{"product_id":"the-smashing-pumpkins-rotten-apples-greatest-hits-cd","title":"The Smashing Pumpkins - Rotten Apples: Greatest Hits [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eRotten Apples: Greatest Hits gathers a decade of The Smashing Pumpkins onto one CD, the band's own summing-up after they called it quits in 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased in 2001, the set traces Billy Corgan's restless band from the fuzz-drenched alternative rock of their early albums through the arena-sized ambition of the mid-nineties and the colder electronic textures that followed. Few groups of the era swung so wildly between tenderness and noise, and fewer made both sound this inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hits arrive in rough chronological order, so you can hear the evolution happen. Cherub Rock still opens like a wall of guitars breaking through cloud cover, while Today hides a darker lyric inside one of the sunniest riffs of the decade. Tonight, Tonight sweeps in on strings worthy of a film score, and 1979 rides a looping, hazy groove that sounds like suburban nostalgia caught on tape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLater tracks catch the band's final, more electronic phase, with a then-new song serving as a parting shot before the lights went down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor newcomers it is the cleanest way in, and for long-time fans it is a reminder of how much ground one band covered in barely ten years. Turn it up, then turn it up again, and let the guitars do the talking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57478953271601,"sku":"724381131626","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/1200x1200bb_d9e25168-9b74-4c62-835c-5f4ef5aaf270.jpg?v=1794395987","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/the-smashing-pumpkins-rotten-apples-greatest-hits-cd","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}