BILLY CORGAN
(see also:  Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan)

Title:  Billy's Gravity Demos I
Date:  1994
Length:  48:27 / ?
Quality:  A
Source:  studio

Notes:
- recorded at Gravity Studios
- all tracks electric & instrumental, except Bullet
- from a 100m cassette, given by BC to an online 
  fan in April 2000 with instructions to circulate.

Tracks:
Disc One:
  1.  Jellybelly
  2.  Ugly (Beautiful One)
  3.  Bullet With Butterfly Wings (w/ raw/early vox) 
  4.  Weeping Willowly (No Escape) 
  5.  To Forgive (To Forgive For Nothing Less) 
  6.  Blast
  7.  Mouths Of Babes (Descendo)
  8.  Pennies (And I Stumbled Onto You) 
  9.  Dizzle 
10.  A/Ab/E/B/F# 
11.  Rings
12.  So So Pretty (James Complex Song)
13.  With Longing
14.  Love (Straight Ab)
15.  Set The Ray To Jerry

Disc Two:
  1.  Galapogos (The Innocents)
  2.  Speed (A Drone)
  3.  Lucky Lad (Busy Downtune Bb/G)
  4.  Jackboot
  5.  New Wave A to G
  6.  A/B/G Drop A
  7.  Marquis In Spades (Glamey Glamay)
  8.  Walking Country
  9.  Tonight, Tonight
10.  The Groover
11.  Germans In Leather Pants (New Wave Echo) 
12.  Millieu (Pretty Drop A)
13.  E-drone E/C#/A
14.  The Aeroplane Flies High (Disconnected)


Title:  Billy's Home Demos
Date:  Fall 1994
Length:  56:51?
Quality:  A
Source:  home studio

Notes:
- recorded at Sadlands (Billy's house)

# 6  mislabeled as 'Here Is No Way'
# 8  mislabeled as 'Instramental (pre X.Y.U.) and 
may have had working title of  'Ropey Lopey'
# 9  mislabeled as 'Fools We Are (Demo/Song 
Not Used)'.  Sometimes referred to as 'Strolling'
# 13  mislabeled as 'Wishing You Were Here'.
# 17  mislabeled as 'Instrumental (Embryonic)'

Tracks:
  1.  Stumbleine
  2.  Jupiter's Lament
  3.  Lily
  4.  To Forgive
  5.  Bullet With Butterfly Wings
  6.  Here Is No Why
  7.  Galapogos
  8.  Frantic Ab Groove
  9.  Autumn Nocturne
10.  Blank
11.  Rotten Apples
12.  Ugly
13.  Wishing You Were
14.  Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
15.  Meladori Magpie
16.  Thirty-three
17.  Beautiful (Ropey Lopey)
18.  Marquis In Spades 

Title:  Benefit for the Poetry Center
Location:  Rubloff Auditorium, Chicago, IL
Date:   Sept. 17, 2003
Length:  ?
Quality:  A/A-
Source:  audience [SHN sourced] *

Notes:
Sony ECM-MS907 > Sharp MD-MS702mk
recorded on the ground, 5 ft from right stack

- # 11, 12, 24, 25:  Billy on guitar
- # 8, 19:  Billy acappella

Tracks:
  1.  intro
  2.  The Poetry Of My Heart
  3.  I Believe In Love
  4.  The Warmth Of The Morning
  5.  A Twixt The Twine
  6.  In The Wake of Posideon
  7.  Leelow
  8.  Zen Poem
  9.  The Poetry Of Oblivion
10.  Simple Riddle Rhymes
11.  unknown
12.  Friends As Lovers, Lovers As Friends
13.  Wants Of Some Desires
14.  A Portrait Of Oblivion
15.  Birthday Poem
16.  A Cautious Wit
17.  Half Light, Half-Life
18.  The Crow's Story (The Story Of The Crow)
19.  I Held A Rose (alternate lyrics)
20.  This Heartache
21.  They Lay Me Down
22.  Aqua Blue
23.  Armadillo
24.  Riverview
25.  El-A-Noy
26.  Psalm 45 [The Bible]

 
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