COMMENTS
A good companion piece to "Gish" and "Siamese Dream"
January 20, 2008, 4:02 pm - werideatdusk
Any Pumpkins fan, particularly fans of the "golden era" (it seems fans really romanticize the 1990-1994 time period) will enjoy this compilation. As an album, this is probably my least favorite Pumpkins release. But as a group of songs, this is an invaluable companion to "Gish" and especially "Siamese Dream". While both of those albums are tight and focused, "Pisces Iscariot" and "Earphoria" give the listener a rougher, broader sense of what the Pumpkins were all about back then. While I really like most of the songs on PI, I can see why they were left off Gish and SD and am glad they were. Even awesome songs like "Soothe," "Starla," "Frail and Bedazzled", and "Obscured" are not up to snuff with the actual SD album, but hey, any other band would kill for outtakes like these!