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

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

that's mike garson!

doin' his mike garson thing

drumming in the first part of glass is so good

There are so many parallels on this album with The White Album. This song included. A sleepy closer by a non-frontman wishing the audience goodnight. Both of them do their job fine, kind of sweet but kind of boring in equal measure

it's nice to hear them all harmonize especially bc of the way the band fractured afterward

yeah I wouldn't have voted for it but it's a very sweet closer. (my single-disc edit ends with "Tonight, Tonight", incidentally)

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I think it's wonderful. The piano leading into the second verse is my favourite part.

i never try to reduce mellon collie to a single disc, i just try to make a better double album out of it. it's improbably difficult

I couldn't pick between the last five songs on Mellon Collie and wound up voting for three of them. I wouldn't want to break up that section.

here's the attempt i made a few years ago. first disc: title track -> thirty-three. second disc: medellia -> infinite sadness https://open.spotify.com/user/unbornwhiskey/playlist/4MWIKGgMknTs6PsiCCGCSd?si=DuaxTKTZRXSuX-rJT9O2Vg

the most aggro tracks on my version are "jellybelly" and "bodies" so it's a considerably gentler vision of mellon collie than the real one

https://i.imgur.com/xtEV5ha.jpg
61. X.Y.U.
122 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote
From: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995

and in the eyes of the jackal i say kaaaaaaaaaaaboom

def did a lot of very sill thrashing around to this when I was a wee lad

This is the Helter Skelter, I guess?

this is one of my least favourites on Mellon Collie, way too aggro for my tastes

oh this is their most aggro track I think

yeah totally Helter Skelter

i like it more than "fuck you" or "tales" bc it's more fun than either

the 'waka waka ka-BOOM BOOM' bit is fantastic

which btw if we're gonna extend the white album analogy it kinda falls apart when there are three helter skelters on the record

conceding that both albums have a "each individual song will cover a different sonic territory" approach though

my "single-CD-capacity version" plus "odds and sods record" edit (the second part starts at "Medelia"). I reserve the right to keep fiddling with it lol

https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/1KLJKzcVFnkfgTSXLzKZz6?si=0f5pSSQ8T8qEmQxSni_-5w

xxp it is half an hour longer than TWA. of course there isn't going to be a direct parallel but it's funny how the connection works at times

lol i just changed mine three times xp

my edit is kinda specifically arranged so the mood of the album gradually goes from dark -> light so it's like a sunrise

my current single disc MCIS:
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Tonight, Tonight
Thirty-Three
1979
Here is No Why
Jellybelly
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
To Forgive
Thru The Eyes of Ruby
Stumbleine
Beautiful
Galapogos
Muzzle
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
By Starlight
Farewell and Goodnight

re: White Album comparisons Corgan's said that his goal with MCIS was more The Wall rather than The White Album

another record that seems to jump between styles between songs

they're my favourite kinds of albums

https://i.imgur.com/DoU0nBH.jpg
60. Disarm
124 points, 6 votes
From: Siamese Dream, 1993

Good placement.

The Wall for Generation X xps

"We're the best band in the world and we can do anything" albums

I still really like Disarm, it's nice as a change in sound on SD and the strings are lovely, especially in the climax "the killer in me is the killer in youuuuuuu"

burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn

Mellon Collie was my #1 song

the transition between "rocket" and "disarm" is so good as someone pointed out on the voting thread

lol flappy!!!!!

On some days it’s my favorite piece of music. Says more than anything else on the record without any words.

MCIS was one of the first things I ever learned on piano.

I guess we should be grateful "Disarm" avoided getting the Johnny Cash American Records treatment

Would have been pretty great in fairness.

MCIS was one of the first things I ever learned on piano.

X.Y.U. - that bit where he sings 'BWABEEEH GOODBYYYE (bye bye)' is pure lol. That song is just lol-a-minute but also kind of scary.

https://i.imgur.com/3UdrHqL.jpg
59. Suffer
128 points, 5 votes
From: Gish, 1991

ah good some Gish action. I don't remember how this one goes, so this bodes well for the rest of the poll

great song, it still pops into my head all the time

the "too late to discover" secret chorus buried in that song is kinda the peak of psychedelic pumpkins for me (well after all of "snail" and "rhinoceros")

the only pumpkins song to feature a psychedelic slide whistle solo?