Rocket (The Smashing Pumpkins song)

Infobox Single
Name = Rocket

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Artist = The Smashing Pumpkins
from Album = Siamese Dream
B-side =
Released = 1994
Format = CD
Recorded = 1993
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 4:07
Label = Virgin Records
Writer = Billy Corgan
Producer = Butch Vig & Billy Corgan
Certification =
Last single = "Disarm"
(1994)
This single = "Rocket"
(1994)
Next single = "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
(1995)
Misc =Extra tracklisting
Album = Siamese Dream
Type = studio
prev_track = "Hummer"
prev_no = 4
this_track = "Rocket"
track_no = 5
next_track = "Disarm"
next_no = 6

"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,

Music video

The music video features a group of children who build a rocket to fly to another planet to see the Pumpkins perform. They build the advanced rocket piece-by-piece, with no help from their unattentive parents, and fly into outer space. When they arrive on the planet, they discover that the band members have aged since the first broadcast. The band's 2001 Greatest Hits Video Collection DVD includes a different cut of the video with only the band's performance. It was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who would go on to direct many more videos for the Smashing Pumpkins.

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. [" [http://www.starla.org/articles/under.htm Smashing Pumpkins Unlock "Adore" to New Sound] ." "Undercover Magazine", June 1998. Retrieved on 2007/09/23.] It featured on the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses, as well as the soundtrack for Not Another Teen Movie.

Live performance

On the Infinite Sadness tour, "Rocket" was often clustered together with "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" into a nine minute plus jam. During the tour the band also played alternate versions of the song. 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, its 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.

Track listing

#"Rocket" -4:06
#"Never Let Me Down" (Gore) -4:01

References

Reflist

External links

* Allmusic [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:lhu36o4471y0 review]