Mashed Potatoes (album)

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Mashed Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes cover
Box set (bootleg) by The Smashing Pumpkins
Released 1994
Recorded 1988-1993
Genre Alternative rock
Length 5:07:36
Producer Billy Corgan, Butch Vig
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Mashed Potatoes is a 5-disc set of rare and unreleased songs by The Smashing Pumpkins. The set was put together by Billy Corgan who distributed nine copies of the set to friends, management, and other band members as gifts in 1994. The set has never been officially released, but has been heavily bootlegged.

Contents

[edit] Stolen copy

Around February 1995, D'arcy Wretzky's copy was stolen from her vacation home in Michigan City, Indiana. The thief sold the discs to a local store, and most were later recovered by police. Although the discs were made up of many studio and soundboard quality tracks, the official press release stated that the discs were "worthless practice demos containing scratchy bass lines and D'Arcy telling jokes." This information was repeated in numerous news sources at the time.[1]

[edit] Notoriety and release

After its release, the set gained notoriety amongst fans of the band. The set's extreme scarcity, coupled with the rapidly expanding bootleg trading scene on the Internet caused the set to become one of the most rare and sought after bootlegs of the band.

In December 2002, eight years after Billy Corgan first put the set together, the entire 5-disc collection was leaked onto the Internet. The only pictures of the set's packaging to emerge feature simple white covers with handwritten tracklistings by Billy Corgan.

[edit] Track listing

Total running time of live material: 2:57:27. Total running time of studio and demo material: 1:54:07

[edit] Disc One

  1. "Happy Fucking Valentines" - 0:45
  2. "Tristessa (live 92)" - 3:36
  3. "There It Goes (demo 88)" - 5:02
  4. "With You (demo 89)" - 2:45
  5. "Jesus Loves His Babies (outtake 91)" - 3:06
  6. "Stray Cat Blues (Rolling Stones) (live 90)" - 4:33
  7. "Snail (radio 91)" - 5:46
  8. "Bob Speaks" - 0:34
  9. "Window Paine (live 90)" - 7:45
  10. "Wave Song (demo 91)" - 4:07
  11. "Blue (acoustic 91)" - 4:00
  12. "Lie I Lie (live 89)" - 3:18
  13. "My Eternity (radio 88)" - 6:56
  14. "Jesus Is the Sun (demo 90)" - 2:48
  15. "Sookie Sookie (Don Covay/Steppenwolf) (live 90)" - 6:56

Total running time: 61:57

[edit] Disc Two

  1. "Chump (live 92)" - 2:42 *an alternate version of "Slunk"
  2. "Rocket (live 93)" - 4:54
  3. "Under Your Spell (demo 88)" - 3:51
  4. "Honeyspider (live 90)" - 2:58
  5. "STP (demo 91)" - 3:30
  6. "Snap (demo 89) " - 3:38
  7. "Rhinoceros (live 93)" - 4:41
  8. "Let's Meet the Band" - 0:40
  9. "Bleed (live 88)" - 4:52
  10. "Opal/Worship (live 90)" - 6:02
  11. "Drown (live 92)" - 8:08
  12. "Fat Man Blues (live 89)" - 3:14
  13. "Try to Try (live 90)" - 3:44
  14. "Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground) (radio 88)" - 5:23
  15. "WNUR interview (radio 88)" - 3:53

Total running time 62:10

[edit] Disc Three

  1. "And from the West Side..." - 0:35
  2. "Girl Named Sandoz (The Animals) (live 92)" - 4:13
  3. "365 (live 90)" - 3:29
  4. "Spaceboy (outtake 93)" - 3:57
  5. "The Joker (Steve Miller Band)(live 92)" - 3:22
  6. "Suffer (live 92)" - 7:44
  7. "Coming Attractions" - 1:12
  8. "Egg (demo 89)" - 2:25
  9. "Bury Me (live 92)" - 4:07
  10. "Moleasskiss (demo 92)" - 4:03
  11. "I Am My End (live 90)" - 3:53
  12. "My Dahlia (demo 88)" - 3:45
  13. "Vanilla (demo 89)" - 2:48
  14. "East (demo 88)" - 4:08
  15. "Kill Your Parents" - 0:50
  16. "Terrapin (Syd Barrett) (live 91)" - 3:22
  17. "Cinder (live 91)" - 4:20
  18. "Luna (acoustic 91)" - 3:16

Total running time: 61:38

[edit] Disc Four

  1. "Interview Nozems a Go-Go" - 4:08
  2. "Morning Jam (live 90)" - 2:19
  3. "I'm Free (The Who) (live 90)" - 2:46
  4. "Jennifer Ever (demo 88)" - 3:41
  5. "Plume (live 92)" - 3:37
  6. "Disarm (live 93)" - 3:16
  7. "Siva (live 92)" - 8:40
  8. "Translucent (demo 90)" - 3:30
  9. "Not Worth Asking (live 89)" - 4:09
  10. "Over You (live 90)" - 3:47
  11. "Where's Vince? (outtake 93)" - 2:41
  12. "Smiley (acoustic 91)" - 3:37
  13. "Geek U.S.A. (live 93)" - 5:20
  14. "Crush (live 92)" - 3:49
  15. "C'mon (live 90)" - 5:48

Total running time 61:08.

[edit] Disc Five

  1. "Hello Kitty Kat (demo 92)" - 6:11
  2. "Nothing and Everything (demo 88)" - 5:54
  3. "Mayonaise (outtake 93)" - 4:32
  4. "Out of Focus (Blue Cheer) (live 92)" - 3:05
  5. "Offer Up (live 92)" - 5:19
  6. "Silverfuck (live 92)" - 9:36
  7. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (live 93)" - 1:17
  8. "Stars Fall In (demo 89)" - 2:58
  9. "Godzilla (Blue Öyster Cult) (live 90)" - 5:50
  10. "Bye June (live 92)" - 2:34
  11. "Spiteface (demo 88)" - 4:36
  12. "Daydream (demo 89)" - 1:55
  13. "I'll Never Change (live 90)" - 3:05
  14. "Infinite Sadness (outtake 93)" - 3:52

Total running time is 60:43

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Unreleased Tunes Stolen from Smashing Pumpkins", The Deseret News, 1995-05-11. 
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