Songoftheday 8/11/19 - I took my love and took it down, I climbed a mountain I turned around...

"Landslide" - Smashing Pumpkins
from the album Pisces Iscariot (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #30
Weeks in the Airplay Top-40: 4

Today's song of the day comes from the alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins, whose third radio-promoted single from their Siamese Dream album, "Disarm", had enough airplay on mainstream radio to reach #48 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 Airplay chart in the spring of 1994. In the United Kingdom, where the song was released commercially as a physical single, it came in two versions, with a "Smile" cover and a "Heart" cover. The "Heart" version included two remakes as "B-sides", Thin Lizzy's "Dancing In The Moonlight" and Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide". Even though at the time it was strictly an import, the Pumpkins' take on "Landslide" took of on radio, enough so that it became the band's first airplay top-40 hit. It eventually became the cornerstone of the group's B-side/rarities compilation Pisces Iscariot in 1994...

While "Landslide" like "Disarm" wasn't allowed to chart on Billboard magazine's official Hot 100 pop chart in America due to not being released as a single, their cover climbed to #30 on the Hot 100 Airplay list in December of 1994. The song also spent three weeks at #3 on their Alternative/Modern Rock chart. Internationally, the song peaked at #47 in Canada.

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Here's the band performing the song live in concert...

and lastly, on a radio appearance in 2018...

And as a bonus, here's the Mac performing "Landslide"...

Up tomorrow: Beauty queen in having some good times.