A fax from Billy Corgan to a reporter who said the Pumpkins Sucked:
"I'm glad that I'm such a good rhymer,
better than being a social climber,
just because I'm a bit brighter,
than some fucking writer"
The inside cover of Pisces Iscariot:
"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 here 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 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 iga file-
assembled i- in same said bedroom 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 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 siamies dream but i 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 fot 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 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 thin ers that has been in the box. part of the glynis linea e lineage-
sweeet and saddness ive wasted all my years. i must have written that line a zillion times, it us 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 and
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 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 ot me a ray gun, got me an
altitude. can;t help feeling somethings wrong with everone of everyone lf 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 deciced 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+30-30+3=pXXXXs XXXXXXXXX couteen 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 agresive 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 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.skgdfbdgkjdgkjdkjfblkbghphhnb dbkej;eb assemble a somewhat continuitious collection of this. obscured is old because
it was originally supposed to be on the lull e.p. which was really suposed 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 ca 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.ell 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 agter 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 avourite 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. inancial raping of us to use this song and sandoz almost didn't make
putting these songs out possible. but it is here, STARLA-m 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 plum. and was also intended to be
a demo, but we needed b-sides. or 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 y ourself 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 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. form the lull single! viva lull and remastered by
our man howie or yer listnin' pleasure. yet another sad happy songfrom 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 velver 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 ingamous 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 dur ot 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
possibly *1 on our all time worst experiences list. this was originally recorded by the animales roughly around the time that Jimi
hendrix went to england to become...well you catch my drift. vented thru to many years o 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 lon 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. 2ž years lat 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 sonLs son s 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 ii 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 recorded 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 b 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 siames 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--― 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"
