Bullet With Butterfly Wings (track)
by The Smashing Pumpkins
Year: 1995
From the album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (track #6)
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Bullet With Butterfly Wings appears on the following album(s) by The Smashing Pumpkins:
- Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (track #6) (this album) (1995)
- Rotten Apples (track #8) (compilation) (2001)
- The Aeroplane Flies High (Box Set) (track #1) (compilation) (1996)
- Rarities And B-Sides (track #31) (compilation) (2005)
- Oceania: Live In NYC (track #19) (2013)
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| ! | 1 hour ago | zsolti | 7,291 | 80/100 |
| ! | 17 hours ago | Leginlists | 582 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/06/2026 18:55 | stareaterogni0n | 5,934 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2026 08:48 | Siromynian | 18,035 | 71/100 |
| ! | 05/05/2026 20:22 | seaniedimes_ | 838 | 78/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 90.2/100, a mean average of 89.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 90.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.1.
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HoldenM 10/27/2020 22:35 | #259858
Great song, but that chorus is kinda goofy.
Goliath 06/10/2018 19:31 | #216501
No way can this be over-rated, great track.
Maybe overrated on occasion, but still an amazing song and one of the many highlights on MC&TIS
One of the highlights of the album
GandalfORiley345 06/06/2015 05:24 | #143157
First seconds, "the world is a Vampire" *begins epic percussion and guitar riffs*
Anti 03/28/2014 01:25 | #107831
"The world is a vampire..."
GREAT song!
paladisiac 01/05/2012 23:21 | #34612
: Interesting metaphor. Song starts out "the world is a vampire" and is about "betrayed desired" culminating in a chorus that says "despite all my rage, i'm am still just a rat in a cage". (Take "rat in a cage", remove most of the inside letters, and you end up with "rage". Was this intended?)
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