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It looks amazing to me. One of my favourite albums of all time but I just know this is going to be an expensive one. I really just want the live show. Have the original on LP. To be fair the unreleased stuff is a pretty mouth watering prospect as well.

can't wait to feast my eyes and ears on all that SP loot

Was looking at how much people pay for the original 3xLP version of this on eBay. £550! Still won't part with mine.

I hope the artwork isn't reimagined too much, it really put me off the siamese dream reissue, dont mind a new slip case or something but changing the actual album cover is changing part of the album, but probably going to contradict myself completely now, I hope the tracklisting of the vinyl is changed to match the CD because that is the album I know. Either way I am definitely getting this, still one of my favourite albums and many of those b-sides are as good as their best songs

IF they got the 2000 lineup back together... Corgan - Chamberlin - Iha - Auf Der Maur (think D'Arcy is a lost cause) ... and did a no bullshit, straight up proper tour of stuff from this album... I think that might be my number one realistic reformation wish. Was SO disappointed when I saw them at Wembley back in 2000, just absolute pish. However, a bona fide two hour hits show of Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream stuff would be amazing, even now.

This release looks wellll cooool but I bet it is gonna be mega expensive.

They recorded constantly around Melancholy and Adore, there's *plenty* left in the vaults.

more songs.

there's no way I'm ever going to sit through all that.

...and as everyone says, will probably cost a packet. I would guess between £40 - 50

I wasnt aware aeroplane flies high was being re-issued as well...tho maybe i just forgot about it. I do find it strange, however, that they include songs from aeroplane on here...same as what they did on the gish reissue with plume i suppose

had a look to see if this is listed anywhere yet, amazon.co.uk has the vinyl for £140, I feared it would be in that rgion, but interestingly the amazon.com listing has it for $73 (£45ish), think it must be a mistake as the CD version is $136, I might order it just in case the price goes up

Not even in scale with the other reissues that cost about £25? I set my maximum price for this at £60 and will gladly buy it for that when they find they have a rather big surplus of stock in a year's time. The DVD is a nice to have, and there is about ten of the extra tracks that are worth it but, fuck, when did Billy become Mick Jagger?
Add to this, James Iha is playing the Bush Hall next week, tickets are £20 + ticketbastard charges... again, would be nice to go but...

£140 is ridiculous. I've been checking Amazon over the last few weeks thinking it was a mistake, but no.

I got my Rage Against The Machine XX boxset yesterday: Remastered original album with bonus tracks, remastered 1991 demos, remastered album on heavyweight vinyl, 2 DVD's packed full of live/rare material, booklet, poster all in a nice 12" box. £63. A much more sensible price point.

This ladies and gentlemen is when file-sharing for free is perfectly acceptable. Watch and wait for the pdf's and flac lossless versions to go up. That'll do me.

I think I was wrong up thread about the re-imagined artwork, I really disliked the siamese dream and gish reissues because it took those albums out of the nineties which seemed strange for a reissue.

This one, even though the art is new it seems to work, the original art is in part of it but expanded on

£140 for the vinyl set? It looks mouth wateringly sweet, but at that price they are fecking MAD.

It looks like a fairly hefty item weight wise, but i'm assuming postage won't be as much as £114! Might see if I can order it direct from the US and get it for about £60 all in.

I've looked a bit more into this. The vinyl set is available for $75 through the SP store on their website, so we are other sites charging £140?

You can stream the remastered album here.

http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/3

Doesn't really sound that much different actually. I think I'll pass on buying this.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17389-mellon-collie-and-the-infinite-sadness/

it's got a little bit more bite to it and they've cleaned up the muddy low end on Jellybelly/Ode to No One etc. The dynamic range is still great too; really subtle use of compression.

(and that evaluation is based on A/B testing the remastered 16 bit WAVs against the original cd)

didnt realise the $75 vinyl from their site comes with a download of the album plus the three bonus discs, makes the price seem a bit less steep (really wish i'd realised this before I spent £30 on the digital version just to get the bonus tracks, the 'exclusive artwork' with the digital version is a bit of a joke, 8 tiny thumbnails of the artwork)

but Billy's now hawking a shitload of Pumpkins stuff from back in the day on eBay: http://stores.ebay.com/Smashing-Pumpkins-Memorabilia

and it had some surface noise on a couple of tracks, Amazon have given me a full refund but apparently this has been an issue with the pressing

Does anyone know if the ones bought in Europe were from the same pressing or if they suffer from the same noise?

horrible band. truly horrible.

Some of the demos should be interesting indeed.

but this looks like a load of horsewank. You get an album that's already overinflated, packed with loads of studio scraps. Ace.

Tonight, Tonight (Strings Alone mix)
Tonight, Tonight (Band Version Only, No Strings)

If you pay them together, do you get a full version?

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Home Piano version)

Why would anyone want to hear that?

Set The Ray To Jerry (Vocal Rough)

Corgan's vocals on a track tagged 'vocal rough'? No thanks.

Jupiter’s Lament (Barbershop version)

Fuck off.