[airbr4ckets] Season 3 RUNNERS-UP (r4)

[Lordef†ones]

Sugar

[Chuckles, The Silly Piggy]

The next bracket challenge needs to be the top 16 of 2014! Anyone object?

Edit: oh, and Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

[Walking Contradiction]

I'm generally not a FOB fan, but I like "Sugar We're Goin' Down" enough to vote for it.

[Lordef†ones]

Dec 29, 2014 16:14:49 GMT -5 Chuckles, The Silly Piggy said:

The next bracket challenge needs to be the top 16 of 2014! Anyone object?

Edit: oh, and Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

I was gonna say a Deftones themed bracket, but that works!

[.indulgecountry]

Sugar, We're Goin' Down

[Devin]

I second a Deftones AirBrackets.

[Green Baron]

I third it, but they don't have enough charting songs.

[Green Baron]

1. "Change (In the House of Flies)" - #3 Alt
2. "Tempest" - #3 Active
3. "Swerve City" - #6 Active
4. "Minerva" - #9 Alt
5. "Diamond Eyes" - #10 Alt
6. "Romantic Dreams" - #11 Active
7. "Digital Bath" - #16 Alt
8. "You've Seen the Butcher" - #17 Active
9. "Hole in the Earth" - #18 Alt
10. "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" - #27 Alt 
11. "The Epilogue" - #27 Alt
12. "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)" - #29 Active
13. "Mein" - #40 Active
14. "Telepathy" - #47 Alt

[Devin]

Dec 29, 2014 21:55:36 GMT -5 Green Baron said:

I third it, but they don't have enough charting songs.

Just use the two promotional singles ("Rocket Skates" and "Leathers") and add in the two Crosses singles, and you have yourself a Chunk Moreno Chino Moreno AirBrackets.

[Green Baron]

Dec 29, 2014 22:01:31 GMT -5 Devin said:

Dec 29, 2014 21:55:36 GMT -5 Green Baron said:

I third it, but they don't have enough charting songs.

you have yourself a Chunk Moreno AirBrackets.

[Devin]

You're also missing "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)", which went to #29 on Billboard Mainstream Rock, and "Mien", which went to #40 on Billboard Mainstream Rock.

[Lordef†ones]

Yes! Chino Moreno Airbrackets! I think Ever(Foreign Flag) by Team Sleep might've charted but I'm not entirely sure.

[(Artie Ziff)]

Seeded by Peak Position -> Weeks at Peak -> Weeks Charted

The Smashing Pumpkins
Round 1:

#1 "1979"
#16 "Muzzle"

#8 "Ava Adore"
#9 "Today"

#4 "Stand Inside Your Love"
#13 "Cherub Rock"

#5 "Thirty-three"
#12 "Tonight, Tonight"

#2 "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
#15 "Eye"

#7 "Landslide"
#10 "The End Is The Beginning Is The End"

#3 "Tarantula"
#14 "Disarm"

#6 "Perfect"
#11 "The Everlasting Gaze"

[Lordef†ones]

Well, this isn't Deftones but The Smashing Pumpkins are still one of my favorite bands so yay me!

#1 "1979"
#16 "Muzzle"

#8 "Ava Adore"
#9 "Today"

#4 "Stand Inside Your Love"
#13 "Cherub Rock"

#5 "Thirty-three"
#12 "Tonight, Tonight"

#2 "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
#15 "Eye"

#7 "Landslide"
#10 "The End Is The Beginning Is The End"

#3 "Tarantula"
#14 "Disarm"

#6 "Perfect" - By far the hardest choice for me.
#11 "The Everlasting Gaze"

[(Artie Ziff)]

#1 "1979"
#9 "Today"
#13 "Cherub Rock"
#12 "Tonight, Tonight"
#2 "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
#7 "Landslide"
#14 "Disarm"
#6 "Perfect"

[shakermaker]

#1 "1979"
#16 "Muzzle"

#8 "Ava Adore"
#9 "Today"

#4 "Stand Inside Your Love"
#13 "Cherub Rock"

#5 "Thirty-three"
#12 "Tonight, Tonight"

#2 "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
#15 "Eye"

#7 "Landslide"
#10 "The End Is The Beginning Is The End"

#3 "Tarantula"
#14 "Disarm"

#6 "Perfect"
#11 "The Everlasting Gaze"

[Cody]

ewww

Instead of this, we shoulda did an airbracket of 16 different times Billy Corgan either made a fool of himself in the media or acted like a pompous ass

[Pipa]

I just realized how few Smashing Pumpkins songs I like.

[American Idiot]

#1 "1979"
#16 "Muzzle"

#8 "Ava Adore"
#9 "Today"

#4 "Stand Inside Your Love"
#13 "Cherub Rock"

#5 "Thirty-three"
#12 "Tonight, Tonight"

#2 "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
#15 "Eye"

#7 "Landslide"
#10 "The End Is The Beginning Is The End"

#3 "Tarantula"
#14 "Disarm"

#6 "Perfect"
#11 "The Everlasting Gaze"

[Green Baron]

1979
Today
Cherub Rock
Tonight, Tonight
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Landslide
Disarm
Perfect

[Web]

first one of these since they've restarted that I won't be able to participate since I barely know any Smashing Pumpkins tracks outside of the big hits.

also Pipa I was really confused for a second because I didn't remember posting what you said above. good thing I'm about to switch my #1 or things would have gotten confusing fast

[Pipa]

Jan 4, 2015 17:09:44 GMT -5 Web said:

first one of these since they've restarted that I won't be able to participate since I barely know any Smashing Pumpkins tracks outside of the big hits.

also Pipa I was really confused for a second because I didn't remember posting what you said above. good thing I'm about to switch my #1 or things would have gotten confusing fast

I was worried this might happen.

I think I might have a solution.

[Web]

Jan 4, 2015 17:16:34 GMT -5 Pipa said:

Jan 4, 2015 17:09:44 GMT -5 Web said:

first one of these since they've restarted that I won't be able to participate since I barely know any Smashing Pumpkins tracks outside of the big hits.

also Pipa I was really confused for a second because I didn't remember posting what you said above. good thing I'm about to switch my #1 or things would have gotten confusing fast

I was worried this might happen.

I think I might have a solution.

now I'm jealous of how much cooler that looks.

[Walking Contradiction]

#1 "1979"
#16 "Muzzle"

#8 "Ava Adore"
#9 "Today"

#4 "Stand Inside Your Love"
#13 "Cherub Rock"

#5 "Thirty-three"
#12 "Tonight, Tonight"

#2 "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
#15 "Eye"

#7 "Landslide"
#10 "The End Is The Beginning Is The End"

#3 "Tarantula"
#14 "Disarm"

#6 "Perfect"
#11 "The Everlasting Gaze"

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

damn what hard choices!


#1 "1979"
#16 "Muzzle"

#8 "Ava Adore"
#9 "Today"

#4 "Stand Inside Your Love"
#13 "Cherub Rock"

#5 "Thirty-three"
#12 "Tonight, Tonight"

#2 "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
#15 "Eye"
you shoulda put "Bullet.." up Against "Disarm". That woulda been interesting.

#7 "Landslide"
#10 "The End Is The Beginning Is The End"

#3 "Tarantula"
#14 "Disarm"

I'm sure some fan might choose Tarantula for it's as good as any Smashing Pumpkins song, but not many songs could DISARM, "Disarm"

#6 "Perfect"
#11 "The Everlasting Gaze

[shakermaker]

Jan 4, 2015 15:34:32 GMT -5 Cody said:

ewww

Instead of this, we shoulda did an airbracket of 16 different times Billy Corgan either made a fool of himself in the media or acted like a pompous ass

I love the Pumpkins but lmaaao you gotta read this actual conversation (source) which took place between Billy Corgan and Kim Thayil of Soundgarden in '94, pure comedy gold right here

This is standard stuff to anybody who has read even a single Billy Corgan profile, the basic curriculum of Pumpkins 101. But Thayil isn't buying. He's sore.

"Don't you see," Thayil says, "you're this incredibly talented guy. People like your music. You have a good band. You sell a lot of records. You don't need all this...stuff."

"What sign are you?" Corgan asks.

"What do you mean, what sign am I?" Thayil says. "What difference could that possibly make?"

"C'mon," wheedles Corgan, "when is your birthday?"

"All right, goddamn it: September 4th."

"Aha!" Corgan says. "A Virgo. You're argumentative."

"Damn right, I'm argumentative," Thayil says, and takes a long, angry pulll at his beer, "which you should know because I've been arguing with you for half an hour, not because of any sign."

"I'm a Pisces," Corgan replies. "We pick up on those things."

A minute later, Corgan, still probing, finally finds the key to Thayil's heart: "I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back."

Thayil explodes: "What do you mean? You write all the songs, and you do all the interviews. You play the instruments on the album. You control the band to the extent that most people think of Smashing Pumpkins as the Billy Corgan Experience, and all you care about is some photograph?"

"But I hate it," Corgan says, "it means they don't think I'm the cute one."

"Ooh," Thayil says a little too loudly as Corgan walks away, "I'll bet he's going to call his therapist in Chicago, wake her up at four in the morning, and tell her about that big, mean bear who made fun of him."

The next day at the Big Day Out festival, Thayil is talking to Kim and Kelley Deal in the Breeders' dressing room when Corgan walks past wearing a long-sleeved Superman T-shirt like the one your four-year-old nephew probably owns.

"You hurt me deeply," Corgan says, touching the giant S on his chest and pouting. "You hurt me deeply in my heart." The Pumpkins go on to play the best set anybody has ever heard them play, their usual passiveness and precision overlaid with an unfamiliar scrim of anger that throws their music into brilliant relief.

Matt Cameron is a little astounded. "Kim should rent himself out as a tour shrink," he says.

[(Artie Ziff)]

The Smashing Pumpkins
Round 2:

#1 "1979" 6-1
#9 "Today" 6-1

#13 "Cherub Rock" 6-1
#12 "Tonight, Tonight" 5-2

#2 "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" 5-2
#10 "The End Is The Beginning Is The End" 4-3

#14 "Disarm" 7-0
#6 "Perfect" 7-0

[Pipa]

#1 "1979" 6-1
#9 "Today" 6-1

#13 "Cherub Rock" 6-1
#12 "Tonight, Tonight" 5-2

#2 "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" 5-2
#10 "The End Is The Beginning Is The End" 4-3

#14 "Disarm" 7-0
#6 "Perfect" 7-0

[American Idiot]

#1 "1979" 6-1
#9 "Today" 6-1

#13 "Cherub Rock" 6-1
#12 "Tonight, Tonight" 5-2

#2 "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" 5-2
#10 "The End Is The Beginning Is The End" 4-3

#14 "Disarm" 7-0
#6 "Perfect" 7-0

[Green Baron]

1979
Cherub Rock
Bullet
Disarm