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Certain Songs #2275: The Smashing Pumpkins – “Tonight, Tonight”

January 24, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Year: 1995

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And so Siamese Dream was a smashing success, making it to #10 on the U.S. charts and #4 in the U.K. charts, and Billy Corgan became the latest of that early-90s trend of reluctant rock stars, who railed against the success they were having. All I can say is thank the gods for Oasis, who blew that shit right out of the water, but in the years before that, it was a real trend: artists selling millions of records getting really pissed off at the people who bought their records, even as they were taking full advantage of the artistic freedom all of those sales brought them.

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