The Smashing Pumpkins

About

The Smashing Pumpkins is an American alternative rock band from Chicago. Formed in 1988 by frontman and guitarist Billy Corgan, bassist D’arcy Wretzky, guitarist James Iha, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, the band has undergone several line-up changes since their reunion in 2006, with Corgan being the primary songwriter and sole constant member since its inception. The current lineup consists of Corgan, Chamberlin, and Iha. The band has a diverse, densely layered sound, which evolved throughout their career and has contained elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, grunge, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, shoegaze, dream pop, and electronica.

Albums/Songs:

• Bruised Angel Wings
• CYR 7″ Singles Box Set
• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
• Pisces Iscariot
• The Rubano Tapes, Vol. 2
• Adore
• Celebrating *20* Years of Sadness
• Monuments to an Elegy
• Gish
• SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT, VOL. 1 / LP: NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO SUN.
• Earphoria
• CYR
• ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts
• Greatest Hits: Rotten Apples
• Vieuphoria
• Zeitgeist
• Aghori Mhori Mei
• Oceania
• The Aeroplane Flies High
• MACHINA/the machines of God
• Siamese Dream
• 1991–2000: Greatest Hits Video Collection
• Rarities and B‐Sides
• Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
• FM Broadcasts

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