Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins Reviews

I'd never really been a huge Pumpkins fan, always thought they were okay but never really listened to them properly. Along comes Guitar Hero 3 with Cherub Rock on it (track 1 on Siamese Dream). As much as I didn't like to admit it, it was a great song... Anyway I thought I may as well get the album, and I actually very much like this ...  Read the complete review

Do you remember when the likes of Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Alice in Chains were the staple of MTV? Then you may remember Today by the Smashing Pumpkins but probably unless you were a fan, nothing else by them. Yet at it's time this was (and still is in my opinion) one of the best albums made. It really is timeless, even now you listen to ...  Read the complete review

Oh, Billy Corgan... Always the one to make the grand gambit, always the one daring his fans to take ever-growing musical voyages with him... always the one to go out at the top of his game. And listening to Siamese Dream once again, it is quite sad, considering that the Smashing Pumpkins are no more, and never again produced a record as ...  Read the complete review

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 body of work is a polygraph of highs and lows but when the dust settles it is impossible to deny ...  Read the complete review

Smashing Pumpkins eh? Well thats what I used to think. Never really been to attracted to their stuff except their song Tonight tonight. Now I grew up in a house with my guitar crazy brother used to love to take and albumn and listen to it until he could play every single cord of every single song off the top of his head, now he's good at the ...  Read the complete review

The Smashing Pumpkins seem to have gotten a bad reputation. Whenever I mention them, many people I've met turn their noses up or make a sound like "auuggghhh." Thus, I am a sinner. I hesitate to mention them as my favorite band, even though they are. So, now everyone knows. Shoot me. Here's the thing: Siamese Dream is ...  Read the complete review

This album reminds me of the mid nineties when I was at secondary school. Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins were just some of the bands that were big. They were what would be playing at the school disco. That seems unthinkable today, when soul-less rubbish like Westlife are what your average 12 year old girl will be into. Or if they are ...  Read the complete review

This is my favourite of the Pumpkins' albums. I haven't yet heard anything from "Gish", but I think this album typifies early Smashing Pumpkins. The record opens with "Cherub Rock", a strong rock track, and continues with "Quiet", an angry guitar-fest, "Today", with its cute intro guitar riff, and ...  Read the complete review

The Smashing Pumpkins second album, and in the majority of fan's opinoins, their best. This is a definate buy for those of you who have not yet experienced the art that is the Smashing Pumpkins. The band debuted with their mellow title "Gish", which won the best debut album award in 1991. Rightly so. At that time, bands ...  Read the complete review

Out of all the Pumpkins albums i have to say that this album is up there with Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. And out of all the other albums i have heard in my lifetime this is definetly in the top two. If you just sit down with this album and listen to it all the way through i find it hard to imagine how anyone cannot find this album ...  Read the complete review

From the opening phrases of The Smashing Pumpkins' "Siamese Dream" i knew i was listening to something different. Was it Alternative? Was it metal? Whatever it was it was completely intoxicating! We all know that The Smashing Pumpkins are now one of the biggest bands in the world, and have sold millions of albums. We ALL ...  Read the complete review

This has to be the best of all the Smashing Pumpkins work to date, before Billy lost his hair (or his head outgrew it!!). Siamese Dream is one of the most inspired albums of all time taking you on a journey through the angst-ridden world of a certian Mr Corgan. This is American alternative rock at it's best, the songs that particularly stand ...  Read the complete review

Released when I was about 16, this record tapped into my adolescent discontent with its melancholy lyrics and fuzzy guitars. Yet, strangely, it still sounds great today. 'Cherub Rock' and 'Today' are superb grunge rock singles, familiar to many; 'Mayonaise' is probably my favourite Pumpkins song; the rest is still ...  Read the complete review

It seems ridiculous now that the Pumpkins were called the new Nirvana. The angsty discontent of Billy Corgan and the lashing, distorted guitar were recognisable enough grunge touchstones, but the way in which the close-to-collapse foursome put them together on this, their second album, singled them out from the others. Marked by crisp drums, ...  Read the complete review

If there is one word that can possibly sum up this album, it has to be 'perfect'. There is something so charmingly flawless about the combination of musicians, variety of songs, the cover art, even the font that all the text is written in, which makes this the most coherent album I have ever heard. That is not to say that it ...  Read the complete review

'Siamese dream' is a more polished record than the Smashing pumpkins' debut 'Gish'. As you would expect, their first album is an entry into the scene, and after that success, the following piece was always going to be a more polished, more produced album. It is home to perhaps the greatest pumpkins song. 'Today' has to ...  Read the complete review

There a few albums that pave the way for me through the late 80's and early 90's, Ten, Nevermind, Hatful of Hollow, but none still remain with me like Siamese Dream does. Every song has roughly the same structure, with a quiet intro that builds up to explosive guitars and a whining Billy Corgan angsting through each reprise, and yet I ...  Read the complete review

Siamese Dream finds the Pumpkins at their best. Probably my favourite Pumpkins album, Mellon Collie being just inches behind. It opens with the fantastic Cherub Rock, which builds up from its quiet beginnings into a thumping complex monster of a rock song. Today is perhaps my favourite track here, which is such a passionate track; it is a ...  Read the complete review