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Old 08.02.2006, 04:49 PM   #1
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I know I'll regret this but, What Smashing Pumpkins song/s do you think is their best, or worst

My vote goes to Hello Kitty Kat, the way it starts off all sonic and feedbacky and then goes into the crazy Jimi Hendrix sounding riffs. After that I'd say Starla, Plume, Hummer, 1979, Obscured, and Geek U.S.A. are my all time favorites. I wish they would have released a version of Geek U.S.A. without the words.

Worst I'd say everything after Mellon Collie, Today, the one with the harp cupid something or other.
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Old 08.02.2006, 04:51 PM   #2
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Obscured or Geek USA

I got my SP albums out the otherday, just to give them a quick listen, and those were the only 2 I could listen to all the way through. I'm just not into them anymore.
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Old 08.02.2006, 05:32 PM   #3
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best songs are: Cupid de Locke, Starla, Blank Page, Drown, Sweet Sweet and Once in a While. Adore is a great album, full of great songs.

worst songs are from mostly mellon collie, that album is just full of generic rock songs


this is really the only one band I have constantly kept listening over time now. i never get tired of listening to their records. its quite odd.
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Old 08.02.2006, 05:32 PM   #4
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I love MACHINA, especially "With Every Light," "Age of Innocence," and "I of the Mourning."
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Old 08.02.2006, 05:36 PM   #6
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I love MACHINA, especially "With Every Light," "Age of Innocence," and "I of the Mourning."

yeah, machina is great too. With Every Light is amazing, so is The Sacred and Profane.


i love the middle of ghost children....
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Old 08.02.2006, 05:44 PM   #7
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Glass and the Ghost Children was a fucking great song.

Rhinoceros, 1979, Bodies, Tear, were all good. I am a pumpkinhead in secret.
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Old 08.02.2006, 06:22 PM   #8
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Best: Tonight Tonight, Silverfuck, Hello Kitty Kat, Obscured, Tales of the Scorched Earth, I of the Mourning, Stand Inside Your Love, Starla, Crush, I am One, Real Love, Go, Slow Dawn, Satur9

Worst: XYU never really appeals to me, and Heavy Metal Machine
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Old 08.02.2006, 06:31 PM   #9
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forgot 33, and the amazing cover of My Blue Heaven
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Old 08.02.2006, 06:44 PM   #10
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Hrmm, most people seem to have a quite different taste in pumpkins music. The only three albums I still listen to are Siamese Dream, Pisces Iscariot and most of Gish.

Mellon Collie had lots of boring generic songs on it but lots of good ones too. Like RUBY especially, Jelly Belly, 1979, Where boys, Bodies, Tonight tonight were the gems I think. I'm sorry but Zero is a HORRIBLE song.

You know what had lots of good stuff on it though was The Aeroplane Flies High.
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Old 08.02.2006, 07:10 PM   #11
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best : bodies, everlasting gaze

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Old 08.02.2006, 07:11 PM   #12
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My favorite will always be Quiet. I gave up on them after Mellon Collie. My least favorites are Tonight Tonight and Disarm.
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Old 08.02.2006, 07:12 PM   #13
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oh yeah i forgot quiet
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Old 08.02.2006, 10:05 PM   #14
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My favorite will always be Quiet. I gave up on them after Mellon Collie. My least favorites are Tonight Tonight and Disarm.

Yeah, same here. I've always thought Mellon Collie was their last good one, even though I didn't like many of the songs, like we only come out at night, and junk like that.

The live version of Quiet from their live album is way better, but it doesn't have the crazy opening
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Old 08.02.2006, 10:11 PM   #15
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I've always thought Mellon Collie was their last good one.

Really? I like MACHINA the best and I think Adore might come in second. Plus, I love the Zwan album.
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Old 08.02.2006, 10:20 PM   #16
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All of their songs are competing with each other for the title of "Worst Smashing Pumpkins song" and possibly "worst song of all time."
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Old 08.02.2006, 10:52 PM   #17
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meh they wouldn't be that bad if there was no singing
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i like Rhinocerous, Zero, Siva, Drown, Quiet.... uhhh.. lots of the "hits"

i dont like XYU... a few other ones where he sounds really crappy screaming.
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Old 08.02.2006, 11:30 PM   #19
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i like Rhinocerous, Zero, Siva, Drown, Quiet.... uhhh.. lots of the "hits"

i dont like XYU... a few other ones where he sounds really crappy screaming.


his singing/screaming in XYU sounds bad in comparison because the song is actually one live take by the band, pretty interesting they would do that, but yeah the song is not that great.
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Old 08.03.2006, 09:23 AM   #20
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I like the Gish songs but not much after that.
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