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
Review Tags: cd, compilation, music, rock
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