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The Smashing Pumpkins — Rhinoceros
Album: Gish
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Released: 1992
Length: 5:53
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Planned a show
Trees and Balloons
Ice cream snow
See you in June

Could have known
I would reveal
Should have known
I would conceal your way

She knows, she knows, she knows
She knows, she knows, she knows
How's it
She knows, she knows, she knows

Colors show
After the moon
I should go
See you in June
Your way

Open your eyes
To these must I lie?
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90's Alt Rock Supergroup 
Posted 4 years ago by neptunejeff    [ Reply ]
This will never, ever get old! Brings me back to school every time.. Not sure if that's always a good thing, but still it's a big 9 from me
Posted 5 years ago by m00n3east    [ Reply ]
A top contender for one of the best debut albums of any rock band
Posted 5 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Like most TSP songs, you can hear and feel this one coming a mile away... The reward of the rush and thrill of them is way up there...
Posted 6 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 dragon1952 wrote:
I'm 64 yrs old and I love Billy Corgan. Even though he's a bit odd, the dude is just so talented and unique, as is this song.

 
I liked Billy Corgan better when he worked at a used record store by my house in the Jefferson Park neighborhood in Chicago.  It was called Record Hunt in case anyone wants to verify that.


Posted 6 years ago by gmsingh123    [ Reply ]
just tedious noise. PSD
Posted 7 years ago by Roches    [ Reply ]
I'm 64 yrs old and I love Billy Corgan. Even though he's a bit odd, the dude is just so talented and unique, as is this song.
Posted 7 years ago by dragon1952    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:
Hey Low,

In my opinion...this song and this band still sucks: boring, predictable, monotonic, whiny, thud and drone.  

 
People might be a little weary of seeing you post "thud and drone" on every Pumpkins song, over and over. We get it idiot, you don't like them.

Now find another band to shitpost all day, hmm?
Posted 7 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
Hey Low,

In my opinion...this song and this band still sucks: boring, predictable, monotonic, whiny, thud and drone.  
Posted 8 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:

You should maybe Google "Idiot Wind". 

Geeez.  

 
I've known what it is since way before Google. That's why I italicized the first word in your case.
Posted 8 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
 Chrisjea wrote:
Never a big SP fan.  Rather than trash the song/artist I pushed mute.

 
You still kind of trashed them anyway by merely reporting this. But it's a step in the good direction.
Posted 8 years ago by DrLex    [ Reply ]
Damn I really, really, really dislike this band...esp. BC's vocals
Posted 8 years ago by Emwolb    [ Reply ]
Never a big SP fan.  Rather than trash the song/artist I pushed mute.
Posted 8 years ago by Chrisjea    [ Reply ]
 Lacapella wrote:
Meant to be checking emails but instead staring out at the cold April south of France rain and listening to the music

 
Il ne fait pas plus beau ici. 15 jours de suite ou il pleut. Vive la music pour me remonter le moral.
Posted 8 years ago by 25demayo    [ Reply ]
Meant to be checking emails but instead staring out at the cold April south of France rain and listening to the music
Posted 8 years ago by Lacapella    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:

You should maybe Google "Idiot Wind". 

Geeez.  

 
LowPhreak (correctly) didn't say you were living up to the whole thing.
Posted 8 years ago by dwhayslett    [ Reply ]
The title is still misspelled in the RP database after all those years, but I kind of like the idea of calling something rhinocerous, in the sense of “having rhinoceros-like qualities”. {#Cheesygrin}
Posted 8 years ago by DrLex    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:

You should maybe Google "Idiot Wind". 

Geeez.  

 
would that be the Minnesota or New York version?
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 LowPhreak wrote:
I see you're still living up to your moniker, idiot wind. {#Beat}

 
You should maybe Google "Idiot Wind". 

Geeez.  
Posted 8 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
Rhino is one of my favorites :). My ballet/modern dance teacher growing up choreographed our entire recital to SP's Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness album. Dancers from ages 6 - 30 were rocking out on stage in front of our parents to SP - it was awesome!!! 
Posted 9 years ago by ohhh_katerina    [ Reply ]
I see you're still living up to your moniker, idiot wind. {#Beat}
Posted 9 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
Whah. Whah. Whah.

Ughhhhh.

Whah. Whah. Whah.

Ughhhhhh.

 Hey I just became a song writer for the this band!

 Now where's my #$%^ check? 
Posted 9 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]

Posted 9 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
Love Smashing Pumpkins {#Smile}
Posted 9 years ago by wellmm    [ Reply ]
Hey folks what kind of cheese should go with all the "whining" from this song, this album, and this band?

But give them credit for miking a genre that sold alot of albums that all sounded the same. 
Posted 9 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
These guys rock. Period
 
Posted 9 years ago by hempmandan    [ Reply ]
 MassivRuss wrote:

That describes RadioHead. Who seem to worshiped in large numbers here at RP. By you perhaps?

 
Given all of that guy's countless, repetitive posts about "thud & drone" and "pain, angst, anger, despair", I don't think he likes much of anything recorded after 1974, including any tunes by your good pals from Radiohead.
Posted 9 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:
Thud and drone crap! Stop it, please!

 
Use your mute button, idiot.
Posted 10 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]

So much hatred? I like it, in fact I like the whole album and very much enjoy listening to it!


Posted 10 years ago by ScottishWillie    [ Reply ]
To me, this earlier Pumpkin stuff represents some of the last creative, agressive, all up in your face rock and/or roll guitar work.

I am a listening fan of old Eddie Van Halen and Dave Navarro guitar playing.

Any comments on bands exhibiting current guitar work like that stuff?


Posted 10 years ago by moocray    [ Reply ]
Thud and drone crap! Stop it, please!
Posted 10 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
Never want to hear these guys again.
 
Posted 10 years ago by FrankDebbieCote    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:

My god...dreadful "thud and drone" genre that got way too much play.

 

Let me see: every song must have Pain, Angst, Anger, or Despair expressed in boring, repetitive, truncated, muted singing and playing. This is called the PAAD formula and this band followed it.

 

 



 
That describes RadioHead. Who seem to worshipped in large numbers here at RP. By you perhaps?
Posted 10 years ago by MassivRuss    [ Reply ]

My god...dreadful "thud and drone" genre that got way too much play.

 

Let me see: every song must have Pain, Angst, Anger, or Despair expressed in boring, repetitive, truncated, muted singing and playing. This is called the PAAD formula and this band followed it.

 

 


Posted 10 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
 Boy_Wonder wrote:
MAKE IT STOP!!! PLEASE!!

 
Use your Mute function, moron.
Posted 10 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
This type of sound has had its ons & offs, but it certainly fills the bill well on a frickin' cold and gray day like today, nested in a KILLER SET
Posted 10 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 Boy_Wonder wrote:
MAKE IT STOP!!! PLEASE!!

 
It's not your fault.
Posted 10 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
Ahhhh, the pumpkins soothe me.
Posted 11 years ago by Tamster    [ Reply ]
 TerryS wrote:
Cogito ergo cogitum, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kripke_structure

 
Not sure of the Kripke Structure relevance to this song, but you should try to set your links so they open in a new window and not break the audio stream.
Posted 11 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Brings back my grunge days
Posted 11 years ago by Krispian    [ Reply ]

marvelous...  love it...
 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
Cogito ergo cogitum, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kripke_structure
Posted 11 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
 BBoyes wrote:
Yeah, I know what you mean. I think music is like religion - we have different needs at different times in our lives so what fits best also changes. Which makes me wonder if we are OK with a wide array of music through life, why do so many put so much effort into making religion (or spirituality if you prefer) a one-size-fits-all-for-life solution?
 

That's profound...  well  said...

two atheistic French dudes made existentialism famous and people often think existentialism and atheism are synonymous, but that's not true...  existentialists can believe whatever they wish as individuals...

existentialists believe that objectively, everything is absurd, so subjectively, people are free to believe whatever they wish—  life is a custom fit...

as John Lennon sang, "Whatever gets you through the night, it's all right..."
 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
Yeah, I know what you mean. I think music is like religion - we have different needs at different times in our lives so what fits best also changes. Which makes me wonder if we are OK with a wide array of music through life, why do so many put so much effort into making religion (or spirituality if you prefer) a one-size-fits-all-for-life solution?
Posted 11 years ago by BBoyes    [ Reply ]

Everybody in my church loves this song...
 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]

I seems absurd but I bought a couple of Smashing Pumpkins albums when the were released, but they did nothing for me and I shelved them.  A year ago I heard Luna from Siamese Dream on Radio Paradise and fell in love, dug out my old CD’s and started buying the back catalog. I’m now asking myself how on earth I missed them first time round?


Posted 11 years ago by ScottishWillie    [ Reply ]
 vit wrote:

I was just coming here to ask about this. Rhinocerous came off of Gish right? That's the only album of theirs I find listenable. It sounds totally different from — and just absolutely superior to — the rest of their stuff to me. Is it just my imagination?
 
Totally agree.  Gish is a fantastic album and none of their others could touch it, IMO.
Posted 12 years ago by window    [ Reply ]
MAKE IT STOP!!! PLEASE!!
Posted 12 years ago by Boy_Wonder    [ Reply ]
 vanmas wrote:
Depressing and boring...
Like almost all of their music...
 
I was just coming here to ask about this. Rhinocerous came off of Gish right? That's the only album of theirs I find listenable. It sounds totally different from — and just absolutely superior to — the rest of their stuff to me. Is it just my imagination?
Posted 12 years ago by vit    [ Reply ]
Depressing and boring...
Like almost all of their music...
Posted 12 years ago by vanmas    [ Reply ]
There are better Songs from Good old Smashing Pumpkins...but it depends on the ear of the listener...don´t you think?
Posted 12 years ago by ejankowski40    [ Reply ]
Sounds like Nirvana on qualudes.  Wake me up when it's over.
Posted 12 years ago by blackjackshellac    [ Reply ]
There are two songs on this rotten apples album that have incredible feedback solos cutoff.  This song and Drown.  They are both in somewhat regular rotation here, and every time I hear one or the other I miss those solos.  

Better than nothing though! 
Posted 12 years ago by Zeito    [ Reply ]
You know, for as long as it lasted, grunge wasn't half bad.
Posted 12 years ago by gvan    [ Reply ]
Pumpkins song that Silversun Pickups sound the most like. :-)
Posted 12 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
Incredible tune from an even better debut album!
Posted 12 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Nice guitar line. 
 
Posted 12 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 romeotuma wrote:


Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...


 
  

 

How many people are there in your hotel room?


Posted 12 years ago by megaboogieman    [ Reply ]
Wow - 2 Pumpkins tunes (from their 2 best albums) within a few hours - LOVE IT!

Posted 12 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Smashing Great Pumpkin!
Posted 13 years ago by ralphf    [ Reply ]
 TerryS wrote:
I made up my mind not to like this track back in the day, I was wrong.

 
Haha, me too! But listening to it now, it sounds SO good.

Posted 13 years ago by Krispian    [ Reply ]
One of my favorites.
Posted 13 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
 Jelani wrote:
Chinos? 
He's really into pants I guess. 
 
I know Billy Corgan's distinctive nasal whine makes it hard to tell, but he's actually singing about Cheetos™. 

Posted 13 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
Galicious!
Posted 13 years ago by More_Cowbell    [ Reply ]
This should be followed by 3 Days.
Posted 13 years ago by bobringer    [ Reply ]
Wow -pretty cool!
Posted 14 years ago by Ja300Mes    [ Reply ]
I made up my mind not to like this track back in the day, I was wrong.

Posted 14 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
Gosh!  {#Bounce}
Posted 14 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
Gish
Gish!

 
Posted 14 years ago by warderblu    [ Reply ]
to these must i lie ?
Posted 14 years ago by peacockangel    [ Reply ]
 tapatia1072 wrote:
I absolutely love this song - my favorite song off their finest album (IMHO). No, not Rotten Apples - Gish.
 

I agree. I bought Gish after hearing this track on a college radio station and it is still my favorite S.P. album.
Posted 14 years ago by chyk5    [ Reply ]
Chinos? 
He's really into pants I guess. 
Posted 14 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
 Toke wrote:
Honest ? She Knows You Know ......
 
I know that you know that she knows, you know?
Posted 14 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Excellent selection. 
Posted 14 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
Honest ? She Knows You Know ......
Posted 14 years ago by Toke    [ Reply ]
I absolutely love this song - my favorite song off their finest album (IMHO). No, not Rotten Apples - Gish.
Posted 14 years ago by tapatia1072    [ Reply ]
Aaaaaaaaaah, those were the days!  {#Good-vibes}

Posted 14 years ago by von_Hayek    [ Reply ]
That early stuff is just so fantastic!
Posted 14 years ago by ddbz    [ Reply ]
 philbertr wrote:
Does she know?
 
she knows ho's

Posted 14 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
 window wrote:
Man, what a great song.  Fantastic drumming, and trademark SP guitar interplay.
 
agreed, fantastic on every level.

Posted 14 years ago by azdcryan    [ Reply ]
Man, what a great song.  Fantastic drumming, and trademark SP guitar interplay.
Posted 14 years ago by window    [ Reply ]
 raerae333 wrote:


yes....
 
HOW...does she know...? 
Posted 14 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
 philbertr wrote:
Does she know?
 

yes....
Posted 14 years ago by raerae333    [ Reply ]
 More_Cowbell wrote:


Isnt it good for the ears?
 

thank god someone called him on that. that was getting way old. too fng funny!
Posted 15 years ago by rickhoran    [ Reply ]
yesterday at this time RP was pretty downbeat today we rock. What a great station.
Posted 15 years ago by martinc    [ Reply ]
 romeotuma wrote:


cool song...
 

Isnt it good for the ears?
Posted 15 years ago by More_Cowbell    [ Reply ]
Thank goodness a Rhinocerous didn't wonder into the recording studio and trample the master tape of this recording......{#Whistle}

Posted 15 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
love when I recognize the opening to a great song - an album track I love - but can't quite place it....and then.... great tune

Billy has a lot of musical range.


Posted 15 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
trying to remember the full show when I saw them in Dec 1993 at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom ... believe Soul Asylum and the Jayhawks w/ Victoria Williams opened ... amazing, amazing, amazing.
Posted 15 years ago by Middleton    [ Reply ]
Does she know?
Posted 15 years ago by philbertr    [ Reply ]
One of the best live shows I've seen.  It was 2 days before Jonathan Melvoin's OD.  I was floored by the news. 
Posted 15 years ago by zoomzip    [ Reply ]
 jagdriver wrote:


WYLD STALLYON!
 
Not a big Pumpkin fan, but this is pretty sweet. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey now up on Hulu.com btw.

Posted 15 years ago by Jared    [ Reply ]
 Hannio wrote:
This is fabulous.
 
And also rhinocerous. Unless Bill has fixed that typo by the time you read this

Posted 15 years ago by DrLex    [ Reply ]
Love how I can hear James Iha's guitar at the beginning and know it's the Pumpkins right away.

Posted 15 years ago by newwavegurly    [ Reply ]
My favourite band, they can do no wrong!
Posted 15 years ago by Astrogreenmonkey    [ Reply ]
one of the great original rock and roll bands
Posted 16 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 xkolibuul wrote:
I was liking this song (yes including the vocals, you nitwits) until the formulaic screeching guitars entered the picture. Not the direction the song needed to go. Still, its about the best I've heard the SPs sound.

 

WYLD STALLYON!
Posted 16 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
All of the hate for SP makes me laugh. Trent Reznor does the same kind of thing (and then some) and it's ok. Many rock legends are known for being kind of crazy and obsessive, and that's fine. Billy gets all kinds of criticism though, yet the band's discography is truly one of a kind.

Some people like to say everything went downhill after Gish and Siamese Dream, but I disagree. I think the fact that they branched out and tired different things is a testament to Billy's desire to take risks instead of doing what would make more money. Remember, this is a band that at one point got sued by its label for basically not pumping out one double album after another. You may want to think again before you say he "sold out" after the first couple albums. "Selling out" is irrelevant. All bands do. Yes, even the countless "indie" bands that you nitpickers fall in love with who sell their songs to automobile makers to use in their bland commercials.



Posted 16 years ago by Gish05    [ Reply ]
sheswithzappa wrote:
i can't get over how YOUNG they are in that photo, my oh my......

Yeah, what's Billy, like 14?

Posted 16 years ago by RedGuitar    [ Reply ]
9 => 10!!!
Love this song.....
Posted 16 years ago by out_to_lunch    [ Reply ]
The Pumpkins are great! From beginning to the end...
Posted 16 years ago by dis    [ Reply ]
teapot wrote:
During the slow parts it sounds just like Silversun Pickups...
awfully out of sequence...by 15 years
Posted 16 years ago by azdcryan    [ Reply ]
I was going to say that these guys are nowhere cool enough to play twice in one day. But by playing a song from Gish it might as well be 2 different bands. Cheers.
Posted 16 years ago by vit    [ Reply ]
Great Smashing Pumpkin song. A little slow for Friday afternoon but hey, its all good.
Posted 16 years ago by RcF    [ Reply ]
i can't get over how YOUNG they are in that photo, my oh my......
Posted 16 years ago by sheswithzappa    [ Reply ]
My fave 'Punkins tune.
Posted 16 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
Pure bliss. I remember first time hearing this, one of those sounds unlike any other. This is from first album before Billy seemed to fall off narcissistic edge.
Posted 16 years ago by MartiniSlacker    [ Reply ]
xkolibuul wrote:
I was liking this song (yes including the vocals, you nitwits) until the formulaic screeching guitars entered the picture. Not the direction the song needed to go. Still, its about the best I've heard the SPs sound.
I agree. However, I do like much of SP's work. I still do not own any of their albums.
Posted 16 years ago by Alpine    [ Reply ]
Beaker wrote:
Such noise. I'd probably appreciate this track more if I was about ten blocks away.
Billy likes noise. If you like noise, particularly of the loud variety, you will probably like most of the loud moments of Smashing Pumpkins (as opposed to the quiet, opiate-induced D'Arcy moments.) There is a quota of BC I can take - past a certain point the screeching and his seemingly limitless ego-mongering get to me. But at times I too like noise, and don't necessarily have to be blocks away (as long as I don't live in the neighborhood I'm good!) - Riff
Posted 16 years ago by riffster    [ Reply ]
andiman wrote:
So pleasent, so good. And so sad that the best days of Billy seem to be over...
Eh ... everyone has peaks and vallies. I'm just happy for the ones we still have, and hope they keep banging away at it.
Posted 16 years ago by cosmiclint    [ Reply ]
A don't forget the Hiphopopotamus
Posted 16 years ago by a_genuine_find    [ Reply ]
teapot wrote:
During the slow parts it sounds just like Silversun Pickups...
No...SSP sound like SP.
Posted 16 years ago by heathenchild    [ Reply ]
So pleasent, so good. And so sad that the best days of Billy seem to be over...
Posted 16 years ago by andiman    [ Reply ]
I was liking this song (yes including the vocals, you nitwits) until the formulaic screeching guitars entered the picture. Not the direction the song needed to go. Still, its about the best I've heard the SPs sound.
Posted 16 years ago by xkolibuul    [ Reply ]
DD closemindedmoron wrote:
Billy Corgan is one of those types that when he was in High School he painted his nails black, wore eye shadow, sat by himself at lunch, and wrote depressing dark poetry. He sucks.
you went to high school with him? cool!
Posted 17 years ago by sukilau    [ Reply ]
During the slow parts it sounds just like Silversun Pickups...
Posted 17 years ago by teapot    [ Reply ]
This guy is so overrated it's sickening; bad music and bad voice.
Posted 17 years ago by MrStatenIsle    [ Reply ]
Jimmy Chamberlin is a genius on drums His drumming and Corgan's lyrics are what make the Pumpkins work.
Posted 17 years ago by themotion    [ Reply ]
DD closemindedmoron wrote:
Agreed, they have nothing on a band such as RAT!
This would be funny if it was sarcastic ... but sadly, coming from closemindedmoron, it's probably what he really thinks.
Posted 17 years ago by themotion    [ Reply ]
This is fabulous.
Posted 17 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]