Rocket (song)
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- For the Def Leppard song, see Rocket (Def Leppard song).
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| Single by The Smashing Pumpkins | ||
| from the album Siamese Dream | ||
| Released | 1994 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | 1993 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 4:07 | |
| Label | Virgin Records | |
| Writer(s) | Billy Corgan | |
| Producer(s) | Butch Vig & Billy Corgan | |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins singles chronology | ||
| "Disarm" (1994) |
"Rocket" (1994) |
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" (1995) |
| Siamese Dream track listing | ||
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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.
About the song, Corgan said, "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."
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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 featured on the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses, as well as the soundtrack for Not Another Teen Movie.
[edit] Live Performance
Since the Mellon Collie... tour, "Rocket" is almost always 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.
[edit] Single track listing
- "Rocket" (Corgan)
- "Never Let Me Down" (Gore)
