As part of the continuing series of reissues of THE SMASHING PUMPKINS’ acclaimed catalog via Virgin/UMe, the iconic alternative band is set to release four separate versions, all fully remastered, of their platinum-selling 1996 box set THE AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH: 6-CD +1 DVD; 5-LPs and Deluxe Digital and Standard Digital editions. The CD/DVD, 5-LP version and digital configurations will be released July 23.
The original THE AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH was a five-disc box set that featured expanded versions of singles from their acclaimed 1995 double album MELLON COLLIE & THE INFINITE SADNESS, including “Bullet With Butterfly Wings,” “1979,” “Zero” “Tonight, Tonight” and “Thirty-Three.” MELLON COLLIE achieved Diamond certification by the RIAA for sales of 10,000,000 discs and digital equivalent per disc (5 million copies of the double album).
These new limited edition box sets of THE AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH feature the original 33 track version—remastered by Bob Ludwig—and expanded to 104 tracks (90 audio and 14 audio-visual) encompassing unreleased demos, alternative versions and live recordings. In addition to expanded versions of Aeroplane’s original 5 discs, a 6th disc contains live recordings from the 1996 Mellon Collie tour, while the DVD content is taken from a July, 4 1997, performance in Belfort, France. Included is a 46-page book with liner notes written by David Wild, plus extensive track-by-track notes by The Smashing Pumpkins founder-singer-songwriter-guitarist Billy Corgan—for the original release’s 33 tracks. The box set has unique packaging with embossed foil wrap & twinkle stock for jackets.
As David Wild writes, “The Aeroplane Flies High is a trip, and perhaps fittingly for Billy Corgan, it was an exciting, exhausting and scary one that reveals a lot about the Smashing Pumpkins at this point in their musical journey.”
Notes Corgan in the 46-page book: “What I like about The Aeroplane Flies High is that it’s almost the existential backwater of the Mellon Collie album,” Corgan says today. “Listening to the music gathered here is a little bit like seeing what goes on behind the walls of Disneyland. I’ve always been fascinated with places that are very well constructed, and finding out what’s really going on just over the fence. You look over that gate and notice that things on the other side are not well painted—or maybe you spot that guy dressed as some character sneaking a smoke on his break. At least for me, the behind the scenes feel heard on The Aeroplane Flies High represents something revealing not found on the main album. In retrospect, it’s a nice document of how we arrived at the apex of Mellon Collie—and also what standing on that apex did to us personally.”
CD1: Bullet With Butterfly Wings 1. Bullet with Butterfly Wings 2. ...Said Sadly 3. You're All I've Got Tonight 4. Clones (We're All) 5. A Night Like This 6. Destination Unknown 7. Dreaming
Recorded at Gravity Studios, Chicago, IL March 15, 1994 – March 16, 1994 8. Movers and Shakirs 9. Germans in Leather Pants 10. Millieu 11. Jackboot 12. A/Ab/E/B/F# 13. Rings 14. Ugly 15. Blaster Caster 16. Little Ditty 17. Verily I Say 18. New Waver 19. The Groover 20. Ravi Revi Roo 21. On The Loose 22. Slurry
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CD2: 1979 1. 1979 2. Ugly 3. Believe 4. Cherry 5. The Boy 6. Set the Ray to Jerry
7. Tonight, Tonight (acoustic version/instrumental rough) 8. Jupiter's Lament (billy solo) 9. Zero (8trk demo) 10. Marquis in Spades (8trk demo) 11. Have Love Will Travel (8trk demo) 12. Infinite Sadness (siamese outtake) 13. 1979 (acoustic) 14. Aeroplane Flies High (acoustic snippet) 15. Take me Down (instrumental) 16. Star Song (dat mix/vocal rough) |
CD3: Zero 1. Zero 2. God 3. Mouths of Babes 4. Tribute to Johnny 5. Marquis in Spades 6. Pennies 7. Pastichio Medley
Recorded Live at the Double Door, Chicago, IL February, 27 1995 8. By Starlight 9. Set The Ray to Jerry 10. Mouths of Babes 11. Cupid de Locke 12. Galapagos 13. To Forgive 14. Lily (my one & only) 15. Here is no Why
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CD4: Tonight, Tonight 1. Tonight, Tonight 2. Meladori Magpie 3. Rotten Apples 4. Medellia of the Gray Skies 5. Jupiter's Lament 6. Blank 7. Tonite Reprise
Recorded Live at the Double Door, Chicago, IL February, 21, 27, 28, 1995 8. Stumbleine 9. Ugly 10. Meladori Magpie 11. God 12. Love 13. Pissant 14. Hello Kitty Kat 15. Special Winner's Song 16. I Just Wanna Make Love To You
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CD5: Thirty-Three 1. Thrity-Three 2. The Last Song 3. The Aeroplane Flies High 4. Transformer 5. The Bells 6. My Blue Heaven 7. Silverfuck (live 7/10/96) |
CD6: Live Inside the Dark Globe 1. Where Boys Fear To Tread (Cleveland, Ohio 7. 3. 96) 2. Zero (San Francisco, California 2. 7. 96) 3. Fuck You / An Ode To No One (Stockholm, Sweden 4. 10. 96) 4. X.Y.U. (Los Angeles, California 2. 3. 96) 5. To Forgive (Washington, D.C. 1. 6. 96) 6. Thirty-Three (New York City, New York 1. 11. 96) 7. Tonight, Tonight (New York City, New York 1. 11. 96) 8. Lily (My One And Only) (Washington, D.C. 1. 5. 96) 9. Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans (Cleveland, Ohio 7. 3. 96) 10. Jellybelly (Gent, Belgium 4. 6. 96) 11. Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Los Angeles, California 2. 3. 96) 12. By Starlight (Buffalo, New York 7. 2. 96) 13. Bodies (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 7. 5. 96) 14. Silverfuck (Copenhagen, Denmark 4. 9. 96) |
DVD: Malsaucy Lake, Belfort, France, July 4, 1997 1. Glimpses 2. Where Boys Fear To Tread 3. Eye 4. Tonight, Tonight 5. Transformer 6. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby 7. The End Is The Beginning Is The End 8. By Starlight 9. Bullet With Butterfly Wings 10. Muzzle 11. 1979 12. X.Y.U. 13. Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans 14. The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right) |