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“Rocket” by The Smashing Pumpkins

From the album Siamese Dream (1993)

“Rocket” by The Smashing Pumpkins appears on 26 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1994 and 2023. It was first released in 1993 on the album Siamese Dream. Its best result is #94 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #275 alternative song of 1994 and #687 alternative song of all time.

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9stations
#94best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1994–2023years charted

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"Rocket" is one of Billy Corgan's songs from the Smashing Pumpkins' 1993 album Siamese Dream, and it became the record's fourth and final single in December 1994. Butch Vig produced and Alan Moulder mixed, and it's the band at their most blissed-out: a guitar figure that pulses round and round until the fuzz piles up into a wall of sound, sweeter and more tuneful than the grinding "Cherub Rock" but every bit as loud.

The UK 7-inch, sold on its own and in the Siamese Singles box, carried a cover of Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again" on the flip, cut at the BBC, possibly in one take, because bassist D'arcy Wretzky had long been a Depeche Mode fan. "Rocket" charted in Canada, New Zealand and the UK, yet it was left off the greatest-hits set Rotten Apples.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 94 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 101

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 843 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) 1000
1996 490 Q101 Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) 500
1999 116 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 318 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 596 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 406 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2000 596 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 596 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 596 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 657 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2002 423 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 596 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 381 107.7 The End The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) 500
2004 596 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 595 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 501 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2007 414 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2007 794 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 794 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 808 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 792 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 732 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 701 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 699 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2023 658 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s 893

Charting alongside it in 1994

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