Smashing Pumpkins were a HUGE ripoff of MBV
Especially MBV's album Loveless; Siamese Dreams is basically a ripoff of this album - and most of the Pumpkins music I`ve heard sounds very similar to Loveless and MBV`s 1988 album. Aside from MBV`s unique guitar style, The Smashing Pumpkins lead singer even ripped off MBV`s unique vocal style. So I couldn't really ever see them as any more than an imitation band of sorts - and wasn`t able to really get into the Smashing Pumpkins.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.