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

I didn't get a chance to vote, but jesus this is a trip down memory lane. I didn't go much beyond Mellon Collie at the time, but this has brought back many stoned nights in my parent's garage. I'd have had Mayonnaise at #1 fwiw. Or maybe Snail.

Is it too obvious to mention how much Mogwai wanted to sound like Slint but actually nicked a huge chunk of their sound from Silverfuck?

I don't know. I think This Time still has a good shot. "As the curtain falls we bid you all goodnight" packed a punch.

About nine songs from my ballot have made it so far; maayyyybe five more songs will join them in the final stretch.

Yeah Mogwai were basically an instrumental SD cover band early on. Then they got a lot worse as they tried to be Tortoise and got the Godspeed You Black Emperor disease.

Fuck, every song that's placed in the Top 30 so far is a masterpiece.

For Martha too loooow

"Quiet" = great opening and riff, but the song goes nowhere and Billy's vocal leaves something to be desired. I usually listen to 15 seconds and then hit skip.

Ah “to forgive” made it! Had no idea it was that well liked and I was losing hope. First song I learned on guitar.

"Whir" was my #1 <3

Yeah, I used to love that one. Probably deserved a spot on my ballot.

I think my #1 wont make it. Hope at least “set the ray to jerry” does.

Wish I could've voted for this. Alas.

"Quiet" = great opening and riff, but the song goes nowhere and Billy's vocal leaves something to be desired. I usually listen to 15 seconds and then hit skip.

Yeah, I used to love that one. Probably deserved a spot on my ballot.

cf "Silverfuck"

Hello Kitty Kat is my favorite heavy Pumpkins song to play on guitar... the shift from the F# vamp in the verses to the G# - E chorus is so brutal.

pretty dope list so far tbh. aside from a few things i really can't stand, it's shaping up to be a killer "everything good about the band in one place" playlist. crazy to me that some really canonical songs only had like nine or eleven people voting for them. i could imagine we're about to hit a real jump point where everything showed up in at least half of the ballots. kinda thinking "drown" might take this as something i can't imagine anybody not putting /somewhere/ in their 25. but there's a lot of heavy hitters that haven't shown up yet. only thirteen songs from my ballot have placed so far and of the ones that haven't i feel like the only one i can safely rule out at this point is "This Time."

"Hummer" and "Soma" maybe (I hope)?

I'm guessing 33 takes it in a walk.

Oh yeah Hummer and Soma are locks for top 10, maybe top 5. Thirty-three probably in the teens? Idk. Was in the teens on my ballot

Feel like we could hit Hummer very soon tbh. Never knew anybody rated it so high until these threads - as far as SD consensus classics go i would expect Rocket, Mayonaise, Today and Cherub Rock to all outperform that one.

i went 5/10 so far today and that upped my total.

was having a very bad average.

“Stand inside your love” will also make it if only for being the token pick for people wanting at least one song per album in there.

"Drown" is only for heart-core SP fans? I'd hope not...

The version of Drown on the greatest hits is only 4 mins long. Ridiculous

"Drown" is only for heart-core SP fans? I'd hope not...

Rocket has gotta place high. In a way I think that’s their mission statement more than anything else. It was the first song they played at the “final show” on 12/2/2000.

I've never been much of a Pumpkins fan outside of SD, a handful of MCIS and Pisces selections, and Drown (this is reflected in my fairly pedestrian ballot). But hearing the songs you guys have chosen outside of album context via the playlist has given me a new way in for a lot of this stuff.

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wait a sec- besides “The Boy” - have any songs from The Aeroplane Flies High placed yer? Realizing “Meladori Magpie” and “Rotten Apples” probably aren’t going to place 😢

Jerry will place surely.

I don't think so, flappy.

If "Pistachio Medley" were gonna place, it'd have placed by now, probably.

In re-listening to things for this poll, I got about 3 minutes into "Pistachio Medley."

Yeah. And yeah I’m guessing Set the Ray will be pretty high. Another good song I never understood the love for

xp: you guys are nuts

In re-listening to things for this poll, I got about 3 minutes into "Pistachio Medley."

xp: you guys are nuts

― Fetchboy, Saturday, April 7, 2018 5:32 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't disagree there.

Sorry, that was a horribly formed "joke"

No, really, we're nuts! :)

lmao

In addition to what flappy was saying about it, "Medley" also serves as the first formal peek behind the curtain that let us see just how insane the editing process to create MCIS must have been AND how massively prolific Corgan was at that moment in time.

(I'm sure hardcore fans already knew how prolific the band was, of course, by 1995.)

Yeah. Almost none of those songs even became B sides (iirc the only one is The Aeroplane Flies High & that very early version of X.Y.U. called Rachel). Even their C sides were awesome. I find myself playing So Very Sad About Us, Rigamarole, Camaro, Spazzmatazz (my old namesake!), A Dog’s Prayer, Lucky Lad, and Flipper a lot when I have access to a half stack.

Oh wait I remember spazzmatazz!

Anyways, I voted for Hello Kitty Kat, Siva, Muzzle, and Frail and Bedazzled--my #1

Also really love Snail, Whir, and Zero (which is too low, one instance when the SPIN list was right)

Going to be really weird if "Everlasting Gaze" is in the top 20, beating out so many better classics. "Stand Inside Your Love" I can see as it's the best MACHINA track.

I think Medley will place

If "Medley" placed butnot "Marquis" or "God" or "Pennies" or especially "Mouths of Babes" that would be kinda strange. I like all of those songs better than anything on MCIS...

To no-one's surprise, we've got nothing in this songs rollout post-Machina II.