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.
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…

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