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Day One Hundred Twenty Nine (Year Three)

So, it's happening, the much ballyhooed re-release of The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Saddness is finally coming out on the 4th of December.

We've been hearing about this for at least a year.  It's been pushed back at least once, twice probably.

It's a 5 disc set with a bonus DVD of a live show in Chicago.  Not including the original 2 discs that comprised the original release, there are 64 unreleased tracks, demos, etc.  The original album is a masterpiece, but it's not something I sit and listen to all the way through other than about once a year.  Still, I really, really want this re-release.  I'm pretty sure that it's the extra tracks and the view into Billy Corgan's writing process that is what fascinates me here.  If it came with a DVD documenting the making of the record, it would be amazing.

Then again, these double albums are always interesting to me.  Just the notion of writing that many songs for the same project is sort of baffling to me.  I know I've made reference to wanting to do something like that in this space in the past, but really it's a daunting prospect.  Someday, when I've got more immediate songwriting experience, maybe I'll get bold enough to try it.  Until then, I'll dream of the opportunity and listen to as many of them as I can in an attempt to figure out a bit of how that sort of a process would work.

I'm pretty sure that, if I get one musical Christmas Present of Awesome, I'd want this to be it.

That or my ProTools setup.

Or my looping pedal.

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