The 111 Best Songs By The Smashing Pumpkins

Twenty-five years down the road, the Pumpkins continue to kick ass. Here are the 111 Best Smashing Pumpkins Songs:

1. Starla (Pisces Iscariot)
2. Disarm (Siamese Dream)
3. Rhinoceros (Gish)
4. Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
5. I Am One (Gish)
6. Porecelina of the Vast Oceans (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
7. Quiet (Siamese Dream)
8. Siva (Gish)
9. Drown (Singles)
10. Mayonaise (Siamese Dream)
11. Thru the Eyes of Ruby (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
12. Tarantula (Zeitgeist)
13. Stand Inside Your Love (MACHINA/The Machine Of God)
14. Tonight, Tonight (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
15. Song For A Son (Teargarden By Kaleidyscope)
16. Perfect (Adore)
17. An Ode to No One (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
18. Tristessa (Gish)
19. Rocket (Siamese Dream)
20. Love (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
21. I Of The Mourning (MACHINA/The Machine Of God)
22. Bury Me (Gish)
23. Ava Adore (Adore)
24. The Everlasting Gaze (MACHINA/The Machine Of God)
25. Slunk (Lull)
26. Today (Siamese Dream)
27. Raindrops + Sunshowers (MACHINA/The Machine Of God)
28. Soma (Siamese Dream)
29. Galapagos (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
30. That's The Way (Zeitgeist)
31. Aeroplane Flies High Turns Left Looks Right (The Aeroplane Flies High)
32. Muzzle (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
33. Once In Awhile (Ava Adore)
34. ...Said Sadly (The Aeroplane Flies High)
35. Bodies (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
36. 1979 (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
37. Waiting (Greatest Hits)
38. Cherub Rock (Siamese Dream)
39. Appels + Oranjes (Adore)
40. The End Is The Beginning Is the End (Batman and Robin)
41. Here Is No Why (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
42. Hello Kitty Kat (Pisces Iscariot)
43. Freak (Teargarden By Kaleidyscope)
44. Dross (Machina II/Friends and Enemies of Modern Music)
45. Zero (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
46. Wound (MACHINA/The Machine Of God)
47. Mouths of Babes (The Aeroplane Flies High)
48. Never Let Me Down Again (For the Masses)
49. Snail (Gish)
50. Age of Innocence (MACHINA/The Machine Of God)
51. Apathy's Last Kiss (Still Becoming Apart)
52. Widow Make My Mind (Teargarden By Kaleidyscope)
53. Lightning Strikes (Teargarden By Kaleidyscope)
54. Daphne Descends (Adore)
55. Geek USA (Siamese Dream)
56. Pissant (Pisces Iscariot)
57. 7 Shades of Black (Zeitgeist)
58. The Fellowship (Teargarden By Kaleidyscope)
59. Marquis in Spades (The Aeroplane Flies High)
60. Eye (Still Becoming Apart)
61. Landslide (Pisces Iscariot)
62. Glynis (No Alternative)
63. Tom Tom (Teargarden By Kaleidyscope)
64. A Night Like This (The Aeroplane Flies High)
65. Jennifer Ever (The Smashing Pumpkins)
66. Untitled (Greatest Hits)
67. By June (Lull)
68. A Stitch in Time (Teargarden By Kaleidyscope)
69. Try, Try, Try (MACHINA/The Machine Of God)
70. God (The Aeroplane Flies High)
71. In The Arms of Sleep (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
72. The Celestials (Oceania)
73. The Imploding Voice (MACHINA/The Machine Of God)
74. Violet Rays (Oceania)
75. Doomsday Clock (Zeitgeist)
76. The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete (Adore)
77. This Time (MACHINA/The Machine Of God)
78. Pug (Adore)
79. Siamese Dream (Siamese Dream Deluxe Edition)
80. You're All I've Got Tonight (The Aeroplane Flies High)
81. One Diamond, One Heart (Oceania)
82. Frail and Bedazzled (Pisces Iscariot)
83. There It Goes (Pisces Iscariot Deluxe)
84. Dancing In The Moonlight (Disarm)
85. Do You Close Your Eyes When You Kiss Me? (Adore Deluxe Edition)
86. Crush (Gish)
87. Thirty-Three (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
88. The Boy (The Aeroplane Flies High)
89. My Dahlia (Light Into Dark)
90. Farewell and Goodnight (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
91. The Chimera (Oceania)
92. Nothing And Everything (The Smashing Pumpkins)
93. Come On Let's Go (Zeitgeist)
94. Let Me Give The World To You (Machina II/Friends and Enemies of Modern Music)
95. Pox (American Gothic)
96. By Starlight (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
97. Speed Kills (Machina II/Friends and Enemies of Modern Music)
98. The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning (Batman and Robin)
99. Oceania (Oceania)
100. Cash Car Star (Machina II/Friends and Enemies of Modern Music)
101. Speed (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Deluxe Edition)
102. Hummer (Siamese Dream)
103. Ugly (The Aeroplane Flies High)
104. Dreaming (The Aeroplane Flies High)
105. Bleeding The Orchid (Zeitgeist)
106. Jackie Blue (20 Dynamic Super Smash Hit)
107. To Forgive (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
108. For Martha (Adore)
109. Smiley (Peel Sessions)
110. Not Worth Asking (I Am One)
111. Behold! The Night Mare (Adore)

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The 11 Best Bonus Tracks from Smashing Pumpkins' Aeroplane Deluxe Edition

Billy Corgan has been called an insane genius.  He has also been called just insane.  He was a 90s icon, who to many of us who lived through 90s know, the Pumpkins were as big if not bigger than Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden when they released Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness.  Though grunge seemed like it was about to pass the mic to rap-metal, the Pumpkins slammed down their 10x platinum double album gargantuan masterpiece to remind everyone they held the throne...dominantly.  Following this madness, the Pumpkins released 5 singles to MCIS with enough B-sides to make up more albums, literally.  About a year later, The Aeroplane Flies High Box Set was released.  It was a concoction of leftovers, covers, and alternative versions, all stuffed in a funky lock box costing about three times as much as a typical Pumpkins album.  It still went platinum.

Last summer, Billy Corgan, revisited the unique MCIS companion Aeroplane box.  Expanded from 33 songs to 90 songs, it was one of the most exhausted remasters effort of its time.  The Pumpkins have definitely set the bar as high as it can go as they've been revisiting their catalogue.  The Pumpkins' underrated Adore, recently had the super deluxe treatment, which is such a massive release of material that will take months just to listen to it...let alone digest it.  It's taken a good year to absorb all the goodness of Aeroplane, and I figure I'll be ready this time next year to do the same for Adore.

The most interesting remaster is yet to come...the often forgotten Machina I & II rock opera.  I can't wait to see how they realize Billy's original vision.  That will be worth waiting for.  Until then...

Here are the 11 Best Bonus Tracks from Smashing Pumpkins' Aeroplane Deluxe Edition:

1. Silverfuck (Live in Landover 1996)
2. God (Live at the Double Door 1995)
3. Love (Live at the Double Door 1995)
4. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans (Live in Cleveland 1996)
5. Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Live in Los Angeles 1996)
6. 1979 (Acoustic)
7. Star Song (DAT mix/Vocal Rough)
8. Bodies (Live in Philadelphia 1996)
9. A/Ab/E/B/F# (Gravity Demo)
10. Marquis in Spades (8-Track Demo)
11. The Groover (Gravity Demo)

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The 11 Best Non-Pumpkins Billy Corgan Songs

The new Smashing Pumpkins album has been met with some trepidation.  Billy Corgan is now the sole remaining original member of the group.  Many critics have questioned whether one original member is enough to constitute the privilege of continuing to use the name.  Billy's response is a resounding..."fuck you."  Though that may seem like Billy is the one being the gigantic dick...are the critics really being fair?  When it comes to the amount of original members of a band...the critics seem as consistent as teenage girl's emotional stability. Guns N Roses (Axl Rose) are habitually abused...while no one questions that Mick Fleetwood (the freaking drummer) is the only original member of Fleetwood Mac.   Robert Smith gets a pass for being the only original member of the Cure as does Dave Murray and Iron Maiden.

I honestly don't think it should matter as long as the integrity of the band remains in tact.  Good music is good music...and the name of the artist is pretty irrelevant.  It's not like we're talking about Napalm Death or the Misfits who have no original members.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By Billy Corgan (non-Pumpkins songs):

1. Declarations of Faith (Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea)
2. Lyric (Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea)
3. Honestly (Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea)
4. DIA (Billy Corgan - The FutureEmbrace)
5. Come With Me (Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea)
6. Mina Loy (Billy Corgan - The FutureEmbrace)
7. Settle Down (Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea)
8. Walking Shade (Billy Corgan = The FutureEmbrace)
9. Love Is a Battlefield (Djali Zwan - Spun Soundtrack)
10. The CameraEye (Billy Corgan - The FutureEmbrace)
11. El Sol (Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea)

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THE UNKNOWN: The Smashing Pumpkins - Reel Time Rock Demos

This week the video game spectacular E3 rolled into town. For those of you who don't know, E3 was this giant video game event where every video game company in the world descended to peddle their new material for the coming year. In years past, there have been roughly 2,500 consoles where a lucky few were permitted to play some of the hottest games, months and even years before the general public. Some companies spent upwards of a million dollars on their exhibit. Tony Hawk had a full half pipe for Pro Skater. For the Scarface game, the company built a life-size version of the staircase from the finale of the movie. EA built an entire fake stadium and played their sports games on 50 foot high screens. It was an epic display of teenage fantasy. There was nothing else in the world that could match it. For a gamer, it was heaven.

This year, the event has been scaled down. It's in a small airport hanger with about 100 consoles instead of 2,000. I attended yesterday. It wasn't the same. Don't get me wrong, playing video games is always exciting, especially when they haven't been released to the public yet. (That's right...I played Guitar Hero 3. You can touch me for a dollar.) But nothing will beat the true E3s of the past.

This week, The Smashing Pumpkins release their first CD in 7 years. ZeitGeist. And guess what...it's fun...but it's just not the same. But Buy it...please...more Pumpkins demos in your future if you do...

Here are the Reel Time Rock Sessions from 1989:

1. Egg
2. Bury Me
3. By June
4. Cinnamon Girl (Neil Diamond ;)
5. C'mon
6. Daughter
7. Daughter (extended)
8. Daydream
9. East (alternate)
10. Honeyspider (edit)
11. Honeyspider
12. Honeyspider II
13. I Am one
14. Love
15. Not Worth Asking
16. Psychodelic
17. Rhinoceros (alternate)
18. Rhinoceros
19. Snap
20. Stars Fall In
21. With You