{"product_id":"the-smashing-pumpkins-gish-cd","title":"The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eGish is where The Smashing Pumpkins first cracked the sky open, and this remastered CD edition brings back their 1991 debut album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded in Madison, Wisconsin with producer Butch Vig shortly before he worked on Nevermind, Gish arrived just ahead of the alternative rock explosion. Billy Corgan's band already had a sound all their own, mixing heavy psychedelic guitars, dreamy shoegaze textures and a little prog ambition into something that felt both heavy and fragile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Am One kicks things off with a thundering riff and Jimmy Chamberlin's frantic, jazz-trained drumming, a sign of just how much power this young band had. Siva follows with towering, distorted guitars, while Rhinoceros slowly builds from a dreamy haze to a full-on swell of noise. Daydream, sung by bassist D'arcy Wretzky, closes the album on a gentler, more hypnotic note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlayed next to the polished blockbusters that followed, Gish sounds raw and urgent, and that is exactly its charm. This remastered edition sharpens the detail without sanding off any of the grit, so the quiet passages shimmer and the loud ones still roar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans who know them mainly through Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie, this is the essential starting point, the moment a Chicago band first showed what they could do.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57478954713393,"sku":"5099967928828","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/1200x1200bb_ef7c7705-f9a4-4a00-bea5-98bebdca1c4d.jpg?v=1794395995","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/the-smashing-pumpkins-gish-cd","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}