The Smashing Pumpkins Reissue Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness As 5 CD + DVD Deluxe Box Set For December 2012 Release

The Smashing Pumpkin’s 1995 double album Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness will be reissued on December 3^rd in North America and December 4^th internationally via EMI Music.

Following EMI Music’s reissuing the band’s first three albums, 1991’s Gish, 1993’s Siamese Dream and 1994’s Pisces Iscariot, Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness will also be getting the full remastering treatment, as well as an expanded 5 CD+DVD Deluxe Box Set, including 64 bonus tracks of previously unreleased material or alternate versions of songs from that era. The DVD includes a 1996 live show from the Brixton Academy in London, along with bonus performances from the German music television show Rockpalast from 1996.

A 12 X 12 lift top box with magnetic closure, revamped cover art and velvet lined disc holders encases the entire package, along with two books of personal notes, lyrics, new collage artwork, along with a Decoupage kit for creating personal scenes from the Mellon Collie universe.

The album was originally released on October 24, 1995 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 charts.  The album was certified nine times platinum (or Diamond certification by the RIAA for sales of 10,000,000 discs and digital equivalent per disc (five million copies of the double album).

Produced by Billy Corgan, Mark “Flood” Ellis (U2, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode) and Alan Moulder, the album featured hit songs such as the 1996 Grammy Award winning song “Bullet With Butterfly Wings,” (1996 Best Hard Rock Performance), “1979” and “Tonight, Tonight”.

The box set includes the following:

MELLON COLLIE & THE INFINITE SADNESS

DELUXE BOX SET:

–        5CD +DVD
–        Physical Tracks:  106, Digital Tracks: 92
–        Original album remastered for the first time
–        64 bonus tracks of previously unreleased material or alternate versions of Mellon Collie era songs
–        DVD featuring live show filmed at the Brixton Academy, London (1996) and bonus performances from Rockpalast (1996)
–        Housed in a 12 x 12 lift-top box with magnetic closure, reimagined cover art and velvet-lined disc holder
–        2 books containing personal notes, lyrics,  new collage artwork plus a Decoupage kit for creating your own scenes from the Mellon Collie    universe.

VINYL

–        4LP (180gram), Original album remastered for first time, 28 tracks
–        Remastered vinyl features the original record spread out over 8 sides (4 LPS) for the first time to ensure the optimum sound
–         MCIS never before released on vinyl in the US (original vinyl previously released in the UK)
–        Housed in 12×12 rigid slipcase with 2 books containing personal notes, new collage artwork,  lyrics and more.

2CD

–          Original double album remastered for the first time
–          Physical and Digital Tracks: 28

TRACKLISTS

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Dawn To Dusk (CD1)

1. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
2. Tonight, Tonight
3. Jellybelly
4. Zero
5. Here Is No Why
6. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
7. To Forgive
8. An Ode To No One
9. Love
10. Cupid De Locke
11. Galapogos
12. Muzzle
13. Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
14. Take Me Down

Twilight To Starlight (CD2)

1. Where Boys Fear To Tread
2. Bodies
3. Thirty-Three
4. In The Arms Of Sleep
5. 1979
6. Tales Of A Scorched Earth
7. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
8. Stumbleine
9. 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

Morning Tea (CD3)

1. Tonight, Tonight (Strings Alone mix)
2. Methusela (Sadlands demo)
3. X.Y.U. (Take 11)
4. Zero (Synth mix)
5. Feelium (Sadlands demo)
6. Autumn Nocturne (Sadlands demo)
7. Beautiful (Loop version)
8. Ugly (Sadlands demo)
9. Ascending Guitars (Sadlands demo)
10. By Starlight (Flood rough)
11. Medellia Of The Gray Skies (Take 1)
12. Lover (Arrangement 1 demo)
13. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Take 7)
14. In The Arms Of Sleep (Early Live demo)
15. Lily (My One And Only) (Sadlands demo)
16. 1979 (Sadlands demo)
17. Glamey Glamey (Sadlands demo)
18. Meladori Magpie
19. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Home Piano version)
20. Galapagos (Instrumental/Sadlands demo)
21. To Forgive (Sadlands demo)

High Tea (CD4)

1. Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Sadlands demo)
2. Set The Ray To Jerry (Vocal Rough)
3. Thirty-Three (Sadlands demo)
4. Cupid De Locke (BT 2012 mix)
5. Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans (Live Studio rough)
6. Jellybelly (Instrumental/Pit mix 3)
7. The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
8. Jupiter’s Lament (Barbershop version)
9. Bagpipes Drone (Sadlands demo)
10. Tonight, Tonight (Band Version Only, No Strings)
11. Knuckles (Studio outtake)
12. Pennies
13. Here Is No Why (Pumpkinland demo)
14. Blast (Fuzz version)
15. Towers Of Rabble (Live)
16. Rotten Apples
17. Fun Time (Sadlands demo)
18. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Acoustic version)
19. Chinoise (Sadlands demo)
20. Speed

Special Tea (CD 5)

1. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Nighttime version 1)
2. Galapagos (Sadlands demo)
3. Cherry (BT 2012 mix)
4. Love (Flood rough)
5. New Waver (Sadlands demo)
6. Fuck You (an ode to no one) (Production Master rough)
7. Isolation (BT 2012 mix)
8. Transformer (Early mix)
9. Dizzle (Sadlands demo)
10. Goodnight (Basic Vocal rough)
11. Eye (Soundworks demo)
12. Blank (Sadlands demo)
13. Beautiful (Instrumental-Middle 8)
14. My Blue Heaven (BT 2012 mix)
15. One And Two
16. Zoom (7 ips)
17. Pastichio Medley (Reversed extras)
18. Marquis In Spades (BT 2012 mix)
19. Tales Of A Scorched Earth (Guitar Overdub mix)
20. Tonite Reprise (Version 1)
21. Wishing You Were Real (Home demo)
22. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Pit mix 3)
23. 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.