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

dang Glynis now that's a song, my #5

i voted for "glynis," two spots above "blank page" oddly. everything i love about gish/sd era sp is kinda embodied by that song, especially the contrast between its two halves. i can't explain why but it feels related to "hummer," like an even more chilled-out paisley mirror of it

love those yelps at the end, there's an alt version on the deluxe Pisces that replaces the yelps with a bunch of "crayzeeee" vocals & it sucks so bad, but the original is total blissed out sadness, my Pumpkins

never heard Eye before! almost sounds more like a God Lives Underwater or Jesus Jones track or something.

this is prob the fourth time this video has been posted between the voting thread and the results thread but this is a really stunning performance imo and billy actually sounds great for most of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGwSHQ7Vdc

I totally forgot about Glynis. Great tune, it wouldn't have jelled on SD but it's an album worthy song for sure.

All of my least favorite Adore songs are placing thus far ...

love those yelps at the end, there's an alt version on the deluxe Pisces that replaces the yelps with a bunch of "crayzeeee" vocals & it sucks so bad, but the original is total blissed out sadness, my Pumpkins

OK this is embarrassing, that's the only version of Glynis I've ever heard, didn't realise it was an alternative take!

https://i.imgur.com/DSUynbC.jpg
43. Behold! The Night Mare
188 points, 8 votes
From: Adore, 1998

this is my favourite from Adore, I had it very high. it has a lovely shimmery sound in the guitars and drums, the Adore production at its best. the acoustic bridge followed by that beautiful guitar noise then the ascending second part of the bridge, then the way it ends with a second verse, it sounds like it could drift on forever.

re. Glynis, it's more just another mix, but a much worse mix I think, not least because it forefronts Corgan's vocals at the end. in the original mix you get the "one love" parts but not much of the rest of Corgan's ad libs, and it's much much much better for it.

"behold!" is so good, it just missed my ballot. somehow lives up to its ridiculous title without ever seeming like a ridiculous song

https://i.imgur.com/u5kYUYs.jpg
42. To Sheila
196 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote
From: Adore, 1998

This is one of a few Adore tracks I love.

the little middle eight break thing in Behold is one of the best things Billy ever wrote

it was such a shock to hear this after mellon collie

i mean i know the end of mellon collie sets you up for it but still

whose #1? Good choice

yeah for real

"to sheila" was originally supposed to play behind the scene in cruel intentions soundtracked by counting crows "colorblind"

I always thought "autobahn" was kinda incongruous to the corgan lyrical universe

excellent trivia brad

Ah yes!!! I voted for Glynis and Blank Page! By Starlight another near miss; Brad otm about it being creeper

This is embarrassing but I hadn't heard Glynis before. It's amazing.

Of all the "Corgan with acoustic guitar accompaniment" tracks, I'd say that 'To Sheila' was the first of these where Corgan hit the mark dead on. Not to take away from 'Soothe' or 'Stumbleine', but this is a far superior song. One of my favourites on Adore and a great and unobvious way to open the LP.

https://i.imgur.com/Gt8y4lf.jpg
41. Luna
208 points, 10 votes
From: Siamese Dream, 1993

I love the psychedelic guitar in the background of this, really beautiful tune and their best album closer.

Wow. Way too low. My #2. One of the most sublime love songs I’ve ever heard, and some of Billy’s best & most effortless lyrics.

“To shiela” was my #1

I just woke up and can’t explain but that song has helped carry me through it all

awesome choice karl

Thanks! This poll rules so far, really enjoying the rollout

Yeah, not sure Billy's voice has ever sounded better than on To Sheila

Luna really is one of the best lyrics BC ever wrote. Really touching and a perfect delivery. Five years later and he was all about twisted mysticism like "twilight fades through blistered Avalon". What?

(both songs made my ballot ... obviously I love them for totally different reasons)

https://i.imgur.com/uab8wnM.jpg
40. Bury Me
214 points, 10 votes
From: Gish, 1991

last one for now

damn that's low, one of their very best codas

it is, that loping outro riff is like the precursor to the end of Hummer

'Luna' too low, I've heard that song hundreds of times by now and it still moves me in the same way it did the first time. A beautiful song - whenever Corgan is coming across as a jackass for the zillionth time, it's tracks like 'Luna' that help me separate the art from the artists.

*artist.

otm. it's the perfect closer to that album. emotionally similar to porcelina. that bent A note that runs thru the song is so perfect, the music captures the feeling of falling in love and the naivete and innocence that comes with it.

I think the outro on 'Bury Me' is used differently to the one on 'Hummer' ... 'Hummer's outro is a very distinct change in mood, almost like a different song entirely even if the transition is smooth, whereas 'Bury Me' doesn't feel like that.

*lol C# sorry

gonna get in trouble in here discussing notes and CHORDS xp

xp yeah totally, bury me doesn't have that dynamic shift, the circular/swirling riffs always reminded me of each other though, where hummer is the more mature/developed take

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I completely agree. I found putting a ballot together for this far too impossible, but 'Luna' would have been a no-brainer to include.

we should do a poll of songs written about Courtney Love. can't think of a single one that comes close to Luna

good luck with your westworld cover of heart shaped box thread

Bury Me and I Am One were the next *legit* Pumpkins songs to show up in sets after Rhinoceros. I was never a fan of the former but I've been coming around, just as I've really gotten sick of the latter

Siva too. that was the song that bridged the gap between the Cure cosplay of the late 80s material and what Gish would become.

trouble with doing a "songs about Courtney Love" poll would be figuring out which ones were legit

Siva seems more structurally ambitious though, all those rollercoaster dips into and out of quietness xp to flappy

there's at least a dozen songs about courtney by billy

luna
silverfuck
fuck you
love
bodies
where boys fear to tread
x.y.u.
i of the mourning (second verse)
soothe
hello kitty kat
blank
rotten apples

xp - right, that's what i meant- according to BC it was the song that opened the floodgates for what the Pumpkins could be

fuck you
love

must be real fun to be romantically involved with billy corgan

where boys fear to tread is about trent reznor and how billy was jealous of him dating courtney in '95 lol