Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
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Free Music Review: This C.D. rocks my pants off!
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been reading the reviews of this c.d. and I have to say I don't think this album has recieved the praise it deserves. Let me put it this way if you like to rock and if you like to rock to hard rock like has talent. Your gonna love this c.d. and I don't use the word love lightly. I must say I wouldn't ever compare this c.d. to sabbath. This c.d. is a thousand times more talented to anything sabbath ever put out. It rocks harder than iron man and paranoid ever will. Maybe war pigs beats it, but thats only because war pigs is there only talented song, but I'm getting sidetracked. What I'm trying to say is the music on this album is extremely rad and that is why it is one of my favorite albums. This c.d. is tied with siamese dream in my opinion. The only thing that would put siamese dream ahead of it is the fact that billy's vocals are alot better on siamese dream, but the music on this c.d. is just as good if not better than siamese dream. The only thing I think this c.d. lacks is vocals, billy lacks the powerful voice that drives this kind of hard rock. Billy is kind of soft spokem he lacks the intensity that say Chris Cornell or Robert Plant has. If billy would have worked on his voice to make it more powerful than this would be in my top 3 favorite albums of all time.A couple reasons why the music on this is some of my favorite. Drumming is awesome my god why don't more drummers drum with this intensity and accuracy. The drum fills on this are enough to make John Bonham cream his pants. Another reason the guitar is intense and hard and powerful. The solos are edge of your seat solos making you wait for what note comes next. Now theres also a whole 'nother side to this album with light rock and so on so forth. The like rock is some of my favorite.
In conclusion, this is probably my favorite pumpkins album (maybe siamese dream not sure yet)for the reasons stated above and if you wanna cd with the hard and the heavy yet also with light rock and all of that driven by talent do urself a favor and by this cd!!!
Free Music Review: Best of the Pumpkins
Hit: 5 Stars
"Gish" is one of those records that define the meaning of "band." In this album, all four of the pumpkins contribute equally to create an experience trully unique and very real. The style of the pumpkins is that they attack and fade, attack and fade. This technique is used throughout the album and on individual songs such as Siva, Crush, Suffer, Window Paine, an others. Jimmy Chamberlain's drumming is supportive, flavorful, and independent all at the same time (much like Mike Clark on Herbie Hancock's album "Thrust"). D'arcy adds a totally unique ambience throughout the album. Her sound is like floating through black waters in summer midnight lakes. It's caressing at times and at others it hits you with a foreward passion. Billy Corgan's voice is a cherub singing though the aromatic springtime atmoshpere. His voice is dreamlike and floats on the temperature. He then shifts from time to time to a more mature presence within the same type of atmoshpere. This mature presence wells from deep within his soul and comes screaming out towards the vastness in all directions. The guitarists James Iha and Corgan, play with buzz and sand shifting warmth. The sound is both smooth and articulately defined. The sytle of the band is a sort of psychadelic folk rock for this generation, a sound and message "Siamese Dream" never totally incorporated. The sounds of the Pumpkins were perfected during this time period of the band. Everything after "Gish" was new and exciting ground that seems to have forgoten, but not entirely lost, the root of "Gish" and the flavor of it's presence. "Gish" is an album of deep and wide foundation. This is the bold and creative platform in which the Pumpkins have stood and maintained support. If you want to hear where the Pumpkins come from, "Gish" is their history.Free Music Review: Recipe for groundbreaking rock music
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't think any band's first album has ever been as good as the Pumpkin's debut. Already with many of the trademarks in place that would elevate them into rock valhalla with Siamese Dream, Corgan, Iha, D'Arcy, and Chamberlain create a wonderful mutation of garage rock and the burgeoning grunge scene. Corgan's vocals on this album are surprisingly gritty and caustic, as his psychedelia-tinged lyrics create the canvas on which ringing, sputtering guitars and thundering precussion leave their mark. The songs are inspired genius, one after another, and though borrowing from much of rocks past take enough left turns to keep the listener enthralled. "I Am One" leads off the record perfectly with apocalyptic bombast. "Siva" takes that one step further with perfect loud-soft dynamics that would become the Pumpkin's trademark. The lyrics convey a shadowy, understated sense of doom while sounding ephermeral at the same time, especially prevalent in "Rhinoceros," an almost otherworldly epic with perfectly timed melodies thorughout. Devotion, loss, and perseverance also surface, like in "Suffer" where the protagonist searches for an ambiguous sort of salvation while at the same time seeing its "too late to discover piece of mind, too late to recover." The overall message, however simple, is elegantly stated and perfectly complemented by the loud but tuneful music: Hope prevails above all. This is especially evident in the second to last song "Windowpane," which builds to a crescendo of guitar crunch as Corgan intones "Do what you've got to do/And say what you've got to say/Start today." The Pumpkins always had a sense of hope and perseverance at their core, and with their best music it was powerfully conveyed. Essential, along with Siamese Dream.Free Music Review: Pure
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a beautiful and unique hard rock album. It's not perfect from start to finish (very few albums are), but its strengths are SO strong, its good songs (which fill about 80% of the disc) so worth hearing, that it easily earns five stars from me. Billy Corgan's guitar sounds are just gorgeous, shimmering and crying. Jimmy Chamberlin shapes each song by using the full dynamic and tonal range of the drumset, something most rock drummers haven't even attempted to do since the sixties. This approach is obvious on "Window Pane," but check out "Suffer" and "Snail" especially to hear how Jimmy can lead the band around a corner with a sudden rise or dip in intensity. (The lack of this sort of drumming on _Mellon Collie_ is one of that album's real drawbacks. Most of the drum tracks sound like loops, and it makes the songs feel monotonous.) But the greatest thing about this record to me is how so many of the songs undergo a transformation, and end up a different song than they began. This is very rare indeed in any era of rock music. Orchestral symphonies usually do this, on a huge scale. The jazz compositions of Kenny Wheeler, Gerry Hemingway, and Dave Douglas often do this, and improvised jazz solos do it sometimes. But rock tends to be based on recurrence and somewhat circular forms -- even the progressive bands of the 70s usually finished a song by restating the original theme in the original way. The Pumpkins, by consistently getting from point A to point B (in under 5 minutes), have created what will probably remain a masterpiece, not just of the 1990s, but of all rock & roll.Free Music Review: Absolutely beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
This is easily The Smashing Pumpkins' best album, and possibly one of the best albums of all time. All cylinders are firing on this one; Jimmy Chamberlin's furious drumming and deft snare work is nothing short of brilliant. It's no wonder why Corgan decided to later take on all instruments EXCEPT the drums. Even with his growing ego, Corgan was wise enough to acknowledge that NOBODY could handle the kit (and still be musical as all hell) like Chamberlin. Every drummer should be forced to listen to this in order to learn the true meaning of "tasty playing"...
The guitars hit you like a wall of bricks, and do it with a tone sent straight from the gods. Nice and fuzzy, super thick, and clear as a bell; Corgan's layering of guitar tracks here is a technique that every recording musician, producer, or engineer should experience and remember. In addition to the incredible performances and songwriting here, Butch Vig's production on this album is top notch and only serves to intensify the effect on the listener without getting in the way (as great production should).
Forgive the expression, but this is balls-out gypsy rock and roll. Buy this album even if you are not a Smashing Pumpkins fan. In fact, buy this album ESPECIALLY if you are not a fan, because it hardly represents the albums that would follow, and those who came to learn of this band later on have no idea of what they're missing.
10 stars across the board. Don't even think about it. Buy this masterpiece, and thank me later...