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

I like the reprises at the end of the album and in Thru the Eyes of Ruby

I somehow never clued in that that was a reprise in TtEoR.

I didn't vote for it but the Mellon Collie intro is a perfect opener for both album and rundown.

Stumbleine didn't make my final ballot either but the live version posted on the voting thread really made me appreciate it more. It also feels like a precursor to Adore.

https://i.imgur.com/yz6vz9D.jpg
64. The Boy
116 points, 4 votes
From: 1979 EP/The Aeroplane Flies High, 1996

Nice! In terms of James songs I was torn between this and "...Said Sadly", but voted "The Boy."

I'm intrigued by how many votes it takes to make the top 66 (and how many points!)

My #1 may just show up!!!!

Never heard (of) that one before. It's a nice breezy little tune.

Hearing this for the first time and I like it.

The boy the boy
's in love

Nice! In terms of James songs I was torn between this and "...Said Sadly", but voted "The Boy."

I voted for both in the end but had this one higher, it was an immediate favourite when I finally started listening through the Aeroplane stuff.

“the boy” showed up without needing my vote for it! hooray!

imo it’s james’ best song and should’ve been on mellon collie between oh say “arms of sleep” and “1979,” that would’ve been cool

“said sadly” is so good too

https://i.imgur.com/HsEBtTh.jpg
63. Glass and the Ghost Children
118 points, 4 votes
From: Machina/The Machines of God, 2000

mercifully low

So it's all very obtuse, because it's all, like, I don't know.

so all my past demagoguery

I only really like the first part, but the monologue is pretty funny.

I quickly became sick of Disarm at the time, but twenty years of perspective had mellowed me a lot. I found it never fit within the maximalism of the rest of SD, now I find myself moved by its honesty and simplicity.

I find "Disarm" really moving, lyrically.

I had no memory of "Glass etc". As with other Machina songs, I'm able to get something out of it now that I'm listening to a live version.

https://i.imgur.com/5GqOj17.jpg
62. Farewell and Goodnight
120 points, 4 votes
From: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995

I love the first section of Glass and the Ghost Children but the rest really drags, if the outro was cut down so the total length was 6 minutes at most it'd be great

OK wtf @ this piano break in "Glass" xp! (Right at the 6m mark of a live clip, ha)

that's mike garson!

doin' his mike garson thing

drumming in the first part of glass is so good

There are so many parallels on this album with The White Album. This song included. A sleepy closer by a non-frontman wishing the audience goodnight. Both of them do their job fine, kind of sweet but kind of boring in equal measure

it's nice to hear them all harmonize especially bc of the way the band fractured afterward

yeah I wouldn't have voted for it but it's a very sweet closer. (my single-disc edit ends with "Tonight, Tonight", incidentally)

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I think it's wonderful. The piano leading into the second verse is my favourite part.

i never try to reduce mellon collie to a single disc, i just try to make a better double album out of it. it's improbably difficult

I couldn't pick between the last five songs on Mellon Collie and wound up voting for three of them. I wouldn't want to break up that section.

here's the attempt i made a few years ago. first disc: title track -> thirty-three. second disc: medellia -> infinite sadness https://open.spotify.com/user/unbornwhiskey/playlist/4MWIKGgMknTs6PsiCCGCSd?si=DuaxTKTZRXSuX-rJT9O2Vg

the most aggro tracks on my version are "jellybelly" and "bodies" so it's a considerably gentler vision of mellon collie than the real one

https://i.imgur.com/xtEV5ha.jpg
61. X.Y.U.
122 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote
From: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995

and in the eyes of the jackal i say kaaaaaaaaaaaboom

def did a lot of very sill thrashing around to this when I was a wee lad

This is the Helter Skelter, I guess?

this is one of my least favourites on Mellon Collie, way too aggro for my tastes

oh this is their most aggro track I think

yeah totally Helter Skelter

i like it more than "fuck you" or "tales" bc it's more fun than either

the 'waka waka ka-BOOM BOOM' bit is fantastic

which btw if we're gonna extend the white album analogy it kinda falls apart when there are three helter skelters on the record

conceding that both albums have a "each individual song will cover a different sonic territory" approach though

my "single-CD-capacity version" plus "odds and sods record" edit (the second part starts at "Medelia"). I reserve the right to keep fiddling with it lol

https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/1KLJKzcVFnkfgTSXLzKZz6?si=0f5pSSQ8T8qEmQxSni_-5w

xxp it is half an hour longer than TWA. of course there isn't going to be a direct parallel but it's funny how the connection works at times

lol i just changed mine three times xp

my edit is kinda specifically arranged so the mood of the album gradually goes from dark -> light so it's like a sunrise

my current single disc MCIS:
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Tonight, Tonight
Thirty-Three
1979
Here is No Why
Jellybelly
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
To Forgive
Thru The Eyes of Ruby
Stumbleine
Beautiful
Galapogos
Muzzle
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
By Starlight
Farewell and Goodnight

re: White Album comparisons Corgan's said that his goal with MCIS was more The Wall rather than The White Album

another record that seems to jump between styles between songs