The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a 30th anniversary deluxe reissue of ‘Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness’ – check out all the details below.
Billy Corgan and co. are set to revisit the era-defining record with an expanded reissue that will include singles ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’, ‘1979’, ‘Zero’ and ‘Tonight, Tonight’.
The Super Deluxe 6LP variant boasts over 80 minutes of unreleased audio from 1996’s ‘Infinite Sadness’ tour, and will feature a hardbound book with all-new liner notes from Corgan, a custom tarot card set, and seven frameable lithographs, all of which come in a velvet-wrapped rigid slipcase in a cloth carrying bag.
The album will also be available as a 4CD package, a 4CD SHM-CD package, and on digital formats. The Super Deluxe edition with an autographed lithograph retails for £398.00, and you can pre-order it here.
Other variants include the Super Deluxe box set (£274) and the Deluxe Edition 4CD set (£40), and shipping will begin on November 21.
The ambitious double album earned the band seven Grammy Award nominations in 1997, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for ‘1979’, and is largely considered one of the greatest albums of the ‘90s.
Having made a crossover in alternative pop in the charts, the record has been cited as an influence by everyone from My Chemical Romance – who were recently joined by Corgan on stage to perform ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’– to Muse.
Speaking to NME back in February, Corgan touched on ‘Mellon Collie’ turning 30 and hinted at an upcoming special edition, saying they were “working with the parent label” to make it happen. “It’s weird because I can’t believe it’s been 30 years. I’m really excited, but at the same time, I’m like ‘What happened over these last 30 years?’”
He also said ’90s nostalgia giving way to grunge revivalism of late was “great”, and that “anything that involves the guitar and playing loud is always going to work”.
Last month, he performed a massive show at Gunnersbury Park with Skunk Anansie and White Lies as special guests. Speaking about that gig, Corgan said: “The nice thing about playing all these years, especially together, is you now know how to handle those bigger moments. I’m really proud that this particular line-up of the band knows how to rise to those occasions. Whereas when I was young, I would look at those gigs and almost feel intimidated.
“Now, I look at those gigs and I want to rub my hands together because it’s so exciting. It’s a chance to create a one-of-a-kind moment in your life and the audience wants it. They want to see you at your peak and that pressure and feeling is magical when it works.”
To that end, the singer also took to the stage at Black Sabbath’s final ever live concert, ‘Back To The Beginning’ – which took place just 17 days before Ozzy Osbourne’s death, aged 76. Corgan would later pay tribute to the late Prince Of Darkness, saying that it was “like a magical dream” to appear at the historic Birmingham gig.
Meanwhile, Smashing Pumpkins’ 13th and latest album, ‘Aghori Mhori Mei’, arrived last year, the band this year are celebrating some milestone anniversaries by sharing 25th anniversary reissues of their 2000 albums ‘Machina/The Machines of God’ and ‘Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music’.
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