Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High [BOX SET] (2005)
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The Smashing Pumpkins will live forever in the halls of rock n’ roll history as a great band – for one reason or another, this is a veritable fact (so long as they don’t re-unite and then Fuck things up). Most people think so fondly of Billy Corgan and crew for two reasons – their albums Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Not me – the reason I think The Pumpkins have got to be one of the greatest bands to ever walk God’s green Earth is contained within the band’s sprawling box set The Aeroplane Flies High.
Before releasing Mellon Collie, the band recorded upwards of seventy songs (!!!), twenty or so of which made the final cut. Another 23 were then designated worthy B-sides, and were scattered across five singles (Bullet With Butterfly Wings, 1979, God, Tonight Tonight, and Thirty-Three, for those keeping score). Someone somewhere along the line realised that these tracks were pretty good, and were re-packaged as The Aeroplane Flies High – along with a fantastic booklet and a handful of extra cover songs and bonuses not included in the original single pressings. Therefore, sure, Aeroplane isn’t a ‘real’ album, (it includes all the hits from Mellon Collie) much like Pisces Iscariot isn’t – but I’ll be damned if those B-sides and cover tunes don’t suddenly consist of the most solid, experimental, diverse, and fantastic pieces of music of startling quality ever to spring forth from Corgan’s conceited dome, and a lot of them are far better than any of the band’s biggest hits. This is the very definition of a ‘hidden treasure.’
Mellon Collie is an epic of wide-ranging material, but Aeroplane has it beat in spades. From the rocking bombast of “God” to the gentleness of “Jupiter’s Lament” or the miserable gothic electronica of “Ugly” to the progressive opus of the title track, this is one hell of a listen that definitely has a little something for everyone. Hell, I even like “Pistachio Medley,” a 20-minute hastily-edited snapshot of the riffs, grooves, and chunks of something like 100 (!) songs that didn’t make it onto any Pumpkins release. The cover tunes see great new takes on tracks by everyone from The Cure to The Cars to Alice Cooper, and there’s an overall electronic bent on these tracks that completely predict the direction the Jimmy Chamberlain-less band was headed towards with their next album.
If you consider yourself a fan of the Pumpkins and you haven’t heard this strange collection, prepare to be blown away. If you hate the band or feel a little ambivalent, give Aeroplane a listen and discover what all the fuss was about.
Disc 1: Bullet with Butterfly Wings
1. Bullet with Butterfly Wings
2. ...Said Sadly
3. You're All I Got Tonight
4. Clones (We're All)
5. A Night Like This
6. Destination Unknown
7. Dreaming
Disc 2: 1979
1. 1979
2. Ugly
3. The Boy
4. Cherry
5. Believe
6. Set the Ray to Jerry
Disc 3: Zero
1. Zero
2. God
3. Mouths of Babes
4. Tribute to Johnny
5. Marquis in Spades
6. Pennies
7. Pastichio Medley
Disc 4: Tonight, Tonight
1. Tonight, Tonight
2. Meladori Megpie
3. Rotten Apples
4. Jupiter's Lament
5. Medellia of the Gray Skies
6. Blank
7. Tonite Reprise
Disc 5: Thirty-Three
1. Thirty-Three
2. The Last Song
3. The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
4. Transformer
5. The Bells
6. My Blue Heaven
Ссылки:
1. -http://rapidshare.de/files/6423015/Smapum_aero.part1.rar.html
2. -http://rapidshare.de/files/6420526/Smapum_aero.part2.rar.html
3. -http://rapidshare.de/files/6423712/Smapum_aero.part3.rar.html
4. -http://rapidshare.de/files/6422801/Smapum_aero.part4.rar.html
5. -http://rapidshare.de/files/6422203/Smapum_aero.part5.rar.html
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5 дисков + 1 книга в одной коробке! Инфо на английском:
The Smashing Pumpkins will live forever in the halls of rock n’ roll history as a great band – for one reason or another, this is a veritable fact (so long as they don’t re-unite and then Fuck things up). Most people think so fondly of Billy Corgan and crew for two reasons – their albums Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Not me – the reason I think The Pumpkins have got to be one of the greatest bands to ever walk God’s green Earth is contained within the band’s sprawling box set The Aeroplane Flies High.
Before releasing Mellon Collie, the band recorded upwards of seventy songs (!!!), twenty or so of which made the final cut. Another 23 were then designated worthy B-sides, and were scattered across five singles (Bullet With Butterfly Wings, 1979, God, Tonight Tonight, and Thirty-Three, for those keeping score). Someone somewhere along the line realised that these tracks were pretty good, and were re-packaged as The Aeroplane Flies High – along with a fantastic booklet and a handful of extra cover songs and bonuses not included in the original single pressings. Therefore, sure, Aeroplane isn’t a ‘real’ album, (it includes all the hits from Mellon Collie) much like Pisces Iscariot isn’t – but I’ll be damned if those B-sides and cover tunes don’t suddenly consist of the most solid, experimental, diverse, and fantastic pieces of music of startling quality ever to spring forth from Corgan’s conceited dome, and a lot of them are far better than any of the band’s biggest hits. This is the very definition of a ‘hidden treasure.’
Mellon Collie is an epic of wide-ranging material, but Aeroplane has it beat in spades. From the rocking bombast of “God” to the gentleness of “Jupiter’s Lament” or the miserable gothic electronica of “Ugly” to the progressive opus of the title track, this is one hell of a listen that definitely has a little something for everyone. Hell, I even like “Pistachio Medley,” a 20-minute hastily-edited snapshot of the riffs, grooves, and chunks of something like 100 (!) songs that didn’t make it onto any Pumpkins release. The cover tunes see great new takes on tracks by everyone from The Cure to The Cars to Alice Cooper, and there’s an overall electronic bent on these tracks that completely predict the direction the Jimmy Chamberlain-less band was headed towards with their next album.
If you consider yourself a fan of the Pumpkins and you haven’t heard this strange collection, prepare to be blown away. If you hate the band or feel a little ambivalent, give Aeroplane a listen and discover what all the fuss was about.
Disc 1: Bullet with Butterfly Wings
1. Bullet with Butterfly Wings
2. ...Said Sadly
3. You're All I Got Tonight
4. Clones (We're All)
5. A Night Like This
6. Destination Unknown
7. Dreaming
Disc 2: 1979
1. 1979
2. Ugly
3. The Boy
4. Cherry
5. Believe
6. Set the Ray to Jerry
Disc 3: Zero
1. Zero
2. God
3. Mouths of Babes
4. Tribute to Johnny
5. Marquis in Spades
6. Pennies
7. Pastichio Medley
Disc 4: Tonight, Tonight
1. Tonight, Tonight
2. Meladori Megpie
3. Rotten Apples
4. Jupiter's Lament
5. Medellia of the Gray Skies
6. Blank
7. Tonite Reprise
Disc 5: Thirty-Three
1. Thirty-Three
2. The Last Song
3. The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
4. Transformer
5. The Bells
6. My Blue Heaven
Ссылки:
1. -http://rapidshare.de/files/6423015/Smapum_aero.part1.rar.html
2. -http://rapidshare.de/files/6420526/Smapum_aero.part2.rar.html
3. -http://rapidshare.de/files/6423712/Smapum_aero.part3.rar.html
4. -http://rapidshare.de/files/6422801/Smapum_aero.part4.rar.html
5. -http://rapidshare.de/files/6422203/Smapum_aero.part5.rar.html
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