The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-01-13

January 13, 1996 – New York, NY, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Infinite Sadness tour
Date	January 13, 1996
Venue	The Academy
Coordinates	40°45′27″N 73°59′17″W
Location	New York, NY, US
Venue type	Concert hall
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jonathan Melvoin
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Set one

1. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
2. "In the Arms of Sleep" (acoustic) 
3. "Cupid de Locke" (acoustic) 
4. "Thirty-Three" (acoustic) 
5. "Today" (acoustic) 
6. "Lily (My One and Only)" (acoustic) 
7. "Take Me Down" (acoustic) 
8. "Beautiful" 
9. "Rocket" 
10. "Disarm" 
11. "Galapogos" 

Set two

12. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (prerecorded) 
13. "Lucifer Sam" [Pink Floyd] (tease) 
14. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" 
15. "Zero" 
16. "Fuck You" 
17. "Here Is No Why" 
18. "To Forgive" 
19. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
20. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
21. "Geek U.S.A." 
22. "1979" 
23. "Jellybelly" 
24. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 

Encore one

25. "X.Y.U." 

Encore two

26. "We Only Come Out at Night" 
27. "Cherub Rock" 
    1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 

Encore three

28. "Silverfuck" [17:09] 
1. "Space Jam" (tease) 
29. "Farewell and Goodnight" (acoustic) 

Banter

(incomplete due to lack of full show source + poor sound quality)

Iha: Hello.
Tonight, Tonight (acoustic)
(BC after Iha gets last 3 chords wrong: Whoa.)
Iha: Thank you.
BC: That was a pretty interesting note you hit there.
Iha: I thought I [2 unintelligible words].
In the Arms of Sleep (acoustic)
BC: Thank you, thank you, thank [2 unintelligible words]. Thanks for coming.
Cupid de Locke (acoustic)
Thirty-three (acoustic)
BC: Thank you so much.
Iha: Thank you so much.
BC: Like to play an oldie now, uh, from way back.
Iha: A golden oldie.
Today (acoustic)
Lily (acoustic)
Take Me Down (acoustic)
BC: Yeah, you’re a butch motherfucker.
Iha: (directed at the song ending, not Billy) Thank you. ... Yee-haw!
BC: (Southern accent) We’re havin’ a party here tonight, James! (normal) Streets are hot. And you fuckers need a new snow commissioner, man.
Iha: You like, uh, big [unintelligible]. [unintelligible word]. Ah yeah.
BC: The Big Apple. (Beautiful begins) Very beautiful outside of here, James.
Beautiful
Rocket
BC: Thank you for your [unintelligible word]. Hey.
Disarm
BC: Thank you.
D’arcy: Did someone close in New York?
Galapogos
[set break]
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Intro
Lucifer Sam (tease)
> Where Boys Fear to Tread
> Zero
Fuck You
Iha: Alright! Rock power, heh heh. It’s now time for a good story of when I was walking down the street and uh, this guy on the street had these [unintelligible - could be “cards” or “cars”]. And I haven’t been in New York pretty much and he had these [unintelligible "c" word] on sale and he said, “Thirty dollars for a good [unintelligible word] New York [unintelligible word],” so I followed him. I don’t know if that was a good deal or not but he said it was a great deal. [2 unintelligible words].
BC: I just wanna know what your problem is, man. What’s your (laughing) fucking problem?
Iha: Well, it -- you know, step off [unintelligible]. Fuckin’ [unintelligible]. You don’t like diamonds? I got them coming [unintelligible word]. I’m used to this solo time. Uh...yeah.
Here Is No Why
BC: Thanks a lot for listening to a bunch of our old songs.
To Forgive
BC: Thank you. ... Heh heh heh heh. I’m still contemplating the first line, what does it mean?
Iha: [unintelligible]
BC: Is it?
D’arcy: The world is a bonfire?
BC: The world is vampire.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Geek U.S.A.
1979
D’arcy: Why are you guys screaming “asshole”? Are you guys screaming “asshole” at Billy? [unintelligible sentence].
BC: Sorry, I just had to deal with something.
Iha: Let’s [unintelligible word] to the story.
BC: Take it, Jimmy.
Jellybelly
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
BC: Thank you very much.
[encore break]
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
BC: It’s happy time!
Iha: What?
BC: Happy time, you know happy time, here we go, happy time. Are you ready to have some fun now? Let the fun begin! It’s time to have some fun. Fun! You ready, James? (Jimmy starts We Only Come Out at Night drumbeat)
Iha: (screamed) Yeah!
BC: Hang up that cyber metal shit.
D’arcy: Here’s Amy Finnerty and she’s been to more Smashing Pumpkins shows than anyone can match.
BC: Amy, please stand up. Amy, please stand up.
D’arcy: Wait wait wait wait, James.
BC: She actually wrote this song, so if you don’t like it, throw things at her, [unintelligible word or two]. Just kidding, just kidding. I wrote this dumb motherfuckin’ song. But I like it. And it’s in the key of G, it goes like this. ... Happy time, here we go.
We Only Come Out at Night
BC: Oh yeah. Sorry sorry sorry.
(Jimmy starts Cherub Rock drumrolls and continues through Iha’s line)
Iha: [unintelligible but sounds something like “Maybe it should just be drums”]
BC: If you don’t know this song...if you don’t know this song, you don’t belong here, that’s what it is.
Cherub Rock
> Star Spangled Banner (tease - Billy plays part of it over big ending)
(Iha over ending after Billy’s tease: Yeah!!)
[encore break]
Silverfuck / Space Jam
Farewell and Goodnight