History Trivia / TheSmashingPumpkins

** ''Adore'' suffered mostly due to the distant, icy electronics, the strangely bland production (which, as Allmusic noted, makes the songs blend together) and the absence of Jimmy Chamberlain. The studio recordings lacked the energy of Chamberlain's drumming, even with percussion by Matt Walker, [[Music/{{REM}} Joey Waronker]] and [[Music/{{Soundgarden}} Matt Cameron]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTW-cWcCeXE Performed live,]] however, they sounded much better (or at least, for people who enjoy the original versions of the songs as they are, much more like people expect the Smashing Pumpkins to sound). It's likely ''Adore'' would have fared better commercially had the band used the arrangements in the link and better employed session drummers - and [[ForWantOfANail so would have the Pumpkins' post-]]''[[ForWantOfANail Mellon Collie]]'' [[ForWantOfANail career.]] It didn't help that Corgan was going through major depression during recording, on account of his mother passing.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Eye" was originally written as a backing track for a Shaquille O'Neal rap song. It was only turned into a Smashing Pumpkins song because their song "Tear" was rejected for inclusion on the ''Film/LostHighway'' soundtrack and the band needed to quickly submit something else.

* ChartDisplacement: The band's four Top 40 hits are three expected ones ("1979", "Tonight, Tonight", "Bullet with Butterfly Wings") ... and then there's "Thirty-Three", when "Zero" would be more expected, but its single had so many B-sides that ''Billboard'' considered it an EP and thus put it on the album chart.

** Smashing Pumpkins included the song "The End is the Beginning is the End" for the soundtrack to the infamous 1997 release ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''. It never went on the official Billboard Hot 100, and hit #50 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. (though it charted higher in other countries)

** The label initially insisted on making the song "Let Me Give the World to You" the first single for ''Adore'', though the band objected because the poppy, upbeat, electric-guitar-based song was pretty much the opposite of the rest of the album. They had to [[CutSong cut the song from the final tracklist entirely]] for the issue to be dropped, and it wouldn't see release until a 2014 [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition deluxe reissue of the album]].

** Smashing Pumpkins included the song "The End is the Beginning is the End" for the soundtrack to the infamous 1997 release ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''. It never went on the official Billboard Hot 100, and hit #50 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.

** Billy wasn't the only one who had a rough time of it during Siamese Dream. D'arcy revealed in 2018 she'd had a stress induced miscarriage during recording and never told the rest of the band.

* RevivalByCommercialization: Once the trailer for ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' used "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning" (coincidentally also made for [[Film/BatmanAndRobin a DC Comics adaptation]]), [[Series/TheColbertReport it skyrocketed in iTunes]] and made the band include it in setlists.

** James and D'arcy dated during Gish era, but broke up during the writing of ''Siamese Dream''. This didn't help the TroubledProduction.

** Today was originally written as a more straight forward Alt. Rock / Metal song.

** Had D'arcy Wretsky rejoined the band in 2018 along with Chamberlain and Iha, it would've been the first time in which the band was a quintet on a permanent basis than on a live-only basis.

** Billy also played on another band, Deep Blue Dream, with [[Music/StaticX Wayne Static]].

** Smashing Pumpkins included the song "The End is the Beginning is the End" for the soundtrack to the infamous 1998 release ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''. It never went on the official Billboard Hot 100, and hit #50 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.