Is it Smashing Pumpkins or the Smashing Pumpkins?

Answer 1

I don't think it really matters. On their earlier albums, they were called Smashing Pumpkins, and then it was The Smashing Pumpkins, and now, with the release of their album Zeitgeist, it seems they have gone back to just Smashing Pumpkins.

I have all of their albums. The only ones I can't find are Machina I (but I do have a single from it) and their B-side compilation album, Pisces Iscariot. If and when I manage to find those albums, I'll update the answer.

Anyway, on their first albums, Siamese Dream and Gish, it's just Smashing Pumpkins. But starting with the release of their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, it's The Smashing Pumpkins.

These are the CDs I have where they are called Smashing Pumpkins:

Gish (1991)

Lull EP (1991)

Siamese Dream (1993)

Disarm single (1993)

And these are the CDs I have where they are called The Smashing Pumpkins:

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)

Lost Highway Soundtrack, "Eye" (1996)

The Aeroplane Flies High Boxed Set discs (1997)

A Very Special Christmas 3, "Christmastime Has Come" (1997)

Batman & Robin soundtrack "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" (1998)

Adore (1998)

Ava Adore single (1998)

Stand Inside Your Love single (2000)

But the album Zeitgeist (2007), the first album they've made since they broke up and reformed with different members, lists them as Smashing Pumpkins.