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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 – Silverfuck Live (alternate lyrics)
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I hear your winter / I hear your rain / I've failed your summer ways / I feel no pain / Let it go / Let it go / I am betrayer / I am betrayed / I am the soothsayer / Don't get in
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Ache - silverfuck rehearsal demo
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Ache (Silverfuck Rehearsal Demo) / Fairy tales and time in whales / Substitutes for sin / It takes some life to find the light within / Whistle past the lane lover / Whistle past
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow / Jackboot (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I hear your winter / And I hear your rain / And I've failed your summer ways / And I feel no pain / [Chorus] / I hear what you want / And I feel that way / I hear what
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The Smashing Pumpkins – You're All I've Got Tonight
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I don't care if you hurt me some more / I don't care if you even the score / You can knock me - I don't care / You can mock me - I don't care / You can rock me just about anywhere
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Sweet Sweet
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Coming in right after the heavy nine minute “Silverfuck”, the song begins with a clean chorus-set guitar, then followed by a slightly distorted guitar in the same tune as the clean
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Jackboot
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[Instrumental]
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Judy Garland – Over the Rainbow Interpolations
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See all of “Over the Rainbow” by Judy Garland’s interpolations
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Have Love Will Travel
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[Instrumental]
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Movers and Shakirs
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[Instrumental]
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Transmission
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Radio, live transmission / Radio, live transmission / Listen to the silence, let it ring on / Eyes, dark gray lenses frightened of the sun / We would have a fine time living in the
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Slurry (Gravity Studios Demo)
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[Instrumental]
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Germans in Leather Pants
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There's a love in your heart / There's a love in the dark / There's a love in my heart / There's a love that won't stop / Shame on, shame on you / Shame on, shame on you / Shame on
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Star Song (Dat Mix/Vocal Rough)
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Why can't you just stay? / And pay my fuckin' bills? / And take my dog for a walk? / And love the pretty world?
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Judy Garland – Over the Rainbow Samples
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See all of “Over the Rainbow” by Judy Garland’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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The Smashing Pumpkins – The Bells
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Ooh the bells are ringing out / What a sound / Ooh the bells are ringing out / What a sound / And i'm in love / The joy of love / The coming of / Jesus / Jesus / Did you call my
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Clones (We're All)
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I'm a clone / I know it and I'm fine / I'm one and more are on the way / I'm two, doctor / Three's on the line / He'll take incubation another day / I'm all alone, so are we all
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Transformer
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A livewire moves slow / A transformer always knows / The score is four / Leaves you hanging on the floor / For more and less and more of the blame / And she's tired / And she's
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The Smashing Pumpkins – A Night Like This
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Say goodbye on a night like this if it's the last thing you ever do / You never looked as lost as this sometimes it doesn't even look like you / It goes dark it goes darker still
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Destination Unknown
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Life is so strange / When you don't know / How can you tell / Where you're going to / You can't be sure / Of any situation / Something can change / Then you won't know / You ask
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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 – My Blue Heaven
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“My Blue Heaven” was written in 1924 by Walter Donaldson, with lyrics by George A. Whiting. Sung by many, the song was made popular by crooner Gene Austin, and was a number one hit
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The Smashing Pumpkins – The Boy
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Originally released as one of the B-Sides for the “1979” single, guitarist James Iha described this song to Guitar World in 1997 as…“a New Wave song.” As he continues the
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Dreaming
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Cover of a Blondie song which was the lead single off their 1979 album Eat to the Beat.
While the original is a hard rock banger with furious drums, this version has an almost
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The Smashing Pumpkins – The Last Song
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This is the last song / This is the last song I'll sing for you / This is the last song / This is the last song I can give you / The roaring city sleeps / Metal fingers clutching
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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 – 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 – Pulseczar
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Yeah / I see you comin' from the sky / I see you callin' from the sky / Your sky can't heal you again / Your sky won't heal you again / Why must I try oh why must I try / 'cause I'
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The Smashing Pumpkins – The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
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[Spoken-Word Part 1] / I really don't want to look stupid when I'm sleeping / I never really liked sunny days / The black wings just reach out to me over the distance / I can feel
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Cherry
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“Cherry” originally appeared as a B side on the “1979” single, taken from the multi-platinum Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album. In an interview with Guitar World in
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The Smashing Pumpkins – French Movie Theme
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Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah / Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah / Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah / Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah / Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah / Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah / Yeah
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonaise (Acoustic)
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Fool enough to almost be it / Cool enough to not quite see it, doomed / Pick your pockets full of sorrow / And run away with me tomorrow, June / We'll try and ease the pain / But
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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 (Ft. Nina Gordon) – ...Said Sadly
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A friend of the band and a star in her own right, fellow Chicago native Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt lends her vocal talents on this romantic duet with writer and guitarist James Iha
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The Smashing Pumpkins – I Am One (Live)
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[Verse 1: Billy Corgan] / I am one as you are three / Try to find a messiah in your trinity / Your city will burn, your city will burn / Try to look for something in your city to
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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 – Believe
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James Iha gets a writing credit and lead vocal performance on this 1979 B-side.
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Spaceboy
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Billy Corgan wrote this song with his little brother Jesse as his inspiration. Jesse was born with mild cerebral palsy, Tourette’s syndrome, heart problems, and a chromosomal
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock
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In “Cherub Rock,” Corgan finds himself suddenly associated with a counter-culture that he never identified with or was included in. He accurately paints a picture of the volatile
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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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