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The Smashing Pumpkins is an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1988. Formed by frontman Billy Corgan (lead vocals, lead guitar) and James Iha (rhythm guitar), the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin (drums), D'arcy Wretzky (bass guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (bass guitar), and currently includes Mike Byrne (drums), Nicole Fiorentino (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Jeff Schroeder (rhythm guitar) among its membership. Disavowing the punk rock roots of many of their alt-rock contemporaries, the Pumpkins have a diverse, densely layered, and guitar-heavy sound, containing elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, shoegazing-style production, and, in later recordings, electronica. Corgan is the group's primary songwriter—his grand musical ambitions and cathartic lyrics have shaped the band's albums and songs, which have been described as "anguished, bruised reports from Billy Corgan's nightmare-land". The Smashing Pumpkins broke into the musical mainstream with their second album, 1993's Siamese Dream. The group built its audience with extensive touring and their 1995 follow-up, the double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. With 19.75 million albums sold in the United States, The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s. However, internal fighting, drug use, and diminishing record sales led to a 2000 break-up. In 2006, Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin reconvened to record a new Smashing Pumpkins album, Zeitgeist. The band toured with a rotating lineup of between five and nine musicians through much of 2007 and 2008 with new member Jeff Schroeder before Chamberlin left the band in early 2009. New drummer Mike Byrne and bassist Nicole Fiorentino solidified a new lineup with Corgan and Schroeder, toured through much of 2010 and 2011, and are currently recording the album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, having just released the album-within-an-album Oceania.

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Discography

  • Greatest Hits 2000
  • Fishing Blue, 1993
  • MACHINA II/the friends & enemies of modern music, 2000
  • Gish, 1994
  • 1997-01-08: GM Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Pisces Iscariot, 2012
  • Sounds of Turnips
  • Millennium Hits
  • Insincere & Insolent
  • B-sides Collection Volume 3 (disc 3)
  • Adore, 1998
  • Siamese Dream, 2011
  • 1989-03-16: Chicago, IL, USA
  • 1998-06-19: Secret Gig: International Shipping Harbor at Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia, 1998
  • Pluggelectric
  • Once in a Lifetime
  • 1991-2000: Greatest Hits Video Collection, 2001
  • Mellon Collie at the Max
  • Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995
  • 1997-06-28: Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
  • 2000-01-24: Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 2008-11-19: Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2008
  • Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music, 2001
  • Live - Unlicensed
  • Space Boys
  • Rhinoceros Daydreams
  • B-sides Collection Volume 1 (disc 1)
  • 2000-11-01: National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK
  • The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music, 2000
  • 1992-01-17: Brussels, Belgium
  • Soul Sacrifice
  • Live at the Wireless
  • Forgotten Songs
  • Oceania, 2012
  • 1997-01-08: 1997: The GM Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1997
  • 2000-02-06: Live at The Edge, Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • 1997-06-29: Open Air Program '97, St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • The Mother of All Unplugged Collections
  • Zeitgeist, 2007
  • Cat's Cradle 02-19-2000
  • Rarities, Volume 1
  • Ultra Rare Trax
  • 1998-01-06: Perfect Tears: Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, Netherlands, 2004
  • 1992-02-05: Élysée Montmartre, Paris, France
  • 1996-09-17: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA
  • Melodies
  • Acoustic In France
  • 17 Seconds
  • 2000-05-10: Birmingham, AL, USA
  • In the Belly of the Beast
  • The Lost Songs: A Collection of Single B Sides and Other Rare Studio Stuff
  • Live Divine
  • Greatest Hits, 2001
  • Ultimate Rarities Box Set
  • 1998-01-15: Viper Room, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 1998-08-04: Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA, USA, 1998
  • 1992-09-12: Town & Country Club, London, UK
  • Unplugged: 100% Pure Acoustic Performances
  • 2000-04-21: Hara Arena, Dayton, OH, USA
  • MACHINA/the machines of God, 2000
  • Atomic Energy
  • 2000-10-27: Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1997-06-27: Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK, 1997
  • 1996-05-11: The Point, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2007-05-28: Pinkpop: Megaland, Landgraff, Netherlands
  • We Are From Another Planet
  • 1998-07-19: Insincere and Insolent, Much Music Studios, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Secret Destroyers, 1996
  • 1988-08-10: Avalon, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Billy the Kid
  • 1996-04-07: Philipshalle, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1996
  • Mayonaise Dream, 1994
  • Freedom!
  • 2007-05-22: Le Grand Rex, Paris, France
  • Mashed Potatoes, 1993
  • Live - 10-26-1993
  • 1992-01-24: Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • If All Goes Wrong, 2008
  • 1995-08-25: Wrapped Up in the Pleasures of the World: Reading Festival, Berkshire, UK, 1995
  • Earphoria, 2002
  • B-sides Collection Volume 2 (disc 2)
  • Rarities and B-Sides, 2005
  • 1995-12-12: Twilight, Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Knock on Wood
  • 2000-05-01: Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2000
  • 1996-05-15: Brixton Academy, London, UK, 1996
  • Thank You for Participating
  • VH1 Story Tellers
  • 1995-10-23: Shoot Out the Lights: Riviera Theater, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Vredenburg 2000
  • Non Album Tracks
  • 1995-10-23: Sorrow and Pity: Riviera Theater, Chicago, IL, USA
  • The Aeroplane Flies High, 1996
  • 2008-02-03: Palamalaguti, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy
  • 1995-10-23: The World Is a Vampire: Chicago, IL, USA
  • Rafaelselection
  • Live at Cabaret Metro 10-5-88, 2000
  • Brixton
  • Turpentine Kisses
  • 1993-12-11: Bogart's, Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • The Smashing Pumpkins 1991-1998, 1999
  • Acoustic Daze
  • 2008-08-07: Rehearsals: Adler Theater, Davenport, IA, USA
  • The Second to Last Gig Ever!
  • Children of Gotham
  • Live in Washington D.C.
  • Exit Under Burning Skies - 8-25-95
  • 2000-08-11: Barrie, ON, Canada, 2000
  • 2000-03-07: Seattle, WA, USA
  • Greatest Hits: Rotten Apples, 2001
  • Cessations of Grandeur
  • Astoria '94
  • 1998-08-04: Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Live in Dublin Olympia (May 1998)
  • Halloween Party
  • 3 Feet High
  • (We Salute You) Naked Man
  • 1989-03-16: WZRD Radio Show, Chicago, IL, USA, 1989
  • Spaceboy, 1993
  • 2007-07-31: The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2007
  • The Aeroplane Flies High Sampler, 1996
  • The Smashing Pumpkins, 2000
  • 1993-10-05: Feeling Like a Smashed Pumpkin: First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • A la Mode, Volume 1, 1994
  • 1998-07-31: Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA, USA, 1998
  • 1989-10-31: Chicago, IL, USA
  • 1998-05-14: Spielbudenplatz, Hamburg, Germany, 1998
  • 1996-04-07: Secrets of Your Dreams: Dusseldorf Easter Festival, Germany, 1996
  • Black Sessions
  • 2000-11-29: United Center, Chicago, IL, USA, 2000
  • Haloween Tools, 1994
  • Smashing Covers
  • Man of Light
  • 1998-05-25: Tivoli, Skansen Park, Stockholm, Sweden (disc 1)
  • We Can Work It Out
  • Disconnect
  • Out of Focus
  • 2000-10-19: Palais Omnisport de Paris Bercy, Paris, France, 2000
  • VH-1 Storytellers (TV Bootleg)
  • Enter Adore
  • Squashed Zucchini
  • Acoustic Melon Songs
  • KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Shrine Auditorium - Los Angeles
  • 2000-12-02: Cabaret Metro: Final Show
  • Drown
  • Sacred & Profane Tour (Soundboard Sampler)
  • 1998-05-25: Tivoli, Skansen Park, Stockholm, Sweden (disc 2)
  • 2008-02-18: Brabanthallen, Den Bosch, The Netherlands, 2008
  • 2008-12-07: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL (disc 1), 2008
  • Party All Night
  • Shoot Out the Lights
  • 1993-10-26: Unbereable: Del Mar Fairground, Del Mar, CA, USA
  • Live at the Riviera
  • A Kiss of This
  • 1995-10-23: Blackout: Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 2000-10-17: Amphitéa, Angers, France
  • 2000-05-09: Atlanta, GA, USA (disc 1)

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