Every song on every album seems to complement the song prior. You never have to skip any songs when you're listening to the Pumpkins, so it's really difficult to pick a top 5, Cusack style, but here goes... 5. Ava Adore - Adore 4. Disarm - Siamese Dream 3. Tear - Adore 2. Muzzle - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness 1. Mayonaise - Siamese Dream I love the songs where Corgan goes on what feels like never-ending lyrics but he inserts a new ending to each. "Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness, and cleanliness is godliness, and God is empty, just like...meee"
I don't understand how Last Song and Pennies didn't make it on the second disk, they were written at the same time I think. Gish< Siamese Dream in my opinion. Every song on Gish is a jam, I'd say Suffer is my least favorite and it is much better than Sweet Sweet which I would consider my least favorite Siamese Dream song. But when it comes the the best songs on the albums I have never owned an album with so many powerful songs like Siamese Dream. Mayonaise Hummer Soma Silver**** Cherub Rock Geek USA are all amazing. What I think is even more shocking is that Billy went into depression because the album didn't come out the way he wanted.
i can see that - they werent a "jam" band like phish or anything, but the songs they did certainly jammed w/ all those bad-ass solos and extended jams-outs. there was a very psychedelic/hendrix thing going on with gish. the vibe of that album was very 60's. gish (and the pices iscariot album) is the only pumpkins stuff i can listen too anymore. anything they did after billy started shaving his head and wearing silver pants is just embarrassingly unlistenable. and i say this as someone who was a huge fan of theirs the moment i heard gish (fall 1991) - i liked them and that album much better than nirvana-nevermind or pearl jam-10. pumpkins were my band - siamese dream disappointed me a bit as it was a departure from the gish sound, but i still liked it. and ill admit to liking meloncollie alot when it came out, but i cant listen to it at all anymore. i saw the pumpkins on the siamese dream tour and they killed it then i saw them on the meloncollie tour and i fell asleep at the show - f***ing most boring, pretentious thing i ever saw (and ive seen morrisey) - i was already kind of over them by the time they came thru austin, but that was the moment i turned on them.
