This band was huge in the 90's, had quite a few popular songs. Some don't care for Corgan's voice, but I always found it unique. Continue down the road of discovering this band, you won't be disappointed.
The voice was one of the things that attracted me to the pumpkins. I love people with very unique voices, even if those voices are not what would be considered traditionally good.
@@jamiemiller6156 I agree, if it weren't for his voice, I might not have paid much attention to them back then, they would have sounded like any other alternative/progressive band from that era. The band's sound was already very good, his voice only put it to another level. I couldn't imagine anyone else singing to their sound.
4 None Blondes turned me on to Alternative/Rock , Nirvana got me hooked and The SP are my favorite band of all time. Hands Down. As a Black dude in a predominantly Black neighborhood and school back in the 90s, we grew up on Gangster rap and R&B. None of my friends understood my obsession back then. Different story now. We just sit back and laugh about it. My kids appreciate SP and that’s all I can ask for
If I could describe nostalgia using one song, it would be this. I was a big Pumpkins fan back in my high school. In fact they were my favorite band before TOOL took that spot. The Smashing Pumpkins were labeled as alternative rock. This song came off of what could be their best album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. It's a double album with 28 songs and the amount of different styles is amazing. Really glad you're liked this one and look forward to your journey on this band. Some suggestions: Bullet With Butterfly Wings (sent you a coffee on that one), Tonight Tonight, Today, Disarm, Rocket, and probably my all time favorite song Mayonnaise (weird title but man that song cuts down to my soul).
They were HUGE in the 90’s. This song is Nostalgia personified. Billy Corgan figured out the cheat code for nostalgia with the chords he used. This song, however, is one of their softer songs. They have a lot of BANGERS that are heavy af. The guitars I mean. His voice counter acts it though because it’s soft. Especially the album before this one, Siamese Dream. It’s my favorite album by then. From front to back it’s a 10/10 with no bad songs on it. The tone of his guitars is ear candy.
@@settheory2219 yes. Although I think a lot of Pumpkins music has that feeling. Very dreamy/shoe-gazey. This one leans toward nostalgia but kind of from a place of melancholy.
Pumpkins are amazing. They are true chameleons, can do beautiful ballads (Disarm), pop-ish tunes (this), thrash metal (tales of a scorched earth or x.y.u.), grunge-ish (Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Zero, Everlasting Gaze), alt-rock (Rocket), experimental electronica (Ava Adore, Perfect). The freaky thing is how good they are at ALL of it. Jimmy Chamberlain is one of my top 5 favorite drummers EVER. Billy Corgan’s voice can be hard to get used to, but he’s one of the greatest lyricists of modern music. Kinda like Dylan. My personal favorite tracks, all good to react to: I Am One Tristessa Window Paine Cherub Rock Rocket Soma Geek U.S.A. Frail and Bedazzled (Zero and Bullet With Butterfly Wings - these were big hits, but deservedly) Muzzle (my favorite lyrics-wise) The Aeroplane Flies High (Looks Left, Turns Right) Marquis In Spades Bleeding The Orchid So many others… Hope to see more Pumpkins on your channel, Polo! Cheers!
@@JardaniJovonovich1 you have excellent taste! It’s so hard to list favorite SP songs without the list being ridiculously long. Those three deserve to be on it, too. 👏🏻
How they turned the feedback issue they were having into an actual effect in the track "Mayonnaise" from the masterpiece "Siamese Dream" album is just amazing!
As I recall from reading Guitar World back in the 90s, the Mayonnaise feedback was reminiscent of Billy's cheap equipment when he was young. When there was a stop in the song the amp would just scream back this feedback. Also, the beginning of Quiet was him trying to recreate the sound of drag car racing which he used to watch as a kid.
I graduated in '82 so from '79-'82 through high school, I had many "adventurous nights" just like this. Sooo many good memorable times....did stupid stuff and was lucky enough not to get caught. Miss my old friends :(
Graduated in '83. Back in the days when a good time could be had with just a field or parking lot, a cooler of beer, and a radio playing to dance, talk, smoke with friends.
Long before everything was documented for the whole world to see. Never forget how lucky we were to grow up before being suffocated by internet culture
I think Smashing Pumpkins kinda got thrown into the "grunge" pile though they really weren't...I'm not sure how to categorize them but sometimes that's what makes a band great. Their album "Siamese Dream" is total fire start to finish. Throw "Quiet" on in the ride, or "Cherub Rock". They're a total wall of sound, the bass is heavenly. "Mayonaise" is amazing, "Luna" is beautiful.
They were always a prog/psych rock band. Unfortunately they were lumped into the grunge scene, but they were doing their own thing in Chicago starting in the late 80’s. I got to see them many times back then when they would make the short trip up to Milwaukee. Their fist three records are really amazing. Gish being my personal favorite.
Still one of my all time favorite bands, although I base that on what they did up to 1995. "Gish", "Siamese Dream" and "Mellon Collie..." are still among my favorite albums. "1979" was one of a few songs my gf at the time liked from "my type of music", so we listened to that one a lot 😄. Saw them live twice. Great band, and used to have an amazing drummer. "Cherub Rock" is a banger, as is "Bullet With Butterfly Wings", but they also have great slower songs, like "Luna " and "Galapogos".
Jimmy is still playing with them and is still at the top of his craft. Porcelina remains my favourite from them along with pretty much all of Gish and SD.
I grew up on siamese dream and loved the pumpkins.... but live, they sucked. The sound was amazing but they sounded exactly like their CD. Probably one of the most dissapointing live bands ive seen. How was your live experience?
@@Nerb1 The first was around the time of "Melon Collie...". I remember loving it, and the band being very relaxed and messing around on stage. Filter was the warm up. Might have sounded like the record, but maybe playing some of the songs a bit heavier/faster. Anyway, I suspect back then sounding like the records was a plus for me. It was when I was younger. The second was much later. We went for the nostalgia, and got quite drunk. Joyful experience. I remember thinking some of their later songs sounded good live. I never got into the later albums. I was disappointed by "Adore" and "Machina...", so I more or less wrote them off, and only ever listened to their three first.
An odd first track. Just so you know, Smashing Pumpkins is one of the great bands and their "Siamese Dream" album is a masterpiece. Check out "Cherub Rock" or "Today". There's so much good meat on this bone. "Starla", "In the eyes of Ruby", and "Jellybelly" are personal favorites.
This is probably one of my favorite songs by them. Due to the fact that this song feels like a memory to me. A memory of a time when life's experiences felt more genuine, relationships had more depth and meaning , and some things that should still be valued have either become less important or became something else entirely. It hurts to see it happen and know you can't stop it. At the same time, I do understood things do change. Some good, some bad, but some of it ,fortunately, still is the same.
What a band. Next up by them is Geek USA. Completely different sound to this song. Very heavy grungy, a little Tool-like. And the drumming is out of this world.
Billy Corgan (vocals + guitars + songwriting) formed the original Smashing Pumpkins (w/ drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, guitarist James Iha and female bassist D'Arcy Wretsky) as a very eclectic rock band in the late 80's... but once 90's 'grunge rock' and 'alternative rock' started becoming popular in the early 90's, Corgan was asked to take the Smashing Pumpkins in that direction musically... They recorded their debut album 'Gish' in 1991 w/ producer Butch Vig (who had produced Nirvana's 'Nevermind') and it was a minor success, enjoying some MTV airplay, landing a record contract w/ Virgin Records. Corgan played a bulk of the instruments on their 2nd record 'Siamese Dream' (1993) w/ Butch Vig producing again... and the Smashing Pumpkins took full advantage of the 'grunge rock' scene (they were from Chicago, not Seattle) to score a huge hit w/ MTV videos for the singles - 'Cherub rock'... 'Today'... 'Disarm'... and 'Rocket'... the album sold 4 million copies in the US, charting in the top 10. Despite the success, Corgan's reputation as a domineering character didn't help the band... and success brought in drug abuse and internal dissent, as the Smashing Pumpkins released a rarities album 'Pisces iscariot' in 1994. Hoping to top 'Siamese Dream'... Billy Corgan wrote 56 songs and worked w/ producer Alan Moulder and Flood (who had scored success working w/ Nine Inch Nails) hoping to return the Smashing Pumpkins back to its musically eclectic vision... The result was a double-CD of new music titled 'Mellon Collie & the infinite sadness' in 1995... It charted at #1 in the US, and sold 5 million copies... MTV put on 5 music videos: 'Bullet with butterfly wings'... '1979'... 'Zero'... 'Tonight, tonight'... and 'Thirty-three'... The album took a number of new directions w/ piano interludes, strings, programming and electronic samples. Tragically, the band was rocked on tour in 1996, when their touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin died from a heroin OD and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain was using w/ him and arrested... A session drummer was brought in after Jimmy Chamberlain was sacked as a result. With 'grunge' in freefall commercially, the Smashing Pumpkins returned in 1998 w/ 'Adore'... this time, the music was different from their hit records w/ electronic music, beats and samples... it sold less than 1 million copies in the US. Desperate to make another commercial hit, Corgan re-hired Jimmy Chamberlain (drums) and returned to Smashing Pumpkins' guitar-driven sound on the album 'Machina/ The machines of God' (2000) ... but bassist D'Arcy's drug abuse prompted Corgan to fire her and replaced her on tour w/ Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur... However, the album sold even less - around a half million copies. In 2000, Corgan announced that the Smashing Pumpkins were breaking up once the tour was over. Billy Corgan attempted to try new projects, including the band Zwan... a solo record... but both were commercial failures. In 2007, Corgan announced a new Smashing Pumpkins line-up w/ Jimmy Chamberlain (drums) and a new record 'Zeitgeist' (which Corgan played most of the tracks) which sold decently as record sales dropped overall. Chamberlain soon left and Corgan kept recording and touring as the Smashing Pumpkins w/ session musicians. In 2018, Corgan reunited w/ James Iha (guitar) and Jimmy Chamberlain (drums) as the Smashing Pumpkins announced a reunion tour playing their classic records... D'Arcy Wretsky was not asked back. The tour was a success... but subsequent albums have not been as highly regarded as the band's 90's catalog.
This track was off of their 1996 double album _Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness._ It's a unique album in that the sound profile is all over the place; in some ways it's the entirety of their oeuvre in a single album. They shared the same noise-heavy guitar of Grunge, but with the epic aspirations of Floyd, and they had some of the most heavily-layered tracks of the decade. In some ways they share Tool's pursuit of sonic depth and emotional resonance, albeit more bittersweet and angsty than sheer and utter despair. They accidentally went electronica after this album and then leaned more into the noise level on _Machina_ and _Machina II,_ but they still produced some stellar stuff before breaking up in 2000. If you're not going to do full-album listens and using single-track experiences, then I'd recommend a good palate plate of singles and some B-sides: "Today" "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" "Tonight, Tonight" "Rhinoceros" "Drown" "Perfect" "Porcelina of the Oceans" "We Only Come Out at Night" "The Everlasting Gaze" "Untitled" In 2003, Corgan tried another supergroup called Zwan, which only produced one album ( _Mary, Star of the Sea_ )before the band broke up acrimoniously. Still, there's some solid songs on that album.
You should try “Perfect” next. It’s like the unofficial sequel to this song, using a similar shooting style, some of the same characters, and kind of being grown-up in your twenties after your teenage years are over.
Just seen SP perform live last night. Good show. Billy, James, Jimmy and the rest of the crew looked like they were having a blast. Janes Addiction also put on a fantastic performance.
@@energeez Kryal Castle in Ballarat. Part of the World is a Vampire festival. There were a few local (AUS) acts,who also performed well, as well as some wrestling.
I was born in ‘78, Southern California. Went to high school in the nineties when this song came out. Smashing Pumpkins to me means, going out on Halloween as a teen in the nineties, & smashing peoples Halloween pumpkins…. In other words, just being rebellious & mischievous; being young & care-free, where nothing mattered but having a good time.
This song was def on the soundtrack of my life in High School. Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, Wu Tang, Fugees, NIN, Biggie, Pac, Rage, Korn, Cypress Hill.... whata time to be alive!
Loved the Pumpkins back when I was in college : ) One song I always go back to is 'Thru the eyes of Ruby'. Couldn't really tell you why, it just always kind of did something to me.
I've never been a smashing pumpkins fanatic.. but I do really like about 5 of their songs. This one takes me right back to those early 90s days. Pre-cellphone takeover indeed 😎👍
I was in a punk rock band in High School. We were called “Snot Rocket”. Like when you push one nostril closed to blow the other out. We came up with it surfing one morning. Fun fact for you. One of the times I saw A Perfect Circle in concert, this guitarist James Iha played with them. Twiggy Ramirez from Marilyn Manson played bass.
Smashing Pumpkins was another great 90’s band and one of my personal favorites. They have a lot of really good songs, anything off the Siamese Dream album is good. Their album “Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness” has several great songs as well. If his voice doesn’t annoy you, you’ll love these guys.
The band name was picked because it was memorable. Billy Corgan was joking/pretending that was his band’s name to somebody. Later, they asked how his band Smashing Pumpkins was doing. So he knew it was memorable.
I was 17 in 1979. I wasn’t this type of kid but they were all around in my teen years in Huntington Beach. A time when it was possible to find the edge of the suburban sprawl.. which these kids did, and turned around and flipped it off. So easy to rebel.. living under one’s parents’ roof, driving around in the car that just got replaced.. in this case a ‘72 or ‘73 Dodge Charger.. very believable for a video portraying teen life in Southern California (or some thriving place like it) in 1979.
The nostalgia in this song and music video is so powerful, that I believe the personal reactions and reveals that follow it are some of the most insightful parts of our humanity. We cherish and treasure these memories, because they made us and guided us for years beyond their occurrence. Thank you for sharing it with us, peace. :D
@Dan So Effing Hard. Between the drums and the guitar, it sounds like a machine engine that just keeps pumping its pistons while electricity whirls around it.
I feel that this song perfectly encapsulates the word "anemoia", defined as 'nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known'. I was only born in 1979 in Ireland so never experienced anything like what was portrayed in the video but I feel like growing up through the 80s and 90s would be the closest thing to it. I adore this song for how it makes me feel.
Billy Corgan knows how to write a song. Insofar as grunge/modern music goes, the Smashing Pumpkins are absolutely timeless. They evoke so many good emotions from me.
Saw them in 93-94ish, best concert I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. Them and the Meat Puppets opened for Blind Melon. Changed a 20-something young man's life.
Smashing Pumpkins are so special, if we could go back to the 90s… the nostalgia. My favourite album of theirs is Siamese Dream; I’d recommend you checkout Cherub Rock from that album, you’ll enjoy the bass Polo. Great reaction 🙋🏻♀️👍🏼🙌🏼👏🏼💜🇨🇦
This might be my favorite song.. It was at one point.. It becomes my favorite every time I hear it. Smashing Pumpkins was my favorite band when I was a teen.. I'm 40 now..
You could go down a serious rabbit hole reacting to The Smashing Pumpkins catalog of amazing music... "Zero", "Today", "Disarm", "Tonight, Tonight", "Cherub Rock", "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "1979", "Mayonaise" ... all incredible! Corgan also wrote "Celebrity Skin" by the band Hole
Fun facts: the band members all play parts in the video like the police officer and angry neighbor. The store clerk is a guitarist James Iha who also played in a perfect circle with Maynard.
I was born in 72 and I never did like how 80s and 90s music got divided. As an ex DJ and lover of pop culture - from 1984 (maybe 82) to 1996 to me is the best. We had breakdancing, hip hop evolution, new wave, rock, grunge, electronic, and the list goes on. I was lucky enough to experience outdoor festivals, underground parties etc. After 96 I still continued but it was not the same. I remember Smashing Pumpkins was just another band but they aged very well compared to others of their time.
This video is almost a documentary of my high school days. No cell phones, car culture, escaping to the hills, house parties with live bands, teepeeing houses. It's soooo nostalgic to much more simpler times and a connection with the world over electronics.
In the mid 90s, in college, all the Artsy, 'Alternative' chicks, loved the Smashing Pumpkins. If you wanted to spend time with them, you learned to love the Smashing Pumpkins.
The singer is like me from 1967 and I remember the vibe of the late seventies and early eighties very well and it comes back in this song, being young in that period of time.
And we don't know just where our bones will rest To dust, I guess forgotten and absorbed to the Earth below this verses always get me thinking very deep. this is such a great track, thanks Polo!
The Pumpkins were the first band I ever saw live and I loved them for so long. I recently started listening to them again and had forgotten how much good music they have. Some of their best is on Siamese Dream.
This song always reminds me of looking back in my 30s@40s to my teen years everyday is an adventure, fun, no cares, not even a thought about tomorrow just whats happening in the moment
In the 90s there was a local radio station that had a segment where they played nothing but just released music. The two hosts would make a few short comments after each song to say what they thought about it. One of them almost always ended with something that was intended to jokingly (mostly) insult or make fun of something about the band. The Smashing Pumpkins are one of two bands I still remember their comments on. They played this song and when it was over they both said they really liked it. One of them said "These guys are great. I'm sure you'll be hearing them on the station a lot." The other guy said "I agree. Too bad all the good band names were already taken though." The other one I remember is Better Than Ezra. I don't remember the song but when it was over they never directly said whether they liked it or not but they obviously didn't. There were a few seconds of silence after the song ended then one host asked "What was the name of that band?" The other host said "Better Than Ezra." The first one replied "Wow. Ezra must REALLY suck."
Smashing Pumpkins was alternative rock and came out around the same time as bands as Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. 1979 was they year the lead signer was 12 years old. The clerk in the store is James Iha who is the guitarist of Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle.
If you want metal from the Pumpkins, try "Tales of a Scorched Earth", "Jelly Belly", "X.Y.U."... all of which belong to the same double CD as this one, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness", a truly amazing experience.
The Smashing Pumpkins have been my favorite band since 1993 when I was 11 years old. Siamese Dream was the first album that my friend's older brother let us have. He fought in Operation Desert Storm and was away for a while, he would send his little brother his used cassette tapes of all the great bands of the 90's. Weezer, Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Pearl Jam, etc. Just so many legendary bands with legendary albums. I haven't looked yet at your channel, only saw your Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird reaction, but I hope you do more Pumpkins. I'm going to go check and I really hope to see more reactions of my favorite band here. Every Pumpkins album between 91-2000 is great. That would be the Gish album all the way through to Machina II. They broke up in 2000, but Billy Corgan put different iterations of the band back together here and there. He's also done a few solo albums and had a band named ZWAN that had one album. You would like the ZWAN album alot since on your Free Bird video you said you loved the 70's stuff, it's very 70's that album. I love seeing people that don't really listen to rock music give it a chance. I'm a big fan of NolifeShaq and Ryan and George from LostinVegas. Take care man, really enjoyed this reaction. It made you feel exactly how it makes us fans feel. - Ron
Smashing Pumpkins are great and do have some diversity in their songs. Another great track from the same album, "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", is very different but also has that lasting quality to it.
One of my favourite songs and bands of all time. They helped me get through a lot during my 16-18 phase and a lot of their songs bring me back to so many good memories. I’d recommend checking out Drown, Mayonaise, Today, and Perfect. They’re all top notch
Yes so as close to a pop song the Pumpkins ever made,, and while I love the track it doesn't represent their harder earlier styles. I'd suggest a track from Siamese Dream perhaps Cherup Rock to get the hard hitting perspective. I do love the band, and their variety of styles, the album Gish is much softer and slower if thats your mood.
To be fair, the proper reaction song is "Everybody Hurts". If you make it through without a tear in your eye you might not have a heart. That's their iconic song.
The people born in 1979 were turning 18 the year this song came out. That's the point. Class of 97 was '79.
yep, yep, yep! '79 baby here and class of '97. That was something we were excited about at the time? lol. Love the song.
Exactly 💯
No it’s because 79 rhymed easier and Was the year Billy was reaching adolescence.
Pretty sure this album came out in 95
Yeah, this album dropped and was big my whole senior year… I graduated in 1996.
In the 90s we were excited about the future, now that we are in the future we're excited about the idea to go back in time.
Haha. I knew in the 90s that it was the last great decade. The glory days for me for sure! 😂
Hit the nail on the head with that statement.
This future is not what I was promised!
You can say that again,
@@robbob5302 It was a lie
This band was huge in the 90's, had quite a few popular songs. Some don't care for Corgan's voice, but I always found it unique. Continue down the road of discovering this band, you won't be disappointed.
I both didn’t care for his voice and found it unique
The voice was one of the things that attracted me to the pumpkins. I love people with very unique voices, even if those voices are not what would be considered traditionally good.
@@jamiemiller6156 I agree, if it weren't for his voice, I might not have paid much attention to them back then, they would have sounded like any other alternative/progressive band from that era. The band's sound was already very good, his voice only put it to another level. I couldn't imagine anyone else singing to their sound.
Funny, I love Billy's voiceand music, but can't stand Billy himself.
I’ve wondered if Corgan intentionally turned an upper-midwest nassl accent into an art form. Bob Dylan tried, not as successfully to my ear.
4 None Blondes turned me on to Alternative/Rock , Nirvana got me hooked and The SP are my favorite band of all time. Hands Down. As a Black dude in a predominantly Black neighborhood and school back in the 90s, we grew up on Gangster rap and R&B. None of my friends understood my obsession back then. Different story now. We just sit back and laugh about it. My kids appreciate SP and that’s all I can ask for
Great band with an unmistakable sound...including his voice. 👍
POLO, this is a great road trip 🛣️ song. It will definitely sound different cranked up in the 4Runner 😎
If I could describe nostalgia using one song, it would be this. I was a big Pumpkins fan back in my high school. In fact they were my favorite band before TOOL took that spot.
The Smashing Pumpkins were labeled as alternative rock. This song came off of what could be their best album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. It's a double album with 28 songs and the amount of different styles is amazing.
Really glad you're liked this one and look forward to your journey on this band. Some suggestions: Bullet With Butterfly Wings (sent you a coffee on that one), Tonight Tonight, Today, Disarm, Rocket, and probably my all time favorite song Mayonnaise (weird title but man that song cuts down to my soul).
They were HUGE in the 90’s. This song is Nostalgia personified. Billy Corgan figured out the cheat code for nostalgia with the chords he used. This song, however, is one of their softer songs. They have a lot of BANGERS that are heavy af. The guitars I mean. His voice counter acts it though because it’s soft. Especially the album before this one, Siamese Dream. It’s my favorite album by then. From front to back it’s a 10/10 with no bad songs on it. The tone of his guitars is ear candy.
To me, this song answers the question what would nostalgia sound like, not what I'm nostalgic for, but the very concept.
@@settheory2219 yes. Although I think a lot of Pumpkins music has that feeling. Very dreamy/shoe-gazey. This one leans toward nostalgia but kind of from a place of melancholy.
This song is absolutely my husband’s windows down on a nice day song. It’s a favorite in our family.
Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness is definitely a masterpiece, especially when listened as a whole.
nostalgia is the the general vibe of this track
This song is nostalgia heaven, I listen to it every now and again if I want to take a trip back to the 90s of my youth.
Pumpkins are amazing. They are true chameleons, can do beautiful ballads (Disarm), pop-ish tunes (this), thrash metal (tales of a scorched earth or x.y.u.), grunge-ish (Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Zero, Everlasting Gaze), alt-rock (Rocket), experimental electronica (Ava Adore, Perfect). The freaky thing is how good they are at ALL of it.
Jimmy Chamberlain is one of my top 5 favorite drummers EVER.
Billy Corgan’s voice can be hard to get used to, but he’s one of the greatest lyricists of modern music. Kinda like Dylan.
My personal favorite tracks, all good to react to:
I Am One
Tristessa
Window Paine
Cherub Rock
Rocket
Soma
Geek U.S.A.
Frail and Bedazzled
(Zero and Bullet With Butterfly Wings - these were big hits, but deservedly)
Muzzle (my favorite lyrics-wise)
The Aeroplane Flies High (Looks Left, Turns Right)
Marquis In Spades
Bleeding The Orchid
So many others…
Hope to see more Pumpkins on your channel, Polo! Cheers!
One of my favorite bands since I was a kid. Fantastic comment and suggestions man!
@@JardaniJovonovich1 you have excellent taste! It’s so hard to list favorite SP songs without the list being ridiculously long. Those three deserve to be on it, too. 👏🏻
How they turned the feedback issue they were having into an actual effect in the track "Mayonnaise" from the masterpiece "Siamese Dream" album is just amazing!
As I recall from reading Guitar World back in the 90s, the Mayonnaise feedback was reminiscent of Billy's cheap equipment when he was young. When there was a stop in the song the amp would just scream back this feedback. Also, the beginning of Quiet was him trying to recreate the sound of drag car racing which he used to watch as a kid.
Homer Simpson, smiling politely
I got the reference
"I'm looking at you Cypress Hill"
"Making Teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel" 😂
I can’t believe that Cyprus hill reference came true irl 😹
I graduated in '82 so from '79-'82 through high school, I had many "adventurous nights" just like this. Sooo many good memorable times....did stupid stuff and was lucky enough not to get caught. Miss my old friends :(
Graduated in '83.
Back in the days when a good time could be had with just a field or parking lot, a cooler of beer, and a radio playing to dance, talk, smoke with friends.
Long before everything was documented for the whole world to see. Never forget how lucky we were to grow up before being suffocated by internet culture
@@bretwilliams249You could make young person mistakes without fear of being shamed for the rest of your life on tock-chat
I graduated in 1979 and I totally agree with you. It was a great time to be a teenager in high school. We were so free to have awesome adventures...
I think Smashing Pumpkins kinda got thrown into the "grunge" pile though they really weren't...I'm not sure how to categorize them but sometimes that's what makes a band great. Their album "Siamese Dream" is total fire start to finish. Throw "Quiet" on in the ride, or "Cherub Rock". They're a total wall of sound, the bass is heavenly. "Mayonaise" is amazing, "Luna" is beautiful.
They were at one point but they evolved and led the industry out of grunge.
They were always a prog/psych rock band. Unfortunately they were lumped into the grunge scene, but they were doing their own thing in Chicago starting in the late 80’s. I got to see them many times back then when they would make the short trip up to Milwaukee. Their fist three records are really amazing. Gish being my personal favorite.
Siamese Dream is still my fav album by them. Mayonaise being my fav song by them.
"Quiet" is amazing. I'm glad you mentioned it, as it usually doesn't get much love from the fans IMO. "Hummer" is also fantastic.
@@LudvikM really? Oh my goodness, how could you not love that song? I know my walls and windows and my kids don't love it lol
Still one of my all time favorite bands, although I base that on what they did up to 1995. "Gish", "Siamese Dream" and "Mellon Collie..." are still among my favorite albums. "1979" was one of a few songs my gf at the time liked from "my type of music", so we listened to that one a lot 😄. Saw them live twice. Great band, and used to have an amazing drummer. "Cherub Rock" is a banger, as is "Bullet With Butterfly Wings", but they also have great slower songs, like "Luna " and "Galapogos".
Jimmy is still playing with them and is still at the top of his craft. Porcelina remains my favourite from them along with pretty much all of Gish and SD.
@@flingonber a seriously underrated drummer.
What kind of chick didn't like smashing pumpkins
I grew up on siamese dream and loved the pumpkins.... but live, they sucked. The sound was amazing but they sounded exactly like their CD. Probably one of the most dissapointing live bands ive seen. How was your live experience?
@@Nerb1 The first was around the time of "Melon Collie...". I remember loving it, and the band being very relaxed and messing around on stage. Filter was the warm up. Might have sounded like the record, but maybe playing some of the songs a bit heavier/faster. Anyway, I suspect back then sounding like the records was a plus for me. It was when I was younger. The second was much later. We went for the nostalgia, and got quite drunk. Joyful experience. I remember thinking some of their later songs sounded good live. I never got into the later albums. I was disappointed by "Adore" and "Machina...", so I more or less wrote them off, and only ever listened to their three first.
An odd first track. Just so you know, Smashing Pumpkins is one of the great bands and their "Siamese Dream" album is a masterpiece. Check out "Cherub Rock" or "Today". There's so much good meat on this bone. "Starla", "In the eyes of Ruby", and "Jellybelly" are personal favorites.
ZERO, nuff said 😂
This is probably one of my favorite songs by them. Due to the fact that this song feels like a memory to me. A memory of a time when life's experiences felt more genuine, relationships had more depth and meaning , and some things that should still be valued have either become less important or became something else entirely. It hurts to see it happen and know you can't stop it. At the same time, I do understood things do change. Some good, some bad, but some of it ,fortunately, still is the same.
What a band. Next up by them is Geek USA. Completely different sound to this song. Very heavy grungy, a little Tool-like. And the drumming is out of this world.
Such an incredible and dynamic drummer. One of my favourite rock drummers
Man, I loved this album wen it came out. Such a golden era of music.
Billy Corgan (vocals + guitars + songwriting) formed the original Smashing Pumpkins (w/ drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, guitarist James Iha and female bassist D'Arcy Wretsky) as a very eclectic rock band in the late 80's... but once 90's 'grunge rock' and 'alternative rock' started becoming popular in the early 90's, Corgan was asked to take the Smashing Pumpkins in that direction musically... They recorded their debut album 'Gish' in 1991 w/ producer Butch Vig (who had produced Nirvana's 'Nevermind') and it was a minor success, enjoying some MTV airplay, landing a record contract w/ Virgin Records.
Corgan played a bulk of the instruments on their 2nd record 'Siamese Dream' (1993) w/ Butch Vig producing again... and the Smashing Pumpkins took full advantage of the 'grunge rock' scene (they were from Chicago, not Seattle) to score a huge hit w/ MTV videos for the singles - 'Cherub rock'... 'Today'... 'Disarm'... and 'Rocket'... the album sold 4 million copies in the US, charting in the top 10.
Despite the success, Corgan's reputation as a domineering character didn't help the band... and success brought in drug abuse and internal dissent, as the Smashing Pumpkins released a rarities album 'Pisces iscariot' in 1994.
Hoping to top 'Siamese Dream'... Billy Corgan wrote 56 songs and worked w/ producer Alan Moulder and Flood (who had scored success working w/ Nine Inch Nails) hoping to return the Smashing Pumpkins back to its musically eclectic vision... The result was a double-CD of new music titled 'Mellon Collie & the infinite sadness' in 1995... It charted at #1 in the US, and sold 5 million copies... MTV put on 5 music videos:
'Bullet with butterfly wings'... '1979'... 'Zero'... 'Tonight, tonight'... and 'Thirty-three'... The album took a number of new directions w/ piano interludes, strings, programming and electronic samples.
Tragically, the band was rocked on tour in 1996, when their touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin died from a heroin OD and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain was using w/ him and arrested... A session drummer was brought in after Jimmy Chamberlain was sacked as a result.
With 'grunge' in freefall commercially, the Smashing Pumpkins returned in 1998 w/ 'Adore'... this time, the music was different from their hit records w/ electronic music, beats and samples... it sold less than 1 million copies in the US.
Desperate to make another commercial hit, Corgan re-hired Jimmy Chamberlain (drums) and returned to Smashing Pumpkins' guitar-driven sound on the album 'Machina/ The machines of God' (2000) ... but bassist D'Arcy's drug abuse prompted Corgan to fire her and replaced her on tour w/ Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur... However, the album sold even less - around a half million copies.
In 2000, Corgan announced that the Smashing Pumpkins were breaking up once the tour was over.
Billy Corgan attempted to try new projects, including the band Zwan... a solo record... but both were commercial failures. In 2007, Corgan announced a new Smashing Pumpkins line-up w/ Jimmy Chamberlain (drums) and a new record 'Zeitgeist' (which Corgan played most of the tracks) which sold decently as record sales dropped overall. Chamberlain soon left and Corgan kept recording and touring as the Smashing Pumpkins w/ session musicians.
In 2018, Corgan reunited w/ James Iha (guitar) and Jimmy Chamberlain (drums) as the Smashing Pumpkins announced a reunion tour playing their classic records... D'Arcy Wretsky was not asked back. The tour was a success... but subsequent albums have not been as highly regarded as the band's 90's catalog.
The Smashing Pumpkins always have such great sonic textures. They create amazing landscapes of sound.
Met D'arcy outside The Rave after their 2nd or 3rd time playing Milwaukee, she was great, she was really nice.
This track was off of their 1996 double album _Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness._ It's a unique album in that the sound profile is all over the place; in some ways it's the entirety of their oeuvre in a single album. They shared the same noise-heavy guitar of Grunge, but with the epic aspirations of Floyd, and they had some of the most heavily-layered tracks of the decade. In some ways they share Tool's pursuit of sonic depth and emotional resonance, albeit more bittersweet and angsty than sheer and utter despair. They accidentally went electronica after this album and then leaned more into the noise level on _Machina_ and _Machina II,_ but they still produced some stellar stuff before breaking up in 2000.
If you're not going to do full-album listens and using single-track experiences, then I'd recommend a good palate plate of singles and some B-sides:
"Today"
"Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
"Tonight, Tonight"
"Rhinoceros"
"Drown"
"Perfect"
"Porcelina of the Oceans"
"We Only Come Out at Night"
"The Everlasting Gaze"
"Untitled"
In 2003, Corgan tried another supergroup called Zwan, which only produced one album ( _Mary, Star of the Sea_ )before the band broke up acrimoniously. Still, there's some solid songs on that album.
All the songs on the Zwan album are amazing! I’m a huge fan of Billy Corgan’s music.
You should try “Perfect” next. It’s like the unofficial sequel to this song, using a similar shooting style, some of the same characters, and kind of being grown-up in your twenties after your teenage years are over.
Just seen SP perform live last night. Good show. Billy, James, Jimmy and the rest of the crew looked like they were having a blast. Janes Addiction also put on a fantastic performance.
where was that
@@energeez Kryal Castle in Ballarat. Part of the World is a Vampire festival. There were a few local (AUS) acts,who also performed well, as well as some wrestling.
I was born in ‘78, Southern California. Went to high school in the nineties when this song came out. Smashing Pumpkins to me means, going out on Halloween as a teen in the nineties, & smashing peoples Halloween pumpkins…. In other words, just being rebellious & mischievous; being young & care-free, where nothing mattered but having a good time.
How us grown ups reflect upon on the great days of youth, with a classic rock vibe.
"Life before Cell Phones" .. Amen Brother, its like Apples and Oranges.
Tonight Tonight is another great song by these guys.
I got my 1st cell phone in 1993.
I just read that right as he said it :)
This song was def on the soundtrack of my life in High School. Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, Wu Tang, Fugees, NIN, Biggie, Pac, Rage, Korn, Cypress Hill.... whata time to be alive!
Same just add Deftones and Nirvana
Loved the Pumpkins back when I was in college : ) One song I always go back to is 'Thru the eyes of Ruby'. Couldn't really tell you why, it just always kind of did something to me.
Possibly my favorite song off the entire album. Such a unique and beautiful sound.
@@ninja_tony Sort of haunting
Great album. But for me, it has to be either Galapogos or Thirty-Three.
I've never been a smashing pumpkins fanatic.. but I do really like about 5 of their songs. This one takes me right back to those early 90s days. Pre-cellphone takeover indeed 😎👍
My all time favorite song to cruise to with the top down!!! Volume full blast every time!
Born in 81, this song remind me some of my youth... Love it so much.
I was in a punk rock band in High School. We were called “Snot Rocket”. Like when you push one nostril closed to blow the other out. We came up with it surfing one morning.
Fun fact for you. One of the times I saw A Perfect Circle in concert, this guitarist James Iha played with them. Twiggy Ramirez from Marilyn Manson played bass.
Smashing Pumpkins was another great 90’s band and one of my personal favorites.
They have a lot of really good songs, anything off the Siamese Dream album is good. Their album “Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness” has several great songs as well.
If his voice doesn’t annoy you, you’ll love these guys.
They still put out music today
_Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness._ I made that same mistake for *years.*
@@Theomite Good catch, I forgot it was 2 words.
The band name was picked because it was memorable. Billy Corgan was joking/pretending that was his band’s name to somebody. Later, they asked how his band Smashing Pumpkins was doing. So he knew it was memorable.
I heard it was suggested by Gallagher.
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I was 17 in 1979. I wasn’t this type of kid but they were all around in my teen years in Huntington Beach. A time when it was possible to find the edge of the suburban sprawl.. which these kids did, and turned around and flipped it off. So easy to rebel.. living under one’s parents’ roof, driving around in the car that just got replaced.. in this case a ‘72 or ‘73 Dodge Charger.. very believable for a video portraying teen life in Southern California (or some thriving place like it) in 1979.
there is a band from the 90's called "slammin' gladys"... pretty funny too
Music is especially timeless when you can’t label it. Perfect originality back then and still today.
The nostalgia in this song and music video is so powerful, that I believe the personal reactions and reveals that follow it are some of the most insightful parts of our humanity. We cherish and treasure these memories, because they made us and guided us for years beyond their occurrence. Thank you for sharing it with us, peace. :D
This is definitely a nostalgic song. Love your content!
"...forgotten and absorbed, to the Earth, below..."
the fate of every human beings
Smashing Pumpkins "Bodies" is such a Killer song.
One of my faves, it goes so hard
@Dan So Effing Hard.
Between the drums and the guitar, it sounds like a machine engine that just keeps pumping its pistons while electricity whirls around it.
I feel that this song perfectly encapsulates the word "anemoia", defined as 'nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known'. I was only born in 1979 in Ireland so never experienced anything like what was portrayed in the video but I feel like growing up through the 80s and 90s would be the closest thing to it. I adore this song for how it makes me feel.
Such a great song for being a "monster ballad". Cherub Rock is still my favorite Pumkins song.
He wrote it as a poem, literally put music to jt and created on of the best songs of the era. I believe it was voted " the most nostalgic" track
Billy Corgan knows how to write a song. Insofar as grunge/modern music goes, the Smashing Pumpkins are absolutely timeless. They evoke so many good emotions from me.
Saw them in 93-94ish, best concert I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. Them and the Meat Puppets opened for Blind Melon. Changed a 20-something young man's life.
Smashing Pumpkins are so special, if we could go back to the 90s… the nostalgia. My favourite album of theirs is Siamese Dream; I’d recommend you checkout Cherub Rock from that album, you’ll enjoy the bass Polo. Great reaction 🙋🏻♀️👍🏼🙌🏼👏🏼💜🇨🇦
Have loved the Pumpkins for 30 years. Cherub Rock is the jam. Saw them in '19 in St. Paul MN, they were still awesome.
My favorite is "Cherub Rock". It will blow your face off.
It's like floating back into your memories and your hopes and dreams.
Appreciate that you did a subscriber recommendation. Not all all of of us have money to send.... but most of us love reactions. ❤
I was 4 in 1979. This song still speaks to my nostalgia. Thanks dude!
This might be my favorite song.. It was at one point.. It becomes my favorite every time I hear it. Smashing Pumpkins was my favorite band when I was a teen.. I'm 40 now..
You could go down a serious rabbit hole reacting to The Smashing Pumpkins catalog of amazing music... "Zero", "Today", "Disarm", "Tonight, Tonight", "Cherub Rock", "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "1979", "Mayonaise" ... all incredible!
Corgan also wrote "Celebrity Skin" by the band Hole
The Smashing Pumpkins will always be one of my favorite bands! Please react to their track called Mayonnaise, I would appreciate it greatly!
This song is riding your bike home as a teenager, on a warm summers evening with your mates
Fun facts: the band members all play parts in the video like the police officer and angry neighbor. The store clerk is a guitarist James Iha who also played in a perfect circle with Maynard.
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Love this track it draws you into reminiscing about back in the day. It just flows .
You should listen to Bullet with Butterfly Wings next. It’s about as un-chill as it gets.
"Cherub Rock", "Cherub Rock", "Cherub Rock" a MUST!
My daughter got me into Smashing Pumpkins and 1979 is my favorite.
Makes me want to dance.
I was born in 72 and I never did like how 80s and 90s music got divided. As an ex DJ and lover of pop culture - from 1984 (maybe 82) to 1996 to me is the best. We had breakdancing, hip hop evolution, new wave, rock, grunge, electronic, and the list goes on. I was lucky enough to experience outdoor festivals, underground parties etc. After 96 I still continued but it was not the same. I remember Smashing Pumpkins was just another band but they aged very well compared to others of their time.
This video is almost a documentary of my high school days. No cell phones, car culture, escaping to the hills, house parties with live bands, teepeeing houses. It's soooo nostalgic to much more simpler times and a connection with the world over electronics.
In the mid 90s, in college, all the Artsy, 'Alternative' chicks, loved the Smashing Pumpkins. If you wanted to spend time with them, you learned to love the Smashing Pumpkins.
I love that. masterpieces get better with age. IDK if this qualifies as such, but its one of my fav's. pumpkins was my first ever live show. 95'
Pumpkins were a phenomenal band.
The singer is like me from 1967 and I remember the vibe of the late seventies and early eighties very well and it comes back in this song, being young in that period of time.
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust, I guess forgotten and absorbed to the Earth below
this verses always get me thinking very deep. this is such a great track, thanks Polo!
One of the best songs for driving around on a warm sunny day with the windows down
They did a great song for a Batman movie years ago. Totally underrated.
End is the Beginning is the End is one of my fav tracks by them. Great little EP and remix ep as well that came out for it.
Smashing Pumpkins had a great catalog worth diving into. Glad you gave this is a listen!
Need to do Cherib Rock. Nasty guitar riffs.
I was 13 in 1979….was a great year to become a teen! Love this song!!!
Be sure to check out "Geek USA", an amazing song from them. It's full of energy. =)
The Pumpkins were the first band I ever saw live and I loved them for so long. I recently started listening to them again and had forgotten how much good music they have. Some of their best is on Siamese Dream.
WHAA!Your old enough for VHS.Did you listen to tape cassette also?You have to at least be 40.You look fabulous.
Smashing pumpkins is definitely worth a deep dive. They have a lot of big hit, check out the song Mayonaise.
My favorite of theirs!
What I love about the smashing pumpkins is the range from soft piano to pop to rocking to super heavy
This was the first the Smashing pumpkins song that I heard, was hipnotic, magic! I love this band forever..
This song always reminds me of looking back in my 30s@40s to my teen years everyday is an adventure, fun, no cares, not even a thought about tomorrow just whats happening in the moment
I've never been a big Pumpkins fan, they have a couple listenable songs (like this one), but Billy Corgans voice is like nails on a chalkboard.
You should listen to Cherub Rock, great tune.
Smashing Pumpkins are absolutely awesome!! Totally was & is a major fan💥He's sooo beautiful..a beautiful looking man💓😍💥
So awesome to see someone watch this for the first time and just feel it. Your face through this is just how this makes me feel.
The word “smashing” is an adjective, as in, “smashing good time”. So these are the “really good pumpkins”.
In the 90s there was a local radio station that had a segment where they played nothing but just released music. The two hosts would make a few short comments after each song to say what they thought about it. One of them almost always ended with something that was intended to jokingly (mostly) insult or make fun of something about the band. The Smashing Pumpkins are one of two bands I still remember their comments on. They played this song and when it was over they both said they really liked it. One of them said "These guys are great. I'm sure you'll be hearing them on the station a lot." The other guy said "I agree. Too bad all the good band names were already taken though."
The other one I remember is Better Than Ezra. I don't remember the song but when it was over they never directly said whether they liked it or not but they obviously didn't. There were a few seconds of silence after the song ended then one host asked "What was the name of that band?" The other host said "Better Than Ezra." The first one replied "Wow. Ezra must REALLY suck."
Smashing Pumpkins was alternative rock and came out around the same time as bands as Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. 1979 was they year the lead signer was 12 years old. The clerk in the store is James Iha who is the guitarist of Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle.
If you want metal from the Pumpkins, try "Tales of a Scorched Earth", "Jelly Belly", "X.Y.U."... all of which belong to the same double CD as this one, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness", a truly amazing experience.
The Smashing Pumpkins have been my favorite band since 1993 when I was 11 years old. Siamese Dream was the first album that my friend's older brother let us have. He fought in Operation Desert Storm and was away for a while, he would send his little brother his used cassette tapes of all the great bands of the 90's. Weezer, Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Pearl Jam, etc. Just so many legendary bands with legendary albums. I haven't looked yet at your channel, only saw your Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird reaction, but I hope you do more Pumpkins. I'm going to go check and I really hope to see more reactions of my favorite band here. Every Pumpkins album between 91-2000 is great. That would be the Gish album all the way through to Machina II. They broke up in 2000, but Billy Corgan put different iterations of the band back together here and there. He's also done a few solo albums and had a band named ZWAN that had one album. You would like the ZWAN album alot since on your Free Bird video you said you loved the 70's stuff, it's very 70's that album. I love seeing people that don't really listen to rock music give it a chance. I'm a big fan of NolifeShaq and Ryan and George from LostinVegas. Take care man, really enjoyed this reaction. It made you feel exactly how it makes us fans feel. - Ron
Smashing Pumpkins are great and do have some diversity in their songs. Another great track from the same album, "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", is very different but also has that lasting quality to it.
79 I was officially a teenager and we already knew how to enjoy life and have fun and the 80s where it was at 😂❤❤❤❤
So happy you pointed that out. Life before the cell phone take over. Amazing how people actually paid attention to each other, not so much anymore :(.
One of my favorite songs of all time.
One of my favourite songs and bands of all time. They helped me get through a lot during my 16-18 phase and a lot of their songs bring me back to so many good memories.
I’d recommend checking out Drown, Mayonaise, Today, and Perfect. They’re all top notch
This reminds me of just chilling with friends at a highschool party. God I wish I could go back to the mid 90's. It was an easier time in my life.
Yes so as close to a pop song the Pumpkins ever made,, and while I love the track it doesn't represent their harder earlier styles. I'd suggest a track from Siamese Dream perhaps Cherup Rock to get the hard hitting perspective. I do love the band, and their variety of styles, the album Gish is much softer and slower if thats your mood.
To be fair, the proper reaction song is "Everybody Hurts". If you make it through without a tear in your eye you might not have a heart. That's their iconic song.
LOVE THEM AND THIS SONG!!