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Top 10 Smashing Pumpkins songs

TheKennedyCurse [Edit] [Delete] 84 replies 08:38 April 26th, 2012

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In no order (except Rhinoceros is 1)

Rhinoceros
Bodies
Muzzle
Today
Cherub Rock
Rocket
Siva
Here Is No Why
Tarantula
Zero

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Soma
Mayonaise
Perfect
Real Love
Rocket
Today
Zero
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Rhinoceros
Stand Inside Your Love

Yesiamaduck | 26 Apr '12, 08:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
1979

Rhinoceros
Cherub Rock
Tonight, Tonight
Drown
Today
Ava Adore
The Everlasting Gaze
Disarm
Mayonaise

Antelope | 26 Apr '12, 08:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
- oh god
  
  replace tarantula with Mayonnaise, definitely
  
  TheKennedyCurse @Antelope | 26 Apr '12, 08:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I was concerned for a moment
    
    thinking you found room for Tarantula but NOT Mayonaise
    
    Yesiamaduck @TheKennedyCurse | 26 Apr '12, 08:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    Antelope this'd this
    - forgot all about mayonaise
      
      :|
      
      Matt_was_taken @Yesiamaduck | 26 Apr '12, 08:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - haha
      
      I know Tarantula isn't anywhere near one of the best songs they've done but I've got a soft spot for it, if only for the ridiculous amounts of mini solos he does. It's a banging tune.
      
      Might also replace Siva with XYU, too many choices
      
      TheKennedyCurse @Yesiamaduck | 26 Apr '12, 08:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - I know what you mean
        
        I feel the same way about the pop heaven of 'Thats The Way (My Love Is)' & Tarantula... in fact I like both those songs
        
        Yesiamaduck @TheKennedyCurse | 26 Apr '12, 08:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
in no particular order

silver fuck
Aeroplane Flies High
Appels + Oranjes
Geek USA
Try, Try, Try
Bullet with the butterfly wings
bodies
where boys fear to tread
Rhinoceros
Blissed & Gone

Matt_was_taken | 26 Apr '12, 08:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
Do people not like 1979 anymore?

that song still brings up goosebumps for me. Gotta be one of my top 5 favourite songs.

Antelope | 26 Apr '12, 08:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Okay substitute Drown for 1979
  
  I forgot :)
  
  Yesiamaduck @Antelope | 26 Apr '12, 08:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I didn't even list drown!
    
    fine substitute 'Rocket'
    
    Yesiamaduck @Yesiamaduck | 26 Apr '12, 08:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Drown
Fuck You
Geek USA
1979
Perfect
Silverfuck
Stand Inside Your Love
Starla
Today
This Time

guntrip | 26 Apr '12, 08:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
- this is almost exactly mine
  
  except it'd take out perfect and replace with galapagos.
  
  CONTROVERSY
  
  cocodaLOL @guntrip | 26 Apr '12, 11:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
ooh I like this...

Stand inside your love (my first dance at my wedding last year)
Tonight, Tonight
Muzzle
Thru The Eyes of Ruby
Raindrops + Sunshowers
Jellybelly
Soma
Hello Kitty Kat
Appels + Oranjes
Siva

liquidcalm | 26 Apr '12, 09:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
- i wanted stand inside your love for my first dance
  
  but the wife said no.
  
  Story of my life....
  
  jimouthargyle @liquidcalm | 26 Apr '12, 12:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Divorce her
    
    andres @jimouthargyle | 26 Apr '12, 22:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    liquidcalm this'd this
1979

Cherub Rock
Bodies
To Forgive
Tonight Tonight
To Sheila
Perfect
Geek USA
Mayonaise
Silverfuck

wilykit | 26 Apr '12, 09:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
- To Forgive
  
  Great inclusion.
  
  fictionfighter @wilykit | 26 Apr '12, 13:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
Dross
The End Is The Beginning Is The End
1979
Hummer
Mayonaise
Cherub Rock
Tonight, Tonight
Stand Inside Your Love
Thirty Three
Perfect

spiritofjazz | 26 Apr '12, 10:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Amazed I'm the first to include Hummer
  
  spiritofjazz @spiritofjazz | 26 Apr '12, 10:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  duende this'd this
  - I was going to write this -
    
    - Hummer would be the first on my list.
    
    The_Groke @spiritofjazz | 26 Apr '12, 11:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    withakay this'd this
Muzzle ( one of my favourite songs of all time )

Tonight, Tonight
Geek USA
Mayonaise
Soma
Where Boys Fear To Tread
Disarm
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Rhinoceros

Ichor | 26 Apr '12, 10:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Oh and Zero.
  
  Ichor @Ichor | 26 Apr '12, 10:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
Lot of love for Hummer here

Hummer
Drown
Starla
Stand Inside Your Love
Try Try Try
Bodies
Muzzle
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
Today
Mayonaise
Tonight Tonight

... that's 11, can't bring myself to take one out.

hanshotfirst | 26 Apr '12, 10:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
too. many. songs.

Pissant
Tomtom
The Rose March
Set the Ray to Jerry
Rocket
Hummer
Starla
Tonight Tonight
Believe (yes, the Iha song)
If there is a god (piano version)

This actually changes on a monthly basis but that should be par for the course with the amount of material they have, and having been into them since 1991 it's hard to think of them as just a band anymore. I'm loving the bootlegs of the new stuff on archive.org, Pinwheels and Pale Horse are quietly becoming firm favourites.

I really really like 33 but can't bump any of the list above for it. Gah!
SD<MCIS<MachinaII<Adore<Pisces<Gish<Zeitgeist=Machina1

amyblue | 26 Apr '12, 10:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
- loving... new... stuff?
  
  I don't understand, they split up in 2000? And Billy Corgan withdrew from public life shortly after?
  <shakes head sadly>
  
  guntrip @amyblue | 26 Apr '12, 11:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Ichor this'd this
  - think about Zwan
    
    think about it and cry
    
    cocodaLOL @guntrip | 26 Apr '12, 11:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Actually like the Zwan album
      
      *braces for torrent of abuse*
      
      hanshotfirst @cocodaLOL | 26 Apr '12, 12:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Zwan album >> Zeitgeist >>>>>> Corgan's solo album
        
        spiritofjazz @hanshotfirst | 26 Apr '12, 12:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        ^ well this is of course true
        
        but that's like saying
        
        Zwan >> television series King of Queens >>>>>>>>> Robert Mugabe.
        
        cocodaLOL @spiritofjazz | 26 Apr '12, 12:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        But
        
        What Zwan didn't release<<<<What Zwan DID release. The tossers.
        
        YES I like some of the new stuff. That's even more controversial than even listening voluntarily to the solo album these days. Iha even has a new solo album out in May/June and I shall buy it, purely to wind up mr guntrip.
        
        amyblue @spiritofjazz | 26 Apr '12, 13:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        why would you buying a James Iha solo album wind me up?
        
        (an aside; I've never really liked his songs w/r/t the Pumpkins but maybe that's because he never had enough to be a big part of their sound. I've never heard his first solo album but I imagine a whole album of him doing some nice mellow-ish songs would be pretty good, like)
        
        guntrip @amyblue | 27 Apr '12, 13:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - I really enjoy this album too
        
        However, it should go Jimmy Chamberlin solo album>>Zwan>>Zeitgeist>>>>>>Billy Corgan solo album
        
        Newerwaves @hanshotfirst | 26 Apr '12, 16:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Have you not heard Freak?
    
    makes my top ten (even though I'm almost at the point of giving up trying to make a top ten).
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJHbJfv_PUQ
    
    robluvsnic @guntrip | 26 Apr '12, 15:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I used
  
  to love 'Believe'. I bought the Iha album as a result - jeez was that a mistake.
  
  The_Groke @amyblue | 26 Apr '12, 11:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Believe is great
    
    And so is Blew Away. Iha had the skills, definitely.
    
    sparkysdream @The_Groke | 27 Apr '12, 01:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
Hummer

1979
Thirty Three
Mayonaise
Thru the eyes of Ruby
Cherub Rock
Today
Tonight Tonight
Luna
Bullet With Butterfly Wings

ehwhat | 26 Apr '12, 11:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
this is an impossible question

i would honestly say that i think that i think they have about 100 songs that i think are really really good.

i may answer this later however....

robellovich | 26 Apr '12, 11:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
I haven't listened to Smashing Pumpkins in a god damn age

Reading this thread really makes me want to rectify that.

colossalhorse | 26 Apr '12, 11:35 | X | ^ This | Reply

theShipment this'd this
space boyyyy I misss youuuu

yuggy | 26 Apr '12, 11:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Aw hell
  
  forgot aboput this one too
  
  can we extend the number to 25?
  
  Yesiamaduck @yuggy | 26 Apr '12, 12:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
What a band....

In no specific order...

1. Soma
2. Drown
3. Hummer
4. Obscured
5. Starla
6. Where Boys Fear To Tread
7. Thru The Eyes of Ruby
8. Rhinoceros
9. Silverfuck
10. Mayonnaise

GilbertGread | 26 Apr '12, 12:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
good thread, my top ten in no order and what I can remember would be along the lines of:

Soma
Stand Inside Your Love
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
Tonight Tonight
Eye
Bodies
Quiet
Rhinoceros
Daphne Descends

jimouthargyle | 26 Apr '12, 12:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
In no particular order...

1979
Obscured
Hello Kitty Kat
Rhinoceros
I Of The Mourning
Mayonnaise
Bye June
Bring The Light
Mellon Collie (title track)
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans

Cracking thread, I'm gonna listen to some Pumpkins later on.

sparkysdream | 26 Apr '12, 13:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Shitfuck
  
  I could have also gone for Thirty Three, Bodies, The Aeroplane Flies High, The End Is The Beginning Is The End, Blue, Eye...
  
  sparkysdream @sparkysdream | 26 Apr '12, 13:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Bye June
    
    great song
    
    TheKennedyCurse @sparkysdream | 26 Apr '12, 14:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Too many

Everything from Siamese Dream and hand picks from the rest. That's over ten. Shit. Ok, something like (in no particular order)

Chereb Rock
Muzzle
Geek USA
Hummer
Rocket
Mayonnaise
Try Try Try
Starla
Tonight Tonight
1979

That doesn't even do it justice, there are countless more.

moker | 26 Apr '12, 15:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
- P.S. For all those who doubt Starla
  
  Listen again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnFeCex032g
  
  It's as good as something off Siamese Dream
  
  moker @moker | 26 Apr '12, 15:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
Like moker I don't think I can do it

it goes something like this:

Rhinoceros
Geek USA
1979
Appels + Oranjes
Freak
Landslide
Every else from Siamese Dream (starting with Cherub Rock, Hummer, Mayonaise, Silverfuck and Soma)
Everything else from Gish (starting with Siva and I Am One)
Followed by choice tracks from the other albums, etc. (Perfect, Ava Adore, Zero, Everlasting Gaze, Tarantula, Eye)

robluvsnic | 26 Apr '12, 15:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
1979

+ nine other songs it would take me far too long to narrow down.

dan_thw | 26 Apr '12, 15:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
1. Soma

2. Geek U.S.A
3. X.Y.U
4. 1979
5. To Forgive
6. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
7. Rhinoceros
8. Mayonaise
9. Stand Inside Your Love
10. Disarm

in order.

pichaelmarker | 26 Apr '12, 18:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
Not in any particular order (apart from numerically, of course)

1. Cherub rock
2. Hummer
3. Perfect
4. Try try try
5. Ava adore
6. 1979
7. Everlasting gaze
8. Bullet with butterfly wings
9. Sheila rides
10. Tonight tonight

LOLpop | 26 Apr '12, 19:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
- * To sheila
  
  LOLpop @LOLpop | 26 Apr '12, 19:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
1. starla (anything else is window dressing)

2.cherub rock
3.siva
4.thirty-three
5.1979
6.bury me/snail/tristessa (3-way-tie...fucking Gish!)
7.quiet
8.frail and bedazzled
9.mayonnaise
10.porcelina

not big on post-mellon collie stuff.
dude should have NEVER shaved his head..

watsona7 | 26 Apr '12, 19:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
- drown should be in there somewhere too..
  
  watsona7 @watsona7 | 26 Apr '12, 19:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - and plume!!
    
    holy shit, that guitar tone...thank you, thread, for leading me to waste much of the afternoon buried in 90's SP nostalgia
    
    watsona7 @watsona7 | 26 Apr '12, 22:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
Bit Siamese Dream heavy

and would probably change if I did this again next week:

1. Soma
2. Mayonnaise
3. Zero
4. Disarm
5. Cherub Rock
6. Stand Inside Your Love
7. 1979
8. Starla
9. Drown
10. Porcelina

Just missing out are Rhinoceros, To Sheila, Today, Tryx3, Here Is No Why and probably all the others from Siamese Dream/the first three quarters of Mellon Collie.

sizeofanocean | 26 Apr '12, 20:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
Medelia of grey syks or however you spell it

Muzzle
Mayonnaise
Rocket
1979
Bodies
Blank page
Porcelaina
Stumbeline
The last song

Shame corgan is such a terrible person now

ThingsThatFly | 26 Apr '12, 21:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Now?
  
  Hasn't he always been a bit of a control freak bellpiece? I still love him and his music though.
  
  sparkysdream @ThingsThatFly | 26 Apr '12, 21:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - yeah, I always had a high tolerance for him
    
    kinda like big epic rock stars to be pretentious and a bit ridiculous, always thought he was basically alright but last year when he fell out with the effect pedal maker devi ever he revealed himself to have a pretty appalling attitude to transgender people (even if his problem was just with her the language he used was pretty unacceptable, and the way he targetted the one thing he assumed she would be most insecure about), its like finding out a song writer you really like is a massive racist or something, they always seemed to have that 90's outsider image and it is disappointing he turned out like that
    
    ThingsThatFly @sparkysdream | 26 Apr '12, 22:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Holy crap
      
      I missed this story, so I just googled it. It's a shame that someone who, like you say, cultivated such an 'outsider' image during his heyday would use such nasty language against someone else who is a bit 'different'. But not surprising.
      
      sparkysdream @ThingsThatFly | 26 Apr '12, 22:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Billy has always maintained that stance
        
        but the evidence is all there that he's quite a jock, he's a huge fan of sports, has invested in setting up a new wrestling- sorry, 'rassling' league, there was rumours of basketball scholarships when he was younger, his metal leanings (e.g. championing of Pantera) and psychological bullying he dished out to his bandmates to get his own way.
        
        There's always been aspects of his personal demeanour that have outright pissed me off (think thing get very dubious with his behind the scenes interference before kurt cobain's suicide) so much that when he was publicly threatening devi ever I honestly wasn't surprised to see that side of him, more so that he let his guard slip.
        
        I'm sure if I was in a successful band (heavy hearted lolz) then there'd be enough muck about my life to rake up and disappoint avid fans, I try not to let it get in the way of the music.
        
        amyblue @sparkysdream | 27 Apr '12, 15:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        robellovich this'd this
        
        I find it heartbreaking to divorce artists from their art but it's probably necessary.
        
        Just look at Larkin.
        
        wilykit @amyblue | 27 Apr '12, 16:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
*Pokes head above parapet*

I don't mind Corgan's solo album :S Also, I don't really care for the earlier stuff, hence...

Adore > Mellon Collie > Machina II > Machina > Siamese Dreams > Gish

01. Zero
02. The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
03. 1979
04. To Sheila
05. Stand Inside Your Love
06. Perfect
07. Everlasting Gaze
08. Real Love
09. Age Of Innocence
10. Fuck You (An Ode To No One)

I realise this list is pretty screwy/wrong. Pleased to see love on here for 'To Sheila', but surprised no one else mentioned 'Dusty and Pistol Pete'.

bokonon | 26 Apr '12, 21:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- i'm surprised you have Gish, their best record, ranked dead last
  
  watsona7 @bokonon | 26 Apr '12, 21:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  The_Groke this'd this
  - Yeah, I noticed that as well.
    
    bokonon @watsona7 | 28 Apr '12, 17:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
1. 1979

2. Cherub Rock
3. Landslide
4. Siva
5. Geek USA
6. Drown
7. Silverfuck
8. Hummer
9. I Am One
10. Rocket

drcoffeebean | 26 Apr '12, 22:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
i'm not a super fan but nevertheless

1-1979
2-Mayonaise
3-Drown
4.Bullet
5-Rocket
6-Stand inside your love
7-Perfect
8-33
9-Cherub rock
10-Today

andres | 26 Apr '12, 23:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
From someone who loves Siamese Dream, MCIS and Adore

Today
Tonight Tonight
Rhinocerous
Pug
Cherub Rock
Geek USA
Zero
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Bodies
Starla

Most listened to song recently has been 'Never let me down again.' And unrelated, I think Corgan's voice is brilliant on the quieter/more dreamy numbers (particularly on Adore).

planet_of_sound | 26 Apr '12, 23:27 | X | ^ This | Reply

jimouthargyle this'd this
- Agreed about his voice on the quieter numbers
  
  I really thought his solo album would be an extension from Adore, but no, it was just fucking godawful
  
  jimouthargyle @planet_of_sound | 27 Apr '12, 09:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - His solo album was just his ego masturbating over a CD
    
    Yesiamaduck @jimouthargyle | 27 Apr '12, 12:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
no real order

Hummer
Geek USA
Rocket
Soma
Mayonaise
Cherub Rock
Quiet
Rhinoceros
Muzzle
wacky curveball entry - Stumbleine

you can probably tell I love SD much more than all their other stuff.

duende | 26 Apr '12, 23:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Stumbleine is a great tune
  
  nothing wacky about that as a choice, a great solo performance by raving mad Bill
  
  AlistairCampbell @duende | 27 Apr '12, 16:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
No order

To Sheila
Today
Tonight, Tonight
Thirty-Three
Bodies
In the Arms of Sleep
Daphne Descends
Stand Inside Your Love
By Starlight
Galapogos

NeillyNeil | 27 Apr '12, 00:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
This really is too difficult

And they have some really different sounding songs which make any list dependent on your mood. I guess I'd include:

Bodies
Landslide (yes Corgan's croaking cover off of Pisces Iscariot)
The End Is The Beginning
1979
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
Daphne Descends
Behold! The Night Mare
Mayonnaise
I Am One
Beautiful

with a lot of head-scratching with not being able to include Disarm, Bullet or Geek USA

kostenurky | 27 Apr '12, 01:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
I've decided to do this again, using the Rotten Apples principle

of leaving everything from Siamese Dream out*, because if you include it in the mix, all you'll end up doing is just packaging SD as Disc 1 in a 3 disc release.

*yes, I know RA includes Today, but I'm going the whole hog here.

So, excluding anything from Siamese Dream:

Rhinoceros
1979
Appels + Oranjes
Freak
Landslide
Siva
Bury Me
Drown
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Everlasting Gaze

robluvsnic | 27 Apr '12, 02:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
spaceboy
disarm
luna
sweet sweet
thirty three
1979
tonight tonight
perfect
the everlasting gaze
try try try

aactv | 27 Apr '12, 02:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
too hard but heres one version

mayonaise
tonight tonight
to sheila
cherub rock
drown
stand inside your love
la dolly vita
snail
untitled
1979

skippingkate | 27 Apr '12, 14:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
my favourite ever band

skippingkate | 27 Apr '12, 14:55 | X | ^ This | Reply

amyblue this'd this
- I didn't think they were till this thread and now I kind of think they are.
  
  wilykit @skippingkate | 27 Apr '12, 16:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
Very difficult to narrow it down to 10

Geek USA
Siva
Suffer
Cherub Rock
Hummer
Where Boys Fear to Tread
XYU
Starla
Age of Innocence
Hello Kitty Kat

AlistairCampbell | 27 Apr '12, 16:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
this thread prompted me to listen to Pisces Iscariot for the first time in almost 15 years

can't believe I managed to forget how good it is.

Despite really liking it when it came out, I think as the time since I last played it got longer, the more skeptical of my original assessment I became, figuring that as a collection of b-sides it really couldn't have been as good as I remembered.

But listening to it again, I'm sorry I left it so long. Always loved the Landslide cover, and remembered Whir as being nice, but I can't believe I forgot how immense Pissant and Hello Kitty Kat and Starla — especially Starla — are.

robluvsnic | 30 Apr '12, 15:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
Hummer

Mayonaise
Today
Here's To The Atom Bomb
Stand Inside Your Love
1979
Starla
Rhinoceros
Here Is No Why
Daphne Descends

I think...can't decide

Chinaski_ | 19 Jun '12, 23:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
Clearly it must be...

... Disarm

midnightpunk | 19 Jun '12, 23:50 | X | ^ This | Reply

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