Tales Of A Scorched Earth (track)
by The Smashing Pumpkins
Year: 1995
From the album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (track #20)
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Tales Of A Scorched Earth appears on the following album(s) by The Smashing Pumpkins:
- Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (track #20) (this album) (1995)
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paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/05/2012 23:54 | #34632
you can instantly tell this song's gonna kick your ass, with the train wreck of guitar and billy's distorted screams of "farewell goodnight last one out turn out the lights" proclaiming an answer to his torturous question "why do the same old things keep on happening? / because beyond my hopes there are no feelings ". And just when you think the song is losing momentum it kicks your ass again 2/3 of the way. The line "i lie just to be real, and i'd die just to feel" is a little over-dramatic, but affective in the context of this slayer.
flyingcitrus 01/26/2015 01:37 | #132616
Very weak follow up to 1979 (Edited)
After the best song in the album, the worst
Anti TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/28/2014 01:31 | #107845
Really contrasts 1979.
NoeSSS 05/08/2016 21:42 | #165451
Billy Corgan's voice doesn't fit on here.
I could even put some of the most cringeworthy sweetcore singers and it would fit better than Corgan's.
Sorry Billy, you weren't made for distorted guitar songs (Edited)
