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Jimboiscool
Aiiii you can't win standard "Gish" on Spotify!? Nope, track-listing still "... - Remaster 2011"
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nfopuhfxir
This is the version I scrobble from: https://open.spotify.com/album/5aO5gr3nQwsA3L4wRaq4DU?si=bqpXdKsrS9u7EwJ0ZRyWvw
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TheDarkOrb
Gish is 30 years old today. Amazing how time flies. Wish I had picked up a copy much earlier than I did.
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Casablancas_
Chamberlain it's god on this album. A fucking punch in your face for a debut record.
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TyDy94
I forgot how immaculate early Pumpkins was. This was a great start to their discography. Super psychedelic and bluesy. Two styles they strayed away from by the end of the decade. The first side is perfect in every way with banger after banger. Man, it kinda makes you sad that Smashing Pumpkins became a shell of this. Nonetheless, this and Siamese Dream are their masterpieces, for sure.
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misterpockets
So true! I discovered them when this was their only album and really liked Siamese Dream, but after that I just wasn't interested in where they were going. The beauty of music is that we will always have these albums to listen to, no matter what else they do.
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clintbeed6793
2nd best album they made only to Siamese Dream (which is one of the best albums of the 90's for context). Crush through Snail in particular is just incredible. This had such a cool psychedelic sound which was really warm. They pretty much completely lost that later on, which is a shame. Early SP is still some of the finest rock ever recorded, and Corgan will always be a genius for his early prolific creative streak.
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clintbeed6793
You people are all stupid. Badmotorfinger is easily the best of the above mentioned albums. It's the only one that could probably topple Gish (but not quite Siamese Dream).
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optimistic_tour
"Instead they shortened the songs and went with a more radio-friendly sound." WTF? Seriously, there are far more long tracks on the next few albums than this... I don't even know where to begin with how insane this statement is. Gish is literally the shortest album with the shortest tracks. And they were never more or less radio friendly, they just were.
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kissesneverdie
I forgot how great this album really is. Absolutely amazing from start to finish. Yeah, it might be tough to get into at first, but the end result is worth it.
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ironhedd
If your an old SP fan, this is the #1 album. If your just getting into SP, I can see why people wouldn't rate this their best. There's so much depth in Bimmy & Jimmy's playing (Double Dragon?) on the early albums that I wish they expanded on that more. Instead they shortened the songs and went with a more radio-friendly sound.
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ravenpryde
i still wonder if this is the album that only true diehard pumpkins fans know about and love dearly. or did that title get passed on to machina II? or maybe they're both worthy of that title?
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nfopuhfxir
I find that pumpkins fans tend to fall into three categories -- people who really like Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream but haven't listened to anything else, people who are big on Siamese Dream and Gish, but could care less for what they did afterwards, and then people who adore adore but are meh on everything else. And then there's people like me who love almost everything that they did.
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Bolshevized
In addition to being a good/great album, it's also excellently produced. Apparently it only cost $20,000 to make... which was pretty god damn impressive back then. Compare that to the new Chili Peppers album, for example: loudness war'd to death, probably cost like half a million to make and it sounds like shit.
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