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The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
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“1979” is an homage to youth and all the pain, angst, and happiness that goes along with it. With a fusion of alternative rock, new wave, and electronics, the Pumpkins stumbled
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Bodies
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Love is suicide.
Courtney Love, lead singer of Hole and rocker boy heartbreaker, having been in relationships with Kurt Cobain, Trent Reznor, and lead singer of The Smashing
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Beguiled
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[Verse 1] / So swallow hard the serpents / Of many tags and faces hid in masks / Coiled 'round this lung until the last / He'll crack your boots, young pagans / 'Cause like you, I
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonaise
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Billy Corgan’s explanation of the sound of his guitar in “Mayonaise”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vd3uMxTpdI
In a 2012 interview with Adam Graham, Billy commented on his
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings
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“Bullet with Butterfly Wings” won a GRAMMY in 1997 along with a slew of other awards. It remains one of Smashing Pumpkins highest charting and most recognizable songs, being used
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Landslide
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This is a cover of a Fleetwood Mac song which was originally written by Stevie Nicks. According to Stevie, she wrote it during a time when she did not know whether to return to
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Jellybelly
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The choice to place a song like “Jellybelly” so early in the tracklist definitely makes a statement. The band seems to be communicating that, although “Tonight, Tonight” kicks it
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Empires
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Oh, empires / Oh, empires / Empires, your help is on the way / In bonfires slash, circuit breaks and change / Empires, empires / No, you needn't worry, hey / 'Bout your empires
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Rhinoceros
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“Rhinoceros” is the second single from the Pumpkins' debut album, Gish. The song introduces listeners to that now familiar contrast, seesawing between soft and sweet to loud and
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
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The lyrics of “Disarm” touch upon the subject of child abuse as Billy Corgan directly addresses his parents in the first person as an abused son. However, during a performance in
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Today
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Most listeners are surprised to learn that “Today” was written sarcastically. When reading the verses however, it becomes quite apparent. In Billy Corgan’s own words, he “was
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Perfect
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The second and final commercial single off the Pumpkins' 1998 album Adore.
“Perfect” is in many ways a “sister song” to the band’s biggest hit, “1979” – from Rolling Stone
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Tear
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[Instrumental Intro] / The lights came on fast / Lost in motor crash / Gone in a flash, unreal / But you knew all along / You laugh the light / I sing the songs / To watch you numb
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Rocket
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The fourth and final single off Siamese Dream, featuring the band’s trademark “guitar wall” sound. This was the first song written for Siamese Dream.
The music video for “Rocket
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The Smashing Pumpkins – By Starlight
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This is one of the several songs about Corgan’s marriage with Chris Fabian, which ended bitterly shortly after the release of Mellon Collie.
An on-again, off-again couple, they
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Valentine
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Let the horses run / Your deserted mind / Catch the thread-bare strains / Of departing trains / Bound for their last goodbyes / You thought you'd think you'd know / You're sure you
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The Smashing Pumpkins – The Canary Trainer
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On the trine, fetch the reed / That was drunk of mile and meek / In bittered tears as only cruels sever thee / Yes, I will let you go, I'll let you go / You broke my heart as whole
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Tarantula
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I don't want to fight / Every single night / Everything I want is in your eyes / You and me go back / To places I don't know to care / The spoils of all I got were left for scraps
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Intergalactic
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Bain of the breath how do I find you? / Thin back the cranes left in sky / As sacrifice, without last rite / It falls on thee to judge most high / In the pearl of a slummed day
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Muzzle
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“Muzzle” is the twelfth song on the first disc, Dawn to Dusk, of The Smashing Pumpkins' third album, and first and only double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Embracer
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[Verse] / As stilled as a flower / As ruined as a saint where true met true / Let's feast on his rage / Unleash what allays our muse / [Chorus] / I realize, realize / I realize / I
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Pissant
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With no attempt to make this song pretty, the fuzzed out guitar riffs along with Chamberlin’s aggressive treatment of the drums make this a standout track.
The first lyric, “Got
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Fireflies
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[Verse 1] / We stand out on a clover shield / Hunted, yet unloved / Seasick as one preys / Through tasteless, dray haze / [Chorus] / I'm waiting on your fireflies (Fireflies) / To
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
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While Billy Corgan himself has revealed very little regarding the meaning behind the lyrics, the theme of “Tonight, Tonight” is one of hope. To find the courage to lose oneself in
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Pacer
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[Verse 1] / Born on the wheel, Osiris / I was reared to pace / For father swept no kingdom / Dear mother vent no shame but given a heart? / I'd milk my share as villain
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Daydream
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Recorded in 1989, “Daydream” was first featured in the original Smashing Pumpkins Demo tape, later released under the music label, Chance.
Two versions of “Daydream” were recorded
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Anaise!
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“Anaise!” holds the unique distinction of being the only song on Monuments To An Elegy with punctuation in the title.
Next from the random pile was ANAIS: a riff I’d toyed with on
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Pennies
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[Verse 1] / And I stumbled onto you / As you stumbled over me / And you say the fates were cruel / For throwing us together / I always loved you so / Especially when you'd go / [
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Set the Ray to Jerry
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“Set the Ray to Jerry” was released as a b-side to the power pop hit, “1979.” Similar to “1979,” “Jerry” doesn’t rely on guitars but rather uses them as an effect to accentuate
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Space Age
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Stars should follow / Stars worth sorrow / Where all tomorrows / That bore brunt, borrowed time / Used to run, run blue / I used to run, run abused / Built 'round an orbit I'd
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The Smashing Pumpkins – That's the Way (My Love Is)
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The second single off Zeitgeist was initially met with negative reviews, with critics engaging in endless comparisons to their ‘classic’ songs. In a fashion all too familiar to
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Ava Adore
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“Ava Adore” is the first single and the second song on The Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio album Adore. Released May 18th, 1998, the track reached number 3 on the Billboard Top
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Shame
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[Verse 1] / You’re gonna walk on home / You’re gonna walk alone / You’re gonna see this through / Don’t let them get to you / [Chorus] / Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame / Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Try, Try, Try
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[Verse 1] / Pop Tart, what’s our mission? / Do we know but never listen? / For too long they held me under / But I hear it’s almost over / In Detroit on a Memphis train / Like you
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Thirty-Three
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Although “Thirty Three” was the last single released, it was the first completed song off the Mellon Collie album, recorded and mastered immediately following the Siamese Dream
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Spellbinding
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[Verse 1] / It's Berlin, baby / Luxor 'n daisies / And I'm plumb crazy / For your tomorrows / It's weimar, lately / Luxor 'n daisies / And I'm plumb crazy / For your tomorrows / [
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Quiet
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Siamese Dream is an undeniably personal album for songwriter Billy Corgan. As he puts it, every song is about some sort of relationship. “Quiet,” a song about his relationship
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The Smashing Pumpkins – The Colour of Love
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[Verse 1] / Whomever wants you alone / Whomever wants you atoned / It's with this prayer, I disown / Whomever wants you alone / [Chorus] / (Color of your love) / And the color of
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The Smashing Pumpkins – In Lieu Of Failure
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“In Lieu of Failure” was intentionally written as if it were a song from the mid-1990’s in order to fit the narrative at this point in the story of ATUM. Billy Corgan likened it to
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonite Reprise
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And the embers never fade / In my city by the lake / The place where I was born / As the wind-up toys wind down / Muffling the sound / Of a life hidden underground / Believe
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Ugly
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[Verse 1] / I don't look in the mirror / I don't like what I see staring back at me / Everything is clearer, I'll never see what you see / It's not me, so beautiful and free / I'll
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Tales of a Scorched Earth
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This song is about Corgan’s continuous struggle with apathy; or, in his own words, about “teenage nihilism”.
According to him:
When I recorded the song, I had mixed feelings
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Solara
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First released on June 8, 2018, “Solara” is the first Smashing Pumpkins song in 18 years featuring three quarters or the band’s original lineup (frontman Billy Corgan, guitarist
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Winterlong
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And if I fall into you all / Will my rain cease and dissolve / Some come to harm, others to grace / So let my friends fly under these wings / We're giving it up to the sun / We're
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Soot and Stars
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The words flow / Decisions made / Idea's mine / But the inspiration not / Dreams of hangers-on / Dreams of getting well / Spells of esmeralda / Amarose fortold / Splinters in the
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Owata
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Right off the silver screen / Into a moonbeam / To the Indian sun / Catch up with Jesus / The stars beneath us / Oh what a beautiful night / Cool in your pocket / You can unlock
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