POLLcelina of the Vast Oceans - ILM artist poll #87 - SMASHING PUMPKINS (voting open until 2 April 2018)

There's a real range between these album totals! Feel like this is gonna be an unpredictable rollout the whole way through.

3 Gish
5 Siamese
5 Pisces
7 MCIS
0 Adore
1 Machina I
1 Machina II
3 other

ufo's album is almost identical to my own! (me: 1 Machina I, 2 Machina II vs his 1 Machina I, 1 Machina II, 1 Pisces Iscariot)

album breakdown, that is

There's a real range between these album totals! Feel like this is gonna be an unpredictable rollout the whole way through.

― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, April 3, 2018 7:39 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is going to be a strange one. there are some songs that will benefit greatly from appearing on almost everyone's list (like 1979 and... Hummer?), other than that I have no idea. So many people picked 5+ songs from MCIS, some close to 10, and they could be completely different.

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sd: 3
mcis: 8
adore: 7
machina I: 5
machina II: 2

I'm sending my (late) ballot within the hour. If it's already too late, don't wait up for me!

Sent! Suprised myself with just one song off of Gish, and just two from SD tbh. But this has been an absolute bloodbath any way.

Gish: 1
SD: 2
Pisces: 5
MCIS: 9
Adore: 4
Non-album: 4

ooo, I feel like that's the highest pisces count posted so far.

i had 7 from pisces iscariot.

I see. I am glad that Adore and pisces got some big numbers on a few of these. It looks like Gish tracks may not do very well.

Blessig u crut.

xp

Yeah, Gish doesn't seem to do so well. It's weird because as an album I'd probably rate it higher - for coherence etc - than others. I just didn't pick a lot of songs from it.

yeah, it did well in my albums list, and that might be true for others

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with Gish (and SD) I prefer the live versions of all the songs, but there's one that needed to be in my top 10

flappy, I must confess that I don't understand your reasoning in holding amazing live versions against already good album tracks.

it was only a means of narrowing down my ballot, otherwise it would be impossible. it was still difficult even with that handicap. I mean, I didn't vote for Ruby, which would've been my #1 if the studio version included that outro jam.

and with Gish & SD, it's not that the live versions are different arrangements, I just prefer the intensity and tbh a lot of Billy's singing

I can understand not factoring in live versions, since there can be a few too many iterations. But it sounds like a good live version hurts your estimation of the studio version.

it does in practice. I rarely listen to SD or Gish - it goes without saying that they are great, but to me they sound staid in comparison, like blueprints or jumping off points for their live shows circa 1991 - 1994. I did revisit both of them for this poll, though it didn't change any of the picks I had already made. and again, that's not a diss or criticism of those records, it really was a way to make compiling a ballot of only 25 songs possible.

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voting is now CLOSED, 40 ballots in all. results roll out should begin in the next day or two

40 is a very nice number of ballots, i really thought it was going to be around 50 though.

excited!

This is gonna be awesome

ufo, how many tracks are you gonna roll out?

Can't wait for tomorrow

ufo, how many tracks are you gonna roll out?

― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, April 3, 2018 5:52 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

33, 66, or 99 imo

I was thinking 66

Surprised myself by getting organised and voting - Gish 2, Siamese 7, Pisces 1, Mellon 8, Adore 5, other 2.

Well, I wish I saw this earlier.

mine went

Gish - 1
SD - 5
PI - 1
MCIS - 6
Adore - 5
MI - 3
MII - 2
other - 2

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