The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist Type: Group
Group Formed:
1988
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Surge Tracks
Played By
| The Liam Hour with Dan & Colm | |
| S's & Em | |
| Sack and Jam | |
| The Chris and Ham Show | |
| The Road to Nowhere.... |
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 Wretzky, using a drum machine. Playing with a drum machine frustrated both the band and their audience, and so Chicago jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was hired soon afterwards.
Less influenced by punk than many of their contemporaries, the Pumpkins had a densely layered, guitar-heavy sound, with powerful loud-to-soft-to-loud transitions, while still picking up grunge, heavy metal, power pop, psychedelic rock, shoegaze-style production.
In later recordings, namely Adore, the fourth album, an electronica flair filtered in after Jimmy Chamberlin temporarily left the band for drug rehab. Though Chamberlin returned for their fifth album, Machina/The Machines of God, electronica undertones remained. The emotional tone of bandleader Billy Corgan's songs ranged from angry (X.Y.U.) to dour (Disarm) to jubilant (Cherub Rock).
Artist Discography
Albums
Adore (1 June 1998)
Gish (3 October 1994)
Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (5 September 2000)
MACHINA/the machines of God (28 February 2000)
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (23 October 1995)
Siamese Dream (26 July 1993)
Zeitgeist (9 July 2007)
EPs
American Gothic (3 March 2008)
Lull (5 November 1991)
Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (5 September 2000)
Singles
1979 (22 January 1996)
1979: Mixes (12 March 1996)
Ava Adore (18 May 1998)
Bullet With Butterfly Wings (23 October 1995)
Cherub Rock (13 July 1993)
Disarm (22 March 1994)
G.L.O.W. (4 November 2008)
I Am One (21 August 1992)
Perfect (7 September 1998)
Rocket (1994)
Stand Inside Your Love (21 February 2000)
Tarantula (2 July 2007)
That's the Way (10 September 2007)
The Aeroplane Flies High (26 November 1996)
The End Is the Beginning Is the End (2 June 1997)
Thirty-Three (11 November 1996)
Today (30 September 1993)
Tonight, Tonight (15 April 1996)
Tristessa (December 1990)
Try, Try, Try (11 September 2000)
Untitled (2001)
Zero (19 August 1996)