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Monuments to an Elegy released in the US on December 9, 2014! The European release was on December 5, and it first streamed on iTunes Radio starting December 2. It is the ninth studio album from The Smashing Pumpkins and was the final part of the broader Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project, as the subsequent Day for Night album was cancelled. The album spawned four singles: "Being Beige", "One and All", "Drum + Fife" and "Run2Me". The album cover is an image of a bronze lion statue outside the Art Institute of Chicago, photographed by Billy Corgan.

By this time, Corgan and Jeff Schroeder were the only two official members of the band, with Mike Byrne and Nicole Fiorentino no longer working with the group in any capacity. During the May 2014 studio sessions, Corgan told Schroeder "we really need to get someone like Tommy to play on this song" (which song is unclear), and Schroeder simply replied "well, why don’t we reach out to him?" On May 7, it was announced that Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe would be playing drums on all nine of the album's tracks.

To the suggestion that Monuments is "a very Smashing Pumpkins-like album", Corgan responded, "I think people are hearing an emotional quality that reminds them of something in the past [Siamese Dream]. By extension, they assume I'm trying to get back there. But the truth is the opposite – I stopped trying to avoid it. I went off to have this Hermann Hesse-style spiritual journey through different sounds and subcultures. And then I came home, and allowed myself to make the music I might naturally make."

Monuments earned positive reviews. "Nine ass-booting pop metal bullets with SR-71 Blackbird wings," marvelled Classic Rock. Rolling Stone's Kory Grow described it as a "deep dive into synth pop", and "a surprise" yet authentic because of "Corgan's characteristically acid vocals". It peaked at #33 on the Billboard 200, #2 on both the US Alternative and Independent charts, and at #5 on the Rock chart. In the UK, it reached #59 overall and at #3 on the Indie chart.

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Monuments to an Elegy released in the US on December 9, 2014! The European release was on December 5, and it first streamed on iTunes Radio starting December 2. It is the ninth studio album from The Smashing Pumpkins and was the final part of the broader Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project, as the subsequent Day for Night album was cancelled. The album spawned four singles: "Being Beige", "One and All", "Drum + Fife" and "Run2Me". The album cover is an image of a bronze lion statue outside the Art Institute of Chicago, photographed by Billy Corgan.

By this time, Corgan and Jeff Schroeder were the only two official members of the band, with Mike Byrne and Nicole Fiorentino no longer working with the group in any capacity. During the May 2014 studio sessions, Corgan told Schroeder "we really need to get someone like Tommy to play on this song" (which song is unclear), and Schroeder simply replied "well, why don’t we reach out to him?" On May 7, it was announced that Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe would be playing drums on all nine of the album's tracks.

To the suggestion that Monuments is "a very Smashing Pumpkins-like album", Corgan responded, "I think people are hearing an emotional quality that reminds them of something in the past [Siamese Dream]. By extension, they assume I'm trying to get back there. But the truth is the opposite – I stopped trying to avoid it. I went off to have this Hermann Hesse-style spiritual journey through different sounds and subcultures. And then I came home, and allowed myself to make the music I might naturally make."

Monuments earned positive reviews. "Nine ass-booting pop metal bullets with SR-71 Blackbird wings," marvelled Classic Rock. Rolling Stone's Kory Grow described it as a "deep dive into synth pop", and "a surprise" yet authentic because of "Corgan's characteristically acid vocals". It peaked at #33 on the Billboard 200, #2 on both the US Alternative and Independent charts, and at #5 on the Rock chart. In the UK, it reached #59 overall and at #3 on the Indie chart.

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Monuments to an Elegy released December 9, 2014! Classic Rock called it "nine ass-booting pop metal bullets with SR-71 Blackbird wings" while Rolling Stone praised "Corgan's characteristically acid vocals". It peaked at #33 in the US and #59 in the UK. https://spcodex.wiki/wiki/Monuments_to_an_Elegy

Monuments is 9th studio album from SP and the final part of the broader Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project. The album spawned four singles, lead by "Being Beige". The cover is an image of a bronze lion statue outside the Art Institute of Chicago, photographed by Billy Corgan.

By this time Corgan & Jeff Schroeder were the only two official members of SP. When Corgan told Schroeder they needed to get someone like Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe to play drums, Schroeder simply replied "well, why don’t we reach out to him?" Lee obliged and played on all 9 tracks

"I think people are hearing an emotional quality that reminds them of something in the past [Siamese Dream]. By extension, they assume I'm trying to get back there. But the truth is the opposite – I stopped trying to avoid it. I went off to have this Hermann Hesse-style spiritual journey through different sounds and subcultures. And then I came home, and allowed myself to make the music I might naturally make."

Corgan explained the album did not intentionally sound like earlier SP: "I stopped trying to avoid it. I went off to have this Hermann Hesse-style spiritual journey through different sounds and subcultures. I came home, and allowed myself to make the music I might naturally make"