The Smashing Pumpkins will release a deluxe reissue of their 1995 album ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ in celebration of its 30th anniversary.
‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ was originally released on Oct. 23, 1995, as the follow-up to the band’s 1993 breakthrough album, ‘Siamese Dream.’
The expanded set features the original track list accompanied by over 80 minutes of previously unreleased live recordings from the Pumpkins’ 1996 tour, and will be released in various configurations including a new, four-CD set, as well as a digital version and as a six-LP vinyl box set.
Included in the expanded set is a live version of the song “Geek USA” performed during a tour stop in San Diego on Jan. 30, 1996.
Billy Corgan stated, “Unearthing these live recordings from the original lineup’s true, last large-scale tour was a labor of love, and for me certainly a bittersweet as once we blew apart in 1996, we were never quite the same.”a
