This band was very popular in the 1990s, selling over 30 million albums. However, their popularity declined near the end of the decade, as the band changed styles and ran into the usual problems band have with big success, such as drug overuse and personality conflicts. In 2000, the album "Machina" was released, but it sold poorly compared to earlier albums, only going gold (meaning sales of over 500,000). By contrast, the band's 1995 double album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" sold over 10 million.
In May 2000, several months before this concert, the band's main singer and vocalist Billy Corgan announced the band would break up by the end of the year, after some additional recording and touring. Sure enough, the band had their last concert in December 2000. (The band would later reform in 2007, and still exists as I write this in 2024.) As a result, this concert was recorded with both the band and the audience knowing the break up was coming. There is a joke about this during the banter between songs, where a song doesn't end properly and Corgan says he'll have to break up the band as a result.
I found two sources for this. One is a video of what was broadcast on TV at the time. It has excellent sound, and this is almost entirely sourced from that. The other is an audience bootleg of the entire performance, which lasts almost two hours. Unfortunately, the sound quality for that is poor, too poor for me to want to use it. I only used some of it for the first song, "Snail." That's because the show only included a portion of the song, in their usual, annoying style. I hate having only part of a song, so I used the audience boot to fill in the missing part of the song. I tried to use some audio editing tricks to improve the sound quality some, but there's only so much one can do with poor source material. You probably will be able to easily notice when there's a switch to the video source near the end of the song.
Three of the songs included here are from the 2000 album "Machina": "Try, Try, Try," "With Every Light," and "Stand Inside Your Love." Most of the songs I couldn't include due to the poor sound quality were also from that album.
This album is 47 minutes long.
01 Snail [Edit] (Smashing Pumpkins)
02 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
03 Today (Smashing Pumpkins)
04 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
05 Try, Try, Try (Smashing Pumpkins)
06 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
07 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins)
08 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
09 Thirty-Three (Smashing Pumpkins)
10 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
11 With Every Light (Smashing Pumpkins)
12 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
13 Stand Inside Your Love (Smashing Pumpkins)
alternate link:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/jgFdUgc1
The cover is a screenshot I took from the YouTube video of this exact concert. I upgraded the detail with the Krea AI program.
Thanks! Didn't know SP also had a Storytellers show
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