Smashing Pumpkins

[Jonlad]

My friend has just introduced me to this band (although my sister listened to them a while back...) and i have to say, im really impressed and into them at the moment! ive been listening to gish mostly, anyone recommend any other albums by s.p? shame they split up!!

[Ravens Nest]

Yep there next album after Gish, is in my opinion there best album.

The album is called Siamese dreams it has the tracks
Disarm
Today
Spaceboy

But there all great on that album

Then the next album they released after that was "melon collie and the infinite sadness"
It was a double album so was well worth the money
Tracks i like of that album are
Tonight Tonight
Zero
Bullet with butterfly wings
1979
Stumbliene
x.y.u.

All there albums after that are a little disapointing

But are all worth having though

[floppybootstomp]

Without a doubt - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

[Areku]

Another one here who votes for melon collie. i havent listened to these guys in time, im so happy i went to their last show.

Apparently billy misses the pumpkins tho is is considering reforming

[directhex]

went to their final final final UK gig @ wembley \o/

Casting a steely gaze at my cd rack, they made the following main albums, each detailed with a brief explanation & the best tracks. I'm discounting things like MACHINA2, Pisces Iscariot, assorted singles-only & EP only things, etc. Also note that Corgan's 2nd band (Zwan, now split up) released an album entitles Mary Star Of The Sea, which is like MACHINA's pop cousin:

Gish
//The first album, from 1991, basically "hippie rock" or "mellow grunge". This was
//released on the same day as Nirvana's Nevermind, which kinda buried it. At this point
//the Pumpkins featured the original lineup - Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'Arcy Wretzy &
//Jimmy Chamberlin.
--I Am One
--Snail

Siamese Dream
//Same lineup, but a much more distinct style at this point. Also felt much more like a
//complete album, with a beginning and end. Released only 2 years later, in 1993
--Today
--Mayonaise
--Disarm

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
//The 2CD album, which Billy said he saw as "[Pink Floyd's] The Wall for my
//generation". A 2 hour musical journey through the regular Siamese-style beats of
//Dawn to Dusk, and some more experimental feel toyed with on Twighlight to
//Starlight. This is the album that hooked me on the band. Another 2 year gap, 1995.
--Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
--Tonight Tonight
--Zero
--Bullet with Butterfly Wings
--Beautiful
--By Starlight
--Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
--Through The Eyes Of Ruby

Adore
//An incident involving some heroin & a dead touring keyboard player meant the
//departure of Jimmy Chaimberlin for this album. It was a long time in coming (1998),
//and many people felt disappointed by the radical departure in style. However many
//of these peopel overlooked the most enduring aspect of the Pumpkins - their
//variation & adaption, not staying the same & usnign the same riffs song after song.
//Adore has some really good "epic" tracks - and some really crap ones as well.
--Ava Adore
--Crestfallen
--For Martha
--Blank Page
--Behold! The Night Mare

Machina/The Machines of God
//A return to rock after Adore, released in 2000. Shame so little of it is memorable.
//Jimmy was back from rehab for this album, leaving the original lineup - though D'Arcy
//quit very soon after the album was made & Melissa Auf Der Maur from Hole filled in
//for her for the tour.
--The Everlasting Gaze
--Heavy Metal Machine

[directhex]

Also note that "Smashing Pumpkins" made Gish & Siamese Dream, "The Smashing Pumpkins" made everything subsequently - Billy got sick of seeing people with imploded orange vegetables at gigs, where the name was meant to be "smashing" as in "spiffing, jolly good"