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The Celestials

"The Celestials" is the first single from The Smashing Pumpkins' ninth album Oceania. It was originally sent to radio airplay as a promotional single on June 21, 2012. The band performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on August 23, 2012.Smashing Pumpkins To Perform On Jay Leno This Week
==Background and recording==
The song had a working title of "Special K".http://www.spfc.org/songs-releases/song.html?song_alt_id=168&song_type=-1
In an interview with MusicRadar, Corgan stated, "I have all of these vintage keyboards that we just crank out when I need something, so I don't really know what's on here. It's some super, highly obscure '70s keyboard." He added, "The arrangement is kind of like classic MTV, circa 1994. You start with the acoustic and then the band kicks in grunge."
==Reception==
The track has received positive reviews. Tree Riddle of Loudwire praised the track's sound, stating "Acoustic guitar and orchestral swells dominate the beginning, along with Corgan’s tortured vocals (which actually have a better, more polished sound than on other recent works). Once the full band kicks in, you realize that this is the standout track on the album. 'The Celestials' employs all the elements that make a classic Pumpkins song, and is likely the best released under the name in over a decade. Corgan caps off the tune by matching the line "Everything I want is free" with a beautifully reserved lead guitar riff." RedEye favorably compared it to one of the band's biggest songs, "Disarm", from their album Siamese Dream, calling it a "...nod to the Pumpkins' past. Its acoustic guitar and orchestration make it, if not a sibling, then a distant cousin to the classic "Disarm". Similarly, CraveOnline compared it to the most acoustic aspects of their Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album and said that "...The song is catchy but with a injection of prog-rock that keeps it from collapsing on itself."
The track was included on Loudwire's list of "Best Rock Songs of 2012."
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Release in Autumn 2012, this 7" single came packaged in a cardboard box and a t-shirt. It was sold exclusively at Target and of unknown quantity.
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The Chicago Code

The Chicago Code is an American crime drama TV series that ran from February 7 to May 23, 2011. The opening theme was composed by Robert Duncan and sung by Billy Corgan. There is only about a minute and a half of the song recorded, as the producers were only interested in a theme song. For this reason, Corgan has said a proper release of the song will not happen.Billy Corgan. October 6, 2021 IGTV post
In addition to Billy Corgan singing the theme song, music by The Smashing Pumpkins was featured on the show. "A Song for a Son" is played during "Black Hand and the Shotgun Man" (Season 1, Episode 7).https://www.tunefind.com/show/the-chicago-code/season-1/7609 The scene involves a child being laid to rest.
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The Chimera

"The Chimera" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins off of their 2012 studio album, Oceania. It borrows from a unfinished demo song called "7 Sisters", which was slower in tempo.
In a 2012 interview with MusicRadar, Billy Corgan attributes the inspiration for the song to Mike Byrne's drumming:
The song originated when they were recording drums for a different song, and there was an issue with the snare drum. While the technical issues were being ironed out, Corgan came up with a new riff, and Byrne fed off of it.
Corgan said in a Tweet that he used his famous Bat Strat guitar on the recording.https://yourlifeisnotyourown.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/chimera-meets-billys-bat-strat/
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The Colour of Love

"The Colour of Love" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins that was released with "Cyr" on August 28, 2020. The music video debuted on September 25 as the first episode of Billy Corgan's five-part animated series, In Ashes.
Corgan has said the intro of the song pays tribute to The Cure.Billy Corgan. May 1, 2021 Instagram Q&A
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== Personnel ==
* Billy Corgan – Vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer
* James Iha – guitar
* Jeff Schroeder – guitar
* Jimmy Chamberlin – drums
* Katie Cole – backing vocals
* Sierra Swan – backing vocals
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The Crying Tree of Mercury

"The Crying Tree of Mercury" (working title "Slow Song") is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' fifth studio album, Machina/The Machines of God. An early version of the song called "The Mercury Tree" appeared in early premaster releases of Machina, though it had identical lyrical content. Before joining the Pumpkins, former drummer Mike Byrne played in a band called The Mercury Tree, though it is unclear if this is mere coincidence.https://themercurytree.bandcamp.com/album/five-seven-ep
== Music video ==
An internet-only interactive music video was released for "The Crying Tree of Mercury" by MTV in March 2000, directed by Billy Corgan. Machina artwork designer Vasily Kafanov worked with MTV designers to create the video.https://youtu.be/Q5IZnBwf-ic?t=493 It was essentially a small Flash animation with clickable Machina imagery.
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The Dream

"The Dream" is a song by Billy Corgan's old band, The Marked. Corgan sings vocals, but it was originally an instrumental song. A live version appears on The Marked Sept - Oct '86 demo cassette. Reportedly there is an amateur music video for the song, directed by band collaborator Jonathan Morrill.
In October 2021, Billy Corgan performed the song at the William Patrick Corgan Early Years 1985-1990 residency at Madame ZuZu's. The lyric book that was handed out at these shows indicate the song was written in 1986, the same year it surfaced on a recording.
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The Dream Machine

"The Dream Machine" (originally known as "Black Sunshine") is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins that was performed during the Oceania tour and appeared on the Oceania: Live in NYC video release. According to a November 2012 interview with bassist Nicole Fiorentino, the song was intended to be on Oceania but didn't make the cut.https://web.archive.org/web/20130118205701/http://grungereport.net/?p=18594
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Adapted from the December 4, 2012 live performance. Lyrics may differ in other performances.
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The End Times tour

The End Times Tour was a double bill North American concert tour, co-headlined by The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson, with Cage opening. It was launched as a supporting 'tour within a tour' for Marilyn Manson's The Hell Not Hallelujah Tour. The End Times tour supported The Smashing Pumpkins' tenth studio release, Monuments to an Elegy (2014) and Manson's ninth studio album The Pale Emperor (2015).
The tour began on July 7 in Concord, California and concluded in Cincinnati on August 8. It spanned 24 dates and visited arenas in the United States and Canada. American hip hop recording artist Cage served as the opening act for the entirety of the tour. The tour's name was conceived as an amalgamation of the title of a song by each artist, the Pumpkins' "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" and Manson's "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes".
==Background==
Billy Corgan and Manson's friendship dates back to the late 1990s, with Corgan serving as an unofficial consultant for the band during the early development stages of Manson's 1998 album Mechanical Animals. After playing a few of the early songs for him, Corgan advised the band that "This is definitely the right direction" but to "go all the way with it. Don't just hint at it," referring to the album's glam rock production style. The album, produced by Manson, Sean Beavan and Michael Beinhorn, was released on September 15, 1998, and went on to debut at number one on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of 223,000.
Following the release of Mechanical Animals, the pair's personal and professional relationship soured. A fifteen-year-long feud allegedly stemmed from Corgan writing a "strongly worded" letter to Manson, in which he claimed that actress Rose McGowan – who Manson was engaged to at the time – would "ruin my life and my career if I stayed with her." Manson responded by telling Corgan that "it would be a good marketing idea [to sell] Charlie Brown T-shirts and bald caps at [his] concerts", due to their similarity in appearance.
The pair publicly settled their rift when Manson performed his own "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge" and the Smashing Pumpkin's "Ava Adore" at the Camden Palace Theatre in London on December 5, 2014. They went on to perform the latter track again, when both bands appeared at the Australian music festival Soundwave.
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The Ethers Tragic

"The Ethers Tragic" is an instrumental song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It is one of four versions of "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" that was released on the 1997 single. This version is composed solely of the original song's guitar parts. It was also released on Rarities and B-Sides, and a newly remixed version appears on the 2014 reissue of Adore.
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The Fellowship

"The Followship" is a song from the The Solstice Bare volume of the Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project. It was first performed with Billy Corgan's 2009 side-project Spirits in the Sky, and first officially released on the soundtrack for season two of The Vampire Diaries in October 2010. The digital download was released for free on January 12, 2011.
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The Fillmore

The Fillmore is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California. Built in 1912 and originally named the Majestic Hall, it became the Fillmore Auditorium in 1954. In the mid-1960s, the Fillmore became the focal point for psychedelic music and the counterculture in general, with such acts as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Grateful Dead, The Doors, The Who, Cream, and Pink Floyd.
The Fillmore reopened under promoter Bill Graham's management in the mid-1980s, but it was damaged and closed by the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 1989. After Graham died in a helicopter crash in 1991, those close to him decided to carry out his final wish to retrofit and reopen the original Fillmore, which required much structural work. The Fillmore reopened on April 27, 1994 to The Smashing Pumpkins playing an unannounced surprise show.
==List of shows==
All of the 2007 shows by The Smashing Pumpkins were part of The Fillmore residency.
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The Fillmore residency

The Fillmore residency was a series of twelve shows at The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA, US, from July 15 to August 1, 2007. Live footage from various shows and rehearsals were released on the If All Goes Wrong documentary. Along with the preceding Orange Peel residency, it was subset of the larger Zeitgeist tour that extended through the end of 2007.
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The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music

The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music is a Smashing Pumpkins non-commercial compilation album derived from a 60-minute cassette that Billy Corgan gave to a fan in April 2000, five months prior to the band's official release with the same subtitle, Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music. The fan was instructed by Corgan to circulate the album. The title for the compilation was based on a conversation they had.https://www.allmusic.com/album/friends-and-enemies-mw0001156849
==Composition and distribution==
In April 2000 while touring in support of the first Machina album, Billy Corgan gave Smashing Pumpkins Fan Collaborative creator Eric Agnew a 60-minute cassette with explicit instructions to circulate the recordings. The songs overran the end of each side of the cassette, so "Here's to the Atom Bomb" and an untitled instrumental (later revealed to be "Cinder Open") are cut short. The tape was received without a verified track list labeled, so Agnew was forced to form one himself based on his knowledge of previous releases and performances.Smashing Pumpkins dot com "Interview with Eric Agnew"
The online distribution was so successful that when Virgin Records refused to release the follow-up to Machina due to that album's poor sales, Corgan made the decision to follow the previous route of the original Friends & Enemies and released Machina II in a similar manner.
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With the exception of "The Everlasting Gaze", alternate versions of the songs from the entire first side of the tape would surface on Machina II. "The Everlasting Gaze" is an alternate version of the song that appeared on Machina. "Le Deux Machina" was used in portions in the middle section of "Glass and the Ghost Children" from Machina. A full-length and uncut version of "Here's to the Atom Bomb" would appear as a B-side to the "Try, Try, Try" single. "Real Love" would appear on Machina II and Rotten Apples. "X.Y.U." and "Where Boys Fear to Tread" are live performances of the songs that appeared on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. "The Ethers Tragic" is a live performance of the song that appeared as a B-side to "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" single. "Once Upon a Time" and "Crestfallen" are Sadlands demos from the Adore era, the former appearing on the 2014 deluxe re-issue along with the live tracks "Money (That's What I Want)" and the "X.Y.U. medley".
== Track listing ==
The cassette did not include a track listing, leading confusion as to the title of the final track. The title for "Cinder Open" was not revealed until its official release on the 2012 deluxe reissue of Pisces Iscariot.
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The Frogs

The Frogs were an American rock music band founded in 1980, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by brothers Jimmy and Dennis Flemion. The brothers mainly wrote and performed short, catchy pop songs, but they are also known for their improvised home recordings which are delivered in a comedic style, and often include controversial issues such as race, religion, and sexuality (notably homoeroticism). A history of strife has hindered the band, although they have a devoted fan base that includes many well-known musicians including Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins.
The Frogs, through their unique sense of humor, had gained a small but very devoted fan base in the early 90s. Critics attacked the band for poor taste, but well-known bands and performers have come to their defense. In 1993, Billy Corgan saw The Frogs at a small club in Madison, Wisconsin, and invited them to open for the Pumpkins. The Frogs were soon opening for Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Urge Overkill, and other bands who were fans of the group, to mixed reaction.
In the summer of 1994, the Frogs played the second stage at Lollapalooza, with Corgan joining them at every stop, shredding away on lead guitar for their encore of "I Only Play 4 Money" and "Lord Grunge". Corgan continued to support and promote The Frogs by producing a short film, Meet the Frogs, which he included on 1994's Vieuphoria video compilation. The short film brought the group recognition, but it has also confused Pumpkins fans who didn't know if they should take the band seriously or not.
From August 1996 to February 1997, Dennis Flemion replaced The Smashing Pumpkins' recently deceased keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin for their Infinite Sadness tour. During each night's encore, Jimmy Flemion performed "1979" (which reportedly was influenced by an unreleased Frogs song, "Pleasure"Magic Ian of Maximum Pelt on mixtape releases that feel like personal gifts Leor Galil, Chicago Reader. September 19, 2019), as well as selecting audience members to dance on stage. The Flemion brothers also appeared on the "Tonight, Tonight" single, and sang backing vocals on 1998's Adore.
In 1994 they recorded the EP Starjob which was produced by Billy Corgan (who used the pseudonym Johnny Goat); however, the album was not released until 1997.
More recent appearances include in November 13, 2007, when Jimmy Flemion performed with the Smashing Pumpkins at The Backyard in Austin, TX.Internet Archive Live Music Archive The Frogs also opened for the Pumpkins on December 7, 2008, in Chicago.
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* The Frogs on MySpace
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The Good In Goodbye

"The Good In Goodbye" (working title "Doomy") is the third song from The Smashing Pumpkins' rock opera, ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts. Billy Corgan has described the song as a "cosmic Sabbath song" and one of his favorites off of the album. The beeping sound effect at the beginning of the track is a recording of the Sputnik 1 satellite (the first artificial satellite).
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The Guns of Love Disastrous

"The Guns of Love Disastrous" is an instrumental song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It is one of four versions of "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" that was released on the 1997 single. This version is based around the original song's various electronica-inspired elements. It was also released on Rarities and B-Sides, and a shorter, newly remixed version appears on the 2014 reissue of Adore.
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The Hideout: Compilation Two

The Hideout: Compilation Two is a bootleg album of Zwan that compiles live recordings of mostly covers, from a series of shows from Jack Sweeney's Open Mic, which occurred weekly from September to November 2002 at The Hideout in Chicago, IL. The first volume, The Hideout: Compilation One, was released the same year.
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The Hit Factory

The Hit Factory was a recording studio in New York City. The Smashing Pumpkins recorded a single song there, "Christmastime".
The studio has occupied numerous spaces around the city. The one where The Smashing Pumpkins (or more specifically, Billy Corgan) recorded was the company headquarters from 1992 to April 1, 2005. The original building is now a residential condominium.
Other famous artists that have recorded at this Hit Factory include Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, U2, and Bruce Springsteen.
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The Ignoffo Tape

The Ignoffo Tape is a non-commercial bootleg mixtape of various The Smashing Pumpkins recordings. It was originally given to producer and engineer Mark Ignoffo, hence the name. The acoustic "Jennifer Ever" from this mixtape is the version heard on the 2012 reissue of Pisces Iscariot, as the original master tapes for The Smashing Pumpkins (album) had apparently been lost.
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The Imploding Voice

"The Imploding Voice" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' fifth studio album, Machina/The Machines of God. Prior to the release of the album, the song was once performed live in Detroit on April 10, 1999, under the title "Virex". This was later reworked during the Machina sessions into the variant you hear today.SPFC : songlist : Virex
Like the rest of Machina, the studio recording used analog equipment. This song in particular reprocessed guitar parts with effects, and blended it with the original signal at a 75/25% ratio, respectively.Christopher Scapelliti, "Machina Shop: The Tools of Billy Corgan and James Iha's Trade", Guitar World, April 2000.
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The Joker

"The Joker" is a cover song by The Smashing Pumpkins of the 1973 hit by Steve Miller Band. Versions are included on the Mashed Potatoes compilation album and on the 2012 reissue bonus DVD of Pisces Iscariot.
"If there's any song in the world that's Jimmy's song, it's this one", said singer Billy Corgan in a 1992 live performance of the song.
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The Last Hard Men

The Last Hard Men were an alternative music supergroup composed of former Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach, The Frogs guitarist Jimmy Flemion, The Breeders guitarist–vocalist Kelley Deal, and The Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.
They released their only self-titled album in 1998.
== History ==
Kelley Deal had previously heard that Sebastian Bach had a good voice and felt he "was the realest of the hair band squealers". She had a friend see if Bach could be reached to consider doing a project. A few weeks later Bach (recently broken up with the band Skid Row) called her up and agreed to discuss the idea. Soon after he met Deal backstage after one of her Kelley Deal 6000 shows in New York.
It was agreed that they would do a cover of Alice Cooper's "School's Out" for the soundtrack of Wes Craven's movie Scream. Deal told the interviewer "We knew they wanted someone to do that song for the movie, so I thought 'who else could I get to do this?' See, my idea was always to have a band with two heavy metal guys and two others. I wanted Jimmy (Flemion) and Sebastian was supposed to bring Tommy Lee, but that didn't happen. Sebastian said it was too bad we couldn't get Jimmy (Chamberlin), but that he didn't think he'd do it. But I did my thing and called Jimmy up and asked him to do it. He said sure." Chamberlin had only just recently left The Smashing Pumpkins following the death of Jonathan Melvoin.
The group convened in the fall of 1996 to record the self-titled The Last Hard Men. Deal planned to have the album to come out on her own Nice Records label "with distribution via a bigger label. She also stated "I don't know if it's a one-off. And I don't know if we'll tour, although Sebastian is already drawing up pyro plans for the shows, but I don't think it's odd at all. I think this is normal, it's the thing everybody should be doing."
After all the band members went off to their own separate pursuits, Bach (promoting his new solo album) was asked about the band by a French magazine, he expressed his happiness with the project placing it alongside earlier work he was proud of. He told the interviewer "'The Last Hard Men' was just a project, nothing to do with Bring 'Em Bach Alive!...It was really rock'n roll because we didn't care about the album's production. When I think that some musicians had been staying in studio for weeks, that makes me crazy. When you listen to 'Monkey Business' from Slave to the Grind, the production wasn't really good, but it sounds so heavy."
== Discography ==
* The Last Hard Men (1998, reissued in 2001 with modified track listing)
* Scream – soundtrack featuring the band's cover of "School's Out"
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* http://www.rustyspell.com/music/lasthardmen.html
* http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/pages/articles/meet-jimmy-flemion-part-2
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