SMASHING PUMPKINS-PISCES ISCARIOT

Following last year’s excellent Gish and Siamese Dream deluxes comes the 1994 odds n’ sods collection Pisces Iscariot.

That Pisces is deemed worthy of this at all is remarkable enough – the original record was a compilation of b-sides and offcuts from the band’s first two records released as a just-in-time-for-Christmas stop gap for fans awaiting a proper follow up. Any of the 14 tracks on the album-proper warrant inclusion on previous special editions, yet a couple of new mixes aside the Pisces material has been held back for its own moment in the post-millennial-reissue sun, repackaged with an exhaustive disc of extra tracks, a DVD and a replica of the band’s first demo tape; over three and a half hours all in. Few are demanding such treatment for Ocean Colour Scene’s B-Sides, Seasides and Free Rides.