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"Cherub Rock" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. It is the first single from their second album, Siamese Dream (1993) and is the opening track. It was written by lead vocalist and guitarist Billy Corgan .
Siamese Dream is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released on July 27, 1993, by Virgin Records.The album was produced by Butch Vig and frontman Billy Corgan.
Virgin Records executives saw "Today" as the ideal lead single, but Corgan wanted "Cherub Rock", one of the last songs written for the album, [6] as the lead single. [5] Ultimately, "Cherub Rock" was released first, but it was only a modest success. [5] "Today" brought the band popularity through wide radio airplay and a successful music video. [5]
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is a diehard Chicago Cubs fan, but he dedicated "Cherub Rock" to former Reds great Joey Votto at GABP.
The guitar solo in "Siva" is the band's first usage of the Big Muff pedal, which later would famously mark the band's alternative rock style on Siamese Dream. Corgan originally titled the song "Shiva", referring to the Tantric concepts of Shiva and Shakti as opposing masculine and feminine forces, ignorant of any further implications of the name.
The Smashing Pumpkins (also simply known as Smashing Pumpkins) [note 1] is an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago in 1988 by frontman and guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.
The Smashing Pumpkins, the Chicago quartet comprised originally of singer/guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D’arcy Wretzky, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, were one of the most ...
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a song by the American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. It was released as the lead single from their 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and is the sixth track on the first disc.