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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 – 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 – Soma
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Loosely connected to the drug found in Huxley’s Brave New World, the song describes numbness as a defense mechanism to deal with life’s stresses.
Billy Corgan has commented that
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – X.Y.U.
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“X.Y.U.” stands as one of the heaviest Pumpkins tracks, a grueling beast better experienced live. A fan favorite at concerts, as of 2019 it has been played live almost 300 times
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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 – Avalanche
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I hope someday we'll find out what happiness means / Don't get me wrong / This ain't so hard / Youth arms my shield / As wish does charge / Don’t get me wrong / I aim desires / I
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Galapogos
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The song’s title comes from the Galápagos Islands, made famous by Charles Darwin. Darwin’s observations on these islands led to the creation of the theory of evolution and his
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Geek U.S.A.
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“Geek U.S.A.” is frequently praised by fans and critics alike for its complexity. For example, a 1993 review in The New York Times stated:
With the […] Hendrix pyrotechnics of ‘
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Hummer
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One of the things that have defined the Smashing Pumpkins from the start was the way many of their songs will dynamically change from verse to verse, ending up almost like
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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 – 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 – Stand Inside Your Love
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“Stand Inside Your Love” is the lead single from the Smashing Pumpkins' final studio album before their initial breakup.
As Corgan explained on VH1 Storytellers in August of 2000
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – To Forgive
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[Verse 1] / Ten times removed / I forget about where it all began / Bastard son of a bastard son of / A wild-eyed child of the sun / [Pre-Chorus] / And right as rain, I'm not the
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Stumbleine
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A song full of single-sentence stories, “Stumbeline” speaks of swapping roles in a relationship in order to deal with the burdening problems that plague the world.
The characters
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Eye
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Released at the height of Smashing Pumpkins fame, “Eye” give us a taste of a genre that was struggling to find a place in the 1990’s. Mixing electronica and alternative rock, we
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Silverfuck
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The heavily ambitious nine-minute “Silverfuck” was, at the time, the longest song put out by the band. Looking back, it seems to mark the beginning of a tradition which would be
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Butterfly Suite
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[Verse 1] / Who sweeps a squalid rain to scan through pinks and grey / Aloft without escape above a frightened race / In touch with wanderlust, a tome of others dust / Yet settled
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Luna
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[Verse 1] / What moonsongs / Do you sing your babies? / What sunshine do you bring? / Who belongs? / Who decides who's crazy? / Who rights wrongs where others cling? / [Chorus 1
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Harmageddon
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[Verse 1] / You gotta let me live / You gotta let me die alone and low / You gotta set this right / You gotta light this ark for flight, let's go / I wasn't made for thrift / I
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The Smashing Pumpkins – To Sheila
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The opening track on the Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio LP, Adore, prepares listeners for a dramatic break from the past. “To Sheila” greets fans with nothing but a quietly
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Plume
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[Verse 1] / Oh yeah, another day / Oh yeah, gotta play / What it is, it never was / I don't care to give enough / [Chorus] / My boredom has outshined the sun / It's so down low / I
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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 – Bleed
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It's all I wanted / It's all I could see / You can watch me bleed / Daylight comes and washes over me / Take what you have wanted / This is not your promise to me / And there's
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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 – Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
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The elusive lover, Porcelina, beckons the subject to the edge of belief and beyond. His belief system changes as he gives into Porcelina and gazes past “The realm of soft
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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 – Love
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Buzzing with multiple and unique guitar tones and anamorphic vocal effects, “Love” plays as if the song has declared war on its subject. Corgan plows through a soundscape that
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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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