The Smashing Pumpkins

Surge Tracks

• Untitled
• 1979
• Tonight Tonight
• Stand Inside Your Love
• Today
• Disarm
• Try, Try, Try

Artist Biography

The Smashing Pumpkins are an influential American alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Billy Corgan and James Iha met in a record store, and began performing in local nightclubs with their bassist, D'arcy, before they had a drummer.

Less influenced by punk than many of their contemporaries, the Pumpkins had a densely layered and guitar-heavy sound, grunge, heavy metal, power pop, psychedelic rock, shoegazer-style production and, in later recordings, electronica. The emotional tone of bandleader Billy Corgan's songs ranged from angry (Bullet with Butterfly Wings) to dour (Disarm) to jubilant (Cherub Rock).

Selling more than 12 million albums in the United States alone, the Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s. However, internal fighting, diminishing sales, drug problems, cultural vitality, and what is speculated to be improper treatment from their record company, hampered the band in their later years, leading to a 2000 break-up.

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Artist Discography

Albums

Adore (1998-06-01)
Gish (1994-10-03)
Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (2000-09-05)
MACHINA/the machines of God (2000-02-29)
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1996-04-29)
Siamese Dream (1993-07-26)
Zeitgeist (2007-07-10)

EPs

Lull (1991-11-05)
Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (2000-09-05)

Singles

1979 (1996-01-22)
1979: Mixes (1996-03-12)
Ava Adore (1998-05-18)
Bullet With Butterfly Wings (1995-10-23)
Cherub Rock (1993-07-13)
Disarm (1994-03-22)
I Am One (1992-08-21)
Perfect (1998-09-07)
Rocket (1994)
Stand Inside Your Love (2000-02-21)
Tarantula (2007-07-02)
That's the Way (2007-09-10)
The Aeroplane Flies High (1996-11-26)
The End Is the Beginning Is the End (1997-06-02)
Thirty-Three (1996-11-11)
Today (1993-09-30)
Tonight, Tonight (1996-04-15)
Tristessa (1990-12)
Try, Try, Try (2000-09-11)
Untitled (2001-11-05)
Zero (1996-08-19)

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