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 | Drown | The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits - Rotten Apples |
2 | God | Aeroplane Flies High |
3 | Sinfony | Earphoria |
4 | Wound | MACHINA: The Machines of God |
5 | Try, Try, Try (2000) | The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits - Rotten Apples |
6 | Perfect | Adore |
7 | Christmas Time | A Very Special Christmas 3 |
8 | In The Arms Of Sleep | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
9 | To Forgive | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
10 | Blank | Aeroplane Flies High |
11 | Glynis | No Alternative |
12 | The End Is The Beginning Is The End | The End Is The Beginning Is The End |
13 | Marquis In Spades | Judas 0: B-Sides and Rarities |
14 | Sparrow | Judas 0: B-Sides and Rarities |
15 | The Chimera | Oceania |
16 | Tear | Adore |
17 | Never Let Me Down Again | For The Masses: A Tribute To Depeche Mode |
18 | Because You Are | Judas 0: B-Sides and Rarities |
19 | Siva | Gish |
20 | Blissed And Gone | Judas 0: B-Sides and Rarities |