Despite all your rage, you are still just a reader on a post about a new expansion of one of The Smashing Pumpkins' biggest albums. The iconoclastic band will reissue Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness this fall for its 30th anniversary, pairing the original, sprawling album with a new double album of unreleased live performances on the band's ensuing tour in support of the record. It'll be available as a 4CD or 6LP set from UMe on November 21.

Conceived from the outset as a double album - frontman Billy Corgan described the 2CD set as "The Wall for Generation X" - Mellon Collie represents part of the band's most prolific era and commercial apex. Working with the best-known line-up of the group (guitarist James Iha, bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain) plus producers Flood and Alan Moulder, Corgan stretched beyond the grunge and alt-rock trappings of previous works, embracing diverse moments of art-rock, metal and pop. For the first time, their singles crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100 - the hard rocker "Bullet with Butterfly Wings," the gorgeous "1979," the symphonic "Tonight, Tonight" and psychedelic "Thirty-Three" were all Top 40 hits - and the album also became their only No. 1 hit. Mellon Collie was also nominated for seven Grammy Awards (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for "1979"), while the whimsical, Georges Méliès-inspired video for "Tonight, Tonight" (co-starring Tom Kenny, known as the voice of SpongeBob Squarepants, and featuring costumes rented from the concurrently-filmed James Cameron blockbuster Titanic) won six MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year, Breakthrough Video, Best Direction and Best Visual Effects.

So prolific were the Pumpkins in this period that a box of singles and B-sides, The Aeroplane Flies High, was released not long after Mellon Collie - and both were given lavish box set editions in 2012 and 2013, packed with unreleased studio and live material. (Similar treatment was recently afforded 2000's Machina/The Machines of God, the band's last album before a brief hiatus.) For this reissue, that extra material will be swapped out for 14 different live cuts recorded during the band's Infinite Sadness Tour in 1996 - more than 80 minutes of material getting its debut release. The album's classic cover has been redesigned for this new edition, with the vinyl version featuring luxe packaging that includes a hardbound book of liner notes, a tarot deck and lithographs, all in a velvet slipcase with cloth bag.

The Mellon Collie reissue coincides with a dramatic seven-date residency by Corgan at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, joining forces with its chorus, orchestra and soloists for an entirely rearranged take on the album. The first performance will happen day-and-date with the release of this new edition, which can be pre-ordered at the links below. (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)

Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition) (Capitol/Virgin/UMe, 2025)

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
6LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD)

CD 1-2/LP 1-4: Original album (released as Virgin 72438 40861 2 1, 1995)

Dawn to Dusk

1. Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
2. Tonight, Tonight
3. Jellybelly
4. Zero
5. Here is No Why
6. Bullet with Butterfly Wings
7. To Forgive
8. Fuck You (An Ode to No One)
9. Love
10. Cupid De Locke
11. Galapogos
12. Muzzle
13. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
14. Take Me Down

Twilight to Starlight

1. Where Boys Fear to Tread
2. Bodies
3. Thirty-Three
4. In the Arms of Sleep
5. 1979
6. Tales of a Scorched Earth
7. Thru the Eyes of Ruby
8. Stumbleine
9. X.Y.U.
10. We Only Come Out At Night
11. Beautiful
12. Lily (My One and Only)
13. By Starlight
14. Farewell and Goodnight

CD 3-4/LP 5-6: Infinite Sadness Tour '96 (previously unreleased)

1. Geek U.S.A. (Live at Soma, San Diego, CA - 1/30/1996)
2. X.Y.U. (Live at Soma, San Diego, CA - 1/30/1996)
3. Cupid De Locke (Live at Soma, San Diego, CA - 1/30/1996)
4. Here is No Why (Live at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA - 2/4/1996)
5. Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Live at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA - 2/4/1996)
6. Galapogos (Live at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA - 2/4/1996)
7. Bodies (Live at Wendler Arena, Saginaw, MI - 6/25/1996)
8. Where Boys Fear to Tread (Live at The Palace of Auburn Hills, MI - 6/29/1996)

1. Zero (Live at The Palace of Auburn Hills, MI - 6/29/1996)
2. Muzzle (Live at The Palace of Auburn Hills, MI - 6/29/1996)
3. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans/Beautiful/Rocket (Live at Gund Arena, Cleveland, OH - 7/3/1996)
4. Siva (Live at The State Theatre, Detroit, MI - 6/30/1996)
5. An Ode to No One (Live at Gund Arena, Cleveland, OH - 7/3/1996)
6. Thru the Eyes of Ruby/By Starlight (Live at CoreStates Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA - 7/5/1996)