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

No votes for Oceania because I didn't submit a ballot.

couldn't decide which 25 pumpkins songs were actually worth talking about eh

xp nice

anyway I'm sure there will be surprises for some of you in the tracks rollout

No, I couldn't be arsed - putting together a ballot wasn't a priority and I would have found it impossible anyway. I'm sure almost every song that places will be at the least very good, as long as people haven't got stupid and filled their ballots full of lower tier b-sides.

what's your favorite b-side turrican

Policing what people should talk about in the voting thread was a priority

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'Starla'! Looking at the tracklisting for Pisces Iscariot, I could have easily voted for stuff like 'Whir' and 'Frail+Bedazzled' but not all of their B-sides/outtakes are of the same quality.

Mellon Collie
Siamese Dream
1979 EP
Pisces Iscariot
MACHINA

Gish was in the #5 spot until late on - the softer psychedelic moments really make that album for me. I can definitely get behind Siamese Dream as #1, it was my favourite for years but I've just come to love the unwieldy sprawl of MCIS even more.

my albums ballot:

Mellon Collie
Adore
Pisces Iscariot
Siamese Dream
Gish

Albums:

Adore
MACHINA/the machines of god
Siamese Dream
Pisces Iscariot
Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Music

huh, forgot i even voted for machina ii

My album ballot:
Siamese Dream
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Pisces Iscariot

1. Siamese Dream
2. Gish
3. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Siamese Dream
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Pisces Iscariot
Adore
Gish

Siamese Dream
Gish
Ogilala
Pisces Iscariot
MCIS

Ogilala at 3 is probably a challop, but I can listen to those first three albums the whole way through and enjoy every second. There are tracks on PI, MCIS, and Adore that I rate very high above anything on Ogilala. I'm sure Ogilala benefits from being fresh at the moment as well.

Pisces Iscariot
Adore
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

mine was

Adore
Siamese Dream
Mellon Collie
Gish
Machina II

Pisces Iscariot
Siamese Dream
Gish
Mellon Collie
Adore

I shoulda voted for the Zero EP! I played the hell out of that back in the day.

Adore
Gish
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Machina I/The Machines of God
Machina II/Friends and Enemies of Modern Music

I can live with where Adore placed.

I should’ve voted for the Pastichio Medley

Flappy, I did! :)

champagne for my five real friends who also had adore at no. 1

I've got my glass ready, Brad

Flappy, I did! :)

Listening to SD (again) now. I didn't really think about the timeline before: so Loveless was released six months after Gish, which might go some way towards explaining the change in their sound between these two albums.

Yea that’s why Billy got Alan Moulder to mix it

Ah, interesting. I didn't know he explicitly sought Moulder out for that reason.

I've got my glass ready, Brad

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wish i had a good picture of me drinking with my tattoo visible but all i have is this single chocolate

https://i.imgur.com/zbnFptb.png

*bows down*

oh hell yes

Perfect. Lock thread.

anticipating tomorrow. or the next few days. i'm sure this song will place high. i never liked it, never understood why it was so beloved, i don't dislike it, i'm not sure... but this is an amazing performance. the sound of the distortion kicking in is so amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu3jh91rCiY

gonna have to crack open a thesaurus for more superlatives tonight

It's kind of smashing pumpkins' purple rain

yeap, will be in the Top 3.

holy shit Purple Rain comparison is OTM. they actually begin with the same chord (Bsus2)

i think it could potentially be no. 1

which, i'd be down

xp

and both feature Eb. but yeah. in mood and feeling it's totally their Purple Rain

flappy you've never liked "mayonaise" :O

:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

it also features a toy guitar feedback track that adds loveless style studio intrigue. it won a rolling stone readership poll lol.

yeah it's either 1979 or Mayo at #1. i can't think of anything else that has more broad appeal among hardcore & casual pumpkins fans

xp yeah i don't know... it feels so on the nose, so much of a trad "power ballad," i mean that Purple Rain comparison is so so otm... the feedback squeals are great obv, i don't like the lyrics, but that hasn't stopped with me plenty of pumpkins songs lol... it feels stock somehow, whereas idk, Hummer is utterly of another world and impossible to categorize. Soma is maybe the other SD track most similar to Mayo, and I've never liked that one either that much, it just feels less obvious... like Mayo sounds like a song that was always written, but in a bad way... if that makes sense. it probably doesn't

no sentence with bad and mayonaise will make sense to me

but I can certainly understand preferring hummer and soma

i like to imagine that billy saw jimmy put a dollop of mayo in his chili at lunch. billy scooted his chair back, making a screeching sound that silenced the room. he exited the cafeteria and went straight to the tour bus where he wrote mayonaise. the feedback is a reference to the room-silencing sound of that chair.

all things relative with SP, honestly by anyone else a masterpiece imo. it feels out of place coming from them, being so obvious and... almost like an attempt by another band at writing a great smashing pumpkins song (and not a parody)

i ran this poll:

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream poll

Option Votes
9. Mayonaise 24
1. Cherub Rock 14
7. Soma 11
8. Geek U.S.A. 10
3. Today 7
5. Rocket 6
4. Hummer 4
11. Silverfuck 4
6. Disarm 3
12. Sweet Sweet 1
10. Spaceboy 1
2. Quiet 1
13. Luna 0

Luna getting shut out... I don't even know what to say

It's no "Hummer" or "Soma" but it... really doesn't sound like a generic ca. 1993 power ballad to me. I like how it takes its time. I don't think vocals even enter until about a minute and a half in? 2xp