Pisces Iscariot liner notes

subtract.  multiply.  a message from above and below.  my moleasskiss to
your precious lips.  don't think.  just be my sweet sweet.  two albums  
and some 27 other songs later-b-sides-complyiations,covers,
soundtracks-this is an assemblage of ,  well stuff.  songs never meant to
come out,  some written with such high hopes.....
all special to the heart.  from sub-plop to wergen,  here 'tis.sadness and
happiness.soothe-recorded in me bedroom at my old apartement.  you can hear
te 7am buses slithering by.  i used to go XX  to sleep to the flanging car
noises.   the hiss that we had missed.  i really only wanted this to be for
me. but my friend said "i don't think you can imProve on that.  so i left
it be.  plume- a groover from the iha file- assembled i -  in the same said
bedroom and recorded only a couple of days later at kerry's studio. 
another demo thing that turned ugly and mean and got released.  we didn't
have a bass so we "borrowed" eric from deep blue dream's--he never knew and
were sorry we didn't tell you eric but it sounds good.  i know i wrote some
of these lX  lyrics waiting for my dad to pick me up from the aeroport.  my
boredom has outshined the sun.  sometimes you don't spend as much time on
the lyrics-ansX   and sometimes they're better-more how you REALLY feel. 
soothe- a song for my babies.   children of the earth and such.   i wanted
to Put this on siamese dream but i X wimped out.  shoulda coulda kinda
didn't but i love it anyhow,  makes me cry.Frail and bedazzled-  written
for the monolith in 92--we just never got around to investing the proPer
time into this lullabye  we recorded this in about 1 hour, and i wished we
had sPent more time,   but..another XXX message(*2)   from the me vs. rock
file.  wrote these lyrics in the parking.garage where i used to
live/rehearse.  it was very cold in there-but quiet.  you could hear the
squaking tires at night,   sounded like ghosts or something,   but i wrote
this message from me to me to you.  infinite lost at word sea.  
whir--another recorded in an hour type thingers that has been in the box.  
part of the glynis lineage lineage-  sweeet and saddness ive wasted all my
years.  i must have written that line a zillion times,  it jus just ended
up here.  sometimes when i listen to this i hear who we really are.   frail
and gentle-   it is what is.  rock powerx100..  note scary ending we would
play that part for 15 minutes dum-de-dum-de dum.   frail and bedazzled owes
a great debt to the band skunK, with whom i ripped part of this song   off.
 skunk was probably the greatest band that i ever knew/saw that is virtual:
unknown-even less than the frogs.   frogs.   skunk.   i miss skunk.  blew
away-blew away -  written by anxd produced by the man himself,  welcome to
james. quiet and cool and whispered.   this is a beautiful song.   the only
song we have ever done that i was not 9did not stick my nose into)and i am
glad i didn' t.  not to be confused with blue.  and if you love her....
pissant is one of the few things we have ever recorded live.   done during
the siamese drean sessions late at night and full of teenage pain.   i made
up all tese lyrics in 10 minutes got me a raygun,  got me an altitude,
can;t help feeling somethings wrong with everone of   everyone of you  
don't know what it's about  don't care  rawk.   kerry and d"arcy tried to
talk me into Putting this on hte album=   and i was tempted,  but no i just
couldn't see it in there XXXX amongst the tall trees.   not as much shade
or room for the little ones.   plume-Plume features the maestro phase,  on
loan from matt s.  if you subtract our two albums-there are 27 more songs,
at least that have been released.  there are another 15 to 20 to 30 hidden
away but they aren't ver very good.  i went back and listened to  it all
because i  didn't want you to be bored,   and i also decided to leave drown
and glynis well enough alone.  so ther are 25 songs left to choose from
cause well whatever but of the 25 out there were 3 more hidden away.  
27-2=30   27-2+30+3=pXXXXs XXXXXXXXX
ounteen in all (count 'em)?  fourteen.  it akL  all kinda goes together in
some sort of wayhello kitty kat-now this song was a toughy because i really
had intended to put this on that album.     but the ghosts of.gish said no
no no so  i left it alone kinda because i really destroyed the mix.  my most
passive aggresive song.   say hello before you say goodbye i should go before
you make me cry she wants to bleed every drop inside of me but i aim to
please the little girl inside of me too you know i hate to say i always stay
i don't want to be like the others please who"s sorry now if  is how you
how..............
love to love to  love what you adore.skgjgdfbdgkjdgkjdkjgblkbghphhnb
dbkej;eb
assemble a somewhat continuitous collection of this.
obscured is old  because it was originally supposed to be on the lull e.p 
which was really supposed to be a single but they tricked me.   written
during gish recordings,  we have finished it and let it sit for 2 years and
then it can came out as the b side of today i in the uk.   the darkland.
so it was on all my friends tapes and supposed to be on the next one but i
swore i would never again re -record one of our own songs because it is
lame to do so.   1991.what a year.  such a pretty song,  sunday in the park
music chicagofest.   blew away has kerry playing drums cause jimmy was on
vacation. landslide is a stevie nicks song.  i fell in love with this song
and forced myself to learn it XXX because i'm very bad at figuring out
songs by other people.   of course i learned it totally the wrong way and
after it was recorde recorded jimmy from the frogs showed me an easier way
to play it.  this song is very relevent to my life at this moment still, 
and that is why  i loved to sing it.  landslide-was recorded at the bbc, 
not my favourite place to record. favourite place to record.  they are
still in 1971 but ted the producer man was very nice.  the recording is way
to hissy and we're sorry but it is the fault of the bbc, whose financial
raping of us to use this song and sandoz almost didn't make putting these
songs out possible.  but it is here,
starla-my friend aneta still says to me that this song should have been on
siamese dream.  but back again to that no record 2x rule.  this was
recorded at the same time as plume,  and was also intended to be a demo,  
but we needed b-sides for our prettyXXXXXXXXXXXX worthless i am one u.k.
single (the dark continent)  so in a way Plume and starla were they're own
single if that make makes any sense at all.  recorded over time, or
recorded at two different sessions,  one for vocals and solos and one for
drums, etc,.another song with lyrics written at the last second.  i wrote
the middle part on the back of an eXXX envelope--serve yourself no one else
can do for you like you and no one el else fails like me but in my eyes i i
burn alive  no more words just you and i high in the sky--some of my
favourite lyrics.   better that i did not care solo played at 7am.   listen
for the police car going by.  blue is the only gish outtake represented
here.   from the lull single!  viva lull   and remastered by our man howie
for yer listnin' pleasure. yet another sad happy song from the o'corrigan
file.  i thought about using an acoustic version of this song for this
alblum,   but it seemed silly to have a different version of an unknown
song. maybe someday.  on tour forever, blue   i lay with you this velvet
morning sa stat  stay with me for a while a million yeses and no's strewn
across 6 long years.  but it all adds up to something even if you are not
quite sure of what that is.  a girl named Sandoz-from our XX  slightly
infamous john Peel session.  we of course showed up expecting to meet john
peel,  but it's not like that at all.  we were 2 hours late due to some
technicak misunderstanding--  but we e 
we were treated so poorly bX  thi by this idiot who used to be the drummer
from mott the supple that it is probably *1 on our all time worst
experiences list.  this was originally recorded by the animals roughly
around the time that jimi hendrix went to england to become...well you
catch my drift.  vented thru to many years of out and out riffdom,  this
still sounds powerful to my jaded ears,  i mean we meant it back then,, 
but that was long agoe.
but that was long a go=go, so now listen hear,  i want to be so  oh so clear
si  so we only ended up recording 3 songs that day(siva and smiley too)
because it was oh so uptight,  but i'm glad we did tolerate that XXXXXXXX
mott the nipple that day even though i don't think we would now.
i met this girl in dallas when we were on tour with the chili peppa's and
that was where i got the idea for the name for the song because when she said
her name i thought wow,  what a XXX great title for a song.  2 1/4 years late
later i run into this same girl at a party and i say did you hear that song
we recorded using youur name, starla?  and she said, no my name is darla but
heXy starla,  darla whatever it doesn't matter,  so there you go.  never
trust a girl who ends up with,  well i can't say.  i am very proud of all
these songs songs because they have persevered time and space and albums
and most of all subjective opinion.  yours truly included.  La dolly
vita-so old yet it is kinda timeless in a strange way.  i think it is
because it has a dignity all it's own.  we also tried to re-record this for
gish, but my heart was not in it.  so many mistakes but the raygun is
always on if catch my assumptipn. mary's always on the shoulder and the
devil has his pitchfork on that backside of yours.  la dolly vita,  true as
blue shy sky,  cool as ice cream
the b-side of our second single recorded with buth vig.  we recoreded this
and tristessa on the same day somewhere in the past and it was also the
first day XXXXXXX we met buth v.   still one of my favourite hidden songs,
this brings ba back  many memories.  sorry,   a tad too personal.   be
careful what you say but be really careful what you don't say.   spaced-is
kinda hard to explain so i won't,  but if you listen real close you can hear
the 7 secrets of the 7 veils of apollo.   part of the siamese desbris
collection.  thanks for being anf thanks for listening and thanks for getting
angry and happy and sad all at the same time.  life is everything and nothing
all at once-if i may filanthripize--1/2  and we hope we mean those things to
you.  till next sign
billy c.
somebody X comes up to you in a bar and asks them if you are who they think
you are,  and then you say if you know then i am and if you don't then i'm
not.special thanks to everyone for their continued support
and a fuck you to those who will never understand
love,  peace,  empathy,  desire,  mischief,  and gladness
2007

soothe-  the b-side of disarm.(u.k.)
frail and bedazzled-  previously unavailable in any form.  siamese outtake.
plume-  the b-side of i am one (u.k.)
whir-  previously unavailable.  siamese outtake
blew away-  b-XXside of disarm (u.k.)
pissant-  b-side of cherub rock (u.k.)
hello kitty kat-  b-side of today (u.k.)
obscured-  b-side of today (u.k.)
landslide-  b-side of disarm (u.k.)
starla- b-side off I am one (u.k.)
blue- xxxxxxxxxx  XXXXXXXXX xxxxxxx
	from the lull e.p.
girl named sandoz-  from the peel sessions  (u.k.)
la dolly vita-  b-side of tristessa 7"
spaced-  previously unavailable.   siamese outtake

All songs written by Billy Corgan, except "Plume" written by Billy Corgan
and James Iha; "Blew Away" written by James Iha; "Landslide" written by
Stevie Nicks;  and "A Girl Named Sandoz" written by Eric Brudon/John Weider.

All songs produced by Butch Vig and Billy Corgan, except "Plume" and
"Starla" produced by Billy Corgan and Kerry Brown;  "Soothe" produced by
Billy Corgan;  "Blew Away" produced by James Iha and Kerry Brown;
"Landslide" produced by Ted de Bono;  "A Girl Called Sandoz" produced by Dale
Griffin.

All songs published by MCA Music Ltd/Cinderful Music, except "Landslide"
published by Welsh Witch Music/Sony Songs Inc. (BMI); "A Girl Named Sandoz"
published by Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI).
"Landslide" released by arrangement with BBC Enterprises Ltd.

A&R:  Mark Williams
Management:  Q. Prime
Packaging and Photographing:  Billy Corgan & Michael Meister
Design Assisting: Rachel Gutek

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