"Quasar" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins and the opening track of their eighth studio album Oceania, released on June 19, 2012, written and produced by frontman Billy Corgan and coproduced by Bjorn Thorsrud.
He also eulogized drumming parts of Mike Byrne, Nicole Fiorentino's basslines and Jeff Schroeder's fuzzed-out guitar work, along with Billy Corgan's vocal style.
Jayson Greene of Pitchfork Media compared the song's introductory riff to those of "Cherub Rock".
[10][11][12] Iann Robinson of CraveOnline similarly analogized the riff to "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", while contrasting "Quasar" with its vocals and underlying guitar parts, which make it "less vitriolic and more fist pumping".
[3] Dan Martin of NME referred to the song as "something approaching QOTSA channelling Zep's 'Whole Lotta Love'".