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

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

they're my favourite kinds of albums

https://i.imgur.com/DoU0nBH.jpg
60. Disarm
124 points, 6 votes
From: Siamese Dream, 1993

Good placement.

The Wall for Generation X xps

"We're the best band in the world and we can do anything" albums

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"

burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn

Mellon Collie was my #1 song

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.

MCIS was one of the first things I ever learned on piano.

I guess we should be grateful "Disarm" avoided getting the Johnny Cash American Records treatment

Would have been pretty great in fairness.

MCIS was one of the first things I ever learned on piano.

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.

https://i.imgur.com/3UdrHqL.jpg
59. Suffer
128 points, 5 votes
From: Gish, 1991

ah good some Gish action. I don't remember how this one goes, so this bodes well for the rest of the poll

great song, it still pops into my head all the time

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?

oh it's this one. it's great. makes me think of sea merchants in top down RPGs

Disarm at 60 is kind of wild. It's their 6th most popular song on Spotify and, like it or not, one of the iconic Pumpkins songs.

bead curtains and hookah pipes in aural form

xp ILM has always been contrary. Like when we voted 'Good Vibrations' as the worst song on Smiley Smile

"disarm" is also one of their best videos imo

for a band whose fame coincided with the peak of '90s mtv most of their music videos are kinda weird fiascos though

Disarm was the first song I learned on guitar (MCIS was the second) so I'll always have a soft spot for it.

'Glass and the Ghost Children' is a stunner - one of the tracks on MACHINA that works, although I have a preference for the first part. 'Farewell and Goodnight' is pretty, but I never find myself listening to it as a standalone track, always in context. 'x.y.u.' was a grower for me back when I first heard the album, but fucking love it now.

Mellon Collie and The Beatles both have this "every song given its own distinct sonic treatment" feel, as Brad says, but I think Mellon Collie is more excessive and a better record. There's a lot of stuff on The Beatles which is tossed off fluff, but Corgan for the most part just can't leave things alone, and that's why Mellon Collie works for me. Quantity, diversity and quality.

I sometimes get the one-word song titles on Gish mixed up but yeah I like this one a lot (although I heard the Tricky song that samples it first so it took a bit of getting used to).

'Suffer' is great - love the drumming and the way everything generally sounds on the track. I rate the two songs after it on Gish higher, though!

although I heard the Tricky song that samples it first

i COMPLETELY forgot about this