1979

Billy Corgan had this to say about 1979:
"'1979' has a real immediacy to it; there's just something about the riff and the vocal. The singles are
always like that, though. They come to you pretty fast. It's funny, because that melody is the very first
melody I sand against the riff."
Blew Away
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
 "written 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 was not, I did not stick my nose into) and i
 am glad i didn't. not to be confused with blue. and i love her.... blew away has kerry  playing drums cause jimmy was on vacation."

Blue
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
"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 and happy song from the o'corrigan file. i thought
about using an acoustic version of this song for this album, 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 all it
adds up to something even if you are not quite sure of what that is."

Bugg Superstar
James Iha wrote this song about his dog.  Bugg Superstar's picture is on the inside of Gish.

Crestfallen
Crestfallen was originally written for Courtney Love to use,  but  Billy said that "She had a fit or
something so I felt it was better off with us".

For Martha
For Martha (a long with once upon a time") is a tribute to Billy Corgan's mother, who died of cancer in 1998.

Frail and bedazzled
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
"written for the monolith in 92-- we just never got around to investing the proper time into this lullabyewe recorded this in about 1 hour, and i wished we has 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 you. infinite lost at word sea."

Girl Named Sandoz
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
"A girl named Sandoz-from ourslightly 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 technical
 misunderstanding-- but we we were treated so poorly bX thi by this idiot who used to be the
drummer from mott the supple that it is probably *l on our all time worst experiences list. this was
originally recorded by the animals roughly around the time that jimy hendrix went to england to
 become... well you catch my drift. vented thru many years o out and out riffdom, this
 still sounds powerful to my jaded years, i mean we meant it back then,, but that was
 long ago. 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 so uptight,
 but i'm glad we did tolerate that mott that day even though i don't think we would now. "

Hello Kitty Kat
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
"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 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 assemble a somehwat continious collection of this."
Jupiters Lament
"This is supposed to be the Mellon Collie gospel song, and a rough version even exists with all the band members singing. This version is my home demo, cut on the same morning as Stumbleine." - Billy

La Dolly Vita
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
"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 alsotried to re-record this for gish, but my heart was not in it. so many mistakes but the raygun is always on i catch my assumptipn. mary's always on the shoulder and the devil has his pitchwork on
 that backside o yours. la dolly vita, true as blue shy sky, cool as ice cream the b-side o our second
single recorded with butch vig. we recorded this and tristessa on the same day somewhere in the
past and it was also the first day  we met butch v. still one o 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. "

Landslide
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
" landslide is a stevie nicks song. i fell in love  with this song and forced myself to learn it  because i'm very bad at figuring out  songs by other people. o 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 relevant to my life at this moment still, and that is why o 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."

Lilly (my one and only) 
Lilly is about an X-girlfriend Billy had when he was 16..

Mayonaise
"Um...sometimes you just gotta open up your brain and just see what comes in. Mayonaise was like one of those. James said what are we going to call this song? And I just said, kinda went - Mayonaise! And that was the end of it. I spend more time explaining Mayonnaise then we actually spent writing it, recording it, and playing it." -Billy

Obscured
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
"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 came out as the b side of today i in the uk. the
darkland. so it was on all my friends taped 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."

Perfect
On Regis & Kathy Lee this is what Billy said about Perfect " I felt like we needed one more song for
the album and my girlfriend and I were talking about it, and we kind of said a little prayor before we
went to bed, because I felt like I was very tired.  Went to bed, woke up, grabbed a guitrar and
wrote the song in twenty minutes."

Pissant
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
"pissant is one of the few things we have ever recorded live. done during the siamese
 dream sessions late at night and full of teenage pain. i made up all tese lyrics in 10
 minutes got me a ray gun, got me an attitude, can;t help feeling somethings wrong with
 everyone o everyone o 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 amongst the tall trees. not as much shade or room for the little ones."

Plume
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
"A groover from the iha file- assembled i - in same said bedroom and recorded only a couple of dayslater at kerry's studio. another demo thing that turned ugly and mean and got released. we didn't have any 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 the 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- and sometimes they're better-more how you REALLY feel.

Pug
Billy Corgan's explanation of this song is "Its all about selling out". I heard  Pug was written for the losthighway soundtrack, but was rejected. I do not know if this is true or not.

Soothe
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
 "recorded in me bedroom at my old apartement. you can hear the 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.  a song for my babies. children of the earth and such. i wanted to put
this on siamese dream but I wimped out. shoulda coulda kinda didn't but i love it anyhow,
 makes me cry."

Spaced
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
"Spaced is kinda hard to explain so i won't, but i you listen real close you can hear the 7
 secrets of the 7 veils of apollo. part of the siamese desbris collection."

Starla
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
"my friend aneta still says to me that this song should have been on siamese
 dream. but back again to that no record x2 rule. this was recorded at the same time a
 splume, and was also intended to be a demo, but we needed b-sides, for our
 pretty 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, erc,.another song with lyrics written at the last second. i wrote the middle part
 on the back of an envelope--serve yourself no one else can do for you like you an
 do 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 bye.  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 great title for a song. 2 and 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 hey starla, darla whatever it doesn't matter, so there you go.
 never trust a girl who ends up with, well i can't say. "

Tear
"Its supposed to be like a movie, but in a song..."- Billy Corgan
 Tear was written for the lost highway soundtrack but was rejected.

Tristessa
Tristessa is the spanish word for sadness.

Whir
Information taken from the Pisces Iscariot liner notes (written by Billy Corgan)
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.