Item Details
- Item Category:
- Album
- Artist:
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Format:
- Cassette
- Release Type:
- Promotional
- Release Date:
- 1991.01.??
- Release Country:
- United States
- Manufacture Country:
- United States
- Package:
- Box, Plastic
- Label:
- -Unknown-, Private Label
- Release Code:
- "Gish Off The Console" or "Gish Rough Mix"
- UPC:
- Matrix Code:
- Other Code:
- RPM:
- Amount Pressed:
- Unknown
Additional Information
This cassette, made by Billy Corgan in January 1991, a few months before the actual release of Gish, is aka “Gish Rough Mix” or “Gish Off The Console” in the Smashing Pumpkins fan community. This tape contains a so-called off the console rough mix of the whole album, i.e. a non-mastered mix of Gish, although the difference in mixing is so slight it’s pretty difficult to point out the differences. Billy Corgan gave this tape to Mike Potential of Limited Potential in January 1991. Note: Billy Corgan started recording on side B, and didn’t mention I’m Going Crazy, though it is on the tape.
On the day this tape was known to the world in October 2000, the buyer told this about it:
“I just received this tape today! Yay! I bought it from Mike Potential.
That writing up on the top left is Jerome Brown from Catherine’s handwriting, and those are the song titles that were originally the demos on this tape. This is the Catherine demo that Billy was supposed to give Mike, but he taped over the entire Catherine part with his “Gish” tracks. Obviously, you can see Billy wrote the tracklisting for Gish.
Mike Potential received this tape about 2 months before Gish was actually released. He estimated around late ’90 or really early ’91. These tracks were taken from an off-the-console mix at Smart Studios. I’ve listened to the tape quickly and it sounds pretty good. Since they are “rough mixes” the drums are quiet, the bass is lower, one guitar is very loud, another guitar is quiet, the vocal is quite loud, and the over all sound doesn’t have much bass in it.
I have noted a few differences. The biggest thing I found so far is the alternate ending for Rhino! The feedback part at the end fades in a out and there is about an extra bar of music. I also noted that I Am One and Snail sound different because of the mixes. I imagine there are a bunch more differences, but I don’t have time to listen to everything all the way through.
[edit, something about that it looks like Sun was scribbled out after Suffer]
It’s a 60 min tape and he put the first 5 tracks on side B and the other 6 (including I’m Going Crazy) on side A.”
Track List
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Gish
- 1 . Snail
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Length: 5:18
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 1361218
Lyrics
All your seven dreams
Are closer than you believe
As your things come undone
See you are the only one
Flower, seize the hour, the day away
Waiting, waiting for your way, away
When you wake up you’re away
Throwing your life away
Someday, sorry coming home
Sorry, snail
What you wait for
Flower, the pain will wash away, away
When the sunshine climbs through your window
Into your bed
When you wake up you’re away
Throwing your life away
Someday, sorry coming home
Sorry, snail
Yeah, live in my home
Flower, seize the hour
Flower, away
What you wait for
Flower, taste the sunshine
Flower, taste the sunshine
Flower
- 2 . Tristessa
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Length: 3:28
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 1545694
Lyrics
Pledge your faith
I hardly breathe
Struggle to return
Blurry mind
So hypnotized
Fast enough to move
Wonder where you are
Tristessa
Soul takes soul as eye take eye
I will wait for you
What you believe you’ll wish to receive
Won’t believe in who, you
Hang on to your life
Tristessa
I love you too
Surely I do
I love you too
Surely I do
Surely I do
Surely I do
No, no, no
Did you ever wake up
And find yourself alone
Did you ever wake up far from home
What you believe you’ll wish to receive
Won’t believe in who
Tristessa
Tristessa
Tristessa - 3 . Window Paine
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Length: 5:45
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 1678959
Lyrics
Window paine around my heart
Shadow stream around my heart
Do what you’re gonna do
And say what you’re gonna say
Do what you’re gonna do
Yeah, start today
Start today
Windblown shame around my heart
Shadow screen around my heart
What are you coming to?
Script down to the bone
Love me, leave me
On your own, all alone
Do what you’re gonna do
And say what you’re gonna say
Do what you’re gonna do
Yeah, start today
Start today
- 4 . Daydream
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Length: 2:03
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 283339
Additional Info:
On Gish this track is combined with "I'm Going Crazy".
Lyrics
My daydream seems as one inside of you
Though it seems hard to reach through this life
Your blue and hopeless life
My daydream screams bitter 'til the end
The love I share -true- selfish to the heart
My heart, my sacred heart
My daydream dream
My daydream
My daydream dream
My daydream
- 5 . I’m Going Crazy
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Length: 1:04
Written By: Billy Corgan
Additional Info:
Short hidden track included in Daydream on the Gish release.
Lyrics
I’m going crazy
I’m going crazy
I don’t want feelings
Your feelings
I have gone crazy
Motherfuckin’ crazy
I have gone - 6 . I Am One
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Track Length: 4:18
Written By: Billy Corgan + James Iha
BMI Number: 603520
Lyrics
I am one as you are three
Try to find messiah in your trinity
Your city to burn
Your city to burn
Try to look for something
In your city to burn, you’ll burn
Am I as I seem?
I’m down
Down, so down
Time is right for a guiding light
Try to turn to reasons in your bitter life
Your city to burn
Your city to burn
Try to look for something
In your city to burn, you’ll burn
See you, don’t you just want to
See you, I am one
See you, don’t you just want to
See you
See you, don’t you just want to
See you, I am one
See you, don’t you just want to
See you, I am one - 7 . Siva
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Length: 4:04
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 1351044
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
Way down deep within my heart
Lies a soul that’s torn apart
Tell me, tell me what your after
I just want to get there faster
I don’t live – I inhale
I don’t give – I unveil
Don’t want to live in your misery
I don’t live – I inhale
Sprinkle all my kisses on your head
Stars full of wishes fill our beds
She said, “I’m dead”
All this pain smothers me
Like a bomb that you can’t see
Tell me, tell me what your after
I just want to get there faster
I don’t live – I inhale
I don’t give – I unveil
I don’t live – I inhale
I don’t live
- 8 . Rhinoceros
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Length: 4:18
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 1248201
Lyrics
Planned a show
Trees and balloons
Ice cream snow
See you in June
Could have known
I would reveal
Should have known
I would conceal your way
She knows
And she knows, she knows, she knows
And she knows, she knows, she knows
How’s it she knows, she knows, she knows
And she knows, she knows
Colors show
After the moon
I should go
See you in June
Your way
And she knows
And she knows, she knows, she knows
And she knows, she knows, she knows
How’s it she knows, she knows, she knows
And she knows, she knows
Open your eyes to these mustered lines
Open your eyes to these mustered lines
The way
And she knows
And she knows, she knows, she knows
And she knows, she knows, she knows
How’s it she knows, she knows, she knows
And she knows, she knows, she knows - 9 . Bury Me
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Length: 5:51
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 161297
Lyrics
(Over you, like an angel)
Bury me in love
Bury me in love
Shared your kisses
Shame your heart
Buried me and it hurts
I love my sister so (chain, unchain)
She don’t smother me (chain, unchain, unchain)
I played the spades I know (unchain)
I’m a jack of all trades
Would you bury me
Want to see her born inside (hide, hide)
Some of the things you just can’t hide
If you see her tell me why (hide, hide)
Why won’t she come outside
If you see her tell me why (hide, hide)
Why won’t she come outside
Want to see her born inside (hide, hide)
Some of the things you just can’t hide
She waits, bury me
She waits, bury me - 10 . Crush
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Length: 5:33
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 260908
Lyrics
You wrap your arms around
A feeling that surrounds
Like a liquid peppermint
Just taste the drinks that she served
And this feeling shivers down your spine
Love comes in colors I can’t deny
All that matters is love, love, your love
You’re sleeping in your bed
Just rest your weary head
Maybe you shouldn’t care
Throw away those dreams and dare
And I wonder if it matters to me
Love comes in colors I can’t deny
All that shimmers is love, love, your love
Your love
Your love - 11 . Suffer
Details
Title extra: Gish Rough Mix version
Length: 3:30
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 1425149
Lyrics
All that you suffer is all that you are
All that you smother is all that you are
And you’re seeing, you’re seeing
You’re seeing who you are
What takes meaning is cleaning
The meaning of who you are
On this scene
I will dream
On this scene
All of your struggles beneath your disguise
Drink from the reasons that hold you alive
To ascend from the words of desire and pain
You must rise from the mounds of desire and change
Too late to discover peace of mind
Too late to recover me
All you see and all you breathe and
All you cease to be
Take him down your only son and
What he means to be
Your dream will be
To dream with me
Will you wait, yes I’ll wait
I will wait for you
Will you wait, yes I’ll wait
I will wait for you
To cleanse your life
Takes more than time
Take what you want
Take all of me
Too late to discover peace of mind
(Have no peace of mind)
Too late to recover
- 1 . Snail
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