PERFECT 🎵 Smashing Pumkins - Today REACTION

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[thumplife]

"Today is the greatest" was sarcasm. He was in a really dark place, and suicidal at the time. The contrast of heavy music and light vocals was intentional. A lot of people misinterpreted it as a positive song.

[benshafer]

Siamese Dream was their masterpiece, IMO. Disarm was another hit from this amazing LP✌

[charlieib]

“pink ribbon scars that never forget, i tried so hard to cleanse these regrets” fuckin poetry

[metalmark]

With the lyric, "today is the greatest day, " some listeners misinterpreted this as a hopeful song, when it was just the opposite. Billy Corgan said: "I was really suicidal. I just thought it was funny to write a song that said today is the greatest day of your life because it can't get any worse."

[vodkarage]

This album is one of the best music albums I have ever heard from ANY band. Just the sheer number of amazing songs, the way they all fit together. Listen to the whole album in one sitting, it is amazing.

[johnmordecai]

"so heavy... but so light" - kinda sums up a lot of what made Smashing Pumpkins so unique back then. Some people definitely didn't get it.

[deanroddey]

Arguably the best band of the 90s, and in my opinion they were. I'm a child of the 60s and 70s but ultimately the 90s is my favorite music decade and SP are the 90s band that speaks the most to me, though there are a LOT of other bands that are only a whisker behind them. It was a prolific decade before everyone just started stealing music and before digital production tools made talent optional.

[Alpha_]

The double album Meloncholy and the infinite sadness is a masterpiece. One of the greatest releases of all time.

[brigidm]

Lex just described one of my best friends in the 90s in high school! And she loved this album!

[kellifranklin]

One of the defining rock groups of the 1990s. These guys were multilayered in their music and sound and I really just love the hell out of them!

[GhostlyEcheveria]

I was 10 years old when this song came out, and I remember the exact moment I saw this music video and heard the song for the first time. They have been my favorite band since that very moment. You should really listen to Bodies, or Thru the Eyes of Ruby. Billy is really good at creating a juxtaposition between soft and harsh sounds. He also tends to write lyrics that are poetic and open to wide interpretation.

[frankrizzo]

Man this song really brings me back to great times in my twenties, where has the time gone...

[Kaddywompous]

Heavy and light really nails it, Lex. They could be as hard as almost anyone and as delicate. “Bullet with butterfly wings” was a good description of their entire vibe.

[beviladay]

You guys definitely are pounding the 90's. Siamese Dreams is an amazing album. Soma is my favorite off of it, however, Hummer, Silver F**k and Chrrub Rock are fantastic songs off of this album.

[nonplayerzealot]

He's singing the title w/ softness because he's being sarcastic. Irony and sarcasm (and trying to be disturbing to an extent) are some of the common hallmarks of early 90s alt/"grunge" as well as heavy and soft sections repeating one after another in songs. Nirvana did that in Teen Spirit and it's a common feature of other songs. Soundgarden did it in The Day I Tried To Live. Alice In Chains did it in The Rooster. He's saying today is the greatest and some of the other lyrics are darker and sound like they refer to existentialism, depression, regret, the boredom of regular life sucking, having to save face instead of getting out of life what one truly desires, pink ribbon scars seem to allude strongly to cutting scars from people who do that to themselves. I don't know if Corgan ever did arm cutting, but he does (or has) had depression for a long time, which he's talked about.

[mmsizzlak]

Born and raised in the super ghetto (a place where even hood people don't wanna go) and in high school in the 90's this was the band that opened up rock for me and so this band holds a special place for me...
'the eye' & literally the entire "Mellon collie and the Infinite sadness" album should be next

[sicsam]

I actually like how you don't stop the song every 10 seconds. It's nice to see yall actually listening to song then talk about it. Good job

[jeffreekoch]

Lex. Don't forget the flannel shirts and boots or Chuck Taylor shoes! 😆
Brad yes many skated to Pumpkins, alt rock, punk, ska, rap. Anything.

[jeffreekoch]

Was in high school when alt rock, grunge, ska punk, nu metal, punk and rap music were blowing up! On radio, tv, concerts, parties. '90s. It was great!
GenXers love these genres. Smashing Pumpkins were big during the '90s and '00s. They were very psychedelic, shoegazy alt rock. Amps, feedbacks and pedal effects. Walls of distortions sound. Kind of an ethereal sound. Loud fuzzy guitars. 🎸 Groups like My Bloody Valentine, Silversun Pickups, Sonic Youth, Hammock, Slowdive are the same too.

[TidePride]

I always understood this song to be about someone who survived a suicide attempt (pink ribbon scars)....classic example of juxtaposition of an upbeat sound about dark subject matter