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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 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 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Album Description: Limited edition Japanese version of their 2001 'Greatest Hits' collection includes one track unavailable on the US edition, 'Try, Try, Try'. 18 tracks on the first disc and the bonus B-sides & rarities disc carries the same tracks (16) as every other terr Album Details: Includes the Bonus Track "Try Try Try", Not Found on Other Editions. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - One of the best bands everThis album spans the bands entire career (In 2000 the band split.), and in my opinion one of the greatest examples of a band changing over the course of its history; the second song for example is very mellow and rhythmic, where about just 11 tracks away it starts becoming some-what Gothic. Besides that this album IS excellent and by far the best song on the album is "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", with the chorus line- "Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage". Rating:  - It's All Here EXCEPT for Mayonaise !Brings back some very great memories for me, but left off my favorite Pumpkins tune - Mayonaise!!! Why does it seem like the record companies always leave off one of the best songs on every Greatest Hits album for any band? Nevertheless, a good taste of one of my favorite groups in the 1990's. Rating: - "Just one man - still a boy, perhaps."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." Although compiling a collection of the best of ... Read More Rating: - Good collectionIf 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 |
