Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock REACTION & REVIEW! FIRST TIME HEARING!

Smashing Pumpkins Fans.....FEELIN' YOU!!! Tonight we're coming back to Smashing Pumpkins, with a song entitled "Cherub Rock". How's this one gonna go? Only one way to find out...
Come on in, enjoy the show...I'll see you inside.
Scoring System Guide
10 = Perfection (Unobtainable)
9.0 - 9.9 = Awesome, Amazing
8.0 - 8.9 = Great
7.0 - 7.9 = Really Good
6.0 - 6.9 = Pretty Good
5.0 - 5.9 = O.k.
4.0 - 4.9 = Not So Good
3.0 - 3.9 = Pretty Bad
2.0 - 2.9 = Really Bad
1.0 - 1.9 = Horrible, Awful
0.0 - 0.9 = A Travesty, An Affront To Nature
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[@gmon78]

Love the solo in this song. Gives me chills too but absolutely in a good way!

[@halfalligator6518]

Corgan is way more of a guitar hero than I think people give him credit for. Yeah i know he's loved by fans... but he's actually a phenomenal riff machine. Those Hendrix solo's are crazy too. Even when he does something "simple" he injects with so much swagger that it grooves hard.

[@joshuafannin6356]

This is Definitely of their best tracks hands down

[@revelator3882]

I had this song stuck in my head for months while I was in boot camp. No idea why... "LET ME OUT!" Yep, no clue.

[@ericflaherty4668]

Billy Corgan is a huge Rush fan and admits to their influence in his early works. Spot on man

[@mikeblanchard7579]

False

[@ericflaherty4668]

@@mikeblanchard7579 I'll just leave this here then: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnfUnnulg5WWe9E

[@mikeblanchard7579]

Ain't nobody got time for that

[@davezedman]

@@mikeblanchard7579 stop trolling

[@mikeblanchard7579]

@@davezedman pppffff.....facts bro

[@ericflaherty4668]

D'Arcy their bassist is the backup singer, and would add to those "breathy" moments in the vocals.

[@X1xone]

I came here to say the same thing. It was probably her backing vocals coming through a little more.

[@PastorOfMuppets74]

It's both harmonizing but Billy's voice is a bit louder. In concert, D'arcy would take that whole part. That's one reason no SP reunion. D'arcy feels betrayed by Iha and Corgan. W/out her, no good SP sound. Great observation!

[@cass2303]

At the time

[@seelenwinter6662]

I liked her see-through tops most...^^

[@spencerific93]

Two things sell this song for me: 1 - The driving drums. They really carry the song. 2 - The rhythm guitar tone. Billy Corgan is using a Fender Strat with Lace Sensor pickups that temper the usual Strat quack and allow a bit more sustain. Combined with some fuzz, they really give the guitar on this album a unique sound that is both dirty and smooth. I personally like the guitar solo. It does have a very noisy sound, but it fits the song IMO.

[@seanwright1749]

I live the screechy guitar Drown is my favorite song of theirs 4 minutes of vocals.... 4 minutes of screech and bombast.

[@heyskipj]

Def one of the simpler SP songs. Radio-friendly. Much like Soundgarden SP love to play with time sigs, feedback, distortion... Jimmy Chamberlain, the drummer. Get to know him. He's the driver. Like in Geek U.S.A. Hope you dive into their rabbit hole! Much feels. Thank you Amosayek!

[@ianfranks541]

I love this song. Reminds me of much simpler times. Not a care in the world just jamming with your friends riding around town at 2am. Not getting into trouble just enjoying some good rock and roll. These kids now days don’t know what they’re missing.

[@separator94]

It's THE Smashing Pumpkins. That's what all their albums say. That's also how the band has always referred to themselves.

[@blanewilliams5960]

Yay, more Pumpkins!, I really like this song, IMO simple doesn't mean it isn't good and doing something complicated doesn't make it great if it isn't enjoyable to listen to( like some of Dream Theater's stuff for example). Just my opinion and taste. Thanks David, I agree with you on the solo. Peace.

[@SantiagoAQA]

I only listen this song because I love the solo xD

[@chrisdriver7776]

Haha... I think the solo is wicked too.

[@laurabuer4714]

When I left my dad's vinyl collection in the early 90's, Smashing Pumpkins were my first love. And I *really* loved them. I'm in the Tool Army now, but am going back to SP since their announcement of their 2024 tour. I've been studying music since 1989. I absolutely love complicated tunes.

[@ClavisRa]

All time iconic solo for me! Very unique composition to it. The melodic moments are great hooks, it's passionate, but tortured, squealing high and growling low. Iconic. This is my all time favourite car jam to freak out to (just ahead of Radiohead's The Bends). Also, the guitar sound is all time iconic the way he layers the guitars, at the time pioneering a sound. But, yes, the rhythms, those subdivisions actually start right from the first measure of the song! And that rhythm really is the riff, always pumps me up!

[@antonballard2212]

I have to disagree with you about the solo - its absolutely amazing and it's what makes me want to listen to - remember an imperfection to some is beyond perfection for others - he didn't play that solo to be perfect he played it like he felt it and that is perfection to me - love your channel!

[@LorriSanga]

Great song, 90s trip.

[@penichemorales77]

🤣🤣 your reaction on the solo 🤣🤣🤣

[@paulolapa3040]

Nice review. Still waiting for the "Mayonaise" review. The best song of this album.

[@DocRobert]

Totally agree. Mayonnaise and Silver**k, in my opinion, are like the two poles of the album. The calmest to the moodiest. Brilliant.

[@adrock1011]

Just my random comment to say we love dh… thanks my friend…✌️

[@THEDavidHeretic]

FEELIN" YOU adrock!!!

[@jakefromstatefarm1405]

I'm not a huge fan of the band, but man their hits are great. A 90s essential 👍

[@logan-wq5ub]

imo smashing pumpkins are the band that represents the 90s sonically, nirvana may have gave everyone the style but something about smashing pumpkins just gives them that vibe.

[@DocRobert]

You’re doing so many SP reactions from the Siamese Dream album, I’d really like to hear your take on the song Silverfuck. It’s one of their most dynamic songs… the quietest quiets contrasted with the rawest louds.

[@RSfandude]

Love this song, damn i miss the 90s

[@FakeBeatle538]

Watching them play this riff live in tandem is chilling

[@mitchbuchannon6637]

Hope you having a great day David

[@grantdowling8550]

The synchronized sub units as you called them happened three times actually in the song! In the very beginning in the buildup, the buildup right before the solo, and the buildup to cap the closure.

[@ericcollette5577]

The solo was badass and wanted more!

[@davidebonaveri1360]

Some great rock songs from Pumpkins are: Siva Bury me Quiet Zero Bullet with butterfly wings An ode to no one XYU The Everlasting Gaze

[@Hixlol]

Jimmy is a fucking beast on drums

[@ndesdsadfd]

"Silverfuck" and "Geek USA" (which you already listened to I think) are probably my favourites from that (imo amazing) album.

[@brucenadeau5920]

Some days you make me wonder brotha, not knowing this radio friendly song! lol.... A band I LOVED from the start of their career as an Indie group!

[@THEDavidHeretic]

Remember, I didn't listen to the radio in the 90's really. I was into Prog and Jazz....and no radio stations were playing Dream Theater or Chick Corea Elektrik Band. I had to listen to them on CD.

[@brucenadeau5920]

@@THEDavidHeretic I guess we scored in Canada with CBC radio. My intro to jazz was via that at 11 and I joined band, mainly alto and tenor sax, a little baritone at times. My sister was a radio junkie and Top 40, so I got exposed to crap you were saved from not listening to the radio lol

[@Spetsnaz--21]

First half of the solo is amazing, second half goes a little tame I agree. Takes some time to get use to but I still love it.

[@thetheRedundant]

wtf, you’re the first person I’ve ever seen who didn’t like that solo.

[@THEDavidHeretic]

There's a very good chance that I'm the only honest person on KZbin who actually said what he thought. Remember, most reactors say they love everything they listen to, so they'll get more clicks and likes. My integrity is worth more to me than that, so I choose to be honest and say what I really think.

[@StoneShards]

A lovely fuzzy drone of a song! Add "Pumpkin style", and you got something very listenable. Back in the day this was one of their hits. The band was capable of producing genuinely unique product! Yeah! "The world is vam-pire!"...hehehe...The solo was perfect for the song, scraping the fuzz off the song a little bit...like waking up from a fuzzy sleep to the danger of a new day--just a little painful. hahaha...7.8 is a great score for this little ditty.

[@Wither81]

Nailed your score. Good rating.

[@meowtattoo7902]

the voice of D'arcy basist

[@patron40silver]

🎃s MAID lots of really good music. 💙D'arcy

[@hardcorechristopher9174]

Good

[@aidenferry23]

hey man sonic youth would be right up your alley for an alt/art rock review. cross the breeze is pretty damn heavy

[@matthewclark1785]

The solo’s the best part

[@irishpaul3129]

I predicted your score on this one exactly - for once!

[@ifearless1]

My favorite song from smashing pumpkins.

[@riainmcclanahan916]

Listen to soma and starla but I prefer the live starla front 1994 in the Fillmore auditorium because he shreds on that solo and it's got such great trippy scenery with the venue🙌

[@ChrisSchroder-lu8yn]

Dave Dave Dave ......

[@mmsizzlak]

I wanted to marry D'arcy the first time I saw them in concert back in the day.... She looked like a china doll playing bass and I'm a sucker for female bassists... Billy does that with the guitar on purpose lol... He LITERALLY wanted to make an album of "squeals" just to piss ppl off... This was emo before emo if I'm being objective because it was what angry and depressed teenage gen x'ers felt like in the 90's... Their double CD Mellon collie and the Infinite Sadness was my album..."tonight" and "bullet with butterfly wings" if you ever care to listen

[@Jamus1975]

Question...you look to be 40+ years old, same as me, we're you in a coma from 1991 - 2000 ? How have you not heard this song? It was everywhere and the Pumpkins, not kinks, were everywhere.

[@THEDavidHeretic]

I was very heavy into Jazz and Prog in the 90's and early 2000's, so I avoided everything else like the plague.

[@garysimonson1135]

I'm not questioning you, but explain to me how you never heard this song before. Weren't you in your late teens or 20s when this came out in '93? I feel like it was everywhere at that time.

[@THEDavidHeretic]

I was very heavy into Jazz and Prog Rock from 1990 until early 2000's. I avoided bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Smashing Pumpkins like the plague.

[@garysimonson1135]

@@THEDavidHeretic Interesting - well, it's very cool that you've opened your mind to bands you had previously avoided!

[@jonathandufern7421]

Jimmy Chamberlain is a phenomenal drummer. D’arcy is amazing too. I have a hard time with Billy Corgan. I dated a woman who knew a guy that helped record it and produce it. Billy couldn’t play for garbage and the album took 9 months to record. Crazy. Still an amazing band and songs and albums… for the most part. Edit: Was talking about Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness.

[@Bowseefuss101]

Anybody with ears can tell you that's bullshit. Billy was the one to do most of the guitar and bass tracks on both of their first 2 albums if I'm not mistaken because the others couldn't perform the reps Butch Vig demanded of them. If you mean this album in particular, Corgan during this time was suicidal so like, idk maybe cut him some slack for that lol? But anyway I doubt that story because Billy constantly performs well and always has.

[@flightgravity7483]

Yeah that’s not true at all. It’s well documented that Billy picked up the slack in the studio for James Iha and D’Arcy for this album. The producer, Butch Vig, told Billy that their performances weren’t cutting it and they were wasting time, so Billy made the decision to play a majority of the guitar and bass parts himself. Top it off with Jimmy Chamberlin disappearing for days at a time trying to score drugs, and you can see why this album was a nightmare to record.

[@jonathandufern7421]

@@Bowseefuss101 I edited was talking about another album

[@jonathandufern7421]

@@flightgravity7483 I edited. Was talking about a different album

[@flightgravity7483]

@@jonathandufern7421 It still sounds like your info came from someone that just didn’t like Corgan. The claim that he couldn’t play is hilarious, and if Mellon Collie took that long to finish, maybe it’s because they had recorded nearly 60 complete songs. Corgan is notoriously a difficult dude, but he’s had chops since the first album.

[@shifty7629]

Absolutely LOVED SP in my teens, however the concert I went to when they were promoting the Mellon Collie album was hands down one of the worst concerts I've ever been to. It was so disappointing. A large part of that was because they had a section of the concert where they played "that solo" type of distorted, feedback laden squeals etc...for about 20 minutes consecutively. At first everyone was into it, but after a couple of minutes everyone was like "ok, enough already, just get back to playing your songs." Want a song from the same era with the smoothest guitar solos you'll ever hear? NO ONE reacts to them, but I think they were one of the most underrated bands of the grunge era, and their singer / lead guitarist is absolutely sublime on the guitar. Dinosaur Jr and their song "Get Me." If you do get around to reacting to it make sure you do the longer version which has all 3 guitar solos. The shorter version cuts one of them out and it's nowhere near as good. Linky for you :) kzbin.info?search_query=dinosaur+jr+get+me

[@cnw8891]

I saw them in 2007 or 2008 and it was an awful show. Just a big noisy mess. I love the band but that was the most disappointing show ever

[@brettmartino7117]

I saw them 3 years ago and they were nearly note for note perfect

[@bill8856]

You didn't care for the solo, huh? lol wow... just wow...

[@separator94]

I know, right? That solo is great. Very creative and unique. Solo's don't have to be extremely long, or over the top, to be good. This one has an amazing sound and great structure. It also fits the song perfectly.

[@henryvillanueva4276]

Love buzz by nirvana

[@Bowseefuss101]

I think for me to fully appreciate guitar manipulation, I have to like the ugly noises one can produce with one, extracting every bit of soul out of an inanimate object is truly impressive to me

[@brandonio_granger]

Some music if not all music shouldn't be heard through earbuds,it should be heard through live speakers not directly pounded into your eardrum.

[@THEDavidHeretic]

Wellllll these aren't earbuds, they are IEM's from Ultimate ears. I went with the UE11 model, and they sound amazing. There are 4 professional studio grade audio drivers in each monitor, with triple frequency crossover between the 4 drivers. These are the same IEM's that pretty much every professional musician uses on stage. The only thing that could possibly sound better than there, would be getting studio monitors like Focal or PreSonus.

[@pookievision]

BRO!! 🤘 Ya done Devin Townsend or Mr Bungle yet? 🥳

[@THEDavidHeretic]

Can't do Mr. Bungle, I'm a huge fan of their work so I couldn't possibly do an honest reaction to them. I've done 2 reactions to Devin Townsend.

[@pookievision]

@@THEDavidHeretic makes sense bro, been waiting 3yrs someone do a reaction to:- Egg 🤘 Cool ill check um out, keep the content cummin bro! 🥳

[@THEDavidHeretic]

@@pookievision Oh man, "Egg" is one of the best songs on their first album. Right up there with "Carouse"l and "Squeeze Me Macaroni".

[@pookievision]

@@THEDavidHeretic 100% agreed brother 🤘

[@cnw8891]

I love the Pumpkins. But I saw them in 2007 or 2008 I guess, in Athens GA, right after they got back together and started playing shows again. They were awful. I mean, they performed well, but the sound was a big loud muddled mess. I guess the sound team really botched it. It was totally muddy and just awful. I was so disappointed. I hope to see them again sometime and get a proper Pumpkins show.

[@PastorOfMuppets74]

David...what did you listen to growing up? You look like a rocker...I'm 47 n you look AT LEAST my age. So my question is...how in the hell did you miss Smashing Pumpkins? They were 2nd tier, just under Pearl Jam and Nirvana. They were along with STP, Alice in Chains type of popularity. But a student of music of those times should know the "anti-solo" was as important to their music as Van Halen shredding was to his

[@THEDavidHeretic]

In the 90's I was very heavy into Prog Rock and Jazz. I did everything I could to avoid bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins like the plague. Now I'm discovering those same bands on the channel, which is great because you all get to experience my journey with me.

[@PastorOfMuppets74]

@@THEDavidHeretic Gotcha. Great channel BTW. I never try to give in to the "label" crap. I was listening to REM, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, Journey, Rush...it didn't matter to me if it was Lights, Cherub Rock, Tom Sawyer, Mad World or End of the World, I'm gonna jam it. Ive played guitar a long time now. Thx 4 answering my question. You could slip tee shirts n fit in anywhere from a Dead show to Slayer 🤣. Have fun man 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼 Edit: I didn't even bring up Jazz but any time someone puts on Bitches Brew or Coltrane...I'm there...big fan of Jazz. Of all kinds of set ups

[@THEDavidHeretic]

@@PastorOfMuppets74 Coltrane, Bird, Miles, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, The Rippingtons, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Spyro Gyra, The Yellowjackets....I could go on and on. All greats that I was really into big time in high school, and I still enjoy today.

[@PastorOfMuppets74]

@@THEDavidHeretic I'm with you brother. I had a very eclectic selection of records to go through. Thelonius Monk to Black Sabbath to Earth, Wind, and Fire. Music fills my soul. I hope you're enjoying your voyage back to those times you weren't listening. Some are turned on by friends, family, music teachers,...I inherited a jukebox and box after box of 45s. I literally listened to everyone from Wagner to Iron Maiden to Miles Davis. I couldn't get enuff. When I listened to music my mind saw math. When 2+2=4 it sounds great. When it =5...not so good. No idea why I became that way. But when a song, any type of composition, has the key to open that Majic lock...I'm in Heaven. Music is my rock. I'm excited to watch you journey thru old things like I found as a child. Very reminiscent. Here's to your success 🍺🍺 Cheers!

[@rondunaway9137]

Cherub Rock is weak... On that album...Silverfuck is the strongest song....do that one.

[@mikeblanchard7579]

David buddy, you should do some staind....they get no love on reaction channels.....recommend mudshovel

[@kathyhall2627]

Your face is very red ...have you had your blood pressure checked lately?

[@THEDavidHeretic]

It's always been like that...dunno why. But yes my blood pressure is usually pretty good, thank you for your concern.