* ArchivePanic: There are only eleven official studio albums, so that doesn't seem too bad. And then you look at the band's colossal vault of B-sides and reissues. There are 114 tracks in the ''Rarities and B-Sides'' compilation alone, and that's not a complete representation of the band's works. And then you look at the reissues. ''Adore'' and ''The Aeroplane Flies High'' are the most expansive of these thus far, containing six CD's and a DVD each, which are all filled to the brim with bonus goodies. The running time of the reissued ''Adore'' alone is over nine hours. In short, good luck.
** Note that there are still probably dozens of hours' worth of material left in the vaults. ''The Aeroplane Flies High'' contains a twenty-three-minute-long track called "Pastichio Medley", which is a collection of snippets of tracks from the ''Mellon Collie'' era that didn't even make B-side status. There are about seventy of them. Of these, two are formative versions of songs that eventually got released either on ''Mellon Collie'' or ''The Aeroplane'', and a dozen more were eventually released on the 2011-2014 reissues. The remaining ones are mostly not available at all, though a few others have been [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes bootlegged]]. It's quite plausible that similar amounts of material were left over from the other albums' sessions, or possibly even more, considering that ''Mellon Collie'' was a double album (and that around an additional hundred minutes' worth of material, excluding the medley, made it to B-side status). Say what you will about Billy Corgan, but he's mind-bogglingly productive.
* AwardSnub: The band hasn't even showed up among the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame candidates. When the Pumpkins became eligible in 2016, [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/billy-corgan-smashing-pumpkins-belong-in-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-229786/ Billy Corgan said they certainly deserve an induction]], but two years later [[http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2018/12/19/billy-corgan-doesnt-envision-smashing-pumpkins-getting-into.html was already unsure if it will happen.]]
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[AwesomeMusic/TheSmashingPumpkins Has its own page.]]
* BrokenBase: You can easily start a debate among fans as to whether or not the second time around, starting from ''Zeitgeist'' to ''Oceania'' and whatever comes after that, is considered truly The Smashing Pumpkins or just InNameOnly.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** "Drown" to the ''Singles'' soundtrack. The song received lots of airplay despite a) Never being released as a single, and b) Being the only song on the album by a band from outside Seattle.
** "Muzzle" is one of the band's post popular songs despite only being a promotional single, never even getting a full single release or music video.
** ''Mellon Collie'' has a lot of these: "X.Y.U.," "Thru the Eyes of Ruby," "Bodies," "Where Boys Fear to Tread," "Jellybelly," and "In the Arms of Sleep" all arguably qualify.
** "Set the Ray to Jerry" is quite popular despite never being on a full-length album (it was the closing track on the ''1979'' EP).
** The band has a lot of B-sides that qualify as this. "Obscured", "Starla", "Cherry", "Let Me Give the World to You", "Here's to the Atom Bomb", etc. One of them ("Rotten Apples") even wound up being the title of the band's greatest hits compilation.
** As far as albums go, ''Adore'' certainly fits these days (although the Pitchfork review of the reissue, which gave it an 8.5 and Best New Reissue, argues that it's cited as "underrated" so often that that can't possibly be true anymore). ''Machina II'' probably fits too, as it's generally regarded as a substantial improvement on the album to which it's a sequel.
** As far as members go, Melissa lasted around a year with the band before the break up, and didn't appear on any albums. She's just as popular with fans as D'arcy and Nicole, though.
** Possibly due to being the original girl in the band or her current reclusive nature, D'arcy continues to command a lot of attention from fans. It helps that in a lot of the band's promotional material from her time, she is often in center focus.
* EpicRiff: The live version of "Daphne Descends" has a truly glorious one.
** Also, the intro and main riff from "Cherub Rock".
** "Zero," "The Chimera" and "Siva" have some killer ones too.
** "1979", "Rocket", "Soma", "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "Silverfuck", "Set the Ray to Jerry"... they have a lot of them, really.
* FanCommunityNickname: "Ghost Children", based on the story of ''Machina / The Machines of God''; also, "Pumpkinheads".
* HarsherInHindsight: Back in 1995, as ''Mellon Collie'' slogged through a long development process, Corgan declared that "it either will be our last album, or it will be our last album as people know the Smashing Pumpkins." While it did not end up being their last album, it was the last album to feature the original lineup, as Corgan ended up firing drummer Jimmy Chamberlain for drug abuse during the ensuing tour, though ''Machina / The Machines of God'' was the last ''recorded'' album to feature them, as Chamberlain went into rehab after being fired and became sober thus rejoining the band but after recording for it and some songs for ''Machina II / The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music'', bassist D'arcy Wretsky left and was replaced by Melissa Auf der Maur.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** "Luna" and "One Diamond One Heart," as well as "Pinwheels."
** James Iha appearing as a guest on stage for a few shows in 2016, after apparently not talking to Billy since their last show in 2001. Billy revealed later on that he'd been in friendly contact with D'arcy earlier in the year too.
** The music video for "Tonight Tonight," an homage to ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'' where a cute couple [[SteamPunk goes on an adventurous date to the moon via an iron dirigible.]] Even better is that the actors playing them [[RealitySubtext are married in real life.]]
** Billy Corgan's disabled brother Jesse joining the band on stage playing the tambourine for 1979 for one of their concerts.
* HilariousInHindsight: Billy's explained method of titling songs (explaining why NonAppearingTitle happens with them so much) seems to have given Music/{{Sia}} some ideas:
-->''Say you write a song about a chandelier...''
* MemeticMutation: "Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage".
** "Despite all my rage, I am still just Creator/NicolasCage."
** "Despite all my rage, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlb3UEA4MI I am still eating chips on the stage."]]
** From WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation: "[[VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls Despite]] [[Creator/ElliotPage Ellen Page,]] [[VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman I am still]] [[VideoGame/HeavyRain stuck in]] [[Creator/QuanticDream David's Cage.]]"
** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=azhgpelu0vY Billy Corgan rides a rollercoaster]].
* {{Narm}}: Some lyrics from "The Celestials": "I may seem unafraid / And I may seem unashamed / But I will be Special K" and "I'm gonna love you 101 percent".
* RetroactiveRecognition: The couple in the "Tonight, Tonight" video are real life married couple Creator/TomKenny and Creator/JillTalley, both of whom who would be more known as [=SpongeBob=] and Karen the computer wife from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''.
* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: "Christmastime," probably the single most positive song they've ever recorded.
** "Daydream" from ''Gish,'' sung by D'arcy.
** "Soothe" from ''Pisces Iscariot.'' Just a guitar and a sighing vocal from Billy.
** If "Farewell And Goodnight" from ''Mellon Collie'' was any sweeter, it would tuck you in and read you a bedtime story.
* SignatureSong: "1979" is easily their signature - though "Today" and "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" are not far behind. To a lesser extent, "Tonight, Tonight", "Zero", "Cherub Rock" and "Disarm".
* VindicatedByHistory: Corgan predicted that this would happen to ''Adore'', and over a decade after its release, he appears to have been right.
** Corgan has also mentioned that he regrets having described the album as "electronic", believing that this distorted the way people perceived it, and once commented that he believed that simply referring to it as an "acoustic" album would have caused less trouble (the album only really had one electronica song while the singles retained "1979"'s use of technology.)
** The band as a whole. They were TheScrappy of alternative music for a while during the '90s for their ArenaRock influences (and Corgan's general dickery didn't help), but are much more positively viewed nowadays.
* {{Wangst}}: Billy Corgan is very prone to this in his blogs and interviews. It seeps into the lyrics sometimes, but is generally considered forgivable because of the music.
* TheWoobie: Billy Corgan, as he's [[AbusiveParents endured physical and emotional abuse]] as a child from his stepmother as well as struggling with depression and anxiety as an adult.
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