My mom and aunt were good friends with D’arcy Wretzky's mother in high school. I remember in the early 90's my mom saying her friend's daughter was in a band coming to town and wanted to know if me or my brother wanted free tickets to see them. We were like "Smashing Pumpkins, never heard of them, nah." Years later I look back at that moment and die a little more inside...😔
Do any of you remember having to wait for your song to come on the radio just so you could record it onto your Maxell cassette? So grateful I am 39, and got to grow up in the 1990s. 🙏 Great podcast, Jacob! Trip down memory lane!
I'll listen to this at work tomorrow. If I were stuck on a deserted island and I was only allowed to have 1 band's catalog it would be Smashing Pumpkins
Agreed. However, would that include Zwan's Mary Star Of The Sea? That's my second favorite album ever and I would love to have it with Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness which is my favorite album ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is uncanny! I rarely comment on people's videos, but your experiences with these albums are EXACTLY like mine! Even down to how you were introduced to them... Like for example, your story on the Cherub Rock video on 120 minutes. Exactly how I found this album! So weird, but very enjoyable! Again, thanks for the memories.
Hey man, I found your podcast yesterday while I was looking for podcasts that have done The Bends by Radiohead and yours came up. I haven't listened that episode yet but I listened to this episode today while out walking (after hearing your introduction episode first) and I loved it. Thank you for such awesome stories, it really brought back some for me too as far as getting into The Pumpkins in the first place. While I was at TAFE studying music, a friend of mine who plays guitar turned me on to Siamese Dream. The only time I knew anything of The Pumpkins prior to that was growing up hearing 1979 on the radio but other than that had no interest in them. The first song I listened to was Cherub Rock which was my massive awakening as a Pumpkin die-hard. I'm a Mellon Collie guy but Siamese Dream is a fucking awesome record. Will be listening tomorrow on my walk to the episode on the soundtrack to Singles. So glad I found your podcast, keep up the amazing stories.
I will never forget, got my first actual stereo system for Christmas, and it had a CD player. I had none, but I also got some cash. So, to Kmart my parents took me. I bought Siamese Dream and The Chronic the same night. What a time to be alive.
Man!!! So glad I found this podcast!!! Thank you so much and please keep it up. Probably will be totally caught up in a matter of days. I’d love to see a Blind Melon episode!!!
Great video! My favourite band as well. And in for life as well. My friend showed them to me "properly" in 95 just as MCIS came out, and I crammed in Siemese Dream and Gish and Mellon Collie ahead of their 1st visit to my country, an amazing concert in Cascais, Portugal. Sadly just before Jonathan Melvoin's death. Followed them and BC since and won't miss a concert if I can. The sound, the lyrics, the song composition, the musicianship all adds up to a weird and wonderful band thats I've loved for almost 30 years
"Smashing Pumpkins is my favorite band of all time." Couldn't agree more or less Jacob. The Smashing Pumpkins and Pink Floyd will forever be my favorite bands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Edit: If you ever get the chance to do so, can you please do a deep dive on Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness?
Dude, I have never stuck my stickers on anything either!! OMG, I've never heard of anyone else doing that... Great video man, I just found your channel and I love it so much!!!
We are cut from the same cloth. My intro to SP was also Drown from the Singles soundtrack coupled with Cherub Rock on the radio. I bought Siamese Dream and was blown away. Next day went to the record store and bought Gish. Mayonnaise and Rhinoceros are my two favorite SP songs of all time. I'm also always in search for the perfect sticker, but then to couple it with the perfect place to put it, damn near impossible, Lol. Edit: (I should have waited to the end of the video before commenting...) My second son's name is also Elliot
right there with you crying your eyes out at shiny and oh so bright man. i was ruined. also, i may be wrong but i think the art on the siamese dream cd is actually the old virgin records logo :) love your work dude!
I’m a little late to the game on this pod but I absolutely loved this deep dive and the way you mixed some personal anecdotes in there as well. I’ve always found Courtney Love’s influence on Siamese Dream (and several other SP albums actually) really fascinating. There’s a lot of lines scattered throughout it that are so reminiscent of the way she writes that there’s no way they weren’t at least partially inspired by their time together
It wasn’t the first cd I bought, it was the first CD i bought at Best Buy, where I had my mom drive me to the mall to get it because I HAD to have it and it was sold out at the local record store. I went thru maybe 3 copies? Maybe more… and I was in for life too after SD, but MCIS changed me in a much more deeper way… a couple years older, it was just that more powerful. Can’t wait for a MCIS WPR episode! Great show Jacob, keep em coming!
I cried when I saw him for the first time in Kuala Lumpur in 2013. My wife filmed me. And I'm not Malaysian. I am Iranian. He pointed at me at the end of the show.
I heard Billy say it’s “the” SP because “Smashing” refers to what the English say instead of “amazing” or “fantastic” That’s why I sometimes call them The Amazing Pumpkins
My mom and aunt were good friends with D’arcy Wretzky's mother in high school. I remember in the early 90's my mom saying her friend's daughter was in a band coming to town and wanted to know if me or my brother wanted free tickets to see them. We were like "Smashing Pumpkins, never heard of them, nah." Years later I look back at that moment and die a little more inside...😔
I didn’t get into Gish until much later as well! When I saw the Today video on MTV I was like yep, that’s my shit! I still have Vieuphoria on VHS.
That acoustic “Cherub Rock” set on that VHS still recharges my heart every time❤️😊
Do any of you remember having to wait for your song to come on the radio just so you could record it onto your Maxell cassette?
So grateful I am 39, and got to grow up in the 1990s. 🙏
Great podcast, Jacob! Trip down memory lane!
It's been a dream of mine since I was a kid to see them in concert and now that I'm in my 30s I'm finally getting a chance this August with my Dad 😊
I'll listen to this at work tomorrow. If I were stuck on a deserted island and I was only allowed to have 1 band's catalog it would be Smashing Pumpkins
Agreed. However, would that include Zwan's Mary Star Of The Sea? That's my second favorite album ever and I would love to have it with Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness which is my favorite album ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@vinylandcassettegeek zwan was the only time I've seen Billy Corgan play live. It was incredible!
This is uncanny! I rarely comment on people's videos, but your experiences with these albums are EXACTLY like mine! Even down to how you were introduced to them... Like for example, your story on the Cherub Rock video on 120 minutes. Exactly how I found this album! So weird, but very enjoyable! Again, thanks for the memories.
Hey man, I found your podcast yesterday while I was looking for podcasts that have done The Bends by Radiohead and yours came up. I haven't listened that episode yet but I listened to this episode today while out walking (after hearing your introduction episode first) and I loved it. Thank you for such awesome stories, it really brought back some for me too as far as getting into The Pumpkins in the first place.
While I was at TAFE studying music, a friend of mine who plays guitar turned me on to Siamese Dream. The only time I knew anything of The Pumpkins prior to that was growing up hearing 1979 on the radio but other than that had no interest in them. The first song I listened to was Cherub Rock which was my massive awakening as a Pumpkin die-hard. I'm a Mellon Collie guy but Siamese Dream is a fucking awesome record. Will be listening tomorrow on my walk to the episode on the soundtrack to Singles. So glad I found your podcast, keep up the amazing stories.
I will never forget, got my first actual stereo system for Christmas, and it had a CD player. I had none, but I also got some cash. So, to Kmart my parents took me. I bought Siamese Dream and The Chronic the same night. What a time to be alive.
The excitement with a new stereo was unreal. Big speakers. The bigger the better. 90s was peak life
RE- crying during the Disarm slideshow at the Shiny and Oh So Bright tour… SAME 😭 That whole show was something else
YES! I was a blubbering mess! The show was incredible. All the feels
@@JacobGivens I agree fully about the emotionality when Disarm was played on this tour. And 1,000 nostalgic tears during Mayonaise!
Man!!! So glad I found this podcast!!! Thank you so much and please keep it up. Probably will be totally caught up in a matter of days. I’d love to see a Blind Melon episode!!!
Great video! My favourite band as well. And in for life as well. My friend showed them to me "properly" in 95 just as MCIS came out, and I crammed in Siemese Dream and Gish and Mellon Collie ahead of their 1st visit to my country, an amazing concert in Cascais, Portugal. Sadly just before Jonathan Melvoin's death.
Followed them and BC since and won't miss a concert if I can.
The sound, the lyrics, the song composition, the musicianship all adds up to a weird and wonderful band thats I've loved for almost 30 years
I am with you. I have a huge box of band stickers that I never put on anything.
"Smashing Pumpkins is my favorite band of all time." Couldn't agree more or less Jacob. The Smashing Pumpkins and Pink Floyd will forever be my favorite bands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edit: If you ever get the chance to do so, can you please do a deep dive on Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness?
As a guy who recently became a Pumpkins fan, I really appreciate this deep dive into Siamese Dream!
Love to hear it, man!
Dude, I have never stuck my stickers on anything either!! OMG, I've never heard of anyone else doing that... Great video man, I just found your channel and I love it so much!!!
We are cut from the same cloth. My intro to SP was also Drown from the Singles soundtrack coupled with Cherub Rock on the radio. I bought Siamese Dream and was blown away. Next day went to the record store and bought Gish. Mayonnaise and Rhinoceros are my two favorite SP songs of all time.
I'm also always in search for the perfect sticker, but then to couple it with the perfect place to put it, damn near impossible, Lol.
Edit: (I should have waited to the end of the video before commenting...)
My second son's name is also Elliot
right there with you crying your eyes out at shiny and oh so bright man. i was ruined. also, i may be wrong but i think the art on the siamese dream cd is actually the old virgin records logo :) love your work dude!
I’m a little late to the game on this pod but I absolutely loved this deep dive and the way you mixed some personal anecdotes in there as well. I’ve always found Courtney Love’s influence on Siamese Dream (and several other SP albums actually) really fascinating. There’s a lot of lines scattered throughout it that are so reminiscent of the way she writes that there’s no way they weren’t at least partially inspired by their time together
It wasn’t the first cd I bought, it was the first CD i bought at Best Buy, where I had my mom drive me to the mall to get it because I HAD to have it and it was sold out at the local record store. I went thru maybe 3 copies? Maybe more… and I was in for life too after SD, but MCIS changed me in a much more deeper way… a couple years older, it was just that more powerful. Can’t wait for a MCIS WPR episode! Great show Jacob, keep em coming!
Soma is my favorite song on this album, but you went right past it in 10 seconds haha. The solo on that song is so good
So funny to see your video. Smashing Pumpkins are my #1 band followed by the Beatles!
I too had a box of stickers that I acquired, but could never bring myself to stick onto anything. 😅
I cried when I saw him for the first time in Kuala Lumpur in 2013. My wife filmed me. And I'm not Malaysian. I am Iranian. He pointed at me at the end of the show.
I heard Billy say it’s “the” SP because “Smashing” refers to what the English say instead of “amazing” or “fantastic” That’s why I sometimes call them The Amazing Pumpkins