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". 🤘🏼
>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...
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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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