The Smashing Pumpkins - Shame (best live version!) - 2007/06/02

From the Rock am Ring festival in Germany, 2007, one of the first shows after the band got back together. "Shame" was brought back in a radically different, hard rock version, which stayed in the band's rotation for another three years. This lineup of the band consisted of Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Ginger Reyes (Pooley), and Lisa Harriton. Enjoy!
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[@SuperFacecloth]

As an official spokesman for Shame, I'd like to state that Shame agrees. Nothing to be ashamed of here.

[@bryanbooher8675]

This is the best version of the song ever in my opinion. It’s beautiful and the dueling guitars at the end are just incredible.

[@shanelle-rae3309]

I couldn't agree more

[@dAvrilthebear]

They are obviously enjoying themselves a lot! 😊

[@leraph3904]

Zeitgeist era was truly amazing.

[@alantravers4302]

I wish there was a recording of this on Spotify

[@mrzerothirtythree]

Thanks for sharing! I agree with you, this version is perfect!

[@blistabliss]

Thanks for the upload. Zeitgeist tour was special. I also always love to see jimmy play on adore tracks and how billy usually arranges them different because of that I think

[@mr.smith2636]

I just cried my eyes out, that's how good this version is and i've heard it a million times.

[@gdubsterz1238]

I had never heard this song, a tribute to Michael Hutchence from INXS....beautiful song...

[@asterginete3812]

I wonder what Adore would sound like with Jimmy in it. Amazing version.

[@robertosmith1]

Kenny Aronoff did an awesome job on Adore. Jimmy is good but they can survive without him if needed.

[@BrainBlissedOut]

@@robertosmith1 I second that! Their Adore tour had two drummers, a pianist and percussionists, the sound was amazing!!

[@blistabliss]

Adore and adore tour sounds great but youtube ava adore arising tour. It has jimmy on drums and it's a different version and it's so cool

[@KatarnCrusader]

I don`t know if its necessarily the best live version - but its certainly a great one. The way they performed it during the "An Evening with The Smashing Pumpkins Tour" in 1998 was amazing as well.

[@werideatdusk]

I agree and actually prefer the album version. But this is transcendent because it takes a low key deep cut and blows it to the stratosphere. This could have been a hit.

[@filmsceneinvestigation]

I prefer the 1998 version, the hook to the song was the guitar riff and that’s gone here.

[@lukewilliams217]

This version sounds more upbeat and hopeful. I likes it

[@rns2222]

Just listened again and I still can’t believe this version exists. Timeless.

[@hansalo5154]

I love this version so much its a shame :)

[@JohnnyStranger]

First time hearing this. Love this reimagining. Such a lovely, heartbroken song.

[@JoM62]

Incroyable Billy... les deux guitares qui se répondent en fin de session... tout juste magnifique!!!

[@dAvrilthebear]

It's a completely different spin on the song, Jimmy gave it an almost-Latin American or carribean vibe... So there is less shame in this one and maybe more love 😊

[@davidebarbieri2746]

This is an anazing arrangemant that pushes the song to another renewed and refreshed level...i love it very much and love Zeitgeist era madly...but imho best version is live Atlanta Fox Theatre 4 august 1998. Pumpkins 4ever🖤

[@IAMMRONALD]

thank you

[@cuauhtemocfoo]

This version is awesome, I'm so mad at myself how could I never hear it before?

[@werideatdusk]

glad i reposted it!!!! the pumpkins have always done a great job of reinventing songs live. the 1998 version of "stumbleine" or the vieuphoria versions of "disarm" and "cherub rock" spring immediately to mind.

[@Infinitecero]

Totally agree! Best live version..

[@werideatdusk]

Makes you wonder about the kind of album Adore would have been with Jimmy still in the band... And if billy had sooner rediscovered his love of loud guitars and the spiders from Mars

[@willbradford898]

@Careful Icarus Yeah I agree, the electronic sound was definitely carved out by the drum loops and all.

[@hollowify_tensa_zangetsu]

@@werideatdusk to be honest I wouldn't change a thing about Adore. It needed to be what it was. The album is probably the most underrated album of all time. Not even SP fans get it sometimes. Maybe you just have to be depressed to the point of all to love it to the max. It was the album I needed

[@werideatdusk]

@@hollowify_tensa_zangetsu i actually agree with you. Adore is probably my favorite SP album. But i cant help but wonder about alternate ways of things playing out...

[@hollowify_tensa_zangetsu]

@@werideatdusk oh definitely. To be honest I dont think it would of been Adore. I mean. Corgan mom would of passed away. The album might have been like a machina II

[@yan13federiko]

02:25 and my tears roll down... ...•.💧•.💜.•💧.•... Y.F.

[@rns2222]

Great find

[@zainablatif4559]

I dont know how to describe about them.i mean when Jimmy beat his drum its totally something fresh and so energy come out ..ita hard to say it more but Jimmy drum beat is something for me...thanks Jimmy Chamberlain.

[@meleecritical]

Yeah man. He adds a lot to the band. Cheers

[@roydenbellman]

Great song, one of the Pumpkins best but definitely not their best live version imo. The black and white version outdoors somewhere in Paris with a joyful merry devil may care piano leading up to the menacing guitars by far better. And other versions this old cold SP fan has seen here on this site. But cool to see this version of Shame without a doubt.

[@lucia-madridnishinojurado]

Shame is when your soul is on PAVEMENT dragging all that is love behind your heart becomes empty and it finds something to hold onto but its not like when I was with you cursed am i with my demons

[@roydenbellman]

Their live version of this song in Spain at Guggenheim much much much better also. Check it and compare and contrast. They kind of went thru the motions of it here imo.

[@notsure1135]

Nah, this is beautiful and surpasses the original. Jimmy makes it.

[@lexusdav]

Bilbao Museum version is soooo beautiful 😮

[@obscuredsatellitesinflight6034]

The Siamese Dream victory lap version of Shame.

[@scovafd]

I'm a very new SP fan. From the little knowledge I've gathered, it would seem that after 'Mellon Collie' not many people liked 'Adore' because it was too "different"? Could be off on that, but that's such a shame (no pun intended). I'm not sure if it's intentional, but they have seemed to change these songs for live versions, and this song was perfect as is on the album. If they were trying to make the songs more likeable, that's a bummer. The super slow and dragging sound this song has on the album makes the song so much more emotional and "real".

[@werideatdusk]

@@scovafd welcome to the wonderful world of SP Fandom. Among other things, SP fans don't agree on a whole lot lol. I actually love Adore and love the studio version the most as well, but am a big fan of reinterpretation in a live setting. Yeah your general thoughts are on track, Adore was seen as a disappointment when it came out but in the years since has grown in stature. It still is an outlier as the only classic SP album without Jimmy Chamberlin. It's a drum machine on the original "Shame"

[@scovafd]

@@werideatdusk Ahh yeah I did not know that. Why wasn't Jimmy on this record? I know the band had a fall out, but like I said, I'm pretty oblivious with their history and I'm still making my way through their records, but Adore is currently my favorite

[@NicoSKT]

Dahora... Sonzera

[@robertosmith1]

The music had to get past the getup but the music was great

[@dicksuckman6122]

Wish I could find tabs for this

[@blistabliss]

KZbin "shame smashing pumpkins lesson" sometimes they have tabs in the videos but either way it's a good way to get a grip on the song cuz they'll usually just show you how to play it. Idk if theirs one tho

[@gbsreborn1733]

Shame + Yeah! = Shame yeah, by the Smashing Zwan

[@Sarganh]

Sound / mix is great . U german guys r the best. This version is like u say, kind of hard version. But almost the pop Hard Rock so 🤢 Then sorry, I do prefer my late 90’s live version. (Mine cause I saw in real this version 😉👍🏽) Especially the Brussels Botanic one ! Wow !