Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits + 1 W/ Bonus CD

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Album Description
Limited edition Japanese version of their 2001 'Greatest Hits' collection includes one track unavailable on the US edition, 'Try, Try, Try'. 18 tracks on the first disc and the bonus B-sides & rarities disc carries the same tracks (16) as every other terr

Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits + 1 W/ Bonus CD
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Most of the "Greatest"
  • Smashing Pumpkins Gr Hits + Bonus CD
 Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits + 1 W/ Bonus CD
The Smashing Pumpkins
Manufacturer: EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005O5W6
Release Date: 2001-11-30

Tracks:

  1. Siva
  2. Rhinoceros
  3. Drown
  4. Cherub Rock
  5. Today
  6. Disarm
  7. Landslide
  8. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
  9. 1979
  10. Zero
  11. Tonight, Tonight
  12. Eye
  13. Eva Adore
  14. Perfect
  15. Everlasting Gaze
  16. Stand Inside Your Love
  17. Real Love [#]

Tracks:

  1. Lucky 13 [#]
  2. Aeroplane Flies High
  3. Because You Are [#]
  4. Slow Dawn [#]
  5. Believe
  6. My Mistake [#]
  7. Marquis in Spades
  8. Here's to the Atom Bomb
  9. Sparrow [#]
  10. Waiting [#]
  11. Saturnine [#]
  12. Rock On [#]
  13. Set the Ray to Jerry
  14. Winterlong [#]
  15. Soot and Stars [#]
  16. Blissed and Gone

Album Description

Limited edition Japanese version of their 2001 'Greatest Hits' collection includes one track unavailable on the US edition, 'Try, Try, Try'. 18 tracks on the first disc and the bonus B-sides & rarities disc carries the same tracks (16) as every other terr

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Most of the "Greatest".......2005-03-31

The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the greatest bands of the 90s, a mixture of dreamy pop and stark grungey metal, set against Billy Corgan's poem-like songwriting. And "The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits" almost lives up to its name -- there are one or two songs that don't quite fit here, but most of them are indeed the "Greatest" that the band produced.

The songs are pretty much arranged in chronological order, starting off with the hard-rocker "Siva" and heading off into the mixture of hard rock/metal, and eerie dreampop, climaxing with the rich offerings from "Mellon Collie And the Infinite Sadness." With the songs of "Adore," there's an obvious shift in tone, becoming a bit more gothic and less rockish, only to swing back in the slow-burning songs from "Machina," their swan song.

There is also a bonus disc here: "Judas O," the follow-up to B-sides collection "Pisces Iscariot." Like its predecessor, "Judas O" is a collection so solid that it outshines many proper albums, containing B-sides to "Machina/The Machines of God," "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness," and the rare "Machina II," as well as some truly outstanding new songs. They range from gentle acoustics to explosive guitars, and reaffirm that even the discards from the Pumpkins are of excellent quality.

Long after disbanding, the Smashing Pumpkins are still a towering presence in rock -- they debuted in the era of Nirvana, but with a very different kind of music. Their creative use of basic instruments and Billy Corgan's rich songwriting made them much more complex and deeper than almost all rock bands of the time. And "Greatest Hits" follows them through the band's entire lifetime -- from their surprisingly polished debut to the panoramic "Mellon Collie" to their gothic art-rock.

The songs included on "Greatest Hits" are not just the most commercially known, but also several of the best -- "Ava Adore," "Siva," "1979" and "Tonight Tonight." An additional track is stuck on, "Real Love," but somehow it just isn't up to the standards of the other songs. It's nice, but not up to the level of the "Greatest" Smashing Pumpkins songs. For that, "Judas O" takes over.

Corgan was without a doubt the creative center of the Pumpkins -- he wrote the songs, filling them with doubts, anger and anguish, and also provided some mind-blowing guitar riffs and his vocals. His high, reedy voice is woven well into the music, giving his poetic lyrics an unusually heartfelt quality. He's singing about love, death, bombs, loneliness in a metaphorical wasteland.

The guitar and bass provide sizzling soundscapes and dense walls of sound, while the percussion is complex and lightning-fast. At the same time, we get the sweeping dreampop -- like the haunting "Rhinoceros" -- and gentler songs, where Corgan slows his guitar down to a gentle acoustic strum. That versatility is one of the things that made the Pumpkins so outstanding.

Rock doesn't get much more original than the Smashing Pumpkins, and several of their greatest hits -- both among fans and critics -- are compiled in "The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits." The best-of disc is a good look at their work, but it's "Judas O" which makes this a must-have.

4 out of 5 stars Smashing Pumpkins Gr Hits + Bonus CD.......2003-10-23

The Greatest Hits covers a good history of the Pumpkins, but it's the rare Bonus CD of B-sides that you will find yourself listening to. Every song is great, The bonus CD was only available in stores for a short time, now the Greatest Hits w/Bonus can only be found in places like Amazon or others.
If you're a Pumpkin fan, you will need this for your collection!

Music:

  1. Solid Bronze: Great Hits [Import] [Original recording remastered]
  2. Songs of Rumi
  3. Songs We'll Never Forget
  4. Space March
  5. Standing on a Beach: The Singles
  6. Supersonic [CD-single]
  7. Superstitious
  8. The Business End [EP]
  9. The Cover Doesn't Matter
  10. The Curse of Blondie [Import]

Music

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Dressy Bessy (Bonus DVD)

Hommage a Joachim

I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

Larry Gatlin with Family and Friends

Jeopardy [CD-single]

El Campeon de Campeones

Grandes Sucessos - Best of the Best Gold [Import]

Generations [Import]

Grace [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Film Themes & Variations

H [Import]

Havana Calling

From the Beginning [Import]

Raggamuffin Hip Hop

Risotto