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

“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

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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.

I think Medley will place

I should’ve voted for it

I think I had "Whir" at #7 but listening again today it should've been higher.

Whir is like a breath of spring air

Ha, I always associate it with winter!

(Probably because that's when I got it.)

Guesses for the Top 20:

Perfect, 1979, Set the Ray to Jerry, Mayonnaise, Soma, Today, Thirty-three, Soma, Cherub Rock, Stand Inside Your Love, Daydream, Rhinoceros, Landslide (if it counts), Hummer, Jellybelly, Fuck You (An Ode to No One, Drown, Rocket, Here Is No Why, Thru the Eyes of Ruby

That pretty much accounts for the hitherto unplaced songs on my ballot!

swap out Landslide for Porcelina

There's also Geek USA, Starla, and Everlasting Gaze. I'd probably swap out Fuck You and Here Is No Why.

Yeah, I'll be a little sad if "Geek USA" doesn't place.

Maybe Everlasting Gaze didn't place. It's hard to imagine it beating Bullet with Butterfly Wings and Zero.

yeah theres no way

Geek USA will absolutely place.

My list was slightly skewed against fast/heavy/fun Pumpkins songs, but Geek USA is the best in that category.

Geek USA was my gateway into the second, singles-free half of the album - it wears its catchiness right up front. I actually was kind of underrating it as the lesser/simpler/accessible piece of that set, as I've come to adore Soma, Mayonaise and Silverfuck. I had to go back and listen to realize, no, you don't just have to be 16, it really is fantastic.

Yeah, I'll replace "Drown" with "Geek" cuz I don't think "Drown" has enough pull to get it listed.

Top 20 Prediction:
Perfect, 1979, Set the Ray to Jerry, Mayonnaise, Soma, Today, Thirty-three, Soma, Cherub Rock, Stand Inside Your Love, Daydream, Rhinoceros, Landslide (if it counts), Hummer, Jellybelly, Fuck You (An Ode to No One, Geek USA, Rocket, Here Is No Why, Thru the Eyes of Ruby

woah woah woah no way does Drown have less pull than Landslide. maybe I was talking crazy to imagine it as #1 and it won't be on EVERY ballot but I can imagine enough ppl had it in the top half that it shows up.

Geek fucking rules but didn't vote for it per the live rule.

Songs that are perfect as recorded that I didn't vote for: Zero, Bodies, Fuck You, The Aeroplane Flies High, Where Boys Fear to Tread, Bullet, Plume, Frail and Bedazzled, Drown, Mouths of Babes, Stand Inside Your Love, The Imploding Voice.

xp who tf voted for Landslide

Crazy talk, I didn’t even have to relisten to Drown for it to be top 5 in my ballot.

also would never have taken "perfect" to be any kind of contender but maybe I don't talk to pumpkins fans enough.... it's nice and all, but kinda watery and idk not super memorable to me.

Maybe "Drown" replaces "Fuck You (An Ode to No One)". That's not my favorite song by any stretch (probably wouldn't make my top 60) but I had a feeling it'd beat out a lot of the Machina tracks for inclusion.