The Smashing Pumpkins – Greatest Hits – Rotten Apples
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Greatest Hits – Rotten Apples
Release Date: November 20, 2001
Tracklist:
1. Siva
2. Rhinoceros
3. Drown
4. Cherub Rock
5. Today
6. Disarm
7. Landslide – The Smashing Pumpkins, Nicks, Stevie
8. Bullet with Butterfly Wings
9. 1979
10. Zero
11. Tonight, Tonight
12. Eye
13. Ava Adore
14. Perfect
15. The Everlasting Gaze
16. Stand Inside Your Love
17. Real Love
The Smashing Pumpkins’ greatest-hits album, Rotten Apples, traces the band’s evolution (or devolution, depending on your feelings about the band’s radical sonic shift in the mid-’90s) from its early days to its status among the kings of alt rock. For fans of the Pumpkins’ beginnings as a tripped-out indie/art rock act, Apples opens with some of the band’s strongest material. “Siva” and “Rhinoceros” (from Gish, the Pumpkin’s first–and arguably best–album) seamlessly mixed dream pop with noisy goth-rock as prime examples of the Pumpkins’ early ’90s sound. Apples also showcases three stellar tracks (“Cherub Rock,” “Today,” and “Disarm”) from Siamese Dream, the Pumpkins’ breakout album. This disc makes the band’s mid-’90s directional swing obvious, though, starting with “Bullet with Butterfly Wings,” the aggressive alt rock/alt metal concoction released on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Fans of songs like “Zero,” “Tonight, Tonight,” and “The Everlasting Gaze” will be happy to know that pretty much every cage-rattling hit made it to this disc, along with the previously unreleased dream pop track “Real Love” and an untitled new track (that sounds a lot like the Siamese Dream-era Pumpkins) to round out the mix.
Of all the major alternative rock bands of the early ’90s, the Smashing Pumpkins were the group least influenced by traditional underground rock. Lead guitarist/songwriter Billy Corgan fashioned an amalgam of progressive rock, heavy metal, goth rock, psychedelia, and dream pop, creating a layered, powerful sound driven by swirling, distorted guitars. Corgan was wise enough to exploit his angst-ridden lyrics, yet he never shied away from rock star posturing, even if he did cloak it in allegedly ironic gestures. In fact, the Smashing Pumpkins became the model for alternative rock success. Nirvana was too destructive and Pearl Jam shunned success. The Pumpkins, on the other hand, knew how to play the game, signing to a major-subsidized indie for underground credibility and moving to the major in time to make the group a multi-platinum act. And when the group did achieve mass success with 1993′s Siamese Dream, they went a long way to legitimize heavy metal and orchestrated prog rock, helping move alternative rock even closer to ’70s AOR, especially in the eyes of radio programmers and mainstream audiences. Unlike many of their contemporaries, the Pumpkins were able to withstand many internal problems and keep selling records, emerging as the longest-lasting and most successful alternative band of the early ’90s.
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Tags: alternative, AOR, Dream Pop, Indie, Metal, Pop, Progressive, Radio, Rock, Swing