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Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

David in the Liminal Web March 11, 2026
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I already told you about the Smashing Pumpkins and how, for a long time, they used to be my favorite band. You can read it here:

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979Today’s song is 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins. It was released as a single in 1996 and it is one of the band’s most famous songs. Strangely, even though I like it very much, it is not my favorite, I’m not even sure it’s in my top 10 of theLiminal WebDavid Billa

Today, I want to introduce you to the song that introduced me to them.

It was sometime in the first months of 1994. I was watching music videos on TV—yes, TV channels used to play good music back then—when this song suddenly started playing.

From the very first notes, it reached and touched me like no other song had before, and very few have since.

The song is called "Disarm " and is from the 1993 album Siamese Dream, which I highly recommend.

Here it is:


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