Introduction to the band Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins? Band formation time: 1988?
Nationality: American?
Band members: lead singer and guitarist billy?corgan?james?iha( Guitar)d'arcywretzky (bass)jimmy chamberlin (drums)
Style: alternative pop/rock (alternative pop/rock)
Band Introduction: ?
Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter billy corgan (Billy Corgan) is the son of a professional jazz guitarist. He likes "Low Trick" and "Black Sabbath" He also likes the spirit of punk. He wants to combine the rough sounds of punk music with beautiful melodies.
After his parents divorced, 19-year-old Corgan came to Florida and failed to find a career. So he returned to Chicago in 1988 and met guitarist James Iha and bassist D'arcy Wertzky to form a band named "The Smashing Pumpkins". ?
In 1990, the band entered the studio to record their last album glsh, which was released in the summer of 1991 and sold 400,000 copies. After that, the band toured for a year, and its popularity continued to rise. After the album siamese?dream was released in 1993, the band truly became famous. The album entered the charts at No. 10. The single cherubrock?&Little Angel Rock) became a contemporary hit.?
Album mellon ?collie?and?the?infinite?sadness is a double CD album that is as long as 4 regular albums. It is also the band's best-selling album. At the same time, his greatest success was becoming the number one album on the charts. During the 1996 tour The keyboardist died of a heroin overdose in Manhattan. The drummer was also fired from the band. In early 1997, the band ended the tour and recorded two songs for the movie "Batman and Robin". At the same time, they won a Grammy Nominated for 7 awards.?
In August 2000, news came from the band that the band's creative ideas had come to an end and announced their disbandment after the 2000 tour.?
" The six-string bass is earth-shattering, and one sound can make people cry." Although describing Smashing? Pumpkins is a bit exaggerated, it is indeed my experience of listening to their music over the past few years.
Smashing? Pumpkins is undoubtedly a very important alternative rock band in the 1990s. In the era when Grunge music represented by Nirvana was surging and sweeping the music world, Smashing? Pumpkins suddenly emerged. They created a kind of radical rock, The music style that combines gothic rock and heavy metal has created its own alternative rock world! The famous album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" is a masterpiece that alternative rock fans can't put down, and it is regarded as one of the required courses! ?In the past ten years, through unremitting struggle and hard work, the Smashing?Pumpkins, under the wise leadership of the legendary Billy?Corgan, have become recognized as the most successful alternative rock band in the 1990s, making immeasurable contributions to the impact of underground rock on the mainstream music scene. contribution! Their music has that unstoppable momentum, bursting out with a rock energy at all times, especially the overlapping weaving of powerful tuneless guitars and Corgan's signature voice! What surprises us is that there are also delicate emotions brewing in their musical works, with a kind of bitter beauty and desolate pain! We have to be moved by this and marvel at the music brought to us by this talented wizard Billy? Corgan! ?
Smashing?Pumpkins*** released 6 albums:?
1.gish: 1991 The band signed with Virgin Records in 1990 and released its debut album the following summer. Played an important role in the Grunge wave, and the music style combines progressive rock, heavy metal, goth-rock, psychedelia and dream-pop. ?
2. Siamese Dream: 1993, 07, 27?
This album is the album that made Smashing Pumpkins into the first-class rock front, and it also achieved great commercial success. . The singles Cherub Rock, Today and Disarm in the album have all become popular songs on the rock charts! The music style is still based on strong Noiseke-Rock and Metal-Riff, and has beautiful rock rhythms! The band also started touring?
3. Pisces? Iscariot: 1994, 10, 11? This is a collection of B-side songs and unreleased songs.
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4.Mellon?Collie?And?Infinite?Sadness: 1995, 10, 24? This is an undoubtedly excellent double album. No one expected that such a lengthy double album would achieve Such a huge success, it became the number one on the charts as soon as it was released. The length of the album is equivalent to the sum of four regular records, and there are countless excellent singles brewing in it, ranging from Grunge Rock style violent rock to the sad and moving gentle drizzle. Extremely exquisite! But at this moment, Smashing Pumpkins are at the peak of their music career! Everywhere you go there is endless scenery! Like Zero, ?Bullet?With?Butterfly?Wings,?Tonight,?Tonight,?1979 and so on, songs with their own merits are frequently on the list! ?
5. Adore: 1998, 06, 02 After the huge success of Mellon Collie And Infinite Sadnes, the band unexpectedly changed its usual music style and moved away from sentimentality. A musical route combining ballad and electrification! For Smashing? Pumpkins, this is an experimental music work. We cannot say that it is a failure, but the result is disastrous. Not only did the critics sneer at it, but the fans were unwilling to accept it. The sales of the album were endless. Satisfactory! But I think Adore is a very contagious album. I think such a poignant work can only be brewed under Billy Corgan's sad emotion of losing his mother!?
6.MACHINA/The ?Machines?Of?God: 2000, 02, 09? This is the last record of Smashing?Pumpkins. After Adore's Waterloo, they have rediscovered themselves. The return of drummer Jimmy Chamberlain has injected more passion into the band. With unstoppable vitality, the music style is once again dominated by majestic heavy metal and radical rock. People always feel that the music of Smashing Pumpkins is so full and shocking. Of course, there are also people like Stand Inside Your? Love is a typical Smashing Pumpkins love song - transitioning from sad whispers to extremely shocking shouts and rapid drum beats. Overall, this is a meticulous masterpiece, and it comes to a successful conclusion after Smashing Pumpkin has completed its final musical journey! ?
The band's reorganization and the release of a new album: ?
In 2005, when Billy Corgan released his solo album "The Future" ?Embrace) stubbornly announced that day: "I want my band back, my songs and my dreams." How many people still have hope in their hearts? No more guitarist James Iha, no bassist D'Arcy Wretzky or Melissa Auf ?der? Maur), facing the remaining half of the Smashing Pumpkins (Smashing? Pumpkins) band, wise people will clearly understand that Corgan's rhetoric is more like encouraging his own solo album. In fact, in the years after the disbandment of the Smashing Pumpkins, Corgan has been trying to draw people's attention back to himself. However, after witnessing the aborted band Zwan and Corgan's unsatisfactory personal development, fans People increasingly feel that the real Smashing Pumpkins can only belong to the "Grunge" era of the 1990s. ?
Whether it is out of nostalgia or ambition, the Smashing Pumpkins have reorganized as Corgan said. People no longer care who the members around Corgan are, nor whether they can lead the group. Maybe the only hope when returning to the music of Smashing Pumpkins is that this time it doesn’t turn out to be another scam.
On July 10, 2007, the Smashing Pumpkins released "Zeitgeist", the band's first new album since the band's disbandment in 2000. Regarding the album itself, Corgan can be said to have taken great pains, and made some small fuss about the release of the album. , the band released three different versions of "Spirit of the Zeitgeist" in one go, and each version has different tracks. What's even more crazy is that there is only one different track in each version. On the BestBuy website The bonus track in the version purchased was "Death>From Above"; the version purchased on the Target website included "Zeitgeist", but there was no additional track in other places (including digital product retail stores). One additional track. This arrangement is nothing more than asking fans to pay more to listen to all the songs. However, Corgan may have ignored the power of the Internet. Fans can even listen to all the songs without spending a single cent. This kind of promotion method is obviously It is very inconsistent with the current "spirit of the times". You can think of this comeback as a dinner carefully prepared by Corgan for his nostalgic fans. This careful preparation is first reflected in the outer packaging of the album. Corgan found the word "Zeitgeist" in German. The title of the album shows his good intentions, and the image of the Statue of Liberty against a scarlet background on the album cover makes the album full of agitation and political overtones. ?
What is obviously different from the previous Smashing Pumpkins in the new album is the change in the theme of the song. After Corgan sang enough about personal entanglements and pain, he finally turned the topic to sensitive political topics, a change in the theme of the music. Maybe it can bring a different experience to fans, and fans can also experience a different Smashing Pumpkins in this "maturity". Corgan is trying to use new positioning to evoke fans' memories. The album's opening song "Doomsday? Clock" (Doomsday? Clock) is included in the soundtrack of the recently released movie "Transformers". From the beginning of the song, it is eager to tighten the fans' nerves, and the old Smashing Pumpkins Member, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin allowed fans to relive the crisp drum sound of the "Smashing Pumpkins" era, and Corgan's seemingly ever-changing high-pitched voice somewhat gave fans a reason to continue. Keep listening. The Smashing Pumpkins has always been Corgan's magic. Back then, he led the Smashing Pumpkins into glory, and now Corgan is trying to repeat yesterday's glory on his own. It must be admitted that he has seen some results due to his strength. In "7 Shades Of Black", fans can relive the explosive power of the glorious era of the Smashing Pumpkins. The newly joined guitarist Jeff ·Jeff Schroeder plays James Eha's explosive charm in "Zero" perfectly; while Corgan will be a character in "Bleeding The Orchid" The entangled and painful face once again turned to the fans who had been moved by it. This time and space gap like empathy and exchange of objects can also allow many people to exchange their feelings again; if you choose a song that can completely solidify the memory, " That's?The?Way?(My?Love?Is)" does its part. You can recall to your heart's content one summer more than ten years ago, when you heard "Adore" " or "1979". In fact, everyone who has experienced that period of "Smashing Pumpkins" should have their own orange-yellow golden dream. ?
When there is a suspected comeback, there will be lame freshness. "Tarantula" (Tarantula), released as the first single, makes people feel lost. This is what Corgan brought back Smashing pumpkin? What else but Corgan's singing could unlock the memories of Smashing Pumpkins? This kind of music format is somewhat worrying for ordinary nu-metal bands. In "Starz", Corgan's repeated phrase "We are the shining stars" can make people feel a little helpless in Corgan's heart. The flying stars soaring into the sky, the falling dark stars, everything is in front of Corgan's eyes. As he performed, the huge gap created by the times left the same hidden pain in the hearts of fans and him.
Now, when Corgan walks in front of his fans with a scarlet "revolutionary" dream, his behavior is somewhat reminiscent of Green Day, who saved his almost-dead career with "American Idiot" (American Idiot). Day) band, but how many people can get used to imitating the Smashing Pumpkins? It turns out that such an attempt was not successful. The song "United States", which is most closely related to the theme of the album, tears apart the rapid tone of the entire album beyond recognition in the lengthy guitar solo; "For God and Country" (For? The sudden keyboard sound and trembling singing voice in "God? Struggling; and the grotesque melancholy and wistfulness in "Bring The Light" suppress the hope that was about to rise again. ?
Corgan is destined to withstand the harsh judgment of the outside world, because what he wants to bring back is not just a band, but a shining era. To be fair, although Billy Corgan brought an anachronistic "zeitgeist", he did not ruin the aura of the Smashing Pumpkins era, as in the guitar flow and clear drums of "Neverlost" The sound still carries the magic of the Smashing Pumpkins, but the drugged Smashing Pumpkins had already stood far behind, and its outline began to blur, almost embedded in the depths of memory. When Corgan wanted to use the Smashing Pumpkins' creation When formula was used to continue the band's glory, the times gave him the firmest rejection. For those fans who are still dissatisfied, we can play a substitution game and replace the Smashing Pumpkins on "Zeitgeist" with Billy Corgan, and try to accept another personal attempt by Corgan instead of Smashing Pumpkins. Returning alone.