THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - LIGHTNING STRIKES: Songs 2005-2014 (compilation)

[FoolofaTook]

[slayed23]

1. 7 Shades of Black
2. Tarantula
3. That's the Way
4. United States
5. A Song for a Son
6. Freak
7. The Celestials
8. Violet Rays
9. Oceania
10. Tiberius
11. Being Beige
12. Drum and Fife

[killtrocity]

Originally Posted by TuralyonW3

My goal was to curate a quality compilation album from the wreckage of this era (post-The Future Embrace, pre-Shiny and Oh So Bright)

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - Lightning Strikes: Songs 2005-2014
1 Panopticon
2 Starz
3 Tom Tom
4 Death From Above
5 The Chimera
6 Stellar
7 Quasar
8 United States
9 Zeitgeist
10 One and All
11 Pinwheels
12 Lightning Strikes
13 Superchrist
14 Oceania
15 Tilt
16 The Fellowship
17 Bring the Light
18 Tiberius

idk, a whole 1.2 hour CD worth of quality SP2 material is sort of a stretch... though I do think Tiberius is genuinely good. And Superchrist is probably as good as the Zeitgeist era/cockrock gets, aside from Bleeding the Orchid which has really goofy production (as does Starz) and I get why you left it off. United States was fucking awesome live and is compressed to hell on the album and is over produced in general... which is a shame because its such a poweful performance from Jim jam. It's too Machina-sounding when it should be raw like M2

The only song from Oceania I've listened to since 2012 is Violet Rays. Mike Byrne is just... boring. It's SP2 lite. And the Tear garden crap is just utterly unlistenable.

Noble effort, but I think it's impossible.

It's a shame there's no studio Gossamer. But that probably would have been ruined anyway.

99 Floors is also pretty decent. And the Rose March. But again, too many Bollys... sigh...

Oh and what about Stellar? MaBelle too, to a lesser degree. Stellar is pretty legit.

1 Tiberius
2 Superchrist
3 less Bolly versions of BTO, Rose March, Starz
4 United States that is properly mastered.
5 Violet Rays
6 Stellar
7 Studio Gossamer which doesn't exist and prob would have gotten destroyed anyway
8 99 Floors

that's it I give up. An EP at best.

Also. His most recent solo album was genuine and emotional, if boring to listen to. A step in the right direction. Can't remember any of it, but he seemed to be in a good place.

[TuralyonW3]

I've been enjoying the mix. Will likely add 99 Floors and Inkless to make it an even 20 (and then at least America Gothic is represented by 1 song)

[Zerospaced]

Where is the link?

Also is there a live compilation of all the live songs from this era that didn't make the cut on any albums, or live tracks that are better than the studio release like most of the Teargarden songs?

[TuralyonW3]

You’re asking me to share a link to a bunch of commercially released SP songs?

[Zerospaced]

Hmm... Is that all this is? You're just making a playlist? OK then. Be that way.

[FoolofaTook]

Turd of the Lion Al Cisneros and Melvins covered Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Just thought you should know.

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

Turd of the Lion Al Cisneros and Melvins covered Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Just thought you should know.

oh sweet, link?

[FoolofaTook]

GIRD YOUR LOINS

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

GIRD YOUR LOINS

this is quite wonderful

[FoolofaTook]

yeah they recorded two songs but the other one hasn't been released yet. i wish they would do a whole album of sabbath. vol 4?

[Mals Marola]

I met Buzz Osborne once
The show it was following was great, even if i’d only heard Houdini and maybe one other album going into it

[FoolofaTook]

woah. really? what was he like?

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

yeah they recorded two songs but the other one hasn't been released yet. i wish they would do a whole album of sabbath. vol 4?

Master of reality

[RenewRevive]

Go on I'll bite. Some good choices, some not so. Here's my best of the mediocre:

1. That's the Way
2. Starz
3. United States
4. Stellar
5. Sunkissed
5. Tom Tom
6. Panopticon
7. Pinwheels
8. Oceania
9. Pale Horse
10. Glissandra
11. Tiberius
12. One and All

That;s all I can make a serious case for.

[eviltimeban]

I made no attempt to put them in any particular order, but this is my top-of-the-head attempt. And yes, I like Owata and Astral Planes.

1. Tarantula
2. Bring the Light
3. United States
4. Superchrist
5. GLOW
6. Sunkissed
7. Pox
8. Quasar
9. Chimera
10. My Love Is Winter
11. Pale Horse
12. Owata
13. Song For A Song
14. Astral Planes
15. One and All
16. Tiberius
17. Monuments
18. Lightning Strikes
19. Stellar
20. Doomsday Clock

[NovaFritz]

Just like that post-2007 singles compilation, these playlists are entirely unlistenable. One or two, maybe even 3 sp2 songs at once is OK, but 20 in a row. Really? Why do this to yourself?

[FoolofaTook]

Remember, you are dealing with ppl who have actually listened to entire SP2 albums. More than once. There is no reasoning with these brutes.

[eviltimeban]

I wouldn't necessarily listen to 20 in a row. But if I was to listen to any of them, it would probably be from that list of 20.

[Shadaloo]

Mine goes something like:

Song For A Son
99 Floors
Tarantula
The Panopticon
As Rome Burns
Glissandra
The Rose March
Tom Tom
Stellar
Neverlost
Ma Belle
No Surrender
Archer

Then you could have Gossamer & Zeitgeist as a bonus EP I guess.

[dustrocck]

Finally someone includes Ma Belle. Definitely one of my favorites from the Zeitgeist era.

[Shadaloo]

A few people have mentioned it to him on the Q&A and he seems dismissive of it. He's always neglected it in a way; it only shows up on silver ZG, so it wasn't even considered for the various initial versions, and it was never, ever played live.

[eviltimeban]

Hard to have live tracks if you're making a compilation of commercially released tracks. I suppose you could argue that Gossamer and 99 Floors were "released" on If All Goes Wrong.

[SPLATTER]

fun idea

here's mine:

Tiberius
Astral Planes
United States
Stitch in Time
Tarantula
One and All
Dorian
Superchrist
Spangled
Freak

[RenewRevive]

I never understood the love for Gossamer. Aimless.

[dustrocck]

Originally Posted by RenewRevive

I never understood the love for Gossamer. Aimless.

Absolutely love the opening riff, but the rest of it just meanders on, agreed.

[fluxequalsrad]

Never have gotten through Gossamer once.

[Kumar Littlejeans]

Look I'm sorry

Doomsday Clock
That's The Way
Tarantula
Bring The Light
(Come On) Let's Go
If All Goes Wrong
The Rose March
Superchrist
FOL
Freak
The Fellowship
The Celestials
My Love Is Winter
As Rome Burns

I like a lot of Monuments just fine, for whatever reason I think it should be considered part of the current era

[MyKeyZ]

I love alternate tracklists...

SIAMESE NIGHTMARE
01 Cherub Rock
02 Quiet
03 Frail & Bedazzled
04 Today
05 Hummer
06 Pissant
07 Rocket
08 Hello Kitty Kat
09 Geek U.S.A.
10 Mayonaise
11 Starla
12 Blue
13 Soma
14 Plume
15 Silverfuck
16 Spaced

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS AND THE INFINITE MADNESS
01 Where Boys Fear To Tread
02 Bodies
03 Jellybelly
04 Zero
05 Bullet With Butterfly Wings
06 Tales Of A Scorched Earth
07 (Fuck You) An Ode To No One
08 Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
09 Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
10 X.Y.U.
11 Muzzle
12 God
13 Mouths Of Babes
14 The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
15 Here Is No Why

A DOOR
01 To Sheila
02 Ava Adore
03 Eye
04 Perfect
05 Daphne Descends
06 Saturnine
07 Tear
08 Crestfallen
09 Waiting
10 Appels + Oranjes
11 Pug
12 Shame
13 Behold! The Night Mare
14 For Martha
15 Blank Page
16 Blissed & Gone
17 17