The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples: Greatest Hits (2xLP)

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• Rotten Apples: Greatest Hits, released in November 2001, is The Smashing Pumpkins first official retrospective, assembling a broad cross-section of their most defining singles, B-sides, and rarities from 1991 through 2000. Alongside fan favorites like Cherub Rock, Disarm, 1979, and Tonight, Tonight, the compilation includes the final band recording, Untitled, and the cleaner version of Real Love from Machina II. The curated selection emphasizes consistency, offering both hits and deeper cuts that reveal the evolving textures, ambitions, and contradictions of Billy Corgans vision. The inclusion of a second disc (Judas O) of rarities and outtakes further expands the narrative, illustrating the bands propensity for reinvention and experimentation.

  While no greatest hits collection can entirely encapsulate a bands full range, Rotten Apples is widely considered one of the more coherent and well-conceived anthologies in alt-rock. Its sequencing creates surprising momentum and emotional arc, allowing the familiar singles to breathe anew in context. Critics have noted that it defies some of the usual clichs of best of albums by embracing idiosyncrasy and purposeful editing. For longtime fans and newcomers alike, it remains a compelling entry pointa vantage from which listeners can trace the through-lines, tensions, and high points of The Smashing Pumpkins legacy.

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  It defies normal Greatest Hits logic to actually sound like a proper, coherent album. NME

  Rotten Apples does rough justice to [the bands] history; this double album has all the hits, plus a greater number of rarities and B-sides than customary. CounterCulture

  Its a reasonable attempt at showcasing the bands strongest material all the heavy-weights are featured. Drowned in Sound

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  AllMusic rating: AllMusic users: (533 votes) Read the AllMusic.com review

• Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins Label: Capitol Records, UMe, Virgin Format: LP Units: 2 Country: US Genre: Pop & Rock Style: Alternative Rock, Grunge

• A1 Siva
  A2 Rhinocerous
  A3 Drown
  A4 Cherub Rock
  B1 Today
  B2 Disarm
  B3 Landslide
  B4 Bullet With Butterfly Wings
  B5 1979
  C1 Zero
  C2 Tonight, Tonight
  C3 Eye
  C4 Ava Adore
  C5 Perfect
  D1 The Everlasting Gaze
  D2 Stand Inside Your Love
  D3 Real Love
  D4 Untitled