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<div style="font-size:105%; text-align:center; margin-bottom:15px" class="desktop-only">[[The Smashing Pumpkins]] wiki that combines the autonomous growth of [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] with the power and passion of the [[SPCodex:The Family|SP family]].<br/>[[SPCodex:To-do list|Help us]] build the world's largest knowledge base for The Smashing Pumpkins and related acts! | <div style="font-size:105%; text-align:center; margin-bottom:15px" class="desktop-only">[[The Smashing Pumpkins]] wiki that combines the autonomous growth of [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] with the power and passion of the [[SPCodex:The Family|SP family]].<br/>[[SPCodex:To-do list|Help us]] build the world's largest knowledge base for The Smashing Pumpkins and related acts! | ||
Revision as of 03:40, 5 August 2020
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Welcome to SPCodex
The Smashing Pumpkins wiki
Help us build the world's largest knowledge base for The Smashing Pumpkins and related acts!
We currently have 4,327 articles, detailing 1,319 songs across 149 albums and 85 studio sessions.
Album of the week
Zeitgeist is the seventh studio album from The Smashing Pumpkins and the first following the 2005 reunion. With 12-hour shifts nearly all week, Jimmy Chamberlin described the sessions as a "long laborious process to greatness", and also served as a producer for the first time with the band. It was recorded entirely with analog equipment and media, using the same 24-track tape recorder as on Mellon Collie. It stands as the most overtly political work released by the band or Billy Corgan himself, which Chamberlin attributes to their interest in the music and life of Fela Kuti. It is also among their heavier releases. "People wanted to hear some energy, that they didn't want us rolling over and crying in our milk", wrote Corgan, while Chamberlin observed "the world is ready for something with some balls behind it." The releases came in six colors, each with varying material and packaging. The album peaked at #1 in Canada and New Zealand, at #2 on the Billboard 200, and was ranked on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.
Song of the day
"Gossamer" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins that was an Zeitgeist outtake. No studio recording has been made available, but it was performed regularly during the summer leg of the Zeitgeist tour, and a common feature of the band's live sets up to 2010. Its debut at the first Paris show in 2007 indicates that it was written during the Zeitgeist sessions, but this is not confirmed. The song duration typically ranges from 15 to 35 minutes. It was recorded live at the Fillmore and was released on the DVD If All Goes Wrong.
Did you know...
- ...that former touring Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Mark Stoermer was an additional executive producer on the live action music video for "Wyttch"?
- ...that the Pumpkins' July 17, 1998 performance was a free show that drew upwards of 125,000 fans, and that the mayor declared July 17 "Smashing Pumpkins Day"?
- ...that the cover song "Never Let Me Down Again" was recorded in 1993 at BBC Radio One by request of bassist D'arcy Wretzky?
- ...that the cost of recording Siamese Dream was $250,000 over budget? Virgin Records grew impatient with the costs and being behind schedule, but the band refused to cut corners if it meant they had to compromise the sound.
- ...that a music video was recorded for "I Am One" in 1992, but because the band was unhappy with the results, it wasn't released until 2001 on the Greatest Hits Video Collection?
In the news
April 27, 2024
April 26, 2024
- Kiki Wong is confirmed as the new guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins.
April 24, 2024
- The NWA announces that Billy Corgan's new 8-episode unscripted series, Billy Corgan's Adventures in Carnyland will debut on The CW on May 14.
April 17, 2024
- Jeff Schroeder announces his new project Glass Bow with Vice Cooler, Andrea Wasse and Emily Retsas. They open up for Blushing on July 6.
More fan sites
- SPFC (Smashing Pumpkins Fan Collaborative) – One of the oldest and most comprehensive databases. Much of the data on SPCodex was imported from SPFC.
- SP Freaks – The de facto official museum for The Smashing Pumpkins.
- Netphoria – A very active discussion forum for all things Smashing Pumpkins.
- Landslide Omnipedia – Unique encyclopedic content and host for Act IV.
- SPLRA (Smashing Pumpkins Live Recording Association) – A wiki dedicated to documenting live performances.