer in me is the killer in you” all weekend. I want to give this a 4, but I don’t know that I can justify anything more than a 3.

A very unique sound. You always know when you're listening to Smashing Pumpkins. I feel like I should like them more, but every song sounds kinda the same. I don't know if that's a plus or a minus. There are three songs that I have heard before (Cherub Rock, Today, and Disarm) but I didn't realize they were all different songs. I thought Smashing Pumpkins was a one hit wonder. One of the longer albums we've heard so far. Over an hour long.

wasn’t my favorite but still a pretty solid album that has more good than bad

gostei!! porém ouvi durante a viagem e tava meio dormindo e daí não prestei tanta atenção preciso reouvir mas era um álbum que tava com vontade de ouvir faz tempo

Very 90s garage rock grunge. Not a massive fan, i prefer pearl jam and nirvana, kinda monotonous

Good, familiar, never got why it's so iconic, but smashing pumpkins definitely have their own sound

This album has great moments for me that are very fun to listen to, but also some shrieks from the overblown distortion and breathy, whispering vocals. I heard one of my favorite NY Crazy Horse songs the other day...Powder Finger. This album seems like some of the Crazy Horse stuff high on meth. I love grandpa grunge's melodies...but some of these songs are missing that feel and just seem like "noise". Wooly Bully...distorted lyrics drew people in. Here you have an album full of that and it gets tiring. However...I've always loved Today and will stop anytime I am channel surfing to listen to it. Also Disarm was a standout unlike the rest on this album...and kind of a breakthrough hit for them. Going with a solid 3 here...if Billy would just sing vs try to do whatever he does I would go 4.

If yacht rock was angry, this is what it would sound like.

Not a great fan of hard rock but I can imagine that for times to times it is nice to listen to Well, it's highly reverbed electric guitar, punchy drums, nice bass but I am not convinced Cherub rock : 6/10 Quiet : 6.5/10 Today : 5/10 feels like listening to cherub rock again Hummer : 5/10 Rocket : 5.5/10 disarm : 7.5/10 more progressive, less 'hard' => I like that Soma : 8/10 same as previous analysis Geek USA : 7.5/10 really like this mix of calm vocals and abrupt guitars Mayonaise : 8.5/10 nice guitar melody Spaceboy : 6/10 nothing special about that Silverfuck : An 8 minutes song is always special 8/10 sweet sweet : 5/10 luna : 6/10 Overall I liked it more than expected, especially after Disarm, but still won't listen to it casually. 3*

Hearing some of these songs was so nostalgic. “Disarm” stops me in my tracks. Listening to this in full album form exposed me to some songs that I may have heard once or twice in the 90’s, but appreciate more now, like “Soma”.

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Classic 90s

A fantastic blend of comfort and weird in every song.

Track 1: Always liked this track Track 2: It’s a decent song Track 3: one of my all time favorites Track 4: good track love the tones Track 5: another great song! Track 6: An okay song and I know others like it. Track 7: a good song imo Track 8: always a fun riff in the beginning. Good song overall Track 9: I like this track a lot one of my favorites on the album. Track 10: nice slower song at the end Track 11: great song Track 12: I think this is a nice basic song at the end. Track 13: I love this song a lot definitely one of their bests Overall: 8.9/10. I love this album a lot especially the tunes they get and how consistent it is throughout the whole album!

I don’t like this one as much as their first or their next but it’s solid. Some of the songs are better than I remember. Enjoyable as an album. Perfectly representative of Smashing Pumpkins.

I love the smashing pumpkins, they have such a great sound. The emotions of the songs are great and I never get tired of listening to them

Consistently great instrumental performances. Not the biggest fan of the singers voice. Long runtime that never really felt boring. Favorite songs were Cherub Rock, Rocket, Disarm, and Silverfuck.

4.5

I've never been a big fan of their sound even when it was new, and this is just waaaay too much of it.

Meh…Billy Corgan has to be one of the most overrated hacks of the last thirty plus years…decent guitarist but that cat whining voice is beyond annoying and the samey songs bore me to tears, Jimmy Chamberlain is a solid drummer though

Siamese Dream Listened to it first thing this morning. I know the big ones like Cherub Rock (Guitar Hero banger) and Today, but I don’t think I’ve heard the album before. I never really got into SP, they kind of passed me by in the 90s - probably too ‘American’ sounding for my tiny teenage brain. However I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. I know they are not directly analogous but for an album from the same kind of time period in the grunge/alternative rock milieu as Ten by Pearl Jam, it’s quite clear to me how much better, more interesting and enjoyable Siamese Dream is. Not a big fan of some of the faster, noisier songs like Geek USA and Silverfuck. Really liked Hummer, Disarm, Soma, Spaceboy, Sweet Sweet, Luna Will definitely give it many more listens

Good midtempo, loved the guitar parts and layering with tremelos and delays.

I’ve heard this one! Listen to this sooo much in the 93-94, when I was in the Army. Remembered my favorite song would change daily Cherub Rock - still an amazing song, their best, nothing comes close. Maybe Drown, maybe. Quiet - a bit filler, good to listen to Today - better than I remember, aged well. Hummer - Rocket - Disarm - this song still sucks. Yet, it’s very entertaining for the horrific chorus. Soma - Geek USA - this aged better than I thought. Enjoyable. Mayonnaise - this was everyone’s favorite. Not quiet the great song I remember. A bit overwrought. Spaceboy - overly earnest. A bit goofy. Silverfuck - great riff. Oh man this is still great. Never figured it out for a revenge song. Wonder who Billy was angry with. Sweet sweet - definitely filler at the time. Something the grunge could get away with that metal couldn’t - the earnest ballad. Luna - my wife put this on a CD when we first met. I just put my head on her head and listen to this. This is a much better song then I first gave it credit for. I don’t remember being an album about a relationship (maybe a failed one? Is Billy Corgan even a sexual being?) but it’s obvious as an adult. Some items are very teenager-ish, trying to break away from something. I guess BC really was a business man.

Ich mag die Lieder

Great album, I had never listened to it all the way through before. There are a few major classics that I hadn’t realized were smashing pumpkins songs.. the dichotomy of the slower almost psychedelic main body of the song with the insane breakdowns and guitar riffs was amazing.. favorite song, Soma and Disarm

Didn’t get through it.

a few catchy grooves. probably would sound better as a recording of a single electric guitar or two actually human beings playing instead of 100 Billy Corgans smushed together sounds absolutely like a cynical cash in. there's a My Bloody Valentine shimmer thing briefly that seems like a wink & nudge, but a completely uncharming one it's funny that one of the most overwrought groups sounds amateurish, not in execution but in style choices. it sounds like a bedroom album by somebody that hasn't learned to cut out tacky impulses yet. the shred solos are silly and don't always work. I like pieces of the music but won't make any excuses for this band music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Came into this one with some pre-conceived notions (probably based on hearing the same two singles every day of my childhood on the alternative rock station), and ya know what? Pleasant surprise. Not sure I’d like every thing they did, but this one is good. Radio station shoulda played some of these ones instead.

it's some pretty fine grungegaze. nothing crazy but I like a few tracks.

Didn't realize how many hits they had. Grunge classic

Went in deaf and album overall turned out to be really good. Will be revisiting again in the future.