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Release Date: 04 December 2026
Label: Power Chord
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4815296721838
Genres: Rock Alternative
Description
Before the pumpkins grew enormous, before the guitars became galaxies and Billy Corgan's voice went soaring into the stratosphere, there was Chicago, 1989 - a strange and beautiful place where dreams crackled through amplifiers and a new alternative-rock universe was beginning to take shape.
Captured live at the Northeastern Illinois University studios and transmitted on WZRD-FM , this broadcast preserves The Smashing Pumpkins in their early, gloriously unpolished incarnation. Fuzz-drenched guitars, hypnotic melodies and a deliciously restless energy collide in a sonic daydream somewhere between basement-show sweat and interstellar ambition.
Here are the seeds of something extraordinary: the bruised romance, psychedelic shimmer and bittersweet intensity that would soon blossom into one of alternative rock's most distinctive sounds. Every riff feels like a secret whispered from the underground; every melody glows with the promise of a thousand midnight drives and beautiful, broken hearts.
Long before the world was drowning in pumpkins, this was the sound of a band dreaming bigger than the room they were playing in. A fascinating early-era document for devoted fans, collectors and anyone who likes their rock music tangled in distortion, wrapped in melancholy and sprinkled with a little cosmic magic.
Tracklisting
Television
The Runaways
Iggy Pop
Blondie
Ramones
Smashing Pumpkins
Green Day
Alice in Chains
The Gymkhana
Lake Street Dive
Coastal Ghost
Otoboke Beaver
Smashing Pumpkins
Sacha Mullin
Sacha Mullin
James McKean and The Blueberry Moon
