"In your sad machines, you'll forever stay."

Both powerful and corny at the same time, the Smashing Pumpkins put together a few good records in the nineteen nineties that leave your head buzzing long after the vinyl's off the platter. I don't think they tour anymore, and their last album "Machine" or whatever it was called was released partially for free over the internet.

So the smashing pumpkins represent a style of music that is all but forgotten, but difficult to replicate because they're theatrical, without trying to be. Some Pumpkins songs extend into the seven minute range, with enough transitions to give the feel for what could be an entire movie.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the album that makes them unforgettable. Some of the sounds that are created on that album are put into the weird category of "things i thought i heard before i heard them," meaning, that when i listened to this record for the first time in 1997, after i traded my P-Funk CD to my friend Kara in exchange for it (because she 'haded it') there were songs on it that i hadn't ever heard before, honestly, but i thought they sounded familiar.

That's a phenomenon that i can't explain. I hope to expand upon the Smashing Pumpkins continuously on this site. Stay tuned for more random writing about bands and stuff on Stereophoniqkhz's research/music page.