Siamese Dream [PA] by Smashing Pumpkins

Pros: These are truly amazing songs. Corgan is one talented guy...
Cons: ...

There are but a few albums that define my generation. I look toward Nevermind [Nirvana], Ten [Pearl ...

Pros: richly textured music and spotless production...
Cons: ...but I find Corgan's singing annoying (I know, I know, I just don't get it)

1993 was a puzzling time for me as I struggled to keep up with the musical acts making names for themselves. You see, I was 26 and had just returned to the States from a two-year stay in Kenya, oblivious to the shift in direction grunge was causing. I ...

Pros: An Amazing Masterpiece from the Smashing Pumpkins.
Cons: None.

If there’s one band from the 1990s that did stood out without being imitated, it was the Smashing Pumpkins. Led by singer, guitarist, and songwriter Billy Corgan, the Pumpkins blended the elements of 80s post-punk, Goth, lush dream pop, bombastic...

Pros: Two excellent songs, and that's about it.
Cons: Where do I start? Vocals, production, lyrics...I could go on forever.

As my rather blunt title suggests, "Siamese Dream" is a truly appalling alternative rock album in al ...

Pros: Excelent guitar/drum album. Emotional, subtle, well produced.
Cons: Not all will necessarily love the vocals. A couple of less good songs.

After Gish, Billy Corgan, as he would later repeat for his other albums, declared that if the Smashing Pumpkin's next record was not a success, he would dissolve the band. Fortunately for him and for us, this was not the case. Siamese Dream went several ...

Pros: Perfect power pop, immaculately produced and performed
Cons: Self-obsessive lyrics, lack of creative balance

Hoo boy.

I don't even know where to begin with this one, it's meant more to me than any other CD in my collection for a long long time now.

I kind of discovered Siamese Dream by accident. On that fateful day when my...

Pros: the lyrics, the production, the music
Cons: none

I've always felt that Billy Corgan was probably the most pretentious a*shole in the music business today. But that doesn't mean that his band was anything short of being great, it just means that Billy Corgan was probably the most pretentious a*sh ...

Pros: One of the best rock albums out of the early 90s
Cons: None whatsoever

How do I understand the title of this album? As we all know, ‘Siamese Twins’ are two people born together, two bodies stuck together. Billy Corgan has found a cool way to describe two people that are meant to be together, though born miles apart. This is ...

Pros: Tortured, hopeful, full on empty.
Cons: Never again would the Pumpkins reach this level of sustained brilliance.

My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" came out in 1991. The music was strange, powerful and druggy. Full of violent reds, soothing purples, dips into black and the whitest white lights. Feminine and masculine-feminine voices buried in murk and starlight. Kevin ...

Pros: Just about everything
Cons: Corgan's vocals are not for everyone

The Smashing Pumpkins are not a band I’ve paid a lot of attention to, well not as much attent ...

Pros: Vocals for most people, guitar, drums, Relevance, everything
Cons: none

There are certain things I don't want to be caught listening to while getting driven to school by my mother with the speakers cranked loud, these certain things that might damage my reputation as someone who listens to music that while may not be the ...

Pros: That fuzzy guitar soud; handful of great songs
Cons: too many forgetable songs and a few really bad ones

Man, It’s really hard criticizing such a universally celebrated, “classic” album like Siamese Dream without sounding like an a**hole, but I just have to say it. This is NOT a masterpiece. First, the good. This is an improvement ...

Pros: Faultless Document Of A Distance Genre.
Cons: Outright Offensive Question.

In the end the Smashing Pumpkins never quite eclipsed their contemporaries from Seattle who decided it was better to burn out than fade away. While Nirvana self destructed, the Smashing Pumpkins decided to ride rough shot over tragedy and farce. Their...

Pros: Cotton candy.
Cons: Angsty cotton candy.

Good morning! You awaken to the birds and the bees whistling a sweet song of what it's like to be alive. Just between the blinds, the sun beams its bright light across your face. The happiest cloud under the sun floats up to your window, puffed cheeks, a ...

Pros: One of the masterpiece albums of the '90's, the Pumpkins at their creative peak
Cons: Practically none, unless you get irritated by Corgan's voice

The Smashing Pumpkins have always been one of the most unique and original bands of the 1990's alternative rock scene. The band's music was always evolving, carried by lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Billy Corgan's ambition. With 5 studio albums...