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

Lol, now I want to listen to "Disarm". I'll admit that when I first listened to the album, even "Disarm" seemed like a weird song to be 'the ballad' in a world where Aerosmith was still making the most popular rock ballads.

Play bass like you're barely alive!
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Breathe through your mouth, James (don't breathe too much).
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Drink of this cup, for it is...oh, maybe better not.
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Yeah, I mostly remembered why I usually skip it.

I can sometimes get into it if I'm really in a mood for it but I usually skip it (and "Spaceboy" *ducks*).

I don't like Spaceboy either, it just kind of drags. Disarm isn't a terrible song but the strings and bells are too much for me.

I like "Spaceboy" a lot

Currently trying to reconfigure the MCIS era tracks as one long single-dsc album + one "outtakes" album a la SD + PI. For some reason I never tire of resequencing these songs.

my albums ballot:

Siamese Dream
Pisces Iscariot
Adore
Gish
Mellon Collie

except for 1979 I could exchange Mellon Collie & the first Machina. Mellon Collie has a few other good singles but as an album experience I'd rather avoid it (oh & Galapogos is good too).

I kinda feel about Siamese Dream vs Mellon Collie the way I do about Monster vs New Adventures In Hi-Fi : I strongly prefer the earlier of each pair but ILM seems to lean the other way, & I wonder if it's related to which one you got into first.

ILM voted Siamese Dream #1!

haha that's true! I didn't notice lol @ me. I was responding to the latest line of discussion against Siamese Dream, I guess.

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66. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
110 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote
From: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995

who voted this #1?! absolute madman (in a good way)

Ha, this is the brief instrumental that opens the album?

yes

Not my number one, but I can kinda understand. Gets stuck in my head a hell of a lot.

This has me wondering how much of MCIS is gonna place. I'm gonna say 20 out of 28.

this placing where it did is a big part of why I decided to go with 66 tracks for the rollout (as well as the 33 connection), it was too fitting. it's a nice intro and I like the reprises at the end of the album and in Thru the Eyes of Ruby

for reference track ballots were scored 50-48-46-44-...-8-6-4-2

It wouldn't have made my ballot, but if I had to condense Mellon Collie down to Siamese Dream, I'd still retain it as I love it.

*Siamese Dream length.

I agree with that. Whenever I try removing it, it just sounds wrong.

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65. Stumbleine
112 points, 6 votes
From: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995

I prefer 'Mellon Collie' to 'Tonight Tonight'. It's a sweet little intro to what's to come and then Tonight Tonight comes in with its mid-tempo bluster and I hit the skip button. Didn't vote for it but hah at the number 1

I must have been listening to the White Album at the same time as Mellon Collie cos Stumbleine sounds like an answer to Cry Baby Cry whenever I hear it

the mellon collie title track is such a good way of opening this. kudos ufo. can’t believe it made no. 66 exactly

I usually skip straight to "Tonight Tonight", honestly. I'm a huge fan of instrumental music but "Mellon Collie" seems pretty uninteresting to me. I do like "Stumbleine" a lot, although it didn't make my ballot.

I'm the opposite -- I don't like listening to "Tonight Tonight" without "Mellon Collie" before it. Or at least it lessens the effect of the *pow* of "Tonight Tonight"'s strings if I skip it.

I don't have much to say about 'Stumbleine' other than that I like it.

Sam Weller OTM. I heard 'Tonight, Tonight' as a single first before hearing it in the context of the album, but after living with the album for 23 years it doesn't feel right without 'Mellon Collie' preceding it.

I like the reprises at the end of the album and in Thru the Eyes of Ruby

I somehow never clued in that that was a reprise in TtEoR.

I didn't vote for it but the Mellon Collie intro is a perfect opener for both album and rundown.

Stumbleine didn't make my final ballot either but the live version posted on the voting thread really made me appreciate it more. It also feels like a precursor to Adore.

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64. The Boy
116 points, 4 votes
From: 1979 EP/The Aeroplane Flies High, 1996

Nice! In terms of James songs I was torn between this and "...Said Sadly", but voted "The Boy."

I'm intrigued by how many votes it takes to make the top 66 (and how many points!)

My #1 may just show up!!!!

Never heard (of) that one before. It's a nice breezy little tune.

Hearing this for the first time and I like it.

The boy the boy
's in love

Nice! In terms of James songs I was torn between this and "...Said Sadly", but voted "The Boy."

I voted for both in the end but had this one higher, it was an immediate favourite when I finally started listening through the Aeroplane stuff.

“the boy” showed up without needing my vote for it! hooray!

imo it’s james’ best song and should’ve been on mellon collie between oh say “arms of sleep” and “1979,” that would’ve been cool

“said sadly” is so good too

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63. Glass and the Ghost Children
118 points, 4 votes
From: Machina/The Machines of God, 2000

mercifully low

So it's all very obtuse, because it's all, like, I don't know.

so all my past demagoguery

I only really like the first part, but the monologue is pretty funny.

I quickly became sick of Disarm at the time, but twenty years of perspective had mellowed me a lot. I found it never fit within the maximalism of the rest of SD, now I find myself moved by its honesty and simplicity.

I find "Disarm" really moving, lyrically.

I had no memory of "Glass etc". As with other Machina songs, I'm able to get something out of it now that I'm listening to a live version.

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62. Farewell and Goodnight
120 points, 4 votes
From: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995

I love the first section of Glass and the Ghost Children but the rest really drags, if the outro was cut down so the total length was 6 minutes at most it'd be great

OK wtf @ this piano break in "Glass" xp! (Right at the 6m mark of a live clip, ha)

that's mike garson!