Rocket (The Smashing Pumpkins song)
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| Single by The Smashing Pumpkins from the album Siamese Dream |
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| Released | 1994 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | 1993 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Length | 4:07 | ||||
| Label | Virgin Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Billy Corgan | ||||
| Producer | Butch Vig & Billy Corgan | ||||
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"Rocket" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It was the fourth and final single from their second album, Siamese Dream, and was written by Billy Corgan. The CD single is a valuable rarity to fans of the band as it only saw a release in Australia. Corgan once commented,
| “ | There's this line from the song 'Rocket', 'Bleed in your own light'. I wanna fuckin' bleed in my own light, not in Kurt Cobain's, not in Perry Farrell's. I wanna go down in my own fuckin' ship. That's what I'm about. | ” |
When the band released their greatest hits album Rotten Apples in 2001, Rocket was one of the four singles that did not make the cut in neither the US version nor the International version.
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[edit] Music video
The music video features a group of children who build a rocket to fly to another planet where the Pumpkins were playing. They build the rocket, with no help from their unattentive parents, and fly into outer space. When they arrive on the planet, they discover that the band members are now in their old age. The band's 2001 Greatest Hits Video Collection DVD includes a different cut of the video with only band's performance. It was directed by husband and wife team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who would go on to direct many more videos for the Smashing Pumpkins.
[edit] B-sides
The single included a semi-popular cover of "Never Let Me Down Again" by Depeche Mode, though it is always referred as simply "Never Let Me Down". The song was recorded by request of bassist D'arcy Wretzky who is a long-time Depeche Mode fan. It was recorded at the BBC in one take.[1] It featured on the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses, as well as the soundtrack for Not Another Teen Movie.
[edit] Live performance
On the Infinite Sadness tour, "Rocket" was often clustered together with "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" into a nine minute plus jam. Rocket was also one of the first (if not the first) Siamese Dream songs played live. It was debuted during mid to late 1991, shortly before "Silverfuck" and "Luna". The band is also known to have performed an alternate version of Rocket around 1995/1996 including a different chord progression and slightly differing melody.
Recently, it's been played acoustically on the 2007 Smashing Pumpkins tour. As their 2007 tour went along, they reintroduced the electric version of Rocket into their set lists.
[edit] Track listing
- "Rocket" -4:06
- "Never Let Me Down" (Gore) -4:01 (vinyl b-side)
[edit] References
- ^ "Smashing Pumpkins Unlock Adore to New Sound." Undercover Magazine, June 1998. Retrieved on 2007/09/23.
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