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On this day 2 years ago, The Smashing Pumpkins became only the second rock band in history to have their handprints imprinted in cement outside the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood (KISS was the first, in 1976). 📷 Matthew Baron spcodex.wiki/The_Smashing_Pu…

Happy birthday to @James_Iha! Guitarist and co-founder of The Smashing Pumpkins, he was a member until 2000 and rejoined in 2018. He's released two solo albums: 'Let It Come Down' and 'Look to the Sky', and composed scores for numerous films and TV series spcodex.wiki/James_Iha

Happy birthday to @billy! He along with The Smashing Pumpkins are a model for success in the alternative rock genre, and one of the most influential artists of the 90s. Together with his side projects, he has sold no less than 30 million albums worldwide. spcodex.wiki/Billy_Corgan

The music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund and is performance-based music video and the first to feature Melissa Auf der Maur. Originally, the band had considered Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris to direct the video. youtube.com/watch?v=LWJYaep-…

Two music videos were released. The first was a collage of footage from 1988 to 2000 and was only released through TV and online providers in the late summer of 2001. A second one was released as an easter egg on the band's Greatest Hits Video Collection. youtube.com/watch?v=OLeW2EYf…

The music video was directed by Corgan and then-girlfriend Yelena Yemchuk. Its a series of stop-motion images. SP videos often avoided literal interpretation of lyrics, but 33 had images closely related to the lyrics in an intentional stylistic departure. youtube.com/watch?v=AYSbztCC…

Thirty Days: Revisited premiered Nov 4, 2019! It features clips of unreleased songs from Cotillions, and unreleased footage from the larger Thirty Days series – a winter 2017 road trip that WPC took that inspired Cotillions. spcodex.wiki/Thirty_Days youtube.com/watch?v=LjLlhIvS…

The music video was released the same day, written by @Billy and directed and edited by @lindastrawberry. It takes inspiration from the Wild Wild West and Spaghetti Westerns as a "surreal gothic-western inspired love-story". youtube.com/watch?v=0rOr6yTM…

The iconic cover for Mellon Collie was created by collage artist John Craig. The woman is a combo of 2 paintings – Jean-Baptiste Greuze's The Souvenir and Raphael's Saint Catherine Of Alexandri. Craig also did most of the art found in the album's packaging spcodex.wiki/Mellon_Collie#A…

The music video was directed by Brian/Brad Palmer. It magnifies the surreal, dreamlike space of lost love experienced through the moment of an embrace, as twin bodies merge into one, exploring transcendence of oneself into a new limitless body of existence youtube.com/watch?v=gvpe27sU…