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Pisces Iscariot

Smashing Pumpkins

1994 · Rock

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Pisces Iscariot by Smashing Pumpkins

Pisces Iscariot is an Alt/Indie album by Smashing Pumpkins, originally released in 1994. On Gatefold: 63 pressings tracked, owned by 65 collectors.

About

Just as artists such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Prince overflow with material, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan is another prolific writer whose official albums only tell a part of the story. <i>Pisces Iscariot</i> was released after just two Smashing Pumpkins studio albums -- <i>Gish</i>, <i>Siamese Dream</i> -- had been issued. For a collection of studio outtakes and European B-sides, it plays surprisingly cohesively. The 2012 <i>Deluxe Edition</i> adds 17 unreleased or alternate versions of tunes from the 1990s. The <i>Deluxe</i> proves its value with the live version of the Velvet Underground's "Venus In Furs" and the electric power of "Jackie Blue." Corgan is a whiz and where other alternative bands often rebelled against the audiophile potential of the studio, Corgan built sonic temples. The dreamy acoustics of "Whir," the brutal guitar battle of "Starla," the passionate covers of the Animals' "A Girl Named Sandoz" and Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" add up to a group that sounds as fresh today, twenty years after the fact.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Soothe2:36
  2. 2Frail And Bedazzled3:17
  3. 3Plume3:38
  4. 4Whir4:10
  5. 5Blew Away3:32
  6. 6Pissant2:31
  7. 7Hello Kitty Kat4:33
  8. 8Obscured5:22
  9. 9Landslide3:11
  10. 10Starla11:01
  11. 11Blue3:20
  12. 12Girl Named Sandoz3:35
  13. 13La Dolly Vita4:16
  14. 14Spaced2:25

Sound DNA

  • Alt/Indie
  • Alternative Rock
  • distorted
  • yearning
  • art school

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Inner panels:
Track 1 - The B-side of Disarm (opens in a new tab). (U.K.)
Track 2 - Previously unavailable in any form. Siamese (opens in a new tab) outtake.
Track 3 - The B-side of I Am One (opens in a new tab) (U.K.)
Track 4 - Previously unavailable. Siamese (opens in a new tab) outtake
Track 5 - B-side of Disarm (opens in a new tab) (U.K.)
Track 6 - B-side of Cherub Rock (opens in a new tab) (U.K.)
Track 7 - B-side of Today (opens in a new tab) (U.K.)
Track 8 - B-side of Today (opens in a new tab) (U.K.)
Track 9 - B-side of Disarm (opens in a new tab) (U.K.)
Track 10 - B-side of I Am One (opens in a new tab) (U.K.)
Track 11 - From the Lull (opens in a new tab) E.P.
Track 12 - From the Peel Sessions (opens in a new tab) (U.K.)
Track 13 - B-side of Tristessa (opens in a new tab) 7"
Track 14 - Previously unavailable. Siamese (opens in a new tab) outtake.
"Landslide" released by arrangement with BBC Enterprises Ltd.
Paraphrased liner notes:
Track 1: Recorded in Billy Corgan's bedroom, includes the sounds of morning buses.
Track 2: Recorded in 1 hour, owes a great debt to the band Skunk, from whom part of the song is "ripped off".
Track 3: Demo assembled in Billy Corgan's bedroom, recorded at Kerry's studio; bass "borrowed" from Eric (opens in a new tab) of Deep Blue Dream; features the Maestro Phase, on loan from Matt S. (opens in a new tab)
Track 4: Recorded in 1 hour, part of the Glynis (opens in a new tab) lineage.
Track 5: The only song Smashing Pumpkins have done that Billy Corgan did not "stick [his] nose" into; Jimmy was on vacation.
Track 6: One of the few songs the band has ever recorded live; done during the Siamese Dream sessions; lyrics made up in 10 minutes.
Track 8: Originally supposed to be on the Lull EP, written during Gish recordings.
Track 9: Recorded at the.
Track 10: Recorded at the same time as Track 3, and was also intended to be a demo; recorded over time, or recorded at two different sessions, one for vocals and solos and one for drums, etc.; includes the sound of a police car going by.
Track 11: The only Gish outtake represented here.
Track 12: Originally recorded by The Animals.
Track 13: Recorded this and Tristessa on the same day.
Other notes:
Standard jewel case with clear tray, and an 8-page booklet with photos and credits.
Some copies have a sticker on the front cover.
All matrix/runout variants are mirrored.

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