History Music / TheSmashingPumpkins

* Anadiplosis: In "Zero":

* ProgressiveRock: While this has never been their dominant style, they've had some tendencies of it throughout their career, and on the whole, it's probably only grown with time; Website/{{Wikipedia}} actually classifies ''Oceania'' as a prog rock album (alongside psychedelic rock and the expected alternative rock. They still don't have a page on Prog Archives, though). A few songs on most of their other albums could also be categorised as prog, and Corgan has named several prog and prog-adjacent acts as influences (Music/PinkFloyd, Music/{{Rush}}, Music/{{Queen}}, Music/ElectricLightOrchestra, Music/DavidBowie, etc.). Some of their songs ("Silverfuck", "X.Y.U.", "The Aeroplane Flies High", etc.) may also qualify as ProgressiveMetal.

[[LongRunner Formed in]] [[TheEighties 1988]], The Smashing Pumpkins are an {{alternative rock}} band from [[UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} the Windy City]] consisting of [[Creator/MarkPrindle singer/songwriter/]][[IAmTheBand dictator]] Billy Corgan. Okay, that's not true; there are usually three or four other band members, but Corgan's the songwriter, lead vocalist and [[RevolvingDoorBand the only member who's been present throughout the band's entire lifespan]], so we'll start from there.

* CoverVersion: "A Girl Named Sandoz" by Music/TheAnimals, "Terrapin" by Music/SydBarrett, "Landslide" by Music/FleetwoodMac, "Dancing in the Moonlight" by Music/ThinLizzy, "You're All I've Got Tonight" by Music/TheCars, "Clones (We're All)" by Music/AliceCooper, "A Night Like This" by Music/{{The Cure|Band}}, "Destination Unknown" by Music/MissingPersons, "Dreaming" by Music/{{Blondie}}, the classic pop tune "My Blue Heaven", "Rock On" by David Essex, "Soul Power" by Music/JamesBrown, "Sad Peter Pan" by Vic Chestnutt, and those are just the ones that made it onto albums and compilations.

* ''Jeff Schroeder'' - guitar (2006-present)

[[LongRunner Formed in]] [[TheEighties 1988]], The Smashing Pumpkins are an alternative rock band from [[UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} the Windy City]] consisting of [[Creator/MarkPrindle singer/songwriter/]][[IAmTheBand dictator]] Billy Corgan. Okay, that's not true; there are usually three or four other band members, but Corgan's the songwriter, lead vocalist and [[RevolvingDoorBand the only member who's been present throughout the band's entire lifespan]], so we'll start from there.

The band is known for [[SignatureStyle a number of things]]: angsty lyrics, heavy guitars, dense production, an epic scope in terms of sonic ambition and[=/=]or accompanying visuals, and Corgan's nasal singing voice. While their "sound" began life as hard/alternative rock with experimental influences, they've also worked with elements from grunge, folk, electronica, shoegaze, and gothic rock.

In 2005, Corgan released his first solo album, ''The Future Embrace'', subsequently upstaging himself by, on the very same day, announcing that he was reforming the Smashing Pumpkins alongside Chamberlin with new members. They released one album (''Zeitgeist'') before Chamberlin amicably departed, at which point the band focused on a planned 44-song ConceptAlbum named ''Teargarden by Kaleidyscope'', to be released song by song for free on [[http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/ their website]]. While 12 of the 44 (including vinyl bonus tracks) saw release, and their next two albums were reportedly parts of the project, thus bringing a total of 34 tracks, ''TBK'' as a whole has since been scrapped.

In October 22, 2020, two days before the 25th anniversary of ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'', Corgan [[https://www.kerrang.com/amp/the-smashing-pumpkins-announce-mellon-collie-and-the-infinite-sadness-machina-sequel confirmed]] that the band are planning to release two new albums after the release of ''Cyr'' with the first album being a 33-track double album that would serve as the third and final installment of a trilogy that began with ''Mellon Collie'' and continued in the two-part ''Machina'', which was the ''Atum'' trilogy and came out in 2022-23 along with a ten-track third ''Shiny and Oh So Bright'' album titled ''Zodeon at Crystal Hall'' coming out after it.

** Remastered and reissued in 2012, with three bonus CD's and a bonus DVD.

** Remastered and reissued in 2014, with five bonus CD's and a bonus DVD.

There's also a bunch of EP's and compilations like:

* LoudnessWar: This has been a particularly bad problem starting with ''Machina'' (although not with ''Machina II'', which was vinyl-only, so not as likely to be a victim of this; the only track on that that had a clipped master was "White Spyder", which was clearly done for [[StylisticSuck artistic purposes]]). ''Zeitgeist'' and the reissues have also had problems with this, although strangely, the reissues have only been really bad on the bonus tracks (for example, the ''Adore'' remaster was [=DR8=] on the stereo version of the album and had minimal clipping, while the mono version was [=DR5=] with lots of clipping and the other bonus CD's had similar ratings and amounts of clipping). The earlier Pumpkins albums were mostly mastered with a fairly large amount of headroom, although the problem had started to creep up with ''The Aeroplane Flies High'', which is clipped in some parts. It's also worth pointing that there's an "pre-mastered" version of ''Machina'' floating around the internets that has a substantially larger amount of dynamic range than the CD (and no clipping). Their usage of this trope also appears to have dropped off with time, as ''Oceania'' is a tolerable [=DR8=] and has very little clipping.

* Lisa Harriton [[note]]Touring only[[/note]] – keyboards, backing vocals (2007–2009)

* ''Katie Cole'' [[note]]Touring only[[/note]] – keyboard, guitar, vocals (2015–present)