Rotten Apples, Greatest Hits

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add Square Britain to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Rotten Apples, Greatest Hits 2001 collection from the Alt-Rockers includes one bonus track: 'Try Try Try'. Includes the hits 'Rhinoceros', '1979', 'Zero', 'Today' and many more. . The Smashing Pumpkins' greatest-hits album, Rotten Apples traces the band's evolution (or devolution, depending on your feelings about the band's radical sonic shift in the mid-1990s) from its early days to its status among the kings of alt rock. For fans of the Pumpkins' beginnings as a tripped-out indie/art-rock act, Apples opens with some of the band's strongest material. "Shiva" and "Rhinoceros" (from Gish, the Pumpkin's first album) seamlessly mixed dream pop with noisy Goth-rock as prime examples of the Pumpkins' early 1990s sound. Apples also showcases three stellar tracks ("Cherub Rock", "Today" and "Disarm") from Siamese Dream, the Pumpkins' breakthrough album. This disc makes the band's mid-90s' directional swing obvious, though, starting with "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" the aggressive alt rock/alt metal concoction released on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Fans of songs such as "Zero", "Tonight, Tonight" and "The Everlasting Gaze" will be happy to know that pretty much every cage rattling hit made it to this disc, along with the previously unreleased dream-pop track "Real Love" and an untitled new track (that sounds a lot like the Siamese Dream-era Pumpkins) to round out the mix. --Jennifer Maerz Review As is usual at this time of year, some bands release Greatest Hits packages and some will release collections of B-sides and rarities. This release does both in one-handy-suits-all double CD. The Greatest Hits disc, named Rotten Apples, features a decades worth of work from their first album Gish to their last, Machina / the machines of God. All your favourite songs are here including "Cherub Rock" and "Today", the hits that took the cool alternative band into stadium rock territory. These tracks still make the hairs on the back of the neck stand on end with Billy Corgan's strained vocals presiding over raging guitars and relentless drum beats. The band built their success on angst fuelled lyrics, getting wild and loud whilst remaining controlled and tuneful and therefore accessible to the masses. The heavy tracks are there ("Zero" & "Stand Inside Your Love") but they are placed next to the quieter, dreamy pop songs ("Tonight, Tonight" & "Try, Try, Try"). The highs and lows of their music are inevitably compared to their off the field activities. Siamese Dream catapulted them to stardom but then the band almost collapsed when drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and Jonathan Melvoin, the group's touring keyboardist, overdosed on heroin. Melvoin died and although Chamberlin survived, he was temporarily fired from the band. The remaining members managed to re-group, with the near perfect "Perfect" being the high point of the Adore album. Then suddenly Corgan announced that it was all over and their 2000 tour would be their last, ensuring that they finished on a high rather pursuing a career treading water. The Judas O B-sides and rarities collection will satisfy Pumpkin obsessives with its outtakes from the Adore and Machina sessions, but it simply cannot compete with its sister CD. "Here's to the Atom Bomb", "Waiting" and "Rock On", (yes, a cover of the David Essex classic - which also features lyrics from Van Halen songs) stand out from the others, which at worst slip into incoherent rock ramblings. A rare pleasure these days, a collection of tracks that span a band's career that can actually justify the Greatest Hits title. If you love the sound of a guitar being put through its paces, then this is a must for your stocking this Christmas. --Dan Tallis This link will take you off in a new window Shipping FREE SHIPPING. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail (treated as First Class Mail once with the U.S. Postal Service) which is air freighted to your nearest USPS Post Distribution Center (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or San Francisco) from where they are delivered to your address by USPS. Please allow 7-14 days for delivery, although please note delivery can be even quicker than from domestic US sellers! Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. 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