Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
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Artist: Smashing PumpkinsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1994-10-04
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- I Am One
- Siva
- Rhinoceros
- Bury Me
- Crush
- Suffer
- Snail
- Tristessa
- Window Paine
- Daydream
Free Music Notes for Gish
Free Music Review: Gish is pure genius. 100% spiritual ascension.
Hit: 5 Stars
I notice from these reviews that there are very few people who can interpret and therefore appreciate this album to it's very depth, and the reason is because we are Westerners instead of Easterners. Were the lyrics translated and heard in India or other places in Asia, there would be very little mystery. This album is about Spiritual Enlightenment (Salvation, Nirvana, Liberation) which is the topic of topics; the goal of goals. Corgan directly says that this is a "very spiritual album" and even mentions that it's about spiritual ascension, the songs Siva (Shiva) and Suffer being giveaways. Recently in an interview, he mentioned that in his past albums he was "intellectualizing the divine." This album comes from Corgans own suffering and his efforts to understand and walk the road to the divine. This is easily the most profound SP album due to it's complexity, depth and relevance, making it one of the most significant albums of all time.
I believe Corgan was reading I Am That by Nisargadatta during the time. He is an Indian liberated man, a concept which few people in the West are familiar with. In the song Siva, Corgan writes: "All this pain smothers me, like a bomb that you can't see. Tell me, tell me what you're after. I just want to get there faster." In the book, Nisargadatta is talking to a visitor who tells him, "Basically, man is afraid. He is afraid of himself most. I feel I am like a man who is carrying a bomb that is going to explode. He cannot defuse it, he cannot throw it away. He is terribly frightened and is searching frantically for a solution, which he cannot find. To me liberation is getting rid of this bomb. I do not know much about the bomb. I only know that it comes from early childhood. I feel like the frightened child protesting passionately against not being loved. The child is craving for love and because he does not get it, he is afraid and angry. Sometimes I feel like killing somebody or myself. This desire is so strong that I am constantly afraid. And I do not know how to get free from fear." Billy Corgan had a very unloving and hard family life, so it's no wonder this part would stand out for him. Billy knows the ultimate solution to all problems, and "God" asks him "Tell me tell me what you're after," And Billy replies, "I just want to get there faster." As in he wants to merge into the divine as fast as possible.
The song Suffer also clues us into Nisargadatta. Billy asks God twice, "will you wait?" And God quickly and compassionately replies twice: "Yes I will, I will wait for you." But there are conditions. One must cleans his life before liberation, so God tells Billy, "To cleanse your life takes more than time," because there will be obstacles --there will be challenges. But then God entices Billy into taking divinity here and now without going through all the trouble of struggles, challenges and more suffering and says, "Take what you want. Take all of it." In other words, take divinity and all of creation. Say yes to the present moment. Everything is yours because there is no you and me, everything is One and only God is. Were these lyrics inspired by Nisargadatta? He writes:
Q: Can you give us the taste of the experience of self-realisation?
M: Take the whole of it! It is here for the asking. But you do not ask. Even when you ask, you do
not take. Find out what prevents you from taking.
Q: I know what prevents -- my ego.
M: Then get busy with your ego -- leave me alone. As long as you are locked up within your mind,
my state is beyond your grasp.
Gish Poster
Upon the release of Gish--the group's debut--in the summer of 1991, more than one rock aficionado hailed the Smashing Pumpkins as the best band to come out of Chicago since Ministry. A bold statement, yes, but one backed up by Billy Corgan's Hendrix-like riffs and searing signature guitar tone. Intriguing songwriting is evidenced from the start as well, with the driving, amped-up rock of "I Am One," "Siva," and "Tristessa" contrasted with the soothingly eerie psychedelic flavor of "Rhinoceros" and "Window Paine." Gish predates the band's movement toward the loop-based electronic sounds heard in their late-'90s works, yet the seeds for this transition are definitely apparent. Electro guru Tricky even sampled the backbeat from "Suffer" in the tributary "Pumpkin" on his sex-soaked Maxinquaye. Butch Vig shows off his chops as producer and cultivates signature dramatic moods on Gish, which helped put the Smashing Pumpkins on the map as one of the most important alt-rock bands of the '90s--much to the delight of the decade's disenfranchised youth. --Brad ZinserAlternative Rock Music CDs
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