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

Oh wow! thanks for the recording and all the context for that Biloxi show. I am listening to it now.

https://i.imgur.com/SbYZsBA.jpg
39. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
218 points, 11 votes
From: No Alternative, 1995

uh that's

https://i.imgur.com/SbYZsBA.jpg
39. Love
218 points, 11 votes
From: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995

Voted for this one. Love the drum hook and the flanger.

Awesome!

Nice detail to match the typography with the original ones used in the albums. The Adore font is my favorite and the one I think I’d have chosen if making a standard banner for the poll... what’s the name of it?

I don't think I voted for "Love," but it's definitely a favorite.

(I KNOW I voted for "Beautiful" - hoping that places close to the end of this rollout.)

yeah you have the ballot weightings correct there Soundslike.

The Adore font is Novella. I'm glad people like the images.

https://i.imgur.com/IKdPug2.jpg
38. Bodies
226 points, 8 votes
From: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995

My #5

least fave MCIS track tbh

didn't make my ballot but it's great

It's one of the heavy tracks I like the most on MCIS. a little repetitive but I love Billy's "NO BODIES EVER KNEW" scream

https://i.imgur.com/pPtY1IK.jpg
37. Bullet with Butterfly Wings
228 points, 9 votes
From: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995

Does the first verse feature little volume fluctuations?-I've always heard that and wondered if it was real or my imagination.

It's so weird that because I got into SP just after Siamese Dream, that I still regard MCIS with a little suspicion as "new" Pumpkins. The photo at the top of the thread presses that button a little.

wtf @ ILM

granted this was towards the bottom of my own ballot but this song is the fucking bomb and this is way too low

iconic single, no doubt

betrayed desires

Damn, ILM!

The world is a WHAMpire

One of the few MCIS tracks they spent real time on the vocals, only because it was gonna be a single. Billy wanted Jellybelly as the first single until Virgin rejected that (insane) idea, but that one has more double tracking than most MCIS songs

Bridge is nuts thanks to the Fender Blender

CAAAAAAAGE

I think this was the first Pumpkins song I ever heard.

Is it just me or are the lyrics particularly execrable on BWBW?

I love the way that last line sounds - “AND I STILL BELIEVE THAT I CANNOT BE SAVED” - glorious multitracking & perfect pitch that probably took hours for him to nail lol

home from work and yeah wow at this placement. was on my ballot one of their most iconic songs.

Ugh, so my #1 song only placed 52 in this poll.
'Crush' was on every high school mixtape that everyone I knew made in 1992.

It's not my all time favorite Pumpkins song, but it's definitely the Pumpkins song that sounds most to me like it desperately NEEDS to be a single? I'm good with it, it's on my ballot somewhere.

I was so turned off by this at the time. I think it's the reason I didn't even listen to all of MCIS until years later. At the time, it felt to me like a generic quiet verse/loud chorus alt-rock song and the lyrics seemed so hollow, especially with the singsongy melody. As I approach middle age, it sounds like a classic rock anthem but it still missed my ballot.

I finally got my mom to stop trying to get me to go to church by wearing my "the world is a vampire" t-shirt to mass.

Is it just me or are the lyrics particularly execrable on BWBW?

― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, April 6, 2018 5:44 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk i love them. they're fuckin dumb and great

as i said on the other thread when i first saw the video for this on mtv i thought it was the coolest thing i'd heard/saw. i also think it was the first song i ever heard where the title didn't appear at all in the lyrics

If anyone is interested, I have the “Sequence IV” bootleg, which is the MCIS rough mixes as of 5/31/95. It’s just the first disc plus Lily. Mostly scratch vocals and synth guide parts for strings (title track sounds so goofy, like a Final Fantasy score). But some of those scratch vocals made it onto the album, like Galapagos (which also has a brief guitar solo right before the “too late to turn back now” part that was wisely deleted)

It's not my all time favorite Pumpkins song, but it's definitely the Pumpkins song that sounds most to me like it desperately NEEDS to be a single? I'm good with it, it's on my ballot somewhere.

One of the first performances of Bullet, from spring 1994: https://youtu.be/4l6frzcRBps

https://i.imgur.com/MZLzJ4P.jpg
36. Quiet
232 points, 9 votes
From: Siamese Dream, 1993

We're up to eight MCIS tracks in the rollout so far.

the opening of "quiet" is the actual coolest thing i've ever heard

(I was going to self-deprecatingly post '"Love is suicide" obv a much more credible statement than "despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage" or "the world is a vampire"' but I think I actually believe that.)

Anyway, "Quiet" is obv classic and placed solidly on my ballot.

omg, Billy says "Please clap"

(in the spring 1994 BWBW)

The best was when Bullet came on at our grade 7 school dance. A couple hundred kids jumping up and down to the chorus.

now this is a great tune

i should have knocked half my ballot down a peg so i could put this on it

Nerdy, sure, but to continue the count

6 Adore tracks so far
4 SD tracks so far

Where are all the Pisces tracks?

in the top 35

BWBW was when I knew deep in my heart it was all going to fall apart. I knew the video was premiering, waited around for it age 15, superfan... And while I couldn't admit it to myself or friends, my heart sank. MCIS has a few moments that get pieces of the puzzle, but it never comes together as a whole (in any individual song nor as an album). Still frustrating after all these years that they lost it.

That is to say, surprised and not surprised BWBW placed so high--apparently from a few folks putting it in their top few?

(The contrast with 'Quiet' placing only just above it is fascinating. "Quiet" has genuine angst and anger and "rawk" and all that. BWBW is a weird pantomime of those things, but more boring than even that suggests.)

my bold prediction, all of SD will place.