Smashing Pumpkins best and worst songs

EyeballGrowth · 08.02.2006, 04:49 PM

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.

TheDom · 08.02.2006, 04:51 PM

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.

m^a(t)h · 08.02.2006, 05:32 PM

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.

samuel · 08.02.2006, 05:32 PM

I love MACHINA, especially "With Every Light," "Age of Innocence," and "I of the Mourning."

Trasher02 · 08.02.2006, 05:32 PM

Everlasting gaze is superb and luna is rad too.

m^a(t)h · 08.02.2006, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by samuel

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....

Danny Himself · 08.02.2006, 05:44 PM

Glass and the Ghost Children was a fucking great song.

Rhinoceros, 1979, Bodies, Tear, were all good. I am a pumpkinhead in secret.

LittlePuppetBoy · 08.02.2006, 06:22 PM

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

m^a(t)h · 08.02.2006, 06:31 PM

forgot 33, and the amazing cover of My Blue Heaven

EyeballGrowth · 08.02.2006, 06:44 PM

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.

touch me i'm sick · 08.02.2006, 07:10 PM

best : bodies, everlasting gaze

worst: tonight tonight

krastian · 08.02.2006, 07:11 PM

My favorite will always be Quiet. I gave up on them after Mellon Collie. My least favorites are Tonight Tonight and Disarm.

touch me i'm sick · 08.02.2006, 07:12 PM

oh yeah i forgot quiet

EyeballGrowth · 08.02.2006, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by krastian

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

samuel · 08.02.2006, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by EyeballGrowth

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.

Cantankerous · 08.02.2006, 10:20 PM

All of their songs are competing with each other for the title of "Worst Smashing Pumpkins song" and possibly "worst song of all time."

touch me i'm sick · 08.02.2006, 10:52 PM

meh they wouldn't be that bad if there was no singing

k-krack · 08.02.2006, 10:53 PM

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.

m^a(t)h · 08.02.2006, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by k-krack

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.

gmku · 08.03.2006, 09:23 AM

I like the Gish songs but not much after that.

08.02.2006, 04:49 PM	#1
EyeballGrowth the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 992	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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08.02.2006, 04:51 PM	#2
TheDom expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nashville. Posts: 1,924	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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08.02.2006, 05:32 PM	#3
m^a(t)h expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,204	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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samuel the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 1,175	I love MACHINA, especially "With Every Light," "Age of Innocence," and "I of the Mourning." __________________ samueldahle.bandcamp.com
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Trasher02 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 6,356	Everlasting gaze is superb and luna is rad too. __________________ 666
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Danny Himself invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 9,623	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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LittlePuppetBoy expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Aylmer(now Gatineau), Quebec Posts: 1,756	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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m^a(t)h expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,204	forgot 33, and the amazing cover of My Blue Heaven
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08.02.2006, 06:44 PM	#10
EyeballGrowth the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 992	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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touch me i'm sick expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,936	best : bodies, everlasting gaze worst: tonight tonight
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krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	My favorite will always be Quiet. I gave up on them after Mellon Collie. My least favorites are Tonight Tonight and Disarm. __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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touch me i'm sick expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,936	oh yeah i forgot quiet
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Cantankerous invito al cielo Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A RETIREMENT HOME Posts: 18,499	All of their songs are competing with each other for the title of "Worst Smashing Pumpkins song" and possibly "worst song of all time." __________________ RETIRED
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touch me i'm sick expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,936	meh they wouldn't be that bad if there was no singing
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k-krack invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: On Posts: 7,380	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. __________________ sandwich klub 4 men. Danny is a C.H.U.D.
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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	I like the Gish songs but not much after that. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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