I uh lost ttack at the end here. Prayers answered etc. Well done, folks. Great top 10. Thx ufo
Frail & BedazzledMayonaiseThru the Eyes of RubyRhinocerosHello Kitty KatStarlaDrownShameThirty-ThreeHummerObscuredBodiesQuietPlumeRocketCrushCherryMuzzleSet the Ray to JerryBlank PageGlynisGalapogosRotten ApplesMedellia of the Gray SkiesSiva
― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 13 April 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
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 Permalinkidk i love them. they're fuckin dumb and greatas 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― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, April 6, 2018 8:47 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, April 6, 2018 8:47 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This song was sort of the breaking point for me with SP back in the 1990s. I remember a friend pointing out that the local alt rock station kept playing it right when her clock radio went off, so she kept waking up to "the world is a vampire..." for a week or something. We all scoffed at how dumb the lyric was. But now I like how Brad puts it: "fuckin dumb and great".
― how's life, Friday, 13 April 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
Ha, I think that's three or four of us who m/l went off the band when this single came out the first time around. (I partly came around on it too.)
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 13 April 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
My breaking point was Everlasting Gaze which was such a complete DNW that I dont even think I realized for a while that I had gone off them completely
― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 13 April 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
cool, haven't seen this in a while, just uploaded by Apathy Video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_nRoNBKVUc
― flappy bird, Saturday, 14 April 2018 04:06 (five 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, Saturday, 14 April 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Friday, April 13, 2018 1:27 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
And so many in here saying BWBW was the immediate buzzkill, and maybe not itt but certainly elsewhere that goes for Ava Adore, too. I wonder what would've happened if Billy got his way and actually released Jellybelly as the lead single from MCIS. No doubt it would've been less successful - I mean what was he thinking? BWBW second single??
― flappy bird, Saturday, 14 April 2018 04:23 (five years ago) link
the flow of the singles from MCIS is really cool, must've been weird to live through them. BWBW into 1979 into Zero into Tonight, Tonight into Thirty-three. Like what if Jonathan survived and the original lineup stuck together and put out Muzzle as planned for the fifth single? and Zero wasn't really a hit right? The video rules but that one is definitely less known than the videos for the rest of the record, including Thirty-three. But it's still one of their iconic songs.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 14 April 2018 04:25 (five years ago) link
I didn’t vote for “Silverfuck” but I should have. It’s like an Underworld track only played on rock instruments.
― Tim F, Sunday, 15 April 2018 11:20 (five years ago) link
What is a good Underworld epic with OTT dynamics?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 15 April 2018 11:45 (five years ago) link
"moaner"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 15 April 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
― 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 (five years ago) link
I can't believe only DAM & I voted for Rotten Apples
― flappy bird, Saturday, 21 April 2018 00:23 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
definitely ILM, and also SP doing a tour to promote this thread
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 April 2018 20:24 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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