Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Bullet With Butterfly Wings (The Smashing Pumkins Cover)

From '' A Gothic-Industrial Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins ''
Label: Cleopatra Records
Released: 2001

Tracks
01. Guenter Schulz & En Esch (Formerly of KMFDM) - Rhinoceros
02. Candymachine 88 with Tina Root Of Switchblade Symphony - Ava Adore
03. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
04. Dark Corridor - The End Is The Beginning Is The End
05. 16 Volt VS Spahn Ranch - Disarm
06. Razed In Black - Cherub Rock
07. Electric Hellfire Club - God
08. Pig - 1979
09. Godbox - Frail And Bedazzled
10. Shining (Julian Beestone ex Nitzer Ebb) - Today
11. Rosetta Stone - Eve
12. Bella Morte - Soma
13. Synical - Zero

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"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a song by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.
It was the lead single from the band's 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
The song won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance.
This song was the band's first Top 40 U.S. hit, peaking at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
It also spent six weeks at number 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and peaked at number 4 on the Album Rock Tracks chart.
The song was named the 91st best hard rock song of all time by VH1.
The song was ranked number 70 on the list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" of Rolling Stone.

Live Performance

"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" like "Disarm", "Stand Inside Your Love" and "Today" metamorphosed dramatically during and after every tour. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" in particular, verified by Corgan himself, comes in five different versions.

During the tour in support of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the band often performed the song with an audio clip intro welcoming concertgoers to "the only circus of its kind in the world," after which Corgan would shout the opening line. Later, the band would drop the intro, starting off the song with a drum beat, a style reminiscent of the variation adopted for the "Sacred & Profane" tour. A third and fourth version showed dramatic variations of the song, both of which were adopted for the Adore tour. The former was an extended and extremely distorted electric version, including several other instruments outside of the ones used for the studio track, such as a 7-string Ibanez electric guitar and additional percussion The latter was a nine minute or longer version of the song. During the "Sacred & Profane" tour, the fifth variation of "Bullet" started off with an extended bassline and drumbeat build-up into the main song. This version is similar to the newest versions the band has been using on its 2007 tour.

Also to be noted is that later renditions of "Bullet" used the C tuning of "The Everlasting Gaze" and "Heavy Metal Machine", making the song sound heavier. As a result, the chorus was so low in Billy's register it sounded almost spoken. They then preceded non-stop with a cover of "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads. Post-reformation renditions restore the original tuning.

Cover versions

Swedish singer Frida Snell performed an acoustic rendition of the song on her 2002 debut album Black Trillium.
Melodic hardcore band Four Year Strong covered this song on their 2009 album "Explains It All" which is a cover album tributing songs that were made famous by groups in the 1990s.
Nu Metal band Ill Nino covered this song on their 2010 album Dead New World.
The Ghost and the Grace covered this song and released it as a one-off single in 2009.
Hawthorne Heights made a cover of this song.

In other media

The song is used, slightly edited, as the title song for the Animal Planet reality television series Whale Wars, which follows the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as they chase Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
The song is also used in the South Park episode "Whale Whores", which parodies Whale Wars.
"Weird Al" Yankovic performed the chorus in "The Alternative Polka" from his Bad Hair Day album.
The song is a playable track in the video game Guitar Hero 5.
The song was the theme song for TNA Wrestling Lockdown 2009.
It is also featured in the trailer for Willard.
The song was also used in a trailer and in promos for the video game Dead Space 2.

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[naruto27emily]

WHY CAN TI FIND A NORMAL ONE MY FUCKING GOD

[SCREAMorphine]

I'm sure a lot of hard work went into this, but fuck it's horrible

[danielscissorhands]

And I thought SS sputnik was washed up by this point. I liked this cover.

[RetroFarmer69]

I love this cover

[ednakano1]

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