Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream is a combination of distored guitar fuzz, nasily vocals, and some psychadelic influences. It's been classified as a grunge album and while I agree with this I won't make any comparisons to any other grunge bands. The album kicks off with
Cherub Rock, a hard hitting, fuzzy riff based rocker.
Rocket Geek U.S.A and
Quiet are also heavier tracks, featuring quick paced guitar distortion, pounding drum beats, and Corgan wailing at his finest.
Siamese Dream also moves into more dreamier and psychadelic territory.
Luna closes off the album as a trippy ballad, and the eight minute
Silver*** where's out its welcome with it's slow and lenghty breakdown section.
Sweet Sweet is another dreamy tune, with a clean and strange sounding electric guitar.
Disarm and [iMayonaise[/i] provide some nice rock/pop moments and everything settles out well. The only problem I have is that Corgans wailing gets tiring after a while, and sometimes the Pumpkins just don't know when to stop (hint hint:
Soma and
Silver***. While the Smashing Pumpkins create a great album in
Siamse Dream it is far from a classic album and overshadowes the bands debut album which is superior to this.
Favorite Tracks:
-Quiet
-Hummer
-Mayonaise
