1979
(CD version)
-2:07 you may hear what
sounds like a helicopter. a DJ says the echoing is a burp that is reversed
and then screwed around with.
-The infamous drum beat
at the beginning and the end.
-Also, at 1:03, you may
hear a jingle of a bell or something.
-At 4:08 there's some beeping
or something -
-There is a "whistling"
noise in the background at 2:55-2:58 (left channel).
The Sad Wizard.
-At 2:05-2:08 you can hear
different drum beat.
1979
(Grammies '97)
-At the very end of the
song when the crowd is cheering you can hear Billy play the intro for Today.
-You can hear chimes 0:03
and 0:22, also 1:21-1:23 there is a wowowo sound.
-The guitars squeak before
they stop at 2:19-2:21. 3:01.
-There is a crack in the
background and another one at 3:18, 3:30-3:31.
-There is an errie echo
in the background at 4:04, 4:06, and 4:08.
- In the left channel there
is another click at 4:42.
Annie Dog
You can hear a shaking noise
along w/ the piano all throughout the song.
Apathy's Last Kiss
At the end of the song,
there is an "ooo eee ooo eee ooo eee" noise. could be some weird distorted
guitar effect? .
Appels + Oranjes
-At 4:05 you can hear someone
drop something or put a gutar down.
Ava Adore
-At 1:38 you can hear like
a doorbell sound.
Beautiful
-Not really a secret sound,
but if you listen carefully you'll notice that in the second verse, "wonderful,
it's wonderful, to know that you're just like I", at the "just like I"
on 'like' it goes too low for Billy, and he just speaks the word. However,
D'arcy (who sings backup) is singing higher, and has no problem with the
note.
-You hear this best with
headphones, but through out the entire song, theres a 'beatbox' that goes
along with the drum beat, you know a 'beatbox' is when rappers make drum
sounds with their mouths, like The Fat Boys did. So ya, i would guess Billy
sampled some guy doing a 'beatbox' to the drum beat and and looped it for
the entire song. It's there, when you hear it once, every time you hear
the song after that, your ears will automatically focus on that sound.
.
-sounds like d'arcy singing
an extended "aahhh..." from 0:07-0:11
Blank
Before song, it sounds like
Billy is setting up, opening a water bottle.
Blue
-wind chyme sounds from
0:01-0:15
Bodies
during the second "love
is suicide" verse, Billy mutters in the background:
"destroy, despise, distrust,
disobey, distrust, disarm, destroy, dispise, dissect, deny, destroy, despise,
distrust"
Bullet with Butterfly
Wings
- If you play the "rat in
a cage" part backwards, it sounds like: "here are my abs!"
- There is a sound sort
of like a distorted guitar or a synthesiser making wooooooAAAAAAhhhhhhooooooo
sounds from 3:42 to 4:11.
Bury Me
Song opens with James saying
something of continuous debate. Most popular ideas being "Boys, let's do
it" and "Poised like an angel". Other ideas that have been sent to me are:
"Boys, let me lead you", and "Boys, let's get in tune". .
By Starlight
It sounds like running water
in the background, most notable 0:26-30, and 0:35-1:11. These effects are
caused by the flanger and reverb effects that Billy used on this song
Bye June
-from :05 to :07 there is
some fuzz interference in the background
-at :18 it sounds like someone
chimed in singing with Billy
-at :25 Billy breathes into
the mic when he sings "hope"
-at :46 in the background
there is a 'zzz' kind of noise from the guitar
-at :53 there is a 'pop'
sound in the background
-from :54 to 1:07 there
is a 'wooo' hum from the amp
-from 1:13 to 1:20 there
is the same hum, but higher in pitch
-at 1:28 someone says "hey"
in the background
-at 1:38 there is a weird
'pop' sound, from the amplifier(?)
-at 1:42 it sounds like
the high string the bass was just played
Crestfallen
-At 4:06 (practically the
end of the song) you can hear a thump.
-The 'thump' is the cover
of the piano keys being closed.
Cupid De Locke
-The shaking sound used
for the drum part is actually an aspirin bottle.
-At 0:52-1:04, and 1:37-1:49
there is a weird chime in the right channel. At 2:30-2:34 there is talking
in the background.
-At the end of Cupid de
Locke, Billy Corgan
recites the following lines:
"..and in the land of star-crossed
lovers and barren-hearted wanderers, forever lost in foresaked missives
and satan's pull; we seek the unseekable and we speak the inspeakable,
our hopes gathering dust to dust, in faith, in compassion, and in
love."
Czarina
-At the end of Czarina you
can hear someone breathing.
Daydream
At 1:10 you can hear a click
from the cello player's bow hitting the wood of his cello. Also, at 1:20-21,
you can hear jingly noises, probably someone's bracelet.
Destination Unknown
At about 3:16 you can here
something like "I love my sister" coming from the right speaker.
Disarm
-If you play "send this
smile..." backwards it clearly says "send this"
-At very end, you can hear
opera singers (turn it up very loud).
-"After listening to "Disarm"
over and over again, i noticed a faint scream at 3:04 in the song."
Eye
-Somewhere in the middle
of eye played backwards it sounds like "James James.. why did you go"
-At second before entering
another song there's a thumping sound which is familiar to Crestfallen's
thumping sound at end.
Geek U.S.A.
-During the first drum part,
you can hear a man talking (turn it up).
Gish
-On the earlier copies of
gish, the liner notes have the songs listed under copyright control, since
it was before billy had a publishing deal.
Glynis
-At very beginning, there
is a robot-like "hello", which comes from a Red Red Meat song.
God
-Played backwards, it says:
"love is lost to you make it feel if we want to lost never try behind the
scene ooh, i win your..." (never finishes)
-If you play the chorus
backwards, you hear "I am helpless, I want to die."
-You can hear D'arcy say
something, sounds like "help".
-You can hear guitar effects
at 2:08, 2:09-2:10, 2:13, 2:15, 2:19-2:20. .
-From 3:29 to 3:50, you can
hear a kind of "sucking-wind" noise in the back. .
-A siren in the background
in the middle of a silent part and a heavy part. -Vince Horst
Here is No Why
At 0:56 there is some clicking
or cracking.
Honey Spider I
On some versions, you can
hear Billy say at the very end: "aha, that's everything, haha!"
Hummer
-At the very end, you can
hear a few notes of classical music.
-In the quiet part of "Hummer"
(the outro)...when he's saying "Ask yourself a question.." and so forth....if
you play it backwards, it sounds like "You have no meaning"...and something
after that, but I can't make out what he's saying.
In the Arms of Sleep
There is a "woo woo" noise
at 2:06, 2:12-14, and at 2:30-40, where it sounds like someone sobbing.
Also of course the weird breathing at the beginning.
Lily
-Note that sounds like a
"synth horn" at 2:34.5
-At 1:53, real softly, billy
goes "yeah" or something to that effect.
Love
-Whole song you can obiviously
hear an twit-twit sound.
-If you listen to "Love"
(Mellon-Collie and the Infinate Sadness) a lot, then you have probably
noticed that at 2:36 Billy says something that isn't printed in the lyrics
booklet. Well, if you strain your ears, it sounds like Billy says,"When
I lost my mind, I knew
I was in for the long...."
-Love missing lyrics (Very
distorted) -Pat Laneri
When I lost my mind I knew
I was in (aah!)for a long night
Who are you to love?
Who, yeah, who?
You know you'll know in
time
-At about 2:44 (where Billy
sings "let's see where we can go..") he growls right before the "go"..
-Guitar effect at 1:42 (right
channel).
-At 3:13 there is a "click"
sound.
-At the very end of the
song (3:16), there is a "zap" sound. -last 3 by
Mayonaise
- I remember watching the
MTV VMA in 1996, and they did a small 1 minute clip of an old interview
they had with Billy Corgan- they asked him what made that strange "wheezing"
noise in the song, Billy said that the guitar he used in recording that
song was a piece of junk, whenever, he would stop playing for a second,
the guitar would make a loud noise, so when they played Mayonaise and he
had to stop strumming for a second, it would make that loud noise, so eventually
that noise got incorporated into the song!
- At 3:42, in the background
you can hear someone say "eh?" or something to that extent.
- When he says "pick a pocket
full of sorrows..." and so on, if you play that backwards, it sounds like
"i smell lovely".
Medillia of the Gray Skies
You can hear a high-pitched
noise at 0:16 (right channel). .
Meladori Magpie
At 0:02, you can hear the
slide object touch the strings of the guitar
Mouths of Babes
-If you put the song on
a vocal fader and during the distortion in the beginning you can hear billy
or someone say something.
Muzzle
During the verse 'for thinking
that i'd last forever', right when Billy sings the word 'last' you can
hear D'arcy sing 'die' in the background, also on the last line, when 'and
i knew the silence of the world' is sung, you can hear a really high pitched
voice sing the 'and i knew' part along with Billy. Also at the beginning, Billy takes a big breath.
My Blue Heaven
-At 0:17 in the right channel,
you can hear a slide sound (probably the cello).
-At 3:16 there is a noise
in the background. .
Perfect
-At 0:07-0:08 you can hear
Billy take a big breath.
-There is the sound that
a truck or forklift makes baking up. -jon
Peel Sessions
-One of the harder to find
items is of the first pressing of the peel session ep (back when it was
very rare and expensive). you can tell if you have it because on
the typewritten track listing on the side there is a misprint. track two
says "GIRL NAMED SANOOZ" instead of "SANDOZ".
Pisces Iscariot
(album)
-You can see behind Pisces
Iscariot where the song's are named an blue "flame". So, open your Pisces
Iscariot, take CD out and you'll see picture of Smashing Pumpkins. Now,
look that blue "flame" against the light and look who's picture appears
into the "flame"
Pissant
At the very end, Billy yells
"whooo!".
Porcelina of the Vast
Oceans
-At 0:09 there is a click.
-At these times: 4:37, 39,
41, 42, 44, 46, 54, 58, and 59, sounds like a weird raygun effect.
-Also at the beginning,
the intro, from about 0:32-2:12, it sounds like steam being released from
a tea kettle.
-Starting at 2:05 up until
the loud guitar rift, in the right channel there is a very faint rippling
effect.
Pulseczar
At the end, Billy whispers
"I know what you mean" .
Siamese Dream
(the cd)
-The first pressing of siamese
dream has the really nice booklet with each picture with lyrics on a separate
page while the booklet in the later pressings only have a fold out with
tiny thumbnails for the pictures.
Siamese Dream
(the song)
At the beginning:
Jimmy: "Flush the toilet?"
Producer (Butch Vig?): "No,
it's done by now. Go ahead."
(song starts)
Silverfuck
-At very end, Billy says
"Alright, this take, don't give a fuck" and plays a few notes.
-If you listen to Silverfuck
carefully (you can hear it best on headphones), you can tell (it's just
as well) that anytime that Billy's voice is echoed (such as the 'bang,
bang, you're dead..' part) the sound starts in the middle, goes to the
left channel, and then ends in the right channel.
Siva
(Peel Sessions)
-At 4:09, D'arcy says "Wait,
I just stepped on my ?" then Billy counts to four for the loud re-entry.
-On the Peel Sessions version
of Siva near the end Billy screws up and says "I don't live, I unvade"
like he started to say unveil and then realized his mistake and finished
saying invade.
Slunk -Pat Laneri
-at :02.5 you can hear the
amp turn on
-from :03 to :09 you can
hear a "blowing wind sound" (close to speaker)
-from :08 to :09 Billy says,
"why don't we just start from here?"
-at :12 there is a click
from the drumsticks
-from :13 to :15 there is
something jingling
-at :30 Billy says "yeah"
in the background
-at :38 it sounds like someone
says "huh?" in the background
-at :40 there is a 'blip'
sound
-at :46 there is a 'bip'
sound, and another one at 1:07
-at 1:08 and 1:53 there
is a 'whoop' sound
-from 1:18 to 1:19 there
is a guitar sound that sounds like whispering
-at 1:22 there is a 'whop'
sound
-at 1:56 there is a 'whip'
sound
-at 1:58 there is a 'wheeoop'
sound
-at 2:08 there is a 'rurr'
sound
-at 2:15 there is a 'beoop'
sound
-at 2:22 there is a 'rurrr'
guitar effect
Soothe
Lyrics clarification: this
is old but its a response to something some guy had on his site saying
it was hung me, but it really is hungry. If you stick your ear right next
to the speaker you can hear the faintest trace of his tongue reverberating
off the r.
Also you can hear "the 7 am buses slithering by" from the liner notes at 2:18-21.
Soma
-You can hear crickets at
the beginning, and the weird TV voice at the end that says: "And you need
to resist the devil, so that he will flee."
That TV voice was used at
the 6/18/94 Starchilderen show and looped throughout the song "War Jam"
which they played live.
- There is a sort of high
pitched squeek which is wobbly-(echoed?) from 2:05 to 2:27
Spaceboy
"Now it's, uh, kind of strange, and, uh, kinda hard for me to talk about,
but I thought maybe you could
Well, that's a rather candid
monologue... [!] This seems to be from some talk show or something- in
the tab
-In this interview I recorded
from 107.7 The End in Seattle, Billy said that the conversation at the
end of Spaceboy...well here I'll just write it word for word:
Spaced
Starla
Stars Falling
Stumbeline
Tear
The Aeroplane Flies High
Second spoken part:
End:
-During some chorus, you
can hear a very loud noise in the background: 2:31-2:36 and 4:14-4:17.
The Beginning is the End
is the Beginning
The Boy
The End is the Beginning
is the End
The Ethers Tragic
Thirty-three
To Forgive
To Sheila
Today
Tonight, Tonight
"ask master vegsley (all
i could get) what am i my little aeromaid oh i been dreaming sleepily slash
the rope that ties yes we win the battle be home if we sell against been
believe in me it'll be yes who are you now are you i aint much dare to
survive me aeromaid ahhh yeah i just need it was eeee (and on) ahh yeah
i was... honey i still love you while you sit ill be there now you believe
me too much i love you never lie to (your) baby that ill be this never
said all the world believe believe in me (run together) it'll be will you
marry me says not if i eat fashion arms'll be with me i'll just be yeah
it was i deny this i deservei just necessary (sounds like necessie) guards
the men that i just wanna believe you forget (?) yeah when i i want all
of my i want you for all my life it just wont save me your decision wont
defy i just wont defy cause i believe in me believe in me i dont want this
stand behind this i lose it hurts night"
-At 0:07, 0:13, and 0:19,
there is a very noticeable click from the drums.
Transformer
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Window Paine
"i always knew(lose) if ever
all my life shed the burners (something "burn".not quite sure) it would
not save me god says this not send me life send me life send me love send
me love or descend me high descend me high descend me low descend me low"
-At some parts it sounds
like "she is god."
There's an odd conversation
at the end of Spaceboy... On some CDs, it appears at the beginning of Silverfuck,
although the Siamese Dream
tab book makes it clear that it belongs at the end of Spaceboy...
help- um, when we start getting physical, rather than having intercourse,
he ends up just masturbating
himself, and I end up feeling very alienated and unsatisfied, and it's
really come between us"
book, Billy said it was
from an anonymous source, and that he couldn't say where it was from, for
fear of being
sued. I hear from
that this dialogue came from HBO's Real Sex program.
Guy:asks what it is
Billy:(Chuckles) Um,it's
just this weird thing I found.It's just this woman talking about her husband
masturbating himself...I thought it was funny. (Laughs, audience laughs)
Its really that simple
At 1:44.5, in the background,
you can hear James cough (turn it up).
5:27-5:30 "listen for the
police car go by" as mentioned in the liner notes.
At the end of the song,
Billy says "Okay". .
-At 0:03 Billy licks his
lips or something.
-I believe that at the end
of Stumbeline, if you turn it up very loud and put your ear up to the speaker,
you can hear people moving insterments, and Billy begin to say something,
but then it skips to the next track.
-Everytime billy makes an
"S" sound, the noise is amplified many times louder in the left speaker.
try listening to it on earphones, you'll see.
-
T -
Tales of
a Scorched Earth
-At 0:17 there is an "uh"
-At 3:36, the "Dragon Noise"
is actually another sound effect from DooM, the effect when the player
is hurt. -
-The "missing lyrics" are:
"'cause everyone's lost just waiting to be found, everyone's a thought
just waiting to fade." ... or are they? check the next secret.
-There are some miss lyrics
in TOASE, but they are not "cause everyones...fade" those are listed
in the book...I can't tell you what
the real "missing" ones
are, but those are NOT them... -Shannon
-Tales of a Scorched Earth
missing lyrics (very distorted, this part sounds sort of different from
the rest of the song)
I'm scared
Don't leave me on my own
behalf
It shouldn't be
Could it ever be?
It shouldn't be me
So now I'm gone
In time is everything that
I don't know!!!
Also, after "I die just
to feel", "Why do the same old things keep on happening", and "Cause
beyond my hopes there are no feelings" Billy says "yeah". -Pat Laneri
-"OK, this is a tricky one.
Here in Finland, there's an band called CMX and their singer is called
A.W.Yrjänä. (Note those capital letters *AWY* ) Look about part
"i saw you there". OK, that's ok? No. Let's write it again with same letters
and same order. "Is AWY out here". Understood? Hehe...My friend said
that CMX and SP got an conspiracy or something.=)"
First spoken part:
-I really don't wanna look
stupid when I'm sleeping. I never really liked sunny days. The black wings
just reach out to me over a distance... and i can feel the wind from the
wings... I see the clouds, i feel the ocean with my feet, and I'm home
again. It requires an ability to judge distance. The aeroplane flies high,
turns left, looks right.
-If i knew where I was going,
I would already be there (laugh). I wish I had more time--- judicious,
beautiful, augmented, whatever. I've always been afraid to die, but I think
now I'm more afraid to live.
-And in my heart i know
you're there. And in my heart i know you're here. And in my heart i know
you're gone.
-During the "I've always
been afraid to die..." you can hear strange voices in the background.
-There is a little bip noise
at 3:16 (be close)
-You can hear Billy talking
in the background from 4:54 to 4:57 (be very close).
-At 7:32-7:35, there is
a strange "ooooohhhhh!" sound.
-At 8:28-8:29 you can hear
voices in the back. -i think last 6 from
-At end before "the final
boom" Billy says few times "Strange" and then he growls or says something
I can't understand.
At 2:57-59 (pratically the
end of the song), the producer (maybe even billy) is talking in the background.
Sounds like:
'person': "you really love
her don't you? [something something] (starts laughing)"/font>
-At 1:28 there's an click.
-At 2.37-2.47 there is some
weird noise. Maybe it's from guitar or maybe not.
-That's not really a secret
thing but throughout the whole song, the main melody is oddly echoed in
the background.
-There really isn't any
percussion in 33, but at 1:09, you can hear someone start to do/shake something
that sounds really familar to the "asprin bottle effect" from Cupid de
Locke. (This noise continues throughout the rest of the song).
At 0:59 there is a wail
in the background. The "stormy" ending to the song is due to a broken amp.
- There is a weird high-pitched
noise in "To Sheila" most noteable in the beginning, but it goes throughout
the whole song.
- also, you can hear Billy
breath or take a breath at 0:03.
- and at the end of the
song, 4:38, you can hear a thumping sound, like a guitar being put down
or something.
-In Today there is a "sucking"
sound coming from the left speaker at 2:39.
-If you listen very closely,
you can hear the sound start in the right speaker at about 2:37, and gradually
grow a bit louder and fade to the left speaker.
If you listen to the song
backwards, this is what you may hear:
-You can hear guitar slides
effects at 0:14-0:15, 1:35-1:36, 2:40-2:41, 2:56-2:57.
-At 1:42-43 in the left
channel, it sounds like "baby" sounds. .
-
U -
-
V -
-
W -
We Only
Come Out at Night
-There is a high-pitched
noise in the background throughout the whole song.
-Bats can be heard flapping
near the end im notsure if its the high pitch or not.
-You can hear an explosion
from the computer game DooM mentioned in the liner notes at 1:20, 1:55,
2:29, 3:01, 3:44
-1:58, 2:03, 2:07, 3:06,
3:10, 3:14 there is some backup vocals by either James or D'arcy?? At 3:03
Billy groans. At 3:15 Billy says "uh". At 4:17 there is a very loud high-pitched
noise in the right channel that probably makes your ears hurt!
-There is a laser sort of
sound at 00:45 and one at 4:19 and a high pitched squeek at 00:49-00:50
-In the acapella part of
"WindowPaine"...when he's saying "Do what you gotta do", and all that....played
backwards, he says "God is not safe", and some other stuff that I'm not
sure of....my girlfriend and I thought he was saying "I wish I was pissing
in a shower"...but that isn't it =)
-
X -
x.y.u.
-There is a siren that sounds
like it's at 6:50 till the end.
-Another sound effect from
DooM is the prolonged roar of a demon which can be heard on X.Y.U from
4:46-50.
-
Y -
-
Z -
Zero
Played backwards, says:
-During the "emptiness..."
part, when the instruments pause, you can hear them ring. there is a "rocket"
sound from 2:26 to 2:28 (right channel). .