Bang Bang You're Dead... POLL In Your Head - ILM Artist Poll #87 - SMASHING PUMPKINS - Results

Great, great song. You listen to this and realize how much restraint and balance Corgan had then. He - or the band, or whatever - could seemingly do ANYTHING for a while there.

I really should've had For Martha on my ballot, had a realisation literally just this morning how amazing it is.

it was also like in the middle of listening to this song at 3am when i was 13 years old that i was like "yes actually adore is my favorite album of all time"

there's an alternative version of Adore in my head that excises the more electro-goth songs (which i really like, don't get me wrong!) and instead leans heavily on the ballad-goth songs:

to sheila
once upon a time
tear
shame
behold! the night mare
for martha
blank page

only 7 songs and ~40 minutes, but for me these are the core songs of adore

the heart songs

WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR placing this high just lifts the heart, damn

OTM, Whir is all-time.

I'm guessing that "Crestfallen" is somewhere up ahead. Right?

RIGHT?!?

For Martha was the only song that made sense to me when I first heard Adore. really incredible song and one of their most moving. the way the guitar solo explodes into existence!

that's the last one for now

Muzzle way too low! my fav track on MatIS

Way behind but: the "Zero" riff is incredible! It's such a simple idea but just by sliding his finger down that stretch of the low sixth string with a load of distortion, he basically plays a catchy descending Eb major arpeggio in just intonation on the 6th, 5th, and 4th harmonics. It made my top 10 mostly for that + the noise solo.

I'm guessing that "Crestfallen" is somewhere up ahead. Right?

RIGHT?!?

― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, April 7, 2018 10:12 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i voted for it real high but i'm guessing: no

recap so far:

21 For Martha 380 15 1
22 Muzzle 358 14 0
23 Tonight, Tonight 348 14 0
24 Silverfuck 338 13 0
25 Whir 336 11 1
26 Zero 328 13 0
27 Frail and Bedazzled 322 11 1
28 Siva 314 13 1
29 Snail 310 11 0
30 Hello Kitty Kat 294 14 1
31 Shame 274 10 0
32 To Forgive 266 9 0
33 Appels + Oranjes 250 9 0
35 I Am One 234 9 0
35 Beautiful 234 9 1
36 Quiet 232 9 0
37 Bullet With Butterfly Wings 228 9 0
38 Bodies 226 8 0
39 Love 216 11 0
40 Bury Me 214 10 0
41 Luna 208 10 0
42 To Sheila 196 10 1
43 Behold! The Night Mare 188 8 0
44 Glynis 184 8 0
45 Blank Page 180 9 0
46 Eye 172 9 0
47 Where Boys Fear To Tread 170 7 0
48 By Starlight 162 9 0
49 Cupid de Locke 156 9 0
52 Age of Innocence 154 5 0
52 Crush 154 6 1
52 I of the Mourning 154 5 1
53 Pug 150 6 0
56 Spaceboy 142 6 0
56 Ava Adore 142 6 0
56 Wound 142 7 0
58 Tear 134 4 0
58 Real Love 134 7 0
59 Suffer 128 5 0
60 Disarm 124 6 0
61 X.Y.U. 122 5 1
62 Farewell and Goodnight 120 4 0
63 Glass and the Ghost Children 118 4 0
64 The Boy 116 4 0
65 Stumbleine 112 6 0
66 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 110 3 1

For Martha is the kind of overblown epic that MCIS needed to end with. Unfortunately they didn't close Adore with it either.

'for martha' would have been a great closer, it's true. i really love "blank page", though. the sound of beautiful exhaustion

pretty dope list so far tbh. aside from a few things i really can't stand, it's shaping up to be a killer "everything good about the band in one place" playlist. crazy to me that some really canonical songs only had like nine or eleven people voting for them. i could imagine we're about to hit a real jump point where everything showed up in at least half of the ballots. kinda thinking "drown" might take this as something i can't imagine anybody not putting somewhere in their 25. but there's a lot of heavy hitters that haven't shown up yet. only thirteen songs from my ballot have placed so far and of the ones that haven't i feel like the only one i can safely rule out at this point is "This Time."

I didn't get a chance to vote, but jesus this is a trip down memory lane. I didn't go much beyond Mellon Collie at the time, but this has brought back many stoned nights in my parent's garage. I'd have had Mayonnaise at #1 fwiw. Or maybe Snail.

Is it too obvious to mention how much Mogwai wanted to sound like Slint but actually nicked a huge chunk of their sound from Silverfuck?

I don't know. I think This Time still has a good shot. "As the curtain falls we bid you all goodnight" packed a punch.

About nine songs from my ballot have made it so far; maayyyybe five more songs will join them in the final stretch.

Yeah Mogwai were basically an instrumental SD cover band early on. Then they got a lot worse as they tried to be Tortoise and got the Godspeed You Black Emperor disease.

Fuck, every song that's placed in the Top 30 so far is a masterpiece.

For Martha too loooow

"Quiet" = great opening and riff, but the song goes nowhere and Billy's vocal leaves something to be desired. I usually listen to 15 seconds and then hit skip.

Ah “to forgive” made it! Had no idea it was that well liked and I was losing hope. First song I learned on guitar.

"Whir" was my #1 <3

Yeah, I used to love that one. Probably deserved a spot on my ballot.

I think my #1 wont make it. Hope at least “set the ray to jerry” does.

Wish I could've voted for this. Alas.

"Quiet" = great opening and riff, but the song goes nowhere and Billy's vocal leaves something to be desired. I usually listen to 15 seconds and then hit skip.

Yeah, I used to love that one. Probably deserved a spot on my ballot.

cf "Silverfuck"

Hello Kitty Kat is my favorite heavy Pumpkins song to play on guitar... the shift from the F# vamp in the verses to the G# - E chorus is so brutal.

pretty dope list so far tbh. aside from a few things i really can't stand, it's shaping up to be a killer "everything good about the band in one place" playlist. crazy to me that some really canonical songs only had like nine or eleven people voting for them. i could imagine we're about to hit a real jump point where everything showed up in at least half of the ballots. kinda thinking "drown" might take this as something i can't imagine anybody not putting /somewhere/ in their 25. but there's a lot of heavy hitters that haven't shown up yet. only thirteen songs from my ballot have placed so far and of the ones that haven't i feel like the only one i can safely rule out at this point is "This Time."

"Hummer" and "Soma" maybe (I hope)?

I'm guessing 33 takes it in a walk.

Oh yeah Hummer and Soma are locks for top 10, maybe top 5. Thirty-three probably in the teens? Idk. Was in the teens on my ballot

Feel like we could hit Hummer very soon tbh. Never knew anybody rated it so high until these threads - as far as SD consensus classics go i would expect Rocket, Mayonaise, Today and Cherub Rock to all outperform that one.

i went 5/10 so far today and that upped my total.

was having a very bad average.

“Stand inside your love” will also make it if only for being the token pick for people wanting at least one song per album in there.

"Drown" is only for heart-core SP fans? I'd hope not...

The version of Drown on the greatest hits is only 4 mins long. Ridiculous

"Drown" is only for heart-core SP fans? I'd hope not...

Rocket has gotta place high. In a way I think that’s their mission statement more than anything else. It was the first song they played at the “final show” on 12/2/2000.

I've never been much of a Pumpkins fan outside of SD, a handful of MCIS and Pisces selections, and Drown (this is reflected in my fairly pedestrian ballot). But hearing the songs you guys have chosen outside of album context via the playlist has given me a new way in for a lot of this stuff.

🤗🤗🤗

wait a sec- besides “The Boy” - have any songs from The Aeroplane Flies High placed yer? Realizing “Meladori Magpie” and “Rotten Apples” probably aren’t going to place 😢

Jerry will place surely.

I don't think so, flappy.

If "Pistachio Medley" were gonna place, it'd have placed by now, probably.

In re-listening to things for this poll, I got about 3 minutes into "Pistachio Medley."