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The Smashing Pumpkins
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Siamese Dream layered obsessive guitar tracking into shoegaze-meets-arena hybrid.
Mellon Collie turned double-album sprawl into generational coming-of-age soundtrack.
Jimmy Chamberlin’s jazz-trained drumming elevates every odd-meter twist.
Lossless streams reveal string samples, fuzz bloom, and snare ghost notes.
Billy Corgan, James Iha, D’arcy Wretzky, and Jimmy Chamberlin formed the Smashing Pumpkins in Chicago. Gish (1991) and Siamese Dream (1993) mixed heavy guitars and dreamy melodies, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) was a double album with 28 songs, including 1979 and Bullet with Butterfly Wings.
Adore (1998) turned electronic. The band split in 2000 and reunited in 2006. Corgan has continued to release music, including Shiny and Oh So Bright (2018).
The Smashing Pumpkins: recent news, 2020–2026
- 2020 CYR, a double album with 20 songs, was released in November.
- 2022 ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, a trilogy that continues the story of Mellon Collie, began to be released.
Interesting facts about The Smashing Pumpkins
- 01 American alternative rock band formed in Chicago in 1988 led by Billy Corgan.
- 02 Siamese Dream (1993) included Today and Disarm among defining tracks.
- 03 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200.
- 04 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) was a double album with 28 songs.
- 05 Corgan has led the band through several lineup changes.
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