The first is footage filmed on a sound stage featuring the band members "looking bored", and playing guitars. Problems playing this file? See media help. "Rhinoceros" MENU 0:00 Sample of "Rhinoceros", taken from the band's debut album Gish (1991) and also featured on the Lull EP (1992). It was directed by Angela Conway, who also directed " Siva". Ī video was also made for "Rhinoceros", which was one of the Pumpkins earliest videos. Songwriter Billy Corgan has mentioned that Lull is known within the band as "the Rhinoceros single". Instead of being released as a CD single, "Rhinoceros" was instead featured as the first track on Lull. The album recording reportedly features 17 tracks of feedback. But after a while you get used to playing 'Rhinoceros', so you bring in something that's a little weirder." In an early radio appearance from 1989, Corgan can be heard referring to the tune, which D'arcy Wretzky audibly protests playing, as "that real slow one". The song was cited as a turning point by Corgan in an interview about Siamese Dream: "I can remember bringing in 'Rhinoceros', which didn't sound like anything else we had. The song is an early indication of the loud/soft dynamic that would come to define the band's overall sound. It was written by Billy Corgan and is one of the few songs from Gish that has been performed consistently throughout the band's career. " Rhinoceros" is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins from their debut album, Gish.