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Images and details on ‘Gish’ and ‘Siamese Dream’ reissues

Taken from Hipsters United

The Amazon listings for deluxe editions of Gish and Siamese Dream posted earlier this weekhave been updated with additional information and photos. Both are listed at $28.99 and are due out on November 29. Both sets include two CDs (one containing the remastered album and the other bonus tracks) and a DVD.  The DVDs are to contain complete videos of concerts at Metro in Chicago from 1990 (for Gish) and 1993 (for Siamese Dream). Both sets are also to include postcards; Gish‘s postcards feature six “never-before-seen” band photos, while Siamese Dream‘s feature the original 13 album collages. Finally, both sets feature “reimagined” cover artwork and a 24-page booklet with lyrics and commentary from Billy Corgan and music critic David Wild.

Tentative tracklistings for the bonus CDs were given to fans attending a meetup in Los Angeles on October 5. The tracklistings shown to fans in LA reflected 18 tracks for both Gish and Siamese Dream, but according to Amazon, Gish is to have 15 bonus tracks and Siamese Dream 17.

Is Nicole on the cover of Siamese Dream?

We’ve had a number of media outlets contact us asking this question. After Billy updated last week with a tweet of:

“Just found out the weirdest news: our bass player Nicole (@xocoleyf) just admitted she is one of the girls on the Siamese Dream cover” 

The story was picked up by some small music sites, then NME, then Rolling Stone and the trend continued. We haven’t mentioned it here because this isn’t news, any Smashing Pumpkins fan or person who can visit Nicole’s wikipedia page could see just based on her year of birth that she was 13 years old when Siamese Dream was released and therefore she would have been 13 years old when the photo was taken. Much older than the two girls on the cover. 

Looking into this further, reading forums and fan sites more facts dispute this claim. This was nothing more than Billy posting a tweet as a joke. If “journalists” and “bloggers” did their research before posting this they would have picked up Corgan’s joke. Perhaps Billy needed to close with a </sarcasm> tag to make it obvious?

Now close friend in Pumpkinland, Kat Turner, tweeted on the same night this bombshell:

”@MikeByrneDrums dropped a bombshell on us! He was the baby on the cover of “Nevermind”! Wtf is going on??”

We hope this makes it clear. Please send this around and point out lazy journalism. 

For more information please read this great article on Pop Dust by Maura Johnston