The soundtrack was reissued in a 2×CD and 2×LP edition on. This song is among the earliest in The Smashing Pumpkins catalog, recorded in 1992 for the motion picture soundtrack Singles.The film takes place in Seattle and heralds the coming of that city’s grunge music, using the local scene as a persistent backdrop the personal and professional turmoil of a bunch of twenty-somethings. The album has been certified two times platinum by the RIAA in the United States. It also features contributions from Minneapolis' Paul Westerberg, Chicago's The Smashing Pumpkins, and past Seattle artists Jimi Hendrix and The Lovemongers. “We’re still playing guitars,” Corgan enthused to Apple Music, “and we’re still little kids chasing the riff. Singles is the original soundtrack album to the 1992 film Singles, primarily focused on the ascendant Seattle grunge scene of the early 1990s. NO SUN soundly re-established the telepathic connection and arena-sized ambitions that still exist among Corgan and his original accomplices. But with Iha and Chamberlin back in the fold, 2018’s taut and effervescent SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT VOL.
However, Chamberlin’s departure prior to 1998’s synth-pop curveball Adore presaged a long series of shake ups and breakups: If the Pumpkins were seen as Corgan’s baby before their initial 2000 disbandment, then post-hiatus releases like 2012’s Oceania (featuring no other founding members) all but confirmed it. That vision was blown up to widescreen proportions with 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, a wildly ambitious double album that spanned symphonic lullabies, metal ragers, and New Wave reveries, yielding a bounty of teen-angst anthems that elevated Corgan into a hero for zeros around the world. But as much as Siamese Dream consolidated the Pumpkins’ strengths-the swirling twin-guitar attack of Billy Corgan and James Iha the cyclonic rhythms of bassist D’arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin-it also offered the first real glimpse of Corgan’s auteurist ambitions via “Disarm,” a dramatic orchestral ballad offering a nakedly emotional antidote to the ironic alt-rock of the day. Though the Chicago group had formed in 1988 in a thick cloud of grunge grime and shoegaze haze, their second album cleared the path for them to become the next Nirvana-just a little more enamored with Queen and ELO than the Pixies and Melvins. Billy Corgan and his Chicago cohorts arrived just as the alternative sea-swell was crashing ashore in the early 1990s, doing so with shiny, super-produced alt rock far removed from the Pacific Nort. Join Napster and access full-length songs on your phone, computer or home audio device.
Their first albums were the most successful: slow, sad and emotionally violent - but beyond and above all - full of tenderness. Listen to albums and songs from Smashing Pumpkins. And - subjective as I am - the video to this song is their best ever - even if it was cheaply shot. If, as Sonic Youth famously proclaimed, 1991 was the year punk broke, then 1993 was the year prog struck back-thanks to Smashing Pumpkins’ sophomore blockbuster, Siamese Dream. 'Today' is the song that made me fall in love with the music of 'The Smashing Pumpkins'.