The Smashing Pumpkins

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The Smashing Pumpkins are an influential American alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Billy Corgan and James Iha met in a record store, and began performing in local nightclubs with their bassist, D’Arcy Wretzky, before they had a drummer. Jimmy Chamberlin was hired shortly after to drum on the album Gish, and ended up staying due to his fitting drumming style.

Less influenced by punk than many of their contemporaries, the Pumpkins had a densely layered, guitar-heavy sound, with powerful loud-to-soft-to-loud transitions, while still picking up grunge, heavy metal, power pop, psychedelic rock, shoegazer-style production.

In later recordings, namely Adore, the fourth album, an electronica flair filtered in after Jimmy Chamberlin temporarily left the band for drug rehab. Though Chamberlin returned for their fifth album, Machina/The Machines of God, electronica undertones remained. The emotional tone of bandleader Billy Corgan’s songs ranged from angry (

X.Y.U.) to dour (

Disarm) to jubilant (

Cherub Rock).

Selling more than 18.3 million albums in the United States alone (as of 2006), the Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s. However, internal fighting, diminishing sales, drug problems, cultural vitality, and what is speculated to be improper treatment from their record company, hampered the band in their later years, leading to the 2000 break-up.
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Track	Time	Listeners	Download
Add this track to your playlist Eye full track	4:53	74,643	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Drown full track	4:29	66,843	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist 1979	0:30	268,786	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Disarm	0:30	217,971	Buy mp3

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Top Tracks, Last Week

–	1	Add this track to your playlist 1979	8,434
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Disarm	6,096
–	3	Add this track to your playlist Bullet With Butterfly Wings	5,837
1	4	Add this track to your playlist Tonight, Tonight	5,378
1	5	Add this track to your playlist Today	5,355
–	6	Add this track to your playlist Zero	5,197
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Cherub Rock	4,682
–	8	Add this track to your playlist Ava Adore	3,569
–	9	Add this track to your playlist Perfect	3,187
–	10	Add this track to your playlist Mayonaise	2,293
–	11	Add this track to your playlist Tarantula	2,179
–	12	Add this track to your playlist Stand Inside Your Love	2,139
3	13	Add this track to your playlist Here Is No Why	2,057
1	14	Add this track to your playlist Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	1,977
1	15	Add this track to your playlist Rocket	1,964
3	16	Add this track to your playlist Doomsday Clock	1,950
2	17	Add this track to your playlist Jellybelly	1,932
–	18	Add this track to your playlist Quiet	1,878
2	19	Add this track to your playlist Siva	1,869
–	20	Add this track to your playlist To Forgive	1,838

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–	1	Add this track to your playlist 1979	93,743
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Disarm	73,139
–	3	Add this track to your playlist Bullet With Butterfly Wings	71,976
–	4	Add this track to your playlist Today	67,137
1	5	Add this track to your playlist Tonight, Tonight	65,258
1	6	Add this track to your playlist Zero	65,017
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Cherub Rock	58,505
–	8	Add this track to your playlist Ava Adore	45,440
–	9	Add this track to your playlist Perfect	40,106
–	10	Add this track to your playlist Tarantula	34,916
–	11	Add this track to your playlist Doomsday Clock	33,361
–	12	Add this track to your playlist Mayonaise	30,096
–	13	Add this track to your playlist Here Is No Why	29,208
–	14	Add this track to your playlist Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	28,405
–	15	Add this track to your playlist Jellybelly	28,083
1	16	Add this track to your playlist Rocket	27,884
1	17	Add this track to your playlist Stand Inside Your Love	27,762
–	18	Add this track to your playlist To Forgive	27,432
–	19	Add this track to your playlist Quiet	27,115
–	20	Add this track to your playlist Hummer	26,772
–	21	Add this track to your playlist Thirty-Three	26,376
–	22	Add this track to your playlist Siva	26,103
–	23	Add this track to your playlist Muzzle	25,895
–	24	Add this track to your playlist Soma	25,812
–	25	Add this track to your playlist Love	25,041
–	26	Add this track to your playlist Cupid de Locke	24,893
–	27	Add this track to your playlist Landslide	23,823
–	28	Add this track to your playlist The Everlasting Gaze	23,695
–	29	Add this track to your playlist Spaceboy	23,588
1	30	Add this track to your playlist Bodies	23,357
2	31	Add this track to your playlist Luna	22,650
2	32	Add this track to your playlist Galapogos	22,534
3	33	Add this track to your playlist 7 Shades of Black	22,395
2	34	Add this track to your playlist Bleeding The Orchid	22,155
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The Smashing Pumpkins

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