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No Alternative

No Alternative is an alternative rock compilation album of various artists, including The Smashing Pumpkins with "Glynis". It was released in 1993 to benefit AIDS relief. It was released with two different versions of album art: the standard version depicting a boy (without the Nirvana song listed on the back and liner notes), and the alternate version depicting a girl (some with and some without the Nirvana song listed on the back and liner notes). The song "Glynis" is a dedication to former Red Red Meat bassist Glynis Johnson, who passed away from AIDS-related complications in 1992.Richard Thomas, "Signal To Noise: The Sonic Diary Of The Smashing Pumpkins", Electronic Musician, October 1st, 2008
A television special hosted by MTV and a VHS home video release featured live performances, music videos, and information about AIDS.
On April 20, 2013, as part of the annual internationally celebrated Record Store Day, No Alternative was released for the first time on vinyl as a special 20th anniversary edition LP, limited to 3000 copies with stamped numbering. Stereogum lauded the album in a retrospective piece, saying that "it captures the American alternative scene at its commercial, cultural, and critical peak."http://www.stereogum.com/1541231/no-alternative-turns-20/franchises/the-anniversary/ In an interview with Radio New Zealand, producer Paul Heck discussed the history of the Red Hot Organization and the anniversary of No Alternative, saying that the response from the musicians asked to contribute was "overwhelmingly positive" and that some artists even wrote songs specifically for the compilation.http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/2575803/red-hot-paul-heck
No Alternative climbed to number 56 on the Billboard 200 in 1993, becoming the most commercially successful benefit album of the year. It was certified gold (500,000 copies sold) in 1995 by the RIAA.
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This video release was a similar compilation benefiting the Red, Hot and Blue Foundation. Other the bands that performed include Nirvana, Urge Overkill, and Bob Mould. The video also contains a brief interview with Billy Corgan along with two songs performed live to an MTV audience from the October 31, 1993 performance.
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No Toys for O.J.

No Toys For O.J. is a various artists compilation album from Kevin & Bean, sold at Wherehouse record stores in southern California for $5 around Christmas 1994. It includes "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" as performed by The Smashing Pumpkins, which was a live recording from KROQ Christmas Festival at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles the year before. Proceeds went to Starlight Foundation of Southern California, a non-profit organization which exists to enhance the lives of seriously ill children.
Other bands featured on the album include Bad Religion, Ween and Pearl Jam.
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Nobody's Daughter

Nobody's Daughter is the fourth and final album by American rock band Hole. Billy Corgan is credited as co-writing "Pacific Coast Highway", "Samantha", "Loser Dust" and "How Dirty Girls Get Clean". The album debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling approximately 22,000 copies in its first week in the United States. By its third week of release it had sold 33,000 copies in total.
== Background ==
The album was initially conceived as a solo project and followup to Courtney Love's debut solo record, America's Sweetheart (2004). At the urging of her friend and former producer Linda Perry, Love began writing material while in a lockdown rehabilitation center in 2005 following a protracted cocaine addiction and numerous related legal troubles.
Shortly after her release from rehab in November 2005, Love entered the studio and recorded a series of demos with Perry producing and Corgan arranging, which she dubbed The Rehab Tapes. This took initially took at The Village Recorder, the same studio where 1995's Mellon Collie was mixed, and where "Age of Innocence" and the drums for Monuments to an Elegy were recorded. Corgan contributed guitar during these sessions, some of which did not make the final album, such as on "Samantha" where Corgan's part was replaced with a cello.
On April 29, 2006, Love made a surprise appearance at a Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center benefit with Corgan and Perry, where she performed acoustic versions of the new songs "Sunset Marquis" and "Pacific Coast Highway".
In May 2008, after several attempts at recording the album with Corgan and Perry failed to reach fruition, Love announced she was planning to scrap the record and begin reshaping it with guitarist Micko Larkin, who had joined her backing band. By late 2009, recording had concluded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City.
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Nobody's Daughter received generally mixed reviews from music critics. Petra Davis of The Quietus noted that, as with Love's previous works, Nobody's Daughter "habitually contests notions of family," adding that the record overall is "perceptibly the product of two distinct song cycles: one immediately post-rehab, … [the other a] product of more active collaboration, largely with Larkin and Billy Corgan." BBC Music alternately praised the album "rich and emotionally searing," while Billboard noted that "Love sounds as self-assured as ever, sliding over syllables and hitting the emotional high notes".
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Greek International Albums (IFPI)	11
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Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie is the soundtrack album for the 2001 film. It featured the "Never Let Me Down Again", a Depeche Mode cover by The Smashing Pumpkins. Other bands on the album include Marilyn Manson, Orgy, System Of A Down and Stabbing Westward.
In 2017 the soundtrack was re-issued on vinyl through the record labels Enjoy The Ride and Brookvale.
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Not Worth Asking

"Not Worth Asking" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins that was recorded during the 1989 Reel Time Studio session and released on the 1990 "I Am One" Limited Potential single and on the The Smashing Pumpkins promotional cassette. It later appeared on the bonus 7" that came with early copies of Pisces Iscariot, along with Rarities and B-Sides, and a live version on 2022's The Rubano Tapes Vol. 1.
On some commercial bootlegs it is incorrectly titled "On My Own".
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Nothing Ever Changes

Nothing Ever Changes is a demo cassette by The Smashing Pumpkins, released prior to Jimmy Chamberlin and D'arcy Wretzky joining the band. Allegedly three versions of artwork for Nothing Ever Changes were created. The single copy known to exist outside the band's archive has a cover featuring a nun with bleeding hands and eyes. Artwork mock-ups for the other two covers are known to exist, but descriptions of the actual art have not emerged. The number of tapes created is unknown, but it is very likely an extremely small number.
Although a tape of the four-song configuration listed below exists, the original Nothing Ever Changes was about 60 minutes in length and was Corgan's first attempt at a full-length album.
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*Billy Corgan – vocals, guitar
*James Iha – guitar on "Breathe", artwork
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Nothing Ever Changes (full demo)

The Nothing Ever Changes Demo is a demo tape that represented the original vision for the Nothing Ever Changes tape. It was about 60 minutes in length and was Corgan's first attempt at a full-length album; it contained a combination of songs, spoken word selections (recalled as "bad poetry"), and instrumentals. It featured drummer Ron Roesing from Corgan's former band, The Marked, on two live tracks.
It surfaced on August 4, 2014 when it appeared on SP Nexus' Memorabilia Mondays. The imagery suggests the tape was for private use and not intended for promotion. In the same SP Nexus post, Corgan stated the songs are "forgettable" yet he still intended to release them, along with 60+ demo cassettes in what would be "anywhere from 12 to 20 separate" vinyl releases.https://www.smashingpumpkinsnexus.com/single-post/2014/08/04/memorabilia-mondaysa-very-very-early-smashing-pumpkins-demo-tape-from-june-1988 While these have yet to be released, different versions of some songs such as "Nothing and Everything", "Holiday" and "My Eternity" appeared on The Rubano Tapes archive releases.
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"Mao Say Tongue" was listed without a number, and presumed to be "Mao Say Tongue #1" but it may have been "Mao Say Tongue #2".
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*Billy Corgan – vocals, guitar except on "Breathe", bass, drum programming
*James Iha – guitar on "Breathe", artwork
*Ron Roesing (former drummer for The Marked) – drums on "The Vigil" and "My Eternity"
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November-December 2017 – Blackbird Studios

The November-December 2017 Blackbird Studios were the first set of recording sessions for Billy Corgan's third solo album Cotillions. Corgan would return to Blackbird Studios in the following April to finish tracking the rest of the album.
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November 1992 – Broadway Rehearsal Studios

The November 1992 Broadway Rehearsal Studios sessions produced a tape of Siamese Dream demos submitted to the Library of Congress on December 22, 1992, called Quiet and Other Songs. A 15-track copy of this tape was submitted to Virgin records as well. It was most likely recorded to an 8-track at the band's rehearsal space, just before leaving for Atlanta to record Siamese Dream.
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November 2000 – Chicago Recording Company

The November 2000 Chicago Recording Company was the final recording session for original The Smashing Pumpkins and a goodbye to fans.
"Untitled" was a semi-acoustic pop rock song that combined elements of Gish and Siamese Dream. The chain for Corgan’s solo, one of his favorites, features a DOD FX84 Milk Box compressor and a Shin-Ei Companion Fuzz Wah.Richard Thomas, "Signal To Noise: The Sonic Diary Of The Smashing Pumpkins", Electronic Musician, October 1st, 2008
“The song was our way of saying ‘fuck you’ to all those people who thought we’d somehow lost our minds and weren’t able to return home,” says Corgan. “We were in the studio for what appeared to be the last time, so it was very emotional, and we had only three days."
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November 2005-February 2006 – Scottsdale and The Alley

The November 2005-February 2006 sessions in Scottsdale, Arizona were rehearsals and demoing sessions for The Smashing Pumpkins' seventh studio album, Zeitgeist. Additional tracking was also done at The Alley Rehearsals in Los Angeles.
Not long after Billy Corgan announced intentions to revive the band, him and Jimmy Chamberlin rented and lived in a five-acre ranch in Scottsdale to write and rehearse new songs. They also spent a lot of time simply talking about music, which Corgan felt was just as important as recording. For inspiration they listened to Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti.
Within three weeks of practicing, the pair decided between the two of that that they had recaptured the sound of the band and prepared to record a new album.Jimmy Chamberlin and Billy Corgan. Audience Q&A, Gotischer Saal, Zitadelle Spandau; Berlin, DE Interview. 2007/06/05 Roughly 30 mostly instrumental song ideas were tracked on Corgan's TASCAM Portastudio – the same recorder used to track demos for Gish, Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
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* Roughly 30 songs ideas recorded
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Now That I Feel This Way

"Now That I Feel This Way" (or simply "Now That I Feel") is an early demo song by Billy Corgan. Though it appeared on tapes by The Marked, Corgan has said in a LiveJournal entry that the song was recorded with Len Ayala (Lenny) on bass, along with a friend of Ayala, placing it as a post-Marked song.https://billycorgan.livejournal.com/13518.html
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 date the song to 1985, making it one of the earliest known Corgan compositions.
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O2 Academy Brixton

The O2 Academy Brixton (originally known as the Astoria Variety Cinema, commonly known as the Brixton Academy) is a mid-sized concert venue located in South London, in the district of Brixton. Opening in 1929 as a cinema, the venue was converted into a discotheque in 1972 then was reborn as a concert hall in 1983. It has become one of London's leading music venues.
The Smashing Pumpkins recorded their May 15, 1996 performance, with select songs appearing on the 2012 reissue of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
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O2 Forum Kentish Town

The O2 Forum Kentish Town is a concert venue in Kentish Town, London, England. The venue was built in 1934 and was originally used as an art deco cinema. After the cinema was closed, the venue re-opened as an Irish dance hall. The Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corgan solo have performed here when the venue was known as Town & Country Club and The Forum, respectively.
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ONXRT: Live from the Archives Volume 3

ONXRT: Live from the Archives Volume 3 is a various artists compilation album compiled by Chicago radio station 93-XRT that features bands who have performed live for the station. This is the third installment and includes a live acoustic version of "Rocket" by The Smashing Pumpkins from the July 26, 1993 performance at Tower Records in Chicago, which was the midnight record release show for Siamese Dream, broadcast live by 93-XRT.
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* ONXRT: Live from the Archives Volume 9 – featuring a live version of "A100"
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ONXRT: Live from the Archives Volume 9

ONXRT: Live from the Archives Volume 9 is a various artists compilation album compiled by Chicago radio station 93-XRT that features bands who have performed live for the station. This is the ninth installment and includes a live version of "A100" by Billy Corgan from the July 5, 2005 performance at the Vic Theatre, which was broadcast live by 93-XRT.
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O Come, All Ye Faithful

"O Come, All Ye Faithful" is a 18th century Christmas carol that has been attributed to various authors with the first published version by John Francis Wade (1711–1786). Billy Corgan covered it at three Christmas-themed shows at Madame ZuZu's in December 2021, one of which was live streamed from Corgan's Instagram account. Lyrically, Corgan's version appears to be a more modern and perhaps partially reworked version compared to traditional published versions.
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O Tannenbaum

"O Tannenbaum" is a 19th century Christmas carol with lyrics by Ernst Anschütz. Billy Corgan covered it at a Christmas-themed shows of December 2021, notably the December 22, 2022 live stream performance.
Lyrically, the song has various versions based on how loosely they are translated from the original German song. Corgan's version appears to combine loose English translations (i.e. use of "Oh Tannenbaum") with modern-day English variations.The Bay View Magazine (1913), p. 175
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Oceania: Live in NYC

Oceania: Live in NYC is a live video album by The Smashing Pumpkins, recorded at Brooklyn's Barclays Center in New York City on December 10, 2012. The concert was originally scheduled for Halloween night in 2012, but was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy.http://www.mtv.com/news/2697492/smashing-pumpkins-barclays-brooklyn-photos/ The 24-song show was released on several home audio and video formats on September 24, 2013, including in three-dimensional form. It documents a performance of the band's 2012 album Oceania in full, followed by a career-spanning setlist. The film was directed by Milton Lange, and the DVD and Blu-ray editions include interviews with stage designer Sean Evans as well as a photo gallery.
== Background ==
The large-scale production and stage show of the Oceania tour was in part inspired by Roger Waters' The Wall Live tour. Billy Corgan had seen one of the shows in recent years, and reached out to Waters' stage designer, Sean Evans, to do something similar for The Smashing Pumpkins. The result was an elaborate moon-shaped backdrop with a mixture of strobe and mood-setting lights that accompanied the songs. The band used new video-mapping technology to capture the performance in 3D and record in 5.1 surround sound.
== Critical reception ==
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer called Oceania: Live in NYC "an essential Smashing Pumpkins offering", praising the elaborate production, Corgan's vocal range, the dueling guitar solos with Jeff Schroeder, and Mike Byrne's Neil Peart-ish flourishes. In addition to Pumpkins classics and new offerings off of Oceania, the cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" was singled out as a highlight. AllMusic called the video an "intense" multimedia experience and gave it a rating of 4 out of 5 stars.
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The show as released runs approximately 15 minutes shorter than the original concert. Below is a list of material removed for the release.
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* Fades in on the direct "Quasar" intro, cutting the show's intro, a mixture of pre-recorded music and Corgan playing the Mellotron (approx. 2 minutes)
* All banter after "Pinwheels" is removed (2 minutes, 15 seconds)
* All banter and teases after "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" cut, with the exception of Corgan saying "Thank you, thank you" (7 minutes, 30 seconds)
* Encore break removed (4 minutes, 45 seconds)
* Intro strumming to "Ava Adore" (15 seconds)
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* All banter after "Pinwheels" is removed except "So this is the title track, Oceania."
* All banter and teases after "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" cut, except "For those of you on drugs, this is a good time to leave...because you're not going to like this journey. It is called The Dream Machine."
* Encore break removed
* "Zero" feedback outro cut by approx. 55 seconds
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* Mike Byrne – drums, keyboard, backing vocals
* Billy Corgan – vocals, guitar, Mellotron
* Nicole Fiorentino – bass guitar, keyboard, backing vocals
* Jeff Schroeder – guitar, keyboard, backing vocals
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Oceania (song)

"Oceania" is the title track by The Smashing Pumpkins off of their 2012 studio album, Oceania.
== Background ==
For a long time, the song had only the opening figure and a few other parts. It was meant to be a long song, and without the three-part sectioning that you hear in the recording. The final arrangement came together the same day it was recorded. Corgan has also said the song gives nods to Yes and Vangelis.
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October 1999 – The Village Recorder

The October 1999 Village Recorder sessions saw the recording of "Age of Innocence". It was recorded at that last second, and tagged onto the album, possibly as sort of an afterthought. D'arcy Wretzky had already departed the band by this time. The early mix found on the "Untitled" single is also heard on the leaked Machina pre-master.
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Ogilala

Ogilala is the second solo album by Billy Corgan (under the name William Patrick Corgan), frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins. The album was released on October 13, 2017, in the United States. It marks Corgan's first solo album since his 2005 debut, TheFutureEmbrace. The album was co-produced by Corgan with Rick Rubin, and does not feature Corgan's longtime collaborator Bjorn Thorsrud. "Aeronaut" preceded the record as its lead single, with a US tour beginning the day after the record's release.
The album's songs are primarily acoustic and are predominantly performed on acoustic guitar, piano and strings, contrasting with much of Corgan's other work. Corgan used an old Yamaha grand piano in the recordings.Billy Corgan, May 25, 2020 Instagram Q&A The song "Processional" marks the first time since The Smashing Pumpkins' break-up in 2000 that Corgan has collaborated with the band's former guitarist James Iha.
A 41-minute short film, Pillbox, was released with the album, and later the 58-minute live video, Neath The Darkest Eves.
== Pillbox ==
The album is accompanied with a 41-minute short film written by Corgan and co-directed by Linda Strawberry.
== Critical reception ==
AllMusic praised the album, writing "Like the Smashing Pumpkins albums of the 2010s, Ogilala achieves a delicate balance of ambition and craft. At its core, it's a songwriter's album, but it's not a bunch of folky confessionals. No matter the setting, Corgan peddles heartfelt prog rock and here, when his songs are shorn of solos and kept at a human scale, his imagination feels immediate and bracing."
Consequence also rated highly. While comparing them to all songs composed by Corgan, they wrote that Ogilala "stands out as his most centered, vulnerable, and soothing music yet".
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Some tracks are cross-faded in the physical version, thus reducing the playing time of the album about 20 seconds.
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* Billy Corgan (as William Patrick Corgan) – vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, Mellotron, photography, production
* James Iha – guitar and Mellotron on "Processional"
* Sierra Swan – occasional backing vocals
* Rick Rubin – production
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Chart (2017) 	Peak position
New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ)	7
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Olympic Gymnastics Arena

Olympic Gymnastics Arena (known as the KSPO Dome since 2018) is an indoor arena located within the Olympic Park in Seoul, South Korea. It has a capacity of 15,000 people. It is a self-supporting cable dome – the first of its kind ever built – with a four-layer fabric cladding."Olympic Domes First of Their Kind" Engineering News Record. 6 March 1986. Retrieved 12 October 2011
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Once Upon a Time

"Once Upon a Time" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio album, Adore. Billy Corgan wrote the song, along with "For Martha", in honor of his mother who had recently died.
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Once in a Lifetime

"Once in a Lifetime" is a cover song by The Smashing Pumpkins of the 1981 single by Talking Heads. It was a staple at Pumpkins shows during the Resume the Pose and The Sacred and Profane tours, with improvised lyrics during the verses and variations on the original lyrics during choruses. Performances during the U.S. dates featured spoken word portions that were replaced by repetition of "same as it ever was" over a spacey jam on the later European dates. When the song returned in 2022 on the Rock Invasion 2 tour, the song was performed with the original lyrics. 
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One Diamond, One Heart

"One Diamond, One Heart" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins off of their 2012 studio album, Oceania. It originally had a working title of "Four Winds Chime" and was attempted as an acoustic song. In a 2012 interview with MusicRadar, Corgan attributed the "turning point" of the recording process to be when bassist Nicole Fiorentino wrote the bass part:
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