The Smashing Pumpkins Where Boys Fear To Tread

[@munckymagic]

Awesome version of the intro. Jimmy's drumming even more monumental than usual!

[@dAvrilthebear]

I sometimes think they are too good for this planet!..

[@Mortizul]

Jimmy's drumming in this is great.

[@paulchamberlin5354]

Just heroined out too...

[@Tazmanijus]

YYY yyyeeeeee !

[@mykelljovelle8333]

this picture looks very familiar... i believe if not mistaken i or idk i might remember right later i helped draw out it out ... and said there is s S here and M there And a P there.. i think i tried carving it out with from a black closs paper and carving tool but then the band member said well if its too hard then take a white marker... and it made it easyer... amd much less time consuming and strssful ...

[@axiaxaren]

This audio is amazing. Is there more of this date?

[@ecaepevolhturt]

Too fast.

[@dummytree]

Well, you're in for a lot of frustration as they most often played their songs much faster live.

[@ecaepevolhturt]

This is the only song of theirs that I like apart from Eye and 1979. WBFTT has such a great soulful groove but by playing it this fast, the groove is lost. Also Billy's singing is atrocious here. After listening to Rob Halford's late-90's-industrial-goth-rock stuff (2wo - I am a Pig and Leave me Alone), I can't help but hear Billy's lack of vocal clarity and precision. It's a very punk performance however this lack of quality tells me something about the bands work ethic and standards, they don't care, well at least not as much as I do!

[@dummytree]

The Pumpkins worked their asses off, especially at the time! Rehearsing, rearranging songs etc. The amount of work put on "Mellon Collie", the amount of songs written and rejected is mind-boggling. Billy was the kind to stare at his bandmates when one of them missed a note (i saw them at the time). This is just live music, raw and with no click track, on a roll of playing night after night, straight from the soundboard (Billy has recorded every Pumpkin show since 95). They spent 96 on the road, basically. I like Billy's vocals from those days. He has gotten more technique around 2006 and even if it's probably better for his vocal cords, I don't like how he has been sounding from 2006 onwards vocally. But to each their own :)

[@dAvrilthebear]

In the 90s Billy used to sound very emotional live. So enjoy the screams, the solos, the overdrive, and if there is sloppiness, think of it as improvisation. :) Often his coarse voice adds new colors to the song. But you got to be familiar with the studio recordings pretty well to appreciate this. Sometimes the coarse voice is due to real exhaustion. I mean, imagine performing X.Y.U., Bodies and An Ode to No One, along with dozens of other hard rock numbers every other night for two years. But it is supposed to speak to all those tired scorched souls out there :) Corgan is more toned down and precise on record. To 'get' his voice, you'd better begin with softer studio recordings, like Stumbeliene, To Forgive, Galapagos, Landslide (from Picecs Iscariot), Tonight Tonight (obviously). Then move on to heavier stuff. Then to live recordings. Generally, Mellon Collie was a tremendous studio effort, Billy's work ethic was notoriously demanding, he was kind of a control freak and a perfectionist.