Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
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Free Music Review: I'm going motherf**king crazy
Hit: 5 Stars
Gish was actually the last Pumpkins studio album I purchased. After becoming addicted to Siamese Dream. Of all the other Pumpkins albums (not including Picies Iscariot) Gish has the most in common with Siamese Dream, the faint sabbath/zepplin guiatars and the pyscadelic scales. That aside they are two very different albums. Where Siamese Dream riffs and rages under the sun, Gish relaxes in the cool shade. Witness the weed soaked Rhinocerous and its mellow build up using the psycadelic guitars. Corgan don't quite have the anger he will acquire for his next few albums. Only on Shiva is there a glimpse of the rage that will come. The rawer sound to the is album gives it an earthy feel.
The beauty of this album is its innocence, its young and bored, but it a happy stoned kind of way. There is little evidence of "grunge" influencing this album. Its not depressing or angry or even punkish. What Gish really does is to show that Nirvana and the seattle bands were not alone, other kids across the world, sick of the hair metal bands were developing their own music.
Dreamy and hazy, almost neo-hippy ethos, Gish is the perfect start to the Pumpkins career. They would equall this album with Siamese Dream, but they would never top it again.
Free Music Review: I don't think I stopped playing Gish for two years when it came out
Hit: 5 Stars
As is often the case with bands, Gish was their first and their best. Prior to the first release a band might actually have many songs already written and they may have been written many years prior to the first release. What is likely to happen is these songs have a chance to "marinate" and gradual improvements are made over time. When it is time to record the first release a band might actually have several disks worth of material so the "greatest hits" make the cut on the first disk. Subsequent releases use the material that may not have been as good and the other new songs have not had the chance to "marinate".
Gish is simply amazing and I am not surprised that it was never equaled. The Pumpkins probably would have had to wait about 5 years until the next release before they had the material to equal Gish and a record company is not going to let that happen. Ground breaking when it came out and a sound that has been copied by many bands. Incredible depth and complexity. My recommendation to those new to the Pumpkins is buy Gish and the greatest hits even though some Gish songs are on the greatest hits. The fact is Gish should not be broken up but needs to be listened to in its entirety. Mesmerizing!
Free Music Review: The Beginning!
Hit: 5 Stars
I'll never forget seeing the "Siva" video on MTV's latenight 120 Minutes alt music video show for the first time in summer 1991 and knowing right then this was going to become one of may favorite bands. (I think hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time was close to the same feeling!)I bought the album immediately and was astounded by the complexity, rock, drumming, layers, psychedelia and melodies.
Like another recent reviewer hinted, Gish defined part of my life as I was entering college. This was a great time for music - Janes Addiction, Pixies, Nirvana, etc etc, the list is endless.
I still like this album the best, despite my enjoyment and respect for the change/influx of SP's sound mid 90's to more electronica. I also feel like BC did not whine as much when singing on the early stuff. His voice at times can be a tad annoying in the later years.
Regardless, I think it is best for anyone getting into any band to start with the first album in most cases and go from there. This one will not disappoint. Siva, Snail, I Am One, Bury Me are my favs.
Like another reviewer, I too saw SP sandwiched in between Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers on that 1991 tour, wow!!!
Free Music Review: Great stepping stone to their future successes...
Hit: 5 Stars
In all fairness though, this is still an excellent accomplishment from Billy Corgan and company. Yes, it is more guitar heavy than Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie, or Adore (Pisces Iscariot I didn't include because that covers all of the b-sides from Gish and Siamese Dream, therefore it isn't a good album to be used as a measure), but consider that all of their live shows are just like Gish in their raw guitar power, and when Gish was recorded the Smashing Pumpkins were still a relatively new band who only had experience on stage, not in the recording studio. I Am One, Siva, Bury Me, and Tristessa will get your speakers booming with their grinding rythms, while Suffer and Daydream seem to around the room on a wave of soft melodies. One cannot count out Rhinoceros though, for this one song captures the best of both types of SP songs. So, to pumpkins fans new and old who don't have this album, buy it for it's sheer artistry at a time when Nirvana and the "grunge" sound ruled the airwaves, but more so, buy it because it still stands out as a great accomplishment from the Smashing PumpkinsFree Music Review: Sometimes the first is the best...
Hit: 5 Stars
This record has to be taken in the context of its time. A grim era in rock music. REM was sinking into the quagmire of commerical schmaltz. Elvis Costello had completed his transformation into the "balladeer." There was a glimmer of hope when Neil Young put out Ragged Glory, but that was.....Neil Young, for Chrissakes! Sonic Youth? Maybe, but no air play. Otherwise, nothing. It looked like it was all over.
Then..out of nowhere, comes this record! Wailing guitars..big bass..wallshaking drums..huge chords, psychedelia, loud, loud, loud....most importantly, COOL TUNES! I didn't think anyone knew about this stuff anymore.
This record was the first in the glorious year of 1991 that also saw Pearl Jam, Nirvana and others literally save rock and roll.
Others can argue the merits of this record against the ones that followed, but not me. This will always be the best Pumpkins record, and one of my desert island favorites, because it is the one that dragged rock music out of bed, slapped its face and shouted "Wake Up!"
For that reason alone it is 5 stars.