They can also be lush, melodic, moving and beautiful. None of their work epitomises this more than their string driven masterpiece "Tonight, Tonight" and the promo video that goes with it.
Taken directly from the first science fiction film ever made, Georges Melies 1902 silent work "A Trip to the Moon" - which itself was inspired by Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" - the video is an overwhelming retro-steampunk joy, with comet maidens, moon men and a selection of vintage style clothes I would die to be able to wear. Sound and image marries perfectly as our intrepid adventurers take humanity's first ever steps on another world as violins soar above the man in the moon's sinister face.
It is a world I still wish existed somewhere.
Along with "1979", a promo that reminds me of an all to brief period of typical teenage behaviour in my life, this represents the highpoint of The Smashing Pumpkin's creative output, and shows that for all Billy Corgan's greater-than-moon-sized ego, there was a time when he did indeed have "it".
Watch and enjoy, time and again.
Copyright Bloody Mulberry 11/08/2013
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