Ok, I got about 20 mins here so I'll make this quick. Pisces Iscariot was a fucking brilliant name for a record! About once a year I slap myself for not thinking of it first. The song that came up today was "A Girl Named Sandoz". I must admit I was never really crazy about this song but I has grown on me. It a cover from The Animals. I bought Pisces Iscariot in 1998 from Blockbuster music. Remember that place? It was so cool. They would open up the CDs for you and let you listen to them way before Internet streaming was available. Thanks to the internet and MP3"s blockbuster has officially closed. I got it in October 1998. It was my second smashing pumpkins CD after Siamese Dream. This album reminds me of very boring times. At the school I used to attend we has a year round schedule so we went early in the summer time and come October we would have the whole month off. I was a freshman in high school so no car. I was stuck at home listening to Pisces Iscariot. All the kids at school though I was so geek because I liked the smashing pumpkins. Everyone was really into KORN and Limp Bizkit which I for the most part dislike. I missed the pumpkin train in the early 90's when I was stuck listing to shitty Christian music like DC Talk and Carmen because thats all my mom would let me listen to. No offense to Christianity but I just don't like the music as a genre. Its very "Inside the Box." I remember being a the music store and trying to decide between "Is this desire? by PJ Harvey, which had just come out, or this one. I chose and the rest is history. In retrospect I like "Is This Desire?" much more. My main memory of A Girl Named Sandoz was that when I was on these intercessions my mom would make me do a bunch of weird projects around the house. I was listening to this while I was trying to refinish an old oak gate that was outside. I remember being pissed off that the power sander I was using was drowning out the sound and I couldn't take the album all in. I must say that Pisces Iscariot is one of the weaker SP releases but there are some great songs on it that remain in circulation to this day. Frail and Bedazzled and the Landslide cover remain some of my favorites.
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old school pumpkins! :) I remember you were REALLY into them in high school. I love the way the guitar sounds! I am usually rather pleased with the songs I hear from them. I realy like Zero by them. I don't know why I never got around to actually buying their albums. My wife has a few of their albums though, including adore, and siamese dreams. I'll put em on my player and give em a listen.
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