OMG!!! Seriously!!! This is my all time favorite Pumpkins song. I still have the CD with the July 26, 1993 Siamese Dream release party at Tower Records. I was there with a few buddies. The Pumpkins performed an acoustic set and I just fell in love with this song. Can’t wait to hear what you have to say (good or bad).
I don’t know why, but this song usually makes me cry. I really appreciate your thoughtful and empathic analyses. I always find new depths to my favorite songs after watching your videos. Much respect.
One of the all time greatest albums, listen to it from start to finish, you wont be disappointed. I was 17 when this came out, soundtrack to my wreckless, hedonistic youth, kicks me with nostalgia everytime i hear a track from Siamese Dream.
My favorite Pumpkins song, I cannot wait for this reaction! I did a presentation on this song for my Junior English class in high school back in 93/94, feels like a lifetime ago. It's such an iconic part of my teenage years.
I think she needs to hear some of their harder stuff... like "Zero".... or "X.Y.U"... just to get the full range of Pumpkins music.... but also EVERYTHING they do is fascinating - you can't go wrong! My favorite of theirs is "Thirty Three"... "1979" and "Disarm" and "Today" are imperative to hear... I mean, whatever she listens to next is going to be great! I'm so happy you're getting into the Pumpkins, Elizabeth!!!
If you ever decide to do whole album analysis, Siamese Dream would be a great choice. It’s super cohesive and takes you on a ride. It’s one of those albums I put on and let play through without skipping around
So excited you went with Mayonaise, my personal favorite. LETS GO! 🎉😊 The drive from the distortion in the guitar with Billy's nasal tone able to cut through that sound wall is just the perfect combo. The memories from this era are so good I played this album into oblivion in my compact disc player as a kid. ❤ 🔥 ❤ 🔥 ❤
My favorite Pumpkins song! I'd have to guess so many people suggested it simply because it's such a beautiful and heartfelt song, in addition to being a great showcase for Billy's voice.
My friend is a personal touring photographer for The Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corgan is awesome. She started to photograph the band one day in the 2000s and he noticed some of her live concert works at a studio. I work with her as a gaffer, film developer and a master photographic film printer whenever she decides to call me up to develop and print film photographs even today. I had a chance to see him in concert front row because of this. The Smashing Pumpkins really are good live.
I saw them in 2023, the show was great, top 5 show I've ever seen, but I saw them supporting Green Day this summer, and though it was a decent performance, they devoted too much of their short set to some pro wrestling skit.
Smashing Pumpkins made the most beautiful music. There are hidden gems like In The Arms Of Sleep or several other songs in the Mellon Collie album. This band brings me back to my teen years. Thanks for the video.
I endorse this recommendation - but I would also endorse “Today” as a “feel-good” song and an antithesis to “Tonight, Tonight” which Elizabeth already analyzed. {update: maybe it’s not such a feel good song, after listening to it and the lyrics again}
My favorite Smashing Pumpkins song. Funny, you mention nostalgia! Always got that feeling from the song and it’s amplified a million times revisiting this song and why it’s so great 30 years down the road. Memories of triumph and pain, hope and sadness, and longing for days long past all rushing in at once.
Great song. Billy Corgan wrote,played, and sang so many great songs it's hard to choose a favorite, but this is right up there. I love all the diff little layers in a pumpkins song, always a lot going on in the background. Pink Floyd of the grunge era
I'm an 80's teenager and I didn't know how much I needed grunge for my musical soul. It came straight to the heart, no big hair, no big pose, artists breaking the rules in protest, singing about the deep and ugly things that were forgotten or left out of music for so long. Eddie and Kurt broke my heart, made me face my own ugly side, and I thank them dearly for it. Grunge changed me, and for whatever people might say about it, the impact it had on so many people's souls including mine, it was something I had never experienced and have not since. THANK YOU for giving it the credit it deserves.
@@jedMcHiggins Shortly ago I heard her say she was investigating grunge, for whatever they belong or not, I decided to share my thoughts at this moment, cause something in the video reminded me of it. Nothing more fancy than that. Cheers.
YASSS!! Finally a deeper vocal analysis of Billy's style (people don't understand how intentional he is). But can we just address Billy's poetic genius on this one?? I mean, all his lyrics are beautiful, but this one just hits. 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 And I fail But when I can, I will Try to understand That when I can, I will 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 So bad When I can, I will Words defy the plans When I can, I will 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
I have always loved The Smashing Pumpkins, even now I'm in my early 60's, and have also covered some of their songs with different hands over the years ( I'm a vocalist). I used to defend Billy Corgans voice when friends or other musicians said he couldn't sing. It's music to my ears to hear you give so much praise to his tone and technique Elizabeth - and I do particularly love this song!
This is gonna be good. I'm not a massive fan of Smashing Pumpkins, but Siamese Dream is a classic from start to finish. One of the very best of the decade.
Siamese Dream is an amazing album. I'm an even bigger fan of Gish, their debut album... but both are undoubtedly great. I personally think they went downhill after Siamese Dream, but to each their own I guess :)
When I was a kid, they were my favorite band. The first time I got tickets to see them live was my freshman year of high school. My dad picked me up from school to drive to Universal Amphitheater. When I got in the car, Billy Corgan was making an appearance on KROQ to plug the show that night. A few minutes into the interview, Billy announced that Smashing Pumpkins were breaking up. I was all kinds of emotional that night. The final song they played in their second encore was "Mayonaise." It was already my favorite song, but to end on it in what was at the time their final appearance in LA, just made it that much more special to me.
“The band can get very loud and have intensity and a certain gnarly edge to it, but then there’s this soft, REALLY personal side.” Great summary of the Pumpkins in a nutshell.
This song is what being a teenager in the '90s sounds like. Billy Corgan's voice is a turnoff to some, but I can't imagine anyone else's voice in there. It's a great song. Also, the entire album of "Siamese Dream" is the definition of a vibe. Masterpiece of an album.
Totally unexpected reaction! My favorite SP song, yiiiissss!!! As someone who was in their early teens when this came out, Nostalgia is indeed the name of the game!
This entire album is a sonic journey and this has become one of my favorite song reactions you have done recently. I am looking forward to more of your pumpkins deep dives! One of my most favorite songs from the album that I don't believe was ever a single is Geek U.S.A and would be amazing to watch you analyze. That song has so much propulsion to it and it feels like you are on a non-stop spiraling roller coaster that just sucks you into it until you hit bottom and then just float. I'll never forget the liner notes lyrics page, where Billy wrote the lyrics out in a spiral and it just captured so much of what the song feels like sonically. So impactful.
Artist/Song Suggestion: Alanis Morrissette - Thank You... You like unique and iconic voices, none better than her in that regard. If not familiar she had a very unique style that set her apart in all the best ways in the late 90s. Other songs of hers to consider would be "You ought to know", "Ironic", "You Learn", "Uninvited" (this one stands out), basically she is a rabbit hole of amazingness.
Great video, loved the nuanced dive into Corgan's vocals and I recommend one of my favourites thru the eyes of ruby from smashing pupmkins album mellon collie and the infinite sadness!
I was such a huge Pumpkins fan when I was a teenager in the '90s. (I still am a huge fan.) Listening to this song brings me back to the days when my weird friend group consisting of band geeks, goths, and burnouts, would hang out in the corner of the school cafeteria, listening to Siamese Dream through shared headphones. We'd cry, we'd try to give each other words of wisdom, and we'd bond over this amazing band. Sadly, two of these precious friends died way too young. I cry when I hear this song, but it also brings back such wonderful memories. Thank you for analyzing this song. It mean so much.
This is such an amazing album. I have a loophole idea for Muse. I know you have listened to their early music already but I think you would be forgiven if you reacted to some of their live performances. For example their show at the Rome Olympic stadium was incredible. Muse seems like such a great fit to your channel and I know your fans would love to hear your analysis.
Really enjoy watching your reactions to music i grew up listening too....love your love of it and how much joy it brings you....thank you for making my 8hr work day more bearable lol
Siamese Dream (release July 93) launched the SPs into superstardom. I was at Ohio State in 93 and the Pumpkins did a few warm up dates before the BIG SD tour. They did one in Columbus Ohio at a gogo club that held about 500 people (August 93'). I was there, against the stage, something I'll never forget. My ticket was printed on construction paper and hand numbered! God I wish I still had that ticket!
Purchased this freshman year…1993. Such an amazing album. Especially for those of us who weren’t as hardcore dark grunge as nirvana. This and Luna were my favorites.
I was a Junior myself and Pumpkins seemed to be enjoyed more by the smart kids and the band geeks. I was more into Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Zeppelin. So at the time I dismissed the band. But I eventually came around in '96.
It's an excellent song. It wasn't one of the original singles and so wasn't what got the big radio exposure, but everyone who had the Siamese Dream album pretty much lists it a favorite of the band (imo rightly so).
Great reaction Elizabeth!! When someone asks me to remember the sunny day's and the sound of 90's rock, the first name that i think is smashing pumpkins, this is exactly what you said, nostalgic!! Even you are not a smashing pumpkins fan, if you listen to them, you can go back to the 90's!! Thanks for that!!
Yes! I love that you are getting into the Smashing Pumpkins! They were one of the great bands of my youth. Some songs I’d love to see you analyze: Thru the Eyes of Ruby (Probably my fav Pumpkins song) We Only Come Out at Night (Most unique Pumpkins song?) Cherub Rock (Hardest rocking Pumpkins song)
I got this album in 1993 and I was 13yo. This song was and will be all time favorite and got me through hard life stuff growing up. I’ve been fortunate enough to see this live twice in 1999 and in 2024. The most recent time was with my 20yo son. I wept each time, all for different reasons in life but knowing the greatest acknowledgment and wisdom I can share is: For all the agony and things we face: “But when I can, I will” life is a game of patience and developing wisdom along the way. It might not be an immediate understanding of circumstances, it is a slow awakening… Try to understand that when I can, I will.
I grew up with this (I was 22 when this came out). It’s the type of music that is so personal to me that I generally assume that other generations simply do not have access to the subtleties of feeling etc that the song contains. So I am consistently flabbergasted when Elizabeth proves me wrong about this. Her readings on various subtleties of music that are NOT her generation are so spot on!
The guitar was a hollowbody with extremely microphonic pickups, where the coil is loose and makes uncontrollable feedback. They replicated the sound with single note stings on songs like my favorite of theirs, Here Is No Why. The whooshing sound is from an effect pedal called a flanger.
Just close your eyes and prepare to go places. Probably the best guitar album of the 90s and one of the sweetest melodies of that era. That song is magic.
Neat pick, love all the new/old bands appearing here lately. Going to mention 3 I don't see here often: 1) Our Lady Peace (especially the falsetto years) 2) Soul Asylum 3) Dishwalla Thanks for giving us something to look forward to Mondays, Tuesdays and Friday! ❤❤❤
Only in the 90s would a voice like Billy Corrigan's thrive and be so beloved. I was a little turned off by it at first, but man did it ever grow on me! His voice on their version of "Landslide" brings me to tears every time. I would have to say my favorite song of theirs is definitely "Disarm" but there's so many good ones it's hard to pick sometimes. It really just depends on my mood lol. I love the nostalgia of "1979" and the rawness of "Bullet With The Butterfly Wings". I love the dreaminess of "Space Boy" and the craziness of "Quiet". They really do have a song for every mood and I love them all. But the one that always hits me the hardest is "Disarm". It brings me right back to my first heartbreak every time.
Great pick! For me, Siamese Dream is far and away the greatest album released in the 90's. I'd recommend Soma (same album) next - a true masterpiece. Hummer is great, too; and of course, Luna, which is movingly beautiful.
Hi Elizabeth, Thank you so much for this analysis. The 90s are pretty much my musical decade. Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, REM, etc.-all fantastic. The way you've brought this song by Corgan "back to life"-at least for me-is incredibly impressive. Thank you for that. What I’m curious about, and here comes the request, is how you would analyze Kim Deal. I can’t really name a specific song because I think everything she does is amazing. Her vocals in the Pixies, The Breeders, or The Amps-it doesn’t matter. I really hope you see this request because, with your infectious style of discussing music, I would absolutely love it.
I love the sense of lost time and nostalgia in this. I love this album. It dethroned throwing copper by Live for best sophmore album of that period for me. (Subjective!) Speaking of Live. I can't wait to see which song you do! I usually recommend the studio version of I, Alone as a starter for an intro to them. Thanks so much for these! I listen at work all the time.
GREAT reaction Elizabeth!! This really made my Friday morning!! Loved this song (and whole album) since it's release in 1993. I was just about to turn 15, and was discovering music at an exponential rate! I very much embraced the grunge movement. The Pumpkins have such a unique sound...they can do heavy or soft equally well. Glad you enjoyed! Cheers from Canada, eh!!
It’d be super cool/ideal for you to interview Billy Corgan. He is a really good & engaging conversationalist with a ton of interesting views and approaches to life & music . He seems very approachable & open to having interviews or long form conversations with the media & podcasts. I think you’d really like him. Go get him Elizabeth 😁✌️🎶
Mayonaise is so goooood! I love this song. Those natural harmonics in the chorus are cool. The intro uses clean tone pinch harmonics which I also had to figure out by myself. Just a classic.
This wasn’t a big hit so you probably won’t see it as a major streaming number in their catalog. BUT those of us who connected with the themes in Pumpkins lyrics probably connect with this song the most. So it’s one of those songs that fans of the band bring up first because of its impact on them. When you are 15 years old and he screams “I just want to be me”, it hits really hard, given the context of adolescence.
OMG!!! Seriously!!! This is my all time favorite Pumpkins song. I still have the CD with the July 26, 1993 Siamese Dream release party at Tower Records. I was there with a few buddies. The Pumpkins performed an acoustic set and I just fell in love with this song. Can’t wait to hear what you have to say (good or bad).
Shoegazers Unite!!
The Tower release Concert is on line. Great Live video !!
@@carlysoprano8677 I got my Loveless CD next to my Siamese Dream CD!
Siamese dream is the Goat
I was at that release party - I still have my signed CD!
I don’t always listen to The Smashing Pumpkins but when I do, my neighbors do too. 🤗
Yessir.
*_"When I can, I will."_*
Right on.
"Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins"
"Homer Simpson, smiling politely" 😂
It’s 1996 all over again!
Oh man, SP's portfolio is so huge and extraordinary. You're gonna have so much fun discovering it!
I don’t know why, but this song usually makes me cry. I really appreciate your thoughtful and empathic analyses. I always find new depths to my favorite songs after watching your videos. Much respect.
Siamese Dream is one of the greatest albums ever recorded in music history. Its nails, front to back. Absolute masterpiece.
One of the all time greatest albums, listen to it from start to finish, you wont be disappointed. I was 17 when this came out, soundtrack to my wreckless, hedonistic youth, kicks me with nostalgia everytime i hear a track from Siamese Dream.
Same same same
My favorite Pumpkins song, I cannot wait for this reaction!
I did a presentation on this song for my Junior English class in high school back in 93/94, feels like a lifetime ago. It's such an iconic part of my teenage years.
I think she needs to hear some of their harder stuff... like "Zero".... or "X.Y.U"... just to get the full range of Pumpkins music.... but also EVERYTHING they do is fascinating - you can't go wrong! My favorite of theirs is "Thirty Three"... "1979" and "Disarm" and "Today" are imperative to hear... I mean, whatever she listens to next is going to be great! I'm so happy you're getting into the Pumpkins, Elizabeth!!!
I know it’s a “soundtrack” song but The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning never gets any love.
She'll need to listen to 10+ songs to get their "full" range 😂
I'd go with Cherub Rock next. 1979 would be a cool one for her to check out after a harder one, though. Deep catalogue!
If you want to hear another side of Corgan after hearing this, his cover of Landslide by Fleetwood Mac would be a great place to find that
Saw him play it live the other week in São Paulo, in Brazil.
Yes
Also Stumbleine, similar vibes
It’s the same side
I feel like she should start exploring some of their heavier sound next.
It's incredible how HEAVY the guitars are - and so smooth and silky and quiet at the same time.
If you ever decide to do whole album analysis, Siamese Dream would be a great choice. It’s super cohesive and takes you on a ride. It’s one of those albums I put on and let play through without skipping around
Or at least listen to it through. It's a gorgeous album
I listen to Silverf*** on repeat. 😂
This was such a great episode…. Such a great episode… Thank you!!!!
Porcelina of the vast oceans is my favourite
So excited you went with Mayonaise, my personal favorite. LETS GO! 🎉😊
The drive from the distortion in the guitar with Billy's nasal tone able to cut through that sound wall is just the perfect combo.
The memories from this era are so good I played this album into oblivion in my compact disc player as a kid.
❤ 🔥 ❤ 🔥 ❤
My favorite Pumpkins song! I'd have to guess so many people suggested it simply because it's such a beautiful and heartfelt song, in addition to being a great showcase for Billy's voice.
There are so many Smashing Pumpkins songs and this is the best one!
it’s a close second for me. I think Porcenlina of the vast oceans is the perfect SP song
My friend is a personal touring photographer for The Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corgan is awesome. She started to photograph the band one day in the 2000s and he noticed some of her live concert works at a studio. I work with her as a gaffer, film developer and a master photographic film printer whenever she decides to call me up to develop and print film photographs even today.
I had a chance to see him in concert front row because of this. The Smashing Pumpkins really are good live.
I saw them in 2023, the show was great, top 5 show I've ever seen, but I saw them supporting Green Day this summer, and though it was a decent performance, they devoted too much of their short set to some pro wrestling skit.
That's really cool!
Smashing Pumpkins made the most beautiful music. There are hidden gems like In The Arms Of Sleep or several other songs in the Mellon Collie album. This band brings me back to my teen years. Thanks for the video.
Please do Disarm next!
I endorse this recommendation - but I would also endorse “Today” as a “feel-good” song and an antithesis to “Tonight, Tonight” which Elizabeth already analyzed. {update: maybe it’s not such a feel good song, after listening to it and the lyrics again}
I love that song so damn much!!!
Ava Adore...its a great hit of the Smashing Pumpkins
Not really a feel good song... @@scottNNJ
@@josecuesta4519oh yes, both Disarm and Ava Adore are amazing 😊
Soma. It won't disappoint
My favorite Smashing Pumpkins song. Funny, you mention nostalgia! Always got that feeling from the song and it’s amplified a million times revisiting this song and why it’s so great 30 years down the road. Memories of triumph and pain, hope and sadness, and longing for days long past all rushing in at once.
Well said
This song instantly transports me back to the 90's. Love this song so much.
Absolutely
It's a longshot, but I really think she'd appreciate "Drown", which is the song that got me into the Pumpkins, my personal favorite of their songs
That whole soundtrack for Singles is amazing
Hell's Yes
Great song. Billy Corgan wrote,played, and sang so many great songs it's hard to choose a favorite, but this is right up there. I love all the diff little layers in a pumpkins song, always a lot going on in the background. Pink Floyd of the grunge era
Well said.
I'm an 80's teenager and I didn't know how much I needed grunge for my musical soul. It came straight to the heart, no big hair, no big pose, artists breaking the rules in protest, singing about the deep and ugly things that were forgotten or left out of music for so long. Eddie and Kurt broke my heart, made me face my own ugly side, and I thank them dearly for it. Grunge changed me, and for whatever people might say about it, the impact it had on so many people's souls including mine, it was something I had never experienced and have not since. THANK YOU for giving it the credit it deserves.
Why are you talking about grunge on a Pumpkins video?
@@jedMcHiggins Shortly ago I heard her say she was investigating grunge, for whatever they belong or not, I decided to share my thoughts at this moment, cause something in the video reminded me of it. Nothing more fancy than that. Cheers.
YASSS!! Finally a deeper vocal analysis of Billy's style (people don't understand how intentional he is). But can we just address Billy's poetic genius on this one?? I mean, all his lyrics are beautiful, but this one just hits.
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
And I fail
But when I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will
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
So bad
When I can, I will
Words defy the plans
When I can, I will
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
I have always loved The Smashing Pumpkins, even now I'm in my early 60's, and have also covered some of their songs with different hands over the years ( I'm a vocalist). I used to defend Billy Corgans voice when friends or other musicians said he couldn't sing. It's music to my ears to hear you give so much praise to his tone and technique Elizabeth - and I do particularly love this song!
This is gonna be good. I'm not a massive fan of Smashing Pumpkins, but Siamese Dream is a classic from start to finish. One of the very best of the decade.
Siamese Dream is an amazing album. I'm an even bigger fan of Gish, their debut album... but both are undoubtedly great. I personally think they went downhill after Siamese Dream, but to each their own I guess :)
When I was a kid, they were my favorite band. The first time I got tickets to see them live was my freshman year of high school. My dad picked me up from school to drive to Universal Amphitheater. When I got in the car, Billy Corgan was making an appearance on KROQ to plug the show that night. A few minutes into the interview, Billy announced that Smashing Pumpkins were breaking up. I was all kinds of emotional that night. The final song they played in their second encore was "Mayonaise." It was already my favorite song, but to end on it in what was at the time their final appearance in LA, just made it that much more special to me.
One of my favorite songs of all time! When that distortion hits I always get the chills. Such a great emotional melody.
“The band can get very loud and have intensity and a certain gnarly edge to it, but then there’s this soft, REALLY personal side.” Great summary of the Pumpkins in a nutshell.
I did a double take when I saw that you did MAYONAISE. Omg. The best Pumpkins song. So excited to watch!
This song is what being a teenager in the '90s sounds like. Billy Corgan's voice is a turnoff to some, but I can't imagine anyone else's voice in there. It's a great song.
Also, the entire album of "Siamese Dream" is the definition of a vibe. Masterpiece of an album.
Totally unexpected reaction! My favorite SP song, yiiiissss!!!
As someone who was in their early teens when this came out, Nostalgia is indeed the name of the game!
Beautiful progressions, so much melody and harmonies.
This entire album is a sonic journey and this has become one of my favorite song reactions you have done recently. I am looking forward to more of your pumpkins deep dives! One of my most favorite songs from the album that I don't believe was ever a single is Geek U.S.A and would be amazing to watch you analyze. That song has so much propulsion to it and it feels like you are on a non-stop spiraling roller coaster that just sucks you into it until you hit bottom and then just float. I'll never forget the liner notes lyrics page, where Billy wrote the lyrics out in a spiral and it just captured so much of what the song feels like sonically. So impactful.
Perfectly described and one of my all time faves, with an incredible drum performance to boot, by one of the greatest working drummers out there.
Excited. Yesss
Hummer is also great
Love 💕
Thank you so much for doing this!
Artist/Song Suggestion: Alanis Morrissette - Thank You... You like unique and iconic voices, none better than her in that regard. If not familiar she had a very unique style that set her apart in all the best ways in the late 90s. Other songs of hers to consider would be "You ought to know", "Ironic", "You Learn", "Uninvited" (this one stands out), basically she is a rabbit hole of amazingness.
Uninvited please
This And Harriet Wheeler Of the Sundays
@@petereyndhoven104 I think she would love Uninvited.
Seconded 👍
OH MY GOD. I can't believe she is doing my favorite rock song of all time!
Great video, loved the nuanced dive into Corgan's vocals and I recommend one of my favourites thru the eyes of ruby from smashing pupmkins album mellon collie and the infinite sadness!
I was such a huge Pumpkins fan when I was a teenager in the '90s. (I still am a huge fan.)
Listening to this song brings me back to the days when my weird friend group consisting of band geeks, goths, and burnouts, would hang out in the corner of the school cafeteria, listening to Siamese Dream through shared headphones.
We'd cry, we'd try to give each other words of wisdom, and we'd bond over this amazing band.
Sadly, two of these precious friends died way too young.
I cry when I hear this song, but it also brings back such wonderful memories.
Thank you for analyzing this song. It mean so much.
This is such an amazing album. I have a loophole idea for Muse. I know you have listened to their early music already but I think you would be forgiven if you reacted to some of their live performances. For example their show at the Rome Olympic stadium was incredible. Muse seems like such a great fit to your channel and I know your fans would love to hear your analysis.
The 1996 Rockpalast show was blistering
Saw the original Smashing Pumpkins line up at Lollapalooza '94 ! Great show !
Thank you SO very much for this. This song is sacred to me.
This is a landmark album. My favourite track is Soma, but all are perfect.
I was really never in to Smashing Pumpkins, but this song was well done. I kinda like it. Thank you.
Really enjoy watching your reactions to music i grew up listening too....love your love of it and how much joy it brings you....thank you for making my 8hr work day more bearable lol
Would LOVE to see you react to The Smiths in the near future. Morrissey has one of the greatest voices in my opinion
Siamese Dream (release July 93) launched the SPs into superstardom. I was at Ohio State in 93 and the Pumpkins did a few warm up dates before the BIG SD tour. They did one in Columbus Ohio at a gogo club that held about 500 people (August 93'). I was there, against the stage, something I'll never forget. My ticket was printed on construction paper and hand numbered! God I wish I still had that ticket!
This song hits me in the soul! And lyrics are killer
This is literally the greatest song of the 90s. I would listen to this with headphones and just close my eyes and let the music take me.
Purchased this freshman year…1993. Such an amazing album. Especially for those of us who weren’t as hardcore dark grunge as nirvana. This and Luna were my favorites.
I was a Junior myself and Pumpkins seemed to be enjoyed more by the smart kids and the band geeks.
I was more into Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Zeppelin. So at the time I dismissed the band. But I eventually came around in '96.
It's an excellent song. It wasn't one of the original singles and so wasn't what got the big radio exposure, but everyone who had the Siamese Dream album pretty much lists it a favorite of the band (imo rightly so).
Exactly. I came for Today, I stayed for Mayonaise.
The next Smashing Pumpkins song should be a heavier one like ZERO or Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Agree, rage Pumpkins next. Everlasting Gaze would fit the bill as well.
Zero is sooo good.
Jellybelly
"Silver_uck" or "Rocket"
Through the Eyes of Ruby is an absolute banger of a Smashing Pumpkins song
Saw The Smashing Pumpkins three weeks ago in São Paulo, in Brazil. Guitarist Kiki Wong is a great addition to the band. Thank you for sharing.
Great reaction Elizabeth!! When someone asks me to remember the sunny day's and the sound of 90's rock, the first name that i think is smashing pumpkins, this is exactly what you said, nostalgic!! Even you are not a smashing pumpkins fan, if you listen to them, you can go back to the 90's!! Thanks for that!!
This has been my favorite Pumpkins song for over 30 years. Always transports me back to 1993.
favourite song of many SP fans. thank you so much for coming back to SP. they have so many great songs. but my suggestion for next would be " soma ".
Yes! I love that you are getting into the Smashing Pumpkins! They were one of the great bands of my youth. Some songs I’d love to see you analyze:
Thru the Eyes of Ruby (Probably my fav Pumpkins song)
We Only Come Out at Night (Most unique Pumpkins song?)
Cherub Rock (Hardest rocking Pumpkins song)
I got this album in 1993 and I was 13yo. This song was and will be all time favorite and got me through hard life stuff growing up. I’ve been fortunate enough to see this live twice in 1999 and in 2024. The most recent time was with my 20yo son. I wept each time, all for different reasons in life but knowing the greatest acknowledgment and wisdom I can share is: For all the agony and things we face: “But when I can, I will”
life is a game of patience and developing wisdom along the way. It might not be an immediate understanding of circumstances, it is a slow awakening…
Try to understand that when I can, I will.
I grew up with this (I was 22 when this came out). It’s the type of music that is so personal to me that I generally assume that other generations simply do not have access to the subtleties of feeling etc that the song contains. So I am consistently flabbergasted when Elizabeth proves me wrong about this. Her readings on various subtleties of music that are NOT her generation are so spot on!
Love this album. Love this song. Thank you for this.
Found this channel through Sohyang reactions and now you're doing my favorite band.
This is my favorite song of all time, but I think you'd really like Disarm from a musical standpoint.
The guitar was a hollowbody with extremely microphonic pickups, where the coil is loose and makes uncontrollable feedback. They replicated the sound with single note stings on songs like my favorite of theirs, Here Is No Why.
The whooshing sound is from an effect pedal called a flanger.
As a spanish music lover, I am very proud of you loving ALIOLI. That's dope.
Best Smashing Pumpkins song EVER!!!!
I've bought this cassette in 1993
Wore it out 😂
Man that SP guitar tone and Billy's sneaky voice !!! Thanks 90's!
I've watched this 3 times now, love the song and E's reaction and opinions on this song and it's recording
4 times now LOL
Just close your eyes and prepare to go places. Probably the best guitar album of the 90s and one of the sweetest melodies of that era. That song is magic.
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Neat pick, love all the new/old bands appearing here lately. Going to mention 3 I don't see here often:
1) Our Lady Peace (especially the falsetto years)
2) Soul Asylum
3) Dishwalla
Thanks for giving us something to look forward to Mondays, Tuesdays and Friday! ❤❤❤
Yeeeees!! This is by far one of the Pumpkins' best songs. Billy is a musical genius, and the guitar in this song is an expression of that genius.
Only in the 90s would a voice like Billy Corrigan's thrive and be so beloved. I was a little turned off by it at first, but man did it ever grow on me! His voice on their version of "Landslide" brings me to tears every time. I would have to say my favorite song of theirs is definitely "Disarm" but there's so many good ones it's hard to pick sometimes. It really just depends on my mood lol. I love the nostalgia of "1979" and the rawness of "Bullet With The Butterfly Wings". I love the dreaminess of "Space Boy" and the craziness of "Quiet". They really do have a song for every mood and I love them all. But the one that always hits me the hardest is "Disarm". It brings me right back to my first heartbreak every time.
Love it! In my top 3 favorite songs of all time.
A funeral song, wedding song, love, hate, all of it. I listen to this every few days
singing pumpkins at karaoke definitely helped me so much in focus and range. one of my all time favorites
Had a good time in the live chat! Love your videos, keep em coming😇
Hope motherhood is going as smoothly as possible 👍🏻
Listening to Smashing Pumpkins takes me right back to high school.
Nostalgia is one of the better word to describe Smashing Pumpkins' vibe, at least their first few albums..
My favorite song !!
Mine too!!!! 🎉
So glad you did this one!!! My wife and I were just talking about you reviewing it.
Great pick! For me, Siamese Dream is far and away the greatest album released in the 90's. I'd recommend Soma (same album) next - a true masterpiece. Hummer is great, too; and of course, Luna, which is movingly beautiful.
Hi Elizabeth,
Thank you so much for this analysis. The 90s are pretty much my musical decade. Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, REM, etc.-all fantastic. The way you've brought this song by Corgan "back to life"-at least for me-is incredibly impressive. Thank you for that.
What I’m curious about, and here comes the request, is how you would analyze Kim Deal. I can’t really name a specific song because I think everything she does is amazing. Her vocals in the Pixies, The Breeders, or The Amps-it doesn’t matter. I really hope you see this request because, with your infectious style of discussing music, I would absolutely love it.
I love the sense of lost time and nostalgia in this. I love this album. It dethroned throwing copper by Live for best sophmore album of that period for me. (Subjective!)
Speaking of Live. I can't wait to see which song you do! I usually recommend the studio version of I, Alone as a starter for an intro to them.
Thanks so much for these! I listen at work all the time.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings by the Pumpkins might not be my favorite song, but it's one of the most interesting to analyze from a vocal perspective.
“Sweeping” is pretty spot on for that Flanger effect. (Flanger? or maybe Phaser? I mix them up all the time.)
And I adore that feedback sound!
I see Smashing Pumpkins, I click.
This whole album is a sonic masterpiece! Kudos to Elizabeth for a fantastic reaction!
GREAT reaction Elizabeth!! This really made my Friday morning!!
Loved this song (and whole album) since it's release in 1993. I was just about to turn 15, and was discovering music at an exponential rate! I very much embraced the grunge movement. The Pumpkins have such a unique sound...they can do heavy or soft equally well.
Glad you enjoyed!
Cheers from Canada, eh!!
CHERUB ROCK OR QUIET NEXT PLEASE.
The Smashing Pumpkins!
Wow cool comments about the nostalgia and coming forward. Really powerful
Oh yes! Been waiting on this one!
It’d be super cool/ideal for you to interview Billy Corgan. He is a really good & engaging conversationalist with a ton of interesting views and approaches to life & music . He seems very approachable & open to having interviews or long form conversations with the media & podcasts. I think you’d really like him. Go get him Elizabeth 😁✌️🎶
It’s hard to pick a favorite song of all time, but this might be it for me.
Mayonaise is so goooood! I love this song. Those natural harmonics in the chorus are cool. The intro uses clean tone pinch harmonics which I also had to figure out by myself. Just a classic.
This wasn’t a big hit so you probably won’t see it as a major streaming number in their catalog. BUT those of us who connected with the themes in Pumpkins lyrics probably connect with this song the most. So it’s one of those songs that fans of the band bring up first because of its impact on them. When you are 15 years old and he screams “I just want to be me”, it hits really hard, given the context of adolescence.