What are the best/essential Smashing Pumpkins tracks?

hmmmm

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

Everything before was underdeveloped and everthing after that was bloated.

Siva
Cherub Rock
Disarm
Rocket
Silverfuck
1979
Thirty-Three
Perfect

under the radar-ish but quite worth it:

Whir
Hummer
Pennies
Set the Ray to Jerry
Pug
Silverfuck (especially live versions with snippets of "Over The Rainbow")

(I'm not kidding, I'm still not convinced he's not singing "in his bum", even though I'm seeing the lyrics right in front of me)

(and "Hummer" of course)

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...

http://metalmachine.free.fr/billybozo.jpg

- Through the eyes of Ruby
- Obscured
- Hummer
- Silverfuck
- Starla
- Apathy's Last Kiss
- Bullet w/ Butterfly Wings
- The Aeroplane Flies High (looks left, turns right)
- Rhinoceros
- Where Boys Fear To Tread

but it's all great...

it's all subjective, i suppose. i've spent way too much time disecting this band...

Just lovely fast strummy strummy rhythm guitar. Fun to play, too.

drown
mayonnaise
glynis
slunk
silverfuck
pissant
hello kitty kat
why am i so tired
to sheila
the mouths of babes

"Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, any love for the acoustic version of Cherub Rock released on Viewphoria?"

I've got a lot of love for that version. Always a good choice whenever someone hands you a guitar and says "Play".

Rock star Billy Corgan has broken his silence regarding the events that took place last Saturday at the ECW television taping in Peoria, IL. The following is a transcript of his comments on the incident, which was recently covered on MTV, and will air, in its entirety, this Friday during ECW on TNN.

"Let me start by saying that this incident with "Lou E. Imitation" is a complete outrage. For weeks I had been looking forward to singing the national anthem in front of the good people of Peoria, Illinois, an honor bestowed on me by Paul Heyman himself, who had personally invited me to open the show last Saturday night. ECW is my favorite promotion in the world, and never having sung our national anthem in public before, it was an opportunity I just couldn’t say no to.

It started out to be a great night, getting the chance before the show to talk to some of my favorite wrestlers, great guys like Jerry Lynn, Rob Van Dam, The Sandman and Justin Credible. I was nervous about doing a great rendition of the anthem, but looked forward to sitting back after I sang to watch the show. So after the warm reception I received from the crowd when I was announced as a surprise guest, what followed was like a bucket of cold water. Before I could play a note I was attacked by Lou “I used to be the Sign Guy but the Dudley’s left me behind” Dangerously and his band of reckless thugs, Steve Corino, Scotty Anton, and Jack Victory.

It was, needless to say, a unwarranted intrusion upon my performance, and an insult that won’t be easily forgotten. Lou may be the greatest manager in sports entertainment, but he is a no class individual who should be ashamed to call himself an American. Hopefully the fans will get the chance to judge this entire situation for themselves F
riday night on TNN"

Bury Me
Plume
La Dolly Vita
1979
Galapogos
Ava Adore
Tristessa
Never Let Me Down
Hummer
Obscured

If I made the list today it'd probably be different, but I'd say 1979, La Dolly Vita, Never Let Me Down are certs. Obscured is the first one in the list every time.

The End is the Beginning is the End
Bury Me
Soothe
1979
Appels & Oranjes
Soma
Snail
Where Boys Fear To Tread
Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Here are my favourites...
Bodies
Mayonaise
Cherub Rock (man...that music video..)
Pissant
Saturnine
Pug

takes one to know one, i suppose!

my own POX (in no order):

bury me
thirty three
jellybelly
cherub rock
rocket
hummer
eye
here is no why
tristessa
mayonnaise

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...