🎵 Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm REACTION 

Pretty sure either his mom or step mom said he should've been aborted also.

Never knew that and have been listening to them for 27 years lol. Thank you for letting me know 🤘

@Citizen Scorn You're very welcome, I grew up on listening to Smashing Pumpkins since I was around 8/9 years old at the time when Siamese Dream was released in 93' and I loved their music ever since then. Billy Corgan suffered having a nervous breakdown, suicidal thoughts and a severe case of writers block making Siamese Dream, he was under a lot of intense pressure to make a classic album. After he suffered a nervous breakdown, Corgan began visiting a therapist. Consequently, his lyrics became more explicit about his troubled past and his insecurities. James Iha and D'Arcy Wretzky had ended their romantic relationship prior during the Gish Tour, They’d were dating since 1988, and split just before the band’s gig at the 1992 Reading Festival (the same year that Nirvana headlined and Kurt Cobain was famously brought onstage in a wheelchair). D'Arcy temporarily quit the band only for producer Butch Vig to talk her back into coming back. Jimmy Chamberlain would disappear on weeks on end on a drug bender-he was addicted to heroin at the time. The band chose to record at Triclops Sound Studios in Marietta, Georgia, partly in order to “keep [Chamberlin] isolated from these types of temptations and stay focused,”. Recording Sessions actually started from December 92'-March 93. Billy Corgan's desire for musical perfection put further strain on the already-frayed relationships between the band members. Producer Butch Vig later recalled, "D'arcy would lock herself in the bathroom, James wouldn't say anything, or Billy would lock himself in the control room". While Chamberlin performed all drum parts on the album, he would disappear for days on drug benders that caused everyone to fear for his life. After one incident where the drummer had disappeared for two or three days, Corgan "put the hammer down", according to Vig, and had Chamberlin perform the drum part for "Cherub Rock" until his hands bled. Due to Corgan's urging, Chamberlin checked into a rehab clinic. Virgin Records began to grow impatient with the album's recording as it went over budget and became behind schedule. The band, however, would not let the company cut corners if it meant compromising the sound.[15] By the time recording was completed, Corgan and Vig felt too emotionally exhausted to mix the record. Corgan suggested that engineer Alan Moulder mix the album, due to his work on Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.Moulder booked two weeks in a studio to mix the album; the mix ended up taking 36 days to complete.Eventually, the album was finished after four months and $250,000 over budget

@@gndvancil His mother was upset , I remember that Billy Corgan mentioned that when he came home for Christmas that she was holding The Spin Magazine with the article of his band and what he was talking about particularly the abuse that he suffered from as a child asking what the f*ck did he say?

@@gndvancil I just heard an interview where he discussed that his father denied that he did anything wrong almost up until the point he died.

What a great thing you’ve done, taking in all those kids and giving them a stable childhood that they wouldn’t have otherwise had. The world could use more people like you.

@@scottNNJ thank you.

YES!

Wife here..Can absolutely identify 100 with what Billy Corgan was thinking and saying in this song..

Thank you for this. I've loved the song for probably 18 years now, and it has always been one of those songs where I mumble half the words because I couldn't hear them clearly. I probably should have looked them up at some point, but never got around to it. I always thought it started with "Stab you with a smile," and I had absolutely no clue that they were singing, "So old in my shoes,". So thanks so much for breaking it down like this. It really makes this song so much more poignant knowing the true words and how they tie in with the meaning of the song.

Know what you mean. I've heard some people say it was a bit like the sixties but in the nineties.

The 90s were the last American decade. 911 ruined everything.

Being a teen in the 90’s was great! Some of the best times in my life. Transition from 80’s to 90’s music, movies and life in general seem to be coming from all directions. Everything today seems to be so clamped down and so sterile. Everyone has to be inside a narrow window to be accepted by the woke mob of society or you will be canceled. So many comedians have to be paranoid about every word they say because of some bullshit backlash they might receive. We aren’t growing as a society.I’m glad I grew up when I did. The 90’s felt a lot more free!

Hell yep.

Wife here..I can totally identify..As I was a young woman in the 90's..

Same. Saw the video on mtv and was immediately obsessed.

I’ve bought this album three times, in three formats. I think it’s the only album I’ve done so with. I think I’m going to listen to it now.

@@sunshineeddy6849 I bought dark side of the moon and a few zep albums on record, cd, remastered cd, digitally remastered cd, digital and 50th anniversary record for dark side, which has sound cleaned up and with head phones is great. All these formats may seem like a cash grab but sometimes they can clean up each track and the sound is richer

"I'd torch my soul to show the world that I am pure, deep inside my heart." One of my favorite lines of any song ever.

My favourite SP song.

@@nzmarco Rocket made my top 10 of our Top 50 SP songs series

I love both the song & video.

I was about 10 years old when a friend introduced me to this song. Brings me right back to that little room. Sweating from just coming in from playing basketball in the driveway. Sitting on the carpet in the cool A/C. 36 and still feels like yesterday.

@@MrPhooey442 the memories are definitely still fresh and I am 38 😂 just proves how epic the pumpkins were

Yeah, it's my favorite song from SD

They reacted to that song a few months back. Just fyi...

My absolute favorite Pumpkins song! Last I checked, I only found one react video on YT for it. Now it sounds like I should be able to find it in Brad & Lex's video list. I'm off to find it right now

Omg Mayonnaise is amazing. Good call!

Rhinoceros

lots of rockers used cellos and other strings in their songs. (BEATLES...) Cellos are very bassy and can really add to emphasis to emote something in a song. ( Eleanor Rigby)

If we're going down the Bone Thugs path then man.... add East 1999, 1st of Tha Month, Mo'murda, Tha Crossroads (my favorite), Everyday Thang, and If I Could Teach The World (my other favorite) to the list at a minimum! Brad listened to rap though, so he probably already knows a lot of Bone Thugs I would guess?

@@nethrelm see you at the crossroads!

I was wearing a t-shirt of them too ☺️ is the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness t-shirt, and what is yours?

@@1987colombiano Indeed it was!

Brad is dumb, bro

I agree, I love his voice and in this song his voice is very "emotionally primal" which makes it perfect dealing with his painful childhood.

Big facts

Yes-big co-sign on that.

an aquired taste. one of the best videos

agree!

Played it, among other songs, at my sister's funeral...The Smashing Pumpkins were always her favorite.

I'm sorry to hear that. I can only imagine hearing those songs in that context. I want disarm played at mine.

@@jibernish personally I want Mayonnaise and Muzzle....

@@sarahpope8658 good choices for hopefully a date far in the future

To this day, my favourite complete album.