5CD + DVD
- 106 Tracks
- Original album remastered for the first time
- 64 bonus tracks of previously unreleased material or alternate versions of Mellon Collie era Songs
- DVD featuring live show filmed at the Brixton Academy, London (1996) and bonus performances from Rockpalast (1996)
- Housed in a 12×12 lift-top box with magnetic closure, re-imagined cover art and velvet-lined disc holder
- 2 books containing personal notes, lyrics, new collage artwork plus a Decoupage kit for creating your own scenes from the Mellon Collie universe.
The bonus content and special features were curated from the band’s archives by CORGAN, and have been painstakingly remastered for the first time from the original master tapes by Bob Ludwig.
EMI Music’s extensive reissue campaign honouring the legacy of The Smashing Pumpkins continues end of 2012 when the iconic alternative band’s fourth album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness receives the fully remastered treatment for the first time.
The original double album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, received 7 Grammy Award nominations and featured 5 hit singles ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’, ‘1979’, ‘Zero’, ‘Tonight, Tonight’, ‘Muzzle’ and ‘Thirty-Three’. The reissue project was remastered from the original analog masters and personally overseen by founding member Billy Corgan with extensive bonus material from the Pumpkins’ archives.