I forgot that Wretzky and Iha ever dated.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
My favourite songs on it are Rhinoceros and Snail which are the closest to where they went on Siamese Dream. The rest feels very different in sensibility to anything else they did pretty much.
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
lmao the intro to that video sund4r posted
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
Long haired Jimmy is the weirdest
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
i like james' taste in dresses
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
If Adore is above Gish then it's too high.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
it is not
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
Billy making do with a broken low E string like a minute into the song
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
it....clearly is! xps
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
this isn't the first time i'll say this itt but jimmy's a fucking monster
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
since i started learning drums a year ago i've begun to understand exactly what he's doing on each track and it's incomprehensible and humbling
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
he's also an extremely busy player but few of his parts ever feel busy which is remarkable
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
so breezy and musical yet so dense
Jimmy is probably my favourite rock drummer ever
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
Bury Me is so good. That wound up placing high on my ballot, even beating a certain other great Jimmy track. I never owned this on CD so I was less familiar with it before now. Bury Me, Snail, Rhinoceros, and Crush are the ones I love most.
― jmm, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
it was so frustrating seeing them in 94 & watching Billy keep getting ahead of Jimmy, trying to speed up the songs midway through. of course Jimmy was up to it but it felt like a dick move & it didn't make the songs better because they kept changing awkwardly.
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RLZ4J0N.jpg4. Pisces Iscariot140 points, 25 votes, 3 #1 votes
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
well i wasn't expecting adore to beat pisces with this crowd so i concede that my first favorite album of all time is prob too high for most
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
I rarely pull PI out but it really is the most cohesive outtakes record ever
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
i more readily listen to pisces than sd these days. also i almost made "whir" no. 1 on my ballot
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
Same for me, and I've 'Whir' up there too.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
Pisces is very solid for an outtakes comp but most of it does feel like outtakes for a reason to me. The few tracks that don't though are incredible - Blew Away is James' best, Starla is great obviously, no idea how Obscured didn't make Gish. Whir is nice too but I wouldn't really trade anything on Siamese Dream for it.
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
fwiw I rated Adore really high on albums but only picked 1 song for my ballot. maybe a lot of others did the same? it works the best as a regular album out of all of them imo
xp Obscured was recorded for SD
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
I did the same, flappy
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
oh good i'm glad someone else thinks this
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Ic8dhTa.jpg3. Adore 156 points, 22 votes, 6 #1 votes
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
SD is so cohesive, even monochromatic in its sound, and even though the songs on Adore can be pretty different in style or production (like Appels + Oranjes vs. Dusty + Pistol Pete vs. Ava Adore vs. To Sheila), the feeling of wandering and being lost runs through Adore in a really compelling way. and the way it begins so hopefully with To Sheila and ends on such a down note with Blank Page.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
I think SD would just edge out Adore as best to listen to as a whole for me these days. Adore is a little too long but I suppose that does add to the feeling of getting lost in it. Shame through to Blank Page is probably my favourite sequence on any of their albums.
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
just realized I still have my original CD copies of PI and MCIS, o happy day
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
they're similar in the sense that they're both really desperate and reaching, big gamble records, where on SD they were determined not to make a dog of an album and go back to working in record stores and serving coffee, and on Adore they're searching like I said and trying to come to terms with losing Jimmy.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
and that's not even getting into the lyrics
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
I don't really know how to reconcile 'Adore is too long' with 'Eye should probably have been put on it somewhere' and the only thing I'd definitely cut is Annie-Dog
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
Shame through to Blank Page is probably my favourite sequence on any of their albums
otm. hit after hit. the atmosphere they get out of a song as simple as "shame" is remarkable
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
Gish is sounding pretty nice now. "Snail" is really good. Maybe it just sounded too much like other things of the time in the 90s, idk? P sure Adore will never really be my thing but it was def a daring move for them.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
XP
That makes three of us!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
whoever said Snail is like the MCIS epics condensed into 4 minutes is so so so OTM
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
every guitar line in "snail" is fucking amazing
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
it was painful to not be able to vote for it
my #10
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
3:24 this octave progression omg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS-ThN4aEDU
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
When you wake up you're all weak / POLLING your life away
― jmm, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UcjcOSp.jpg2. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness218 points, 29 votes, 10 #1 votes
https://i.imgur.com/ZL2EDRT.jpg1. Siamese Dream252 points, 32 votes, 13 #1 votes
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
fair
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
Justice
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
Siamese DreamMellon Collie and the Infinite SadnessGishPisces IscariotAdore
I voted for more Mellon Collie tracks, but SD is the albumest album
― jmm, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
hard to argue with these results
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
sd is really beautifully paced for a record that's an hour long
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
close enough
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
re: results
I can't believe gish is only no.5. By far their most fascinating album if you ask me. So full of psychedelic goodness. The drumming always totally kills me. A monster of an album. The only album after that i liked was mellon collie as it was so varied.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
"moaner"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 15 April 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
not much live footage of Billy playing piano on the Adore tour (or at all really, until his solo record & tour last year)
― flappy bird, Friday, April 13, 2018 9:07 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i saw that fashion awards performance on tv when it happened! it's probably why "crestfallen" is one of my favorite songs
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 15 April 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
I can't believe only DAM & I voted for Rotten Apples
― flappy bird, Saturday, 21 April 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link
btw don't think i ever posted this summer 1993 performance of Hummer from Fruit Bat Salad... it's sooo much slower than almost all of the SD-era shows, really it's one of the few existing recordings (and only video afaik) of them playing it at the same speed as it is on SD. anyway it's a sweet video, they're playing at the Unicorn a year later, July 1993, band has already way outgrown the club they're in, it's bizarre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E_C6L2D_pY
― flappy bird, Saturday, 21 April 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
like for context this was the same club only a year before. they all sing jimmy happy birthday at the beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wEEkb4zBwU
― flappy bird, Saturday, 21 April 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/smashingpumpkins/comments/8eefplWhaddaya think? I think we did this.
― how's life, Monday, 23 April 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
definitely ILM, and also SP doing a tour to promote this thread
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 April 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
that is only about 20k plays per poster, and I certainly did my part
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 23 April 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
I didn't use Spotify at all but I will take partial credit for this bump
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
Really regret not voting for Drown. Essential. The road is long...
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
bought tickets to see them play live for my first time. setlists from last year are pretty good, so I'm cautiously optimistic for a good show. probably should listen to Cyr to prepare.
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 28 February 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link