Smashing Pumpkins dust off live Detroit tracks for 'Mellon Collie' rerelease
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DETROIT — The Smashing Pumpkins are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their landmark double album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness," and they're dusting off some live tracks from Detroit in the process.
Details were released Thursday of deluxe repackagings of the album, which comes with live tracks from the band's Infinite Sadness tour. Among those tracks are three songs ("Where Boys Fear to Tread," "Zero" and "Muzzle") from the band's June 29, 1996, concert at the Palace of Auburn Hills, one song ("Siva") from the June 30, 1996, concert at Detroit's State Theatre, and one song ("Bodies") from the June 25, 1996, tour kickoff at Saginaw's Wendler Arena.
Those live songs are among 14 live tracks collected for the set, which will be available on CD (retail is $49.99) and vinyl ($345). Preorders are open now through madamezuzus.com, and shipments start on Nov. 21.
"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" was released on Oct. 24, 1995, and was a landmark album for the Chicago group and for the alternative rock movement of the 1990s. The album was certified diamond, with sales of more than 10 million copies, by the Recording Industry Association of America.
The Infinite Sadness tour was due to play two shows at the Palace of Auburn Hills, on June 29 and June 30, 1996, but the June 30 concert was eventually moved to Detroit's State Theatre.
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