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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Soothe (demo) | |||
| 2. Frail & Bedazzled | |||
| 3. Plume | |||
| 4. Whir | |||
| 5. Blew Away | |||
| 6. Pissant | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. By June (Ignoffo Sessions/2012 Mix) | |||
| 2. My Dahlia (Ignoffo Sessions/2012 Mix) | |||
| 3. Jesus Loves His Babies (Gish Sessions Rough Mix) | |||
| 4. Cinnamon Girl (Ignoffo Sessions/2012 Mix) | |||
| 5. Glynis (2012 Mix) | |||
| 6. Crawl (Gish Sessions outtake) | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Intro by Billy Corgan | |||
| 2. Pulse Cable Show Introduction by Lou Hinkhouse | |||
| 3. There It Goes (11/19/1988 - Pulse Basement Jam) | |||
| 4. She (11/19/1988 - Pulse Basement Jam) | |||
| 5. She (11/19/1988 - Pulse Basement Jam) | |||
| 6. Under Your Spell (11/19/1988 - Pulse Basement Jam) | |||
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The Smashing Pumpkins are a big rock band, molded by leader Billy Corgan after stadium and progressive rock giants from the Seventies. As such it's only fitting that after only two albums they would release a collection of B-sides. The result, Pisces Iscariot, is not only a good compendium to their other work, but it's a very good record in its own right. Most of the 14 tracks follow the Pumpkins' blueprint, traveling sonically from soft to loud and back again. Among the slew of originals previously available on singles and imports is a hauntingly beautiful cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide." Surprisingly there's less fat here than on 1995's bloated Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. --Greg Emmanuel
Product Description
Deluxe multi-format pressing of this 1994 rarities comp from the Alt-Rock band includes digitally remastered edition of the original album a second CD featuring 17 previously unreleased or alternate versions of Pisces Era songs, a DVD containing 24 previously unreleased live performances (Pulse Basement Jam, 1988), first ever SP demo reproduced on cassette, postcards, watercolor illustrations, lyrics, photos; liner notes by David Wild and track-by-track annotations by Billy Corgan.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By sasa
Format:Audio CD
Hello,... This album is gold for all rock loving teens, it does not matter if you are a pumpkinhead or not, this album is a sure thing. Let's kick off with an opener Soothe...soothe, gentle, acoustic and sad, a great start to the album. Then we have frail and Bedazzeled, which get's us rocking, great song. Plume comes in number 3, but I can not realy make up my mind about it, so let's leave it alone (interesting riff).If you like James Iha's Let it come down, you will just adore Whir (Billy sings, but sounds like an Iha song) Blew away features Iha on vocals, it is mostly an acoustic song, accept it gets siamese dream kind of guitar distortion at the end. I can't decide on the next one... Pissant...Hmmm...Lyrics were wriiten in 10 minutes and that shows, nad Pissant was recorded live, all in all a cool punk song (I gues). Hello kity kat folowes Pissant punk orientation, but with great riffs, pasive-agresive lyrics,and a funny title comes close to perfection, but the mix isn't as good, but a great song anyways. Obscured is on number 8, it should be on Lull, but was droped and put here...an old pumpkin song, from there first days...pure gold for pumpkinheds. Obscured is folowed by another acoustic song Landslide...what to say? Simply beautiful song. At door number 10, it is .... Starla!!! By my judgement the best song on the album, one of pumpkins best work. It goes on for 11 minutes and leaves you dazzeled at the end of a 5 min guitar solo. Next one is another old song from Lull, Blue... it has a great bass intro, and i love it, as i love Girl named Sandoz. There is something about this song that remindes me on John Spencers sound, it is diffrent and great. We are closing in on the album, it is not over yet. La dolly vita is another great song, that sounds, like Gish album songs, and Jimmy realy puts a alot of effort on it. After that there is a weird finnish to the album with Spaced, which is to weird to review. Well, friends it seems that this is it, buy the album, rock your house with it.... till next time... rock on
S.J.
S.J.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By H3@+h
Format:Audio CD
If you're someone like me, who believes the first two albums are the "Pumpkins" best, than you must get this cd. It may not run quite as smooth, but it's every bit as good as my favorite disc "Gish", and "Siamese Dream". Not knowing this album, is like not seeing one movie in a trilogy. Rockers and ballads together in perfect harmony. I wish bands today had A-sides that were this good.
By karl probst
Format:LP Record|Amazon Verified Purchase
Love the remaster and the yellow vinyl. Nothing too special but nice to own as it's a mellower album and the mellow yellow is very fitting.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
I am liking the deluxe sets
One of my all time favourite smashing pumpkins releases. I usually don't buy into the re-releases but this band has been a favourite of mine since the beginning and I could not... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Chris Parsons
5.0 out of 5 stars
Can never go wrong with SP.....
I'm so very excited about all the reissues, considering pisces wasn't even supposed to be an album to begin with then the reissuing of it was even better!! Read more
Published 9 months ago by So0tnst*rs
4.0 out of 5 stars
B-sides sound great
It's hard to believe that a disc made up of B-sides would be this good. Most bands just throw away their B-side material, so unless you picked up the singles, fuhgeddaboudit. Read more
Published on July 17 2004 by Grant McKee
5.0 out of 5 stars
old stuff
Hello,... This album is gold and it does not matter if you are in pumpkins or not . Let's kick off with Soothe it is gentle, acoustic and a great start to the album. Read more
Published on May 15 2004 by Sasa Janjac
5.0 out of 5 stars
never found a better B-side
other bands arn't fit to wipe [the floor]. a masterpiece of music. sure, no great hits but alot of awesme meaningful lyrics like from the song BLUE and Starla. Read more
Published on May 5 2004 by kurtcobainwannabee
4.0 out of 5 stars
Stacks up pretty well to the Pumpkins' great albums
Yes, Pisces Iscariot is a B-sides collection, and no, it doesn't flow as well as a typical Pumpkins album, and no, the songs aren't as classic as most of their material, but the... Read more
Published on Dec 26 2003 by pb
4.0 out of 5 stars
Early 90's Pumpkins destroy the universe
Billy Corgan...was there a more prolific songwriter of the 90's? For a guy that wrote 300+ songs in a decade (yeah, it's true) it's hard to say no. Read more
Published on Dec 25 2003 by J
4.0 out of 5 stars
B-side heaven exudes a heavenly delight:)
For starters, the opening track "Soothe" always brings tears to my heart and eyes. When a sparse three minute song has the power to take command of your emotions at the... Read more
Published on Nov 22 2003 by lUKE wORLE
2.0 out of 5 stars
sadly it's their weakest album
Filling the whole album with outtakes from "Gish" and "siamese dream" could be a great idea but the songs from here are lacking of originality and their... Read more
Published on Sep 27 2003 by Mike Chadwick
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful, Powerful, the REAL Pumpkins
When I was about 12 years old I asked my parents to get me a Smashing Pumpkins CD for Christmas. I was hoping to get Siamese Dream, but for some reason they picked this one up. Read more
Published on Sep 3 2003 by Eric B Herzberg
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