![]() ![]() The album's sessions, lasting 30 working days, were brisk by Pumpkins' standards, largely because of the group's inexperience. Corgan also performed nearly all of the guitar and bass parts on the record, which was confirmed by Vig in a later interview. Whereas many albums at the time used drum sampling and processing, Gish used unprocessed drum recordings, and an exacting, unique guitar sound. The inclusion of a massive production style reminiscent of ELO and Queen was unusual for an independent band at the time. I was over the moon to think I had found a comrade-in-arms who wanted to push me, and who really wanted me to push him. Having that luxury to spend hours on a guitar tone or tuning the drums or working on harmonies and textural things. For me that was a godsend because I was used to doing records for all the indie labels and we only had budgets for three or four days. (Corgan) wanted to make everything sound amazing and see how far he could take it really spend time on the production and the performances. The longer recording period and larger budget were unprecedented for Vig, who later recalled: At the time, Vig was still a relatively unknown producer. Vig and Corgan worked together as co-producers. Gish was recorded from December 1990 to March 1991 in Butch Vig's Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, with a budget of $20,000. A song like "Rhinoceros" reflected that balance and what Corgan wanted to achieve: "we could be beautiful, pretty, psychedelic, and then flip the switch and be heavy and play a ripping lead." When composing the songs, Corgan was experimenting taking LSD to get a psychedelic feeling: "LSD gave me the confidence to attempt these things on kind of a weird tightrope wire act". ![]() And then we put those pieces together with the Beatles somewhere in the middle". "For us, it was trying to become this balance point between what felt like dumb riff rock and then the stuff we were really attracted to coming out of the U.K. As a writer, Billy Corgan wanted to find the balance between classic rock of bands playing heavy riffs like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, and the sensuality and grace of alternative bands like the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and My Bloody Valentine. Musically, Gish has been described as featuring alternative rock, hard rock, psychedelic rock, grunge, dream pop, stoner rock, college rock, psychedelia, and heavy metal. It has since been ranked by multiple publications as one of the best rock albums of the 1990s, with Pitchfork deeming "without Gish, there would probably be no Nevermind as we know it." Music and composition ![]() The album was eventually certified platinum (at least one million copies shipped in the US) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), becoming one of the best-selling independent albums at the time. ĭespite initially peaking at only number 195 on the Billboard 200 upon its release, Gish received critical acclaim, with particular praise directed at the band's distinctive psychedelic sound. The album was produced by Butch Vig and frontman Billy Corgan, with the latter describing Gish as a "very spiritual album" and "an album about spiritual ascension". Gish is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released on through Caroline Records. ![]()
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