― Will M. (Will M.), Sunday, 19 June 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Richard K (Richard K), Sunday, 19 June 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― cilly borgan, Sunday, 19 June 2005 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― leonard (tk), Sunday, 19 June 2005 06:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 19 June 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link
ah, but is it the FAST or the SLOW batman song?
thank you K (x-post)
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 19 June 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― hatorade!!!!!!, Sunday, 19 June 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 19 June 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 19 June 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 19 June 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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!
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 19 June 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Hahahahahhahaha oh my god, I will never hear this song the same way again.
― Roz (Roz), Sunday, 19 June 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Wait, I thought it wasn't out for two more days...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ismael, Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stoner Guy, Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 19 June 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 19 June 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
destroy-adore.all of it.and most of machina.any iha song.
― eedd, Sunday, 19 June 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 June 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― eedd, Monday, 20 June 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― PB, Monday, 20 June 2005 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Pisces Iscariot is their best, I say.
― cdwill, Monday, 20 June 2005 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― El carnal, Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Guayaquil, Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
"The Everlasting Gaze""Raindrops and Sunshowers""Stand Inside Your Love""Try Try Try""Heavy Metal Machine""Wound"
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― coil my, Monday, 29 August 2005 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 August 2005 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Monday, 29 August 2005 05:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Monday, 29 August 2005 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Erock Lazron, Monday, 29 August 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
other tracks to seek, not destroy---Apathy's Last KissBullet Train to OsakaLa Dolly VitaPlumeSmileyGroover (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.
― eedd, Monday, 29 August 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Eye would get honorable mention.As would the cover of "Dancing In the Moonlight"
― eedd, Monday, 29 August 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― eedd, Monday, 29 August 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link
"Heavy metal, heavy metal machine, so sentimental..."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.whatevs.org/images/dailypics/0903/bozo_billy.jpg
haters gotta recognize...
― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link
http://metalmachine.free.fr/billybozo.jpg
― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― MIDIchlorian (latebloomer), Friday, 28 August 2009 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, DID NOT MEAN TO POST THAT PIC WITH THAT POST, BUT LMAO ANYWAY
― MIDIchlorian (latebloomer), Friday, 28 August 2009 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
What about "Lucky 13" and "Slow Dawn"?
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Friday, 28 August 2009 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link
rotten appleslunamuzzleif there is a godjellybellyfor marthaporcelina of the vast oceansthru the eyes of rubyblank pagemeladori magpiesnailgeek usasivarocketsomawhere boys fear to treadfuck youset the ray to jerryi of the mourningthirty-threevanityspeed killsglass & the ghost childrenvalentinewishing you were realsoot & starshere is no whymellon collie and the infinite sadnessautumn nocturnepastichio medleyxyuwith every lightsootheplumehello kitty katappels + oranjesi am onehomeblankuglybeautifulso very sad about us
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 October 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Sunday, 4 October 2015 01:23 (eight years ago) link
autumn nocturnevalentinewishing you were realsoot & starsso very sad about us
I thought I was a relative SP completist but I have no idea what any of these are!
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Sunday, 4 October 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link
"Annie-Dog" from ADORE is a stunner."Obscured""Cash Car Star""The Aeroplane Flies High""Age of Innocence""Pissant"
― beamish13, Sunday, 4 October 2015 05:42 (eight years ago) link
Let Me Give the World to You
― hhoffman, Sunday, 4 October 2015 09:13 (eight years ago) link
sivacherub rockgeek usa1979appels + oranjeswhirhello kitty katobscuredstarlaeye
hey wow that makes ten
― brimstead, Sunday, 4 October 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
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 Ruby03 Rocket04 Cupid de Locke04 Cherub Rock05 Where Boys Fear To Tread06 Tonight, Tonight07 Porcelina of the Vast Oceans08 Silverfuck09 197910 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.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
RhinocerosMayonnaise (despite my aversion condiment)SomaDrown
A few years ago I realized this was all the SD I needed.
― the cuddling of the american behind (how's life), Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
SP
i kind of want to make a mix editing together a bunch of billy's guitar solos, pastichio medley style
― brimstead, Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
"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
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 October 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
2:20 to 2:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbPCMoAFHAg
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
nice
― brimstead, Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
i have signed up to do the Smashing Pumpkins poll and it will be more than 20 picks.
so in about 3 years...
― Bee OK, Friday, 9 October 2015 06:07 (eight years ago) link