Album Title: Gish
Release Date: May 1991
Produced by: Butch Vig
Tracklisting: Sold 800,000+
copies |
Album Title: Siamese Dream
Release Date: 27 Jul 1993
Produced by: Butch Vig and Billy Corgan
Tracklisting: Awarded 3½
Stars (70%) by Rolling Stone Magazine
Sold 4.3+ million copies in the U.S. |
Album Title: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Release Date: 23 Oct 1995
Produced by: Flood, Alan Moulder and Billy Corgan
Awarded 3 Stars
(60%) by Rolling Stone Magazine
Motifs: references day and night, celestial objects, "one and only"
Sold 9+ million copies in the U.S. |
Album Title: Adore
Release Date: 02 Jun 1998
Produced by: Billy Corgan and Brad Wood (and others?)
Awarded 3½
Stars (70%) by Rolling Stone Magazine
Motifs: references to car crashes, perfection and mercury
Sold 3+ million copies worldwide
Debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 |
Album Title: MACHINA/the machines of God
Release Date: 29 Feb 2000
Produced by: Flood and Billy Corgan
Awarded 3½
Stars (70%) by Rolling Stone Magazine
Awarded 7/10 (70%) by Spin Magazine
Motifs: references to death, glass, ghosts, machines and spiders
Sold 500,000+ copies in the U.S.
Debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 |
Other Notable Works:
- Pisces Iscariot (1994):
b-sides and songs cut from the Gish and SD eras
- Earphoria (1994): musical
companion to Vieuphoria, live
performances along with an odd lot of b-sides
- The Aeroplane Flies High
(1997): 5 disc set containing the five MCIS singles along with many b-sides)
- Machina II: The Friends and Enemies of
Modern Music (2000): 2 disc collection of studio outtakes and demos--some of
the last recordings from the band, freely downloadable here
- Judas O (2001): companion
to Greatest Hits, contains the more popular and rare b-sides
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