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

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 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".

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.)

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

cool, haven't seen this in a while, just uploaded by Apathy Video.

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

not much live footage of Billy playing piano on the Adore tour (or at all really, until his solo record & tour last year)

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, 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??

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.

I didn’t vote for “Silverfuck” but I should have. It’s like an Underworld track only played on rock instruments.

What is a good Underworld epic with OTT dynamics?

"moaner"

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

I can't believe only DAM & I voted for Rotten Apples

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

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/smashingpumpkins/comments/8eefpl

Whaddaya think? I think we did this.

definitely ILM, and also SP doing a tour to promote this thread

that is only about 20k plays per poster, and I certainly did my part

I didn't use Spotify at all but I will take partial credit for this bump

Really regret not voting for Drown. Essential. The road is long...

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.