Iconoclastic Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, never one for subtlety or restraint, is continuing the ongoing Smashing Pumpkins reissue campaign this holiday season with a humongous six-disc edition of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The Pumpkins' most ambitious project at the time, the double-album Mellon Collie was described by Corgan as "The Wall for Generation X." Produced Corgan with Flood and Alan Moulder, Mellon Collie attempted to showcase the band closer to how they were
Archives for October 3, 2012
New Box Set Spotlights 10cc and the Things They Did for Love
10cc: smooth rock pioneers? Irreverent architects of "art for art's sake"? The debate continues this year with the U.K.'s first-ever career-spanning 10cc box set, Tenology, to be released by Universal in November. The group U.S. audiences know best for the immaculately-crafted "I'm Not in Love" and "The Things We Do for Love" are only seeing half the picture: singers/songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, who were responsible for the poppier songs in the 10cc
Certified Honey: Donny and Marie, Mungo Jerry Get "Singles Collection" Treatment from 7Ts, Osmonds Go "Around the World"
If you’re looking for a little bit country, a little bit rock-and-roll, Cherry Red’s 7Ts Records has got three new releases just for you! The seventies preservationists have unleashed two complete singles anthologies: Donny and Marie Osmond’s The Singles Collection, spanning the period 1974-1978, and Mungo Jerry’s The Dawn Singles Collection, drawing on the period spent at Pye Records subsidiary Dawn between 1970 and 1974. In addition, the Osmonds' Around the World: Live in Concert (1975) gets