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

the barely audible "uhn!" that Billy does in time with the snare that follows the line "for june angels." didn't hear this until 3 years ago or so. happens at 3:14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVuN2qTCg0Y

- last three minutes of "for martha" really

so otm

I'm listening to Billy Corgan's Spotify playlist

https://open.spotify.com/user/11lpnx8l3jmzbwe2amx4684hm/playlist/2KX7eHWHDfe2xQ3tJWxlIs?si=tyMx48DCQyiGgyPeA4Btsg

- Soft second verse of Snail: "Flower, the pain will wash away, away"
- "One last kiss for me, yeah / One last kiss goodnight"
- "I shall be free"
- na na na na na na na
- "The sun shines, but I don't / A silver rain will wash away"

^^^ all classic

that hilarious tag at the end of Love. "beeooww!"

I'm not sure what single moment to pick from Hummer. The way that song moves and develops is so perfect.

I'm listening to Billy Corgan's Spotify playlist

https://open.spotify.com/user/11lpnx8l3jmzbwe2amx4684hm/playlist/2KX7eHWHDfe2xQ3tJWxlIs?si=tyMx48DCQyiGgyPeA4Btsg

― had (crüt), Monday, April 9, 2018 11:27 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao there are 33 songs on this playlist

- "The sun shines, but I don't / A silver rain will wash away"

― jmm, Monday, April 9, 2018 6:36 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This this this this this <3

every time Billy shouts "you!!!" and launches into a solo

xp I hadn't noticed before, but I wonder whether that was a deliberate reference back to the verse in Snail. "Flower, the pain will wash away / When the sun shines / Climbs through your window"

idk if it's a deliberate reference so much as rain tends to fall on everyone

:D

Billy sure likes his 'key words', sun shining, flowers, trees. Not sure if it's a deliberate ref to Snail, but it's most def a reference to Corgan himself, of yore.

Ya Brad otm :D

- outro to Whir

oh yeah

outro to Hummer

"cause I want you to stay" in 'In The Arms of Sleep" with the "wee-oh wee-oh" theremin-like sounds in the back.

you're all I notice, in a crowded room

I. just. want. to beeeeeeeeeeee me!

Time is never time at all

- outro to Whir

This would be my pick

- "destroy / despise / distrust / disobey / destroy / distrust / disloyal / disarm / destroy / despise / dissect / deny / destroy / despise / distrust" in the background of the second chorus of Bodies

the melodic riff at the end of "Rhinoceros"

the palm muted verse in Bury Me with James singing backup. They never sounded cooler than that moment.

the overdriven joe meek weirdness of 1:12 to 1:20 ub hello kitty kat

it is the hint of something about to be unchained later, but it's somehow the best part in a song that really tries to top itself until the very end

Jimmy’s accents during the builds in BWBW

“OK, this take? Don’t give a fuck.”

Was just listening through TAFH this afternoon and was struck by how much Believe has in common with Tonight Tonight. Like it could just as easily have been sung by Billy and given the full urgent orchestral treatment that TT got. I'm curious if either was a conscious rewrite of the other.

Ha! Just went to google smashing pumpkins believe and Tonight Tonight was the top search results on account of "Believe, Believe in me, Believe"

81 Mouths of Babes 62 3 0

this jam 4ever

my thing

1. Here Is No Why
2. Mouths Of Babes
3. Obscured
4. Today
5. Mayonaise
6. Quiet
7. Bodies
8. Cupid de Locke
9. I Am One
10. Drown
11. Blew Away
12. Thirty-Three
13. Fuck You (An Ode To No One)
14. Starla
15. Hummer
16. Love
17. Where Boys Fear To Tread
18. Rhinoceros
19. Siva
20. Hello Kitty Kat
21. Stumbleine
22. To Forgive
23. Pastichio Medley
24. Landslide
25. Geek U.S.A.

I think of "Here Is No Why" as the "Mayonaise" of MCIS to me -- a non-rocker, non-single that has hit people in an emotional way over the years and is often held in as high regard as the singles. And looking back it probably should have been a single.

Full disclosure - I totally got off the SP bus the first time i heard "Bullet With Butterfly Wings". And they were pretty much my favorite band up to that point.

Consequently my poll entry only included songs that came out before then (looks like I was the sole #1 vote for Crush).

So this is the first time I'm hearing about 2/3 of the song on this spotify list. And I'm realizing that there's definitely a parallel universe where they decided to release "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" as the first single off MCIS, and I stayed a fan for another 5 years (though I think Machina still would've been a deal-breaker)

can't compute HINW as a "non-rocker"!

Full disclosure - I totally got off the SP bus the first time i heard "Bullet With Butterfly Wings". And they were pretty much my favorite band up to that point.

Consequently my poll entry only included songs that came out before then (looks like I was the sole #1 vote for Crush).

So this is the first time I'm hearing about 2/3 of the song on this spotify list. And I'm realizing that there's definitely a parallel universe where they decided to release "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" as the first single off MCIS, and I stayed a fan for another 5 years (though I think Machina still would've been a deal-breaker)

― enochroot, Tuesday, April 10, 2018 12:32 PM (two hours ago)

For my experience, save "Set The Ray to Jerry" and a few other MCIS b-sides, you saved yourself a long slow admission of defeat. Kinda envy your clean break--guessing you might've been just enough older than I was to not have an unhealthy degree of entanglement/investment in the band.

enochroot you should just finish the other 2/3 of the songs first and then see what you think!

i appreciate soundslike's perspective (and many excellent mixes) and have that same kind of relationship with other bands, but (with all due respect) the post SD hate is very overblown - there are tons of gems in there. it doesn't mean that MCIS suddenly destroys gish or whatever (although it does imo) but there are so many excellent songs that you are likely to enjoy, particularly if you liked "Thru the Eyes of Ruby"

can't compute HINW as a "non-rocker"!

I guess I mean in comparison to something like "BWBW" or "Zero".

the post SD hate is very overblown

don't get him going again

post MCIS hate, however

this poll was wonderful because Adore is now my second favorite SP album. machina still bothers me, but the enthusiasm of others itt is contagious.

hell YEAH

post MCIS hate, however

adore is the SP album i listen to the most, even though i might put MCIS or SD above it in the desert island scenario.

My view of Smashing Pumpkins is a little different in that I think that pretty much everything Corgan did up until (and including) the Zwan album is very good to excellent, and afterwards he never reached the same heights but still came up with some decent and highly listenable material.

i think adore ends up matching better with my mood and typical listening situation these days, or at least more often than SD does.

mood
https://i.imgur.com/jrgASKz.png

that had lasik yesterday mooooood

ahh this is a great show... they are all in outer space, high as shit, wearing dresses, inviting people on stage, closes with a cover of "The Joker"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ML4ryNNH0

Geek USA 1:22
Rocket 5:37
Bury Me 9:59
Window Paine 13:57
Tristessa 20:55
"Get up on stage and dance song" Jam 25:21
Siva 26:48
Hummer 32:44
I Am One 40:06
Silverfuck 45:11
Encore
56:31
The Joker (Cover) 57:47