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"'''Rotten Apples'''" is a song from the [[:Category:Compilation albums|box set]] ''[[The Aeroplane Flies High]]'', originally released on the "[[Tonight, Tonight]]" single and later on ''[[Judas O]]'' and ''[[Rarities and B-Sides]]''.
"'''Rotten Apples'''" is a song from the [[:Category:Compilation albums|box set]] ''[[The Aeroplane Flies High]]'', originally released on the "[[Tonight, Tonight]]" single and later on the band's ''[[Rarities and B-Sides]]'' compilation. Corgan has since said that "Rotten Apples" was "probably one of the best songs [he] ever recorded",<ref>Wild, David. "The Aeroplane Flies Higher Than Ever: A Return Trip Into ''Mellon Collie's'' Existential Backwater", ''The Aeroplane Flies High'' 2013 reissue liner notes</ref> and that he regrets not spending more time on the song.<ref>Corgan, Billy. "Aeroplane Track by Track", ''The Aeroplane Flies High'' 2013 reissue liner notes</ref>
{{Cquote|A home demo that I just didn't have the heart or energy to go back and record. I like the lyrics a lot, and if I had spent more time on it it probably should have been on the album. It was written in the initial post-Lollapalooza batch ('[[Thirty-Three|33]],' '[[Jupiter's Lament]],' '[[Methusela]],' '[[Ugly]]') of acoustically tinged songs. It has double-tracked, finger picked guitar-all the better to hide those little mistakes-with a few choice keyboard overdubs bleeding through the vocal mikes.|author=Billy Corgan|source=[[w:Guitar World|Guitar World]], January 1997}}
{{Cquote|A home demo that I just didn't have the heart or energy to go back and record. I like the lyrics a lot, and if I had spent more time on it it probably should have been on the album. It was written in the initial post-Lollapalooza batch ('[[Thirty-Three|33]],' '[[Jupiter's Lament]],' '[[Methusela]],' '[[Ugly]]') of acoustically tinged songs. It has double-tracked, finger picked guitar-all the better to hide those little mistakes-with a few choice keyboard overdubs bleeding through the vocal mikes.|author=Billy Corgan|source=[[w:Guitar World|Guitar World]], January 1997}}


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* {{SPFC|song|141|Rotten Apples}}
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Revision as of 08:05, 30 December 2023

"Rotten Apples"
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
ReleasedApril 15, 1996
Length3:02
Songwriter(s)Billy Corgan

"Rotten Apples" is a song from the box set The Aeroplane Flies High, originally released on the "Tonight, Tonight" single and later on the band's Rarities and B-Sides compilation. Corgan has since said that "Rotten Apples" was "probably one of the best songs [he] ever recorded",[1] and that he regrets not spending more time on the song.[2]

Lyrics

Dirty your face
With longing and grace, God-given
Suffer her heart
And love her when your love goes unrequited

Where the cool winds blow
I must surely go
For my love calls me below to drag her
from the depths of my soul

When will I see her again?
The other side of friends
The darkened claws of death
The empty breath desire

Dirty your face
With longing and grace, God-given
Suffer her heart
And love her when your love goes unrequited

Restless in my speech
And rootless in my teach
So vacant in my breach
I drive the dirt of her garden

Sorrow
She'll never listen again
No other lovers to bend
Just rotten apples to eat
Just letter yellowed distant scorn

Dirty your face
With longing and grace, God-given
Suffer her heart
And love her when your love goes unrequited

Life just fades away
Purity just begs
Dust to dust, we're wired into sadness

Availability

TitleNotesType
Chicago Tapes and Unreleased DemosBootleg
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness2012 Reissue bonus CD 2: High TeaStudio
Tonight, TonightUK single releaseSingle
The Aeroplane Flies High"Tonight, Tonight"Box set
Rarities and B-SidesCompilation

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References

External links

  1. Wild, David. "The Aeroplane Flies Higher Than Ever: A Return Trip Into Mellon Collie's Existential Backwater", The Aeroplane Flies High 2013 reissue liner notes
  2. Corgan, Billy. "Aeroplane Track by Track", The Aeroplane Flies High 2013 reissue liner notes