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, using a drum machine. Playing with a drum machine frustrated both the band and their audience, and so Chicago jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was hired soon afterwards. 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, shoegaze-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,
Álbumes
1 | Bodies | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
2 | Tarantula | Zeitgeist |
3 | Disarm (1993) | The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits - Rotten Apples |
4 | Slow Dawn | Judas 0: B-Sides and Rarities |
5 | The Last Song | Aeroplane Flies High |
6 | I Am One | Gish |
7 | Eye (1997) | The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits - Rotten Apples |
8 | Perfect (1998) | The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits - Rotten Apples |
9 | Rock On | Judas 0: B-Sides and Rarities |
10 | Transformer | Aeroplane Flies High |
11 | Farewell And Goodnight | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
12 | ...Said Sadly | Aeroplane Flies High |
13 | Rocket | Siamese Dream |
14 | Ava Adore | Adore |
15 | Medellia Of The Gray Skies | Aeroplane Flies High |
16 | Quasar | Oceania |
17 | Rhinoceros | Gish |
18 | Quiet | Siamese Dream |
19 | Spaced | Pisces Iscariot |
20 | Landslide | Pisces Iscariot |