LOL I've been thinking about making this thread for a while, and seeing as we are up to 999 threads on this forum, I thought I'd do it now.

What's your favourite Pumpkins song name?

Mine would have to be any of the one or two word variety of things that sound like made up words, like Siva, Hummer, Soma, Pulseczar, SLUNK!!! Pissant, Pug, Dross...

I think mayhbe they only did that on the earlier songs, huh?

forgive my spelling, Its been a rough week, its friday night and im TIIIRED.

BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS

why? because it's so contradictionary, clever, poetic, it sounds so cool if you speak it out loud and the song is a hit!

instant hit my friend!!

gahh... when i txt on the phone or type on the keyboard when im tired, its like im drunk and my head fucks....

ssory sory, ooff topic...

Geek N.Z. wrote:
ssory sory, ooff topic...

you should go to sleep, maybe.

It's kind of hard, whenyou look a bit like this dude,.

www.explosm.net/comics/1118/

chriswolf wrote:
BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS

why? because it's so contradictionary, clever, poetic, it sounds so cool if you speak it out loud and the song is a hit!


don't you mean rat in a cage

*Autumn Nocturne (beautiful name for such a goofy song!)
*Tristessa
*What Would Happen If The Guy From Smashing Pumpkins Lost His Car Keys? (Hehehehe)
*Bleeding the Orchid (awful song, but a brilliant title)
*Starla
*Slinkeepie! (okay, tis not a full song but, come on, SLINKEEPIE! It's fun to say!)

tristessa is such a cool name to say. Makes you sound like a snake.

Rivers Cuomo wrote:
chriswolf wrote:
BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS

why? because it's so contradictionary, clever, poetic, it sounds so cool if you speak it out loud and the song is a hit!


don't you mean rat in a cage

It's called Bullet With Butterfly Wings not Rat in a Cage.
Am I missing something here?

Billy is the master at making song titles.
I love so many that I can't even pick a select few.

Basicly, I like song titles where the title doesn't apear in the song its self.
For example, the word Slunk doesn't appear in the song Slunk. However, in the song Shame, the word shame is repeated over and over.

I don't know how well I explained that...

But yeah, like I said. Billy is the master at song titles.

HeavyMetalMachine wrote:

It's called Bullet With Butterfly Wings not Rat in a Cage.
Am I missing something here?
It's a running joke that younger fans refer to the song as Rat in a Cage, because of their inexperience or lack of knowledge. Like you'll hear a kid say "I heard a band on the radio called Pumpkins something or other and they have an awesome new song called Rat in a Cage." Believe it or not, that happens...hence the running joke.

PistolPete wrote:
HeavyMetalMachine wrote:

It's called Bullet With Butterfly Wings not Rat in a Cage.
Am I missing something here?
It's a running joke that younger fans refer to the song as Rat in a Cage, because of their inexperience or lack of knowledge. Like you'll hear a kid say "I heard a band on the radio called Pumpkins something or other and they have an awesome new song called Rat in a Cage." Believe it or not, that happens...hence the running joke.

Oh ok, that's good.
It's always been a pet peeve of mine when people call it that.
I couldn't tell if he was serious or not.

Or "The World is a Vampire"!

Gahhh.

Or "Today is the Greatest Day"

I hate searching for Pumpkins on Limewire...

same! on ultimate-guitar.com they have the rat in a cage tab. whenever i look at it i give it one star, just for the name

my favorite song title is Porceleina of the oceans vast

Hey, can we also discuss those titles that dont really make sense? Here is no why - whats that about?
And my personal fave: Behold! the night mare - notice the gap between night and mare.... what does it mean????

Well, if you look up Nightmare on Wikipedia, it says something about a creepy horse that pokes its head through your curtains and stares at you when you sleep, giving you bad dreams, so it's a "mare" that visits you at night.

Not sure about Here is no Why.

Isn't it called Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, not Oceans Vast?