Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
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Free Music Notes for Siamese Dream
Free Music Review: Maybe the best Smashing Pumpkins Album
Hit: 5 Stars
The Smashing Pumpkins always were Billy Corgan's band. It became even more evident on Siamese dream, the band's follow-up to Gish. Corgan plays all of the guitar and bass parts on every song. Jimmy Chamberlin is the only member of the Smashing Pumpkins to have a part in this album other than Corgan, he does precussion. Whether Corgan's clinical depression is to blame or his control-freak mentality, the album remains one the finest alternative rock albums of the 1990's.
The album opens with a drum roll and then an explosion of sub-sabbath guitar on Cherub Rock. The first five tracks of the album are album are all about layering and metallic riffs, making the listener think the album is metal album.
The mood quickly changes on Disarm, and orchestral ballad in which Corgan dourly conveys his thoughts about his childhood and his parents.
The rest of the album is a hybrid of extremely soft music and heavy sounding music. In some intervals of the songs there is clearly some progressive rock too. As you finish listening to the album allow me to congratulate you. You have just listened to quite possibly the best alternative rock album of the '90's
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Free Music Review: Breathtakingly Beautiful Music
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this cd right when in came out, back in '93 or whenever, and loved it dearly from day one. Admittedly hadn't listen to it for years - I'd become more inured to the punk rock side of the aisle, and had lost the patience to abide six minute long rock songs. Anyway, a few weeks ago I found myself in an emotional whirlpool, the usual stuff - relationship on the skids, where's my life headin', blah blah blah. Seeking solace in music, I felt coldly distant from my copious cd collection; felt it didn't have anything proper to offer me. Suddenly, for some reason I knew I had to dig up the Pumpkin's "Siamese Dream" and that I'd find a track which would recharge me. Well, I found the cd and dusted it off (I was serious about not having played it for years), and found my "salvation" in track no. 9. Folks, notwithstanding its inappropriately mundane name, "Mayonaise" is one of the most perfect and emotionally evocative songs ever written, just incredible. The rest of the album doesn't flag far behind. I guess I just had to be in the right mood to connect with this sorta music, and I know that in the past few weeks, I've hardly listened to anything else. All in all, this album comes pretty damn close to perfection.Free Music Review: The best album of the 1990's.
Hit: 5 Stars
As 1999 slowly inches to a close i've been reflecting upon the music that carried me through the decade. Everything from Hole to Nine Inch Nails has graced my CD-spinner, but possibly the most heartfelt, inspiring, and powerful record is Siamese Dream by the Pumpkins. Nirvana will forever hold infamy due to Cobain's suicide, but by music invention alone, I personally feel that the Pumpkins are much more important. Corgan's lyrics are heartbreakingly beautiful and range fully in spectrum from depressing to elating.I'm usually pretty brutal in reviewing on Amazon, just because I feel too many people give 1's or 5's and nothing but, however I truly believe 'Siamese Dream' is the best alterna-rock album you'll ever put in to your CD player, and in such deserves its 5 stars. The only album that has come close in moving me so much emotionally was the Pumpkins' follow-up album, MCIS.
It's impossible to narrow down the "best" tracks since they tend to change with your mood. I feel, however, that Mayonaise is the most moving song on the album. Songs that follow close on its heels include Soma, Today, Disarm, Rocket, Spaceboy, Quiet.. hell I could just name the whole album. Just buy it, you won't be disappointed.
Free Music Review: gorgeous!
Hit: 5 Stars
well this will be review 450 and i guess there aint much to say that hasnt been said at this point. so shut my mouth and strike the demons... yeah, you see i was only 4 when it came out and my sister who was only 8 had it new. the thing is i dont really remember much of it from when i was a kid. so skip some odd years later plus a shattered soul and you have me at 18, a diehard pumpkins fan of about only a year, and when i first heard sweet, sweet again it was instant nostalgia of heart warming bliss, like that song had never left my heart all those years. all in all it is the best sp album because it is the most flawless even though personally i find no flaws in any sp material. i will listen to these songs until my heart beat implodes, nothing short of that. the thing is that my taste in music is so big that i could kick it with most that love all good music, and still could not say there is anything in the history of music like the splash in "TODAY" after those opening chords of angel dust...nothing! billy better be playing most if not all of these songs on upcoming shows, hard to do when his songs list is extremely dense, still i'll prolly be the guy in the front wearing my zero tee yelling play SWEET Music Review: The Dream ExplosionHit: 5 Stars Never before has an album ripped apart your inner soul with such driving, dreamy and electric power. The guitars crash in with a sheer explosion of melodic noise on the opening 'Cherub rock'. As the guitars drive through your mind, you cant help but be lost in the emotion. The asault comes with hit after hit after hit, just when you think you've reached a wall of noice, yet more is unleashed. But that is only the beginning.
The song change, twist and leave you wondering what is coming next. The songs are sweet, bitter, happy, meloncollie but essentially gripping. It is an album that will leave you lost, found and better for the experience. A album of life, love, loss mixed with the thoughts of a generation.
Billy Corgan is genuis of his era. The skill of his song writing and guitar playing leaves you wanting more and more. With such classics as the beutiful 'Disarm', the generational 'Today', the quiet/loud power of 'soma' and the swirling, sonic ride of 'mayonaise'. This is a timeless album of significance and importance that will always be with you. A must for all who wish to lose themselves in sea of sound.
If you don't own it, this an oportunity to find that part of yourself that you have never found. Genuis.