there are so many weird layers of guitar feedback/ebow work running through all of "perfect"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
Chamberlin's overproduced, steady clicking on MACHINA sounds exactly like-- and might as well be-- a drum machine.
This man got rich running a music publication.
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
anyway i think "cherub rock" is fine. iirc there are a few interviews with billy where he's like "i wrote that song in an hour but it took me only five minutes to write 'today'." i prefer the five-minute effort
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
This is my favorite bit of that review, for whatever reason.
"Every track on MACHINA sits in a heavy syrup of synthesizer. Flood deep-fries the sound in golden calf fat. Guitars hiss like hig pressure hoses. Gelatinous bass issues from the crust like pus. The psoriatic sound comes off like infected yellow scabs growing on fragile frosted glass. If this is a "return to form," Billy Corgan has thrown his baby-head out with the bathwater. Siamese Dream never utilized computer and keyboard crutches to such a degree."
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
I think “Stand inside your love” is my favorite music video of them. At least is the one where all of the band look the coolest, in all the others James Iha always looks awkward... in others Corgan has a cowboy hat.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, April 8, 2018 8:02 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i love the "siyl" video, i think it's really beautifully shot and organized and yeah everyone in the band looks amazing, feels like it should've been an adore-era video
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
I remember it looking expensive.
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
i'm sure it was that too
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
definitely the best Billy ever pulled off the huge gothic skirt thing he tried a number of times
― ufo, Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
queer utopia where everyone is wearing enormous gowns and the most traditional representation of masculinity sits on a toilet throne
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NbIXs4C.jpg5. Soma844 points, 24 votes, 4 #1 votesFrom: Siamese Dream, 1993
― ufo, Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
this is prob my favorite ilx poll since.. van? maybe my favorite ever
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
[Guitar Solo]
― jmm, Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
def the song I was most obsessed with as a #teen and the first time I really understood the power of dynamics
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
I guess if Landslide is gonna place, it's gonna have to happen really damn soon.
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
nah
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1sf8Djv.jpg4. Hummer888 points, 24 votes, 5 #1 votesFrom: Siamese Dream, 1993
― ufo, Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
These last three together are killing me. This is everything great about Pumpkins in their prime.
― jmm, Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
XpI'd take rhinoceros over starla any day. The proggy bombast of the latter does not help. In a way the soaring reminds me of gybe! And i miss a melody. Rhinoceros on the other hand i totally love with all my heart. The outer space beginning, the slow and tender tune evolving and hanging there for such a long time, and then the guitar-feedback explosion. It's all in there. Such a simple, effective song. Probably the one song which i'd choose by them.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
5 #1s!
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
I like to imagine this song predicts the commercial failure of Hum
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
Yeah, Rhinoceros is the one my adult self would keep...
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
lol i thought "it'd be funny if hummer placed right after soma" and lo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
my dim hope is mayonaise bests 1979
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
fine with either winning but only one is on my ballot
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
who knows maybe "drown" won
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
I'm really hoping for that!
― how's life, Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
"rocket" was the first song with more than one no. 1 voter. wow @ "hummer" having five
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
Hummer-Cherub Rock-Soma were my top 3 in that order, but they could have probably been in any order.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
I only realized after the voting period that my top 2 both include musical quotes from Rush:
https://youtu.be/stBOhNxLrbM?t=4m34shttps://youtu.be/1pcNP9JE0bs?t=6m9s
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
And I think flappy pointed this one out:https://youtu.be/2UU62UcP_BA?t=3m53shttps://youtu.be/q-KE9lvU810?t=18s
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fZ1oMJK.jpg3. Drown920 poits, 26 votes, 3 #1 votesFrom: Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1992
― ufo, Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
amazing
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
heh, I voted for every song in the top 10. What do I win?
― jmm, Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
3-6 is my top 4.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
Hummer was my #3 but it could easily have been #1 on another day.
― Gavin, Leeds, Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, April 8, 2018 9:08 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think this one oddly supports my point that jimmy is a very busy drummer but never actually sounds busy
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
I guessed 20 MCIS tracks but we're getting 21.
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
This didn't make my ballot since I, um, didn't know it until I had voted. It's p sweet, though. Nice SY-style noise jam.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
I had Drown at #9 or something, should've been higher.
― Gavin, Leeds, Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
I've heard "Drown" before but...I don't remember it.
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
Drown is a great discovery, thanks ILM.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
Drown has such a great groove and build, and then that beautiful 4-minute feedback jam!
― ufo, Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
"drown" is the perfect gish/sd transitional track i think, even more than "starla" which feels like its own thing. you can hear where they are and where they're going simultaneously
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
Through its ascending repetition, it's almost like a Reich or Glass piece, except as an ode to the elevating potential of Rock. It's in many ways the opposite of most things I look for in music, especially in guitar-and-bass-and-drums-based music. Which only makes me trust my love of it more--and it's been almost the only SP song I've felt the need to put on periodically over the last 20 years since I otherwise walked away. It still gives me the same feeling of soaring, yearning possibility as when I was 14 and Smashing Pumpkins meant the world to me. For me, "Starla" is Smashing Pumpkins.
Controp: "Starla" always bums me out a little because it seems like it's going for what I DO often look for in music but it always seems like there's something missing from that huge solo and climax; it's just a little too basic and lands slightly off the mark. I'll try one more time.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
smoke some w33d beforehand imo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
Huh, that might be what's missing.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
oh wait sorry i did not mean to be extremely dismissive about "cherub rock" itt bc you know how on the last repetition of the chorus there's that, like, really bright chord droning through the whole thing? that's the best thing in the sp catalog
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
last minute or so of "cherub" is really a guitar symphony
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
idk I love "starla" but I don't partoke xxp
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
lol sorry to bring up weed i'm just a big stoner these days
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link