THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: PISCES ISCARIOT Compilation Album (1994)

Pisces Iscariot is a compilation album by alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released in 1994 through Virgin Records, consisting of B-sides and outtakes. Reaching number 4 in the US upon its 1994 release, Pisces Iscariot was certified platinum by the RIAA on November 23, 1994. The album was initially to be called Neptulius. The album was re-released by EMI as a deluxe edition CD and LP on July 17, 2012.

In July 2014, Guitar World placed Pisces Iscariot among its Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994 list. For the 20th anniversary of the album, Ryan Leas, writing for Stereogum, commented that:

“every now and then, a band releases a collection of B-sides and outtakes and otherwise semi-available material that transcends the notion of an artist emptying the vaults to buy a bit of time between full-fledged albums, or simply trying to cash in a bit…. Of the already anomalous nature of these odds-and-ends turned important touchstones in an artist’s catalog, Pisces Iscariot is amongst an even rarer category: the very early vault emptying that results in a shockingly strong collection of lesser or entirely unknown songs. So shockingly strong, in fact, that an album like Pisces Iscariot is often placed head and shoulders above almost anything Billy Corgan did after, save the following year’s monolithic Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness.”

Tracklist:

1. Soothe
2. Frail and Bedazzled
3. Plume
4. Whir
5. Blew Away
6. Pissant
7. Hello Kitty Kat
8. Obscured
9. Landslide (Fleetwood Mac cover)
10. Starla
11. Blue
12. Girl Named Sandoz (The Animals cover)
13. La Dolly Vita
14. Spaced

The Smashing Pumpkins

Jimmy Chamberlin: drums
Billy Corgan: vocals, guitar, production, photography, packaging
James Iha: guitar, vocals, production
D’arcy Wretzky: bass guitar

Production

Kerry Brown: production and drums on “Blew Away”
Dale “Buffin” Griffin: production
Ted de Bono: production
Rachel Gutek: design assistant
Michael Meister: photography, packaging
Butch Vig: production

Terence Dale “Buffin” Griffin (October 24, 1948 – January 17, 2016) 

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