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IstenSzek

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smashing pumpkins "mellon collie & the infinite sadness"




DISC 1 "Dawn to Dusk":

02. Tonight, Tonight
03. Jellybelly
04. Zero
05. Here Is No Why
06. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
07. To Forgive
08. Fuck You (An Ode to No One)
09. Love
10. Cupid de Locke
11. Galapogos
12. Muzzle
13. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
14. Take Me Down


DISC 2 "Twilight to Starlight":

01. Where Boys Fear to Tread
02. Bodies
03. Thirty-Three
04. In the Arms of Sleep
05. 1979
06. Tales of a Scorched Earth
07. Thru the Eyes of Ruby
08. Stumbleine
09. X.Y.U.
10. We Only Come Out at Night
11. Beautiful
12. Lily (My One and Only)
13. By Starlight
14. Farewell and Goodnight


i've been listening to this album, and it's overflowing bsides companion
called "the airoplane flies high" for over a month now and i can't think
of any reason why i thought i'd outgrown it from the time in 1995 when i
first bought it. these songs are as good today as they were back then, in
fact, some of them have aged so well i like them more now than i did back
in 1995/6.

anybody else have especially fond memories of this album and the time it
was first released?

my absolute favorit tracks from it are:

Tonight,Tonight, Zero, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Fuck You (Ode to No One),
Love, Where Boys Fear to Tread, Thirty-Three, In the Arms of Sleep, 1979,
X.Y.U., We Only Come Out at Night, Beautiful, Lily (My One and Only) and the
beautiful By Starlight.


that's half the album, but that's how good this album is. everything is good
and more than half of it is absolutely perfect. more than anything they did
before or after this album, i love the smashing pumpkins right here.
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #1 posted 01/26/09 1:04pm

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as amazing as the albumtracks already are, "the airoplane flies high"
contains even more good stuff. 28 bsides.

TWENTY-EIGHT B-SIDES FOR 1 ALBUM
eek

among them the 23 minute "pastichio medley" which is just a stich up
of song ideas, mainly riffs and short solo's from what i think are a
whole bunch of unreleased tunes.

the pastichio medley also contains one of my favorit smashing pumpkins
moments of all time from 0:36-0:52. just what in the holy hell is that?
it sounds like something recorded in outerspace, lol. hardrock with an
intergalactic twist.

anywho, the box contains many many many gems and some of the ones i've
enjoyed over and over since 1995, even at the time i didn't even listen
to the album anymore, are:

Destination Unknown, Ugly, God, Mouths of Babes, Pennies, Rotten Apples,
Jupiter's Lament, Medallia of the Grey Skies, Transformer and Dreaming
.


it took me forever until i found out it's D'Arcy singing on Dreaming eek
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #2 posted 01/26/09 1:07pm

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Tonight, Tonight



Bullet with Butterfly Wings



Zero love
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #3 posted 01/26/09 1:09pm

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1979 mushy



Thirty-Three sigh
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Reply #4 posted 01/26/09 1:12pm

TRON

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Yes. Love it. And Aeroplane. At the time it was my favorite of theirs, and I've since gone back to preferring Siamese Dream a wee bit, just cuz it's so tight and so ferocious. This was their artistic peak though. nod
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Reply #5 posted 01/26/09 1:12pm

TRON

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Putting on "Bodies" right now. omg headbang
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Reply #6 posted 01/26/09 1:13pm

IstenSzek

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a double album, five video's, five singles, twenty eight bsides.

even prince would call that fucking productive lol

this makes me miss those days when an album would be an event and
a single would be more than a pixel on the itunes website. when a
part of a project was it's visual artwork still.

i was never quite sure what to think of their artwork or visuals
but i can definately relate to the sadness in all their stuff.
not a depressed sadness but a nostalgic sadness like looking at
old pictures of your parents and you when you were a child. no
other band managed to capture that feeling so well for me.
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #7 posted 01/26/09 1:15pm

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i totally know what you're saying Isty (may i call you that? lol). i rediscovered this a few months ago and was like.."what? why did i think this was tired?"

such a great record!
An individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others nor sacrifices others to himself...
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TRON said:

Yes. Love it. And Aeroplane. At the time it was my favorite of theirs, and I've since gone back to preferring Siamese Dream a wee bit, just cuz it's so tight and so ferocious. This was their artistic peak though. nod



yes it was nod but indeed, Siamese Dream is so tight! there's nothing on
there that doesn't belong on it.

listening to "mayonaise" and then "space boy" coming right after that. drool

so much beauty love
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sassybritches said:

i totally know what you're saying Isty (may i call you that? lol). i rediscovered this a few months ago and was like.."what? why did i think this was tired?"

such a great record!


that's what i said to myself too. i basically always kept listening to the
thirty-three single and it's bsides but put the album way out of sight.

i'm kind of glad i did though because i'm enjoying this soo much right now.
perhaps a little too much, lol.
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #10 posted 01/26/09 1:20pm

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omfg

someone combined one of my fav movies with one of my fav songs

woot!

the song is 3 minutes too long tho. toward the end it just gets
too insane for me but the first 4 minutes are flawless.


disclaimer: yes, i like keanu's acting in this movie. forgive me lol
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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Reply #11 posted 01/26/09 5:02pm

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I haven't listened to it front to back in a while, but every now and then the songs come up on shuffle on my zune and I always get taken back by how great they all are. It is a great album for sure.
"Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring faith. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal" - Carl Sagan
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