The Aeroplane Flies High
Artist The Smashing Pumpkins
Genre Rock
Style Alternative Rock

The Aeroplane Flies High is a five-disc box set released by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins in 1996. It contains expanded versions of the five singles from their album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and also included a 44-page booklet with pictures and writings by the band’s lead singer Billy Corgan, as well as lyrics. A limited edition release, the box reached number 42 on the Billboard charts. Originally intended to be limited to 200,000 copies, Virgin Records produced more after the original run sold out due to overwhelming and unexpected demand. The album was remastered in 2013 under the supervision of frontman Billy Corgan and reissued on vinyl and as a CD/DVD box set.

Tracklisting

  1. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
  2. Bullet With Butterfly Wings (4:16)
  3. …Said Sadly (3:09)
  4. You’re All I’ve Got Tonight (3:10)
  5. Clones (We’re All) (2:43)
  6. A Night Like This (3:36)
  7. Destination Unknown (4:14)
  8. Dreaming (5:11)
  9. 1979
  10. 1979 (4:28)
  11. Ugly (2:52)
  12. The Boy (3:04)
  13. Cherry (4:02)
  14. Believe (3:15)
  15. Set The Ray To Jerry (4:10)
  16. Zero
  17. Zero (2:39)
  18. God (3:09)
  19. Mouths Of Babes (3:46)
  20. Tribute To Johnny (2:34)
  21. Marquis In Spades (3:17)
  22. Pennies (2:28)
  23. Pastichio Medley (Early Fade Version) (17:10)
  24. Tonight, Tonight
  25. Tonight, Tonight (4:15)
  26. Meladori Magpie (2:41)
  27. Rotten Apples (3:02)
  28. Jupiter’s Lament (2:30)
  29. Medellia Of The Gray Skies (3:11)
  30. Blank (2:54)
  31. Tonite Reprise (2:40)
  32. Thirty-Three
  33. Thirty-Three (4:10)
  34. The Last Song (3:55)
  35. The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right) (8:31)
  36. Transformer (3:25)
  37. The Bells (2:17)
  38. My Blue Heaven (3:20)

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Release Information

Key Value
Wikipedia URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aeroplane_Flies_High
Format Box Set Compilation, Vinyl 5× 12" Maxi-Single Reissue Remastered
Label Virgin
Catalog Number B0018550-01
Notes “the end of what we had to offer, everything that followed the pieces of one without the other.” - billy corgan A1, I1 - Recorded at Pumpkinland and Chicago Recording Company. A2 - Mixed at The Chicago Recording Company. A3, A4, B2, B3 - Recorded at Soundworks Studios, Chicago. Additional Recording on B3 at Farmer Brown’s Studio. B1 - Recorded at Bugg Studios, Chicago. C1, I1 - Mixed at The Village Recorder. C2 to D3, - Mixed at Soundworks Recording Studios. C1 to D3 - Recorded at Pumpkinland, Chicago Recording Company and Soundworks Recording Studios. G1, H4 - Recorded at CRC. G2 to H1, H3 - Recorded at Sadland. H2 - Recorded at Soundworks. I2 to J1 - Recorded at Charing Cross Studios, Sydney, and Soundworks Recording Studios, Chicago. J2 - Recorded at Bugg Studios, Chicago and The Place, NYC. J3 - Recorded at Soundworks Recording Studios, Chicago. I2 to J3 - Mixed at Chung King, NYC. “The Pastichio Medley is from a variety of sources recorded during completion of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. The LP version has been faded out earlier than the original version in order to fit the vinyl format.”
Discogs URL The Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High