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

this song sounds so cool

it's really those thick daubs of bass throughout

most of the recent Machina tracks were higher than those MCIS tracks for most of the voting period, none of the recent MCIS tracks had many votes at all until the last day or so

I love the repeating guitar line in By Starlight that slowly builds in intensity, one of my favourites.

I don't care at all for Where Boys Fear to Tread though, just feels like an aimless riff to me.

Eye rules and I wish there were more harder-hitting songs like it on Adore, which mostly went for a murkier sound in its percussion & bass.

https://i.imgur.com/kfl7mJ1.jpg
45. Blank Page
180 points, 9 votes
From: Adore, 1998

yesss beautiful song

https://open.spotify.com/user/beeok/playlist/4IrfPuY4059KGXCZoMftEl?si=3HXmKcGNSei8NLSHIU2ouw

Please keep updated.

Eye is great and probably too low. I thought it'd get a Lynch bump around here.

there's an adore demo/outtake called "my mistake" which it sounds like they dissolved that song in water and "blank page" was the result

also:

take a day
plant some trees
may they shade you from me
may your children play beneath

https://i.imgur.com/8MZRYur.jpg
44. Glynis
184 points, 8 votes
From: No Alternative, 1993

this is the only one I don't have a good image for unfortunately, couldn't find an easy way to replicate the font on the No Alternative cover...

yayyyyy!!!

dang Glynis now that's a song, my #5

i voted for "glynis," two spots above "blank page" oddly. everything i love about gish/sd era sp is kinda embodied by that song, especially the contrast between its two halves. i can't explain why but it feels related to "hummer," like an even more chilled-out paisley mirror of it

love those yelps at the end, there's an alt version on the deluxe Pisces that replaces the yelps with a bunch of "crayzeeee" vocals & it sucks so bad, but the original is total blissed out sadness, my Pumpkins

never heard Eye before! almost sounds more like a God Lives Underwater or Jesus Jones track or something.

this is prob the fourth time this video has been posted between the voting thread and the results thread but this is a really stunning performance imo and billy actually sounds great for most of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGwSHQ7Vdc

I totally forgot about Glynis. Great tune, it wouldn't have jelled on SD but it's an album worthy song for sure.

All of my least favorite Adore songs are placing thus far ...

love those yelps at the end, there's an alt version on the deluxe Pisces that replaces the yelps with a bunch of "crayzeeee" vocals & it sucks so bad, but the original is total blissed out sadness, my Pumpkins

OK this is embarrassing, that's the only version of Glynis I've ever heard, didn't realise it was an alternative take!

https://i.imgur.com/DSUynbC.jpg
43. Behold! The Night Mare
188 points, 8 votes
From: Adore, 1998

this is my favourite from Adore, I had it very high. it has a lovely shimmery sound in the guitars and drums, the Adore production at its best. the acoustic bridge followed by that beautiful guitar noise then the ascending second part of the bridge, then the way it ends with a second verse, it sounds like it could drift on forever.

re. Glynis, it's more just another mix, but a much worse mix I think, not least because it forefronts Corgan's vocals at the end. in the original mix you get the "one love" parts but not much of the rest of Corgan's ad libs, and it's much much much better for it.

"behold!" is so good, it just missed my ballot. somehow lives up to its ridiculous title without ever seeming like a ridiculous song

https://i.imgur.com/u5kYUYs.jpg
42. To Sheila
196 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote
From: Adore, 1998

This is one of a few Adore tracks I love.

the little middle eight break thing in Behold is one of the best things Billy ever wrote

it was such a shock to hear this after mellon collie

i mean i know the end of mellon collie sets you up for it but still

whose #1? Good choice

yeah for real

"to sheila" was originally supposed to play behind the scene in cruel intentions soundtracked by counting crows "colorblind"

I always thought "autobahn" was kinda incongruous to the corgan lyrical universe

excellent trivia brad

Ah yes!!! I voted for Glynis and Blank Page! By Starlight another near miss; Brad otm about it being creeper

This is embarrassing but I hadn't heard Glynis before. It's amazing.

Of all the "Corgan with acoustic guitar accompaniment" tracks, I'd say that 'To Sheila' was the first of these where Corgan hit the mark dead on. Not to take away from 'Soothe' or 'Stumbleine', but this is a far superior song. One of my favourites on Adore and a great and unobvious way to open the LP.

https://i.imgur.com/Gt8y4lf.jpg
41. Luna
208 points, 10 votes
From: Siamese Dream, 1993

I love the psychedelic guitar in the background of this, really beautiful tune and their best album closer.

Wow. Way too low. My #2. One of the most sublime love songs I’ve ever heard, and some of Billy’s best & most effortless lyrics.

“To shiela” was my #1

I just woke up and can’t explain but that song has helped carry me through it all

awesome choice karl

Thanks! This poll rules so far, really enjoying the rollout

Yeah, not sure Billy's voice has ever sounded better than on To Sheila

Luna really is one of the best lyrics BC ever wrote. Really touching and a perfect delivery. Five years later and he was all about twisted mysticism like "twilight fades through blistered Avalon". What?

(both songs made my ballot ... obviously I love them for totally different reasons)

https://i.imgur.com/uab8wnM.jpg
40. Bury Me
214 points, 10 votes
From: Gish, 1991

last one for now

damn that's low, one of their very best codas

it is, that loping outro riff is like the precursor to the end of Hummer

'Luna' too low, I've heard that song hundreds of times by now and it still moves me in the same way it did the first time. A beautiful song - whenever Corgan is coming across as a jackass for the zillionth time, it's tracks like 'Luna' that help me separate the art from the artists.

*artist.

otm. it's the perfect closer to that album. emotionally similar to porcelina. that bent A note that runs thru the song is so perfect, the music captures the feeling of falling in love and the naivete and innocence that comes with it.

I think the outro on 'Bury Me' is used differently to the one on 'Hummer' ... 'Hummer's outro is a very distinct change in mood, almost like a different song entirely even if the transition is smooth, whereas 'Bury Me' doesn't feel like that.

*lol C# sorry

gonna get in trouble in here discussing notes and CHORDS xp