What are the best/essential Smashing Pumpkins tracks?

Drown
Cherub Rock
Silverfuck
Stand Inside Your Love
Love
Rocket
Daphne Descends
Perfect
Bodies
Thirty-Three

The essential album is Pisces Iscariot and don't let ANYBODY TELL YOU OTHERWISE!

I don't know why I don't listen to this album more often.

If I had to recommend one, that would be it. It's the one I rank the highest for the Pumpkins.

My fav Pumpkins rocker is probably "Siva."

ah, but is it the FAST or the SLOW batman song?

thank you K (x-post)

best? essential? ... more like a litmus test.

If you can even stand it a _little_ bit, you'll probably adore the Pumps. If not, well unfortunately many other songs by them are equally afflicted with this godawful nasal whinge & whine.

I like the actual music, though, with the exception of the song Today, which is too Paul McCartney-esque in its sentiment for me to take seriously. Cherub Rock reminds me of a Heatmiser Song; I like Heatmiser, but I didn't like Cherub Rock.

The theatricality of Silverfuck, and the heavier stuff, which I like much better, reminds me of Alice Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare album. Not sound-wise, but in the sense of the dramatic, the story-telling. Bullet w/ Buttterfly Wings was another one I really liked. I love the Zeppelin-heavy stuff--thanks for pointing me in the right direciton, all!

Hahahahahhahaha oh my god, I will never hear this song the same way again.

Wait, I thought it wasn't out for two more days...

The theatricality of Silverfuck, and the heavier stuff, which I like much better

Try this live version of Today. Far less prissy.
http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0TPFP11M142Y11SG0QX8E1MKNP

btw, try Bodies, XYU, Zero, or Where Boys Fear To Tread if you like heavy.

destroy-
adore.all of it.and most of machina.any iha song.

as for machina, well, all i gots to say is-Machina 2=the real rawk.

c'mon, iha's songs all sounded too sappy- blew away, the boy,etc.=ick.

Pisces Iscariot is their best, I say.

"The Everlasting Gaze"
"Raindrops and Sunshowers"
"Stand Inside Your Love"
"Try Try Try"
"Heavy Metal Machine"
"Wound"

Secret favorite low-key Pumpkins tracks -- "Set the Ray to Jerry" and "Shame

Amen. "Set the Ray..." in particular.

Also:

"Soma"
"I am one"
"Rhinoceros"
"Glynis"
"Hummer"
"Stand inside your Love"
"Everlasting Gaze"
"Landslide"
"Mayonnaise"

One of the best bands in the world to be 16 years-old to. All the drama, exaggerated self-importance, angst and wide-eyed innocence you could ever want in one convenient package.

other tracks to seek, not destroy---
Apathy's Last Kiss
Bullet Train to Osaka
La Dolly Vita
Plume
Smiley
Groover (Gravity Demo)
Razor (never recorded, but played live '90/91 era)
Try to Try (not to be confused w/ TryTryTry, another '90/91 era live)

MOuths of Babes is certainly a GREAT b-side, as is Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right).

it's a shame they never recorded some of the stuff they'd do live (Rattler/Razor/Try to Try).

Eye would get honorable mention.

other tracks to seek, not destroy---
Apathy's Last Kiss
Bullet Train to Osaka
La Dolly Vita
Plume
Smiley
Groover (Gravity Demo)
Razor (never recorded, but played live '90/91 era)
Try to Try (not to be confused w/ TryTryTry, another '90/91 era live)

MOuths of Babes is certainly a GREAT b-side, as is Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right).

it's a shame they never recorded some of the stuff they'd do live (Rattler/Razor/Try to Try).

Eye would get honorable mention.As would the cover of "Dancing In the Moonlight"

DISARM still hits my sweet spot tbh

would agree

heard rhinoceros for the first time in over a decade the other day, sounded awesome

that track, it gets so BIG. i still remember though it must be 5+ years since i've heard it

rhinoceros is an essential smashing pumpkins track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d93Yvmz4vuQ

any songs recorded while billy still had long hair are pretty essential

gish & siamese dream are truly lovely albums. if BC hadn't been such a dickcheese this band would have been much more highly regarded now than they are.

http://snsimages.tribune.com/media/photo/2001-06/236343.jpg

ha, DID NOT MEAN TO POST THAT PIC WITH THAT POST, BUT LMAO ANYWAY

What about "Lucky 13" and "Slow Dawn"?

rotten apples
luna
muzzle
if there is a god
jellybelly
for martha
porcelina of the vast oceans
thru the eyes of ruby
blank page
meladori magpie
snail
geek usa
siva
rocket
soma
where boys fear to tread
fuck you
set the ray to jerry
i of the mourning
thirty-three
vanity
speed kills
glass & the ghost children
valentine
wishing you were real
soot & stars
here is no why
mellon collie and the infinite sadness
autumn nocturne
pastichio medley
xyu
with every light
soothe
plume
hello kitty kat
appels + oranjes
i am one
home
blank
ugly
beautiful
so very sad about us

The thing I really liked was the kinda Hendrix styled riffs on the first album on like "I Am One", "Siva" and "Bury Me". They are all kind of plays off the same style but those were the tracks that caught me early on.

autumn nocturne
valentine
wishing you were real
soot & stars
so very sad about us

I thought I was a relative SP completist but I have no idea what any of these are!

"Annie-Dog" from ADORE is a stunner.
"Obscured"
"Cash Car Star"
"The Aeroplane Flies High"
"Age of Innocence"
"Pissant"

Let Me Give the World to You

siva
cherub rock
geek usa
1979
appels + oranjes
whir
hello kitty kat
obscured
starla
eye

hey wow that makes ten

i tried, i really tried, but for me this is an all-SD and MCIS list...

01 Mayonaise (my one must-have pick)
02 Thru the Eyes of Ruby
03 Rocket
04 Cupid de Locke
04 Cherub Rock
05 Where Boys Fear To Tread
06 Tonight, Tonight
07 Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
08 Silverfuck
09 1979
10 Muzzle

This is definitely a "best" rather than a "sampler" list - maybe not showing all the things they did well or tried to do, but w/e. There's tons of stuff I like or love on Gish and Adore and even Machina but if I'm honest with myself about what I'd absolutely have to save from this band if the earth caught fire, this is it. Sturm und drang and the wash of inchoate rage and romantic disaster against the voice of Billy Corgan, hopeful little dreamboy amongst the flowers. The best psychedelia of the 90s? The fucking weirdest guitar rock albums to sell millions and millions of copies to however many equally wide-eyed and secretly precious teenage souls? God this was a great band in its day.

Rhinoceros
Mayonnaise (despite my aversion condiment)
Soma
Drown

A few years ago I realized this was all the SD I needed.

SP

i kind of want to make a mix editing together a bunch of billy's guitar solos, pastichio medley style

I thought I was a relative SP completist but I have no idea what any of these are!

"soot and stars" is a machina b-side, a relatively pretty piano ballad. it was on that b-side collection they included with some copies of the greatest hits. the others iirc are on various demo comps. "autumn nocturne" is a hilarious pick for "essential" sp

i kind of want to make a mix editing together a bunch of billy's guitar solos, pastichio medley style

― brimstead, Thursday, October 8, 2015 2:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes! this is the first one that came to mind-

2:12 to 2:38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzBVvD1vUvM

2:20 to 2:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbPCMoAFHAg

nice

i have signed up to do the Smashing Pumpkins poll and it will be more than 20 picks.

so in about 3 years...