R&P: Do you consider the Smashing Pumpkins grunge (and if possible, recommend me some songs)?

Being an alternative rock fan, you probably expect me to be a Smashing Pumpkins fan. Well, not really. I find Billy Corgan's voice to be irritating.
I've heard some of the band's hits (such as 1979, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, etc) but I don't really like them much. Any suggestions for me? :D

And, do you consider the band grunge? They're from Chicago, by the way.

BQ: Favorite Smashing Pumpkins song
BQ2: Favorite Smashing Pumpkins album

2009-02-12T16:14:05Z

Michelle: lol!

2009-02-12T16:16:57Z

Hello, shred! :)

2009-02-12T16:20:19Z

Mr. W: Because 99% of grunge bands are from Seattle (or the state of Washington). lol

2009-02-12T16:53:57Z

Thanks everyone for their answers so far. All of you helped me! :)

POCKET JOKERS - THE DARKSIDE2009-02-12T16:13:58Z

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Id consider them Hard Rock. They were good but his side project Zwan was horrid and the latest SP album even more horrid.

Other good songs are

Today
Cherub Rock
The End Is The Beginning Is The End
Machina The Machines Of God
Disarm
Love
Where Boys Fear To trend

BQ: Where Boys Fear To Trend

BQ2: Mellon Collie

staib2016-11-04T04:55:46Z

Smashing Pumpkins Grunge

Man In the Box [ßÖÇ]2009-02-12T16:33:07Z

Overall, I wouldn't call them grunge, though some of their songs do have grunge elements.

Try the songs:

Tonight, Tonight
Zero
Siva
Rhinoceros
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Disarm
Adore
Tarantula
Doomsday Clock
Today
Cherub Rock
Quiet
Mayonaise
Rocket
Here Is No Why
F*ck You (An Ode to No One)
Thru The Eyes of Ruby
Tales of a Scorched Earth
Muzzle
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Bodies
Thirty - Three
X.Y.U
We Only Come Out At Night
I Am One
Bury Me
Crush
Snail
Tristessa
Window Paine
Ava Adore
Eye
Perfect

BQ: Tonight, Tonight
BQ2: Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

Anonymous2014-01-23T14:45:17Z

Yes the Smashing Pumpkins WERE grunge, and especially if you look at their live performances during the early 90's, Blly Corgan screams and growls a lot, and Albums like Siamese Dream and Gish definitely have a grunge aspect to them, with Dark lyrics and sludgy guitar sound, you can't possibly miss that.

Janie Jones2009-02-12T17:03:49Z

No. Not at all.
They have songs that could be considered grunge (Cherub Rock, barely), but they are not grunge. They're songs are put together better to be grunge and they're cleaner.

BQ- I don't even know anymore.
BQ2- Adore or Machina/The Machines of God or Siamese Dream

It's hard to say suggestions if you don't like his voice.
Thirty Three
Drown
I of the Mourning
In the Arms of Sleep
Snail
Rhinoceros

Those will probably just make you hate his voice even more.
Give me a day and a half and I can make a list of song with less annoying Billy vocals.

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