Smashing Pumpkins / Mellon Collie six-disc deluxe set on the way
The Smashing Pumpkins are set to reissue their 1995 opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on 3 December as a six disc box set (5CD+DVD) and a four LP vinyl set.
The Deluxe Box Set’s 5 CDs include 64 bonus tracks of previously unreleased material or alternate versions of Mellon Collie-era songs, and its DVD features a live show filmed at the Brixton Academy, London (1996) and bonus performances from the German music television show Rockpalast (1996).
This content comes housed in a 12 x 12 lift-top box with magnetic closure and velvet-lined disc holder. The package includes 2 books containing personal notes, lyrics, new collage artwork, plus a Decoupage kit for creating your own scenes from the Mellon Collie universe. The bonus content and special features were curated from the band’s archives by Billy Corgan and remastered for the first time from the original master tapes by Bob Ludwig.
Like the Gish and Siamese Dream reissues, Mellon Collie has reimagined cover art with titles removed. The 4LP vinyl version will come as some relief to fans who missed out the first time around, since the original 3LP release goes for extremely high prizes on the used market. The vinyl release will have the original record spread over eight sides of 180g vinyl for optimum sound.
Six disc set (CD/DVD)
- • UK Pre-order: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 6-disc set
- • USA Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 6-disc set
- • CANADA Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 6-disc set
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 6-disc set
Four LP set (Vinyl)
- • UK Pre-order: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness Vinyl set
- • USA Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 4LP Vinyl set
- • CANADA Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 4LP Vinyl set
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 4LP Vinyl set
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 6 disc track listing
Dawn To Dusk (CD1)
- Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
- Tonight, Tonight
- Jellybelly
- Zero
- Here Is No Why
- Bullet With Butterfly Wings
- To Forgive
- An Ode To No One
- Love
- Cupid De Locke
- Galapogos
- Muzzle
- Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
- Take Me Down
Twilight To Starlight (CD2)
- Where Boys Fear To Tread
- Bodies
- Thirty-Three
- In The Arms Of Sleep
- 1979
- Tales Of A Scorched Earth
- Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
- Stumbleine
- X.Y.U.
- We Only Come Out At Night
- Beautiful
- Lily (My One And Only)
- By Starlight
- Farewell And Goodnight
Morning Tea (CD3)
- Tonight, Tonight (Strings Alone mix)
- Methusela (Sadlands demo)
- X.Y.U. (Take 11)
- Zero (Synth mix)
- Feelium (Sadlands demo)
- Autumn Nocturne (Sadlands demo)
- Beautiful (Loop version)
- Ugly (Sadlands demo)
- Ascending Guitars (Sadlands demo)
- By Starlight (Flood rough)
- Medellia Of The Gray Skies (Take 1)
- Lover (Arrangement 1 demo)
- Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Take 7)
- In The Arms Of Sleep (Early Live demo)
- Lily (My One And Only) (Sadlands demo)
- 1979 (Sadlands demo)
- Glamey Glamey (Sadlands demo)
- Meladori Magpie
- Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Home Piano version)
- Galapagos (Instrumental/Sadlands demo)
- To Forgive (Sadlands demo)
High Tea (CD4)
- Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Sadlands demo)
- Set The Ray To Jerry (Vocal Rough)
- Thirty-Three (Sadlands demo)
- Cupid De Locke (BT 2012 mix)
- Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans (Live Studio rough)
- Jellybelly (Instrumental/Pit mix 3)
- The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
- Jupiter’s Lament (Barbershop version)
- Bagpipes Drone (Sadlands demo)
- Tonight, Tonight (Band Version Only, No Strings)
- Knuckles (Studio outtake)
- Pennies
- Here Is No Why (Pumpkinland demo)
- Blast (Fuzz version)
- Towers Of Rabble (Live)
- Rotten Apples
- Fun Time (Sadlands demo)
- Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Acoustic version)
- Chinoise (Sadlands demo)
- Speed
Special Tea (CD 5)
- Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Nighttime version 1)
- Galapagos (Sadlands demo)
- Cherry (BT 2012 mix)
- Love (Flood rough)
- New Waver (Sadlands demo)
- Fuck You (an ode to no one) (Production Master rough)
- Isolation (BT 2012 mix)
- Transformer (Early mix)
- Dizzle (Sadlands demo)
- Goodnight (Basic Vocal rough)
- Eye (Soundworks demo)
- Blank (Sadlands demo)
- Beautiful (Instrumental-Middle 8)
- My Blue Heaven (BT 2012 mix)
- One And Two
- Zoom (7 ips)
- Pastichio Medley (Reversed extras)
- Marquis In Spades (BT 2012 mix)
- Tales Of A Scorched Earth (Guitar Overdub mix)
- Tonite Reprise (Version 1)
- Wishing You Were Real (Home demo)
- Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Pit mix 3)
- Phang (Sadlands demo)
DVD
Live at Brixton academy, London, 5/15/96
- 1. Tonight, Tonight
- 2. 1979
- 3. Zero
- 4. Here Is No Why
- 5. Thru the Eyes of Ruby
- 6. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
- 7. Jellybelly
- 8. Silverfuck
- 9. Disarm
- 10. Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Live at Rockpalast, 4/7/96
- 11. Fuck You (An Ode To No One)
- 12. Muzzle
- 13. Cherub Rock
- 14. X.Y.U.
Six disc set (CD/DVD)
- • UK Pre-order: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 6-disc set
- • USA Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 6-disc set
- • CANADA Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 6-disc set
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 6-disc set
Four LP set (Vinyl)
- • UK Pre-order: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness Vinyl set
- • USA Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 4LP Vinyl set
- • CANADA Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 4LP Vinyl set
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 4LP Vinyl set
By Paul Sinclair
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