Weekly Poll: Favorite The Smashing Pumpkins Album

Rank em, tell us why, or just pick one.

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Probably Siamese Dream. Butch Vig's vocal production is key for me.

 

Siamese Dream for me and it isn't remotely close.

 

Rhinoceros is my favourite song though.

 

Siamese Dream
Mellon Collie
Adore
Gish
Machina II
Machina
Oceania
Zeitgiest
Teargarden

 

Mellon collie
SD
Adore
Machina 2
Machina 1
Gish

 

Siamese Dream
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Adore
Machina/The Machines of God
Gish
Oceania
Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
Zeitgeist
Monuments to an Elegy
CYR
Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1

 

Yeah if we are being super picky here - Teargarden was kind of an abandoned project after the EPs rather than a proper album... I think some people consider Oceania and Monuments to an Elegy "tacked on" to "complete the project".

 

GOOD JOB

 

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I legitimately love every single album they’ve put out, post breakup and reunion stuff included. But Mellon Collie will forever be single album that changed my life

 

If we’re gonna rank:

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Adore
Machina - The Machines of God
Siamese Dream
Machina II
Oceania
Gish
Cyr
Monuments to an Elegy
Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1
Zeitgeist

Still getting acquainted with Cyr so it’s very possible it’ll move at some point

 

Cool and interesting take from someone who was 7 years old when they first broke up.

Cheers!

 

Yeah I discovered them in I think ‘09 when I was in high school, which is obviously after Zeitgeist came out and right around when Teargarden was starting. So to me it was all part of the Pumpkins “canon” if you will, whereas I think for a lot of older fans there’s more of a separation between the original run and the post-reunion stuff.

 

Mellon Collie gets the edge over Siamese Dream for me. Like Billy says in the SD reissue liners, “one is the ideal of the band, and the other is the reality of the band.”

plus MCIS has way more amazing songs, and for me more exciting production.

 

Great point about the older fans for sure. I will say - it irks me that Billy has the entire 00s discography (besides Machina 1) pulled from streaming. I lost my iPod classic a few years back and I was pretty thorough with my collection of everything SP-world related.

Couldn't tell ya how many times I've wanted to listen to the Zwan record, specifically. And even Zeitgeist, I feel like I can't give it that proper "re-evaluation" to see if I enjoy it any more than I did in 2007-2008.

 

I wanna say Adore but "1979" is a song that will always hit me hard so Mellon Collie is probably it.. but that record does have some filler tracks for sure.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Adore
Machina II - The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
Machina - The Machines of God
Zeitgeist (yeahhhh buddy)
Siamese Dream
Oceania
Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1
Cyr
Monuments to an Elegy
Gish

 

Dude I relate so hard right now about the iPod thing. I just switched computers and transferred all my music files, and when I go to sync my iPod it eventually crashes and loses everything. So I’m super bummed about that especially given the fact that, like you said, so much of their stuff isn’t on streaming. And here I thought I was the only one left who still uses an iPod classic haha

 

Some seriously hot takes in here, respect

 

Oh, I know hahah

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

I actually had two... a full 120GB and a nearly full 160GB. Would update it weekly with new albums from back in the What.CD days up until about 2016ish. Then I stupidly left them both in my car while I was at work early 2017, and they were stolen right from my car along with a backpack and bunch of clothing.

 

So hard to pick my favorite. At different points in my life I've alternated that crown between Mellon Collie, Machina, Adore and Siamese Dream. But I went with Mellon Collie today.
Ok time to rank:

Mellon Collie
Machina
Siamese Dream
Adore
Oceania
Gish
Zietgeist
Cyr
Shiny
Monuments

I think those last 3 are interchangeable just like the top 4

 

Nothing can touch Mellon Collie to me.

 

Just a thought if anyone has download files for the 00s stuff, I would be most appreciative.

 

Zeitgeist for my favourite, though I’ll freely admit any of their pre-breakup albums are objectively better (my vote for best would go to MCIS)

SP was my favourite band all throughout my teenage years. Zeitgeist dropped during that time, and I played the hell out of it, so I associate loads of memories with it & still have a great fondness for those songs

Also Zeitgeist gave us “Stellar”, a higher-tier Pumpkins tune that absolutely should’ve made the main album rather than be an iTunes bonus track