Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
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Free Music Notes for Gish
Free Music Review: Grade "A" music, and maybe ever better......
Hit: 5 Stars
If you like Rock music and you only settle for the best, buy this album. There are so many reasons why this album is so brilliant. The guitar work is extremely magical and exquisite. On the contrary to the other Pumpkins albums, it's all real performing. By this I mean no drum machines or synthesizers are used. The LSD the Pumpkins were experimenting with at the time obviously acted as a source of inspiration. If your a fan of the Pumpkins other albums, there is no reason you wouldn't like this one{their debut}. All I am really trying to say is get your hands on this record and officially experience it. Crank it up real loud on a quality stereo, find a comfortable place to sit, and let your mind be soothed. If it turns out you hate this record, go see a doctor.Free Music Review: early days
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is one of the most beautiful to come out of rock music...ever. And beauty isn't synonymous with rock music, which makes the achievement all the more startling. I came to this album via Siamese Dream, and I immediately became hooked. This is a sad album...the songs are real because the emotions were, and are true. This album makes me cry. I have heard that deeper the sorrow, the greater the joy...that sentiment rings true here...just listen to Snail, the one that shines the brightest. Music is important...it is not frivilous. It has the ability to change lives and open minds and hearts. The rarest of albums accomplish this. Here we have one that does. Listen, enjoy, expand...all with a pure heart...and I guarantee you'll be changed as well.Free Music Review: The early Pumpkins.
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, I wanted to give 4.5, but what the heck. I'll just give it five because I'm a fan of the Pumpkins :)Anyway, these songs are from the days of the Pumpkins on LSD and crack. Songs like 'I Am One' and 'Bury Me' feature great bass lines; 'Siva' has great guitar riffs and solos; and 'Tristessa' just rocks. For the slower songs like 'Rhinoceros', 'Crush' and 'Suffer' have a very dreamy sound, and are distinctly unique. Their cover of Blondie's 'Daydream' features D'arcy on vocals and even though it wasn't recorded using the best instruments, it's still interesting.
Although this album is not their best I definitely like it and would recommend anyone who likes rock from the 90s.
Free Music Review: Oldie but goldie
Hit: 5 Stars
I think it is necessary to give a review of this album. More than 10 years have passed since i heard it, and it s a really 'good' album. B Corgan does things w Zwan now but this is remembered.There are so many influences here. It sounds like true Pumpkins, but we have some Floyd, Hendrix, etc. Crush sounds like it borrowed a bit from Meddle and Atom Heart mother of PF, and other songs here well sound nothing like any other group.
This is an album of all hits. I was 16 when i first heard it back in '91, now i'm 27 and it feels like it has a timeless quality to it. I feel i'll be 35 and 45 and i'll get it out to hear it.
Cheers to this band.
4 1/2 stars
Free Music Review: Their first and also their best
Hit: 5 Stars
Woe for the days when the Smashing Pumpkins were the hottest item on the Chicago club circuit and WXRT was the only radio station in the country playing "Gish." That was way back in 1991. I was mesmorized by this album then, and the feeling has never changed. As the Pumpkins have exploded into mass popularity, their music has grown more pompous and less interesting. Not so here. Listen to the great cuts "Rhinocerous," "Suffer," "Tristessa" and "Window Paine" and you'll be hooked. An excellent low key debut from a band that eventually got too big for their own good.