The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
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Release date: 05 April 2005
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The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish: Wikipedia Album Entry
Recorded December 1990 - March 1991 at Smart Studios, Madison WI.
Produced by Butch Vig and Billy Corgan.
Released 1991/05/28 by Caroline Records
Remastered Edition released 1994/08/10 by Virgin
Lineup -
Billy Corgan - guitar, vocals
James Iha - guitar
D'Arcy Wretzky - bass, vocals on Daydream
Jimmy Chamberlin - drums
Gish was recorded to analog 16-track. To cut costs, each instrument was recorded separately - drums, bass, then guitars
Three of the tracks on Gish are re-recordings of songs the Smashing Pumpkins had previously released; I Am One, Tristessa, and Rhinoceros. Daydream was remastered from the original 1989 demo. A studio version of Bury Me also existed before the Gish sessions.
Siva, Rhinoceros and I Am One (respectively) were released as singles.
The album was named after silent film icon Lillian Gish. In an interview, Corgan said, "My grandmother used to tell me that one of the biggest things that ever happened was when Lillian Gish rode through town on a train, my grandmother lived in the middle of nowhere, so that was a big deal..."
Billy constantly wore bells around his neck during the Gish recording sessions. They are visible in the album's artwork, and are audible in some parts of the album, especially in Daydream.
The album art is arranged by D'arcy.
"Bugg Superstar", the dog pictured in the liner notes (on the record sleeve in LP editions) belonged to James, and is featured in Vieuphoria.
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The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish Lyrics
The Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me Lyrics
Boys, let's do it
Bury me in love
Bury me in love
The Smashing Pumpkins - Window Paine Lyrics
Window paine
Around my heart
Shadows streak
Around my heart
The Smashing Pumpkins - Tristessa Lyrics
Pledged your faith, my heart embraced
Struggle to renew
Blurry mind, so hypnotized
Fast enough who
The Smashing Pumpkins - Suffer Lyrics
All that you suffer is all that you are
All that you smother is all that you are
And you're saying you're seeing, you're saying, "Who you are?"
What takes meaning is cleaning the meaning of who you are
The Smashing Pumpkins - Snail Lyrics
All your seven dreams
Look close, son, and you'll believe
As your things come undone
See you are the only one
The Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One Lyrics
I am one as you are three
Try to find a messiah in your trinity
Your city to burn
Your city to burn
The Smashing Pumpkins - Daydream Lyrics
My daydream seems as one inside of you
Though it seems hard to reach through this life
Your blue and hopeless life
The Smashing Pumpkins - Crush Lyrics
You wrap your arms around
A feeling that surrounds
Like liquid peppermint
Just taste the drinks that she served
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siva Lyrics
I spin off and lose my head
Throwing stray a spark instead
Gather strength down in my heel
And dig it in the world I peel
The Smashing Pumpkins - Rhinoceros Lyrics
Planned a show
Trees and balloons
Ice cream snow
See you in June












