It seems EMI’s continued mining of their artists’ extensive back catalogues is set to continue over the next couple of years with eight Smashing Pumpkins reissues planned for the next two years. The label have set out a schedule for the re-release of the band’s first decade’s worth of music.
This Fall fans will be able to buy deluxe editions of Gish (1991), Siamese Dream (1993) and the outtakes and b-sides compilation album Pisces Iscariot (1994).
Once their wallets have recovered from that little binge fans will be tapped up again in 2012 to buy the reissues of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995), the 5-disc compilation of extended takes The Aeroplane Flies High (1996) and Adore (1998).
Fans not out of money or patience by then will in 2013 be able to pick up the reissued versions of Machina/the Machines of God and Machina II: the Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (both from 2000).
For those who can’t be bothered to buy all of those then you can take the shortcut and buy the Best Of album that is planned for 2013. Or take the even shorter shortcut and buy the Best Of Album that already exists.
On the other hand if you’re a fan who already has all of those releases then you may be eager to hear about Billy Corgan’s next release. Corgan plans to take himself and the current set of musicians calling themselves The Smashing Pumpkins into the studio next month to record an album called Oceania. You may recall that The Smashing Pumpkins are in the middle of releasing the 44-song set Teagarden By Kaleidyscope, of which so far there have been 9 songs. Oceania is intended as part of Teagarden By Kaleidyscope, and Corgan is calling it an “album within an album.” Somewhat kaleidoscopic, wouldn’t you say? Before that The Smashing Pumpkins will release the tenth song in the series, “Owata.”
[via Pitchfork]
