This song is the first song of the album. It sets the mood for what is to come. I of the Morning and Stand Inside Your Love are just two other great tracks from this album. With 2-3 less songs this album would be a classic, but as it stands it's one of their most underrated albums.
So glad to see an appreciation for a killer song to open a good record. It’s heavy and Jimmy Chamberlain is an amazing drummer. He is overlooked sometimes. And this was the final record with the classic line up in studio. Dave your channel kicks ass!!
The production on this album is insane, the whole album has some really incredible moments, and the chemistry between Corgan and Chambelin in writing some extremely good rock-pop songs is unmatched.
The production, unfortunately, is the problem with this record. It's very muddied. It was recorded to tape, and sonics get lost, but the vinyl sounds much brighter. It's strange to listen to this as almost a fourth person... The muddied mix could very well be an aesthetic choice... I swear to Billy himself.... it's brighter on the vinyl. It came with a poster if you pre-ordered it from a record shop back in 2000.
@@ryanguertin8028 I recall running to get the CD and I admit I loved the production because they changed so much gear on guitars, I just... drooled when I my teenage self heard it the first time :D I recall Billy saying to Flood "I want the walls bleeding with the sounds we make", and pieces like "Blue Skies Bring Tears" or "The Crying Tree Of Mercury" to me should have been the direction in which Pumpkins could have got a future... True that on vinyl, it sounds "lighter", clearer!!!
Yeah, that was easily one of my favorite The Smashing Pumpkins songs. As far as the name goes? I think Smashing Pumpkins was the band back in the 90s? THE Smashing Pumpkins are the new version of the band now in the modern day with Billy Corgan and the New Blood, if I'm remembering correctly.
@@WayTooLateTV As far as the naming goes, it's inconsistent between the albums. Gish, Siamese Dream, and Zeitgeist all say 'Smashing Pumpkins.' Shiny And Oh So Bright and Cyr have 'Smashing Pumpkins' on the cover and 'The Smashing Pumpkins' on the spine. Pisces Iscariot, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore, Machina, Oceania, Monuments to an Elegy, and Atum all say 'The Smashing Pumpkins'.
@@ryuujin9573 Okay, so I did not R C. They're just playing fast and loose with the naming, and I hope they're all wearing clean underpants when they crash and burn and there's no "The" to cushion the blow. Or something.
Hey Kiss Fan, fun fact.. Smashing Pumpkins was the opening act for Kiss for their Halloween show at Dodger Stadium in 98. Thanks for another great, honest review!
One of my fav tracks of all time.....this is before I finished watching the video. I agree with you 100% it is one of my favourite SP songs but it is far from the being one of their best songs...simple but effective as you like to say....After watching the review.
Oh man, I got a laugh out of the cat. I've always liked this album; there are several very good songs on this, this particular one being somewhere in the middle of them (if I remember correctly, it opened the album.) It was a return to form after Adore, which I happened to like as well, despite its lack of guitars. It took over a decade for them to get it fully together again.
As a SP fan, I like this album very much but I've not listened to it in several years. I don't think that it's not very well produced, Billy Corgan's voice is thin and most of the time that voice kind of disappears behind of all those thick distorted guitar sounds. The whole album sounds like that to me. My favourites, Stand Inside Your Love and Raindrops + Sunshowers.
One of my faves from SP! Random question: I keep revisiting your My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday reaction because they are another one of my fave bands. BUt i also noticed that was the only reaction you've done to them. Are there any other MMJ songs in the queue? Thanks again, DH!
For the fans it is an imprint of defining of our lives and time. That's the kind of artist Billy was trying to be and it worked, he spoke for a lot of us. Everything declines but it was great up until this point. From the Zwan album and onward wasn't interested but the first 5-6 albums a lot of us lived by like the 60's kids lived by the Beatles.
There's a demo of this song entitled "Disco King." My reaction to this song, 24 years later, is simply Corgan saying, "yeah, I can still do those formulaic rock things you think I'm good at, even though Adore was epic." It's Zero evolving into Glass, with hints of Shiny. And Smashing is an adjective. Production wise, I agree with you about the bass being overdriven. Flood produced this (he also produced Mellon Collie), but even Corgan has said that the mix was very, very muddied. At some point there is a re-release coming... I will say that the vinyl is much crisper than the CD.
I think they started as just Smashing Pumpkins, then later around this time changed it to The Smashing Pumpkins. Not sure what their official name is at the moment.
I’ve heard hundreds of Smashing Pumpkins songs all the way album cuts, to b-sides, to outtakes and demos, and this still stands as one of my absolute favorites. The only travesty is the mix buries the drums, and that’s especially unfortunate for the last 20 seconds of the outro. Jimmy is putting some extra stank on that backbeat by playing a paradiddle between the snare and kick while maintaining an off beat on the ride, but all that nuance is covered up under the fuzz. The only reason I was able to finally hear all that was because the drum stem for this is on RU-vid.
@@penvzila I understand people having a problem with tracks that clip into the red, but there is a night and day difference between St Anger and Machina. Machina actually has incredible dynamics, give I of the Mourning another listen with some headphones.
