Gish, get their greatest hits to get into more of their style and see how it goes from there. I'm a proud owner of every song now and I can hook you up if you want.

I love adore

it's different from their more well known stuff like SD and MCATIS

HUGE fan of Adore... it got totally dragged around inthe dirt by critics and so called "hardcore" fans of the band, but it's some of the most heartfelt, beautiful and distinctively different writing we've heard from Corgan. I love the fact that he made songs that didn't fit the Smashing Pumpkins "norm" or expected style, and he went with heartfelt honesty. There's barely a distorted guitar on the thing, and songs don't scream out to crescendos, they kinda float mournfully - in chorus with the feelings of their writer at the time. It's a beautiful, transitional album, perhaps more about growing up, maturing, than any one ever gave it credit for. It sounds like its creator was struck with so many conflicting emotions and crises that it had to come out the way it did.


I may never get concensus on this, but I always feel it stands up with the best of the band's work.

Oh yeah, it is by far one of their most underrated albums. Behold the Nightmare and For Martha are two of the Pumpkins best songs.

SP has been one of my favorite bands for a long time. They were just recently back in the spotlight when their song was used on the Watchmen trailer (great song btw).

meh. smashing pumpkins had like 2 good albums. gish probably just about makes the cut, too.

More like every album was good.

They weren't, though. MAYBE so to a diehard fan of the band, but not to anybody else with two ears, working nerve-endings, and a mind unclouded by blind bias. After Mellon Collie they did absolutely nothing that was good for the sustained length of a whole LP, and some of the releases were just truly terrible. Hell, even Mellon Collie runs out of steam.

Okay, but you're wrong.

Yes. I'm wrong, to a fanatical blind-following diehard fan of this horrible band.