'' Siamese Dream '' was released on July 27 , 1993 and debuted at number ten on the '' Billboard '' 200 the following week . The album was almost universally lauded by music critics . '' Select '' s Andrew Perry praised it as " the most grand-scale , expansively-passionate blasts of music you 'll hear this year " and remarked that it would be " hard for anyone to top this one " . John Harris of '' NME '' wrote that '' Siamese Dream '' , " for all its air of non-committal blankness and exercise-book psychoanalysis , is a startling , deeply satisfying record " . Steve Hochman of the '' Los Angeles Times '' predicted that " the scale of its success will likely be tied to how many fans are willing to stop moshing and enter into some rather contemplative , even tender territory " , and wrote that " the songs tend to drift in places , and some get a bit long-winded , but the overall balance between the harsh and the sweet makes for a strong and distinctive package " . Lorraine Ali of '' Rolling Stone '' called the album " a strong , multidimensional extension of '' Gish '' that confirms that Smashing Pumpkins are neither sellouts nor one-offs . " '' Entertainment Weekly '' critic David Browne praised the band for living up to industry expectations of being the " next Nirvana " and compared '' Siamese Dream '' favorably to Nirvana 's '' Nevermind '' , concluding : " In aiming for more than just another alternative guitar record , Smashing Pumpkins may have stumbled upon a whole new stance : slackers with a vision . " Critic Simon Reynolds disagreed ; he wrote in his review for '' The New York Times '' that " fuzzed-up riffs and angst-wracked vocals are quite the norm these days , and Smashing Pumpkins lacks the zeitgeist-defining edge that made Nirvana 's breakthrough so thrilling and resonant . " Robert Christgau of '' The Village Voice '' cited " Geek U.S.A. " and " Today " as highlights while noting the record 's strength is " the sonics " ; he later rated the album with a three-star honorable mention . '' Siamese Dream '' earned The Smashing Pumpkins their first Grammy Award nominations . The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance , and the group was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards
36th Annual Grammy Awards
36th Annual Grammy Awards
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