The Smashing Pumpkins demo albums

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Prior to being signed to a record label, alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins released several demo albums at their concerts in 1988 and 1989. After these four tapes, the band made a number of releases on small labels before signing to Caroline and later Virgin.

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[edit] Nothing Ever Changes

Nothing Ever Changes
Nothing Ever Changes cover
Demo album by The Smashing Pumpkins
Released July 1988
Recorded March 1988
Genre Alternative rock
Length 16:24
Producer Billy Corgan
The Smashing Pumpkins demo chronology
Nothing Ever Changes
(1988)		 The Smashing Pumpkins
(1989)

Allegedly three versions of artwork for Nothing Ever Changes were created. The single copy known to exist outside the band's archive has a cover featuring a nun with bleeding hands and eyes. Artwork mock-ups for the other two covers are known to exist, but descriptions of the actual art have not emerged. The number of tapes created is unknown, but it is very likely an extremely small number.

[edit] Track listing

All songs were written by Billy Corgan.

  1. "The Vigil" – 3:35
  2. "Nothing and Everything" – 4:50
  3. "Holiday" – 3:46
  4. "Cross" – 4:23

[edit] Personnel

  • Billy Corgan – vocals, guitar, bass, drum programming
  • James Iha – guitar, artwork
  • Ron Roesing – drums (tracks 1–2)
The Smashing Pumpkins
Demo album by The Smashing Pumpkins
Released March 28, 1989
Recorded October 1988 – December 1988
Genre Alternative rock
Length 28:02
Producer Billy Corgan, Quentin Sanbria
The Smashing Pumpkins demo chronology
Nothing Ever Changes
(1988)		 The Smashing Pumpkins
(1989)		 Moon
(1989)

[edit] The Smashing Pumpkins

[edit] Track listing

All songs were written by Billy Corgan.

  1. "Jennifer Ever" – 3:42
  2. "East" – 4:08
  3. "Nothing and Everything" – 5:52
  4. "Sun" (remix) – 5:26
  5. "She" (live) – 4:16
  6. "Spiteface" – 4:38

[edit] Personnel

Moon
Moon cover
Demo album by The Smashing Pumpkins
Released October 1989
Genre Alternative rock
Length 28:49
Producer Billy Corgan
The Smashing Pumpkins demo chronology
The Smashing Pumpkins
(1989)		 Moon
(1989)

[edit] Moon

[edit] Track listing

All songs were written by Billy Corgan, except where noted.

  1. "Honeyspider" (alternate) – 2:32
  2. "With You" – 2:40
  3. "Egg" – 2:22
  4. "Rhinoceraus" (alternate) – 5:19
  5. "Bye June" – 2:09
  6. "Stars Fall In" (mislabeled as "Stars Fallin") (Corgan, James Iha) – 2:58
  7. "Daughter" (Corgan, D'arcy Wretzky) – 2:50
  8. "Daydream" – 1:53
  9. "Psychodelic" [sic] – 6:06

"Rhinoceraus" would later be retitled "Rhinoceros" and rerecorded for Gish. "Daydream" would also be rerecorded for Gish. "Bye June" later appeared on Lull, and "Honeyspider" (alternate) resurfaced on a limited edition of the LP version of Pisces Iscariot as "Honeyspider II".

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Eye

Eye
Demo album by The Smashing Pumpkins
Released 1989
Genre Alternative rock
Producer Billy Corgan

Little is known about the Eye demo. It apparently compiles songs from the 1989 Reel Time sessions with songs from the 1988 sessions. There is contention about whether it exists at all, and no copies of it are widely known to exist.

[edit] Track listing

All songs were written by Billy Corgan, except where noted.

  1. "Daydream"
  2. "Egg"
  3. "My Dahlia"
  4. "Nothing and Everything"
  5. "Psychodelic"
  6. "With You"
  7. "Rhinoceros"
  8. "Stars Fall In" (Corgan, James Iha)
  9. "Sun"

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Outtakes

A number of tracks were recorded during the Moon/Eye sessions, at Reel Time Studios, but did not make the demo albums.

  1. "Bleed" – 4:15
  2. "Bury Me" (later rerecorded for Gish) – 4:21
  3. "Cinnamon Girl" (Neil Young cover) – 2:42
  4. "C'mon" – 4:58
  5. "Daughter" (extended) – 3:56
  6. "Fat Man Blues"
  7. "Honeyspider" – 2:56
  8. "I Am One" (later released as a single, and rerecorded for Gish) – 4:18
  9. "I Am One Part II" – 6:01
  10. "Love" – 3:36
  11. "Not Worth Asking" – 4:01
  12. "Snap (If I Could)" – 3:35
  13. "Stray Cat Blues" – 3:37
  14. "Vanilla" – 2:58
  15. "Waiting" – 3:35
  16. "Waiting for You Now" – 2:23

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