[mkoasis]

Hi everyone,
Its been 10 years since I bought my first SP CD (Rotten Apples, after a friend turned me onto Stand Inside Your Love) but recently I've been discovering bsides and outtakes etc. So that naturally led me here. This seems like a really nice forum. I think I will learn a lot about the Pumpkins from you all.

A good way to get to know people here is to know your favourite SP songs. And of course because it may seem impossible to choose 10, let's do 11. Everyone will have a different list and a different favourite song, so I'm curious to see.

Here's mine:

1. Crush
2. Bury Me
3. Soma
4. Geek USA
5. Marquis in Spades
6. Muzzle
7. Thirty Three
8. Perfect...or maybe Crestfallen
9. Stand Inside Your Love
10. This Time
11. That's the Way My Love Is


Let's hear yours!

[oryann]

Welcome!

here's mine

1. Beautiful
2. Disarm
3. Rotten Apples
4. Shame
5. If There Is A God
6. Once Upon a Time
7. Medellia Of The Gray Sky
8. Slow Dawn
9. This Time
10. Bleed
11. Cupid De Locke (or Lily, they're sorta tied I'd say)

[nickpancake]

:lick:/> Hilow, I'm fairly new to the board as well.




1.Appels + Oranjes
2.In My Body
3.Waiting
4.Beautiful
5.1979
6.Cupid De Locke
7.Glass And The Ghost Children
8.Raindrops + Sunshowers
9.The Sacred and Profane
10.Blue Skies Bring Tears (Machina 1 album version)
11.Daphne Descends

I think everyone has a certain aspect of the pumpkins that they are drawn to and for me it would be the atmospheric, experimental, mellow stuff. It was hard to even narrow it down to 11!

[awsmsc]

I think those are some pretty weird lists overall, but I'm glad to see Cupid De Locke is popular.

Here's mine:

1. Cherub Rock
2. Soma
3. Tonight, Tonight
4. Jellybelly
5. Here Is No Why
6. Cupid De Locke
7. 1979
8. To Shiela
9. Shame
10. Behold! The Night Mare
11. For Martha

[oryann]

nickpancake, on 27 April 2012 - 06:19 PM, said:

:lick:/> Hilow, I'm fairly new to the board as well.




1.Appels + Oranjes
2.In My Body
3.Waiting
4.Beautiful
5.1979
6.Cupid De Locke
7.Glass And The Ghost Children
8.Raindrops + Sunshowers
9.The Sacred and Profane
10.Blue Skies Bring Tears (Machina 1 album version)
11.Daphne Descends

I think everyone has a certain aspect of the pumpkins that they are drawn to and for me it would be the atmospheric, experimental, mellow stuff. It was hard to even narrow it down to 11!

Really glad to see someone else love that side. I love their more atmospheric stuff. On any given day I bet mine would change just a bit, and all of the ones you listed would def appear at some point :)/> Awesome to see that you love Appels+Oranjes as much as I do. I think Daphne, Waiting, and S&P are all very underrated too. All favs of mine.

[snail33]

mine changes slightly from time to time, but not too much. off my head:

1 thru the eyes of ruby
2 stand inside your love
3 hummer
4 wound
5 snail
6 cupid de locke
7 once upon a time
8 luna
9 muzzle
10 disarm
11 for martha

nickpancake, on 27 April 2012 - 06:19 PM, said:

:lick:/> Hilow, I'm fairly new to the board as well.




1.Appels + Oranjes
2.In My Body
3.Waiting
4.Beautiful
5.1979
6.Cupid De Locke
7.Glass And The Ghost Children
8.Raindrops + Sunshowers
9.The Sacred and Profane
10.Blue Skies Bring Tears (Machina 1 album version)
11.Daphne Descends

I think everyone has a certain aspect of the pumpkins that they are drawn to and for me it would be the atmospheric, experimental, mellow stuff. It was hard to even narrow it down to 11!

hmm...so what aspect do you think i favor, given my list?

[LostSoul]

^Mine constantly changes, as well. As of late:

1) Zero
2) Stand Inside Your Love
3) Hummer
4) Daphne Descends
5) Let Me Give The World To You
6) Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
7) Soma
8) The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning
9) Mayonaise
10) Tonight, Tonight
11) Behold! The Night Mare

This is far from definitive, however. Save for #1. The song that got me into the Pumpkins and changed my musical perspective will always be at the top.

Welcome, btw. Hope you have a tough skin. :happy:/>

[mkoasis]

Wow, surprised to see Cupid de Locke making so many lists! I remember people always trashing this neat little number when talking about Mellon Collie. Great lists people, keep 'em coming! :)/>

[nickpancake]

snail33, on 27 April 2012 - 07:06 PM, said:

mine changes slightly from time to time, but not too much. off my head:

1 thru the eyes of ruby
2 stand inside your love
3 hummer
4 wound
5 snail
6 cupid de locke
7 once upon a time
8 luna
9 muzzle
10 disarm
11 for martha




hmm...so what aspect do you think i favor, given my list?

hmmm I really can't see a pattern in the songs. . mellow with some rockin ones as well. .they are all pretty dreamy though!

I just thought it was interesting how some of my freinds only listened to the pumpkins for the heavy rock side and hated the softer pretty songs. I totally love tunes like ruby and jellybelly as well, it is just that I am very into more spacey/dark/shoegaze music and happens to be the kind I like to make. Pumpkins are my number one influence!

[Inertia]

1. Luna
2. Hummer
3. Mayonaise
4. Cherub Rock
5. Muzzle
6. Thirty-Three
7. Stumbleine
8. Galapogos
9. Silverfuck
10. Disarm
11. Geek USA

[areyougaffney]

crush
hummer
sweet sweet
luna
33
whir
to sheila
blank page
pomp and circumstance
stellar
soot and stars.

maybe these.....could easy put these in also

galapagos
beautiful
spangled
everlasting gaze
this time
disarm
obscured
sparrow
1979
shame
rose march

[DTA]

1979
Set The Ray To Jerry
Rhinoceros
Mayonaise
Quiet
Beautiful
For Martha
Age Of Innocence
This Time
Real Love
Slow Dawn

[dudehitscar]

It's changed a lot over the years

1. Hummer
2 Wound
3 XYU

No order after that

Disarm
where the boys fear to tread
Behold the nightmare
Daphne descends
Home
Gossamer
Cupid de Locke
Rocket


Notes: rocket took 10 years to hit me this hard. gossamer is only certain performances and not the If all goes wrong DVD one. Cupid has been a fav of mine since the beginning.

[RottingApples]

1. Speed
2. Bodies
3. Set the Ray to Jerry
4. Once in a While
5. Cherry
6. Winterlong
7. Thru the Eyes of Ruby
8. The Last Song
9. Galapogos
10. Slow Dawn
11. Bullet with Butterfly Wings

[dudehitscar]

RottingApples, on 29 April 2012 - 08:35 AM, said:

1. Speed
2. Bodies
3. Set the Ray to Jerry
4. Once in a While
5. Cherry
6. Winterlong
7. Thru the Eyes of Ruby
8. The Last Song
9. Galapogos
10. Slow Dawn
11. Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Nice to see winterlong.

[snail33]

RottingApples, on 29 April 2012 - 08:35 AM, said:

1. Speed
2. Bodies
3. Set the Ray to Jerry
4. Once in a While
5. Cherry
6. Winterlong
7. Thru the Eyes of Ruby
8. The Last Song
9. Galapogos
10. Slow Dawn
11. Bullet with Butterfly Wings

#s 3, 6, 8 and 9 are in my 11-20 group. speed at #ONE baffles me.

[RottingApples]

snail33, on 29 April 2012 - 12:30 PM, said:

speed at #ONE baffles me.

I've always loved Speed. It may not be as dynamic or "deep" as many other SP songs, but there's just something about it I've always loved, and is why I still hold out so much hope for a finished studio take. I just really love that song is all.

[Deleted User Account]

Snail
Behold! The Night Mare
Tear
1979
The Aeroplane Flies High (best riff Corgan's ever written, at 14 I couldn't even believe what I was hearing)
That's The Way (My Love Is for snail33)
Real Love
Hummer
I Of The Mourning
Spangled (to be contentious and also because I sincerely like it)
Untitled

[dudehitscar]

ArticulateEric, on 29 April 2012 - 01:16 PM, said:

Untitled

:scatch:/>

[JSapp]

Mine changes all the time but in no particular order here is today's list off the top of my head.

Mayonnaise
The Rose March
If there is a God
For Martha
Bodies
Drown
Frail and Bedazzled
Tarantula
Try,Try,Try
Rocket
Blew Away

And welcome to the board. Always love to see new people!

[whir22]

Oceania
Aeroplane Flies High
Here Is No Why
Hummer
The Boy
Obscured
Whir
Pennies
99 Floors
United States
Ava Adore
Geek USA

[Stumbling]

I prefer the softer songs mostly.

1. Stumbleine (live 98)
2. Hummer
3. Drown
4. Obscured
5. A,Ab,B,E,F#
6. Purr Snickety
7. I Need You Around
8. Marquis in Spades
9. Rhinoceros
10. Disarm (9/12/93 BBC - I sometimes cringe at the studio version)
11. SIYL/To Forgive (Tie)

[LostSoul]

whir22, on 29 April 2012 - 05:11 PM, said:

Oceania

A bold statement indeed. I won't lie though, with the proper studio treatments, that AND My Love Is Winter would potentially make my top ten.

[blanket_skies]

Stumbling, on 29 April 2012 - 05:40 PM, said:

1. Stumbleine (live 98)

This is by far the best version of this song

I heard Billy say in an interview once that he wish he had more time with Mellon Collie to perfect some of the songs, I always think of this song when I think of that

This post has been edited by blanket_skies: 29 April 2012 - 06:20 PM

[crepe]

1. 1979
2. Blank Page
3. Perfect
4. Slow dawn
5. Speed Kills (MII)
6. Behold! The Night mare
7. This Time
8. Mayonaise
9. Make It Happen
10. I of The Mourning
11. Geek Usa

[snail33]

Stumbling, on 29 April 2012 - 05:40 PM, said:

I prefer the softer songs mostly.



10. Disarm (9/12/93 BBC - I sometimes cringe at the studio version)

wow.

[LostSoul]

OH MY FREAKING GOD I KNOW RIGHT?! WOW. JUST WOW. WITH A SIDE OF WOW.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

ArticulateEric, on 29 April 2012 - 01:16 PM, said:

Spangled (to be contentious and also because I sincerely like it)

Nice. Spangled is a very pretty tune. :thumbsup:/>

Drown
Hummer
Mayonaise
Tonight, Tonight
Porcelina
Bodies
Ruby
We Only Come Out at Night (a lot of people seem to dislike that song, and I can understand that. But I listened to this song on loop as a child, and it really made an impact on me.)
The Last Song
For Martha
Home

Yeah, pretty generic picks. I can see Oceania, if well executed in the studio, becoming an addition.

[.absof.]

Without a helluva a lot of thought and in no particular order except for number 1...

1. Soma
2. I Am One
3. Geek USA
4. Hummer
5. For Martha
6. Never Let Me Down
7. Starla
8. Mayonaise (acoustic)
9. Thirty-Three
10. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
11. Set The Ray To Jerry

[snail33]

.absof., on 29 April 2012 - 07:41 PM, said:

Without a helluva a lot of thought and in no particular order except for number 1...

1. Soma
2. I Am One
3. Geek USA
4. Hummer
5. For Martha
6. Never Let Me Down
7. Starla
8. Mayonaise (acoustic)
9. Thirty-Three
10. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
11. Set The Ray To Jerry

a cover?

[.absof.]

snail33, on 29 April 2012 - 08:33 PM, said:

a cover?

Yes

[DandyJon]

(at the moment)

(bonus tunes)
13. A Song For a Son
12. Honeyspider

11. To Sheila
10. The Rose March
9. Marquis in Spades
8. Siva
7. Lucky 13
6. The Fellowship
5. Stumbleine
4. Hummer
3. Bleeding the Orchid
2. Jellybelly
1. Ma Belle

:happy:/>

[themadcaplaughs]

With the exception of "Beautiful" (my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song) I've more or less done them in chronological order...

1. Beautiful
2. Snail
3. Spaceboy
4. Zero
5. X.Y.U.
6. Cherry
7. Pug
8. Blank Page
9. Glass & the Ghost Children
10. Here's to the Atom Bomb
11. Tarantula

[blanket_skies]

DandyJon, on 30 April 2012 - 12:32 PM, said:

1. Ma Belle

:happy:/>

:thumbsup:/> :thumbsup:/> :thumbsup:/> :thumbsup:/>

[dudehitscar]

Ma belle has a terrible chorus.

[blanket_skies]

dudehitscar, on 30 April 2012 - 03:39 PM, said:

Ma belle has a terrible chorus.

Disagreed I love the chorus to Ma Belle. But overall I find Ma Belle to be a very polarizing song within the pumpkins community, there seems to be a lot of people who love it with a passion, and an equal amount who hate it with a passion. I obviously fall into the love category

[whir22]

Oceania is definitely on my list. I have looped live versions of that song so many times since last fall. The song is just epic

[blanket_skies]

I remember one time doing one of these lists with songs entirely from 2007 onwards just to piss people off. But I'll try to be more accurate this time, but I'm not putting too much thought into this and just jotting it down so I'm sure I'll forget something.

Just off the top of my head:

1. Eye
2. Bodies
3. The Aeroplane Flies High
4. Soothe
5. Ma Belle
6. Set the Ray to Jerry
7. Galapagos
8. Gossamer
9. As Rome Burns
10. Blue Skies Bring Tears
11. Dross

[frednirv632]

1. Geek USA
2. Gossamer
3. Muzzle
4. Ruby
5. Snail
6. Starla
7. Drown
8. SIYL
9. In The Arms of Sleep
10. Soma
11. Jackboot

[davidp2007]

Hmm, I always wrestle with this one. The only one that is for sure is #1. The rest is in no particular order:
1. Tonight, Tonight
2. Soma
3. I Am One
4. Starla
5. Set the Ray To Jerry
6. This Time
7. Blissed and Gone
8. Let Me Give the World To You
9. Dross
10. Thru The Eyes of Ruby
11. Eye

So many other ones that I could list, damn that's hard. I could have just as easily put in stuff like The Last Song (I switched out it for This Time at the last second), Stand Inside Your Love, Pug, The Fellowship, Bleeding The Orchid, Disarm,Muzzle, That's The Way, Bodies, etc.

[Graceful_Swan]

These could change tomorrow and in no particular order:

Hummer
Cherry
Daydream
Today
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Tonight, Tonight
Obscured
Soma
Zero
Rocket
Stumbleine

The 1993 BBC Disarm is pretty amazing. If I listened to it right now it'd be in my 11.

[blanket_skies]

Revised, I forgot Blissed and Gone

1. Eye
2. Bodies
3. The Aeroplane Flies High
4. Soothe
5. Ma Belle
6. Set the Ray to Jerry
7. Blissed and Gone
8. Galapagos
9. Gossamer
10. As Rome Burns
11. Blue Skies Bring Tears

[Stumbling]

Graceful_Swan, on 01 May 2012 - 01:34 PM, said:

The 1993 BBC Disarm is pretty amazing. If I listened to it right now it'd be in my 11.

Best thing on archive.org :happy:/>
I'm surprised it has so few downloads. I prefer Disarm BBC WAY more than the Siamese Dream version.

[snail33]

davidp2007, on 30 April 2012 - 08:47 PM, said:

Hmm, I always wrestle with this one. The only one that is for sure is #1. The rest is in no particular order:
1. Tonight, Tonight
2. Soma
3. I Am One
4. Starla
5. Set the Ray To Jerry
6. This Time
7. Blissed and Gone
8. Let Me Give the World To You
9. Dross
10. Thru The Eyes of Ruby
11. Eye

So many other ones that I could list, damn that's hard. I could have just as easily put in stuff like The Last Song (I switched out it for This Time at the last second), Stand Inside Your Love, Pug, The Fellowship, Bleeding The Orchid, Disarm,Muzzle, That's The Way, Bodies, etc.

if "this time" replaced "the last song" in your mind at #7, shouldn't "the last song" now be #8, and everything else move down, thereby knocking "eye" out of the top 10?