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Pisces Iscariot by: Smashing Pumpkins List Price: $17.98 CD-Charts Price: $13.99 You Save: $3.99 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724383983421 Label: Virgin Records Us Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Virgin Records Us Release Date: October 04, 1994 Studio: Virgin Records Us Sales Rank: 6447 MPN: 39834 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Pisces Iscariot is music to my earsBefore the Smashing Pumpkins became well, just another rock band, they had an album that to this day seems to be overlooked by fans and forgetful folk alike. Personally, it is one of my favorite albums ever! Call it A-sides, call it B-sides, call it whatever you care to, I call it timeless, sonic rock that presents the bands ability to apply smooth, genuine textures to slow songs that are given a sharp, razor edged backing with the vocals of singer Billy Corgan. Plume is a song that has a great, simple beat that is shadowed by Corgan's swooning vocals. The tempo and rhythm found within this album is all over the place, and that is not meant to mean it is abstract, funky metal noise. The tones of these songs will pull at your ... Read More: Rating:  - Actually one of their bestAmazingly, this set of outtakes is about as good as Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness. What's up with that? Clearly someone forgot to tell Billy that outtakes are supposed to be massive dungheaps. And there are only two or three massive dungheaps on this album! And "Landslide" is not among them. Now, Fleetwood Mac sucks so bad they're off the suckotron 2008, but I love "Landslide". It's a fabulous song. In fact, it's the only song they ever put out that's not an absolute obnoxious marathon of pure crap. And this version's better than the original! Just Billy and his acoustic guitar, singing at his most emotional. I'm just glad he didn't decide to cover "Go Your Own Way" - if he did that, I'd be sticking my head in the toilet. I'd make ... Read More: Rating: - Great leftovers!I first heard the Smashing Pumpkins on the Singles Soundtrack, the song was called Drown and, even thought it didn't make it to a SP album, it is as good as the best the band has produced. A collection of b-sides which are, mostly, the leftovers from the astounding Siamese Dream (which may be my favourite cd of all time), Pisces Iscariot shows the great moment billy was having as a songwriter (though he certainly didn't feel so). It opens, quietly, with the incredibly beautiful soothe (recorded in billy's apartment, or in a hotel room, i don't quite remember), and follows with the energetic Frail and Bedazzled. There, you get the impression that these songs didn't quite fit Siamese Dream (which is a very tight album). They are great, but ... Read More: Rating: - Forget the restThese B-sides sound better than 95% of the band's other output. Maybe it's because these songs don't suffer from the over-production of the band's other output (eg, "Melancholy..."??? Give me a break. What an over-blown, over-produced, snooze-fest). "Pisces Iscariot" is by far the best CD the band ever put out. From the pummeling "Frail and Bedazzled" to the lilting "Obscured" to the majestic "Starla", there isn't a single weak moment on this CD. It's amazing these songs didn't make the cut for SP's prior CD's. The fact that "Starla" was a show-stopper whenever it was performed speaks for itself. In fact, if you want a top-quality SP collection, buy this CD and download "Cherub Rock" (from Siamese Dream) and the full-length ... Read More: Rating:  - Not the best, but it's still SP.I'll just say it's not their best album, but it's still good, as it is still Smashing Pumpkins after all. However, any fan of SP should still get this album. |
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