OP10: Smashing Pumpkins

...er, that's it (i haven't heard a full album of theirs)

this could go on and on... only 10 is a crime...

I used to have all their albums, but they really grew off me, with two exceptions. Guess which ones.

i am one
window paine
today
soma
1979
thru the eyes of ruby
love
eye
perfect
blank page (live in atlanta 8-4-98)

in roughly chron. order. i'd totally forgotten all the wacky trax on adore - pug! the tale of dusty & pistol pete! annie-dog!

Mmm. I don't like list threads much, though.

Muzzle
Starla
Thirty Three
Bury Me
Silverfuck
Mayonnaise
1979
Cherub Rock
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Soma

Set The Ray To Jerry
Geek USA
Soma
Cherub Rock
Beautiful
Here Is No Why
Try Try Try
Thirty-Three
X.Y.U.
Starla

I'm a big fan of Shame too, by the way.

Luna
Tonight Tonight
Eye
To Forgive
Muzzle
Rotten Apples
Mayonaise
Quiet
Here Is No Why
Rhinceros

Top 10:
1979
Behold! The Nightmare
Bodies
Hummer
I of the Mourning
Let Me Give the World to You
Mayonaise
Muzzle
Obscured
Once in a While
Set the Ray to Jerry
Soma
Speed Kills
Saturnine
Stand Inside Your Love
Starla
Thru the Eyes of Ruby

(sorry, I really, really, really can't narrow it down beyond that, former Corganite that I am...)

Yeah, there's been a couple of threads on it. Parody? I don't think so, it's all very much his writing style -- I refer you to the Pisces Iscariot liner notes, it's just the way he writes/rambles.

I will say I did like that he put in a link to the actual Mary Star of the Sea church.

It's pretty over the top.

02. Plume - I suspect that _Pisces Iscariot_ is never given it's
fair due in this kind of list.
03. Rhinoceros
04. We Only Come Out At Night - Smashing Pumpkins at their most
delicious unhip.
05. Stand Inside Your Love - this one of Corgan's typically
smashing choruses. He achieved the same affect in Hole's "Malibu."
06. Jellybelly
07. Farewell And Goodbye
08. Cherub Rock
09. 1979
10. Bullet With Butterfly Wings

(Note that these are fav tracks off each single/album, respectively and coincidentally)

honorable mentions: the end is the beginning is the end, the last song, transformer

xpost: billycorgan.com is some heavy disillusionment for someone who once worshipped El Corgan. Have I grown or has he regressed?....

Rhinocerous
Zero
Perfect
Here's To The Atom Bomb (Machina II version)
Wound
Tales of a Scorched Earth
Beautiful
Appels & Oranjes
Pug
Today

...and so many more...

Fivvy OTM

011 Siva
012 Whir
013 Soothe
014 My Dahlia
015 Glynis
016 Appels & Oranjes
017 Today
018 Dusty and Pistol Pete
019 Tonight, Tonight
020 I of the Mourning

10. Tonight, Tonight
9. Disarm
8. Stand Inside Your Love
7. Drown
6. Once Upon a Time
5. Landslide
4. Mayonnaise
3. Eye
2. Thirty-Three
1. 1979

I'll change my list in an hour, I know it.

Set the Ray to Jerry
Mayonaise
Cherub Rock
To Forgive
1979
Starla
Age of Innocence
Stand Inside Your Love
Once Upon a Time
Apathy's Last Kiss

thread resurrection: because i've just been given a bootleg live audio recording of the pumpkins' paris show, and it's reminded me of all the reasons i've been an obsessive fan for 14 years...

drown
rhinoceros
tristessa
starla
la dolly vita
blue
hello kittykat
today
soma
mayonnaise
thru the eyes of ruby
muzzle
jellybelly
porcelina
blank page
annie-dog
shame (i actually don't like the album version at all, but they performed it at the paris show, and it was stunning)
heavy metal machine
untitled

that's as narrow as i can make the list, and it was pretty difficult. there's not many sp tracks i don't like/love.

might as well revamp my list for these modern times, though this is still just random stuff popping into my head:

Obscured
Starla
Appels + Oranjes
Soma
Rhinoceros
Whir
Stumbleine
Here Is No Why
Plume
Hello Kitty Kat

I rly need to rip all my Pumpkins stuff to mp3 and listen to it.

One song that immediately comes to mind as a fave tho is "Bodies".

OK now I'm listening to them again after years, its all your fault Curtis.

goddamnit, i wrote my list off the top of my head, and now you've reminded me that i also love
here is no why
stumbleine
obscured

consider those an addendum to my list ;)

Pisces Iscariot still the only album I keep coming back to over and over and over.

"Bodies" is really good, one of my favorite tracks on Mellon Collie!

"Rhinoceros" is an astonishing song, easily one of the best of the 90s for me.

daphne descends just came on on shuffle

fantastic tune

so I'm seeing the Pumpkins in Austin TX tonight, on the Zeitgeist (wtf) tour... and so, here's my POX songs i'd like to see SP play in Austin tonight, limited to songs i'm aware they've played on the tour thus far:

Starla (!!!!!!!!)
Drown
Cherub Rock
Today
Hummer
Thirty-Three
Set the Ray to Jerry
To Sheila
Stand Inside Your Love
Let Me Give the World to You

...and POV songs (mostly pre-Zeitgeist material here) that i could really go without hearing tonight, though it's almost certain that i'll get at least four of these, based on previous/recent setlists:

Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Zero
Heavy Metal Machine
Glass and the Ghost Children
United States

am I overestimating the band contribution in thinking it wouldn't be the same without James Iha (and D'arcy, but mostly Iha)?

yes.

i thought about trying to answer this thread but really i can rubber stamp nickalicious's list and get more or less the same result i'd come up with on my own.

hummer
rocket
geek usa
hello kitty kat
pissant
plume
set the ray to jerry
to sheila
here is no why
drown

Played tonight from my POX just above:

Starla
Drown
Cherub Rock
Today
Hummer
Stand Inside Your Love

6/10 ain't bad. Plus I heard 1979, Perfect, Lucky 13, Disarm and a bunch of new stuff. Also, a Frogs song with some guy from the Frogs. And a cover of Taxman, yep. All in all it was pretty entertaining.

I never thought I'd see the day where Billy Corgan's stage attire was more outlandish than Jimmy Flemion's...

http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/gallery/pics/622689eac8753f32a44fc9dbb3eed4a9.jpg

Set the Ray to Jerry
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Never Let Me Down Again (yeah I'd take a cover)
Eye
1979
Take Me Down
Bodies
Perfect
The Everlasting Gaze
Cherub Rock

WHITE_SPYDER is the best thing they did post-Adore

obscured
silverfuck
rhinoceros
suffer
la dolly vita
daydream
snail
blur
hummer
whir

curtis: what? i don't know anything about this!

also: i think i'm getting the new documentary for my b'day.

it's an mp3 from Machina II, rubes!

Drown
Rhinoceros
1979
Siva
Rocket
Cherub Rock
Once Upon a Time
Mayonaise
Bury Me
Silverfuck

arrgghh, i never got any of that machina II stuff! ;_;

^^^^
Nice to see an FNM-quoting screenname.

disarm
1979
disarm
1979
today
1979
disarm
today
disarm
1979

haha i was hoping someone would recognise it!

Warning... the new documentary suuuuuuuuuuucks. The bonus disc with the live footage is pretty decent, but the doc itself is awful. It amounts to an hour and a half of Billy whining about fan expectations and bringing in Pete Townshend to back him up about the pressures of moving forward. Although I do admit, I have a huuuge crush on Ginger after watching it.

most of the machina II stuff is boring but "White Spyder" is where it's atttttt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SELrax_6288

love this song so much

yes

Someone mentioned a live version of Blank Page from Atlanta '98 way upthread. Just heard it. Pretty rad.

This was new to me too - holy balls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV54jrS98Mo

Everyone who has listed 'set the ray to jerry' are otm. I'm proud of you all.

Mouths of Babes
Here Is No Why
Cupid de Locke
Obscured
Plume
Bodies
Siva
Today
Geek USA
Quiet

Mayonnaise
Frail and Bedazzled
Set the Ray to Jerry
Drown
Starla
Soma
Shame
1979
Obscured
Rhinoceros
Thru the Eyes of Ruby

...really really fucking hard...

"Here Is No Why" is a fucking jam

for sure

As of right now:

Crush
Drown
Glynis
Mayonaise
Obscured
Pennies
Set the Ray to Jerry
Snail
To Forgive
Whir

Crush is so rad

Glynis too

cherub rock
here is no why
1979
thru the eyes of ruby
fuck you
mellon collie and the infinite sadness
jellybelly
hello kitty kat
behold! the night mare
geek u.s.a.

rotten apples
meladori magpie
fuck you
where boys fear to tread
set the ray to jerry
porcelina of the vast oceans
muzzle
blank page
if there is a god
i of the mourning