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THE STRAIGHT DOPE:
The Smashing Pumpkins (Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlain, and D'Arcy Wretzky, later replaced by Melissa Auf Der Maar) set themselves apart from their peers both musically and with their visual presentation. Their videos, collected here, often showed a fiercely unique sense of cinematic sophistication and ambition.

From early videos like "Siva" (from 1991's Gish) and "Cherub Rock" (from 1993's Siamese Dream) on they were obviously open to expanding the form from the typical performance / cheap storyline structure of so many music videos. Their best videos came from their enormously successful 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness: "1979" is a whimsical and energetic romp through suburban restlessness and "Tonight, Tonight" is a extremely satisfying tour through turn-of-the-century filmmaker George Melies' fantastic science...Read the entire review

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