Editing The Smashing Pumpkins (section)

==Music videos==
[[File:Smashing pumpkins tonight video 02.jpg|thumb |right |alt=The set from the "Tonight, Tonight" music video features the performers dressed in Victorian clothing on a colorful set mimicking the moon. A moon monster is portrayed by a man on the left of the photo; he has on a pale green form-fitting jumpsuit with large blue and purple dots on it and wears matching make-up. On his head is a large prosthesis mimicking tall pale green hair. A man stands to the right wearing a suit and bowler and in front of him is a woman wearing a flowing gown. The woman has just struck another moon monster with an umbrella, and the moon monster has disappeared in a puff of smoke.|Drawing heavy influence from [[Georges Méliès]]'s ''[[A Trip to the Moon]]'', the video for "[[Tonight, Tonight (The Smashing Pumpkins song)|Tonight, Tonight]]" was filmed in the style of a turn-of-the-century [[silent film]] using theater-style backdrops and primitive special effects.<ref>Commentary for "Tonight, Tonight" music video. ''The Smashing Pumpkins 1991–2000: Greatest Hits Video Collection'' (Virgin Records, 2001).</ref>]]
The Smashing Pumpkins have been praised as "responsible for some of the most striking and memorable video clips" and for having "approached videos from a completely artistic standpoint rather than mere commercials to sell albums".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/r559297 |title=Greatest Hits <nowiki>[Video/DVD]</nowiki> |author=Greg Prato |work=Allmusic |access-date=March 4, 2012}}</ref> MTV's 2001 anniversary special ''Testimony: 20&nbsp;Years of Rock on MTV'' credited the Pumpkins, along with [[Nine Inch Nails]], with treating music videos as an art form during the 1990s. Corgan has said, "We generally resisted the idea of what I call the classic MTV rock video, which is like lots of people jumping around and stuff."<ref>Commentary for "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" music video. ''The Smashing Pumpkins 1991–2000: Greatest Hits Video Collection'' (Virgin Records, 2001).</ref> The band worked with video directors including [[Kevin Kerslake]] ("Cherub Rock"), [[Samuel Bayer]] ("Bullet with Butterfly Wings"), and, most frequently, the team of [[Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris]] ("[[Rocket (The Smashing Pumpkins song)|Rocket]]", "1979", "Tonight, Tonight", "The End Is the Beginning Is the End", and "[[Perfect (The Smashing Pumpkins song)|Perfect]]"). Corgan, who was frequently heavily involved in the conception of the videos, said of Dayton and Faris, "I know my [initial] versions are always darker, and they're always talking me into something a little kinder and gentler."<ref>Commentary for "Rocket" music video. ''The Smashing Pumpkins 1991–2000: Greatest Hits Video Collection'' (Virgin Records, 2001).</ref> Videos like "[[Today (The Smashing Pumpkins song)|Today]]", "Rocket", and "1979" dealt with images taken from middle American culture, albeit exaggerated. The group's videos so often avoid the literal interpretation of the song lyrics that the video for "Thirty-Three", with images closely related to the words of the song, was created as an intentional stylistic departure.<ref>Commentary for "Thirty-Three" music video. ''The Smashing Pumpkins 1991–2000: Greatest Hits Video Collection'' (Virgin Records, 2001).</ref>

The band was nominated for several [[MTV Video Music Awards]] during the 1990s. In 1996, the group won eight VMAs total for the "1979" and "Tonight, Tonight" videos, including the top award, Video of the Year, for "Tonight, Tonight". The video was also nominated for a Grammy at the 1997 ceremony. Of the "Tonight, Tonight" video, Corgan remarked, "I don't think we've ever had people react [like this]... it just seemed to touch a nerve."<ref>{{cite interview |last=Corgan |first=Billy |work=Smashing Pumpkins Videography |title=Interview|publisher=MTV |year=1996}}</ref>

Shortly after the band's 2000 breakup, the ''Greatest Hits Video Collection'' was released, collecting the band's music videos from 1991 to 2000 and including commentary from Corgan, Iha, Chamberlin, Wretzky, and various music video directors with outtakes, live performances, and the extended "Try, Try, Try" short film.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Prato|first1=Greg|title=Greatest Hits [Video/DVD]|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-video-dvd-mw0000017160|website=Allmusic|access-date=July 28, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140929040147/http://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-video-dvd-mw0000017160|archive-date=September 29, 2014}}</ref>