"Pastichio Medley" full tracks (partially found unreleased Smashing Pumpkins songs; 1994-1995)
A handwritten list of songs the band was to work on in the studio, featuring mostly songs from the Pastichio Medley.
Status: Partially Found
Starting in 1994, the Smashing Pumpkins started demoing material for what would become their third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. They recorded material at different studios and recording spaces in Chicago, primarily Pumpkinland (the band's rehearsal space), Chicago Recording Company, and the members' respective home studios. It is known that the band was very prolific with the amount of material they were writing and recording.
In Fall of 1995, frontman Billy Corgan went through apparently hundreds of hours of these rehearsal and recording tapes, cutting up and putting together various pieces of songs and riff ideas into one big pastiche, aptly titled the Pastichio Medley. This piece was released as a b-side to their single Zero, and subsequently on their compilation of b-sides of this era The Aeroplane Flies High. The liner notes for the compilation reveal that there was a grand total of 73 snippets that made up the Pastichio Medley, each given a name, which according to Corgan, are all the original songs' names.[1]
Naturally, people have wanted to hear these songs in full, and fortunately for them, they would get to hear some of them in full. 10 of these tracks were officially released when the band reissued deluxe versions of Mellon Collie and Aeroplane in 2012 and 2013 respectively. Additionally, 3 alternate versions of other these tracks were released on their series of deluxe versions, but these versions are entirely separate recordings from the versions found in the Pastichio Medley. The Mellon Collie reissue also featured a sequel of sorts, called Pastichio Medley (Reversed Extras). Though nothing substantial, it is basically more of the Pastichio Medley, containing different portions of the same songs from the original. Though only a few seconds long each, these clips at the very least prove that some of the original master tapes for the full tracks still exist in some capacity.
This wasn't the only source of hearing these previously unreleased tracks. 2 of these unofficially released tracks surfaced when a demo tape from this period was auctioned off on eBay in March 2000. When presented with a copy of this tape, Billy theorized that it was a tape assembled for the other band members to help practice the new material, or so that their producer would be familiar with the new songs they were working on. This tape has been dubbed the MCIS Demos II (the first and third entries in this series of tapes, despite containing other unreleased versions of songs at the time, did not yield any Pastichio Medley tracks, at least ones that wouldn't later see an official release).
MTV covered the Smashing Pumpkins as part of their MTV Rockumentary series. In this episode, they use various clips of the band rehearsing in the studio before the album was in its official recording stage. Among these clips is one clip of the band performing the track "Rubberman," implying that MTV at one point had video footage of this track in full.
An additional 4 tracks amongst several other unreleased tracks from one series of sessions in 1994, titled Billy's Gravity Demos I, were given to a fan, apparently by mistake, by Billy Corgan himself in April 2000 with the instructions to spread the tracks online. It is worth noting that although Corgan supposedly gave the fan the wrong tape, he seemingly took no action to get this tape back or to stop the spread of these tracks online.
3 final tracks have been leaked on the internet in a series of leaks occurring in both 2014 and 2016 from fan-based Smashing Pumpkins forum, Netphoria. Corgan has since threatened legal action against the leakers, though it is unknown if anything came of this.
Some older fans of the band have claimed that several other songs had been posted online in full during the late 1990s and early 2000s, but there is no definitive proof of these.
Pastichio Medley Tracks
| # | Song Title | State of Release | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Demon | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 2 | Thunderbolt | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 3 | Dearth | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 4 | Knuckles | Mellon Collie 2012 Reissue | Found |
| 5 | Star Song | Aeroplane 2013 Reissue | Found |
| 6 | Firepower | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 7 | New Waver | Mellon Collie 2012 Reissue | Found |
| 8 | Space Jam | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 9 | Zoom | Mellon Collie 2012 Reissue | Found |
| 10 | So Very Sad About Us | MCIS Demos II | Found |
| 11 | Phang (1/2) | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 12 | Phang (2/2) | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 13 | Speed Racer | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 14 | The Eternal E | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 15 | Hairy Eyeball | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 16 | The Groover | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 17 | Hell Bent For Hell | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 18 | Rachel | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 19 | A Dog's Prayer (1/2) | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 20 | A Dog's Prayer (2/2) | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 21 | Blast | Mellon Collie 2012 Reissue | Found |
| 22 | The Black Rider | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 23 | Slurpee | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 24 | Flipper | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 25 | The Viper | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 26 | Bitch | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 27 | Fried | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 28 | Harmonio | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 29 | U.S.A. | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 30 | The Tracer (1/2) | Netphoria Leak | Found |
| 31 | Envelope Woman | Netphoria Leak | Found |
| 32 | The Tracer (2/2) | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 33 | Plastic Guy | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 34 | Glasgow 3AM | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 35 | The Road Is Long | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 36 | Funkified | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 37 | Rigamarole | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 38 | Depresso | MCIS Demos II | Found |
| 39 | The Streets Are Hot Tonite | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 40 | Dawn at 16 | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 41 | Spazmatazz | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 42 | Fucker | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 43 | In the Arms of Sheep | Netphoria Leak | Found |
| 44 | Speed | Mellon Collie 2012 Reissue | Found |
| 45 | 77 | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 46 | Me Rock You Snow | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 47 | Feelium | Mellon Collie 2012 Reissue | Found |
| 48 | Is Alex Milton | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 49 | Rubberman | MTV Rockumentary | Partially Found |
| 50 | Spacer | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 51 | Rock Me | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 52 | Weeping Willowly | Gravity Demos | Found |
| 53 | Rings | Aeroplane 2013 Reissue | Found |
| 54 | So So Pretty | Gravity Demos | Found |
| 55 | Lucky Lad | Gravity Demos | Found |
| 56 | Jackboot | Aeroplane 2013 Reissue | Found |
| 57 | Millieu | Aeroplane 2013 Reissue | Found |
| 58 | Disconnected | Gravity Demos | Found |
| 59 | Let Your Lazer Love Light Shine Down | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 60 | Phreak | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 61 | Porkbelly | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 62 | Robot Lover | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 63 | Jimmy James | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 64 | America | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 65 | Slinkeepie | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 66 | Dummy Tum Tummy | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 67 | Fakir | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 68 | Jake | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 69 | Camaro | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 70 | Moonkids | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 71 | Make It Fungus | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 72 | V-8 | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |
| 73 | Die | Pastichio Medley | Partially Found |