Episode 4

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12th Jan 2026

The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (Pt. 1)

Drum roll, please. We are back with Smashing Pumpkin's second album, Siamese Dream. Besides being one of the most intense guitar albums of all time, it's also one of the best and most distinctive sounding albums of the 1990s. Can Nick and Austin even come close to replicating it, or will they give up at the start? Plus, Nick admits to listening to a bunch of Rush, while Austin recounts his time with Boston.

18:35 - "Cherub Rock"

29:35 - "Quiet"

34:00 - "Today"

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The Artist's Way

Pitchfork review of Siamese Dream

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

Smashing Pumpkins Tower Records Cherub Rock Acoustic Live 1993

The Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock music video

Rick Beato The Smashing Pumpkins: The Billy Corgan Interview

High Fidelity Mixtape Rules

The Smashing Pumpkins - Today music video

Pixies - Where Is My Mind?

The Beatles - "A Day in the Life"

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About the Podcast

Anyone Can Play Guitar

Learning every Radiohead song on guitar in order

Listen along as writers in Chicago and Switzerland learn to play songs from The Smashing Pumpkins on guitar. To prove they've put the time in, they're forcing themselves to record versions of each track to play for all to judge. Armed with this knowledge, they'll discuss each song, while simultaneously admitting to potentially embarrassing personal stories from more than 20 years of fandom.

In the first season, Nick and Austin learned every officially released Radiohead song. For season two, they are making their way through The Smashing Pumpkins from 1991 to 2000. While we'd love to learn every one of the band's songs on guitar, Billy Corgan is simply too prolific. We apologize.

About your hosts

Austin Diaz

I've trained for this music podcast by teaching Latin and English in German in Switzerland for the past nine years. I ride my bike a lot, but not for fun. I live in the same apartment as my wife and two sons.

Nick Kindelsperger

Like all good music podcast hosts, I have been a food and dining reporter for the Chicago Tribune since 2016. Most days I can be found eating a questionable number of meals for research purposes.