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Which was the very first BC song you have ever heard?

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Which was THE one BC song that made you feel like a fan for the first time?


DON brings back your nostalgic fan memories

The first song I ever heard by SP was Tonight, Tonight but I was 6 at the time so I didn't really know who it was but I really liked the song at the time.

The first song that made me feel like a fan for the first time would have to be To Forgive.
Mellon Collie was the first album that made me a fan and To Forgive had that dark sadness that really appealed to me when I was 16 years old. What attracted to me to their music was the ray of emotions that this band could bring out with each different song.

Same here, the first time I ever heard of them was when I was 11 and I saw the Tonight, Tonight video on MTV

I didn't become interested in them as a band though until I heard them on SNL, I think they might have been playing Perfect

my time with the pumpkins hasnt been very long so far. i remember hearing tonight tonight about 5 years ago and hating it. but i was only into mainstream rock at the time, shit basically.

then my dad brought home siamese dream one day. an employee of his had leant it him. i put it on my ipod and took the dog for a walk. i was enjoying it, then it reached soma, and i went mad, i didnt listen to anything other than SD for months. completely changed how i view music entirely. my music taste changed dramitcally and for the better. thanks SP. and thanks for playing Soma last year!

The first song I ever heard was 1979. It was on the radio a lot. SD was the third Pumpkins album I got into, but I knew Disarm straight away - just had no idea from where. So I guess it's possible I heard Disarm first, but didn't know who it was.

To Sheila was the song that made me a fan. Before Adore, I wasn't even into alternative music. But that song I regarded as the best song ever, for a long time.

No drugs for Frankie though. I used to listen to If all Goes Wrong a lot when I was drinking..

The first Smashing Pumpkins song I heard was I Am One, strangely enough it was the first Smashing Pumpkins song ever. The first song that made me a fan was To Sheila. My mother had noticed I was listening to Smashing Pumpkins when ever I heard them on the radio, so for Christmas 1998 she put Smashing Pumpkins : Adore, R.E.M. : New Adventures In Hi-Fi, and Radiohead : Okay computer. She had already opened them and gave them a listen to see if the albums were appropriate for a ten-year-old, put a little box of candy on each album, gift wrapped album, and put them in my stocking. I spent the whole month listen to Smashing Pumpkins : Adore.

Cherub Rock.

First song ever BWBW. Song that sold me for life, Here Is No Why.

BWBW was the first pumpkins song I remember hearing...and not liking it! lol. But a couple years later I got into Adore and then the rest of the SP back catalogue. And from then on the pumpkins became my fav band.

I had heard SP songs earlier in their career but I was young and more into R&B and Hip Hop believe it or not though. When Bullet came out, I made excuses like Billy's voice was annoying or something. I didn't have too high of an opinion of rock music. The song that drew me in was 1979. The song that hooked me for good was Tonight, Tonight.

At the end of the 90s, I bought a friend of mine a Simpsons VHS featuring the Homerpalooza episode with SP perorming Zero.
Zero was the first song I have ever heared and though it hasn't blown my mind it kept my interested.

Later I would lend myself MCIS from the local library and listen the hard rock tracks only .
When I gave Thru The Eyes Of Ruby a listen it made me feel something special but I wasn't there, yet.

Then I went on holidays to Tunisia and there was this dirty little record shop selling gen-x bootlegs only and that is where I got myself "Gold 2000" by SP.
This compilation featured Soma and Soma was the song that I got hooked on so much that I instantly bought myself Adore and Pisces Iscariot when I was back home (those were the only two albums available where I lived).

Probably Tonight, Tonight, when it was released as a single.

DON wrote:
Great story! I love hearing these kinds of stories. Is Gold 2000 just a compilation of SP songs? Never heard of it

The first SP song I heard was Today and the song that really made me a fan was probably Ava Adore.

JonnyDaycase wrote:
Yes, it's an alternative best of I guess.
The tracklist is:

1. Stand Inside Your Love
2. 1979
3. Geek USA
4. Ava Adore
5. BWBW
6. Whir
7. I Am One
8. The Crying Tree Of Mercury
9. The End Is The Beginning Is The End
10.Tonight Tonight
11.Quiet (Live from Earphoria)
12.Disarm
13.Tristessa (mislabeled as "Fristessa")
14.The Everlasting Gaze
15.Soma
16.Zero
17.Window Paine
18.Thirty-Three

I still think the flow is quite good and a way better introduction to SP than the official Greatest Hits.

Haha Fristessa. This isnt even listed on SPFC. Sounds likke a good collection though!

Yeah it does seem like a good collection/introduction although I would replace Crying Tree with something else.

I would answer both those questions with the same song, "I Am One." I picked Gish up on a whim out of the used CD bin at my record store in probably 1993 or so. It was not long after Siamese Dream came out, but I knew nothing about the band. Just their name and the artwork caught my attention in the used bin. From that very first tom hit at the start of that album, there was an instant attraction. I went back a couple days later and bought SD new, and have bought every single album since on the day it's been released.

Glass And The Ghost Children wrote:
That's adorable.

I had all these older cousins who would sit around and be the typical 90s teenagers/early 20s youth and I desperately wanted to be like them so my mom threw me in the room with them while she drank tea and chatted with my aunt. So I sat there with them listening to SP thinking I was really cool.

Eventually they didn't want their CDs anymore and I inherited them.

The first BC song was probably either BWBW or 1979 on the radio when I was younger, but I didn't know who it was until nearly a decade later. The song where I just snapped and I realized "Holy crap, I love this band" was Jellybelly.