Rarities and B-Sides (The Smashing Pumpkins album)

Infobox Album | Name = Rarities and B-Sides
Type = Compilation album
Artist = The Smashing Pumpkins


Released = April 5 2005
Recorded = 1989-2000
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 8:09:35
Label = EMI
Producer = various
Last album = "Rotten Apples/Judas 0"
(2001)
This album = "Rarities and B-Sides"
(2005)
Next album = "Zeitgeist"
(2007)|

"Rarities and B-Sides" is an almost complete compilation of all officially released b-sides, outtakes, and demos by The Smashing Pumpkins. According to EMI, this compilation is 'available as a digital download only and can be found at iTunes or any other digital service provider web-site.' Most of these tracks can be found on previous b-side/live/demo releases, such as, "Pisces Iscariot", "Judas 0", "The Aeroplane Flies High", and "Earphoria". The release is notable however for offering the first digital releases of seven tracks that were previously only available commercially on vinyl.

The songs "Bullet Train To Osaka," "Terrapin," "Siamese Dream," "Purr Snickety," "Not Worth Asking," "Honeyspider II" and "Infinite Sadness" were all only available on vinyl until this release. The original "Honeyspider," as well as, the original single versions of "Tristessa" and "I Am One" were not included on this compilation, because they are owned by Sub Pop Records and not EMI.

The single Rocket, was itself excluded from the compilation, but it does include the b-side "Never Let Me Down" titled as Never Let Me Down Again. This is the only incomplete single missing. Besides that, all singles owned by EMI were included on this compilation.

Also, "My Dahlia" and "Sun", the first commercially issued Smashing Pumpkins recordings, were not included in this compilation, probably due to licensing issues. They appeared on the Light Into Dark vinyl only album, which only had a thousand copies pressed back in 1989.

This digital compilation also does not include the 1989 demo Daughter, which was released as a flexi disc single which was only available to Reflex Magazine subscribers.

Additionally, seven official remixes of Smashing Pumpkins songs were excluded from the compilation. These include "Moby Mix" and "Cement Mix" from the "1979 Mixes" single and the entire "The End Is the Beginning Is the End Remixes" single.

As a result of its use in the trailer for the movie "Watchmen", the track "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning" from this compilation reached a peak position of 53 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart during 2008. [http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/news_5161] [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Singles&model.vnuArtistId=5700&model.vnuAlbumId=933126]

Track listing

# "Rhinoceros" – 5:57
# "Blue" – 3:22
# "Slunk" – 2:49
# "Bye June" – 2:09
#*Tracks 1-4 from "Lull" EP
#"Siva" (live) – 4:53
#"Girl Named Sandoz" (live) – 3:38
#"Smiley" (live) – 3:31
#*Tracks 5-7 from "Peel Sessions"
# "I Am One"
# "Plume"
# "Starla" – 10:59
# "Bullet Train To Osaka"
# "Terrapin" (Syd Barrett) (live)
#*Tracks 8-12 from "I Am One" singles
# "Disarm"
# "Soothe"
# "Blew Away"
# "Siamese Dream"
# "Landslide"
# "Dancing In The Moonlight" (live)
#*Tracks 13-18 from "Disarm" singles
# "Today" 3:22
#"Hello Kitty Kat" - 4:32
#"Obscured" - 5:20
#*Tracks 19-21 from "Today" singles
# "Cherub Rock"
# "Pissant"
# "French Movie Theme"
# "Purr Snickety"
#*Tracks 22-25 from the "Cherub Rock" singles
# "Not Worth Asking"
# "Honeyspider"
#*Tracks 26-27 from the "Pisces Iscariot" bonus single. The previously unreleased tracks on "Pisces Iscariot" are NOT included in this digital compilation.
# "Infinite Sadness" (instrumental)
#*Track 28 from the vinyl version of the "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" album.
# "1979" (Vocal Mix)
# "1979" (Instrumental Mix)
#*The alternative mixes of "1979" were taken from the "1979" remix single. There are two other remixes on that single that are NOT included in this digital compilation.
#"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" – 4:16
#"...Said Sadly" – 3:09
#"You're All I've Got Tonight" (Ric Ocasek) – 3:10
#"Clones (We're All)" (David Carron) – 2:43
#"A Night Like This" (Robert Smith) – 3:36
#"Destination Unknown" (Dale Bozzio/Terry Bozzio/Warren Cuccurullo) – 4:14
#"Dreaming" (Debbie Harry/Chris Stein) – 5:11
#*Tracks 31 to 37 from the "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" EP included on "The Aeroplane Flies High" boxset
#"1979" – 4:28
#"Ugly" – 2:52
#"The Boy" – 3:04
#"Cherry" – 4:02
#"Set the Ray to Jerry" – 4:10
#*Tracks 38-42 from the "1979" single
#"Zero" – 2:39
#"God" – 3:09
#"Mouths of Babes" – 3:46
#"Tribute to Johnny" (instrumental) – 2:34
#"Marquis in Spades" – 3:17
#"Pennies" – 2:28
#"Pastichio Medley" – 23:00
#*Tracks 43-49 from "Zero" single
#"Tonight, Tonight" – 4:15
#"Meladori Magpie" – 2:41
#"Rotten Apples" – 3:02
#"Jupiter's Lament" – 2:30
#"Medellia of the Gray Skies" – 3:11
#"Blank" – 2:54
#"Tonite Reprise" – 2:40
#*Tracks 50-56 from the "Tonight, Tonight" single
#"Thirty-Three" – 4:10
#"The Last Song" – 3:55
#"The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)" – 8:31
#"Transformer" – 3:25
#"The Bells" – 2:17
#"My Blue Heaven" (George Whiting/Walter Donaldson) – 3:20
#*Tracks 57-62 from the "Thirty-Three" single
#*Tracks 31 to 62 from "The Aeroplane Flies High"
# "Speed Kills" - 5:11
#*Track 63 from the "Stand Inside Your Love" single
#"Hope" 3:37 (instrumental)
#"Blissed and Gone" 4:45
#"Apathy's Last Kiss" 2:44
#"Mayonnaise (acoustic)" 4:32
#"Eye" 4:53
#*Tracks 64 to 68 taken from the "Still Becoming Apart" promo release.
#"Lucky 13"
#"The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)" (shortened version) – 7:59
#"Because You Are" – 3:46
#"Slow Dawn" – 3:12
#"Believe" – 3:12
#"My Mistake" – 4:00
#"Here's to the Atom Bomb" – 4:26
#"Sparrow" – 2:56
#"Waiting" – 3:48
#"Saturnine" – 3:49
#"Rock On" – 6:06 (David Essex) (live)
#"Winterlong" – 4:59
#"Soot and Stars" – 6:39
#*Tracks 71 to 81 taken from "Judas 0".
# "Ava Adore"
# "Czarina"
# "Once In A While"
#*Tracks 82 to 84 taken from the "Ava Adore" single.
# "Perfect"
# "Summer"
# "Perfect" (Nellee Hooper Mix)
# "Perfect" (Nellee Hooper Instrumental)
# "Perfect" (Perfecto Mix) – 7:00
# "Perfect" (Perfecto Dub) – 7:04
# "Perfect" (Elektro Breakbeat Mix)
# "Daphne Descends" (Kerry B. Mix)
#*Tracks 85 to 92 taken from the "Perfect" single
# "Christmastime"
#*Track 93 taken from the "A Very Special Christmas 3" compilation
# "Drown" - 4:30
#*Track 94 taken from Rotten Apples. This is an edit of the song featured on the "Singles" soundtrack.)
# "Glynis" - 4:53
#*Track 95 taken from the "No Alternative" compilation
# "Sad Peter Pan" (cover) (with Red Red Meat)
#*Track 96 taken from the "Sweet Relief II" compilation
# "The End Is the Beginning Is the End"
# "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning"
# "The Ethers Tragic" (instrumental)
# "The Guns of Love Disastrous" (instrumental)
#*Tracks 97-100 from the "The End is the Beginning is The End" single. The "TEITBITE" remix single is NOT included in this digital compilation.
# "Sinfony" 0:55 (instrumental)
# "Quiet" (live) – 3:44
# "Disarm" (live) – 2:56
# "Cherub Rock" (live) – 4:24
# "Today" (live) – 3:38
# "Bugg Superstar" – 1:29
# "I Am One" (live) – 7:55
# "Pulseczar" – 2:27
# "Soma" (live) – 6:32
# "Slunk" (live) – 2:37
# "Geek U.S.A." (live) – 4:49
# "Mayonaise" (live) – 4:23
# "Why Am I So Tired?" – 15:13 (instrumental)
#*Tracks 101 to 113 taken from "Earphoria"
# "Never Let Me Down" (Depeche Mode) - 4:00
#*Track 114 taken from the "Rocket" single.