Round of 64: (3) Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie vs. (62) Robert Johnson - Delta Blues Bracket

Round one is here. 62 years of albums with 2 convenient ties. What album will come out on top?

NOTICE: PLEASE DO NOT VOTE UNLESS YOU'VE HEARD BOTH ALBUMS. STOP DOING THIS SHIT.

For this matchup, we start with:

(3) Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

vs.

(62) Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers

 

im contributing to it, but it'll be a bummer when robert johnson gets blown out. one of the GOATs. his actual career compilation is better than this imo.

 

MC might be my favorite album left in the bracket

 

Don't think I've heard the Robert Johnson album. Looks like I've got a busy afternoon of catching up.

 

think you'll like it a lot though i guess i don't know your mileage for delta blues. it's incredible guitar work, if nothing else, and basically every 60s act has covered one or two songs off this.

 

Robert Johnson for sure. Love Mellon Collie but we’re talking possibly the single most consequential album release to the entire latter half of the 20th century. Johnson is absolute bedrock.

 

Yeah, gonna have to listen to the Robert Johnson album before I vote.

 

not voting right now, haven't heard Johnson

 

I love and am fascinated by the blues music from the 20s and 30s, just as a document of history, it's pretty magical hearing music recorded and sung from nearly a hundred years ago - similar to watching old silent films, I find it captivating simply because of it's age. Specifically with the blues, the musicians from this time period frequently seem to have lived (possibly apocryphally) wild lives, which makes the songs even better.

 

if you have Criterion Channel, The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins is A+. different time period obviously but a good look at the same genre/the people involved in it.

 

And then go buy 5-10 copies of this Lightnin Hopkins record I put out

 

Imagine being the kind of person who WANTS to pick holes in a story as cool as Johnson meeting the Devil at the crossroads to get his guitar skills. What’s life without a little myth.

 

More accurate? But less fun

 

good

 

My correct opinion is that Mellon Collie is the best Pumpkins album.
My terrible (but truthfully held) opinion is that Siamese Dream when taken as a whole gets a little... boring (ducks)

 

both takes are bad

 

I love most of the tracks off Siamese Dream, I just have a tough time getting through it all in one listen. My issue. I can sit through the entirety of Mellon Collie much easier.

 

with 83% of the vote, Mellon Collie… moves onto the Round of 32