Nationality: USA?

Band member: lead singer and guitarist Billy? Colgan. James. Iha (guitar)? Darcy. Wretzky (bass) Jimmy. Chamberlain (drummer)?

Style: alternative? Pop/rock? (alternative pop/rock)?

Band introduction:?

Lead guitarist/lead singer/songwriter Billy? Colgan. Billy Cogan is the son of a professional jazz guitarist. He likes "low-level tricks" and "Black Sabbath", and he also likes punk spirit. He wants to make the rough sound of punk music move? Listen to the melody together.

After his parents divorced, 19-year-old Kogan came to Florida. After failing to find the required repertoire, he returned to Chicago on 1988 and met the guitarist James? Zhan Mu period. Iha) and bassist: Dalcy? Wertzky (Darcy Retzky) formed a band called "Broken Pumpkins".

1990, the band recorded the last album glsh, and released and sold 400,000 copies in the summer of 199 1. From then on, happy? Team tour 1 year, the popularity is rising. 1993, it published the album Siam? After Dream, the band really shot to fame. This album entered the charts with number 10. Among them, the single cherubrock? & Little Angel Rock) has become a contemporary pop song.

Mellon's album Curley? And then what? That? Infinite? Sadness is a two-cd record, which is equivalent to four ordinary albums in length. It is also the band's best-selling album. At the same time, his greatest success is to be the top of the charts? About the tour of the military album. 1996, the keyboard player died of excessive waist meat in Manhattan. The drummer was also expelled from the band. 1at the beginning of 997, the band ended its tour and worked for the film amp? lt； Batman and Robin; Recorded two songs. At the same time, they received seven Grammy nominations.

In August, 2000, it was reported that the band's creative thinking had come to an end and it was dissolved after the tour in 2000.

"Six-string bass was earth-shattering, and she burst into tears", so how do you describe it? Pumpkins are a little exaggerated, but this is really my experience of listening to their music for several years. Great. Pumpkin is undoubtedly an important alternative rock orchestra in the 1990s, that is, the era when Grunge music, represented by Nirvana, swept the music scene. Pumpkins suddenly grew out. They created a music style that combined radical rock, gothic rock and heavy metal, and laid a alternative rock world of their own! That famous record Mellon? Curley? And then what? That? Infinite? Sadness is alternative rock's masterpiece, and it is regarded as one of the compulsory courses! ? Ten years, crushing? Through unremitting struggle and efforts, pumpkins are in the legendary Billy? Under the wise leadership of Corgan, it became recognized as the most successful alternative rock band in the 1990s, and made immeasurable contributions to the impact of underground rock on the mainstream music scene! Their music has an overwhelming momentum, and a kind of rock energy comes out in generate all the time, especially the overlapping and interweaving of the powerful guitar and Colgan's signature voice! To our surprise, their music works are still brewing delicate emotions, with a bitter beauty and desolate pain! We have to be moved by it and marvel at this talented wizard Billy? The music that Cogan brought us! ?

Great. Pumpkin * * * released 6 albums:?

1.GISH:1991The band released their first album in the summer after 1990 signed Virgin Records, which played an important role in the wave of junk rock, and the music style was integrated with progress? Rock? Heavy? Metal? Gothic rock? Psychedelic? And dream pop. ?

2. Siam? Dreams:1993,07,27?

This record is for smashing? Pumpkin ranks among the first-class rock cutting-edge albums and has achieved great success in business. The little angel from the album? Rock, Today, and disarm have all become hot songs on the rock list! The music style is still based on strong Noiseke-Rock and Metal-Riff, and has a beautiful rock rhythm! The band started touring, too?

3.pisces? Iscariot: 1994、 10、 1 1？ This is a collection of B-side songs and unpublished songs. ?

4. Mellon Curley? And then what? Infinite? Sadness: 1995, 10, 24? This is undoubtedly an excellent double album. No one expected such a lengthy double album to be so successful. Once released, it will become the champion of the list. The length of the album is equivalent to the sum of four regular records, among which there are countless excellent singles from Grunge? Rock-and-roll rock to touching soft drizzle are all performed exquisitely! But the crushing at the moment? Pumpkins are at the peak of their musical career! Wherever you go, the scenery is infinite! Like zero? Bullets? With what? Butterfly? Wings? Tonight? Tonight? 1979 and other songs with their own merits are frequently on the list! ?

5. Love: 1998, 06, 02? Mellon, a great success? Curley? And then what? Infinite? After Sadnes, the band unexpectedly changed its usual music style and got hurt? Feeling? Music route combining folk songs and electrification! Smash something? For pumpkin, this is an experimental musical work. It can't be said to be a failure, but the result is terrible. Not only the critics scoffed, but also the fans were unwilling to accept it. Record sales are not satisfactory! But I think Adore is a very infectious album. I think it is only in Billy? Colgan's sadness at the loss of his mother will produce such beautiful works! ?

6.MACHINA/The? Machine? Yes? God: 2000, 02 and 09? This is great. Pumpkin's last record, after Adore's Waterloo, they found themselves again, band drummer Jimmy? Chamberlain's return has injected unstoppable vitality into the band, and the music style is once again dominated by majestic heavy metals and radical rock, which makes people feel it all the time? Great. Pumpkin music is so full and powerful, of course, there are images? Standing? Inside? Yours Typical smash likes love? Pumpkin-like love songs-from sad whispers to extremely shocking shouts and hurried drums. Generally speaking, this is a masterpiece of nuance, smashing? Pumpkin completed his last musical journey and drew a satisfactory full stop! ?

Band reorganization and release of new album;

In 2005, when Billy Cogan (Billy? Corgan) is releasing his solo album The Embrace of the Future (The? Future? On the day of the hug, I stubbornly announced: "I want my band back, as well as my songs and my dreams." How many people still have expectations? Without guitarist James Iha (James? Iha), without bassist Darcy Retzky (D'Arcy? Wretzky) or Melissa Orff de Moore (Melissa? Auf？ der？ Maur), in the face of this half-broken pumpkin (smash? Pumpkin) band, wise people will clearly know that Cogan's speech is more like cheering for his solo album. In fact, Kogan has been trying to draw people's attention back to himself for several years after the breakup of the broken pumpkin, but after witnessing the untimely personal development of the dead swan band (Zwan) and Kogan, fans increasingly feel that the real broken pumpkin can only belong to the era of "junk rock" in the 1990s. ?

Out of nostalgia or ambition, broken pumpkins were reorganized, as Kogan said. People no longer care who the members around Kogan are, or whether they can bring back the music of broken pumpkins. The only expectation may be that this time it will not become another scam. On July 10, 2007, Broken Pumpkin released Zeitgeist, which is the first new album of the band since its dissolution in 2000. I took great pains to the album itself, and I also made some small articles on the release of the album. Band I released three different versions of Zeitgeist, and each version has different tracks, which is even more maddening. From heaven "(death & gt from where? Above); In the version purchased by Target, it is the spirit of the times. In other places (including digital products retail stores), there are no extra tracks. This arrangement is nothing more than letting fans spend more money to listen to all the songs, but Cogan may have neglected the power of the Internet, and fans can even listen to all the songs without spending a penny. This promotion method obviously does not conform to the current "spirit of the times". This comeback can be regarded as a dinner carefully prepared by Cogan for nostalgic fans. Such careful preparation is first reflected in the outer packaging of the album. Just taking German "Zeitgeist" as the title of the album, we can see Cogan's good intentions, and the firm Statue of Liberty on the scarlet background on the album cover makes the album full of encouragement and political color. ?

The new album is obviously different from the previous Broken Pumpkin, and the theme of the song has changed. After singing enough personal entanglements and pains, Cogan finally turned the topic to sensitive political topics. The change of music theme may bring different experiences to fans, and fans can also feel different broken pumpkins in such a "mature" way. Cogan tried to evoke memories of fans with a brand-new positioning. The opening song of the album Doomsday? Clock) was included in the soundtrack of the recently released movie Transformers. This song was eager to make fans nervous from the beginning. The drummer Jimmy chamberlin, an old member of the broken pumpkin (Jimmy? Chamberlin) let fans relive the simple drums of the "broken pumpkin" era, and Cogan's squeaking sound, which seems to never change, can give fans a reason to continue listening. Broken pumpkins have always been Kogan's magic. Like a leader, he brought broken pumpkins into a glorious track. Now Kogan is trying to repeat yesterday's glory by himself. It must be admitted that under such a strong situation, he has made some achievements. Sunglasses? Yes? Black) fans can relive the explosive power of "Broken Pumpkin Modern Man", and the new guitarist Jeff Schroeder (Jeff? Schroeder) performed James Iha's explosive charm in Zero Just Right; And bleeding orchids? That? Zhong Kegen turned a tangled and painful face to the fans who had been touched by it, so that the empathy-like time and space mistakes can also make many people exchange feelings again; If you choose a song that can completely solidify your memory, "Exactly (My Love Is)" (which is it? That? Way? (mine? Love? Do your part, and you can fully recall the excitement and dreams when you heard Adore or 1979 one summer more than ten years ago. In fact, everyone who has experienced that "broken pumpkin" should have their own orange Jin Meng. ?

If there is a suspected return, there will be a lame freshness. As a pioneer single, tarantula makes people lose their way. Is this the broken pumpkin that Cogan brought back? Besides Kogan's singing, what else can open the memory of broken pumpkins? This is just like the music form of an ordinary new metal band, which is somewhat worrying. Kogan's repeated phrase "We are dazzling stars" in Starz can make people feel a little helpless in Kogan's heart. Both the flying star and the dark star are staged in front of Kogan, and the huge gap created by the times has left the same hidden pain in fans and his heart. Nowadays, when Cogan walks up to the fans with scarlet "revolutionary" dreams, his actions are somewhat reminiscent of using an American idiot (American? Idiot) Green Day (Green? Japanese band, but how many people can get used to the imitation of broken pumpkins? It turns out that this attempt was not successful, and the song "Unity" which is the most appropriate theme of the album? States) tore the fast tone of the whole album beyond recognition in a lengthy guitar solo; For god and country (for? God? And then what? The abrupt keyboard sounds and trembling songs in the countryside make it difficult for people to think deeply, because thinking habitually believes that when Kogan tends to calm down, it should be the time to indulge in self-struggle; And bring light (bring? That? Strange sadness and mourning in the light will once again suppress the hope that is about to float. ?

Cogan is destined to bear the harsh eyes of the outside world, because he will bring back not only a band, but a shining era. In all fairness, although Billy Cogan brought the untimely "spirit of the times", he didn't spoil the aura of the broken pumpkin era, just like the streamlined guitar and clear drums in Never Lost still have the magic of breaking pumpkins, but the broken pumpkins like drugs at the beginning have stood in the distant rear, and the outline has begun to blur, almost embedded in the depths of memory. When Cogan wants to continue with the creative formula of broken pumpkin, for those fans who are still unwilling, we can play a substitution game, replace the broken pumpkin in Spirit of the Times with Billy Cogan, and try to accept another personal attempt of Cogan instead of the lonely return of broken pumpkin.