that's mike garson!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
doin' his mike garson thing
drumming in the first part of glass is so good
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
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
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
it's nice to hear them all harmonize especially bc of the way the band fractured afterward
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
yeah I wouldn't have voted for it but it's a very sweet closer. (my single-disc edit ends with "Tonight, Tonight", incidentally)
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
bold
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
I think it's wonderful. The piano leading into the second verse is my favourite part.
― jmm, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/xtEV5ha.jpg61. X.Y.U.122 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 voteFrom: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995
― ufo, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
and in the eyes of the jackal i say kaaaaaaaaaaaboom
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
def did a lot of very sill thrashing around to this when I was a wee lad
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
This is the Helter Skelter, I guess?
― jmm, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
this is one of my least favourites on Mellon Collie, way too aggro for my tastes
― ufo, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
oh this is their most aggro track I think
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
yeah totally Helter Skelter
i like it more than "fuck you" or "tales" bc it's more fun than either
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
the 'waka waka ka-BOOM BOOM' bit is fantastic
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
which btw if we're gonna extend the white album analogy it kinda falls apart when there are three helter skelters on the record
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
conceding that both albums have a "each individual song will cover a different sonic territory" approach though
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
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
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
lol i just changed mine three times xp
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
my edit is kinda specifically arranged so the mood of the album gradually goes from dark -> light so it's like a sunrise
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
my current single disc MCIS:Mellon Collie and the Infinite SadnessTonight, TonightThirty-Three1979Here is No WhyJellybellyBullet With Butterfly WingsTo ForgiveThru The Eyes of RubyStumbleine BeautifulGalapogosMuzzlePorcelina of the Vast OceansBy StarlightFarewell and Goodnight
re: White Album comparisons Corgan's said that his goal with MCIS was more The Wall rather than The White Album
― ufo, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
another record that seems to jump between styles between songs
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
they're my favourite kinds of albums
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/DoU0nBH.jpg60. Disarm124 points, 6 votesFrom: Siamese Dream, 1993
― ufo, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
Good placement.
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
The Wall for Generation X xps
― how's life, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
"We're the best band in the world and we can do anything" albums
― jmm, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
I still really like Disarm, it's nice as a change in sound on SD and the strings are lovely, especially in the climax "the killer in me is the killer in youuuuuuu"
― ufo, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Mellon Collie was my #1 song
― flappy bird, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
the transition between "rocket" and "disarm" is so good as someone pointed out on the voting thread
lol flappy!!!!!
On some days it’s my favorite piece of music. Says more than anything else on the record without any words.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
MCIS was one of the first things I ever learned on piano.
― jmm, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
I guess we should be grateful "Disarm" avoided getting the Johnny Cash American Records treatment
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
Would have been pretty great in fairness.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
X.Y.U. - that bit where he sings 'BWABEEEH GOODBYYYE (bye bye)' is pure lol. That song is just lol-a-minute but also kind of scary.
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3UdrHqL.jpg59. Suffer128 points, 5 votesFrom: Gish, 1991
― ufo, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
ah good some Gish action. I don't remember how this one goes, so this bodes well for the rest of the poll
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
great song, it still pops into my head all the time
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
the "too late to discover" secret chorus buried in that song is kinda the peak of psychedelic pumpkins for me (well after all of "snail" and "rhinoceros")
the only pumpkins song to feature a psychedelic slide whistle solo?
― ufo, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
oh it's this one. it's great. makes me think of sea merchants in top down RPGs
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link