The Smashing Pumpkins: 1991-2000 Greatest Hits Video Collection

I adore the Pumpkins, this just goes to show how successful the band really was, and hopefully will be again as they have recently re-united and are currently recording a new album for those people who haven't been informed.

Although the 'Gish' videos are low-budget, I love the dark and dingy effect it portrays, which unifies perfectly with their psychedelic and heavy grunge style of music.

Siamese Dream is really superb, it continues to build sonic themes with the vibrant psychedelic colours in videos such as 'Cherub Rock' and 'Today'. This then contrasts with the melancholy conveyed through 'Disarm' video, which I love.

After Siamese Dream, the videos begin to merge perfectly with music, they are real masterpieces. They show how diverse the Pumpkins really are with their music.

All of these videos echo the meaning of their songs excellently. It's definitely worth buying whether you're a Pumpkin fan or not.

billy corgan is a genius (not corigan you t**t, if your going to insult a man who's changed rock forever then at least get his name right)its understandable that not everyone will appreciate his voice but its always tinged with emotion and its sure better than the monotonous drone of most new creed like bands our there. i for one understand why smashing pumpkins were so critically acclaimed and why this video and all of there albums sold so well; its because the albums were so well crafted with epic ballads and multi facetted rock. the stuff is definately not unoriginal as has been suggested, its quite the opposite. every song is unique and the band was always striving to experimint with new sounds. do yourself a favour kids check out the smashing pumpkins first three albums (gish, simese dream and mellon collie and the infinte sadness) and if you are any kind of self respecting rock band then you won't be dissapinted. oh and this video is good value too, the guys rock even harder live.

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!

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 wise leader of a band once known as The Smashing Pumpkins once said that you can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as The Beatles, or be original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off. This is true to some extent, but Billy Corgan, the mastermind behind SP, created music beyond what others at the time were doing. The only band who did something far more different at the time of the Pumpkins was Primus, a bass-based group. But nobody put on a better show.

In 1995, the Pumpkins reached their peak with the release of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, a name taken from a pun game the band played, and the first single, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings," which placed them on the top of the rock kingdom, only to be brought down by the Britneys of the world a few years later.

In this DVD, Billy and the gang have captured all of the emotion you can into a video. Commentary included with the videos is an awesome bonus for the diehards (like me.) The only DVDs with more energy and emotion you can find are live.

If you like this, I suggest the Vieuphoria DVD, a collection of live shows from the Siamese Dream era. It captures all of the emotion and energy of Billy Corgan and his cohorts.