Billy Corgan took a very different path on Saturday night at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, playing a three-hour/31-song acoustic career retrospective.
Included in the show were a large group of Smashing Pumpkin songs, including eight songs mid-set from Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness.
Also included were five unreleased songs including one from the never issued ChicagoSongs / ChicagoKid and the rest, presumably from Smashing Pumpkins upcoming albums Monuments to an Elegy or Day For Night.
Corgan has said that those two albums, both slated for 2015, may be the end of his recording career. He told the Chicago Tribune that it is getting too hard to get music released and in front of the fans. “I’m not willing to wait around 15 to 20 years to have somebody go, ‘Hey, that album you made is really good’ and then sell it to the 7000 people that are still paying attention. When this new album process is over, I’m either going to bail on this ship for good or I’m going to have a new ship to sail on.”
Main Set
Chicago (unreleased)
Today (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream, 1993)
Disarm (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream, 1993)
Lonely is the Name (unreleased)
As Time Draws Near (unreleased)
For Your Love (from Zwan DVD For Your Love, 2003)
The Rose March (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ EP American Gothic, 2008)
Perfect (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Adore, 1998)
Let Me Give the World to You (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music, 2000)
Prairie Song (from Zwan’s The Hideout: Compilation One)
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
To Forgive (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
Muzzle (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
Tonight, Tonight (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
Galapogos (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
Methusela (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ rerelease of Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness, 2012)
Thirty-Three (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
1979 (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
Now (And Then) (from TheFutureEmbrace, 2005)
The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ single, 1997)
The Crying Tree of Mercury (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Machina/The Machines of the Gods, 2000)
Ava Adore (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Adore, 1998)
Pinwheels (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Oceania, 2012)
Stand Inside Your Love (from The Smashing Pumpkins’ Machina/The Machines of the Gods, 2000)
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? (The Poppy Family cover)
Burnt Orange-Black (unreleased)
Encore
The World’s Fair (from unissued ChicagoSongs/ChicagoKid album)
Of a Broken Heart (from Zwan’s Mary Star of the Sea, 2003)
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