As part of the continuing series of reissues of The Smashing Pumpkins‘ catalog via Virgin/UMe, the iconic band is set to release four separate versions, all fully remastered, of their platinum-selling 1996 box set The Aeroplane Flies High – with dozens and dozens of bonus tracks! Even better – we’re hooking one lucky reader up with the massive box set for free!
Arriving July 23, fans will be able to choose between the options of a 6-CD +1 DVD package, or 5-LPs and Deluxe Digital and Standard Digital editions. The original The Aeroplane Flies High set was a five-disc box that featured expanded versions of singles from their hugely successful 1995 double album Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness, which 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. To view the full tracklisting of each box set and DVD, check out the full profile on the official Pumpkins’ site.
One winner will receive:
1 The Aeroplane Flies High CD/DVD Box Set
Contest ends: Monday, July 22
Entry: Two steps – Follow MusiCraveOnline on Twitter and ‘Like’ Crave Music on Facebook – then post a message on our wall with the hashtag #ICravePumpkins
Note: This is for U.S. residents only! No P.O. boxes please (it won’t fit!)
Simple as that!
Frontman Billy Corgan explains his affections for the release, and the accompanying 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.”
The Aeroplane Flies High follows 2011’s reissues of the band’s groundbreaking first two albums, Gish (1991) and Siamese Dream (1993), as well as 2012’s Pisces Iscariot (1994), the band’s third album, as well as their fourth album, Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (1995).
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