Fourteen tracks on new Iha solo album ‘Look to the Sky’ 9:40 pm // Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Posted by susan in james iha, look to the sky, news.trackback
The second solo album from Smashing Pumpkins cofounder James Iha, due March 14, will be titled Look to the Sky. The tracklisting, per EMI Japan, is as follows:
Make Believe
Summer Days
To Who Knows Where
Till the Next Tuesday
Dream Tonight
Dark Star
Appetite
Gemini
Waves
Speed of Love
4th of July
A String of Words
Diamond Eyes
Stay Lost
UPDATE: The cover art is above. The EMI Japan website now also indicates that “Diamond Eyes” and “Stay Lost” are “bonus tracks.” In addition, there is now a “James Iha Official Japan” Facebook page.
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The last 2 say “(bonus track)”, which leads me to wonder if the US release won’t have them. XD
Some of these song titles seem like jokes they’re so cliche. “Speed of Love”? Also, less than two years ago Deftones released an album titled “Diamond Eyes” with a song on it titled the same and now Iha is releasing a song by that title? Seems a bit odd. His solo album was a bit “meh” IMO (although I love the song “Winter”). I suppose we’ll see how “Look to the Sky” will be very shortly.
I’ll buy it. Why not? Took me a while to warm up to his first solo, but I eventually gave in.
James’ birthday gift to Billy. Too sweet.
James can eat a hot bag of dicks… especially when Oceania blows it out of the water into the shark-infested sky
Oceania doesn’t stand a chance. Music albums are a dead medium. The only way to make it in the music industry anymore is posting single songs on a irregular basis to a website no one visits as Billy Corgan has proven. Keep drinking the kool-aid douche-nozzle.
Song titles are so James.
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“Also, less than two years ago Deftones released an album titled “Diamond Eyes” with a song on it titled the same and now Iha is releasing a song by that title? Seems a bit odd. ”
This would be something featured on the non-existent ‘Shit Smashing Pumpkins/Tool Fans Say’ videos.
it dont get US/international release yet?
it occasionally happens that international musicians/bands, mainly of US/UK, release album only in Japan. I have a hunch that James 2nd solo will be another one.
Till the Next Tuesday is a cover maybe? It was on a Vanessa and the O’s release too.
And yeah, love the track titles:
Believe – Make Believe
Summer – Summer Days
Sound of Love – Speed of Love
I won’t buy it…If it doesn’t have any of the other 3 original members on it, it’s not the Pumpkins! *snicker, snicker*
@geek_xyu Ha. Well said.
Didn’t James produce The Team Sleep album? That’s Chino’s side project that he did. Hmmm
James had absolutely Jack and Shit to do with Team Sleep. Nothing. Mary Timony and Mike Patton guested on it though! Still. Very little to do with Smashing Pumpkins at all.
The Deftones/Diamond Eyes correlation is purely coincidental, I’m sure. “Diamond Eyes” isn’t something The Deftones came up with either.
I’m hoping in future albums James can expound upon the Taste of Love, the Smell of Love, and the Acceleration of Love :)
Look for those in about 14 years.
James was uncredited on the I, Robot and Spun soundtracks.
look to the sky, and let it come down! yeeha iha!
Obviously releasing it around the same time Pumpkins have something going on for a reason…
Im still very very excited, let it come down was a damn good album
Not to mention To Who Knows Where and To Here Knows When. And WTF>? Ripping a song title from Beck (dark star)? Don;t even get me started about Dream Tonight!
Actually James did do some guitar work with Team Sleep. Look it up.
wtf u talkin bout angel. billy hasn’t even announced the oceania release so how would this align with anything SP is doing? seems like a dead couple months ahead for SP minus the PI reissue due out in April.
@ryan Well it was something that a Smashing Pumpkins Fan said, so I guess it qualifies. I do think it’s weird. Like if the Pumpkins released a song titled “King of Limbs”.
Angel “Obviously releasing it around the same time Pumpkins have something going on for a reason…”
Which then is why Billy is postponing Oceania once again. :P
Adam: c’mon… Gish+Siamese Dream reissues (and the fall tour) has brought Pumpkins back on many music ‘zines, websites, and so on.
i heard from a friend who is close to kerry that there is no oceania. billy made up a story of this epic album only to keep fans interested in the band. in reality billy is suffering from writers block and hasn’t wrote any new music since 2009/2010.
It wasn’t a jab at Iha, I really enjoy his work actually. But the timing of it seems to coincide with the impending release of an actual date for Oceania. That is some press right?
Yeah it’s a fair point. Whether Oceania comes out within a month –or within 6 months– of the new Iha album, it will certainly be mentioned by the press.
(“Corgan isn’t the only Pumpkin keeping busy; Former guitarist James Iha released his second solo album in March…”)
@pp
LMAO big time. Iha didn’t rip anything. there are many songs with the same name
http://allmusic.com/search/track/Dark+Star/order:default-asc
http://allmusic.com/search/track/Dream+Tonight/order:default-asc
suck on this, u Iha hater!
Is there an Aimee Mann connection here, on James’ album?
* Till The Next Tuesday
* 4th Of July <–name of an Aimee Mann track
Just noticed that.
@rapapapapa lol but you gotta admit that To Who Knows Where is eerily similar to MBV’s To Here Knows When. I’m actually really interested in what James puts out here though. I just hope it’s not too similar to his first album.
Dark Star is a more famous song by, The Grateful Dead. Fucking kids…
Well, duh- there’s only about 625 million 2-word combinations, and 15.6 trillion 3-word combinations, assuming a lexicon of 25,000 words. Of COURSE they’ve all been used before! :P”
a great buy: http://www.ebay.com/itm/JAMES-IHA-LOOK-SKY-JAPAN-CD-F25-/270914495849?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item3f13c32569
@34
mr. obvious.
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yes, Til Next Tuesday is on the Vanessa & the O’s album La Ballade d’O which James appears on, I think he co-wrote it, he plays on it and on most of that album.
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