Siamese Dream

There is a lot of vibe and distinct style but I got a little bored by the middle and by the end of it

There were at least two songs on here that made me go "wait, this is Smashing Pumpkins??"

Found myself tuning out of this album from time to time but some gems would immediately catch my attention, like “Disarm” and “Silverfuck.” Decent 3.5/5

I really liked the opened Cherub Rock, but beyond that the album kind of merged together for me. I can tell how influential this album is - but it's not completely my thing. I did enjoy it more than I expected to though.

Several outstanding songs

This was a decent album. My opinion of smashin pumpkins is mostly unchanged; that is to say I like the guitars and general sound but I get tired of the vocals very quickly

Some good songs, others not so memorable

Better than the indulgent and stupefying "Melancholy," with some interesting shoegazey moments.

fairly good listen 3/5

It’s ok. Prefer Mellon Collie and don’t get why people think this is better

I don’t like his voice and some of the lyrics are corny but I didn’t hate this.

technically very good, just not my vibe.

I never got into smashing pumpkins and listening to the album I have just gotten confirmation for it. It's not bad but to me the songs all kinda sound the same.

Not bad, some good moments but quite forgettable

enjoyed it, but majors on the bits of melon collie i enjoyed least, and minors on the bits i liked most

Não ter meia estrela nesse site é muito ruim pq ele não é um album 3, mas sim 3,5...... ainda prefiro o Mellon Collie, mas esse álbum também é bem legal

I really enjoyed the tracks that were more melodic, not so much with the grungier ones.

I want to write a more thorough review but I'm in a rush and want to listen to the next set of tunes!

I am not a huge fan of Billy Corgan's vocals

Starts off great with Cherub Rock followed by a few songs that try to capture the same energy and the goddawful Today. Then we get to Disarm which is another wonderful song then some more mediocrity. Overall the music is overall good, lyrics and vocals are meh

As per usual with Smashing Pumpkins it just doesn't fully hit the spot for me - there's some pretty good music in there and the energy overall is fantastic, but somehow his voice just takes me straight out of the zone.

Found this less annoying than I expected after years of finding Smashing Pumpkins annoying. Not my favourite, but no longer feel like I’d skip them.

1993 let's goooo Some big hits on here: Cherub Rock, Today, Disarm. But plenty more I don't know, I probably haven't heard this album all the way through since my brother was playing it in the 90s. Solid album though drags a bit at the end. Big boost for Today and Disarm which were pivotal tracks for me growing up. 3/5

I should really like Smashing Pumpkins. But they’re never a band I’d reach for. This is good, but the same stands.

C’est l’Halloween, on smash des citrouilles

Always been a gap between their high points - Tonight/1979 the latter of which is one of the great songs of all time IMHO - and their albums which I always thought could be a bit variable/stodgy. This is a good listen in retrospect but still not quite consistent enough.

Overwrought and really not to my taste. I could appreciate maybe ⅓ of it.

Today is a great song and holds memories of being 16 and that epic summer. The rest is ok, kinda standard grungeyness lots of strings and the raspyness of billy who plays the evil milky bar kid.

nice rock album that's a bit heavier than i remember but i stil lreally liked it

Bisschen viel verzerrte Gitarren

I remember when this was released and what a big Beal it was. Good music but I can’t do Billy Corrigans voice for more than 3 songs. Cherub Rock Today Soma but I feel like I know most of the songs and the sound.

Great instrumentals, not as keen on the singing though. Lots of good tracks mixed with a few not so good ones, but it was a decent listen overall. Highlights: Today Spaceboy

My fav tracks: Quiet, Disarm, Rocket. It was a very promising first half, but the second half is just mehhh.

I think I had seriously underrated this group. Very listenable music.

It spoke to that era of my life - the songs were pretty samey for me?

very Nirvana-y, a lotta noise but has Today on here, so some decent stand outs

Despite the killer guitar and drum work, this album is too long and my patience for Corgan’s nasally wailing is too short.

Inferior Smashing Pumpkins album.

It's a good break-through album for them. They definitely have their own sound: especially because of Billy's voice. But there were only 1-2 songs that didn't sound like they came from the same template of tempo and chord progression. This is a good album....3 tracks at a time.

Again a bit long and unfocused

Disc 2 felt like a bad acid trip

Not bad but it didn't really hold my attention

One recognizable song. Very consistent sound throughout. Nowhere as good as mellon.

Överraskande hårt! Öppnar kanske lite för hårt, med för grungeiga låtar. Men efter 'Hummer' blir det lite fler "mjuka" låtar. Även om elgitarren alltid reser sig som en vägg i ljudbilden. Bäst blir det i perfekt svulstiga 'Disarm'. Även om den är relativt "mjuk", är allvaret i den hårt. Vissa spår går lite för hårt in för ett "angsty" tonårssound från 90-talet, som i 'Today'. Men det är inte Smashing Pumpkins fel, bara att många angsty teens nog lyssnat på dem. Vilket i och för sig stärker caset att hela albumet är känslomässigt laddat. Det känslomässiga är något jag älskar. Det är musik på riktigt, Billy Corgan känner verkligen varenda ord han sjunger. Starkast blir det i den ovan nämnda 'Disarm'. Finns flera låtar värda att nämna. 'Mayonaise', 'Spaceboy', och 'Soma' är fina, bland andra. Bästa låt: Disarm.

seems like about some sort of relationship with media and music the second song seems like this person was having suicidal thoughts. i didn;t like it that much because it was really depressing, but i don't hate it either as it could be relatable to some people.

Damn that's a lotta music I don't like the vocalist's tone Very cool guitar sounds

Not bad at all, I really enjoyed it

Will listen again

Not for me, a few songs that I didn’t mind but overall the album was ‘meh’

A bit ambivalent about this one. Smashing Pumpkins is definitely a band you have heard about before, and it think this record should deserve a higher rating if this is your jam, but it just didn't resonate with me for some reason. There are some decent songs like 'Today', and perhaps a few others that probably deserve more credit, but it just wasn't for me in the end. Weak 3.

I really enjoyed the general vibe of the album. It is grungy, fuzzy and it still felt fresh today. My favourite track was probably "Cherub rock". During its runtime it did get quite samey and I had trouble differentiating the songs from each other. Mid 3.

Didn't leave much of an impression. I was a bit distracted. TSP are heavier than I expect. Not sure why?

This was fine, Quite generic but not bad.

I've heard the album before. There are a couple of great songs on the album. Otherwise, it's pretty good but not memorable / remarkable enough to be considered "great".

There were a couple of absolute five-star songs, but besides those, I’m not sure I’d return to this album. But, absolutely top-of-the-class early 90s alt rock.

Classic modern rock album with punchy drums and heavy electric guitar riffs. If you like the style you will like the album. I just found Silverfuck extremly horrible for a song.

If I liked Smashing pumpkins more, I think this would be great, but I tire of Billy's voice sometimes and so it's just a run of the mill 3 for me. There are some timeless songs on here though

They got better. IMO.

Des riffs I N C R O Y A B L E Le chanteur est le point faible du groupe et je suis visiblement pas le seul à le penser Musique préférée : Beaucoup Musique que j'apprécie le moins : Disarm / Luna

There's a good song on here, but mostly it's the low, growling drone that's the Pumpkin usual. Just listenable....

I like this album, but it makes me feel really nostalgic and sad, so it can only be a 3/5 Reviewed 27/08/2024

Enjoyable but what I liked most I already knew

Hyviä biisejä, mut hittielementit jäi uupumaan.

Lush and heavy (some of the guitar work is ‘heavier’ in its way than the guitar on the recent Iron Maiden album, again showing the shifting landscape of style and also likely pointing out some of Corgans influences). I came to The Pumpkins with the next album, so this one has no emotional resonance for me. It’s good musically but not really my thing. But it did lead me back to Fugazi and some other “if you like this, then you’ll like this” bands that Henry then walked in on and we had a 90s awakening for him, so once again every melancholy cloud has a silver Offspring/Fugazi/ Everclear lining.

Billy Corgan and Sharon Osbourne. This will never cease to amuse me. (Has nothing to do with this. Liked it then in a low-key way, still like it now.) Ice-cream vans and paint captured my imagination in an odd way. Very surreal for Top of the Pops, I must say.

No idea what he's singing about half the time, but it SOUNDS deep.

STANDOUTS: Today Disarm OVERALL: 3/5; I wanted to like this more than I did. But those standouts were good/very 90s sad teenager.

This album is much more interesting than i expected. Billy Corrigan's voice has always bothered me, but he isn't leaning as heavily into the super-focused whine on this one. There are hints of it throughout, but it's not persistent. As long as I listen to the instruments, I find plenty to keep me interested. 3.5/5 stars for the band, -1 star for his voice, so 2.5 stars that i'll round up to 3.

I’m lukewarm on this band and this album. I feel like it scratches an itch that I don’t have. They’re fine, but even the hits don’t really excite me.

Idk how I feel about this band and grunge in general. I didn’t want to listen to this a million times like I did with arcade fire. Vocals are suspect at times. High 3.

Some good songs on here ("Today", "Disarm", "Cherub Rock") but nothing good enough for more than a three, imo.

Love luna

Interesting for a couple of tracks, but it was too one-dimensional, and that sludge guitar permeated everything.

I like several of these songs, but the album as a whole is too long, and I just don't see revisiting it.

Really enjoyed this, and surprised it hit my radar earlier. Groovy and quite poppy, with cool big guitar sounds. Vocals are sometimes a bit whiny, but not so bad.

Decent

Enjoyable listen 3/5

the band was really good but the singing was mediocre. the band was also a lot louder than the singer most of the time so the singing faded to the back

Some good songs Disarm brilliant.

While I'm not the biggest fan of The Smashing Pumpkins by and large, their era and subgenre of music is among my favorite in history, so I can appreciate their contributions to punk and alt-rock. In general, I find Billy Corgan's voice to be on the more whiny and grating side. However, this album ended up being to my liking much more than anticipated. They definitely kept the 90s alt-rock sound throughout, but had some different elements thrown in that were very interesting to me. In particular the bell parts on "Disarm", and fun, punky rhythms on "Geek U.S.A." and "Silverfuck" were more true to the time period and caught my ear. Overall, The Smashing Pumpkins aren't leaping into my top 10 bands anytime soon, but this was still an overall enjoyable listen for me. Notable Tracks: Cherub Rock Today Disarm - like the use of the bells Geek U.S.A. - punkier than elsewhere on the record Silverfuck - cool rhythm parts 6/10

Didn't like hummer. Did like geeks and sweet sweet and Luna. Weird ending to space boy. Not sure how I feel about it

I’d rank this higher if they weren’t such cunts

I, of course, knew several songs off of this album from the heavy radio play. I also must admit that the song disarm is one of my big songs that I love to hear. I had never listened to a complete Smashing Pumpkins album until this. I have to say I really enjoyed the diversity of this album. There was rock, light metal, and some straight up pop . I’ve always appreciated Billy Corrigan‘s voice also. Overall, I really did appreciate and enjoy this album.

Nice

Still not a huge fan of The Smashing Pumpkins. I think it’s mostly Corgen’s voice, but overall it’s fine. Not something ima ever go back to but it was fine

This is alot more droney than before I like this and I like that it is shorter than Mellon collie but it has less hits it’s way more lowkey and it kinda feels dream rock and psychedelic for a bit. Luna is a great ending but realistically it just kinda blends together. Somber and lowkey but doesn’t pack that same punch as the original but better because it’s shorter. Glad they fixed the singing in the next record

Liked it at first but it wore on me.

this is probably a 4 star album but billy corgan is enough of a shit for it to be dragged down to a 3

Yeah this sounds like Smashing Pumpkins

The other week, I tried to listen to this album after a looonnnnngggggg time since I listened to it--maybe like twenty-eight years--and I was instantly reminded why it had been such an interval: It's hear they abandoned the crushed velvet psychedelic patchouli and cloves mope of Gish (and a bunch of fantastic singles and b-sides) and decided to be Styx instead. "Cherub Rock" is kind of annoying in a cloying way. "Disarm" is more mawk than moody. These being the hits, they kind of ate the album in my consciousness. However, there is plenty here that still reminds you this is a band and not the Billy Corgan show. Destructro Rock, super-ramalama, dream pop, and shimmery instrumentation still abound, and still make for a thrilling experience. I can't say this is back to front good, but if you dodge the obviousness, there is much to love.

Love SP, but they have better albums.

Siamese Dream bien podría haber sido etiquetado como un disco de Billy Corgan. Los problemas internos de la banda hicieron que él tocara casi todos los instrumentos, exceptuando la percusión. Fuera o no producto de la tensión y los conflictos, lo cierto es que el resultado fue un magnífico disco de rock alternativo que dejaba atrás el grunge y el punk, y coqueteaba sin excesos con lo progresivo. Me gustan bastante sencillos extraídos del álbum como "Today", "Rocket" y la emocionante balada sinfónica "Disarm". Pero también la rockera "Geek U.S.A.", o el tono épico de "Silverfuck". También hay lugar en mis preferencias para la calma de "Mayonaise" o "Spaceboy".

I've never known an album start so well for the first five tracks and then get a little worse each time until the end. The high energy at the start just drifts into slow meandering walllowy music, which I find boring. There's one exception around track 9/10, which is actually a decent song, but then it drags out a completely unnecessary middle section and kills the song. This and Mellon collie show that the pumpkins were a band who needed someone to tell them no sometimes

I'm neither a teen or angsty, so it doesn't appeal to me that much but I see why people enjoy it. 3*

Another one that bounced off me at the time, probably due to silly band name syndrome (I was reading Smashing in the UK sense of the word). I was expecting a scrappy grunge album but actually got a well produced post rock thing instead, even featuring (gasp!) string arrangements on some tracks. I mostly enjoyed it, but I think I probably would have loved it if it was shorter and scrappier.

Meh. I don’t understand what the big deal is about the Smashing Pumpkins. They’re not bad, I just don’t know why the big hub-bub.

tomorrow's much too long...

Tää oli teinimpänä tosi siisti, mutta vähän käy raskaaksi ja paikoin siirappiseksi nykyään. On tossa silti vielä ihan toimivia biisejä. 3/5

very coherent album, to the point of being a little same-y. they get some cool sounds, particularly that panicked guitar tone. it's really in my style but I end up wishing it had a little more bite. I like a lot of the writing too but its ultimately a little hard to stay invested throughout the album. its like 2.5 straight-down-the-middle star

I already knew a few songs from this album. It's a pretty good listen. I enjoyed it, even the songs I didn't already know. I want to go back and give it another listen.

The opening riff from Cherub Rock- chefs kiss

cherub rock mega wall of soind und no geil findi. quiet het e rieeeese solo hobbla, cool. today macht de relativ ruhige gsang mit hässiger gitarre move, cool. de fuzz bass isch super. und d strophe sind super cute. hummer sehr cooli chords mega tension. disarm isch sehr whiny gsi aber no guet als ballade. oke soma isch glaub die richtig ballade. sehr melancholisch ihm isch all by himself. aber s funktioniert findi. mayonnaise isch huuere schön im intro, mit de hert gitarre immerno cool. spaceboy isch au huere schön, wenn au nüt ultra soeziells oder so.

nimmtmi sehr wunder, han nonie öppis vo ihne würkli glost cherub rock mega ami iwie hahahah d snare isch ultraaa crisp today mega grunge I BI SOO MÜED disarm no cute I guess oke nei hans eig würkli na gern somaa bangeeer, weird und trz catchy MAYONNAISE MIT SENF cools intro aber s riff findi denn echli lacking hey ich glaub er liebt die person, binmer aber nöd sicher ja eig fun album aber au für mich nüt megamegaa spannends

Not my type of music bu i see the apeal

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

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.

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.

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.

Ok but pretty average stuff ngl

Heavy metal with different moods

Okay

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...

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

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

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

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.

really dig the first half...

Ok.

Favs: disarm, soma, spaceboy

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

- 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.

Very Varying

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

Standout: Mayonnaise

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.

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

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.

This was good. High 3*

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Wenhui says it sounds like white noise

Deftones but less heavy

Bastante meh 💀

Pure herrie maar soms wel lekker

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

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.

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*

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

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.

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.

Not bad, a few decent songs, but probably don't need to listen to again. I can tell why this is on there, good grunge, 90s vibe.

I listened to half of the album. It was good but too hard rock for me.

Cherub Rock nostalgica por conta do Guitar Hero III. Lado A rock xoxo com algumas produções interessantes, lado B tem Soma que chamou minha atenção no começo, mas acabou desaguando em mais um rock xoxo. Mayonaise tem uns momentos legais. Minha favorita do álbum. No geral, apesar do valor de produção alto, é um álbum de rockzinho xoxo. Ou seja, um rock xoxo com alto valor de produção. Me peguei ansioso pelo fim, que parecia nunca chegar. Muito americano, eu acho.

An objectively great album, but like most 90's mainstream rock my ears just get tired of the sound quickly

Already know this one.

3.2/5 - The really good songs you probably already know. The only ok ones you will probably forget by tomorrow.

Smashing

Sounds to me like 13 songs in different boring interpretations.

Enjoyable listen. Quintessential grunge album. Would have appreciated more variation between songs however

This one feels culturally significant, but it’s just not for me

I mean, it was ok. There were a couple of good songs, but not an album I’d likely listen to on repeat. I enjoyed the energy and the feel, but I didn’t fully fall into the music. That being said it definitely wasn’t a bad album.

Not my vibe.

Alt rock not really my thing, but I was good with a few small doses of it.

Classic Chicago early 90s music!

good album. some songs take me back to middle school. don't love every song...

Never quite got them at the time. This is patchy and oh-so-affected in a whiney Morrissey way. Cherub Raock and Today do still stand out and hold very well.

Oh the 90s.

3 Stars (8/15)

This is pretty decent. I enjoyed the album but I leave 4+ stars to ones I want to listen to again. This one is close to 4 stars but there isn't anything enticing me to relisten. 3.5 stars

Very Angsty,

I love this album, the instrumentals are amazing and the composition of the hardness and softness of the music feels very intentional to me. Spaceboy is giving David Bowie. Cherub Rock - lovely guitar riff and 10/10 opening notes. Cannot discern the lyrics but the guitar after the 'let me out' slaps so hard. Very punk rock. Quiet - very angry song. so passive aggressive I'd say but very cool instrumentals. And that part when it builds up at around 2:02 is fucking amazing. Today - lovely opening. Was not expecting the drums to come in. This song goes in so many unexpected melodic directions. Love how the drums. suddenly go soft and then suddenly come in again. The singer says "Today is the greatest day" but does he mean it in a happy way or a sad way? Hummer - not a big fan of the opening static. But when the guitars and bass come in its fucking cool. The instrumentals seem so similar on all the songs at first listen. Beautiful towards 3:30. I love it when the song goes soft before "Ask yourself a question." Such a power move to end on the lyrics "Do you feel love is real?" Soma - absolutely beautiful. best on this album i think. Geek U.S.A. - kind of disappointing after Soma. All over the place. Silverfuck - First heard this song while wrapping a crepe bandage around my ankle and I felt like a god. Sweet Sweet - Something has changed inside me. I think. Luna - why is this so good. all of the soft songs on this album are fucking amazing. i don't know why people hate his voice. it's very on point with the era i think.

shoutout to billy corgan’s fit in the bands spotify profile pic, i want that gown oh man ! a classic album from my 14 yr old angsty dayz - it ain’t bad, i think in the right context it’s a beautiful album but it just doesn’t slap for me in that way these days ! Today is soooooooo classic grunge angst song omg i do love that - also shoutout to their song about connor, “spaceboy”! 3.5/5

better than i expected considering how much i dispise billy corrigan.

Much more heavy metal than I expected but still good, probably 3 1/2 stars

Carai, começo legalzinho já. Me senti na adolescência. Essa do rockband é muito aconchegante, joguei não faz muito tempo. No geral foi um bom álbum de ouvir, gostos similares ao meu padrão. Adicionei 3 músicas na playlist, então vai um 3 aqui, só não vai 4 por que durou muito e cansou um pouco.

1. Cherub Rock: Eu não reconheci o nome, mas parece que já ouvi bastante em algum lugar, acho que é famosinha deles, me deu um pouco de nostalgia, nem sei do que, mas deu. Curti bastante ela até. Riff e vocal bem daóra. (Pesquisei, é do guitar hero E do rockband) 2. Quiet: Segue bem a vibe da primeira, só não tem o fator nostalgia, um pouco mais agitada/pesada, mas não senti que trouxe nada de novo. 3. Today: Ah outra que não reconheci por nome, mas quando começou a tocar já veio na hora. Outra famosona né. Daóra também. A dinâmica entre as partes mais pesadas e mais calminhas é daóra, ambas as pegadas são daóra e conversam bem entre si. Melodiazinha clássica da guitarra no refrão também, bonita, curti. 4. Hummer: Novamente parece seguir a vibe da anterior, mantendo a pegada, porém sem trazer nada de novo. 6. Disarm: Apesar de ser a com mais números do álbum, nunca ouvi não. Achei ok, nada demais que me faça adicionar na minha playlist. 9. Mayonaise: Apesar de não ser muito diferente das outras, por algum motivo, dessa eu gostei mais. O álbum é bacaninha, começa benzão. Por um momento até achei que pudesse ser um 4*, mas a medida que o álbum vai tocando, as músicas vão chamando menos a atenção, vão se tornando talvez menos características. Ele cansa um pouquinho, apesar das músicas serem boas, no finalzinho tu já tá loco pra que acabe. Acho que é um 3 estrelas bem sólido, sem muitas dúvidas.

# 104 : Good album, I like this, Not quiet the quality of a 4 star, so maybe a 3.5 star album? Favourite Track : Disarm Listened : 07/11/2023

Some really cool moments and songs, I liked it

Älskar Today sedan den kom. Hyggligt i övrigt.

Standard smashing pumpkins, didn't really stand out to me

Heard it before?: Yes Enjoy it?: it’s ok, definitely ahead of its time Favourite song: Track 1 - Cherub Rock

My problem with The Smashing Pumpkins is I aways get bored listening to them track after track. If I listened to two songs at a time, then something else, then came back, I’d probably like them a lot better. Their songs are great individually, but together it just gets a bit much for me. A but tried and tested. I was about 15 when I first heard this (from memory, Music Zone had it reduced to about 3quid, bargain), but a lot of the tracks I don’t remember. Guess thats a good thing. Felt fresh, if, like I said, it gets old quick. Probably prefer Mellon Collie BUT the songs that are better on here are better than on MC. Highlights: Rocket, Today, one of the other ones with a heavy fast fuzzy riff

Very decent album - along with The National, Smashing Pumpkins have been revealed to me by this list. It isn't as adventurous or soaring as Melon Collie, however. I would argue that most of the second half of the album, Soma onwards, is very dull. My favourite track is Disarm. 3 stars. Next!

Like the previous album we had "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" I still don't like the voice of the singer. However the sound of the band is great. The heavy guitars and bass just hit right. Highlights: Cherub Rock Today Geek USA

Great album that has never stuck with me. Should be my thing, but it just isn't. Enjoy every song, but don't love any of them. Might click one day. *Heard before

Today Mid. Rock para escuchar pero no demasiado tiempo.

Good, but went on too long. At the end I was really done with it, could've dine with a little cutting.

эээээээ ладно, хз, надо переслушать но первое впечатление meh

На записи я сказал уже, что это один из немногих альбомов, про который не получается сделать какой-то внятный вывод. Да, есть пара успешных синглов. Да, есть прикольные музыкальные ходы, перегруз и вся вот эта окологранжевая история. Нет, тексты смотрятся слабовато. Нет, весь альбом не супер крут музыкально. И у критиков как-то чёткого мнения нет. Кто-то считает это позерством, кто-то - чуть ли не лучшим альбомом 90х. Я не понял.

There are some good ones but overall didn't vibe

Pretty standard alternative rock fare, really. It’s good enough to listen to, but nothing really separates it from the hundreds of other similar alt-rock albums released throughout history. A low to mid 3.

Ok didn’t love it. Some great songs though.

Not bad, not sure outside of a few songs I would list to whole album again.

Generic grunge droning. Lame lyrics. Mostly forgettable outside the hits.

It’s okay, not my favourite of theirs.

Not my cup of tea. Nice background music while I was driving, but the vocals were kind of boring and barely audible. Nothing I added to my playlist, but I would not skip it if it came on.

Rather generic sound. Not unpleasant, but didn’t find anything musically or perhaps melodically interesting. Didn’t finish album.

Very good record overall. Personally I think Billy Corgan's voice is great and I love the guitars in this. It has my favourite Smashing Pumpkins tracks, however I feel the record as a whole drags in places and I'd personally cut a few tracks from it.

Couple of things I liked.

A classic. Good for stormy weather.

Not what I'd usually listen to however not a bad listen overall

jkiff les vibes, à écouter leurs autres albumbs jpense

Superb musicianship. Can mostly just zone out to it. A couple of songs felt a little repetitive. Disarm is the standout for me.

Classic 90s album. A very good band to see it live.

Wou dat je halve sterren kon geven!!! Dit is echt een 2,5 ster album

I like the grunge instrumentation of Smashing Pumpkins, but have always found Corgan's vocals the weakest part of the band. Would be emotional tracks like Disarm lack a punch for me from his whiny tone. Maybe I'm missing out on good songwriting, but I inevitably feel I'd rather be listening to any other of their alt-rock or grunge contemporaries, from Alice in Chains to Cranberries.

Pretty okay, not a huge fan of bro's voice, he used to be a little boyyyyyy, sing quiet then get loud, his achy breaky sustained singing gets old

u jedno uhu unutra u drugo van

This seems so close to being an album that would jumpstart my love for this band and I would come back to again and again, but it's just missing that something for me. I recognize it's a solid album and there were definitely some standout songs, but just wasn't quite enough to grab me. Listening to this album did raise a problem for me though. I have been rating these albums based around a loose assumption that there will likely not be many (or any at all) albums in genres or from bands that I consistently listen to in my day to day. I feel as though I have skewed my ratings accordingly (giving a country album a 2 instead of an instant 1 for instance). But now that I have hit this album, I have judged it based more so on my enjoyment of the music from a "this could actually be something I listen to in my day to day" frame of reference. If I gave a generic country album a 2, certainly this album deserves a 4/5, but I want to give it a 3 because while I do enjoy the sound and the musicianship is solid, it isn't likely something I will revisit. I think in an ideal world, I would rate everything based solely on my enjoyment OR on my willingness to revisit the music, but I don't want to end up with hundreds of 1 star ratings. No real decision made, but giving this a 3 and reconsidering my previous/future ratings.

Yhdysvallat 1990-luku pop rock... ai sori... ''grunge''... Un album très sympa de la part de Radiohead... miksi blud edes mainitsee... smash these pumpkins...pretentious bastards.. onneksi nykyään ei mitään instrumentteja..pelkkää tietokone CGI effektejä ja autotune.. cherub rock

Great guitar sound and a few good bangas. Overstays its welcome a bit.

Kan høre alt det de inspireret, men ikke så meget mig

Pas au niveau de "Mellon Collie" mais très sympa. A réécouter

3. today, second half of 4. hummer, 7. soma, 13. luna: best, all the others mid

Starts off interesting, but falls off. I get why people love it, but it isn't for me.

Another 2.5 that rounds up to 3. I feel like Billy Corgan is someone who people either love or hate, but I can fall right in the middle. I am not sure this album ages well for anyone who didn't live this in the 90s.

Billy Corgan needs a good editor. Album starts really strong then just kinda fades & drags. So much so that at one point I asked “why are we listening to this song again?” It was the same song - the first time round. Still strong drumming and some fun noisy geetah.

Heard before: no This album is reinforcing my 90s phase I’m currently ripping through. Gave me some Nirvana vibes, and I really liked the sound they establish in this album. Fave song: Geek USA honorable mention: Today

Heard before: yes Billy Corgan will pummel you. Either with his 100 foot guitar sound, the driving grunge-metal beats, or the sheer volume of songs that he shoves in your face. The three singles rightfully stand head and shoulders above the rest of the album - they are pure sugary awesomeness - but I think there are a few gems hidden in side two also. There's just so much other stuff, it's exhausting. Top tracks: Cherub Rock, Disarm, Today

I ended up getting a bit bored with this - which was my experience with the even longer follow up album that I've already come across on this list. This time was better, and I even knew one of the tunes - Today must have been on a Rock Band version of some kind (maybe the Lego one?). So, yeah, it's all OK I suppose. Just abut 3 stars as I didn't dislike it as such.

Band is ok and the album is fine. All the guitar is the same lo-fi sound so it all sounds similar.

If I was Matt Damon I would vibe to this

There is a great band here, unfortunately it's dominated by Billy corgan and I really don't think he can sing. It's whiney and drones on in all the wrong ways.

3.5 but I gotta pick one and I wasn't feeling it today.

It was alright like

Not bad

It’s better than I remember it from my first listen back in the 90s, but to my ears it’s a bit self-important. I like my gloom, but find this a bit too heart-on-sleeve. Probably just my repressed, Brit mentality, but it means this is (to me) worthy rather than particularly affecting.

nice riffs, very angsty, I would've definitely jammed very hard to this if I were a teen in the 90's. or a teen in general.. alas I ain't

better than i was expecting! overall what i imagined the smashing pumpkins to sound like but some good songs in there

It was good, I guess.

It's ok, but I don't understand the very high score, it's not so interesting after all

My mind likes it but then the vocals kick in and 90% of the time it’s just… ugh.

TRACKS: Cherub Rock [2] Quiet [3] Today [4] Hummer [2] Rocket [ 2] Disarm [3] Soma [3] Geek U.S.A. [3] Mayonaise [2] Spaceboy [3] Silverfuck [3] Sweet Sweet [4] Luna [4]

tracks : cherub rock [3] quiet [4] today [3] hummer [2] rocket [3] disarm [2] soma [3.5] geek usa [2] mayonaise [4] spaceboy [2] Silverfuck [3] ⭐️sweet sweet [4] Luna [4] RATING : 3

This album does really shine at certain points, but for a lot of the time I spent listening to it, I just wanted it to be over so I could listen to something better... Many songs blended together, and Corgan's voice is well, not great.

Better than I expected, enjoyable but don't really like BillY Corgan's voice unfortunately. Fav Tracks: Today, Disarm, Mayonaise

The music here is OK, good actually. Some of it actually rocks pretty hard - Geek U.S.A. being a good example of this. However, I don't like the vocals very much - they are "creepy" sounding, for lack of a better word. I always had fun drumming to Cherub Rock on the game Rock Band.

I need to get more familiar with them

Alltid varit kluven vad det gäller SP, men plattan är helt ok och innehåller några trevliga bitar,

Starts off well, bit too grungy second half

I don’t have a lot to say for this one. Was definitely way better than mellon collie. This is the smashing pumpkins i know and love. The embodiment of late 90s early 2000s rock. was kind of interesting to see how their sound changed between the two albums.

Siamese Dream is the second album by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. Critically acclaimed and released to commercial success, this album is considered one of the best alt rock albums of all time. It debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200 and has been certified 4x platinum. The recording of Siamese Dream was fraught with problems and went over budget and behind schedule, so it was a surprise to the label when the record was finally completed. This album was a beautiful twist on rock music because it contains both harsh and sweet parts in its music. It has a little something for everybody, but overall it's just great alt rock music. One of the best grungy albums I've ever listened to.

Light 7/10

Somehow I thought this band was from the mid 2000s my bad 2.5/5

Lastig te raten want ik vind het echt totaal niet mijn muziek, maar voor het totaal niet mijn muziek vinden vond ik het wel goed, en zat het ook wel lekker in elkaar. 3 sterren dan maar lekker veilig

+1 for being an iconic sound of my teenage years. -1 because I still can't stand Billy Corgan's voice.

Solid 90’s alt rock.

It was good but not great. Brought back those 90’d memories.

Yeah it's alright, but grunge just didn't age very well in general, people have to start to admit it.

I can understand why this as become a classic, but not for me.

Definitely, I have a problem with my ability to like this band. This album wasn't bad, but I felt nothing while listening to it. Maybe their sound didn't aged so much well? Anyway, I'll give a 3 stars in proof of my good will, but can't do more.

Cat: this is a really great album. Just really like their sound. I love how they can go from beautiful to grunge rock to power ballad. I get a little tired of Billy Corgan for a full hour, but the music is so good AJ: the most alternative album I’ve ever heard. Whatever that means. Need to listen with liner notes. No idea what any of the songs were about. It’s good rock and roll, though. Agree on Billy’s voice. Wicked good in some songs though. Today i learned the name of that song is Disarm.

90s alt rock, seems standard. Didn’t finish. 3/5

Da e nåken goinga her

I know it's supposed to be one of the "finest alt-rock albums of all time" but it doesn't do much for me. I don't like Billy's whiny voice and not a big fan of the inorganic wall of guitar sound. I do like some of the songs and the use of strings. It's okay, just not that great. 3 stars.

The Smashing Pumpkins, whilst overall a great band, I couldn't help but feel that this album was a little lacking. It didn't grab me in the way I expected it to as other similar albums of the era have. Don't get me wrong I thought it still was a good listen, just not great. Best: Cherub Rock Worst: Sweet Sweet 3.5 Stars

Rating: 6/10 Good grunge/rock album, only a few songs I’d listen to again, not too much for me.

as good as mayo 3.9

Very nice debut. Mostly likeable with two great tracks. Not bad.

stark, kannsch nix sage

3.5 would be my true rating. some great pop sensibilities, covered by the "90's noise". great lyrical content. amazing energy.

Some really good songs (Geek U.S.A and Mayonaise) but I really can't stand Corgans voice.

This one I've probably downgraded over time. Drums and guitars still sound awesome but the lyrics and vocals are very very teenage

not bad but not my thing kinda boring alternative rock inoffensive

i listened to this album quite a few times in the hope that i would love this, but i only like it. it's far from bad. the drums, bass, and guitar are all well done. some of these riffs or solos!? damn. the vocals didn't impress me as much. the music itself seemed to drown out the vocals. i guess that's grunge? so the vocals weren't bad necessarily but i wish more emphasis was on them. but despite my non-preference for billy corgan's voice, he is a great lyricist. there's a personal touch within these lyrics, and corgan laid himself bare for the sake of these songs. all in all, the album is just okay. the vocals soured me some but i can appreciate other aspects.

Heikko tilanne hankala olla nyt objektiivinen sydämmeen sattuu välillä mutta joku nyt vois antaa respect tästä pysytään lujana pidetään tanko lippu korkeella seilataan lujaa viinaa en juo..

Hadn’t heard this before (grunge tended to pass me by), but it grew on me. Splendid production too, as bass heavy as you would expect.

I’m with Rory Gilmore on this one. Not really for me. Fav songs: Luna (the only one I liked enough to save), Mayonaise, Today, Spaceboy, Disarm, Silverfuck

Always thought this band was overrated and still do. Corrigan's voice and general persona in particular I can do without. The music is good and well performed but I don't think that interesting or innovative.

Ok, some songs are good, but I still don't understand the general admiration

Since we already listened to the five-and-a-half hour long Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness that came out two years after this album, which I would argue is their great opus, and because this didn't have much else to say that that album didn't, I felt that this was not a necessary addition to this list. It was certainly another nice representation of the band's work, containing a couple of their worthy hits. But I'm just not sure why this takes the place of other artists I haven't heard in over 500 albums so far.

Just not a Smashing Pumpkins fan, I guess. A track or two sprinkled into a mix is probably a better fit for me and I could really appreciate them, but an entire album just doesn't appeal.

In my review for Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness I said, "I remember kind of disliking them in the 90s. Based on what? I do not know." There was so much of MC&tIS that I enjoyed that I was kind of looking forward to hearing more from these Pumpkins. Cherub Rock validated my feelings that I had really missed out back in the 90s --- man, that song is an absolute peach! The rest of the album did not nearly agree with my earholes as well as that one, including the singles Today and Disarm, which might have been what put me off the band in the first place. And I found that by the end of the album (half as long as MC&tIS but still over an hour), I'd grown quite tired of their schtick. Still though, Cherub Rock, you guys.

Note a hugeee fan of this type of 90's rock. Its just hits me as very American. Thats hard to listen to at work. I just cannot today. Almost called it quits and slapped with a 2. I need to be more resilient. Hated quiet, twas not quiet. Fuck its that heavy electric guitar I hate. Don't enjoy the vocals either. Man this really sums up my distaste for this kinda genre. Ok it got a bit better towards the end, or I got used to it. Dont think I could ever listen to this album just like that, but could enjoy tracks. like a 2.6 out of 10.

I was so set to initially give this a 2 because holy Jesus I was fighting for my life there at the start. But thank goodness, because the turning point was at Disarm when those strings and those bells slapped me dumb across the face, which is what characterized Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness so distinguishably for me (I'm fully aware it came after Siamese Dream, my point still stands regardless). And I'm happy they began hitting on every emotion, because Soma and Spaceboy were fantastically modest yet intense simultaneously, and Greek U.S.A just went hard. Based only on the latter 2/3 of the album, this would be at least a 4, no question. But I have to go down one because they blew it in the beginning.

Ya know I had to listen to this a few times because I never really could tell what to give it. A two? A three? A four maybe? I tend to like this genre, but for some reason this album was not speaking to me. Most of the songs did not stand out to me, but I enjoyed the album nonetheless. I can’t really explain this rating. The album was good not great, and didn’t tickle the senses as much as I would have hoped.

The first time I heard The Smashing Pumpkins as a teen I thought I’d heard the most obnoxious voice of all time, it felt so forced. I’ve procrastinated listening to the band ever since, with the exception of a few songs here and there. One of my best thrifting finds was a ‘94 Smashing Pumpkins tee in near dead stock condition, I nearly creamed my jeans you should’ve seen the look on the Salvation Army employees face as I lost near all fine motor skills and fell in a pile of my own drool and cum, so this only feels right to finally listen. First listen thru I felt the same, but after 2 and 3 I’ve changed my mind. Overall I liked the album, and I like the band’s sound, BUT I don’t like the super punk rock songs (which is a lot of em Ik Ik), songs like Space Boy and Luna hit every time though, I also really liked Hummer and Today. Solid 3/5, gonna take a deeper dive into their music.

Noisy 90's grunge rock that really isn't my thing. Probably deserves another listen but only in the right setting.