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Track Listings
| 1. Soothe (demo) |
| 2. Frail & Bedazzled |
| 3. Plume |
| 4. Whir |
| 5. Blew Away |
| 6. Pissant |
| 7. Hello Kitty Kat |
| 8. Obscured |
| 9. Landslide |
| 10. Starla [10:59] |
| 11. Blue |
| 12. A Girl Named Sandoz (Peel Sessions) |
| 13. La Dolly Vita |
| 14. Spaced |
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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
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The pumpkins have always turned out quality records,but i always think you can tell how good a band is by the B-sides.
"soothe" is a slow acoustic masterpice,"frail & bedazzled" is a punky rocker with and awsome swirly riff,"whir" is probably the best track on the album annoyingly catchy acoustic riff.
About 12 of the songs on here are up with anything of other pumpkins records(and would be some bands best hits.It amazes me how people talk about Nirvana(who i love to)being the best alt-rock band of the 90s,for me the pumpkins are up with them,and this is just another shinning example why.
"soothe" is a slow acoustic masterpice,"frail & bedazzled" is a punky rocker with and awsome swirly riff,"whir" is probably the best track on the album annoyingly catchy acoustic riff.
About 12 of the songs on here are up with anything of other pumpkins records(and would be some bands best hits.It amazes me how people talk about Nirvana(who i love to)being the best alt-rock band of the 90s,for me the pumpkins are up with them,and this is just another shinning example why.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There's nothing quite like Billy Corgan! Here is a man with such song-writing talents that he is able to release 'frail and bedazzled' on a collection of b-sides. Nine times out of ten when a band releases a collection like this between albums the contents are embarrassing, but not in this case. If you aren't won over by the sheer elegant beauty of 'soothe' then, quite simply, the Smashing Pumpkins can never be the band for you. James Iha gets his chance on 'blew away' and, surprisingly, creates a song worthy of the great man himself and even adds something to the mix by singing it himself in his soft, hypnotic way. The only criticism would be as to why some these tear-inducing songs didn't find their way onto any of the pumpkin's five albums. Oh well, there's a perfectionist eccentric for you. A stormingly understated album.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It is very tempting to give this album 5 stars because I am such a huge admirer of The Smashing Pumpkins, but it is not what I would consider a 'true classic' that full marks would suggest (it is only a B-sides album afterall), but that means in no way it is a bad album. Many of the tracks are taken from the early days of the Smashing Pumpkins, songs that have been lost and then found, and some that were before now, very very rare.
The album sleeve is also a great piece of Pumpkins history because inside is a long passage written by Billy Corgan himself, describing how each song was recorded and how the ideas of each song came about, which is fascinating when listening to the album.
If this is the first Smashing pumpkins album you are thinking of buying, then I suggest to get their recent best hits album 'Rotten Apples' or the legendary 'Siamese Dream' or 'Melon Collie...' to get familiar with their more accesible songs, and then move on to this album along with other later albums such as 'Adore'.
This is a beautiful album to really listen to, it is definitely not background music if that is what you are thinking of buying it for. The songs range from loud to quiet, with intricate guitar work and pounding drums. If you are already a fan of the band then do not hesitate in buying this gem of an album, it is a collection of B-sides that easily betters many bands studio recordings.
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The sign of a great band
I think it was possibly John Peel who once said that the sign of a great band are 2 things: how they play live and how good their b-sides are. Read more
Published 10 months ago by ratmonkey
A+ Sides
Most bands with genuine rock creation going on end up with some B-sides, and the Smashing Pumpkins were no exception. Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2006 by E. A Solinas
(bizkitrulz@hotmail.com) b sides?
Pices Iscariot was first released in 1994, a year after their break through album Siamese Dream, and comprises of 14 songs that were recorded during the sessions for Siamese Dream... Read more
Published on 2 Dec 2004 by "tristessa560"
their greatest work....
This is, without a doubt the Pumpkins best release. Siamese Dream does come close, but the quality of these tracks is astonishing. They're b-sides!! but they're just so good. Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2003
A band who cared about music...
You can't help but complement the pumpkins for the fact that they cared so much about their fans that they always made sure that their B-sides were always as good as most of the... Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2001 by supremefightingmachine@hotmail.com
A collection of gems that might have never been released.
Pisces Iscariot is an amazing compliation of rare demos from the early days, material omitted from previous albums, live recordings from the BBC and new material. Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2001
A fine collection of beautiful songs
This is a collection of some of the most personal songs written by Billy Corgan. The album has a completely different mood to the earlier Siamese Dream, and Gish. Read more
Published on 19 May 2001 by sallywallner@aol.com
If you know what's good for you...
This is my desert island disk. The sweetness and tranquility, the hardness and harnessed power. Unbelievable that this is b-sides and previously unreleased material, when in my... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2000 by "daley_123"
a b-side album that should never have been b-side
Pisces Iscariot starts with the song 'soothe' it's such a beautiful song and truly reduces me to tears... Read more
Published on 8 Dec 1999
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