Ugly

"Ugly" is a song from the The Smashing Pumpkins' box set, The Aeroplane Flies High and on the original "1979" single released in January 1996. During the sessions that made up Billy's Gravity Demos I, it was called "Beautiful One". The demo version differs significantly, having a much heavier sound and no vocals.

Started as an album song until the very last moment, when Mellon Collies was cut from 31 to 28 songs, this is an interesting interpretation of what had essentially been an acoustic song. Flood and I tried about four different versions before settling on this one [see Queen's Hot Space album]. One version that I liked was just me and a distorted guitar. But in the end this version won, only to be mixed into eternal obscurity as a B-side.