We all felt it. Butch felt it too. I became very intense. There was a feeling of walking in a room and thinking, if things don't go right here, my dream will never come true. You worry if you're going to be a one hit wonder.
So I don't know what positive spin I can put on it for you because after a period of time I end up essentially working on the album alone with Butch. That's where my friendship with James ended because he was so furious with the way the whole thing worked out.
Jimmy went off the deep end and ended up in rehab during the making of the record. And D'arcy quit the band for a time during the making of the record. It's amazing we all survived it somehow.
As Corgan explains, "The way we worked back then was James would make riff demos and play stuff for me, and those ones stuck out.
I remember 'Mayonaise,' James played for me in Japan. I put on headphones, and as soon as I heard it I started singing the melody, which was weird. In fact, it was such a beautiful riff that I thought I've got to build a really beautiful song around it.
So we worked really hard on 'Soma' for around four months. If you read the lyrics, that was basically me railing against the hipper-than-thou NYC indie mentality. Those songs stood out for a lot of people, and they stood out for me too. But Butch was really patient for me.
He's not a guy who would ever subvert you or play head games with you. Butch supported me all the way in this crazy vision. So if you listen to Gish and then listen to Siamese Dream, that's a pretty vast sonic leap to make. Butch was really on me to sing and play my best.
He drove us crazy with all the takes, and made Jimmy do like nine hundred takes. Basically, he really insisted that we step up and make an A-level record. Put it this way: Butch was the only person who could have made that record with us because we respected him so much to live up to his high standards. I was thinking about it today and now it's like I have at least one thing in my life that is that shiny. I'm by nature a deconstructionist.
As a rule, messy records make more sense to me than this shiny Cadillac of an album. But I'm really happy because it's not like I'm sitting here at 44 thinking, I should have done "the" one. At the time, I was happy Siamese Dream was successful, but I worried it was too rigid because the band was very ferocious. I felt like we neutered the ferocity in search of perfection. But now Siamese Dream makes total sense to me. But now in retrospect, I love both because one's the ideal of the band, and the other is the reality of the band.
We have lift-off to the planet Now-or-Never. The song's message is aimed squarely at the empty hearts of our detractors, who question our doleful mix of cheeky sincerity and our lack of reverence for false indie gods and oh-so-carefully posed pedestals. Shame that little has changed since then, amen brothers and sisters! The solo is uncorked down from the gentle glades of Itchycoo Park, where on a rainy day you can't tell which way your mind is melting and into what sewer it may be carelessly thrown.
There is no getting out of here, but you can still ask any stranger politely to take your leave. We are now on our way to the bottommost of the alternamess.
Quiet: I'll admit I was always uncomfortable with this song at the number 2 position, seeing as there are stronger songs left in the gaggle. But it still has a nice adrena-lean to it, an icy sheen that gets over because it does ask for excessive quiet while giving none at all.
Trust the song, not the singer. A car chase starts, winter ends. Today : The song that changed my life more than any other. The ultimate in irony: a chirpy song about my near-suicide that all the kids can sing along to. Probably would not have been a hit if I had offed myself in the gloaming before its release, but one can still ponder past the graveyard. I stood in our dingy rehearsal space, amps a-buzzin', and said, "This song needs an opening bit. I wasn't sure why I needed to sing 'I want to turn you on,' but in hindsight it makes perfect sense locked in the dust of a new millennium.
We are born, a generation dies soon enough. Hummer: The first time we played this song at rehearsal, I got a skull crushing headache from playing the opening figure for thirty minutes straight. But we couldn't stop; that same entranced, menacing eastern yadda-yadda over and again; a hum de plume in honor of major keyed faith; all those Catholic dreams that one has inverted growing up in those bleak post-industrial burbs.
It's a beautiful song, that in its totality lends a message that is hard to convey, but bigger than its original intention. To be yourself, you must live your life. To live your life, you must be free. Siamese Dream was released on July 27, The following week, it debuted at number ten on the Billboard charts.
Entertainment Weekly reviewer David Browne praised the band for living up to industry expectations of being the "next Nirvana" and compared Siamese Dream favorably to Nirvana's Nevermind.
Browne concluded, "In aiming for more than just another alternative guitar record, Smashing Pumpkins may have stumbled upon a whole new stance: slackers with a vision. The artwork for the album was initially going to be created by an outsider artist , but after a series of disagreements with the label, Corgan was forced to step in at the last minute.
In , Virgin records reissued the album with the original page booklet. Shortly after the Pumpkins reformed in , Corgan posted a message to the band's blog saying that they were "[l]ooking for girls from Siamese Dream album cover As you all know, they were quite young when the photo was taken.
They are not conjoined anymore, as far as we know. According to Corgan, "Just found out the weirdest news: our bass player Nicole just admitted she is one of the girls on the cover of Siamese Dream. Given Fiorentino's age at the time of the album, this would make her too old to be on the cover of the album. Pictures exist of Billy standing with Ali Laenger, the girl on the right side of the photograph, but it is unknown if the girl on the left, identified only as LySandra R, met Billy like Laenger did.
The album was also released as a shaped wooden box set aka Siamese Dream Collectors Edition with metal hinges, limited to only 1, copies and containing the UK HUT CD album housed in a recess with individually numbered silver metal embossed plate at the side and a page booklet housed in a similar recess in the lid.
All songs written and composed by Billy Corgan , except where noted. Billboard [33 ]. Rock Music Wiki Explore. Top Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Siamese Dream. Edit source History Talk 0. Categories albums Add category. Cancel Save. Fan Feed. According to Courtney Love, all the songs are about her. Corgan, however, told Guitar World that the songs were largely inspired by his then-girlfriend, Chris Fabian; the couple had broken up, temporarily, at the time he wrote the songs.
They subsequently married in , separated in and divorced in Those looking for further gossip about Love and Corgan were treated to reflections about the pair by Kim Gordon via a somewhat scathing paragraph in her memoir, Girl in a Band. You have the football team, except the football team is the guys in Pavement and Mudhoney. I like their songs — well, most of their songs, anyway.
I just dissed their status. In , Corgan was dismayed to discover that his band was due to play a show with Pavement in Brazil. As Corgan told Guitar World in , Iha had been messing around with different tunings and he came up with the chord progression that underpins the song; Corgan then wrote the vocal melody and lyrics. But as for that misspelled title, the origins are murkier. I looked in my refrigerator.
No explanation relating to who the girls were was shared at the time, however. Corgan wrote about the shoot on Instagram, describing the Siamese Dream cover as an iconic image in rock history. The truth, then?
Of course any seven-year-old would love that. See Also. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone.
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