Audio CD review:
The Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High

The Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High

Band: The Smashing Pumpkins Title: The Aeroplane Flies High Rating: Release Date: 26 November, 1996 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Bullet With Butterfly Wings 2: Said Sadly 3: You're All I've Got Tonight 4: Clones (We're All) 5: Night Like This 6: Destination Unknown 7: Dreaming 8: 1979 9: Ugly 10: Boy 11: Cherry 12: Believe 13: Set the Ray to Jerry 14: Zero 15: God 16: Mouths of Babes 17: Tribute to Johnny 18: Marquis in Spades 19: Pennies 20: Pastichio Medley 21: Tonight, Tonight 22: Meladori Magpie 23: Rotten Apples 24: Jupiter's Lament 25: Medellia of the Grey Skies 26: Blank 27: Tonite Reprise 28: Thirty-Three 29: Last Song 30: Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right) 31: Transformer 32: Bells 33: My Blue Heaven

Editoral Review Bloated? Of course it's bloated. A five-disc set of all the singles from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, plus their B-sides, outtakes and a bunch of covers, The Aeroplane Flies High is the Pumpkins' rock OD. Bloat is the idea. But, for those who are fascinated with Billy Corgan's mind already, it's a curious glance at the man behind the curtain: There are some perfectly good rockers that were excluded from Mellon Collie only because there were already functionally equivalent songs on it; there's the insane 23-minute "Pastichio Medley" of half-grown riffs and works-in-progress, and, in covers of Cars, The Cure, and Missing Persons songs, there are hints of the new wave ideas at the Pumpkins' heart. --Douglas Wolk .. You can see a complete list of all The Smashing Pumpkins discography, or go back to the The Smashing Pumpkins tabs