Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High USA EDITION
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The Smashing Pumpkins Rare Box Set
The Aeroplane Flies High
This is the very limited USA edition box set 'The Aeroplane Flies High' by The Smashing Pumpkins!!!
A MUST FOR ANY TRUE FAN
33 Tracks in total!!!!!!!!!!
This box is comprised of the 5 singles from MCIS, with 3 of them being the extended European versions. BWBW, originally a 2-tracker, now contains an additional 5 cover songs exclusive to this box:
"You're All I've Got Tonight" (The Cars)
"Clones (We're All)" (Alice Cooper)
"A Night Like This" (The Cure)
"Destination Unknown" (Missing Persons)
"Dreaming" (Blondie)
It comes packaged in a black-and-white "retro-45 RPM carrying case", and contains a 44-page booklet.
Track listing
DISC 1: 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. Night Like This, A
6. Destination Unknown
7. Dreaming
DISC 2: 1979:
1. 1979
2. Ugly
3. Boy, The
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 Magpie
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. Last Song, The
3. Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right), The
4. Transformer
5. Bells, The
6. My Blue Heaven
Details Contributing artists: Adam Schlesinger, Nina Gordon, The Frogs Distributor: EMI Music Distribution Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a
Album notes Smashing Pumpkins includes: Billy Corgan, James Iha.
Additional personnel includes: Nina Gordon (vocals); Billy Corgan, Sr. (guitar); Eric Remschneider (cello); Keith Brown, Adam Schlesinger, Chris Martin (piano); Jimmy Flemion, Dennis Flemion.
Producers include: Billy Corgan, Flood, Alan Moulder, James Iha.
Engineers include: Flood, Jeff Moleski, The Mole.
Includes liner notes by Billy Corgan and James Iha.
Elaborately packaged in the kind of box in which people used to store vinyl singles, THE AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH is a set of 5 CDs, each containing a single from the Pumpkins' 1995 album MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS along with several B-sides. The singles are "Bullet With Butterfly Wings," "1979," "Zero," "Tonight, Tonight" and "Thirty Three," and the B-sides number 28, some of them previously unavailable in the U.S. THE AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH celebrates the chart hits while fetishizing those B-sides; they run the gamut of Pumpkindom, from stadium anthems and classic-rock ballads to metal thrashings and GISH-era indie rock.
The "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" disc alone offers five covers: The Cars' "You're All I've Got Tonight," Alice Cooper's "Clones (We're All)," the Cure's "A Night Like This," Missing Persons' "Destination Unknown" and Blondie's "Dreaming." These covers reveal the true heart of the Pumpkins, a band whose love of pop music is so unabashed and wide as to disallow any attempts to pigeonhole the band's sound. Some might consider this singles box-set business a bit of a self-indulgent vanity. But it's a perfect forum for the Pumpkins, who have always followed their whims and not commercial strictures.
Editorial reviews ...THE AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH is a musical post-script--the ultimate holiday treat for Corgan-heads--but other bands would smash more than pumpkins to have leftovers this savory. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (11/29/1996)
...the Pumpkins have relatively sophisticated musical ideas....executed with irresistible power and grace....these are the things that small pop miracles are made of...
Musician (02/01/1997)
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...a cutting-room floor companion piece to MELLON COLLIE that provides insight into [Billy] Corgan's extraordinary creative outbursts....There is no filler here. These supposedly second-string tracks are keepers...
Rolling Stone (12/12/1996)
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