Mary Star of the Sea
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Mary Star of the Sea is Zwan
's only album, released on January 28, 2003. It is a generally upbeat pop-rock/alternative rock record
, driven by melodic basslines, flashy drumming, and lots of guitars. "Honestly" and "Lyric" were released as singles. The album is named both for the Blessed Virgin Mary, from whom Billy Corgan
claimed to find comfort and guidance, and for the Catholic
church in Key West, Florida
where he spent time during Zwan's early rehearsals. Corgan announced the band's dissolution seven months after the album's release, which he later attributed to internal conflict.
Corgan is credit
ed as "Billy Burke" in the liner notes
, a reference to Billy Burke
, a Florida evangelist who has dedicated his life to "touching the world with God's power".
The CD was packaged with a set of four stickers, and was simultaneously released as a deluxe edition with a DVD.
named Mary Star of the Sea the sixth best album of 2003. The Alternative Press
called the album a "return to form" for Corgan. The album debuted at #3 in the U.S. selling 90,000 copies in its first week, but quickly descended the charts, and fell short of the sales of any Smashing Pumpkins album.
, except where noted.
entitled For Your Love, a 40-minute collage of interviews, studio performances, and miscellaneous footage, some of which comes from the aborted Djali Zwan album/film. The songs listed on the DVD are "My Life and Times", "Rivers We Can't Cross", "Mary Star of the Sea", "Love Lies in Ruin", "For Your Love", "Down, Down, Down", "A New Poetry", "W.P.", "Jesus, I", "God's Gonna Set This World on Fire", "To Love You", "Consumed", a different rendition of "My Life and Times", "Danger Boy", and "Spilled Milk", but they are not clips of the full songs.
Zwan
Zwan was an American alternative rock band that was formed by members of The Smashing Pumpkins, Slint, Tortoise, Chavez, and A Perfect Circle. Zwan was started in late 2001 by Billy Corgan, lead singer and guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins, after the Pumpkins disbanded in December 2000. The band...
's only album, released on January 28, 2003. It is a generally upbeat pop-rock/alternative rock record
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
, driven by melodic basslines, flashy drumming, and lots of guitars. "Honestly" and "Lyric" were released as singles. The album is named both for the Blessed Virgin Mary, from whom Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan
William Patrick "Billy" Corgan, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet best known as the frontman and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois in 1987, the band quickly gained steam with the...
claimed to find comfort and guidance, and for the Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
church in Key West, Florida
Key West, Florida
Key West is a city in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city encompasses the island of Key West, the part of Stock Island north of U.S. 1 , Sigsbee Park , Fleming Key , and Sunset Key...
where he spent time during Zwan's early rehearsals. Corgan announced the band's dissolution seven months after the album's release, which he later attributed to internal conflict.
Corgan is credit
Credit (creative arts)
In general, the term credit in the artistic or intellectual sense refers to an acknowledgement of those who contributed to a work, whether through ideas or in a more direct sense.-Credit in the arts:...
ed as "Billy Burke" in the liner notes
Liner notes
Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...
, a reference to Billy Burke
Billy Burke (evangelist)
Billy Burke is a Pentecostal faith healer.Pastor Burke's main base of ministry is in Florida, but he also conducts services internationally, and throughout the country and regularly visits western Pennsylvania, particularly the where he says he was healed of brain cancer by faith healer Kathryn...
, a Florida evangelist who has dedicated his life to "touching the world with God's power".
The CD was packaged with a set of four stickers, and was simultaneously released as a deluxe edition with a DVD.
Response
The album received mostly positive reviews. David Browne of Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
named Mary Star of the Sea the sixth best album of 2003. The Alternative Press
Alternative Press (music magazine)
Alternative Press is an American music magazine based in Cleveland, Ohio. It generally provides readers with band interviews, photos, information on upcoming releases, and music charts. It was founded in 1985 by Mike Shea, who is the current president....
called the album a "return to form" for Corgan. The album debuted at #3 in the U.S. selling 90,000 copies in its first week, but quickly descended the charts, and fell short of the sales of any Smashing Pumpkins album.
Track listing
All songs were written by Billy CorganBilly Corgan
William Patrick "Billy" Corgan, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet best known as the frontman and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois in 1987, the band quickly gained steam with the...
, except where noted.
- "LyricLyric (song)"Lyric" is a song by Zwan. It was the second single from their album Mary Star of the Sea, and it was only released in the United Kingdom.- Track listing :# "Lyric" – 3:21# "Nobody 'Cept You" – 4:13...
" – 3:17 - "Settle Down" (Corgan, Paz LenchantinPaz LenchantinPaz Lenchantin is an American musician of French ancestry. She came to Los Angeles, California with her family at the age of four....
) – 5:25 - "Declarations of Faith" – 4:17
- "Honestly" – 3:45
- "El Sol" (Traditional) – 3:38
- "Of a Broken Heart" – 3:54
- "Ride a Black Swan" (Traditional) – 4:53
- "Heartsong" – 3:08
- "Endless Summer" – 4:22
- "Baby Let's Rock!" – 3:41
- "Yeah!" – 3:06
- "Desire" – 4:14
- "Jesus, I/Mary Star of the Sea" (Traditional/ZwanZwanZwan was an American alternative rock band that was formed by members of The Smashing Pumpkins, Slint, Tortoise, Chavez, and A Perfect Circle. Zwan was started in late 2001 by Billy Corgan, lead singer and guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins, after the Pumpkins disbanded in December 2000. The band...
) – 14:04 - "Come with Me" – 4:01
Deluxe edition
A deluxe edition of the album was also released, which included a bonus DVDDVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
entitled For Your Love, a 40-minute collage of interviews, studio performances, and miscellaneous footage, some of which comes from the aborted Djali Zwan album/film. The songs listed on the DVD are "My Life and Times", "Rivers We Can't Cross", "Mary Star of the Sea", "Love Lies in Ruin", "For Your Love", "Down, Down, Down", "A New Poetry", "W.P.", "Jesus, I", "God's Gonna Set This World on Fire", "To Love You", "Consumed", a different rendition of "My Life and Times", "Danger Boy", and "Spilled Milk", but they are not clips of the full songs.
Personnel
- Billy CorganBilly CorganWilliam Patrick "Billy" Corgan, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet best known as the frontman and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois in 1987, the band quickly gained steam with the...
(as Billy Burke) – guitar, vocals, producer, additional mixing - Jimmy ChamberlinJimmy ChamberlinJimmy Chamberlin is an American drummer, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the former drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. After a drug-related incident with touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin in 1996, Chamberlin was fired from the band and joined The Last...
– drums - Matt SweeneyMatt SweeneyMatt Sweeney is a guitarist, vocalist, and producer who has worked with various musicians and groups.-Biography:Sweeney's high school band Skunk released two albums on Twin/Tone records...
– guitar, vocals - Paz LenchantinPaz LenchantinPaz Lenchantin is an American musician of French ancestry. She came to Los Angeles, California with her family at the age of four....
– bass, vocals - David PajoDavid PajoDavid Pajo is an American alternative rock musician. He has played a wide variety of music, loosely fitting into several other genres: hardcore, math-rock, post-rock, electronica, folk and indie-pop...
– guitar - Ana LenchantinAna LenchantinAna Lenchantin is an Argentine-American cellist known for frequent appearances with American rock bands such as Into the Presence The Eels, Gnarls Barkley, No Doubt, Arthur Lee and Love, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, 30 Seconds to Mars, Brian Wilson, Billy Corgan,...
- celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
on "Of a Broken Heart" - Bjorn ThorsrudBjorn ThorsrudBjorn Thorsrud is a music producer and audio engineer. He has recorded musicians such as: David Coverdale, Billy Corgan, The Dandy Warhols, Bruce Dickinson, Marianne Faithfull, The Frogs, Monster Magnet, Sleeping at Last, The Smashing Pumpkins, Linda Strawberry, Whitesnake and Zwan.-List of...
– producer, additional mixing - Alan MoulderAlan MoulderAlan Moulder is one of Britain's premier alternative rock record producers. He has worked with such artists as Depeche Mode, Erasure, Elastica, Gary Numan, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Curve, Ride, Lush and My Bloody Valentine, Lostprophets, Shihad, Ivyrise and Placebo, as well as with many American...
– mixer - Ron Lowe – engineer
- Manny A. Sanchez – engineer
- Mathieu LeJeune – engineer
- Greg Norman – engineer
- Rob Bochnik – engineer
- Azuolas Sinkevicius – assistant engineer
- Lionel Darenne – assistant engineer
- Mark Twitchell – second assistant engineer
- Jarod Kluemper – second assistant engineer
- Russ Arbuthnot – second assistant engineer
- Tim Harrington – guitar sound re-enforcer
- Linda StrawberryLinda StrawberryLinda Strawberry is the nom de plume of a Los Angeles singer, best known as Billy Corgan's touring bandmate on the Future Embrace Tour. She signed to Chrysalis Records with a publishing development deal, but announced in her blog in October 2006 that she has since left the label, citing artistic...
– assistant to Mr. Thorsrud - Howie WeinbergHowie WeinbergHowie Weinberg is a music mastering engineer who has worked with numerous bands.- Career :He has worked at Masterdisk, New York City, since 1977...
– mastering - Roger Lian – digital editing
- Geoff McFetridge – design
For Your Love DVD personnel
- Lester Cohn – director
- Greg Sylvester, Damon Ranger, Lester Cohn, and Brian Churchwell – cameras
- Tony "Tadpole" Mysliwiec – audio mastering
- David May – DVD producer
- Penny Marciano – DVD production director
- Raena Winscott – DVD graphics coordinator
- Davi Russo – DVD graphics design
- Jim Atkins – authoring
Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | The Billboard 200 | 3 |
| 2003 | Top Internet Albums | 3 |
| 2003 | Top Canadian Albums | 4 |
| 2003 | German charts Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
17 |
| 2003 | New Zealand Albums Chart | 10 |
Singles
| Date | Title | Chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Modern Rock | US Mainstream Rock | Canadian Top 40 Singles Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada... |
Germany Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| November 2002 | "Honestly" | 7 | 21 | 17 | 86 | 28 |