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Smashing Pumpkins: Part 1 with Rob Harvilla

Sep 29, 2022

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Importance of Listening to Rock Music

2min

The Joy of Listening to Music

3min

The Importance of Pissiness in Music

2min

The Soap Opera of Billy Corgan's Young Life

3min

The Insane Life of Billy Corgan

2min

The Unhappy Family

1min

Why I'm Telling This to a Journalist

3min

The Importance of Sports

2min

10.

The Rise of the Smashed Pumpkins

2min

11.

There's No Punk in Billy Corgan

3min

12.

The Myth of Being Other

2min

13.

The Life and Times of Billy Corrin

3min

14.

The Myth of Jimmy Chamberlain

2min

15.

The History of Smashed Pumpkins

2min

16.

The Rise of Chicago's My Dahlia

2min

17.

The Indignance of Billy Corgan

3min

18.

The God of Fuck

2min

19.

Nevermind: A Pre-Nevermind Record

3min

20.

The Differences Between Boston and Smashing Pumpkins

4min

21.

Gish Is the Platonic Ideal of the Band

2min

22.

The Slowest Song in Gish

2min

23.

The Month of June

3min

24.

Butch Vig and Kurt Cobain

1min

25.

The Importance of Jimmy Chamberlain in Nevermind

2min

26.

The Mystique of Recordings

3min

27.

Daydream: A Song That's Deeply Meaningful to You Rob

4min

28.

The Soundgarden of the 1990s

2min

29.

The Best-Selling Independent Record in Rock History

3min

30.

The Rise and Fall of Nirvana

3min

31.

The Monoculture of Teens

4min

32.

Gish's Sales

2min

33.

The Best of the Eclectic Hard Rock 90s

3min

34.

The Funny Story of Gish's Breakup With Kurt Cobain

2min

35.

The Importance of Billy Joel

2min

36.

The Best Grunge Song on Singles

3min

37.

The Siamese Dream

3min

38.

The Rise and Fall of Siamese Dream

2min

39.

Billy Corgan's New Album

2min

40.

The Making of Hummer

3min

41.

Siamese Dream

1min

42.

Disarm and Today

3min

43.

The Trouble With Jimmy E. World

2min

44.

The Soul of James and Darcy

2min

45.

The Siamese Dream

3min

46.

The Fucking Opener Man

2min

47.

The Bad Vibe in the Studio

2min

48.

The Importance of Teamwork

3min

49.

The Importance of Disarm

2min

50.

The Alchemy Rock Trick of Taking Something Specific and Making It Universal

3min

51.

The Rise and Fall of Nirvana

3min

52.

The Importance of Listening to Your Voice

2min

53.

What I Choose Is My Choice

3min

54.

The Difference Between Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan

3min

55.

The Importance of Being a Rock Star

3min

56.

Hammer of the Gods

2min

57.

The Importance of Virgo in Music

3min

58.

The Killer at Me Is the Killer in You

3min

59.

Silverfuck's Space, Boy, We Will Not Play

2min

60.

The Importance of Manes

2min

61.

The Importance of Being Yourself

3min

62.

The Importance of Hummer

3min

63.

The Vulture of Rock and Roll

2min

64.

The Importance of Perception in Rock Music

2min

65.

The Voice of a Generation

5min

66.

The Differences Between Nirvana and Nevermind

2min

67.

The Outsized Role of Grunge in the Minds of People

3min

68.

The Rise and Fall of the Hippie Children

4min

69.

The Ghost of Nirvana

2min

70.

The Importance of Ideology

3min

71.

The Critics of Stone Table Pilots

4min

72.

The Importance of Cultural Significance

2min

73.

The Difference Between Major Labels and Small Labels

2min

74.

Fleetwood Mac's Landslide

2min

75.

Pies Is a Scary at Charted Higher

4min

Rob Harvilla joins us for the noble effort of explaining The Smashing Pumpkins, one of the most commercially successful and musically impactful rock bands of the 1990s. Yasi and Rob cover the first half of the band’s breakthrough career and comb through the origin story of Billy Corgan’s emergent and unusual celebrity.

Follow Rob Harvilla at @harvilla on Twitter and listen to his The Ringer podcast, 60 Songs That Explain the 90s.

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