22. Bleed the Freak vs. Meladori Magpie

[stip]

[stip]

Bleed the Freak is a solid facelift song. But Meladori Magpie is lovely, sad, playful, and surprising. One of my favorite Pumpkins songs. If you're not familiar with it it's worth a listen.

[tragabigzanda]

I was originally on-board with including SP in this contest, but the deeper we get the more I regret that collective decision we made. Too many of their songs are pop or metal, and don't sound anything like the other bands.

[Self]

THEY'RE NOT EVEN FROM SEATTLE

[malice]

THEY'RE NOT EVEN FROM SEATTLE

so far i haven't found much that stands up to the subject of best of grunge whatever span of years :/
and grunge is a terrible label

[Self]

THEY'RE NOT EVEN FROM SEATTLE

so far i haven't found much that stands up to the subject of best of grunge whatever span of years :/
and grunge is a terrible label

Grunge just means flannel, cargo shorts, and doc martens.

[tragabigzanda]

THEY'RE NOT EVEN FROM SEATTLE

so far i haven't found much that stands up to the subject of best of grunge whatever span of years :/
and grunge is a terrible label

Grunge just means flannel, cargo shorts, and doc martens.

I really liked that scene in Hype when the guitarist says "This is punk," then plays a bunch of slide-up power chord riffs; then he says "This is grunge," and does the same thing but slides down the neck. I thought that was pretty succinct and accurate.

[Jammer XCI]

Screaming Trees isn't in the contest either.

And this is such an easy vote for Bleed the Freak

[washing machine]

The name Meladori Magpie always made me think of Radiohead, even before they put the word Magpie in a song. The slide guitars on this one are great. I think a lot of what I listen to regularly is closer in spirit to SP than AIC, and this song is a good example of that. Not even close for me. Meladori Magpie is true blue.

[LoathedVermin72]

SP never made a metal song, trag.

[bada]

As soon as I saw Targ said metal I braced myself for the what is metal discussion.

[washing machine]

AND INTO THE EYES OF THE JACKAL I SAY KA-BOOM

[tragabigzanda]

SP never made a metal song, trag.

No, but I just mean their guitar tones and riffs are often more metal than grunge.

[LoathedVermin72]

AND INTO THE EYES OF THE JACKAL I SAY KA-BOOM

I love when Corgan does those little a capella sections in heavy songs. That one and "The Everlasting Gaze" come to mind. Two of my favorite SP moments, for sure.

[LoathedVermin72]

SP never made a metal song, trag.

No, but I just mean their guitar tones and riffs are often more metal than grunge.

Oh yeah they definitely aren't grunge. Maybe Gish, but that's about it.

[washing machine]

AND INTO THE EYES OF THE JACKAL I SAY KA-BOOM

I love when Corgan does those little a capella sections in heavy songs. That one and "The Everlasting Gaze" come to mind. Two of my favorite SP moments, for sure.

For sure. It's always felt tongue-in-cheek "metal" to me, which reminded me to post that here.

[PHATJ]

I'm super glad Smashing Pumpkins are in this tournament, but I'm voting Bleed the Freak here.

[doone]

If you're not familiar with it it's worth a listen.

It was worth a listen but it's not grungy.

[Jammer XCI]

Re: Smashing Pumpkins metal, I'd say XYU and Tales of the Scorched Earth are pretty metal. Geek USA kind of. It's not actually metal but it's close.

[Anders]

Bleed The Freak is not a bad song. One of the better early AiC songs.