Sounds Slightly After Birth:Smashing Pumpkins Video Collection

The Smashing Pumpkins embodied the classic industry case of major mainstream success inferering with quality and sincere music.Fronted by one of the greatest minds in rock music, Billy Corgan, the Pumpkins undoubtebly would of been considered the premier band of the 1990s hadn't a certain Seattle musician made out with a shotgun one fateful april day in 94.The Pumpkins dominated the alternative scene for over a decade and made some damn good videos along the way.But massive egos and internal bickering eventually tore the group apart shortly after the turn of the new millenium. Even though Corgan's image has taken a severe hit as far as hardcore Pumpkins fans are concerned, belting out his old tunes for pro wrestling organizations and getting close to reality trollop Tila Tequila,  I thought I'd celebrate the biggest band when I was growing up not named Nirvana.

This was the fourth single off their second album "Siamese Dream" (So you know I'm not exactly going in order).The video features the band performing in cheesy shiny space suits in a smoke filled room.Incredibly simplictic as far as videos go but awesome nonetheless.

Off their debut album "Gish", the Pumpkins were wide eyes kids in their twenties when they shot this video (notice the now bald Corgan's excessively long mane). The song is rather long and at a slow pace but goes all apeshit at the end with an guitar solo.

One of the more somber clips I'll post, "Disarm" is a beautiful violin driven song.The video is pretty much close ups of the band in B&W mixed in with vintage type footage of a kid who I think is supposed to be Corgan.Not important, just listen to the song

 The signature Pumpkins song, "Bullet.." launched the band beyond superstardom.With lyrics that related to the average disaffected gen x'er like the world being "a vampire" and such. And who among us hasn't felt like "a rat in a cage" despite of their rage?But seriously this is a awesome video and it features Billy Corgan wearing the now iconic "Zero" shirt.

One of my favorite songs and video of all time, "Tonight, Tonight" was inspired by the silent film "A Trip To The Moon" by Georges Melies (I don't know who the fuck that is either kids).It also features the guy who voices Spongebob Squarepants as the man in the couple, a little easter egg for all you geeks out there.I remember being really creeped out by this video when I was little but now that I'm 20 with a lot more maturity this still scares the shit out of me.Enjoy.

Live performance of "1979"