Singles ranker: Smashing Pumpkins

[halo19]

Since they (or Billy, depending on how you see it) are/is back with new material, I felt like getting this one up here.

01. Today: A+
02. Ava Adore: A+[/color]
03. 1979: A+
04. Eye: A+[/color]
05. Thirty-Three: A+[/color]
06. Siva: A
07. Disarm: A[/color]
08. Bullet with Butterfly Wings: A[/color]
09. The End Is the Beginning Is the End: A[/color]
10. Cherub Rock: A[/color]
11. Stand Inside Your Love: A
12. Tonight, Tonight: A[/color]
13. Zero: A
14. Perfect: A
15. Drown: A-
16. Rhinoceros: A-
17. I Am One: A- (First single; re-recorded for Gish. That version was the third single from record, after "Siva" and "Rhinoceros".)
18. The Everlasting Gaze: A-
19. Crestfallen: A- (Bomb and/or cancelled third single from Adore.)
20. Rocket: B+
21. Try, Try, Try: B (Bomb third single from MACHINA.)
22. Untitled: B
23. Landslide: B
24. Muzzle: B
25. Tristessa: B (Sub Pop single also later re-recorded for Gish)

And for the record, I'm still waiting to hear "Tarantula."
When you think about it, it's impressive that four non-album tracks all ended up charting on the rock formats.

[mtm4319]

I don't know enough of their singles to even warrant posting my would-be list, considering Kirk's put 25 of 'em here. "Bullet", "Disarm", and "1979" would probably be my top 3 though (not necessarily in that order).

[halo19]

In spite the fact that I mentioned them, entries 19, 21, 22, and 25 are all kind of irrelevant anyways. I heard "Tarantula" for the first time today; it'd be with the B-range songs.

[a Nick O!]

1. Eye A+
2. Thirty-Three
3. 1979 A
4. Today A-
5. Disarm
6. Bullet with Butterfly Wings
7. Tonight, Tonight
8. The End Is the Beginning Is the End
9. Stand Inside Your Love B+
10. Zero
11. Ava Adore
12. Rocket
13. Cherub Rock
14. The Everlasting Gaze
15. Perfect B
16. Muzzle

All the rest I haven't heard or am not familiar enough with to grade them fairly.

And Kirk, you forgot "Frail and Bedazzled," although I can't blame you.

[halo19]

Oh. I never knew that was a single. I guess you could move that where I have "Rhinoceros."

[a Nick O!]

I didn't know either until I viewed R&R's Alternative charts for the beginning of 1995, after "Landslide" ran its course.

[radical347]

Of the ones I'm familiar with (even though I have all their albums)

A range:
Ava Adore
Disarm
Perfect
1979
Eye
Tonight, Tonight
Thirty-Three
Rhinoceros
Muzzle
Crestfallen

B range:
Today
The End is the Beginning is the End
Try, Try, Try
The Everlasting Gaze
Stand Inside Your Love
Untitled

C range:
Bullet With Butterfly Wings (I can tolerate this much better than when I first heard it)
Cherub Rock
Tarantula
Zero

D range:
Landslide