How is all your Pumpkins music organized?
 

I never thought I'd be that into the live stuff but I've got a ton now, and I'm not happy with how I've got it all set up.

I've currently got the collection split into 2 sections, one under "The Smashing Pumpkins" and the other under just "Pumpkins."

The Smashing Pumpkins Section...
- Adore
- American Gothic
- Gish
- Live Greatest Hits (Personal Compilation)
- Machina
- Machina II
- Machina III (Outtakes, some of the Machina II EP)
- Mellon Collie Disc 1
- Mellon Collie Disc 2
- Mellon Collie Disc 3 (some of TAFH, etc.)
- Pisces Iscariot
- Rarities and B-Sides (Personal Compilation, not the actual collection)
- Rotten Apples (Just the 3 non-album tracks)
- Siamese Dream
- Zeitgeist (with bonus tracks and Daydream and Superchrist)

The Pumpkins Section
- Gravity Demos (selected tracks)
- Live (This is where I have most of my stuff, just listed alphabetically. Do most of you have your live tracks organized by date? Even if you don't have the whole show?)
- Live 2008
- Live at Le Grand Rex
- Live at The AJ Palumbo Center (wanted the boot of the show I went to)
- Live at The Rock AM Ring
- Machina Acoustic (selected versions of album tracks)
- MCIS (selected demos)
- MCIS Instrumental (selected demos)
- Rarities and B-Sides (any and all alternate studio takes, b-sides, etc that I'm not all that crazy about)
- Residency Songs
- Siamese Dream Demos (selected tracks)
- Unreleased Acoustic (selected acoustic demos)
- Zeitgeist: AOL Sessions
- Zeitgeist: XM Sessions

(Final Count: 621 songs not including Zwan and BC Solo tracks :erm:)

So I'm interested in how you've got all your stuff organized. Your entire pumpkins collection, but your live stuff specifically.

I PUT IT ALL ON A BIG PILE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AND I SHIT ON IT

random stack of cds. as for on my pc, seperate folders by album/collection.

I ALSO INVITE MY FRIEND'S CAMEL TO SHIT ON IT

this

The live stuff? By show?

by how much the AIDS has corroded the disks

http://forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=155555

ban.

i have aids, they let it slip

similar to yours, on itunes all under genre 'billy corgan'
commercial releases (albums, ep's) under Smashing Pumpkins
bootlegs, interviews etc under Smashing Pumpkins live
zwan, complex etc all in billy corgan genre aswell, with an ipod it's just easier to find the conglomerate and all his affiliates.

people who still use the "random stack of cds" method are insane.

its 2000 and EIGHT man. I haven't touched a CD in months.

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thu..._burn_a_cd.jpg

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1715/splistlz0.jpg
prolly missing some stuff
no zwan or live, well.. not my live collection

BUT I LICKED ON YOUR SHIT

chronological order, all on CDs because I don't listen to music while on the computer, and I don't have an MP3 player/iPod. I'm so oldschool :erm:

poorly

this sounds less tedious than what i do, i might have to give it a try.

All my CDs (except Zeitgeist) are in storage.
I have all my music ripped to MP3 and/or lossless WMA on my media centre (hooked up to hifi) and Zune (for in the car, at work, etc.)

I have split up both the Pumpkins and Zwan into normal and live (i.e. I have a 'Zwan Live' artist to separate the Zwan live shows from the studio stuff and the same with TSP).


All of my artists generally have an album called 'artist B-sides' where I put all the spare tracks. With the Pumpkins I have demos, remixes, etc. as separate albums.

in the trash bin

alphabetically in my itunes.

then the 400 some odd live shows/demos/etc are chronologically on some hard drives

i've never downloaded a live sp show.

you're missing out, broseph

There are some great recordings out there. If you want to try downloading some, join the Zomb torrent site. Lots of Pumpkins on there (and Zwan).

If you like Zwan I'd recommend downloading some of the better Zwan recordings. Their best material didn't make it onto the album, and they were a great live band.

I mainly download just DVDs. The concert from Rock AM Ring is an awesome DVD...dual-layer, pre-broadcast picture in widescreen...ultra-clear sound quality...better than most commercial concert DVDs I've seen.

I remember that gig, I saw it "live" on TV.
Link?

Studio

001 - Pre-Gish
002 - Gish
003 - Gish Era
004 - Siamese Dream
005 - Siamese Dream Era
006 - Pisces Iscariot
007 - Mellon Collie Demos
008 - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
009 - The Aeroplane Flies High
010 - Soundtracks
011 - Adore Demos
012 - Adore
013 - Adore Era
014 - Machina Demos
015 - Machina / The Machines Of God
016 - Machina / The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music
017 - Machina Era
018 - Zeitgeist
019 - Zeitgeist Era

Then a separate folder for boots and live recordings.

http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com/browse-a.php

Look under 'Smashing Pumpkins'. You can filter by DVD. There are a few versions. You can work out which is best for you.

Smashing Pumpkins (albums)
Smashing Pumpkins (Singles & other official)
Smashing Pumpkins (Demos)
Smashing Pumpkins (Video)
Smashing Pumpkins (Live)

Live has sub folders
1988-1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2007
2008

& Smashing Pumpkins (Side Projects)
Zwan (Live)

this

Mine's divided into three:

"The Smashing Pumpkins"
Each album has a second disc:
Gish
Gish 2 - i don't remember exactly what's on that!
Siamese Dream - with drown and mayonaise acoustic tacked on
Siamese Dream 2 - Pisces Iscariot
MCIS 1
MCIS 2
MCIS 3 - TAFH
Adore - the album
Adore 2 - era material, i.e. TEITBITE, Eye, Because You Are, choice demos
Machina 1 - with the electric/not-new-wave atom bomb
Machina 2 - edited down to one disc
Machina Premaster
Greatest Hits etc - Rock On, Christmastime,
Zeitgeist - with all the bsides tacked on
Zeitgeist 2 residency songs

"The Smashing Pumpkins Demos"
all the demos

"The Smashing Pumpkins Live"
all in YYYY MM DD format so they sort themselves in iTunes easily
1998 08 04 Atlanta
2000 11 30 United Center
2007 05 23 Grand Rex

ToEachesOwn, yours is the most accurate, pretty elaborate. Kudos. I tried to sort it that way in iTunes long ago but it looks really ugly. And do you really need a three digit system? They've been around nearly twenty years, I don't think Billy will ever get to #746 or anything. Will you revise your numbering system to fit the unreleased mountains of Zwan at any point?

i'm really satisfied with how my collection is orginized.
there are seperate folders for Zwan, the Pumpkins and Billy's solo projects.
then there are sub-folders within each.
(got all of the official releases on cds, but everything else is there).

As far as live recordings, once there are over a couple of songs from a specific
show, they get their own folder.

:-)

My music collection is totally unorganized and I can't find shit!

At one point I was going to put concerts in that same numbering system (thus the reason for the 3 digits), but that would be incredibly tedious.

I keep Zwan and solo stuff in separate folders. I consider the stuff I listed on page one part of "The Smashing Pumpkins Anthology".

At some point down the road I'm going to post what's in every folder because I know that there's stuff that I either don't have or stuff that's been lost over time.

You guys are dorks. :love:

Alphabetically

Left to right from the letter A to the letter Z

Pumpkins Live 88-92
Pumpkins Live 93-97
Pumpkins Live 98-99
Pumpkins Live 2000
Pumpkins Live 2007
Pumpkins Live 2007 (new songs)
Pumpkins Live [tracks for which I have no date]

plus 3 full concerts:
29.6.93 - Studio 105; Paris, FR
28.6.97 - Roskilde Festival; Denmark
19.6.98 - Sydney Secret Gig
(The Pumpkins seem to do their best work in June)

On top of official albums and singles I have an album called 'Pumpkins' for all the miscellaneous stuff and an album called 'Pumpkins Remixes'. I have playlists for TAFH, MCIS, Machina and one with all the live music.

Total tracks: 480

Then there's Zwan - MSOTS, Hideout 1 & 2 (& a a playlist with both), Zwan Live & Djali Zwan for the miscellaneous tracks

Total: 95

Just a big stack in my room, with the more valuebale stuff in a box in a cupboard.

Gish, SD, MCIS, Adore, PI and Machina are in my CD rack. Zeitgeist is in the garbage and fuck knows where Zwan went.

mine is similar to this, for live shows. it's roughly divided into groupings of 5-20 shows.
these are all flac on a 250Gb external HDD. (actually there's some shn still)
i have a separate partition on the HDD for studio / promo and demo releases, including compilations etc. and another for video.
total tracks. who the fuck knows/cares. a lot.

the actual CDs, vinyls, etc. are with my actual physical music media.