The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (w/ guest James Anderson)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian are joined by podcaster James Anderson of Unabashedly Obsessed (unabashedlyobsessed.com) to talk about the Smashing Pumpkins breakthrough album Siamese Dream (1993, Virgin). James tells the story of playing N64 in a friend's basement, being blown away hearing the Pumpkins for first time, and how it led to purchasing the album at Walmart, a circumstance that forever shaped how he listened to the album. Bill, Brian, and James then get into the band's evolution through the years, how Billy Corgan wishes he could resequence the album, D'Arcy Wretzky and James Iha's lack of involvement in the recording, Jimmy Chamberlain's kick ass drumming and natural tones, Butch Vig's big guitar sounds and love of acoustic tracks, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.1	1993 is Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins.
0:28.9	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:35.0	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we follow it up with a track-by-track review,
0:38.3	in which we talk about the things we like about the songs and the things we think about while listening to them.
0:41.1	We're basically just imagine us to be your couple of buddies who enjoy talking about music so much
0:46.7	that they hit record and then decided to share that with others because that's exactly
0:52.9	what the show is.
0:53.8	Yeah.
0:56.3	Yeah. Yeah. And we're not doing it alone today.
0:57.4	Absolutely not.
1:05.3	We had a fellow podcaster, James Anderson, from the unabashedly obsessed podcast.
1:06.3	Great name.
1:06.8	Yeah.
1:07.7	Great, great name. Such a cool name.
1:08.4	And then it really works out for their Twitter handles because they're,
1:11.9	uh,
1:12.2	unabashed James and unabashed Aaron.
1:16.0	Awesome.
1:16.6	I'm like,
1:17.0	that really works out.
1:18.0	And they've got really cool artwork for their cover.
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