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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Consequence of Sound](https://time.com/author/consequence-of-sound/) Jul 25, 2013 2:47 PM UTC  Virgin by [Consequence of Sound](https://time.com/author/consequence-of-sound/) Jul 25, 2013 2:47 PM UTC  _This post is in partnership with_ [_Consequence of Sound_](http://consequenceofsound.net/)_, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene._ Smashing Pumpkins fans could never justly feel as though they’ve been left wanting. The band’s history has been one of oversharing before oversharing meant LiveJournals and cleverly angled MySpace profile pictures. The very first clue that the Pumpkins kept a vast treasure trove of recorded material on hand at any time was the post-_Siamese Dream_ rarities collection _Pisces Iscariot_. Then Billy Corgan and company (but really just Billy Corgan) decided that the Pumpkins had enough album-level material to release 90 minutes of music in the form of their octuple-platinum opus _Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness_. And after _Mellon Collie_, of course, came the [titanic](http://topics.time.com/titanic/) _The Aeroplane Flies High_. Contained within the enormous lunch box of _Aeroplane’_s original release was, by definition, a collection of the five _Mellon Collie_ singles. In practice, the discs that accompanied the thunderous “Bullet With Butterfly Wings,” the iconic “1979,” the vicious “Zero,” the lush “Tonight, Tonight,” and the meditative “Thirty-Three” were less singles and more themed EPs. Each disc, save for the covers collection of the “Bullet” disc, explored more deeply the sonic themes posited by their lead tracks. For a band like the Pumpkins, who fluctuated between orchestral dream pop, thrash metal, psychedelic grunge, coffee house acoustics, and new wave stomp, such a move made sense. It takes patience and practice to perfect the myriad styles from which the band culled, and the original five discs of _Aeroplane_, aside from being an engaging listen for even casual fans of the early Pumpkins, also served as a reminder of how much work the band put into their craft. Highlights of the original five discs included the solo acoustic beauty “Jupiter’s Lament,” the band’s glam metal take on “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight,” an impressive turn on the old standard “My Blue Heaven,” the classic Pumpkins groove of “Pennies” (which really should have seen album release somewhere), and the song which would title a later rarities compilation, “Rotten Apples.” It’s on these songs where Corgan’s talents as a songwriter across genres are more intimately explored. The extra 33 tracks that made up _The Aeroplane Flies High_ served as a more effective version of the band’s _VH1 Storytellers_ turn; you could hear the story of the band more effectively just by _hearing the band_. Taken as separate nuggets, they were bite-sized histories. This reissued release, however, is _literally over 100 tracks_. It’s everything about the Pumpkins classic overabundance of studio time turned up to eleven, then digitized and released onto a hapless public. And while it would be nice to think that, say, the extra 15 tracks that make up the “Bullet” disc open a window into the band’s creative process when in World-as-Vampire mode, all it really does is expose just how judicious the band had to be in their cuts. If the grating riff of “Germans in Leather Pants” had ever been exposed to the world, it might have ruined the band’s career years earlier. Later, the eight-track version of “Zero” is a toothless bunny compared to its album state. Taken as a whole, this bloated re-release of _Aeroplane_ is an obsessive’s curio, the type of thing a 34-year-old still really trying to figure out the hidden meanings behind _MACHINA: The Machines of God_ would gladly shell out for and pore over, looking for numerological references to Glass and June. Listened to in bits and pieces, however, this new _Aeroplane_ solves the Big Smashing Pumpkins Riddle: Why hasn’t this band sounded the same since these sessions? The big falsehood of the Pumpkins’ history turns out to be Billy Corgan’s centrality. While Corgan maintains front-and-center status across the jams and live recordings that tail-end the original singles, the interplay of the band as a four-piece unit has never been more apparent than here. Tempo-shifting with Swiss watch precision, alternating between dynamics in perfect sync and without warning, settling into complex grooves with lazy aplomb, the Smashing Pumpkins sound like equals here. Listening to anything from _Adore_ onwards after digging into this release will further highlight the intangibles the band lost when playing without all four original members. If a release with over 100 tracks is of any value to the casual listener here, it’s as a picture of a working band at their peak doing exactly that: _working_. It shows the depth of material tossed aside even before it had been formed into coherence. It shows the formative structure of songs in chrysalis, and how you can tell even from those fledgling beginnings which will stick in the consciousness. Over the course of the band’s rehearsals for its show at [Chicago](http://topics.time.com/chicago/)’s Double Door, and the subsequent show itself, it shows how bands translate studio hits into live performances both thunderous and flat. And it shows how the Smashing Pumpkins in particular thrived and were at their most vibrant when these four particular people were able to work together. Despite the personality problems that would soon force the original lineup to split, the mountain of tracks that make up this release show how well the band functioned as a professional unit. If you’re a fan of the Smashing Pumpkins, or a fan of rock history, _Aeroplane_ may not be an essential document, given how inordinately packed it is with extras, but it’s certainly a telling one. **Essential Tracks:** ”Jupiter’s Lament”, ”Pennies”, and ”You’re All I’ve Got Tonight” **More from Consequence of Sound:** [Listen to an Unreleased Acoustic Version of Smashing Pumpkin’s “1979”](http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/07/listen-to-an-unreleased-acoustic-version-of-smashing-pumpkins-1979/) **More from Consequence of Sound:** [Dissected: Smashing Pumpkins](http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/07/dissected-smashing-pumpkins/) **More from Consequence of Sound:** [Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins, _Siamese Dream_ (Deluxe Edition)](http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/11/album-review-smashing-pumpkins-siamese-dream-deluxe-edition/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7118205/smashing-pumpkins-the-aeroplane-flies-high-reissue-is-compelling-and-excessive/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7118205/smashing-pumpkins-the-aeroplane-flies-high-reissue-is-compelling-and-excessive/"},"headline":"Smashing Pumpkins' 'The Aeroplane Flies High' Reissue is Compelling and Excessive","datePublished":"2013-07-25T14:47:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T14:36:36.852Z","description":"This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. 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