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Christmastime

"Christmastime" is a holiday song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released on the A Very Special Christmas 3 compilation album in October 1997. The album was sold to benefit the Special Olympics, and included other alternative rock artists like Chris Cornell and Blues Traveler. It was also included on the Rarities and B-Sides compilation.
Essentially a solo Billy Corgan performance to R&B producer Arif Mardin's production, "Christmastime" was recorded in December 1996 at The Hit Factory in New York City while Corgan was producing Ric Ocasek's solo record, Troublizing."Pumpkins Star's Xmas Cracker", Kerrang!, August 6, 1997 An acoustic Sadlands demo version from 1996 is the first known recording and was included on the 2014 reissue of Adore.
Spin magazine said the song would "make you fall in love with [The Smashing Pumpkins] all over again," praising Corgan's "heartbreakingly alive" vocals that "carefully unspooled a ribbon of melody through minor-key harmonics given Mozart-like momentum" by Arif Mardin's production.
In 2022, the song was featured in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
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Chum City Building

The Chum City Building, formally 299 Queen Street West and also known as Bell Media Queen Street or Bell Media Studios, is the headquarters of the television/radio broadcast hub of Bell Canada's media unit, Bell Media, located in Toronto, Canada. Occupants of the building include TV studios where The Smashing Pumpkins and associated acts have performed, such as MuchMusic (now known simply as Much).
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Coat of Eyes

Coat of Eyes was an American alternative rock/new wave band formed by Billy Corgan and Greg Bates in Chicago, Illinois, in 1983. It was the previous band of The Marked.
== History ==
Billy Corgan formed Coat of Eyes at the age of sixteen when he met Greg Bates outside the Chicago teen nightclub Medusa's. The band originally went by the name Bates Motel. The name Coat of Eyes came from a visual idea Corgan had based on a coat of arms. Other musicians joined on a temporary basis. Jim Marcus contributed to a few of their songs. Corgan and Bates wrote, played and recorded together for two years and ended up with a catalog of around 40 songs, many with Bates on lead vocals.
While Corgan and Bates were looking for a drummer and bassist they met musicians, Dale Meiners and Ron Roesing. Trying to find a larger fan base, the band moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. Since Bates was at the time still in high school, he did not accompany them; the remaining trio started as a new band, The Marked.
Corgan and Bates reunited in public at the Madame ZuZu's grand opening on September 13, 2012, with Bates playing guest guitar on "Today".
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The dates are pure guesses, as 1985 was the last year before Coat of Eyes became The Marked.
* 1985 – Coat of Eyes
* 1985 – Billy and Greg's Home Demos: Vol. 1
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Coat of Eyes (demo)

Coat of Eyes is a demo cassette by Billy Corgan's first band, Coat of Eyes, owned by fellow founding member Greg Bates. The February 1985 release date is a guess, since the band predates The Marked whose first cassette was dated from March 1985.http://spfreaks.com/item/coat-of-eyes/
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Come and Get Your Love

"Come and Get Your Love" is a song by Native American rock band Redbone that was played at a few Smashing Pumpkins live performances in late 1993 while the band came onstage. The song peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on April 13, 1974. It spent 18 weeks in the Top 40 and landed as the fourth-most popular song on the Hot 100 for 1974. In 2014, "Come and Get Your Love" experienced a resurgence in popularity when it was featured in the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Confessions of a Dopamine Addict

"Confessions of a Dopamine Addict" is the second single from The Smashing Pumpkins' eleventh studio album, CYR. It was released on September 25, 2020 with "Wrath" as an accompanying A-side. A music video was released the same day, which served as the second episode of the five-part animated series In Ashes.
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Constantinople Records

Constantinople Records is an upstart record label created by Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins. Little is known about the label and no official website or company exists. The US Patent Office's website listed the label as being trademarked by Corgan. When word of the label was made public, a domain name was registered but no website ever appeared. After one year the URL had expired.
The label was ultimately created to only release the album by The Smashing Pumpkins: Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music and the EPs that were associated with it, because Corgan's relationship with Virgin Records had deteriorated. Virgin had refused to release Machina and Machina II as a double album, and when Machina sold poorly, refused entirely to release the sequel. Since the band was breaking up at the time, Corgan decided to release Machina II for free download on the internet. Only twenty-five vinyl copies were pressed, and were shipped via FedEx to several prominent fans in the online community, with instructions to immediately redistribute it on the Internet free of charge.
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Five releases have come out on Constantinople Records: 
*CR-01: The first EP in Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
*CR-02: The second EP in Machina II
*CR-03: The third EP in Machina II
*CR-04: The double LP in Machina II
*CR-05: Live at Cabaret Metro 10-5-88
It was rumored that this label would support all future releases for work done by Billy Corgan. However, starting in 2003 he began publishing work under the label "Martha's Music," with distribution by Reprise Records.
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* E! Online News- Smashing Pumpkins' Swan Songs, September 12, 2000
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Cotillions

Cotillions is the third solo album by American musician and The Smashing Pumpkins vocalist Billy Corgan (under the name William Patrick Corgan). It was released digitally on November 22, 2019, with a limited run of physical copies made available in January 2020. The songs on the album were written in 2017 during Thirty Days – a month-long journey Corgan took across America. There was enough material to allow for a 17-track double album.
Corgan has said this album is a "true labor of love" in an Instagram post about Cotillions, expressing his gratitude towards his fans, while also being grateful of living in a "different world", where "an artist can speak directly to you without the filter of mass media shaping your heart and opinions before you've even had a chance to decide whether this music speaks to you."
Leading up to the album's release, Corgan toured Europe in June–July of 2019 playing Cotillions songs (between dates of The Smashing Pumpkins' European tour), followed by his own US tour in November, ending just two days before the release of the album.
The album received generally favorable reviews, with Clash Music calling it a "fascinating concoction", and AllMusic commenting it keeps the "music and emotions direct but also relaxed, and that rigorous stylistic aesthetic makes Cotillions one of his better solo albums." It peaked at #54 on the US Billboard Top Current Albums chart.
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Courtney Love

Courtney Love is as the frontwoman lead vocalist of the alternative band Hole and a long-time companion of Billy Corgan.
Hole opened up for The Smashing Pumpkins on the US leg of the Gish tour, aligning with Hole's Pretty on the Inside tour. This included a July 15, 1991 performance at New York City's famed CBGB music club to a capacity of 250 people. During this tour, Love briefly dated Corgan before formally dating Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. In an interview with Tony Wilson, Corgan summarized that he rejected Love's advances, and the same night she slept with Kurt Cobain, and "the rest is history".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0UG8PeQMY
== Celebrity Skin ==
After the Cobain's death and success with Live Through This, Hole started work on their next album, Celebrity Skin. Love compared Corgan's presence in the studio to "a math teacher who wouldn't give you the answers but was making you solve the problems yourself". Billy Corgan co-wrote the arrangements for five of the songs and played bass on three. As a member of Hole, former Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur performs on the album as well.
== Nobody's Daughter ==
In 2010, Corgan claimed co-writing credit with Love on at least two of the songs on Hole's final album Nobody's Daughter and tried to assert a right of approval before the album could be released. Corgan had helped develop the album during its early stages. The album was released without the writing controversy ever being litigated or publicly resolved.
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Love sang three songs with The Smashing Pumpkins at the 30th Anniversary Show on August 2, 2018 in New Jersey.
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Crashland Consequence

"Crashland Consequence" is a song by Ric Ocasek from his album Troublizing. It was co-produced by Billy Corgan, who also contributed guitar, keyboards and backing vocals. Melissa Auf der Maur plays bass with backup vocals, and Matt Walker plays drums.
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* Billy Corgan – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, production
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Crestfallen

"Crestfallen" is a track on The Smashing Pumpkins' 1998 album, Adore. Originally scheduled as the third single from the album, the song was instead released as a promotional CD in the US.: SPfreaks : It received moderate play on modern rock stations but did not chart. The single's artwork is by Yelena Yemchuk. 
The song features Billy Corgan on piano and vocals, with James Iha on lead guitar. It was the first song to include Corgan playing piano live, the first performance of which took place during the band's gig in Nashville during the Adore tour in the summer of 1998. The band also performed the song at the VH1 Fashion Awards on October 23, 1998 (aired October 25). Billboard gave the song mixed reviews, but praised its ambient qualities.
Corgan had originally written the song for Courtney Love to use, although he later stated that "she had some kind of tantrum or something and I decided it was better off with us".Corgan, Billy. "Modern Rock Live" interview, 1998-07-09
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"Crestfallen" was played at the end of the 2000 TV movie Homicide: Life Everlasting. 
In 2006 Christian rock band The Evan Anthem covered "Crestfallen." 
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The song's message is one of "Who am I?" to do this to you. According to Corgan, he was inspired by his mother's death by which he said "My mother's death helped me to refocus my priorities. It showed me the true value of my life."
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Cristina

"Cristina" is a song by The Marked. The lyrics were written by Ronald Roesing, about his daughter Cristina, while the music was written by Billy Corgan. It appeared on the The Marked Aug '86 and Joliet Tape demo albums. It was recorded in Corgan's bedroom on his 4-track, at his father's house on the corner of Austin & Addison in Chicago. Roesing is the lead singer with Corgan on backup.
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Crush

"Crush" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' debut studio album, Gish. It was originally known as "Hippy Trippy" , a version that was released on the 2011 deluxe reissue of Gish.
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The song is normally played in the key of A mixolydian. In what was at the time an unusual move for the band, all guitars in the studio recording were tuned down a half-step. While none of the other songs on Gish used this technique, this would become the norm by the Mellon Collie-era.
Like many of the other tracks on Gish, the song is built around a simple bassline, played on a bass guitar with a slight overdrive effect. The song features at least five distinct guitar parts and a synthesizer, being the only Gish track to utilize the latter. It also differs from the other songs on Gish (barring "Daydream" and hidden track "I'm Going Crazy") in that there is no drum part.
The jingly noise heard during "Crush" is Corgan's bell necklace.Official Smashing Pumpkins VIZ promotion, March 2022 The same necklace can be heard throughout "Daydream".
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Cupid de Locke

"Cupid de Locke" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Featuring harp arpeggios, salt shakers, scissors, among other household items, it is an example of the rich diversity of instrumentation used on the album. It is among the furthest departures from the band's typical sound on the album.
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"Cupid de Locke" may refer to Matthew Locke, an English Baroque composer during the 17th century who scored a masque entitled Cupid and Death. In this story, Cupid and Death get their arrows mixed up which caused distress and humor to ensue.
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Daggers

Daggers is the second album from Brooklyn-based band Ex Cops. Billy Corgan is credited as the executive producer, and co-wrote three songs on the album. One of the three songs may be the unreleased Smashing Pumpkins song "Overjoyed" with a different title, as Corgan has said he reserved the song for Ex Cops. The title track, "Daggers", is close to the 91 BPM tempo that Corgan said "Overjoyed" was recorded in.Billy Corgan, SP Nexus, April 20, 2014
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Daggers (song)

"Daggers" is a song by Brooklyn-based band Ex Cops from their album of the same name. It was co-written by Billy Corgan. This may be the same as the unreleased song "Overjoyed" by The Smashing Pumpkins, as Corgan has said he reserved the song for Ex Cops and the song is close to the 91 BPM tempo that Corgan said "Overjoyed" was recorded in.Billy Corgan, SP Nexus, April 20, 2014
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Dale Griffin

Terence Dale "Buffin" Griffin (24 October 1948 – 17 January 2016) was an English drummer and a founding member of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople. Later, he worked as a producer, and produced many of the BBC Radio 1 John Peel sessions, including the September 8, 1991 session with The Smashing Pumpkins, where "Girl Named Sandoz" and two other songs were recorded. Corgan wasn't happy with the experience, but wrote "i'm glad we did tolerate that mott the nipple that day even though i don't think we would now".Billy Corgn, Pisces Iscariot liner notes
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Dan Morris

Dan Morris (March 27, 1970 – December 21, 2007https://www.metaljazz.com/2008/01/dan_morris_rip.php) was one of two touring percussionists during The Smashing Pumpkins' Adore tour that accompanied drummer Kenny Aronoff. According to a eulogy published on metaljazz.com, Morris found the stress of the world tour to be too much for him and he subsequently retired from the live music scene in favor of sound and music production. On December 21, 2007, he died after being in a coma for five days due to uncertain causes. He was 37 years old.
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Dancing in the Moonlight

"Dancing in the Moonlight" is a cover song by The Smashing Pumpkins of the 1977 single by Thin Lizzy. A studio recording appeared on the UK release of the "Disarm" single. It was later included on Rarities and B-Sides and the 2012 reissue bonus DVD of Pisces Iscariot.
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Daphne Descends

"Daphne Descends" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio album, Adore. It was released as a promotional single exclusively in France in 1998 through Delabel.
When asked about the song's meaning in an interview, Corgan said it was about "one of those girls who's going to hell, but she doesn't want to, but down she goes".
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Daughter

"Daughter" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins originally released on the 1989 demo album, Moon Demo.
A longer version also recorded at Reel Time Studios was released on a 7" flexi disc to subscribers of the April 4, 1992 issue of Reflex magazine. The flexi disc is single-sided and contained only the one song. The song has never been widely released, as this magazine subscription single was pressed in very limited quantities. Since flexi discs are notoriously unreliable and this one saw limited distribution, this is among the rarest Smashing Pumpkins releases.
In the liner notes of the Moon demo, the song is credited as having been written by Billy Corgan and then-bassist D'arcy Wretzky, while the flexi disc attributes it only to Corgan. The verified Smashing Pumpkins Instagram account confirmed to SPCodex that the song is indeed written solely by Corgan.https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb7psl0Osnm/ If the Moon demo credits were correct, it would make "Daughter" the only non-improvisational song by The Smashing Pumpkins with a songwriting credit to Wretzky.
The only known live performance of "Daughter" by the band took place on May 27, 1989 at the Avalon in Chicago. A recording from this show appears on the Rubano Tapes Vol. 1 archive release.
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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor who is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Billy Corgan is a self-proclaimed life long fan.
The song "Zowie" from Corgan's second studio album, Ogilala, was written as a tribute to Bowie following his death in 2016.
== Background with Billy Corgan ==
Corgan first met Bowie in the 90s. At the time, Bowie was also with Virgin Records, so they would occasionally encounter each other. They appeared together on a few television shows (it's unclear which shows). Eventually he asked Corgan to play with him on his 50th Birthday Party at Madison Square Garden in 1997. When Corgan asked him about why he had him play on "All the Young Dudes", Bowie replied that the lyric "Billy's picking stars off of his face" reminded him of Corgan.Billy Corgan interview on Howard Stern (2017)
In the long run, Corgan said he didn't get to know him too well because Bowie was apparently a very private person. In a VIP pre-show, Corgan explained the difficult time Bowie was going through career-wise when he shared the stage with Corgan, and watching how the music business treated Bowie served as a lesson for Corgan:
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David Pajo

David Pajo (born June 25, 1968) is American multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Slint, Tortoise, and Stereolab. He was initially the bassist for Zwan in 2001 until Paz Lenchantin joined the band later that year, after which he switched to playing guitar.
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* Mary Star of the Sea (January 28, 2003)
* Spun (July 22, 2003)
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Daydream

"Daydream" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins's debut studio album, Gish. It is the only Pumpkins song to entirely feature D'Arcy Wretzky on lead vocals. The song actually ends at the 1:56 mark, followed by the hidden track "I'm Going Crazy" which starts at 2:07.
A live version of "Daydream", with Billy Corgan on vocals, appears on the single for the 2007 song "That's the Way (My Love Is)".
Corgan has stated the song draws influence from My Bloody Valentine.
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* At the 1:10 mark, you can hear a click from the cello player's bow hitting the wood of his cello.
* At 1:20-21, you can hear jingly noises, which is probably someone's bracelet.
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Dazed and Confused

"Dazed and Confused" is a 1969 single by Led Zeppelin, based on the original 1967 song by Jack Holmes. During the Shamrocks & Shenanigans tour, The Smashing Pumpkins often teased it during "Starz", while Zwan included it in "Jesus, I" full on June 10, 2003.
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December 2007 – Pass Studio

The December 2007 Pass Studio sessions in Los Angeles were for the American Gothic EP. It was recorded while the band was on break between 2007's Zeitgeist tour and the Europe 2008 tour. Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin produced all tracks, with Roy Thomas Baker co-producing "Again, Again, Again (The Crux)".
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December 2010-February 2011 – Pumpkinland II

The December 2010-February 2011 Pumpkinland II sessions was the third set of recording sessions for the Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project. The band's line-up now included Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder on guitar, Nicole Fiorentino on bass and Mike Byrne on drums.
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December 2018 – Los Angeles

The December 9, 2018 Instagram post from Jimmy Chamberlin on December 10, 2018 sessions at an unknown Los Angeles studio were for additional recordings to complete work on a few select Machina songs Instagram story from Billy Corgan on October 26,2018 Instagram story from Billy Corgan on November 30, 2018 for the upcoming reissue.
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December 2018 – Pumpkinland II

The December 21 to December 26, 2018 Pumpkinland II sessions were acoustic demo recordings by Corgan for the Smashing Pumpkins Christmas album.
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* 16 songs
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=== December 22, 2018Instagram story from December 22, 2018 ===
=== December 26, 2018Instagram story from December 26, 2018 ===
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December 2022-April 2023 – Blackbird Studios

The December 2022-April 2023 – Blackbird Studios sessions at Studio A were the initial and main recording sessions for Aghori Mhori Mei.
The first round of the sessions were recorded during December 2022Jimmy post on Instagram from December 2, 2022Howard Willing post on Instagram from December 28, 2022, while the rest was tracked during the last week of March and first week of April 2023Howard Willing post on Instagram from April 11, 2023.
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