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Art breakdown

Art breakdown is a colloquial term within The Smashing Pumpkins that refers to anytime frontman Billy Corgan improvises an abrasive speech or otherwise provokes the crowd at live shows, whether it be musically or verbally. The most famous of these is the so-called "I Am One" rant which was regularly heard during the Rock Invasion tour and at Lollapalooza 1994. The art breakdowns were often criticized, sometimes even by the other band members, due to their abrasive nature. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin is believed to have coined the term. The first art breakdown occurred on August 5, 1990 at a festival, after Corgan's amplifier malfunctioned.
In episode 3 of the Thirty-Three podcast, Corgan retold a story of an "I Am One" art breakdown at a Lollapalooza date where he was "offending about 30,000 people in the crowd." He looked back to see Chamberlin pacing back and forth behind the drum kit smoking a cigarette and shaking his head in disappointment. He added these art breakdowns were generally speaking the only time other band members would be critical of what he's saying, never having questioned his lyrics.
The "I Am One" rant in particular were apparently based around the erosion of the belief structure in America's youth, and Corgan has stated they were the gestation for many ideas he later explored on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Some of the rants contained lyrics for future songs, most notably "Zero". The recording of "I Am One" on Vieuphoria / Earphoria features one such rant.
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Astoria Theatre

The London Astoria (also known as Astoria Theatre) was a music venue, located at 157 Charing Cross Road, in London, England.
Originally a warehouse during the 1920s, the building became a cinema and ballroom. It was converted for use as a theatre in the 1970s. After further conversion, the building re-opened in the mid-1980s, as a night club and live music venue for well-known musical acts. In 2009 the venue closed, and was demolished as part of the development plans of the Crossrail project. The venue is still seen today as having been an iconic music establishment, as it helped to launch the careers of many British rock bands and also played a part in the UK success of many international acts.
In February 1994 The Smashing Pumpkins played a four-day residency at Astoria Theatre, recording and filming the live performances of "Soma" and "Silverfuck". These videos and recordings appears on Vieuphoria DVD and the Earphoria CD.
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Astral Planes

"Astral Planes" is a promotional single from the Songs for a Sailor volume of the Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project. It was released as an MP3 on April 16, 2010. The following day a limited edition 7" of the song (pictured) with "A Stitch in Time" on side two was released for Record Store Day exclusively at Amoeba Vinyl in Los Angeles, limited to 250 copies. Physical copies of the Songs for a Sailor volume as a whole was later released on May 25, 2010. The song was first performed live by Billy Corgan's side project, Spirits in the Sky.
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Atum (song)

"Atum" is an instrumental song and debut track off of The Smashing Pumpkins' twelfth studio album, ATUM. As the opening theme to a three act musical opera, "Atum" is intended to set the mood and setting of the story that the rest of album will convey.
It is believed by some to feature piano from Mike Garson, however the official personnel credits released in the liner notes do not mention any contributions from Garson.
== Background ==
With the "Mellon Collie" theme, Billy Corgan tried to set a sentimental mood on the listener, and listening years later can bring you back into that same mood. For Machina/The Machines of God, Corgan felt the need for a more pronounced theme. That was "Le Deux Machina", which was used as a transition between the initial electric songs and an acoustic set during the U.S. leg of The Sacred and Profane tour, and frequently interpolated by Mike Garson during "Glass and the Ghost Children" on the later European leg. The song ultimately appeared on Machina II, though not as the intended intro song.
"Atum" is the opening track of the first act of the opera. As Corgan explained, it sets the scene for the whole 'movie': "It's both ominous and hopeful. It's churlish and it's got a bit of a wink to it, but that's The Smashing Pumpkins."
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August-November 2003 – Chicago

The August-November 2003 sessions in Chicago were the recording sessions for the abandoned Chicago Kid solo album from Billy Corgan. Sessions began in late summer and lasted for around six to eight weeks, recording around 28 tracks total. Corgan ultimately wasn't happy with the results, and instead attempted a live DVD through a series of shows known as the Church Sessions, though this also did not result in any official release.
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All songs except "Friends as Lovers" have not been officially released, though live recordings of some songs exist.
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August 1995 – The Village Recorder

In August 1995 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, all 28 tracks from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness were mixed with overdubs.
"I know it looks anal," Billy Corgan says with an embarrassed smile, looking up from the sheet of paper on his lap as the sound of holocaust guitars and Corgan's raw, emerged singing voice fills the control room of a second-floor studio at the Village Recorder, in Los Angeles. Corgan listens intently to his own nihilist howl -- "My reflection, dirty mirror/There's no connection to myself" -- before turning his attention back to the piece of paper on which he makes a series of small check marks.
Corgan and his co-producer Flood are playing one of Corgan's several vocal takes of "Zero", a searing number from The Smashing Pumpkins' new epic double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Corgan and Flood are "comping vocals" -- comparing Corgan's performances for timing, melody and delivery to determine which parts of which takes they want to edit into a composite master. To an outsider the apparent variations are somewhere in the frequency range of dog whistles. But to Corgan -- the 28-year-old singer, guitarist, songwriter and obsessive sonic conscience of the Pumpkins -- this is serious shit.
"It is a means to an end," Corgan says wearily the next day during a break from mixing another Mellon Collie firecracker, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings". "It's not the best means to an end. It's not the shortest distance between two points. But it is a means to an end."
"In a weird kind of way," Corgan says, "music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me."
It is sometimes hard to tell how much Corgan truly enjoys his work. Surprisingly tall and broad shouldered, he walks with a gangly, elastic stride, his head bowed in a slight hunch as if he were wearing some great, invisible yoke around his neck. Corgan's hair, cut short and dyed jet black, gives his boyish, porcelain-white features an even more ghostly pallor. And when he joins the album's other co-producer, Alan Moulder, behind the board to work on "Bullet", Corgan's face goes dead blank as he loses himself in the song's tidal roar.David Fricke, "Smashing Pumpkins: Disillusionment, Obsession, Confusion, Satisfaction", Rolling Stone, November 16th, 1995
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August 2019 – Pumpkinland II

The August 3, 2019 Pumpkinland II sessions were acoustic demo recordings for a possible Billy Corgan EP featuring songs written after the completion of his last solo album Cotillions and performed live during the Europe 2019 solo tour.
Initially planned for a spring 2020 release, but the project was eventually abandoned. The session spanned 8 songs of which 6 were originals Instagram stories from August 3, 2019.
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Ava Adore

"Ava Adore" is the first single from The Smashing Pumpkins' fourth album, Adore, and exhibited a new sound from the band which integrated traditional instruments with loops and electronic music. "Ava Adore" and the B-sides were written by Billy Corgan. The recording features drums by Matt Walker, and production from Brad Wood.
When released as a single in May 1998, "Ava Adore" reached number one in Iceland, number two in Greece, number five in New Zealand, and the top 20 in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In the United States, the song reached number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100, number three on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and number eight on the Mainstream Rock chart.
== Background ==
Lyrically, Corgan explained the song was "ostensibly written about some objectified person", and that there is no actual Ava. He further explained the lyrics "more a screed to my frustration at the fairer sex than say what might meld two souls together; 'we must never be apart' more a demand than any state of absolution."2014 Adore reissue liner notes
The bulk of recording took place in a single morning and afternoon. Corgan, who produced the song with initial assistance from Brad Wood, said he might have "made a better effort to examine what made the track provocative, and for its time, too strange" had he known it was going to released as the album's lead single.
The cover artwork is of fashion model Amy Wesson, photographed by Corgan's then-girlfriend and collaborator Yelena Yemchuk.http://www.spfc.org/band/faq.html?faq_id=44
==Music video==
The music video was released on June 1, 1998 and was directed by Dom and Nic, featuring the band in gothic-inspired clothing and walking through a variety of scenes. The video, filmed in one long take, is notable for its use of slow and fast motion while the speed of the camera is apparently static, and the band continues to lip sync to the song in perfect rhythm. The calculations required to work out the speed changes caused massive delays on set, causing the band to nearly call off the entire plan.Corgan, Billy and James Iha. Band Commentary for "Ava Adore. " Greatest Hits Video Collection DVD. 2001. The sets seen in the video were arranged in a configuration resembling a hallway, in which a rave sequence functioned as the end of the hall. Instead of continuing to the right, the camera rotates to the left, revealing the artifice of the visuals.
The music video won an award for "most stylish video" at the 1998 VH1 Fashion Awards. It also received several nominations, such as Video of the Year from the Los Angeles-based Music Video Production Awards (MVPAs), and Best Foreign Hit at Denmark's GAFFA-Prisen Awards.
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All songs written by Billy Corgan
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Hungary (Mahasz)	10
 	
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Canada Rock/Alternative (RPM) 	8
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)	18
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Ava Corgan

Ava Corgan is the niece of Billy Corgan. Since 2008, when the band performs in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area, she has occasionally joined them to co-sing a song or two. One notable performance came on July 20, 2010 when she sang "Love Is the Sweetest Thing" to Billy Corgan playing the ukulele.
Judging by her age at the 2010 show, Ava Corgan was probably born around the time when "Ava Adore" was released, but Corgan explained in the liner notes of the 2014 Adore reissue that the song was "ostensibly written about some objectified person, there also is no 'Ava' that I can configure."
Avalanche

"Avalanche" is the first song off of Act II of The Smashing Pumpkins' 2023 rock opera, ATUM. The child's voice at the beginning is Billy Corgan's daughter, Philomena Clementine, saying "I hope someday we'll find out what happiness means," followed by a computerized voice repeating the line. It is the first time she's appeared on a studio recording. Corgan said he didn't want his daughter to later in life feel jealous that her brother, Augustus Juppiter, appeared on a studio recording ("Wyttch" from CYR) when she did not.
Corgan described the songwriting process for "Avalanche" to be very frustrating. Unlike most of his songs, "Avalanche" features a triple chorus that descends rather than leading to an crescendo. This made him unsure of the song's potential, and he ultimately rewrote it roughly five times before engineer Howard Willing convinced him that it should be kept.
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Avalon

Avalon Niteclub was a night club and music venue in Chicago that The Smashing Pumpkins frequented in their early years. The venue closed in 1995 and is now a hair salon, though the stage area was left intact for nostalgic reasons.https://rockandrollroadmap.com/places/where-they-played/other-rock-music-venues/the-avalon-first-smashing-pumpkins-gig/
The venue was known for its hip-hop presence. Notable acts to perform there include De La Soul, Arrested Development, and A Tribe Called Quest.
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Back With You

"Back With You" is a song by James Iha's side project, Tinted Windows. It was one of two songs on the eponymous debut album written by Iha, the other being "Cha Cha". He also contributes guitar and backing vocals.
Poprock Record opined that "James Iha gets a nice slow Cheap Trick grind going" on "Back With You", while Review Fix praised his craftsmanship and declared the song as among the most respectable on the album.
A music video was released on September 22, 2009, filmed entirely on a Flip Video camera, which was a popular handheld video camera at the time, before smartphones took over the market.
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Backwards Clock Society

Backwards Clock Society was a single-show side project consisting of Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, Mark Tulin of The Electric Prunes (bass), and long-time associate Kerry Brown of Catherine (drums). The band was formed to pay tribute to Laura Ann Masura, a former Smashing Pumpkins Fan Club chief, who suffered from a serious motorcycle accident. The performance took place at The Echoplex in Los Angeles on November 8, 2009. Future Smashing Pumpkins bass player Nicole Fiorentino was performing with opening act Light FM (who organized the event), and was pointed out to Corgan by Kerry Brown at this show. Fiorentino was enthused when asked about playing for The Smashing Pumpkins.Masura, Laura Ann. IGTV Live
In a December 18, 2021 Instagram IGTV post, Masura joined pumpkintees to discuss the show. She said "Billy saved my life!", elaborating that the money raised was exactly the amount she needed to cover medical costs. Masura recalled Corgan saying he would have simply written her a check without playing a concert, but that he really wanted to do something special for her. Masura called him the "sweetest, most wonderful friend."
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* Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins) – vocals, guitar
* Mark Tulin (The Electric Prunes) – bass
* Kerry Brown (Catherine) – drums
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# "Tom Tom"
# "I've Got Levitation" (The 13th Floor Elevators cover)
# "Make It Happen"
# "When the Cocks Crow"
# "Plastic Fantastic Lover" (Jefferson Airplane cover)
# "Into the Light"
# "It Never Rains In Southern California" (Albert Hammond cover)
# "Little Child" (The Beatles cover)
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Backwards Clock Society 2009-11-08

The November 8, 2009 performance was the single-show side project Backwards Clock Society. It was played as a benefit for former Smashing Pumpkins Fan Club chief Laura Ann Masure, who had suffered from a serious motorcycle accident. Future Pumpkins bassist Nicole Fiorentino was performing with opening act Light FM and was pointed out to Corgan by Kerry Brown at this show.
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Batman & Robin

Batman & Robin is the soundtrack album to the motion picture Batman & Robin (1997). It featured "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" by The Smashing Pumpkins, which went on to win the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. Other artists on the soundtrack included Jewel, Soul Coughing, and R.E.M.
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Be Strong Now

"Be Strong Now" is a single off of James Iha's debut solo album, Let It Come Down. There is a promotional video for both the US and UK releases.
It was released as a 4-track single, featuring the bonus studio tracks "Falling", "My Advice" and "Take Care", and as a 2-track promo single where the other track is a 12-second call out hook. Both versions of the "Be Strong Now" single feature the same cover. There is also an extended promo version of the single called "Be Strong Now (With Intro)" lasting 3:35.
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* James Iha – vocals, guitar, bass; mixing (tracks 3-4)
* Matt Walker – drums, percussion
* Eric Remschneider – cello
* Jim Scott – production (tracks 1-3); mixing (tracks 1-2)
* Howard Willing – engineering (track 3)
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Be a Man

"Be a Man" is the thirteenth and last single by Hole before their 2002 breakup. It was co-written by Billy Corgan, Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson. It appeared on the Any Given Sunday soundtrack, but was also released as a double A-side (the other track being P.O.D.'s "Whatever It Takes").
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Beacon Theatre

The Beacon Theatre is a historic theater at 2124 Broadway (at West 74th Street) on Broadway in Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City. The 2,894-seat, three-tiered theatre was designed by Chicago architect Walter W. Ahlschlager and opened in 1929 as a movie palace for motion pictures and vaudeville. Today it is one of New York's leading live music and entertainment venues, under the management of the Madison Square Garden Company. The theater was the site of the 2011, 2012, and 2016 Tony Awards.
The theatre was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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Beautiful

"Beautiful" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. It features double vocals by lead singer Billy Corgan and bassist D'arcy Wretzky on left right and left audio channels respectively.
The "Instrumental-Middle 8" version as seen on the 2012 Mellon Collie deluxe reissue contains the chord progression from the "dead eyes" section of "By Starlight" and an alternate melody. Another early instrumental version called "Ropey Lopey" appeared on the MCIS Demos I bootleg.
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* D'arcy Wretzky – bass guitar, vocals
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Behold! the Night Mare

Behold! the Night Mare is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio album, Adore.
Lyrically, the song is about a moment of clarity. As Billy Corgan explained, "there's something sort of good about turning the page; … it's sort of saying 'I see what I've been through, I recognize the darkness that I've traversed. And now, I'm in full cognizant clarity of that and now I need to make a decision.'" The "nightmare" in this context is referring to the relationship Corgan was in and subsequent divorce.
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* Matt Walker – drums
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* Jimmy Flemion – additional vocals
* Brad Wood – additional production, engineering and vocals
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Being Beige

"Being Beige" is the first single from The Smashing Pumpkins' tenth album Monuments to an Elegy. The track was released through SoundCloud on October 20, 2014.
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The song was first mentioned on the Smashing Pumpkins' website under the working title "World's On Fire," and later under the title "Being Beige (World's On Fire)."
Speaking of the song with Rolling Stone, band leader Billy Corgan said "People always ask me to explain songs, and honestly I can't. But if there's honesty in this lyric, it's that there's something amiss in our cosmos. Yet still, we must love."
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As early as November, Billy Corgan alluded to a new Smashing Pumpkins music video, posting several pictures from a shoot on the Smashing Pumpkins' Instagram account.http://instagram.com/p/vWlEQ0H65Z/?modal=true On January 16, the Smashing Pumpkins announced via Twitter that the music video was made for "Being Beige" and that it would premiere on January 19.
Directed by Brian and Brad Palmer, the video magnifies the surreal, dreamlike space of lost love experienced through the moment of an embrace, as twin bodies merge into one. It explores transcendence of oneself - into a new, limitless body of existence.
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The song has received fairly positive feedback. Rolling Stone said that though the song "has a simple title... its acoustic guitar and drum machine intro builds toward an urgent, memorable chorus."
Chicago Reader said "Corgan seems remarkably placid on this new cut. It sounds like Monuments... won't be a retread of the Pumpkins' "rat in a cage" days. Corgan's putting his rage behind him in favor of a slow, piano-accented build toward the heights of songs like "Perfect" or the more energetic selections from his early-aughts stint with Zwan."
The 405 said "the track features some pretty acoustic guitar arpeggios over mist-like drum machine sounds in its quieter moments, livening up to a crashing wave kineticism with sweeps of distorted guitar and aching melodies, as the vocals paint a stumbling melody over these sounds, layering towards the end in a maintained crescendo."
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Billy's Gravity Demos I

Billy's Gravity Demos I is a bootleg by The Smashing Pumpkins. It contains 29 songs from the 1994 Gravity Studios sessions. It was given to a fan by Billy Corgan on April 15, 2000 after a Aragon Ballroom concert in Chicago. The fan was instructed to circulate it online. Originally Corgan was going to provide what became The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music, but reportedly he screwed up the tape and this collection is what was produced instead.https://www.allmusic.com/album/billys-gravity-demos-vol-1-mw0000965584 
The bootleg is known for its sound quality and inclusion of songs that later formed "Pastichio Medley". All recordings are electric instrumentals except for "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" which had a raw vocal track.
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Billy Corgan 1996-01-17

January 17, 1996 was Pink Floyd's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Billy Corgan gives their induction speech, roughly six minutes long, opening with "I know it's a little late, I'll keep my remarks to the length of an average Pink Floyd song." He then joined the band on guitar for a performance of "Wish You Were Here". Corgan praised the song in his speech and how it helped him come to terms with his grandmother's cancer diagnosis when he was 17 years old.
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