January 2012
2 posts
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - A...
As Siamese Dream approaches its twentieth birthday, and following on from the recent remastered editions of both Siamese Dream and Gish released by EMI, the time seems right to look back at this fabulous record, one of the greatest records of its time. Smashing Pumpkins’ finest hour, and Billy Corgan’s insurmountable masterpiece.
The date was July 27th 1993 when Virgin Records...
The Return Of Shoegazing
There is a theory that popular music moves in approximate twenty year cycles, that the trends of one moment in time will become, two decades later, an evolved and opaque reflection of that which went before. Added to this is the idea that musical trends never really go away, they simply lurk in the underground until the kids of twenty years ago, the A&R men of today, sign their teenage wet...
