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The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits - Rotten Apples
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724381131626
Label: Virgin Records Us
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
MPN: 11316
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Virgin Records Us
Release Date: November 20, 2001
Studio: Virgin Records Us
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Editorial Review:
The Smashing Pumpkins' greatest-hits album, Rotten Apples, traces the band's evolution (or devolution, depending on your feelings about the band's radical sonic shift in the mid-'90s) from its early days to its status among the kings of alt rock. For fans of the Pumpkins' beginnings as a tripped-out indie/art rock act, Apples opens with some of the band's strongest material. "Siva" and "Rhinoceros" (from Gish, the Pumpkin's first--and arguably best--album) seamlessly mixed dream pop with noisy goth-rock as prime examples of the Pumpkins' early '90s sound. Apples also showcases three stellar tracks ("Cherub Rock," "Today," and "Disarm") from Siamese Dream, the Pumpkins' breakout album. This disc makes the band's mid-'90s directional swing obvious, though, starting with "Bullet with Butterfly Wings," the aggressive alt rock/alt metal concoction released on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Fans of songs like "Zero," "Tonight, Tonight," and "The Everlasting Gaze" will be happy to know that pretty much every cage-rattling hit made it to this disc, along with the previously unreleased dream pop track "Real Love" and an untitled new track (that sounds a lot like the Siamese Dream-era Pumpkins) to round out the mix. --Jennifer Maerz
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good collection
If you like Pumpkins and don't already have all the CD's this will work, till you get them.
Rating: - A really good collection to get into the Pumpkins.
I wanted to listen to The Smashing Pumpkins so I picked this album up, and it succesfully got me RIGHT INT0 this band.
They are now my favourite band of all time and I credit this CD for helping me get to know them.
This album has all of their biggest songs, singles and definitive tracks from The Smashing Pumpkins so its really a good collection.
My favourites being Track #1 right through to #15.
My only real complaint with this collection is the exclusion of "Thirty-Three". ... Read More
Rating: - Great Best Of CD
Good CD for those like me who like the Pumpkins but don't love them enough to buy all their CDs. CD includes all the "hits" I wanted on disk for a decent price.
Rating: - "Through the pinhole stars into the shadow mind."
Whilst frequently grouped with their contemporaries from the Pacific Northwest, the Chicagoan Smashing Pumpkins - both aesthetically and stylistically - never quite integrated into nor aspired to be part of the prevailing Grunge scene of the early-mid 90s. Alluding to their incongruity with regard to the grunge power base and its fans, one commentator aptly noted, "Nirvana were cooler, Soundgarden were heavier and Pearl Jam were sexier."
Where the Pumpkins excelled however, was in their ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Collection
If you are a real fan you probably already have these songs, however if you are on the fence or new to Smashing Pumpkins, don't miss this collection!
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