What are your thoughts on the Smashing Pumpkins? ?

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Rock & Pop, what is your take on the Smashing Pumpkins? Personally, I love them; they’re one of my favorite bands. I can’t say that I’m a huge fan of 90s alternative rock, but the Smashing Pumpkins are my favorite alternative rock band of the 90s. I love so many things about their music; Siamese Dream & Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are incredible albums, and the Smashing Pumpkins were a diverse band. Their songs had elements of shoegaze, hard rock, metal & progressive rock, along with dream pop & psychedelia. Siamese Dream & Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness had great production, and the Smashing Pumpkins’ influences were diverse. The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Black Sabbath, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Jimi Hendrix......I love that! Billy Corgan was an amazing guitarist, and Jimmy Chamberlin was outstanding!

Oh, and the Smashing Pumpkins could do heavy rockers that could smash a mountain, along with gentle, wistful songs.

BQ: Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness?
BQ2: What are your thoughts on Billy Corgan’s vocals?
BQ3: What is your favorite part, of the Smashing Pumpkins’ music?
BQ4: How would you react, if Muse or Green Day covered the Smashing Pumpkins?

Oh, and the Smashing Pumpkins could do heavy rockers that could smash a mountain, along with gentle, wistful songs.

BQ: Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness? 
BQ2: What are your thoughts on Billy Corgan’s vocals? 
BQ3: What is your favorite part, of the Smashing Pumpkins’ music? 
BQ4: How would you react, if Muse or Green Day covered the Smashing Pumpkins?

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I agree with your description, I think I know them less than you, but I listened to their earlier albums, especially "Mellon Collie" and "Siamese Dream", which I find very good. Mellon is monumental, and the level of the songs high and continuous, I like Corgan's lyrics, intimate and poetic, songs like "Tonight tonight", "33", "1979", "To forgive", the wonderful "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", the dreamy "Porcelina", "Stumbleine", are some that I care about, but it's a beautiful album at all. In Siamese dream, "Mayonaise", "Disarm", "Today" and "Soma" make me jump. It's a more compact and linear album of course, but only for the vastness of the other, however I think it has been understood I prefer their softer, acoustic and dreamy part. Even "Adore" wasn't a bad album, I'd tried to listen to "Oceania", but superficially and it hadn't taken me.

BQ: Mellon
BQ2: it's not a critical aspect for me, I like his sweet and capricious childood voice, represents the facets of the band also in this
BQ3: I think I said it
BQ4: it's possible that I would never find out

BQ: Mellon
BQ2: it's not a critical aspect for me, I like his sweet and capricious childood voice, represents the facets of the band also in this
BQ3: I think I said it
BQ4: it's possible that I would never find out

Anonymous · Answer

They SUUUUUCK!  I saw them live, only because Garbage was opening for them and I wanted to see Garbage, and their live stuff was as horrible as their studio stuff.  Just bad any way you slice it.
BQ: Neither.
BQ2: Horrid.
BQ3: Nothing.
BQ4: Completely uninterested, since I'm not a fan of either of those bands either.

Mon Amie La Rose · Answer

Never really go into them, probably a case of not liking Billy Corgan's vocals and them never being off MTV in the mid 90's.

Obi Wan Knievel · Answer

Loads of talent, very deep song writing.  I'm not one of their fans (too mellow for me), but they're a band who worked for every penny they got.  I might not listen to them, but they have my respect.

And knock it off with the alt-rock nonsense.  Every band who recorded anything since 1989 has called themselves alt-rock or indie-rock.  Those words stopped meaning anything in 1994.  When your sound and style is just like every other band 10 years before and after you, it's not alternative.

Anonymous · Answer

Way better than previously thought.

BQ: Siamese Dream.
BQ2: A little tough to get used to, very unique. 
BQ3: The diversity. Unless you're asking my literal favorite part of their material, than that would be the final minute of their song Geek USA.."She really loves to break"...Epic, epic song and drumming by Jimmy Chamberlin.
B4: Wouldn't mind

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