When my kids were younger, they were going through my CD collection and looking at the album art. They came across this album and asked me, "Why are there kids on the cover?" I told them that those two little girls were in the band, and that one of them was the singer and played guitar, and the other little girl was the drummer. I said that those two little girls were extremely talented musicians and were actually pretty bad ass for their age. So then I played the album. It took them until Billy Corgan started singing before they realized that their dad was full of shit.
Hummer is such an underrated song.. it's one of the songs that you would remember and go back to again and eventually would either make you feel happy or sad in a satisfying way..
More importantly the abuse he endured. This song is about being abused and beaten as a child and how it affects his personal relationships. "Disarm you with a smile, and cut you like you want me to, Cut that little child, oh the years burn." He was a sweet child who lost his innocence too young. The disarming with a smile is a lost identity. A young child's smile is supposed to bring joy to a parent, not abuse and bitterness.
Despite SP having a big fanbase at one time, I feel they are so pushed to the side compared to Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden and the likes. I think SP is better than them all
@@OceanMetTheSky It's mostly because they were absolute trolls when interviewed and in the media because they didn't wanna play the fake game. Everyone called them weirdos and pretentious because of it.
Soma is one of my favourite songs ever. It can get me very emotional. It’s breathtaking - the sublime build, the emotion, THAT guitar solo and climax! EPIC. I saw them live in London on 8th June this year - still brilliant.
Only being in high school at the time of this album release, but R.E.M. was my favorite band at the time as they, U2 and some others were the alternative but somewhat mainstream acts before grunge. I loved seeing that Mike Mills played the piano section of Soma and would have been my gateway in...if not for Today blowing my F-ing socks off as the lead single!
Lads, as a mid 40s bloke, it warms my heart to see young fellas like yourselves deep dive into a full album that means so much to so many people. The fact that the music resonates with you, as much as it did with me when I heard it for the first time, makes this old boy smile. Keep doing what you're doing lads😊
I'm 43 and listened to this album since it's release, it's still the most special album in the world to me, best reaction to the album I've seen, thanks
Back when this came out in ‘93 it was my favourite album of all time, it saw me through difficult times and is still in my top 10. It’s thrilling, beautiful and unique. Far more influential than people realise. They were my favourite band until Radiohead crept past them with OK Computer and The Pumpkins didn’t quite keep up the run of brilliance but this album is absolute gold.
Not only is it thrilling, but it's also deeply emotional and even tender. I used to put Luna on repeat and fall asleep to it with my moms huge 70's headphones on when I was in high school.
"Today is the greatest day I've ever known, can't live for tomorrow, tomorrow's much too long." I think there is an incredible relatability there for a lot of people at a lot of different times (myself among them). But, also cathartic and soothing and a release in some way.
I've seen people compare Radiohead to Smashing Pumpkins before and I think they're way off base but this thought of yours made me just realize Radiohead shares a quality of having absolute despair lyrics in pretty little delightful songs in a slightly similar way to Corgan.
Bros, what you need to understand here is that this is a candidate for best album of all time. Not best alternative rock album. Not best rock album. Just best album period. It's a candidate for some of the best music of all time, along with Beethoven and the Beatles.
This has been my favorite album since the day I heard it. This album was heavily influenced by ‘Loveless’ by my bloody valentine and is the quintessential shoegaze album. You won’t be disappointed. Love the reaction guys.
This album is my teenage years. Soma and Mayonnaise always brings a tear to my eye. Thank you for caring about music in a time where people don't really care about it as much, and can't wait to see the Melon Collie reaction!
From what I remember, Cherub Rock is about the music industry and the honey is probably a metaphor for success in the industry. At least thats what I remember hearing.
I was 20 when this came out and bought it immediately. I've still got my cd. We had a listening party in my friend's garage and bought a mini keg. I was totally hooked. It's so good seeing you guys all these years later appreciating it like we did!!!
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192I 💯% concur with your list! Was looking for someone in the comments to mention how underrated Pisces Iscariot is. It's definitely in my top 2 favorite albums of theirs.
Bro on the right looked like he was crying during “Soma”… and yes, it is THAT good… universally regarded as one of if not the best SP song of all-time - Mayonaise included…
What a strange life this is. Bear with me. This album came out when I was 14. One of the first albums I bought on CD. And if it captures your imagination now, imagine what it felt like in 1993 when it also captured the zeitgeist. When it felt like the perfect soundtrack to the life of a young person in the early 90s. But I want to talk about the song Cherub Rock more than anything. It was one of my very favourite songs when I was 14, 15, 16, for the reasons stated above. It still reminds me of that time, vividly, even now. But more than that... It was also one of the best songs on Guitar Hero III. A game that came out in 2007, when I was 28. Guitar Hero III was the last game that my friends and I played together. We got together every week to play Xbox and especially Guitar Hero and vowed that nothing would ever change. But we all knew that wasn't true. The feeling hung increasingly heavily in the air that these stolen nights of fun away from responsibilities were the last days of the gang, as we got older and adult life intruded on youth. Cherub Rock was our favourite song to play. And I remember distinctly, we were half way through it one night, idly chatting as we always did, when my best friend told me he was thinking about putting an offer in on a house. A house a hell of a long way away from where we all lived and grew up. I knew then this chapter of our lives was coming to an end. Like spotting the first wrinkle on your face. The truth is, we all had situations that would naturally lead to it. Marriage, kids on the way etc. You know those days will come but it's quite the realisation when they are upon you. Every time we played Guitar Hero after that, and especially Cherub Rock, I wondered if it was the last time we ever would, and took special care to savour it. So, the song has always had this dual association for me. It's like it bookended my whole youth. Well tomorrow is my 45th birthday. 45 always felt like the middle of middle age for me. I dreaded it. Another of life's increasingly sobering milestones. This semi-professional philosopher is feeling particularly philosophical today, reminiscing on life gone by, trying to wring some leftover joy from faded memories... And wouldn't you know it but the same song has come up again. I didn't search for this. It was in my subscription feed. At this rate, it'll play at my funeral, whether I asked for it or not. But this time, it's young people, just like I was, in the 90s, like we are were, discovering its magic for the first time just like we all did. And it truly is, for me, the closest thing to living it again for the first time. And perhaps that is what this advanced adulthood is all about. So thanks for this lads, I'm so glad that you love this music. I hope it lives forever within you, and means as much to you as it did to us.
My favorite album for over thirty years now. When I was 12 years old back in 94', my friend's older brother was being deployed to the middle east. He brought a giant box full of cassette tapes into my room and set it down in front of us. It contained tons of great 90's alt/grunge bands and their albums. Weezer, Green Day, NIN, Nirvana, AiC, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Faith No More, etc. But we decided to put the album with the funny kids on the cover in first. The Smashing Pumpkins would be my favorite band from that day on. The albums Gish - Machina II are all great. Billy has done tons of other stuff too like solo albums and Zwan, and a lot of the post 2000 pumpkins stuff is good here and there, but nothing can touch the 90's output. The man can only make so many masterpieces lol. Great video guys. What I would give to go back and hear all this great music for the first time. We all felt exactly the same as you two did in this video. The 90's were great.
Thanks so much for listening to us, thus listening to this album. Great video! Its totally ok to interpret songs subjectivley, but I recommend you to look for Disarm's meaning, it is very painful and personal.
For some more albums after the maraton: Red - King Crimson I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning - Bright Eyes Self Titled - Rage Against The Machine 2112 - Rush Illmatic - Nas ...Like Clockwork - Queens Of The Stone Age
This album was the soundtrack of my sophomore year in college . It’s been 31 years, but everytime I listen to the album it brings me back to such an amazing time of my life. Btw, listen to “Drown” from the Singles soundtrack . Make sure it’s the 9 minute version. You’ll thank me for it
It’s so incredibly hard to pick a favorite song off this album. But for me, it’s probably Soma, which is a perfect peek into what you can expect if you go on to do Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, which is an album FULL of soft, melodic lows and heavy, loud highs.
I forgot how much this album means to me. Thank you for the reaction video. You made me feel how I first felt when I first heard this album. Definitely shed a tear to this video. It's powerful music. Great content guys keep it up.
@@thenewholistic lets face it, there are a lot of albums better than Nevermind- Alice in Chains Facelift, Dirt and Jar of Flies, Soundgarden Badmotorfinger and Down on the Upside, Pearl Jam Ten, STP Purple, and In utero
12:26 You guys are great! I’m a 61 retired military guy, but you remind me so much of me at that age and my Son is 24, close to your age and is just like you guys except he’s more into rap and country and The Weeknd is his boy. But I just appreciate that you love the jams I grew up listening. I’ve been here and done that so I’ll try to find some albums and jams I think you’d like! Keep on going! I love your channel!
Old head here! This video popped up randomly on my feed. It warms my frikkin heart to see you kids rockin to my all time favorite album, by my all time favorite band! Seriously got second-hand goosebumps! Y'all know wassup. Indeed, there is hope!
This is the first album I ever bought as a kid and still listen to it from start to finish fairly regularly. It's glad to see a younger generation finding this music and appreciating it like I once did and still do. This is a great album to listen to while laying in bed with your headphones on and eyes closed and just drift away to somewhere else for a while.
The Smashing Pumpkins belong in the pantheon of greatest bands, ever walked this planet, their vast and diverse catalog can stand with anyone’s in the history of music
Mayonaise is one of my favorite songs, and I haven't stopped listening to this album over the past 30 years. I loved your guys' reaction, and I look forward to more. Keep reacting with an open heart and mind!
I'm seeing them open for Green Day this year for the 30th anniversary of 'Dookie'. Rancid is on before the Pumpkins. I'm very excited, and probably "very old" in your eyes 😅 See EVERY band/group/artist/whatvertf you can in your life. That's my old ass advice. Hope you keep digging into everything you can musically, and leave yourselves open to every new experience you hear. Always have respect, and earn respect 🤘Keep up the good work on here. Looking forward to more reactions.
I was 16 when this album came out. Blew my mind. There were so many good albums out that year. This, Nirvana's In Utero, The Breeders Last Splash. I was spoiled but didn't realize it.
Lol. I drank daily next to Kim deal shortly after last splash. It pled next to her pixies albums and I let her know it was greatly appreciated but I wished for more pixies songs
Woah dude! Today is NOT a happy song! Its about "self deletion" its the greatest day because its his last....😢 he's going out with a sense of freedom... PINK RIBBON SCARS that never forget, I tried so hard to cleanse these regrets, my angel wings were bruised and restrained, my belly stings
@@bfriedjonesthing about music is everything is up to how u feel, sad songs can be happy, happy songs can be taunting, today is a great example of how billy is with his lyrics, a true artist
The "smashing" in Smashing Pumpkins, is an adjective, not a verb. As in, "Those are some truly smashing pumpkins, sir!". Billy Corgan trivia. Yes! Cherub Rock blew my mind when I heard it! One of my all time favourite albums. Soma deserves a special mention. Cheers for the video.
I'm super glad you guys enjoyed this album as much as you did. Since you guys loved the guitar tones of this album, I highly recommend Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. It takes those fuzzy guitar tones to a whole other level. I would also recommend doing the Mellon Collie video in one part, and maybe just taking a short break between each half when recording. The album works best when experienced in its entirety.
Thank you for listening to my all time favorite album. Takes me right back to being 15 years old, in High school and this beautiful girl made me a Smashing Pumpkins mixtape and forever changed my life with music. By the way, they have another new album coming out August 2nd 2024. And Billy says it is an attempt to recapture their 90s sound. I can’t wait!
This video was so nostalgic for me. The reaction you guys had took me right back to sitting in my bedroom listening to this album front to back for the first time at 20 years old and just immersing myself in every single track. Still one of my absolute favorite albums of all time. Thanks for this!
This album is just wall to wall 10s. By comparison I think Mellon Collie is a little bloated, but the highs on it are higher than anything else in their discography. It’s definitely worth checking out
I personally don’t think Mellon Collie is bloated, only because I LOVE every track on it, but I fully agree that it’s highs are the best in their entire history. I think the highs on Mellon Collie are even greater than the highs on Siamese Dream - just my personal opinion obviously lol. But both albums are among the best ever written.
@@ninja_tony compared to Siamese Dream I think the second half of Mellon Collie is a little bloated and my ears get a little fatigued of listening to it, I think the production just isn’t quite as appealing as it is on SD. But Siamese Dream is one of the tightest albums ever so it’s not really much of a criticism
@@LudiColorado Absolutely agree on the production comment, Flood was definitely not the best choice. His production is way too dark and he doesn't do the guitars as much justice. Flood has honestly put a damper on a few albums I love
@@DomDizzler5053 MCIS sounds great to me. SD is hyper-produced, and it obviously worked, but MCIS is meant to sound like a band in a room jamming, and it really really works
I've seen a LOT of reaction videos. This was the best one I've ever seen...hands down. Why YT cut SB and SF makes zero sense to me. But....if that means I have to join your Patreon, ok...I'll do it! This album is absolutely a 10/10 and means so so much to me. I love how deeply you both felt it.
Dude I’m happy you guys love this album I’m 28 but I listen to this like 4 years ago and I’ve been hooked ever since ! Rocket and hummer and mayonnaise are literally gold
I can’t tell you how much joy it brings to watch you guys discover an album that was so special growing up in the 90’s. To hear you describe one of my favorite songs, Hummer (and one that got zero playtime on the radio due to its length) as ‘the perfect song’ just was total confirmation for me that good music holds up.
An Electro-Harmonix Op-Amp Big Muff fuzz pedal is the guitar sound of this album. So iconic. So much so that many years later they re-released it with Billy endorsing it and having a "Pumpkins" color scheme.
Just discovered your channel with this video and I so enjoyed taking a journey back in time with you both. I'm 51 and it made me smile so much to see you both enjoying this album as much as I did and still do. The Smashing Pumpkins were may absolute favorite band in the 90s (I was around your age then). I saw the in concert 2 times and they were incredible live. I'm excited for when you listen to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness!
I was 18 when this album came out, played it so much it wore out the cassette tape, I eventually bought it on CD. Very cool to see younger people being moved the same way I was, by the same music.
The Smashing Pumpkins are Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin. The other members were for live performances. Billy played all guitars and bass on this album.
Awesome video. For me....i was 15...5 weekends of summer....camping with huge speakers set up and about 30 of us....just partying non-stop and blasting this album.....we were wild rock stars without fame.
The statement of Billy Corgan writing the entire album is not exactly true. One of the most important songs 'Mayonaise' guitar parts, excluding the solo and other lead parts was written by James Iha. Similar for 'Soma' as well, specifically the intro. Most of the time Billy would come up with stuff at home or rehearsals and the band would collaborate to build the songs, as well as parts of James and Billies guitar styles would merge together to create their sound. The recording of the album was still a shit show, however they were not as bad before they entered the studio. Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness would be the zenith of the band working together and collaborating as a family, creatively, experementally, and homogeneously. With a different producer at the helm who pushed for an authentic portrayl of the band, not the perfection in siamese dream, it resulted in the truest form of the pumpkins to be portrayed. It would end up being one of the greatest and biggest albums of all time.
Glad y’all enjoyed this bonafide classic. It needs no introduction at this point and has been a huge influence on so many including myself, I’m 31 and many songs on this album were on very heavy rotation during my teenage years. As far as the discussion around this album’s style and influence I do feel like this is maybe the most harmonious marriage of grunge and shoegaze aesthetics to come out of the golden era of alternative rock in the early 90s. Assigning a single genre tag to it is kind of a fruitless endeavor because Corgan had such a panoramic vision for their sound. I’d even argue that Today is one of the most prominent early examples of midwest emo, even if no one ever outright refers to the Pumpkins as an emo band. Great video!
It does my heart good to vicariously see you guys experience and appreciate this masterpiece of an album for the first time. Fantastic, genuine reaction. Thank you.
I was lucky enough last year to see this band twice . Once in a huge Arema and the other in a tiny venue with about 300 people. I also saw them live 3 decades ago .Such a great live band . Such a Great Band . Their driving beat and killer sound are so addictive and Amazing ! I am 56 now .
I bought this album on the day it released, two weeks after my 15th birthday, at Manifest Records in Clemson South Carolina. And it has been my all time favorite album since that day. I’m glad y’all enjoyed it.
Appreciate you guys checkin’ this stuff out! My first concert was SP in 94 for the Mellon Collie tour🤘 Got into this album about the same time, a couple years after it came out
Hey guys. Just subscribed. Watching you guys experience this like I did back in the early 90s when I was probably about your age. Man.....changed my life. I was just listening to nothing but old school rap at the time and focused on nonsensical things. My friend Adam introduced me to Smashing and this very album. I didn't even want to listen to it. It changed everything. Simple times of us trying to make it and sleeping on a mattress on the floor in an apartment and trying to work and pay my own way. This album and "Selling the Drama" by Live became the soundtrack of my life and got me through so much.....good and bad. I appreciate seeing you guys experience these new things. I feel like I'm watching myself at that time and it's so touching to see you "get it". Keep on keeping on.
This will always be in my top albums of all time. It really struck a chord with my teenage girls as well. They grabbed the CD one day and probably listened to it on replay for several weeks.
The Deftones are largely inspired by the Smashing Pumpkins, and you can really hear the influences once you're familiar with the Pumpkins' discog. The Smashing Pumpkins weren't grunge because they weren't from the west coast scene, but they do incorporate elements. They weren't considered shoegaze back then, but they are now, and I think it makes sense. Billy is known for the "wall of guitar" sound which is used almost exclusively to describe Billy's signature sound. Jimmy Chamberlain was the only member to stick it out with the band. He was involved with the overdose of the bands touring manager, and he was kicked out of the band for a few years. Jimmy managed to beat his addiction and he stuck around. People don't talk about him enough, because not only is he an absolute beast of a drummer, he's one of the nicest guys you'll meet. He just radiates goodness. "Today" was the first song I ever heard from the pumpkins. I was in the 3rd grade and I saw the video on MTV. They have been my favorite rock band since that day in 93. Something about it just stuck with me.
Seeing your reaction to this album puts me back to the feeling I had listening to it on my stereo in my bedroom for the first time in 93. Mind blowing. Possibly the only album I’ve listened to that I had such a reaction to
I remember just laying on my bed staring at the ceiling listening to this beginning to end losing myself in it. I think this experience of listening to an entire record is a lost joy .
Watching you guys enjoy an album that I been loving since 1993 summer is fantastic, enjoy the journey, this album is in my top ten albums of all time. Glad you all stubbled across it
Awesome reaction guys! I haven't listened to this album for a while. Brings back great memories. This came out when i was in high school. On my way to school i would jam out to this on my sony walkman, lol. I always liked Luna and Mayonnaise the best.
I don't know how old you guys are, but I was 17 when I did the same thing listening to this album for the first time (30 years ago, yikes, lol). Immersed in every song through my headphones in my room. This album actually changed my life. I had never heard anything like it before. This album made SP my favorite band of all time.
the sound of the guitars on the album uses an effect peddle call "Big Muff" . That effect is what was used by bands like Mudhoney to create the fuzz sound that would be called "grunge". So technically , even though smashing pumpkins style doesnt fall into the typical "grunge" mold, it is literally "grunge". I bought this album when It came out . I was in my early twenties. it was my favorite album for a long time until my life moved on .recently in the last year I have been listening and enjoying it again as I did when I was young. It seems like it is coming back around again as I keep seeing it being discussed
this is very entertaining to watch and love the full album listen. I am excited for you two to keep diving into the lyrical context behind these songs.. for example Today is literally about committing suicide. If you already loved the core sound then the deeper lyrical focus will raise it even higher. 100 out of 10. This album changed my life. We are doing a Top 50 SP songs of all time series on my channel to celebrate that. SP Forever.
Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness next?
Absolutely! Almost if not just as good as Siamese Dream. I can't think of any other band of their popularity with that much variety on one album.
Their best album..its long but a must do!
Bros, please do The Smiths - S/T full album
Yess
Siamese Dream and MCIS are both among my favourite ever albums. That was their peak but what a peak! Unique, thrilling and beautiful.
“Hummer is a perfect song. Can’t get any better.”
Mayonaise: Hold my beer.
For me hummer tops mayonnaise! Such a beautiful song
@@bfriedjonesIt is a great song don’t get me wrong.
Soma has entered the chat
@@cags113Soma is most welcome
Such a heartbreaking song. Full of some much longing, need, and regret.
What I wouldn't give to hear Mayonnaise for the first time again. The ultimate driving into the sunset with windows down song.
Came here to express the exact sentiment. Glad I’m not alone!
Mayonaise is my favorite Pumpkins track, and that's saying a lot since this album overall is perfect.
What I wouldn't give to go back and live in that time again :)
First time I heard it I was driving down a highway at nighttime in the pouring rain
@@s.storumus8620 I heard it walking down the road, 9pm, rainy and it couldn't have been a better first time listening to it.
When my kids were younger, they were going through my CD collection and looking at the album art. They came across this album and asked me, "Why are there kids on the cover?" I told them that those two little girls were in the band, and that one of them was the singer and played guitar, and the other little girl was the drummer. I said that those two little girls were extremely talented musicians and were actually pretty bad ass for their age. So then I played the album. It took them until Billy Corgan started singing before they realized that their dad was full of shit.
Great one haha
Nice fiction!
😂🤣😂🤣
Perfect example of what a top tier drummer can do for a band.
perfect example of what top tier musicians can do together, but yeah Chamberlain is a grandmaster indeed.
@@draregrevtaam1147 I thought Billy Corgan dismissed the original cuts and played all the instruments for this album alone
@@AIParodyVideosforfun It's most likely true for guitars and bass on this album but I don't think he's played drums on any Smashing Pumpkins song.
@@AIParodyVideosforfun you might be comfusing that with the second foo fighters record. dave grohl did that with the drum parts on album.
@@AIParodyVideosforfunno he only did for the guitar and bass
Watching you boys take a journey through these albums like I did as a kid when they came out really makes me happy
Couldn’t agree more
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I'm sayin'...
Billy Corgan suffering from writers block is the craziest shit. Dude recorded like 100 of the best songs of all time between 1992-1994.
Hummer is such an underrated song.. it's one of the songs that you would remember and go back to again and eventually would either make you feel happy or sad in a satisfying way..
Definitely one of my SP favorites and favorites in general.
This is one of the best albums of all time. Period.
Disarm is about the rage Billy felt against his father. His father would leave him in the car for hours while he sold drugs.
It's the wicked stepmother as well. She was worse than the dad.
More importantly the abuse he endured. This song is about being abused and beaten as a child and how it affects his personal relationships. "Disarm you with a smile, and cut you like you want me to, Cut that little child, oh the years burn." He was a sweet child who lost his innocence too young. The disarming with a smile is a lost identity. A young child's smile is supposed to bring joy to a parent, not abuse and bitterness.
Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie are 90s Masterpieces. Pumpkins at peak level. Glad you guys enjoyed it.
Despite SP having a big fanbase at one time, I feel they are so pushed to the side compared to Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden and the likes. I think SP is better than them all
@@OceanMetTheSky It's mostly because they were absolute trolls when interviewed and in the media because they didn't wanna play the fake game. Everyone called them weirdos and pretentious because of it.
Soma is one of my favourite songs ever. It can get me very emotional. It’s breathtaking - the sublime build, the emotion, THAT guitar solo and climax! EPIC.
I saw them live in London on 8th June this year - still brilliant.
Only being in high school at the time of this album release, but R.E.M. was my favorite band at the time as they, U2 and some others were the alternative but somewhat mainstream acts before grunge. I loved seeing that Mike Mills played the piano section of Soma and would have been my gateway in...if not for Today blowing my F-ing socks off as the lead single!
It was hands down my favorite song until I heard XYU. I love those high contrast dynamic songs.
omg I was there on 8th June too!! HELL of a performance! And Kiki was so good too
This album is just pure euphoria, such pleasant but heavy riffs everywhere on it
Euphoria is absolutely the best word to sum up this album. Some of the chord shifts just make me feel 'happy hyped', they're incredible
@@AidanLonergan-vj5vj mate mayonnaise is one of my favourite songs to play on guitar billy corgan is a genius
Watching the collective silence during mayonaise was so satisfying
Lads, as a mid 40s bloke, it warms my heart to see young fellas like yourselves deep dive into a full album that means so much to so many people. The fact that the music resonates with you, as much as it did with me when I heard it for the first time, makes this old boy smile. Keep doing what you're doing lads😊
I'm 43 and listened to this album since it's release, it's still the most special album in the world to me, best reaction to the album I've seen, thanks
Siamese Dream is in my top 10 GOAT albums for sure.
Back when this came out in ‘93 it was my favourite album of all time, it saw me through difficult times and is still in my top 10. It’s thrilling, beautiful and unique. Far more influential than people realise. They were my favourite band until Radiohead crept past them with OK Computer and The Pumpkins didn’t quite keep up the run of brilliance but this album is absolute gold.
Not only is it thrilling, but it's also deeply emotional and even tender. I used to put Luna on repeat and fall asleep to it with my moms huge 70's headphones on when I was in high school.
I agree. Very emotional - and that’s a big part of why it’s such a favourite. I really got empathy from it.
Mayonaise means "My Own Eyes" and it's my top 5 songs of all time
I never put that together, thanks
Today is a dark track though, it's sarcastic. Billy Corgan was feeling suicidal when he wrote it!
He’s cured that feeling buy investing in long, medieval style cloaks.
@gavinsheridan4680 Worked for me, too.
It is both dark and hopeful,he said he wrote it after having a epiphany.
"Today is the greatest day I've ever known, can't live for tomorrow, tomorrow's much too long."
I think there is an incredible relatability there for a lot of people at a lot of different times (myself among them). But, also cathartic and soothing and a release in some way.
I've seen people compare Radiohead to Smashing Pumpkins before and I think they're way off base but this thought of yours made me just realize Radiohead shares a quality of having absolute despair lyrics in pretty little delightful songs in a slightly similar way to Corgan.
Not sure why I enjoy watching you two dufus's listen to albums from my youth but good job. Keep it up, lads.
Love Jimmy Chamberlin's drumming on this. Actually, just love Jimmy Chamberlin's drumming whatever it's on.
Agreed. Him and Stephen Perkins were my favorite drummers this genre and era
Him on bullet with butterfly wings is a whole different level
chamberlain is on the list of underrated drummers...
One of the best alternative albums ever made period!!!
Bros, what you need to understand here is that this is a candidate for best album of all time. Not best alternative rock album. Not best rock album. Just best album period. It's a candidate for some of the best music of all time, along with Beethoven and the Beatles.
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@@rikurodriguesneto6043 go listen to your edm remixes.
you think this album is that good??
@@forpspeakingclass4444 a lot of people do. you might have noticed the title of this video.
@@forpspeakingclass4444 It's definitley a contender.
This has been my favorite album since the day I heard it. This album was heavily influenced by ‘Loveless’ by my bloody valentine and is the quintessential shoegaze album. You won’t be disappointed. Love the reaction guys.
This album is my teenage years. Soma and Mayonnaise always brings a tear to my eye. Thank you for caring about music in a time where people don't really care about it as much, and can't wait to see the Melon Collie reaction!
From what I remember, Cherub Rock is about the music industry and the honey is probably a metaphor for success in the industry. At least thats what I remember hearing.
I was 20 when this came out and bought it immediately. I've still got my cd. We had a listening party in my friend's garage and bought a mini keg. I was totally hooked. It's so good seeing you guys all these years later appreciating it like we did!!!
This is nuts...I have literally seen them 2 days ago in Rotterdam, Ahoy. It was a night to never forget
Nice 1! saw them in London on the 8th June. Brilliant as ever!
I was there too in Ahoy. Epic night!
Thanks for having me on!
We’ll see you when we do AEnima‼️
Love the Alice In Chains poster🔥🔥
@@Thenutledge thank you
The pumpkins first record Gish is the album of legendary riffs
Gish, Siamese Dream & Pisces Iscariot are all untouchable albums. Pisces might be my favorite of the 3
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192I 💯% concur with your list! Was looking for someone in the comments to mention how underrated Pisces Iscariot is. It's definitely in my top 2 favorite albums of theirs.
Bro on the right looked like he was crying during “Soma”… and yes, it is THAT good… universally regarded as one of if not the best SP song of all-time - Mayonaise included…
Yo, whatever you're feeling now, imagine feeling it at the time as a kid listening to this on a little CD player.
What a strange life this is. Bear with me. This album came out when I was 14. One of the first albums I bought on CD. And if it captures your imagination now, imagine what it felt like in 1993 when it also captured the zeitgeist. When it felt like the perfect soundtrack to the life of a young person in the early 90s.
But I want to talk about the song Cherub Rock more than anything. It was one of my very favourite songs when I was 14, 15, 16, for the reasons stated above. It still reminds me of that time, vividly, even now. But more than that...
It was also one of the best songs on Guitar Hero III. A game that came out in 2007, when I was 28. Guitar Hero III was the last game that my friends and I played together. We got together every week to play Xbox and especially Guitar Hero and vowed that nothing would ever change. But we all knew that wasn't true. The feeling hung increasingly heavily in the air that these stolen nights of fun away from responsibilities were the last days of the gang, as we got older and adult life intruded on youth.
Cherub Rock was our favourite song to play. And I remember distinctly, we were half way through it one night, idly chatting as we always did, when my best friend told me he was thinking about putting an offer in on a house. A house a hell of a long way away from where we all lived and grew up.
I knew then this chapter of our lives was coming to an end. Like spotting the first wrinkle on your face. The truth is, we all had situations that would naturally lead to it. Marriage, kids on the way etc. You know those days will come but it's quite the realisation when they are upon you. Every time we played Guitar Hero after that, and especially Cherub Rock, I wondered if it was the last time we ever would, and took special care to savour it.
So, the song has always had this dual association for me. It's like it bookended my whole youth.
Well tomorrow is my 45th birthday. 45 always felt like the middle of middle age for me. I dreaded it. Another of life's increasingly sobering milestones. This semi-professional philosopher is feeling particularly philosophical today, reminiscing on life gone by, trying to wring some leftover joy from faded memories...
And wouldn't you know it but the same song has come up again. I didn't search for this. It was in my subscription feed. At this rate, it'll play at my funeral, whether I asked for it or not.
But this time, it's young people, just like I was, in the 90s, like we are were, discovering its magic for the first time just like we all did. And it truly is, for me, the closest thing to living it again for the first time. And perhaps that is what this advanced adulthood is all about.
So thanks for this lads, I'm so glad that you love this music. I hope it lives forever within you, and means as much to you as it did to us.
This comment really moved me. Thanks for sharing man
beautiful comment
I was 14 as well. I feel you bro.
@@therealcleany best comment
I was 13 when this came out, and the next three years (94,95,96) were incredible for alternative music on impressionable young teens. We were spoiled.
My favorite album for over thirty years now. When I was 12 years old back in 94', my friend's older brother was being deployed to the middle east. He brought a giant box full of cassette tapes into my room and set it down in front of us. It contained tons of great 90's alt/grunge bands and their albums. Weezer, Green Day, NIN, Nirvana, AiC, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Faith No More, etc. But we decided to put the album with the funny kids on the cover in first. The Smashing Pumpkins would be my favorite band from that day on. The albums Gish - Machina II are all great. Billy has done tons of other stuff too like solo albums and Zwan, and a lot of the post 2000 pumpkins stuff is good here and there, but nothing can touch the 90's output. The man can only make so many masterpieces lol. Great video guys. What I would give to go back and hear all this great music for the first time. We all felt exactly the same as you two did in this video. The 90's were great.
Thanks so much for listening to us, thus listening to this album. Great video!
Its totally ok to interpret songs subjectivley, but I recommend you to look for Disarm's meaning, it is very painful and personal.
For some more albums after the maraton:
Red - King Crimson
I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning - Bright Eyes
Self Titled - Rage Against The Machine
2112 - Rush
Illmatic - Nas
...Like Clockwork - Queens Of The Stone Age
Nice mix of genres. I might add Liquid Swords - GZA, Ruby Vroom - Soul Coughing, and Mezcal Head - Swervedriver.
@@WordAte an i'll add Discovery - Daft Punk
2112 would be a trip and a half for these guys lmao
Yes I'm Wide Awake. Its a special album.
Conner was special before the cocaine took hold
This album was the soundtrack of my sophomore year in college . It’s been 31 years, but everytime I listen to the album it brings me back to such an amazing time of my life. Btw, listen to “Drown” from the Singles soundtrack . Make sure it’s the 9 minute version. You’ll thank me for it
It’s so incredibly hard to pick a favorite song off this album. But for me, it’s probably Soma, which is a perfect peek into what you can expect if you go on to do Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, which is an album FULL of soft, melodic lows and heavy, loud highs.
Really depends on the mood. Hummer has grown on me massively over the years though, what a song
Soma, Geek USA, Mayonnaise is probably the holy trinity, but as I got older I would include Spaceboy and make it a quadrivium.
@@AidanLonergan-vj5vj especially the outro.
Same here - very difficult but it’s Soma for me, too.
Hearing this again takes me right back to being 16, cruising the loop with my friends, just chillin and living life. Music like this keeps you young.
IMO: Pumpkins are the GOAT 90s band.
I forgot how much this album means to me. Thank you for the reaction video. You made me feel how I first felt when I first heard this album. Definitely shed a tear to this video. It's powerful music. Great content guys keep it up.
Siamese Dream is a better album than Nevermind. There, I said it.
In Utero is a better album than Nevermind as well!
@@thenewholistic lets face it, there are a lot of albums better than Nevermind- Alice in Chains Facelift, Dirt and Jar of Flies, Soundgarden Badmotorfinger and Down on the Upside, Pearl Jam Ten, STP Purple, and In utero
Don't fight. I love them all
100%. Nirvana is the most over-rated band of all time
12:26 You guys are great! I’m a 61 retired military guy, but you remind me so much of me at that age and my Son is 24, close to your age and is just like you guys except he’s more into rap and country and The Weeknd is his boy. But I just appreciate that you love the jams I grew up listening. I’ve been here and done that so I’ll try to find some albums and jams I think you’d like! Keep on going! I love your channel!
Old head here! This video popped up randomly on my feed. It warms my frikkin heart to see you kids rockin to my all time favorite album, by my all time favorite band! Seriously got second-hand goosebumps! Y'all know wassup. Indeed, there is hope!
I'm 41 and this is what we were doing in high-school with bands like sabbath, zep, hendrix, stuff my parents saw live
This is the first album I ever bought as a kid and still listen to it from start to finish fairly regularly. It's glad to see a younger generation finding this music and appreciating it like I once did and still do. This is a great album to listen to while laying in bed with your headphones on and eyes closed and just drift away to somewhere else for a while.
The Smashing Pumpkins belong in the pantheon of greatest bands, ever walked this planet, their vast and diverse catalog can stand with anyone’s in the history of music
And still not in the hall of fame, total 🐂💩
Mayonaise is one of my favorite songs, and I haven't stopped listening to this album over the past 30 years. I loved your guys' reaction, and I look forward to more. Keep reacting with an open heart and mind!
I'm seeing them open for Green Day this year for the 30th anniversary of 'Dookie'. Rancid is on before the Pumpkins. I'm very excited, and probably "very old" in your eyes 😅
See EVERY band/group/artist/whatvertf you can in your life. That's my old ass advice. Hope you keep digging into everything you can musically, and leave yourselves open to every new experience you hear. Always have respect, and earn respect 🤘Keep up the good work on here. Looking forward to more reactions.
You would love Mellon Collie, and since you're Radiohead fans you would probably also really appreciate the soundscapes of Adore.
Adore is so underrated!! I just got super into it now I can’t stop
@@bygone7197 perfect for a rainy Sunday afternoon
I was 16 when this album came out. Blew my mind. There were so many good albums out that year. This, Nirvana's In Utero, The Breeders Last Splash. I was spoiled but didn't realize it.
Lol. I drank daily next to Kim deal shortly after last splash. It pled next to her pixies albums and I let her know it was greatly appreciated but I wished for more pixies songs
Woah dude! Today is NOT a happy song! Its about "self deletion" its the greatest day because its his last....😢 he's going out with a sense of freedom... PINK RIBBON SCARS that never forget, I tried so hard to cleanse these regrets, my angel wings were bruised and restrained, my belly stings
They clearly didn’t deep dive into the album properly…
@@bfriedjonesthing about music is everything is up to how u feel, sad songs can be happy, happy songs can be taunting, today is a great example of how billy is with his lyrics, a true artist
@@bfriedjones Pretty solid first listen. Today is well disguised without someone telling you what it's about.
The "smashing" in Smashing Pumpkins, is an adjective, not a verb. As in, "Those are some truly smashing pumpkins, sir!". Billy Corgan trivia. Yes! Cherub Rock blew my mind when I heard it! One of my all time favourite albums. Soma deserves a special mention. Cheers for the video.
I'm super glad you guys enjoyed this album as much as you did. Since you guys loved the guitar tones of this album, I highly recommend Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. It takes those fuzzy guitar tones to a whole other level. I would also recommend doing the Mellon Collie video in one part, and maybe just taking a short break between each half when recording. The album works best when experienced in its entirety.
Thank you for listening to my all time favorite album. Takes me right back to being 15 years old, in High school and this beautiful girl made me a Smashing Pumpkins mixtape and forever changed my life with music. By the way, they have another new album coming out August 2nd 2024. And Billy says it is an attempt to recapture their 90s sound. I can’t wait!
This video was so nostalgic for me. The reaction you guys had took me right back to sitting in my bedroom listening to this album front to back for the first time at 20 years old and just immersing myself in every single track. Still one of my absolute favorite albums of all time. Thanks for this!
This album is just wall to wall 10s. By comparison I think Mellon Collie is a little bloated, but the highs on it are higher than anything else in their discography. It’s definitely worth checking out
I personally don’t think Mellon Collie is bloated, only because I LOVE every track on it, but I fully agree that it’s highs are the best in their entire history. I think the highs on Mellon Collie are even greater than the highs on Siamese Dream - just my personal opinion obviously lol. But both albums are among the best ever written.
@@ninja_tony compared to Siamese Dream I think the second half of Mellon Collie is a little bloated and my ears get a little fatigued of listening to it, I think the production just isn’t quite as appealing as it is on SD. But Siamese Dream is one of the tightest albums ever so it’s not really much of a criticism
@@LudiColorado Absolutely agree on the production comment, Flood was definitely not the best choice. His production is way too dark and he doesn't do the guitars as much justice. Flood has honestly put a damper on a few albums I love
@@DomDizzler5053 MCIS sounds great to me. SD is hyper-produced, and it obviously worked, but MCIS is meant to sound like a band in a room jamming, and it really really works
I've seen a LOT of reaction videos.
This was the best one I've ever seen...hands down.
Why YT cut SB and SF makes zero sense to me. But....if that means I have to join your Patreon, ok...I'll do it!
This album is absolutely a 10/10 and means so so much to me. I love how deeply you both felt it.
Dude I’m happy you guys love this album I’m 28 but I listen to this like 4 years ago and I’ve been hooked ever since ! Rocket and hummer and mayonnaise are literally gold
Watching you guys listen to this reminded me of how I felt when I first heard all their stuff. So cool to see fresh reactions.
I can’t tell you how much joy it brings to watch you guys discover an album that was so special growing up in the 90’s. To hear you describe one of my favorite songs, Hummer (and one that got zero playtime on the radio due to its length) as ‘the perfect song’ just was total confirmation for me that good music holds up.
An Electro-Harmonix Op-Amp Big Muff fuzz pedal is the guitar sound of this album. So iconic. So much so that many years later they re-released it with Billy endorsing it and having a "Pumpkins" color scheme.
The 90's were the fucking best lol! I am so happy I was around then.
Me too. I used to blast this album in high school. I still listen to it occasionally.
They were! Me too!
I remember wearing out this album out in college, along with PJ, AIC, nirvana...
Just discovered your channel with this video and I so enjoyed taking a journey back in time with you both. I'm 51 and it made me smile so much to see you both enjoying this album as much as I did and still do. The Smashing Pumpkins were may absolute favorite band in the 90s (I was around your age then). I saw the in concert 2 times and they were incredible live. I'm excited for when you listen to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness!
I was 18 when this album came out, played it so much it wore out the cassette tape, I eventually bought it on CD. Very cool to see younger people being moved the same way I was, by the same music.
I’m 18 and discovered this album earlier this year. It’s now one of my all time favorite albums. Music really doesn’t age 🔥
The Smashing Pumpkins are Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin. The other members were for live performances. Billy played all guitars and bass on this album.
Awesome video. For me....i was 15...5 weekends of summer....camping with huge speakers set up and about 30 of us....just partying non-stop and blasting this album.....we were wild rock stars without fame.
I remember when this Album hit in the 90s, it was such a massive hit. Still is today.
incredible album, probably in my top five of all time
Love your reaction, love the Pumpkins. Their music almost always comes from a much darker place than is apparent on the surface.
The statement of Billy Corgan writing the entire album is not exactly true. One of the most important songs 'Mayonaise' guitar parts, excluding the solo and other lead parts was written by James Iha. Similar for 'Soma' as well, specifically the intro. Most of the time Billy would come up with stuff at home or rehearsals and the band would collaborate to build the songs, as well as parts of James and Billies guitar styles would merge together to create their sound. The recording of the album was still a shit show, however they were not as bad before they entered the studio.
Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness would be the zenith of the band working together and collaborating as a family, creatively, experementally, and homogeneously. With a different producer at the helm who pushed for an authentic portrayl of the band, not the perfection in siamese dream, it resulted in the truest form of the pumpkins to be portrayed. It would end up being one of the greatest and biggest albums of all time.
Glad y’all enjoyed this bonafide classic. It needs no introduction at this point and has been a huge influence on so many including myself, I’m 31 and many songs on this album were on very heavy rotation during my teenage years. As far as the discussion around this album’s style and influence I do feel like this is maybe the most harmonious marriage of grunge and shoegaze aesthetics to come out of the golden era of alternative rock in the early 90s. Assigning a single genre tag to it is kind of a fruitless endeavor because Corgan had such a panoramic vision for their sound. I’d even argue that Today is one of the most prominent early examples of midwest emo, even if no one ever outright refers to the Pumpkins as an emo band. Great video!
It does my heart good to vicariously see you guys experience and appreciate this masterpiece of an album for the first time. Fantastic, genuine reaction. Thank you.
finally i found people who reacts the music i love, I feel accompanied for once in my life, great channel dudes, love to see more !!
I was lucky enough last year to see this band twice . Once in a huge Arema and the other in a tiny venue with about 300 people. I also saw them live 3 decades ago .Such a great live band . Such a Great Band . Their driving beat and killer sound are so addictive and Amazing ! I am 56 now .
I bought this album on the day it released, two weeks after my 15th birthday, at Manifest Records in Clemson South Carolina.
And it has been my all time favorite album since that day.
I’m glad y’all enjoyed it.
My favorite album by my favorite band of all time. It was so surreal watching you guys appreciate this.
The way you guys are bent over look listening to this is exactly how I felt listening just a brilliant album
Watching you guys experience this is amazing.
Appreciate you guys checkin’ this stuff out!
My first concert was SP in 94 for the Mellon Collie tour🤘
Got into this album about the same time, a couple years after it came out
No it wasn't. October 1995 was MCIS release date
I'm hoping channels like yours will help this generation discover rock again and will inspire the next rock revolution. It's time.
Hey guys. Just subscribed. Watching you guys experience this like I did back in the early 90s when I was probably about your age. Man.....changed my life. I was just listening to nothing but old school rap at the time and focused on nonsensical things. My friend Adam introduced me to Smashing and this very album. I didn't even want to listen to it. It changed everything. Simple times of us trying to make it and sleeping on a mattress on the floor in an apartment and trying to work and pay my own way. This album and "Selling the Drama" by Live became the soundtrack of my life and got me through so much.....good and bad.
I appreciate seeing you guys experience these new things. I feel like I'm watching myself at that time and it's so touching to see you "get it". Keep on keeping on.
This will always be in my top albums of all time. It really struck a chord with my teenage girls as well. They grabbed the CD one day and probably listened to it on replay for several weeks.
The Deftones are largely inspired by the Smashing Pumpkins, and you can really hear the influences once you're familiar with the Pumpkins' discog. The Smashing Pumpkins weren't grunge because they weren't from the west coast scene, but they do incorporate elements. They weren't considered shoegaze back then, but they are now, and I think it makes sense. Billy is known for the "wall of guitar" sound which is used almost exclusively to describe Billy's signature sound. Jimmy Chamberlain was the only member to stick it out with the band. He was involved with the overdose of the bands touring manager, and he was kicked out of the band for a few years. Jimmy managed to beat his addiction and he stuck around. People don't talk about him enough, because not only is he an absolute beast of a drummer, he's one of the nicest guys you'll meet. He just radiates goodness. "Today" was the first song I ever heard from the pumpkins. I was in the 3rd grade and I saw the video on MTV. They have been my favorite rock band since that day in 93. Something about it just stuck with me.
Seeing your reaction to this album puts me back to the feeling I had listening to it on my stereo in my bedroom for the first time in 93. Mind blowing. Possibly the only album I’ve listened to that I had such a reaction to
Jimmy Chamberlain's masterpiece
There are very few albums that every single song is a banger. This is one of them!
Feel like there were a lot in the 90s.
Been a while since I listened to the whole thing. Thanks for reviewing this masterpiece, boys.
Maybe the best summer album ever made.
Its orange and pink, its sunny, it SHALL BE FREEEEEEEE
This album is pure nostalgia for me. I remember falling in love for the first time as a teen listening to this.
I remember just laying on my bed staring at the ceiling listening to this beginning to end losing myself in it. I think this experience of listening to an entire record is a lost joy .
Watching you guys enjoy an album that I been loving since 1993 summer is fantastic, enjoy the journey, this album is in my top ten albums of all time. Glad you all stubbled across it
most smashing pumpkins songs for me tend to get better with each listen, re-listen value is great.
Awesome reaction guys! I haven't listened to this album for a while. Brings back great memories. This came out when i was in high school. On my way to school i would jam out to this on my sony walkman, lol. I always liked Luna and Mayonnaise the best.
idk how you guys are doing it, but y'all are literally just going through my top ten albums of all time. well done, boys!
I don't know how old you guys are, but I was 17 when I did the same thing listening to this album for the first time (30 years ago, yikes, lol). Immersed in every song through my headphones in my room. This album actually changed my life. I had never heard anything like it before. This album made SP my favorite band of all time.
Great reactions to some great albums. You’ve got another subscriber keep em coming.
the sound of the guitars on the album uses an effect peddle call "Big Muff" . That effect is what was used by bands like Mudhoney to create the fuzz sound that would be called "grunge". So technically , even though smashing pumpkins style doesnt fall into the typical "grunge" mold, it is literally "grunge". I bought this album when It came out . I was in my early twenties. it was my favorite album for a long time until my life moved on .recently in the last year I have been listening and enjoying it again as I did when I was young. It seems like it is coming back around again as I keep seeing it being discussed
this is very entertaining to watch and love the full album listen. I am excited for you two to keep diving into the lyrical context behind these songs.. for example Today is literally about committing suicide. If you already loved the core sound then the deeper lyrical focus will raise it even higher. 100 out of 10. This album changed my life. We are doing a Top 50 SP songs of all time series on my channel to celebrate that. SP Forever.
I’m late to this party. My favourite album of all time. Easily 10/10. Subbed!