The Smashing Pumpkins unveil “Here Is No Why (Live In Los Angeles, 2/4/96)”

A live performance of “Here Is No Why” from the mid-1990s by alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins has recently been made available digitally, as reported by theprp. This performance, which was recorded in Los Angeles on February 4, 1996, is from their impending 30th anniversary edition of their diamond-certified third studio album, “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness.” That compilation, which now has a substantial 42 tracks, will be available on November 21st in a number of forms, including digital and a super deluxe vinyl pressing. That extended package will feature more than eighty minutes of live material that hasn’t been released before.

Unearthing these live recordings from the original lineup’s true, last large-scale tour was a labour of love, and for me certainly a bittersweet as once we blew apart in 1996, we were never quite the same: be it emotionally, or spiritually. Thankfully, I can say this as the band is now enjoying our greatest public success since that time, and one can hear in these tapes the raw power that such nascent faith afforded us, then, and the will and wisdom to persevere that followed. – Billy Corgan

Side A:

1. Geek U.S.A. (1.30.96. San Diego)
2. X.Y.U. (1.30.96. San Diego)
3. Cupid De Locke (1.30.96. San Diego)
4. Here Is No Why (2.4.96. Los Angeles)

Side B:

1. Bullet With Butterfly Wings (2.4.96. Los Angeles)
2. Galapogos (2.4.96. Los Angeles)
3. Bodies (6.25.96. Saginaw)
4. Where Boys Fear To Tread (6.29.96. Detroit)

Side C:

1. Zero (6.29.96. Detroit)
2. Muzzle (6.29.96. Detroit)
3. Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans/Beautiful/Rocket (7.3.96. Cleveland)

Side D:

1. Siva (6.30.96. Detroit)
2. An Ode To No One (7.3.96. Cleveland)
3. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby“/”By Starlight (7.5.96. Philadelphia)

A special tarot card set, seven lithographs, and a hardbound book with new liner notes from Billy Corgan, the singer/guitarist, are also included. The included double album and live material are distributed across six LPs, and the full set is kept in a velvet-wrapped slipcase. Madamezuzus.com is currently accepting pre-orders for the set, which will also be available digitally and in a 4-CD version.