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Can’t skip one song from this gem

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Can’t skip one song from this gem

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Sure_Tbird@reddit

⭐️Mayonnaise ⭐️
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djsynrgy@reddit

The solo is transcendent. See also: Soma. Every time they make a new record, I hope it will be a return to this form, but it never is. 😓
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TaleFormal6362@reddit

Soma is my other one too!!!! Besides Mayonnaise.
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djsynrgy@reddit

Cherubrock, Today, and Rocket, got me in the door. (And just now I've reminded myself that the video for Rocket was *dope*; seeing that again after decades, is the kinda stuff that makes me wanna go back...) But Soma and Mayonnaise are slow burners; they don't necessarily leap out on the first or second listen, but they take twists and turns through different vibes and emotions that ultimately reward the patient listeners who stick with them. I had a friend who had the album about 6 months before I did and she *loved* Soma; it took me a while to catch onto *why*. Those two guitar solos are like the foundation of what always drove me as a decidedly *non*-virtuoso "lead" guitar player: It's not about how many notes you can squeeze into a phrase; it's about how much *feel* you can squeeze out of each note. Those solos take me on an emotional journey, all on their own, every single time. "God tier," despite falling shy of many conventional measures for "great guitar playing". 🤘🏼
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adolfojp@reddit

>Every time they make a new record, I hope it will be a return to this form, but it never is. 😓 "A man cannot step into the same river twice, because it is not the same river, and he is not same man." -Heraclitus Or in the case of Billy Corgan because he's pushed away everyone who might have given him an opinion so hard for so long that his creative process nowadays consists of yodeling with his head inside of his own asshole. Soma and Mayonnaise were two of the few songs that Billy co-authored with James Iha, and he's spent decades telling the world that he did most of the work and not Iha, because that's what Billy Corgan does. And Iha these days is there to be quiet in the background and to collect a paycheck, not that I blame him. And of course D'arcy no longer exists to give Billy shit about his choices, getting no credit and being called a shit bass player and having her contributions removed from some of the records but definitely shaping the final creation. Jimmy is a genius and at least Billy respects that... sometimes...
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Tetris_Pete@reddit

See also: Glynis
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HangryHangryHedgie@reddit

Named a cat of mine Soma after the song.
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Sensitive-Advance-69@reddit

After the album came out, I wrote SP a fan letter about Soma and how much it meant to me. And I was not the fan letter writing type.
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CodFluid3967@reddit

Love this (encore) version Metro Chicago 8/14/1993 https://youtu.be/s7-30i1f5e0?si=Vb6-d-73TnTCRrBB
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gutlessflab@reddit

I don't think there's a single song that catapults me back to being fourteen faster. So beautiful.
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Sure_Tbird@reddit

Absolutely beautiful and underrated
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CheckYourStats@reddit

It’s timeless, too. I’ve been playing it for my 12 year old, and it’s a hit. The whole album is phenomenal. Cover-to-cover great listen.
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ChrisChuck1@reddit

Fool enough to almost be it…
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Trick-Session2388@reddit

Disarm will always be a sweet song.
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Gluten_maximus@reddit (OP)

Seems like it means so much to so many different people in different ways. Love it
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Throw-away17465@reddit

11/10. I listened to this album on shuffle and repeat 14 hours a day for the entire summer between my junior and senior year, while playing SimCity 2000. Now the game the album are intertwined in my head and I can’t recall one without the other.
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Gluten_maximus@reddit (OP)

Beautiful
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w3bd3v0p5@reddit

Hearing Cherub Rock for the first time when I was 10 and it was like a spiritual awakening. I had never heard anything sound so massive before, and never heard a guitar solo like that. I became a superfan in my teens, and still am a fan to this day, but there was something magical about 90's SP that went missing in the later albums (IMO).
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Trick-Session2388@reddit

This was about a decade ago, but my friend got a fancy new BMW with her big girl money from her new big girl job and we blasted this album driving down country roads with the windows down on a perfect summer night. One of my favorite memories.
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Gluten_maximus@reddit (OP)

I like the word ‘massive’ here… it really was!
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MrEndlessness@reddit

Few albums conjure such instant, potent, absolute nostalgia.
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middle_sister80@reddit

It's so great. Just listened to this straight through on a road trip. Total flashback to high school ... and now my daughter has fallen in love with the song Disarm. It just popped up in her Spotify queue on the way to lacrosse practice. Ha! A new gen gets it.
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Crabcakefrosti@reddit

The new 30th anniversary release of Mellon collie has a live version of geek usa that is bad ass
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walrus40@reddit

One of my favorite first song intros
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greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit

Admittedly I was 27 when I first actually listened to this. Was dating someone 7 years my senior and it was her favorite album. I was instantly pissed at myself for writing of SP because my older brother didn’t like them when they were in the spotlight
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greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit

Full on. Best SP album
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Maleficent_Gas5417@reddit

Am I the only person on the planet who hates this record?
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Gluten_maximus@reddit (OP)

No, and that’s cool, not your jam I suppose.
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CokBlockinWinger@reddit

I just spent the last few months learning how to play every song on this album. No reason, I’m done playing out, I just wanted to make an even stronger connection to this perfect album. Listening is one thing. Playing along when you nail every bend and run is euphoric.
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Epicardiectomist@reddit

I dismissed a lot of albums at the time, I wanted bands like Pantera and Cannibal Corpse. Over time though, I've come to appreciate gems like this.
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PastPotatoes@reddit

There needs to be a shout out to Butch Vig. Yes, Billy was the writer, but Butch's approach to producing made this album sound so fantastic. Just like he did with Nirvanas Nevermind. All instruments shine on Siamese Dream perfectly because of Butch Vig.
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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I always skip "Silverfuck" that way my kids don't read the song title.
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S7ark1@reddit

Perfection. An absolute masterpiece.
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BusyArachnid8039@reddit

I lost my virginity to this album 🫠
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Fabulous-South-9551@reddit

I was 2nd row for the anniversary tour for this album. My best concert experience thus far.
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bygwyllay@reddit

This is a top 5 album for me, period.
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Wise-Novel-1595@reddit

Siamese Dream and Ten. Two perfect albums.
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Agreeable_Mouse6000@reddit

An absolute masterpiece. I bought my pre-teen a portable CD player for Christmas along with a stack of CDs she asked for and this was one of them. All requests based on music she’s heard around me. She LOVES this album. I can’t tell you how cool it is to talk about 90s rock with my own kid now.
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xxMalVeauXxx@reddit

Seriously, perfect album. Not just saying it as a super fan. It's an album that is coherent, everything fits, no filler, every track carries itself. Great overall ensemble. Perfect album.
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Gluten_maximus@reddit (OP)

You fucking get it!
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rosujin@reddit

My 2nd favorite album of all time. My number 1 is Mellon Collie.
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ZeroKuhl@reddit

Great band that played all-age gigs even before they sold out.
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Adrasteia-One@reddit

It really is a perfect album. I couldn't explain how at the time, but the album sounded like how I felt inside as a 13 year old when I first heard it.
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Gluten_maximus@reddit (OP)

You nailed it. Silverfuck embodied the angst of the time too…
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Ok-Ad5495@reddit

Perfect album
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Gluten_maximus@reddit (OP)

Indeed
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Comprehensive-Fact94@reddit

Soma. Goosebumps. every. single. time.
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piscian19@reddit

I never hear love for Space Boy and Sweet Sweet. Those are my two favorite Pumpkins songs. Probably listened to them a thousand times.
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Gluten_maximus@reddit (OP)

God, so good!
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LazyMom1983@reddit

It's perfect🥰
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Comprehensive-Fact94@reddit

Their first four albums are absolutely stellar. Not a huge fan of Billy Corgan as a person (met him and confirmed he is, in fact, not pleasant / Jimmy Chamberlin, on the other hand, was awesome) but he gave us some of the greatest rock albums of all time. It's a crime that SP is not in the rock and roll hall of fame.
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Defiant-Date-7806@reddit

First album I bought/stole from Columbia House.
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