(Probably because that's when I got it.)
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
Guesses for the Top 20:
Perfect, 1979, Set the Ray to Jerry, Mayonnaise, Soma, Today, Thirty-three, Soma, Cherub Rock, Stand Inside Your Love, Daydream, Rhinoceros, Landslide (if it counts), Hummer, Jellybelly, Fuck You (An Ode to No One, Drown, Rocket, Here Is No Why, Thru the Eyes of Ruby
― FourLegsGood, Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
That pretty much accounts for the hitherto unplaced songs on my ballot!
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
swap out Landslide for Porcelina
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
There's also Geek USA, Starla, and Everlasting Gaze. I'd probably swap out Fuck You and Here Is No Why.
― jmm, Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I'll be a little sad if "Geek USA" doesn't place.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
Maybe Everlasting Gaze didn't place. It's hard to imagine it beating Bullet with Butterfly Wings and Zero.
― jmm, Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
yeah theres no way
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
Geek USA will absolutely place.
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:45 (six years ago) link
My list was slightly skewed against fast/heavy/fun Pumpkins songs, but Geek USA is the best in that category.
― jmm, Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
Geek USA was my gateway into the second, singles-free half of the album - it wears its catchiness right up front. I actually was kind of underrating it as the lesser/simpler/accessible piece of that set, as I've come to adore Soma, Mayonaise and Silverfuck. I had to go back and listen to realize, no, you don't just have to be 16, it really is fantastic.
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I'll replace "Drown" with "Geek" cuz I don't think "Drown" has enough pull to get it listed.
Top 20 Prediction:Perfect, 1979, Set the Ray to Jerry, Mayonnaise, Soma, Today, Thirty-three, Soma, Cherub Rock, Stand Inside Your Love, Daydream, Rhinoceros, Landslide (if it counts), Hummer, Jellybelly, Fuck You (An Ode to No One, Geek USA, Rocket, Here Is No Why, Thru the Eyes of Ruby
― FourLegsGood, Sunday, 8 April 2018 01:58 (six years ago) link
woah woah woah no way does Drown have less pull than Landslide. maybe I was talking crazy to imagine it as #1 and it won't be on EVERY ballot but I can imagine enough ppl had it in the top half that it shows up.
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:00 (six years ago) link
Geek fucking rules but didn't vote for it per the live rule.
Songs that are perfect as recorded that I didn't vote for: Zero, Bodies, Fuck You, The Aeroplane Flies High, Where Boys Fear to Tread, Bullet, Plume, Frail and Bedazzled, Drown, Mouths of Babes, Stand Inside Your Love, The Imploding Voice.
xp who tf voted for Landslide
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
Crazy talk, I didn’t even have to relisten to Drown for it to be top 5 in my ballot.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
also would never have taken "perfect" to be any kind of contender but maybe I don't talk to pumpkins fans enough.... it's nice and all, but kinda watery and idk not super memorable to me.
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link
Maybe "Drown" replaces "Fuck You (An Ode to No One)". That's not my favorite song by any stretch (probably wouldn't make my top 60) but I had a feeling it'd beat out a lot of the Machina tracks for inclusion.
― FourLegsGood, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link
I can't imagine Fuck You placing above Drown, as much as I prefer it.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
They really fucked up "Perfect" by writing it in the studio. The arrangement of the version they played on "SNL" could've been a hit but instead we got an overproduced song that buried the hooks.
― FourLegsGood, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
"Perfect" on SNL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnWRByYTVmA
You also have Soma in your list twice so that frees up one space.
― jmm, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
No, It should be in the Top 20 twice ;-)
― FourLegsGood, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
― FourLegsGood, Saturday, April 7, 2018 7:04 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a what that whatted the what
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
The final two will be neck-and-neck between Soma and Soma (instrumental mix)
― jmm, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:10 (six years ago) link
yea "perfect" is p much ~perfect~ as it is on Adore. live performances might have more heft but I don't think any hooks are buried on the studio version.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
Wait, what rule was this??
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
re: "perfect" i love the production, it and "1979" are the closest the pumpkins come to that kind of building-up-a-gentle-rock-song-sigh-by-sigh approach a la fleetwood mac
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Ci1FZfZ.jpg20. Perfect402 points, 17 votesFrom: Adore, 1998
― ufo, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
perfect!
― jmm, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:18 (six years ago) link
haha amazing timing
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
xxxxposts well and "landslide"further from stevie sigh territory but they coulda tore up "the ledge." i can totally hear billy whining out the vocal at rapid clip, and swapping in god knows what kind of frenetic guitar bombardment for the sped up rubber bands stretched over a cereal box played by lindsay buckingham.
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
Landslide in top 20 voids the poll. HKK was my #1. Frail & Bedazzled my #3. Those tracks are everything I love about the first two albums but just a bit faster, heavier, and/or catchier. Overdriven vocals on HKK allow them to sit in the mix like a bonus guitar.
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
this was my no. 3
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, April 7, 2018 10:14 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i explained upthread but in order to make putting a ballot of only 25 songs together possible i nixed all songs that i prefer live and find staid in comparison on the albums: geek, siva, fuck you, i am one, silverfuck, quiet, ruby (only because of the missing outro jam). it's not even a "songs vs. performance pieces" thing, it was just a means to an end to make a ballot like this possible.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:21 (six years ago) link
HKK was my #1.
thank you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ENJ7QbrII
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
idk, "perfect" just never got stuck in my head or made me feel anything. cool that people like it but to me it feels like a harbinger of machina - the desire to do an x-type song (this'll be a soft, precious ballad!) but billy's well has suddenly run dry and he has only ordinary songs when he wants extraordinary expressions of these feelings.
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
(one of only two videos of SD era performances of HKK) xp
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
I barely remember "Perfect," and only as a pale sequel to '1979' which was already Corgan trying to do something other bands would'be done better and that even then would've been forgotten as a "I Love the 90s" dustbin liner a la "Isn't It Ironic" or the like. People felt the loss at the time, it's weird that the passing of time seems to have made it less clear for ILMers when it's just become more stark with decades of separation for perspective. But I have very little nostalgia for the 90s, musically, so maybe I'm too harsh.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Pwx86hx.jpg19. Obscured426 points, 15 votesFrom: Today single, 1993 and Pisces Iscariot, 1994
― ufo, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:39 (six years ago) link
xp More stark for me, I meant to say.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
Contrast: "Obscured," which has aged better than almost any other SP.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
was not expecting this.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
Nice placement for Obscured! It's absolutely gorgeous.
― jmm, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:43 (six years ago) link
Spotify: ILM Smashing Pumpkins
up to date thanks to others.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:43 (six years ago) link
People felt the loss at the time, it's weird that the passing of time seems to have made it less clear for ILMers
.... what
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
And what bands would've done 1979 better?
― Fetchboy, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link
At the time everyone I knew who'd been a fan (or super-fan) understood by 'Adore' or earlier that SP had lost the tack. And I seem to recall that being the critical and popular sentiment, too. For lots of ILMers, though, time seems to have leveled all of their work even through 'Machina'. Whereas for me, the passage of time has removed all of the emotional invesment I had in the band as a young person to make the degradation post-Pisces even more stark. Which just leaves me trying to figure what people see now in something like "Perfect" to rank it so high.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link
"Perfect" is gorgeous and should have been one of their absolute biggest hits
lmao at Billy's sunglasses in the SNL clip
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link
Ehh, half the people I knew thought SP lost the tack after Gish. For a band that evolved at the pace they did there will always be people who would rather them stick to whatever they might consider the band's strengths.
― Fetchboy, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link
I guess what I meant is it just feels generically dated to 1995/96.
But maybe The Cardigans, for it to have been good? It sounded more like a Garbage song than SP, at the time. But I think it might've been best as a propery pop song, Kylie Minogue or Spice Girls or something.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:59 (six years ago) link