MELLON POLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS

Hahah, what a cute widdle goth boy he was. "Dude I saw that one Cure Lovecats video, I have an idea!"

but Ned would be able to clarify...

Really, the whole slew of songs recorded from 96-97 onward all become this bizarre mass of material. I'd say just go here and check out individual song histories as best as they are known. (For instance, that indicates "Dross" was done no earlier than late 98, where, say, "For Martha" first hit tape in 1994.)

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Where's the Aeroplane Flies poll?

This is a nigh on impossible choice. I went with "To Forgive" in the end. If I could pick one "loud" one and one "quiet" one it might be a little easier. I might go with "X.Y.U." for my choice for the former.

I hope enough people vote in this to make the results interesting.

Single disc version:

Zero
Thirty-Three
Here Is No Why
Fuck You
Love
Cupid De Locke
Galapagos
Muzzle
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Bodies
In The Arms of Sleep
1979
Thru The Eyes of Ruby
By Starlight

Mellon Collie needs the line "the world is a vampire" in it somewhere.

Where's the Aeroplane Flies poll?

-- billstevejim, Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

^^^^

Do it by disc not song though pls.

haha I made a bicycling mix tape this weekend and it has "Jellybelly" on it 3 times.

Also as a seasoned cynical adult and not an optimistic hormonal teenager, I am really impressed at how strong a reaction I still have emotionally to "Galapagos".

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Surprised bullet did so well!

Dissappointed bullet did so well.

You crazy

Whoever voted "Take Me Down" deserves some credit.

Those three songs deserved at least one vote!

Disappointed bullet did so well.

Ditto. Also how did "Scorched" get two but "X.Y.U." only got one?

"Bullet" is a great song, guys. Admit it. (I wouldn't have voted for it, but I'm certainly not disappointed!)

a lot of people seem to voting, having only heard the singles...

That was my first thought when I saw the results too. The singles are disappointingly prominent, when for me at least they are by far the less interesting songs on the album.

hahah yeah, pretty amazing that the likes of 'thru the eyes of ruby' should be so comprehensively overlooked in favour of the (admittedly more immediate-sounding) 'bullet with butterfly wings'

"1979" a deserving front-runner though (even if I prefer "Thirty-Three").

"Beautiful" should have gotten at least one vote just for the "na na na" part.

"beautiful" is a really sweet track.

GOAT album

is the "Mellon Collie and The Infinite Ga Ga Goo Goo" boot any good? I saw them on the tour after this (I think Veruca Salt opened? I was like 11) and I would lvoe to hear what they sounded like, that seems like the msot popular one

No votes for 'Beautiful'? Fuck, man.

"Mellon Collie and The Infinite Ga Ga Goo Goo"

lol

Hard for me to think that any song besides "1979" should win this. It's also hard to believe that the time between now and when "1979" came out (1995) is longer than between 1979 and 1995.

1979 is so overrated, it's good for the first minute or so and then it just does the same thing for another three minutes

Yeah, if I compiled a Top 10 of my favourites from this album, '1979' wouldn't make it in there. I love the way '1979' sounds, but I definitely think there's much much better songs than it here.

Poliopolice = the Accidental Parodist

1979 is so overrated, it's good for the first minute or so and then it just does the same thing for another three minutes

this describes most songs though. i like this song because it, more than any other song on the album, captures an elusive nostalgia that is hard to describe. Most of this album is full of lazy, indistinct, by-the-numbers Pumpkins tracks that sound like they were cranked out very quickly. "33" is good though.

1979, here is no why, ruby, tonight, muzzle, porcelina are the most euphoric songs on the record so they will always win over the dour/angry/goofy songs. even though the range of moods is what makes mcis so amazing.

CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

Crut OTM.

Aeroplane Flies High is every bit as good as Mellon Collie. They were riding a ridiculous songwriting hot streak at the time. "Cherry"? "Meladori Magpie"? The beautiful piano cover of "My Blue Heaven"? "Ugly"? "Set the Ray to Jerry"? "God"? That rocking instrumental with the drum solo? All great great stuff.

it bums me out that Aeroplane isn't on Spotify

yeah, I just went looking for it there. ;_;

reissue coming v soon. with even more c sides

Neato

ZERO, people

where boys fear to tread, lately. monster riff

i haven't done this for many, many years, but tonight i think i will crank up the old stereo and play the entire album

I still can't believe that 'Beautiful' didn't get any votes, it's always been one of my highlights of the album... I particularly love the way it changes from this seemingly loop-based thing to the full band playing in the middle section, with that gorgeous sitar-like guitar sound.

yeah I love that whole last side

These days, I would definitely vote for Ruby. Blue disc is a monster!

nearly a decade of listening to this album nearly constantly I never thought much of "To Forgive" but it fucking kills me now. happened all of a sudden last fall, I remember the day. it opened up, or swallowed me in.

and funny how Billy's singing on "In the Arms of Sleep" is so hard to take seriously sometimes but then sometimes you're riding on every syllable and sibilance.

1:00:15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYyGECNfz0

(newly uploaded show btw, never circulated afaik)