I woke up very early this morning after going to bed rather late. As I lay there trying to get just a little more shuteye, not for the first time this week Smashing Pumpkins' "In The Arms Of Sleep" became stuck in my head. So I thought I'd post about the songs from the second disc of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, 'Twilight To Starlight', that I've always really loved but that weren't singles and I haven't heard mentioned a lot.
"In The Arms Of Sleep", its lovely minor brushed feel, shuffling home alone of an autumn evening, sweeping one's feet through the sidewalk leaves, its soft major turnaround.
Billy Corgan performing an acoustic version at a bookstore in Paris, 30 September 2010:
"Beautiful" is just that. A floating, dreamy meditation on love and desire, the heart rapturously overflowing on the "Don't let your life wrap up around you" outro.
An excellent stripped-down version of it from the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., 6 January 1996:
And on the other side of the spectrum is "Bodies". An astounding rock number, its rhythm insistent and propulsive while the instruments sound like they're at war. Jimmy Chamberlin attacking the drums, the guitars bursting with ammunition, and Billy Corgan shrieking as his very soul is wracked with longing.
A great live version from the United Palace Theatre, NYC, 7 November 2008:
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