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 | Blue Skies Bring Tears | MACHINA: The Machines of God |
2 | This Time | MACHINA: The Machines of God |
3 | Ugly | Aeroplane Flies High |
4 | I Of The Mourning | MACHINA: The Machines of God |
5 | Drown | The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits - Rotten Apples |
6 | Starla | Pisces Iscariot |
7 | Pinwheels | Oceania |
8 | Waiting | Judas 0: B-Sides and Rarities |
9 | Lucky 13 | Judas 0: B-Sides and Rarities |
10 | 1979 | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
11 | Slow Dawn | Judas 0: B-Sides and Rarities |
12 | Behold! The Night Mare | Adore |
13 | In The Arms Of Sleep | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
14 | The Last Song | Aeroplane Flies High |
15 | Lily (My One And Only) | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
16 | Destination Unknown | Aeroplane Flies High |
17 | Hello Kitty Kat | Pisces Iscariot |
18 | Blew Away | Pisces Iscariot |
19 | Suffer | Gish |
20 | Wildflower | Oceania |