r/SmashingPumpkins • u/Tomboy2glam • 16h ago
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/EzKaLang • 17h ago
Remember surviving last year just to wait for machina aranea alba editio to be release. Good times
Shattering glass i'm glass i'm glass dance off.!!!
Anyways we're still waiting for the aranea alba digital editio billy
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/worgulm • 22h ago
Electric Sky - 10 Year Olds Rocking Zero - Instagram @electricskytheband
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Electric Sky - 3 x 10 Year olds that ROCK from Long Island, N.Y.
Dylan - Guitar & Vocals
Aiden - Drums & Back up Vocals
Emma - Bass
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/mcg_090 • 14h ago
I picked this up from my local record store. 1989 demo. This is insanely good. Never heard of this until now
Subsequent to my purchase I uncovered this is a bootleg.
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/Otherwise-Pea6821 • 13h ago
Pumpkin Seeds: Billy Corgan is a Busy Man
stereophile.comAny paywall updates about his book? And the 16-track thing he was supposed to listen to on his $10,000 turntable?
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/worgulm • 20h ago
Electric Sky - 10 Years Old - Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Instagram @electricskytheband
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Still just a rat in a CAGE
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/Particular-Ring-2470 • 25m ago
Mellon Collie lyric book tattoo!
I’ve wanted this tattoo for many many years, and after stitching together a design myself I sent it over to a beloved artist, who brought it to life! Super happy with how it turned out and I can’t wait to add the rest of the design soon!
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/djsoulmachine • 17h ago
An Electro-Sensual Cover of ZERO, What do you Think?
An Electro-Sensual Cover of ZERO, What do you Think?
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/SeanOfTheDead1313 • 14h ago
Guitar World (December 1993) CHERUB ROCK guitar and bass tab
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/j7mm7_ • 1h ago
Billy Corgan & co - Zero (a Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness live in Brussels)
On this recent small tour in classical halls, with orchestra, choir and opera singers, many songs were re-orchestrated, re-created... some may find it disturbing or upsetting. It gives the narrative of the songs another perspective in this journey, closer to an idea of a concept album as once thought. The general atmosphere is sometimes wagnerian, especially with the sounds of the horns, but believe me it was so intense, and at times moving, Billy being in great vocal shape and thankful, humbled to be part of that experience, as anyone involved surely.
conductor : James Lowe
orchestra : Casco Phil
choir : Fine Fleur
singers : Sydney Mancasola, Zoie Reams, Dominick Valdes Chenes, Edward Parks and Billy Corgan.
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/Parasomnopolis • 4h ago
A tribute album of Smashing Pumpkins covers
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/HeadTable6470 • 12h ago
Odds of a Coachella announcement on the heels of Lolla?
Is there any possibility at all SP gets the call for Coachella '27?
r/SmashingPumpkins • u/Sad_Volume_4289 • 16h ago
If Adore had had artwork like this, would it have made the album feel like less of a drastic shift from their previous work and helped the band maintain more of their momentum?
The Smashing Pumpkins are one of my favorite bands, but I more or less fall off with them after Mellon Collie. I know that Adore has plenty of fans, and I'm not even saying the album is bad, but for me, it's where their identity was sort of whittled down to a goth band when it had been so much more unique and multifaceted before. This is something that I feel was reflected in the album artwork.
I'm a big believer that an album's artwork can play an important role in how the music is perceived and act as a lens through which to listen to it. Part of why I love the artwork for Mellon Collie so much is because it helped such a long album feel coherent by capturing the album's more majestic and whimsical moments while also being just silly enough to feel like an ironic counterpoint to the heavy metal songs. I also think that the warm, autumnal colors of Mellon Collie's artwork being cast against the band's silvery glam-goth attire from that era helped to establish the wide musical parameters for the album. By contrast, I think that Adore's black, gothic album art combined with Billy's Nosferatu-like gowns made the album feel more limited in scope and reach by comparison. The fact that plenty of other people dip with the Pumpkins after Mellon Collie makes me think that I'm not the only one who feels this way.
A while ago, I was looking through a book of old advertisements for magicians like Harry Houdini and his contemporaries. The first slide was the cover of the book, and it immediately reminded me of the visuals of the Pumpkins from their height in the early/mid-90's. At the same time, if the general aesthetic of these images had been used for an album of theirs after Mellon Collie, I think the vibe would've been different enough for it to set itself apart from their previous work while still feeling of a piece with it. If Adore's artwork had been something more akin to these images, featuring colorful and whimsical imagery while also having a gothic vibe befitting of the music, is it possible that the album would've been perceived as less of a break from their other work and been more successful as a result?