Bullet with Butterfly Wings information

"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
Single by the Smashing Pumpkins
from the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
B-side	"...Said Sadly"; "You're All I've Got Tonight"; "Clones (We're All)"; "A Night Like This"; "Destination Unknown"; "Dreaming";
Released	October 16, 1995
Recorded	1995
Genre	Alternative rock; grunge; alternative metal;
Length	4:16
Label	Virgin
Songwriter(s)	Billy Corgan
Producer(s)	Flood; Alan Moulder; Billy Corgan;
The Smashing Pumpkins singles chronology
Music video
	Bullet with Butterfly Wings on YouTube
Audio sample
	file; help;

"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a song by the American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. It was released as the lead single from their 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and is the sixth track on the first disc. This song was the band's first top-40 US hit, peaking at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also spent six weeks at number two on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number four on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. In Canada, the song peaked at number 18 on the RPM Top Singles chart and spent four weeks at number one on the RPM Alternative 30 chart, becoming Canada's most successful rock song of 1995. It also reached number one in Iceland for a week.

The song won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1997. It was named the 91st best hard rock song of all time by VH1 in 2009^[6] and ranked number 70 on the 2008 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" of Rolling Stone.^[7] The song came second in the Triple J Hottest 100, 1995,^[8] was later voted number 51 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 2009^[9] and placed at number 25 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years, 2013.^[10]

^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. October 14, 1995. p. 27. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
^ A.U. (August 6, 2015). "The 95 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1995". Spin. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
^ 1001 Albums: You Must Hear Before You Die. Hachette; 2011. Print.
^ Segretto, Mike (2022). "1995". 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute - A Critical Trip Through the Rock LP Era, 1955–1999. Backbeat. pp. 547–548. ISBN 9781493064601.
^ Richardson, Sean (February 13, 2003). "Ride on". The Boston Phoenix. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
^ "VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs". Stereogum. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
^ "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 31, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
^ "Triple J Hottest 100 1993". Triple J. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
^ "Countdown | triple j's Hottest 100 of All Time, 2009". Triple J. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
^ "Countdown | Twenty Years of triple j's Hottest 100". Triple J. Retrieved November 24, 2014.

[1] "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. October 14, 1995. p. 27. Retrieved July 10, 2021.

[2] A.U. (August 6, 2015). "The 95 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1995". Spin. Retrieved November 22, 2015.

[3] 1001 Albums: You Must Hear Before You Die. Hachette; 2011. Print.

[Segretto_2022-4] Segretto, Mike (2022). "1995". 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute - A Critical Trip Through the Rock LP Era, 1955–1999. Backbeat. pp. 547–548. ISBN 9781493064601.

[5] Richardson, Sean (February 13, 2003). "Ride on". The Boston Phoenix. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.

[6] "VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs". Stereogum. Retrieved November 23, 2014.

[guitarsongs-7] "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 31, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2014.

[8] "Triple J Hottest 100 1993". Triple J. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved June 16, 2019.

[9] "Countdown | triple j's Hottest 100 of All Time, 2009". Triple J. Retrieved February 10, 2016.

[10] "Countdown | Twenty Years of triple j's Hottest 100". Triple J. Retrieved November 24, 2014.

Bullet with Butterfly Wings information

and 26 Related for: Bullet with Butterfly Wings information

Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

Butterfly wings

Rotten Apples

Palaye Royale

List of songs recorded by the Smashing Pumpkins

Ginger Pooley

Karen O

The Aeroplane Flies High

Billy Corgan

Keith Buckley

Untitled Unmastered

James Iha

The Axis of Awesome

My Name Is Dark

The Smashing Pumpkins discography

List of awards and nominations received by the Smashing Pumpkins

The Head on the Door

Nina Gordon

Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour

Hawthorne Heights

Sigue Sigue Sputnik discography

Whale Whores

Maxi single

39th Annual Grammy Awards