Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", Highly Recommended - "...SIAMESE DREAM takes up and expands nicely where 1991's impressive GISH left off; it's got all the feisty, fuzzy passion of that record and even more inventiveness. Smashing Pumpkins have an enormous bag of tricks...", 5 stars out of 5 -- "The songs mark out Corgan's genius capabilities as a songwriter....A truly stunning album.", Included on Q's List of 'the 50 Best Albums of 1993.', Ranked #32 in Melody Maker's list of the 'Albums Of The Year' for 1993 - "...there's no denying the Pumpkins injected a peculiarly fluid, febrile grace into their brand of neo-psychedelic rock...", Ranked #6 in NME's list of 'The Top 50 LPs of 1993' - "...The rediscovery of the guitar as motorbike and also one of the year's most emotionally punishing efforts...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Two booming anthems, 'Cherub Rock' and 'Today', are equal parts earnestness and irony...", Ranked #23 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.", "With Guitar Solos from Heaven, Wall Upon Wall of Lushly Textured Sound, and Grand, Epic Vision.", Ranked #11 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll., 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...rarely a bum note in this tidy wash of styles...SIAMESE DREAM is a strong, multidimensional extension of GISH that confirms that Smashing Pumpkins are neither sellouts nor one-offs...", "...If anyone will be burdened with the dreaded mantle of 'next Nirvana,' it'll be this Chicago band....the great lost link between alternative, pop and metal....may have stumbled upon a whole new stance: slackers with a vision..." Rating: B, 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...rarely a bum note in this tidy wash of styles....SIAMESE DREAM is a strong, multidimensional extension of GISH that confirms that Smashing Pumpkins are neither sellouts nor one-offs...", Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", Ranked #32 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993 - "...there's no denying the Pumpkins injected a peculiarly fluid, febrile grace into their brand of neo-psychedelic rock...", "An album that draped its influences -- Cheap Trick, Led Zeppelin, New Order -- in a fuzzy haze, suggesting heavy metal played by a group coming down from an acid trip. It's a high-water mark from the era.", "...the 13 tracks ring out as a triumph of dynamics and atmosphere, and serve as gold settings for the fragile charm of Billy Corgan's emotive vocals...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Corgan didn't smash guitars, he stroked them into ecstatic swells of heaviosity as he cooed composition-book poetry.", Included on Q's List of `The 50 Best Albums of 1993.', 4 Stars - Excellent - "...SIAMESE DREAM is something of a white-knuckle, rollercoaster ride, leavened by moments of sometimes quite staggering beauty....Smashing Pumpkins are so exciting, it's patently obvious that they're a (if not the) Next Big Thing...", Ranked #6 in NME's list of `The Top 50 LPs of 1993' - "...The rediscovery of the guitar as motorbike and also one of the year's most emotionally punishing efforts...", "...If anyone will be burdened with the dreaded mantle of `next Nirvana,' it'll be this Chicago band....the great lost link between alternative, pop and metal....may have stumbled upon a whole new stance: slackers with a vision..." Rating: B
