For me, it was 1979.

G.L.O.W.

1979. Heard it in my babysitters car in 1995.

RaTT IN a CAgeZZZZZZ

zero...over and over again on the radio in my dad's truck

i have strong feelings for your dad

post/av aside, my dad is pretty rockin'

BWBWBWBW

Disarm

Today

Tonight, Tonight!!!! First heard it in class!!!!

was it on channel 1 news or something?

17

Cherub Rock, the first song on Siamese Dream, which is without a doubt the best album ever made, written and produced.

Rhino. / Drown

Heard them at about the same time

Disarm

Evenflow

I was like, this shit sucks, wonder what these Pumpkins are about.

Rocket

def teh killer in me and luv is suicide for realz

BWBW
Real Love
Tear
Shame

Download these off limewire at the same time and loved em.

Drown...it was love at first sound

Drown was the song that got my dad hooked.

What a badass song.

Rocket

Cherub Rock, video on Launchcast... remember that?

Today

I remember seeing the video on mtv and thinking how awesome this band was.

Real Love
:erm:
seriously?

Today

Rhinoceros, off some compilation album.

i am one. Siva...
I was a GnR fan at the time, but the guitars on gish totally kicked ass in a way that headphone music never had before.
rainy day in grade 3 some fat kid brought the tape in that he swiped from his sister. he thought it sucked and let me keep it.

1979, bwbw

Tonight, Tonight. Age six blastin' that shit in my babysitter's car. baddest motherfucker on the block.

The song that got me into the Pumpkins was that one about Mormonism, I don't remember the name at the moment but I'm sure you all do.

space jam?

die

the song that influenced my decision to buy a cd was 1979.

the experience that turned them into my favorite band from that point onward was a car trip i went on with my parents to clear water and i listened to siamese dream all the way through like 4 times. it was a copy that i borrowed right before leaving. i didn't feel like talking to the other two assholes in the car for some reason and that was pretty much the dynamic of the household until i moved out.

Disarm, BWBW

Disarm too. I remember being really little and hearing it on the radio all the time. I thought the lyrics were dirty.

Geek USA. I thought that guitar solo was so badass:banging:

I'd heard their popular singles before in the past but never paid much attention to them until in 2004 I saw three or four of them in a row on MTV2 and decided to look them up on the internet. I downloaded Machina II, and as soon as I heard Slow Dawn I knew I'd like the Smashing Pumpkins.

I saw the music video for 1979 first, but it wasn't until I heard BWBW that I was hooked. Then again it might as well have been Ava Adore.

Seeing the video for BWBW on this stupid show called 'top 30 hits' got me hooked. It was at number 11 in the charts if I remember correctly. Tonight tonight got to no. 2, and 1979 went to no. 5. A very exciting time for me, as each of those singles was released i got more and more psyched about them until i finally saved enough money to buy MCIS....

SIYL

I hated 1979, 33, BWBW and Zero when they came out. It was about 6 months later I got my copy of Gish, and right from I Am One... that was it. It was really all of Gish... not just I Am One.

first song i ever heard them play was Godzilla (acoustic) on some late night "alternative" music show in 91 or so. Never have been able to find a copy of that anywhere, or even find anything about that show. It was on ABC and it came on at midnight on fridays or something. Oh well. But it was cherub rock that made me want to buy siamese dream, and it was soma that made me become fucking obsessed.

I was only ten... I wasn't staying up late at that time, otherwise I might have an idea of what show you're talking about.

No title?

i don't remember what it was called. I used to watch it with my friend david who was one of the only people i knew who liked the stuff they played on there. I'll have to ask him if he remembers it.

I always remember the terrible infomercials from late night TV.

MEGA SCHPEED READING!

(Mega Speed Reading will in no way improve your speech impediment, it can only make you read MEGA fast.)

I am one

well I was a casual fan of the rocking singles in middle school. Didn't listen to them at all in high school. I would say the thing that really got me into the pumpkins was cherub rock. When I first put in my SD cd for the first time as a college man I thought it was the most amazing SOUNDING song I've ever heard.

That being said i don't think I became obsessed until I got into Adore and really started connecting with the lyrics.

The first song I've ever heard was Disarm, as far as I remember. Though I really fell in love with the band when Severin put on some awesome bootleg on the way to some skiing resort. The sun was just coming out, and combined with the music it was pretty much the best drive of my live.
I was 13, and they've been my favorite band ever since. Ha.

Siva. The video debuted on this show called 120 Minutes which aired late Sunday evenings and played "alternative" stuff. I believe I shat myself. It just sounded so... snaky and mystical and perfect. That's the song, or maybe Creep. Or November Rain.

Is this the program you were talking about Skipgo?

Hey Blank, I don't think they're the same show. 120 Minutes was on MTV, and I vaguely remember some other show on Friday nights like Skipgo was talking about. Too many substances still reside on my synapses to recall the name, though. Meh.

i'd heard/seen today and disarm on mtv/radio a lot and i thought they were alright. i thought the today vid was weird [i was going to an oppressive religious school at the time] and disarm was too depressing. the rocket vid was when i started getting interested in them. this was around the time i got my first cd player. i didn't have money to just buy every cd i could think of so i had about 3..dookie, kerplunk and vs. i think..then i think i bought ten and then SD cause they didn't play the rocket vid enough, and this kid i perceived to be cool had a book cover with 'smashing pumpkins' on it [i guess he cut up a poster or sth].

oh yeah and i must've seen siva on 120 minutes cause when i saw the vid later i knew i'd seen it before.

Hey Blank, I don't think they're the same show. 120 Minutes was on MTV, and I vaguely remember some other show on Friday nights like Skipgo was talking about. Too many substances still reside on my synapses to recall the name, though. Meh.

Oh yeah, 120... I think for a while they were running that on MTV2, but it seems to have too much to do with music, so they probably didn't.

i was in middle school. i had heard today and disarm, but i really wasn't very music oriented until the 8th grade. MCIS came out and i heard bwbw. bought MCIS, then bought SD then my cousin lent me his "Drown" bootleg with the acoustic show at tower records and i was hooked. so i guess it was bwbw

first song i ever heard them play was Godzilla (acoustic) on some late night "alternative" music show in 91 or so. Never have been able to find a copy of that anywhere, or even find anything about that show. It was on ABC and it came on at midnight on fridays or something. Oh well.

apparently it was called ABC In Concert...

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.smash-pumpkins/msg/bab773f33f85f210

Zero, btw.

Rat In Cage then The Killer In Me

apparently it was called ABC In Concert...

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.smash-pumpkins/msg/bab773f33f85f210

guess my memory was better back then. dude, tracking me down eh? leave it to tcm :)

yeah that was definitely it; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Concert_(TV_series)
and http://movies.nytimes.com/person/263734/Smashing-Pumpkins/filmography

ran in 1991, that's when i remember seeing it. I wonder if there's a copy floating around out there somewhere. TCM?

hm. re-reading my old amsp post, i said i was "excited to see t**** on that show, so i obviously already knew about and liked them then. But even so, I wasn't like, a hugely obsessed freak over them at that point. SD did that to me.

I wonder if there's a copy floating around out there somewhere. TCM?

well this guy claimed to have it: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.smash-pumpkins/msg/428835f2347cc67f

also shows up on this bootlist (unless they were on more than once): http://www.holelive.com/brokenhymen/bootlegtradingpage.html

that's all i could find.

wonder if that guy was just yankin' ol pmack's chain or if he really has it? man i would love to see that again. I wonder if my memory is even close to correct... i definitely remember godzilla, and i'm pretty sure it was acoustic. But it was so long ago. Many dead brain cells ago.

For me it was a live video of them playing Zero that was on an MTV documentary about them. When Tonight Tonight came out it was on MTV UK all the time. I liked the song and video but was getting a bit annoyed with it tbh. I'd seen Today and 1979 occasionally but didn't really take any real notice of them as I wasn't really into music at the time.

One night I was flipping through the channels and came across the documentary. I recognised the band name from Tonight Tonight so I stopped flipping channels for a brief moment. Five second later they had live footage of Zero and I was blown away. I went out and bought MCIS the next day and then Siamese Dream the day after.

Oh and to answer the original question, Ava Adore.

Ava Adore as well. I really couldn't stand them up until then (all though I did think the Tonight, Tonight video was pretty bad ass). Anyway, liked the song, heard a live version on some forgotten website, and my obsession began.

Disarm

Buddy gave me a tape of a tape of a tape of gish, told me to learn a few songs & i was like WTF, I fell asleep listening to this shit.

woah, so Gish was so boring it got you into the band?

i was always a fan of the pumpkins since i heard them back when i was bopping around to nirvana. disarm, cherub rock, 1979, today, the popular singles pretty much, really enjoyed them. i was casually into them for quite some time. when i was a kid i bought gish because i liked the cover and i had money. i liked it, but only listened to it a couple of times. i was too busy catching up with grunge and other alternative music.

but i think i really got into them one night when i was at my friend's place. everyone was asleep, and all i had was my cd player. i felt like listening to something, so i was flipping through my friend's cd wallet. i saw "twlilight to starlight" on one of the blank CDs, didnt know it was the pumpkins at the time. i tried listening to the first song, it was pitch dark, i couldnt see anything, and my headphones were on pretty loud but everyone was fast asleep and the headphones did a good job shielding sound. the first track was scratched kinda bad, so i skipped forward. then bodies came on, and it was all staticy. right when i was about to say "fuck it," bodies revved up, and pretty much blew away my mind. when that song ended, i said to myself, "i have to fucking check out this band."

the rest is history.

I was 11 at my grandmothers house. I was watching MTV and they were doing the video countdown program. The video for BWBW came on and I was absolutely hooked. The song was filled with angst and ass-kicking and the video sealed the deal.

oh yeah the other thing i remember about hearing SD for the first time. i'd started trying to write songs about the summer of 94 and i unknowingly wrote sth that was a total ripoff of cherub rock [which i must've heard on the radio], so when i put the cd on i was like 'damn, so much for that idea'

Honestly.

lull ep - im going crazy did it for me.

It was either the Today video on MTV or Disarm on the radio. I remember hearing Disarm on the way to a St. Louis Cardinals game with my older brother, and one of his friends kept remarking about how much he hated it.

drown...

heard it on the singles soundtrack in the early 90's and thought it outshined everything else on there...

the feedback outro sounded so innovative...

years later, i still love it...

I was 11 at my grandmothers house. I was watching MTV and they were doing the video countdown program. The video for BWBW came on and I was absolutely hooked. The song was filled with angst and ass-kicking and the video sealed the deal.
Like, OMGZ, that's MY story!! I was watching The Box though. The cable channel my grandma warned me not to watch because it was so filthy. They showed the videos for Nirvana's "In Bloom" and Weezer's "Buddy Holly" a billion times a day, too.

i loved that gish tape my friend gave me
but since i was too young to buy music i only heard the SD singles that seemed too "poopy" at the time compared to gish.
only once i was lent PI did i know that this band would always be my favorite.
and fuck the singles, it 'always gonna be about albums and b-sides.

bullet with butterfly wings and muzzle at the same time

spiteface [teaser] got my attention
rudolph the red nosed reindeer reeled me in.

Soma

:erm:
seriously?

yes.
I just wish the vocals were a little louder.

bullet

and fuck the singles, it 'always gonna be about albums

yeah this thread is about albums

Siva. The video debuted on this show called 120 Minutes which aired late Sunday evenings and played "alternative" stuff. I believe I shat myself. It just sounded so... snaky and mystical and perfect. That's the song, or maybe Creep. Or November Rain.

I saw the Siva video on MTV's 120 Minutes too. I remember being totally blown away by it. It was so much more psychedelic than anything I had ever heard before. I got a pen and wrote down the name of the band so I wouldn't forget. Anyone remember "Liquid Television?" that aired just after?

apparently it was called ABC In Concert...

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.smash-pumpkins/msg/bab773f33f85f210

When Smokey Sings for the win!?!?

I saw the Siva video on MTV's 120 Minutes too. I remember being totally blown away by it. It was so much more psychedelic than anything I had ever heard before. I got a pen and wrote down the name of the band so I wouldn't forget. Anyone remember "Liquid Television?" that aired just after?
Hell yeah. And I thought I was badass because I watched Alternative Nation, too. I remember the first time I saw the Siva video as well on 120 Minutes (1996, I guess) and was just so blown away that it was the same group that was responsible for MCIS. Then I became so obsessed with seeing the illusive Siva video again, that I'd keep MTV on like, every night, just to try and catch it.

Oddly enough the first time I actually heard the Pumpkins was, I think, around 1991 or 1992, when I Am One was used as the backing music for the Q102 (a local radio station) television advertisement.

Ava Adore.

CLOSED

:lock:

I heard Zero on that episode of the Simpsons when I was a lot younger, and thought it was devil music.

I was an idiot.

I was a big Jane's Addiction fan and use to tape trade with a guy in chicago and as filler we used to add local bands demos and such just to get to know other bands. So some time in May 89 after Jane's did a 7 show stay out in LA I sent him a couple of tapes and one thing he sent me was the Smashing Pumpkins demo. So the first song was Jennifer Ever and it remains a favorite to this day.

Geek USA