The Smashing Pumpkins: 1991-2000 Greatest Hits Video Collection

This is a great movie. I have the dvd. It was the best thing i have ever bought. It has 18 videos and a 15 min. short film. It also includes commentary and some have outtakes and extended versions. The commentary is given by the maker of the video, Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlain, and James Iha. There may be others but I don't know who they are. Any Smashing Pumpkins fan would be proud of this movie. If you are any sort of fan you should buy this. You will not regret it. And to those who don't believe Smashing Pumpkins are good you just don't know good music when you hear it and I would love to hear you try and play half as good. It's a must buy video.

I'm not a big fan of any music groups, but I have always enjoyed a lot of the Pumpkins' songs. Generally the music videos on this DVD are excellent quality, taking advantage of DVD's capabilities (video typically utilizes the full 720 x 480, at high data rates reaching around 7-8 Megabits). The DVD is filled as far as it will go, reaching almost 8 gigabytes. Although I'm not a hard-core obsessed fan, I really enjoy this DVD! The videos are typically brilliant, and a few of them are some of the best videos ever made (1979, Tonight Tonight, come to mind). To tell you the truth: I have never purchased any Smashing Pumpkins albums before, I had only downloaded a few mp3's. If you have some good speakers hooked up to your DVD player, I think this DVD would be worth the money even if there wasn't any video - the 20 audio tracks alone are great. I highly recommend this!

even though i have all of the pumpkins' videos on my computer, the commentary is very much worth the dvd, and having bought the dvd makes me feel as if some how i've contributed to keeping the memory of the pumpkins alive even after the demise of the band.

This DVD is compiled with every music video the Smashing Pumpkins ever did, except the one from the Batman & Robin soundtrack, "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning". The Pumpkins is one of greatest bands of all time, with their unique inspiration and daring approaches to music. In general, their songs and art and photographs in their album booklets have always had a theme of the complicated happy and sad concepts of nostalgia, which I find very unique, being inspired by personal past, values, and so on. The lyrics have always been deeply poetic, and Corgan's voice is unique and distinctly recognizable, though you either love it or hate it. Iha's guitar has always been new sounds to my ears, and has always connected very well with D'arcy and Auf Der Maur's great bass playing. And Chamberlin is a god of drums, with his interesting choice of paces with a lot of the songs (especially in "Tonight, Tonight"). The videos have had daring approaches that don't leave the themes of their own albums. They've always tried to be different from the usual MTV videos and did a good job with that, like "Ava Adore" and "Tonight, Tonight". What's interesting is that they don't leave their past videos alone either ("1979" seems to have a sequel, "Perfect"). Pumpkin fans will love this DVD. However, some of the images in their videos are incredibly disturbing ("Try, Try, Try") though it is a very powerful video with a message to tell. And it includes the short film "Try" as well.

Anyway, if you like the Pumpkins to any degree, I highly recommend this DVD. You'd have to be biased against them to not like at least one video, in which many have unique artistic approaches and inspiration that follows well with their incredible music.

The Smashing Pumpkins are definitely one of the best bands of the 90's. Their lyrics are always entertaining and meaningful, and their songs just sound good! This movie is a great movie for the band. It's basically a library of their best songs/videos. And are their videos ever entertaining. With the exception of one video, all their videos break away from the usual rock band display of 'live' concerts, and smashing guitars. Instead their videos are very entertaining, each of them telling a story...which sometimes seem to have no link to the meaning of the song! None the less, the videos are very fun to watch. Other then the videos, the only other feature are commentary by the band, and a short film called 'Try'. The short film is a bit disturbing, but it carries a message. Anyways, all in all, I would give this film an 8.9 out of 10, and recommend it to any Smashing Pumpkins fan.