The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a 30th anniversary edition of their seminal double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
The new expanded edition will be available November 21st as a 6-LP super deluxe edition and on January 9th as a 4-CD box set. Each edition contains the original tracklist along with 80 minutes of previously unreleased and recently unearthed recordings from the 1996 tour in support of the album.
“Unearthing these live recordings from the original lineup’s true, last large-scale tour was a labour of love, and for me certainly a bittersweet as once we blew apart in 1996, we were never quite the same: be it emotionally, or spiritually,” commented frontman Billy Corgan in a press release. “Thankfully, I can say this as the band is now enjoying our greatest public success since that time, and one can hear in these tapes the raw power that such nascent faith afforded us, then, and the will and wisdom to persevere that followed.”
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The 6-LP deluxe vinyl box set also includes a hardbound book featuring new liner notes by Corgan, a custom tarot card deck, and seven lithographs in a velvet slipcase.
In addition to the expanded reissue, Corgan will celebrate the album’s anniversary with a seven-concert collaboration with the Lyric Opera of Chicago in November. Dubbed “A Night of Melon Collie and Infinite Sadness,” these shows will see Corgan performing newly commissioned arrangements and orchestrations he made alongside conductor James Lowe. Corgan will be joined by soprano Sydney Mancasola, mezzo-soprano Zoie Reams, tenor Dominick Chenes, and baritone Edward Parks. Dates include November 21st, 22nd, 25th, 26th, 28th, 29th, and 30th. Get tickets here.
Moreover, the Pumpkins are collaborating with Chicago-based chocolatier Vosges Haut-Chocolat on a limited-edition chocolate box set containing a limited-edition poster and six chocolate bars inspired by Mellon Collie songs.
You can pre-order the Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness reissues via uDiscovermusic. Check out the product photos, CD tracklist, and a newly unearthed live recording of “Geek U.S.A.” below.
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 30th Anniversary Edition Artwork:
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Disc 2 (Twilight To Starlight)
01. Where Boys Fear To Tread
02. Bodies
03. Thirty-Three
04. In The Arms Of Sleep
05. 1979
06. Tales Of A Scorched Earth
07. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
08. Stumbleine
09. X.Y.U.
10. We Only Come Out At Night
11. Beautiful
12. Lily (My One And Only)
13. By Starlight
14. Farewell And Goodnight
Disc 3 (Infinite Sadness Tour ’96) *
01. Geek U.S.A. (1.30.96. San Diego)
02. X.Y.U. (1.30.96. San Diego)
03. Cupid De Locke (1.30.96. San Diego)
04. Here Is No Why (2.4.96. Los Angeles)
05. Bullet With Butterfly Wings (2.4.96. Los Angeles)
06. Galapogos (2.4.96. Los Angeles)
07. Bodies (6.25.96. Saginaw)
08. Where Boys Fear To Tread (6.29.96. Detroit)
Disc 4 (Infinite Sadness Tour ’96) *
01. Zero (6.29.96. Detroit)
02. Muzzle (6.29.96. Detroit)
03. Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans/Beautiful/Rocket (7.3.96. Cleveland)
04. Siva (6.30.96. Detroit)
05. An Ode To No One (7.3.96. Cleveland)
06. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby/By Starlight (7.5.96. Philadelphia)
*Previously Unreleased