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Review of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Rotten Apples” – Greatest Hits

Posted on | October 26, 2007 | 3 Comments

Smashing Pumpkins’ “Rotten Apples” – Greatest Hits

Excellent compilation of the brilliant Smashing Pumpkins biggest hits.

This is an album I return to again and again. When I get bored with Arcade Fire, The Killers, Feist etc etc and need to blow away the cobwebs, get some energy and sing really loudly, this is the CD that goes on.

I came to hear the Smashing Pumpkins relatively late in their career. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was the first of their albums I bought and I loved it from the off.

1979 has to be one of my favourite songs ever, I love the way it always seems to remind me of being a teenager. But maybe that’s just me. ;-)

This album has tracks such as “Rhinoceros” and “Cherub Rock” from earlier albums which I was less familiar with, in addition to 2 previously unrelased tracks.  But the bulk of the songs are taken from albums I have and am familiar with.

Brilliant highlights for me include, “today”, “bullet with butterfly wings”, “zero”, “tonight tonight”, “perfect” and “stand inside your love”.

Great music and lyrics combined to produce excellent songs. Anger, tenderness, rage, obsession, aggression, love. Definitely worth listening to regularly and a great way to start the weekend.


Rated 5/5 on Oct 26 2007 by ManicMammy
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3 Responses to “Review of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Rotten Apples” – Greatest Hits”

  1. famron
    November 2nd, 2007 @ 10:34 am

    Must get it! I always associate them with the summer I spent in Colorado.
    What’s the Feist album like?

  2. Manic Mammy
    November 2nd, 2007 @ 11:16 am

    Mornin’
    Still lovin Feist’s Reminder here.
    Mine and the kids’ favourite is definitely Feel it now. Deadly song.
    Rest of tracks, I feel, not as strong but good all the same.

    That and the Smashing pumpkins’ CD got plenty of airplay on the Cork-Cavan route over the past week. Am now in the humour for some quiet time, some hope!!

  3. famron
    November 2nd, 2007 @ 11:58 am

    Cool. Feist is part of the Broken Social Scene gang, who I love, so she was on my list.

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