Bottom/ The Smashing Pumpkins return with reunion album Zeitgeist (Reprise, 2007). The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago in 1988. With approximately 18.25 million albums sold in the US alone, they were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s. Disavowing the punk rock roots shared by many of their alt-rock contemporaries, the Pumpkins have a diverse, densely layered, and guitar-heavy sound, containing elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, arena rock, shoegazer-style production and, in later recordings, electronica. Frontman Billy Corgan is the group's primary songwriter—his grand musical ambitions and cathartic lyrics have shaped the band's albums and songs, which have been described as "anguished, bruised reports from Billy Corgan's nightmare-land". Corgan indicated that, with Zeitgeist, he wanted to make a mainstream rock record and comment on the political climate of the United States. Top/ American blues-rock band ZZ Top from Houston, Texas, unleashed Afterburner (Warner) in 1985. Starring guitar ace Billy Gibbons, the band originally gained wide acclaim with the classic, hard rockin' song "La Grange", referencing the bordello that is also the subject of the musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The band later went for a distinctive synthesizer-laced sound —a rarity in the blues rock genre —, which added a modern, electronic edge to the music. ZZ Top reached new heights of popularity with the 1983 album Eliminator, boosted to prominence by the tracks "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man".
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