What a monster of an album! I can't think of another album like it. The guitars, layers upon layers, are absolutely ferocious.

And I'm not really a big fan of The Smashing Pumpkings..I can't stand the goth like image and I never listen to Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness, though I do like the singles from it.

When I bought Siamese Dream back in '99 though it just hit me and I always find myself coming back to it.

I dunno what compelled me to put it on just now but it certainly makes a change from all the Christmas music of late.

If you like it, you should like Gish and Pisces Iscariot as well. Good stuff.

GangstaFam said:

Pisces Iscariot is VERY much like Siamese Dream...there are a lot of outtakes from SD on it. It also contains my favourite SP song EVER..."Hello Kitty Kat".

mrdespues said:

When I'm in the mood for the Pumpkins but I don't know what I want to hear, I put on Pisces Iscariot. It's such a great b-sides album.

GangstaFam said:

Didn't it get very poor reviews when it came out? And are the same b-sides included on their recent greatest hits album?

kinaldo said:

I don't know about the reviews. But their greatest hits bonus disc only covers the b-sides from '95 on, so no repeats.

kinaldo said:

no, it did not get poor reviews, in fact one review I recall said that Billy Corgans b-sides are what many artists would hope would be the standard of their A-sides.

I know it got a five star review locally when it came out but I felt at the time it was just following in the 'grunge' wake. Alot of my friends loved it, I thought it sucked before I even heard it. I only started playing it about '97 and really got stuck on it. I don't really like Mellon Collie but it's one of the best albums for that time.

Pisces Iscariot rocks! I love that album.

IstenSzek said:

Me too!

Siamese Dream is a great, solid, rock album. There's absolutely no filler on it, and the songs work so well together. It's funny noone really acknowledges the Pumpkins for their guitar playing, because on most of their albums, they are really good.

Tom said:

Agreed. They have one of my favorite guitar sounds I've ever heard. And that's quite a feat actually - coming up with an unmistakable original sound.

GangstaFam said:

Billy Corgan is responsible for most of that. He wrote the riffs and played all the solos. Great guitar player...quite underrated.

My namesake for this board comes from that very album. Siamese Dream was one of my very first albums that featured "real" music. I couldn't even begin to count how many times I've sung along with this album from beginning to end.

mrdespues said:

Not by me. He's tops in my book.