Artist: THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
Album: ZEITGEIST (CD)

Release date: 2007
Media type: CD

Zeitgeist is the sixth commercially-released studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Zeitgeist was released on July 6, 2007 in certain countries and on July 10, 2007 in the United States and Canada. It is the first studio album The Smashing Pumpkins have released since their 2000 disbandment and 2005 reformation. Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin are the only former Smashing Pumpkins members performing on the album.

After the Smashing Pumpkins disbanded in 2000, Corgan and Chamberlin reunited for the short lived supergroup Zwan, featuring members of Slint, Chavez, and A Perfect Circle. The group released one album, Mary Star of the Sea, before dissolving in 2003. Chamberlin then formed the The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, while Corgan released a solo album, TheFutureEmbrace. On the day of that album's release in June 2005, Corgan announced his plans to "renew and revive" the Smashing Pumpkins. Chamberlin soon announced that he would be rejoining the band, and the two began living together in Scottsdale, AZ in November 2005, writing and rehearsing new songs. Within three weeks of practicing, the pair decided they had recaptured the sound of the band and decided to record a new album.

With the other two band members absent, Corgan and Chamberlin decided to record the album alone. After the songs were finalized, Jimmy Chamberlin laid down all of the drum tracks. Notably, the drums for the ten-minute epic "United States" were recorded in one take. After the drums were complete, Chamberlin began the process of interviewing prospective touring band members, while Corgan went about recording the guitar, bass, keyboard, and vocal parts. Chamberlin described the recording sessions as a "long laborious process to greatness".

TRACKLIST:

01. Doomsday Clock
02. 7 Shades of Black
03. Bleeding the Orchid
04. That№s the Way (my Love is)
05. Tarantula
06. Starz
07. United States
08. Neverlost
09. Bring the Light
10. (Come on) Let№s Go!
11. For God and Country
12. Pomp and Circumstances

LINE-UP:

Billy Corgan – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, piano, producer, mixer, photography
Jimmy Chamberlin – drums, producer, mixer

Terry Date – producer (tracks 4,8,10,11), recording (except tracks 6,9)
Roy Thomas Baker – producer and recording (tracks 6,9,12), additional production (tracks 5,12), mixer