Smashing Pumpkins released their debut album, “Gish,” on May 28, 1991. The album earned only modest chart success at the time, peaking at number 195 on the Billboard 200 chart, but helped cement the Pumpkins as the psychedelic voice in the emerging grunge rock scene. They would go on to success with later albums like “Siamese Dream” and “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness,” and hit tracks like “1979” and “Bullet With Butterfly Wings.”Having already released early recordings of the track “I Am One” for the Chicago indie label Limited Potential, the Pumpkins secured a deal with EMI subsidiary Caroline Records. Other early singles released from Gish included “Siva” and “Rhinoceros.” The album was released just two months before Nirvana’s influential LP “Nevermind” and helped bring the grunge movement to the center of pop culture. While speaking with Guitar World in 2002, Billy Corgan admitted that Nirvana’s success put a lot of pressure on the band. "We felt a great pressure that if we didn't come up with a record that was huge, we were done. It was that simple in our minds. We felt like our lives depended on it,” he explained.