Condition: New
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Label: Virgin 50999 67928 9 10
Format: 2 Χ Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered
180 Gram 2LP
Includes original album remastered with reimagined cover art.
Country: US
Originally Released: 1993
Released: 29 Nov 2011
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Grunge
Tracklist
A1 Cherub Rock
A2 Quiet
A3 Today
A4 Hummer
B1 Rocket
B2 Disarm
Cello Eric Remschneider
Violin David Ragsdale
B3 Soma
Piano Mike Mills
Written-By James Iha
C1 Geek U.S.A.
C2 Mayonaise
Written-By James Iha
C3 Spaceboy
D1 Silverfuck
D2 Sweet Sweet
D3 Luna
Cello Eric Remschneider
Violin David Ragsdale
Companies etc
Phonographic Copyright (p) Virgin Records America, Inc.
Copyright (c) Virgin Records America, Inc.
Manufactured By Virgin Records America, Inc.
Pressed By Rainbo Records
Mastered At A&R Records
Recorded At Triclops Sound Studios
Mixed At Rumbo Recorders
Credits
Arranged By [Strings] Billy Corgan, Butch Vig, David Ragsdale, Eric Remschneider
Bass, Vocals D'Arcy
Drums Jimmy Chamberlin
Engineer Jeff Tomei, Mark Richardson
Guitar James Iha
Guitar, Mellotron, Producer, Vocals Billy Corgan
Mastered By [For Vinyl] Stan Getz*
Mixed By Alan Moulder
Producer Butch Vig
Producer [Reissue] Billy Corgan, Kerry Brown
Written-By Billy Corgan
The drum rolls, then falls away for a building electric guitar, a drum, and a searingly vibrant wall of sound that rises before your very ears. This is the start of "Siamese Dream," a vintage Smashing Pumpkins album and one of the best, most underrated alternative rock albums ever released.
Opening with a bang is the dizzying "Cherub Rock," a song that serves as a perfect springboard into the heart of this album. It can shift in an instant between pulse-pounding (the deceptively-named "Quiet") and more progressive ("Hummer"). Corgan's range stretches even to the quiet ("Sweet Sweet"), the dramatic ("Disarm" with its bells and violins) or the catchy (the plaintive "Spaceboy").
Perhaps the most outstanding thing about the Pumpkins is their seamless blend of metal, neo-psychedelica and art-rock. The blasting electric riffs, sprawling melodies, and the whirling, sinuous guitars are all interwoven without so much as a sonic burp. At first glance, it seems like a fairly typical rock/metal album, but upon further listening, the alluringly complicated music begins to filter itself fully into your brain. Corgan's lyrics aren't for the perky among you -- angsty and introspective, while avoiding the trap of self-pity.
It's difficult to find a musical flaw with the Pumpkins in "Siamese Dream." Corgan's high voice flitters between murmuring and wailing. Backing him up are James Iha's layered, whirling guitar riffs and Jimmy Chamberlain's controlled, fast drumming. Acoustic guitar also gets to shine at the start of "Disarm." What sounds like church bells is even used.
Fiercely adventurious, brooding and expressive, "Siamese Dream" is a breathtaking ride into a majestic rock world all its own. Inventive and enticing
Smashing Pumpkins - Today (Live at Metro, 1993)
When most people think of the 90's, they think of rap and hip-hop. Whenever I think of the 90's, my mind always goes to the Smashing Pumpkins and how much they've influenced my life today. I wish I could say it to their faces, but thank you, Billy, James, D'arcy, and Jimmy.
The Smashing Pumpkins - Silverfuck (Rock am Ring 2007)
Jeff Schroeder is criminally underrated as a guitarist. He should be given the Nobel Prize for Extreme Soloing or something.
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
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