Why The Smashing Pumpkins’ Soma Belongs on Every Best 90s Guitar Solos List
Pull up any ranked list of top songs by The Smashing Pumpkins, and “Soma” is probably on it. Tucked near the midpoint of the band’s 1993 masterpiece Siamese Dream, the song was never a single, didn’t have a music video, and wasn’t promoted like Today or Disarm. Yet it’s a fan favorite, and it features one of the top guitar solos of the 1990s. This is the story of “Soma” and why it hits so hard.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 The Story of “Soma”
1:16 The Band at the Edge of Itself
3:06 The Map on the Back of the Track Sheet
6:35 The Meaning Behind “Soma”
10:14 One of the Greatest Guitar Solos of the 90s
12:06 What Came Out of the Ruins
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@lono11261
July 5, 2026 at 11:53 pm
I said it once before, siamese dream is like walking into a candy store filled with all your favorite sweets.❤
@PoisonedWails
July 5, 2026 at 11:53 pm
Love Soma and The Pumpkins in general! Fun watch! 🤘🎃🤘
@EdwardBurke-t2s
July 5, 2026 at 11:53 pm
Andy!!! You really hit the mark with this one! Love you, man❤
@adamturner1563
July 5, 2026 at 11:53 pm
Corgan is a foul human being. If you knew some of the things this guys clued up on, your head would spin.
@intellectually_lazy
July 5, 2026 at 11:53 pm
nope! still mad i spent the $25 borders gift card i got for my birthday on melancholie and the infinite sadness thinking the whole thing would sound like zero and bullet with butterfly wings and all the rest turned out to be tonight, tonight! f vck 'em!
@TheWosniakGambit
July 5, 2026 at 11:53 pm
That is the weirdest thing.. .i woke up with this song in my head
@SkinnyEatWorld95
July 5, 2026 at 11:53 pm
Any Smashing Pumpkins song belongs on my list of greatest songs of the 90s including Soma. They'll forever be on my top 5 greatest bands of all time❤
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