In middle school, I took to wearing steel toe Doc Martin boots, dressing in all black and sporting Smashing Pumpkins t-shirts daily. I named my bird Corgan and pierced my cartilage without parental permission (twice) while singing the song “Zero” to take my mind off the pain that comes with shoving a sewing needle through your ear. I must have saved up for months to buy The Aeroplane Flies High box set at that age. My friends still give me shit all the time about this stage of my life that they have labeled as “Goth” because it “sounds funnier,” but I digress….
It’s been over ten years and I still don all black as often as possible (everything matches and it’s slimming: it just makes total sense), and still love, love, love the Pumpkins. So with Halloween around the corner, I decided to honor my dear friends and the original band members: Billy, D’Arcy, James and Jimmy.
Here are my all-time favorite Pumpkin songs, in no particular order….
Thirty-Three
Spaceboy
Muzzle
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Perfect
Today
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Tonight, Tonight
Disarm
Landslide
Zero
Lily (My One and Only)
My Blue Heaven
The Pumpkins are currently on tour (click HERE for tickets and dates)
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