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1996 - Pumpkins call hiatus after the Jimmy debacle instead of going on without him

two or three years later, Jimmy's clean and the rest of the band has had time off to digest their fame and not become crack addicts

they release the following albums:

Adore

Quiet, subtle, mostly acoustic, minimal overdubs/electronic bleeps and bloops...mostly just the sound of four people playing traditional instruments, live, with a few exceptions

To Sheila - nearly identical to real world version
Once Upon A Time - shorter, simpler
Tear - Jimmy drums, Billy a capella during intro, real backing orchestra, real piano, not electronic keyboard
My Mistake - Same as Adore Demos version
Dusty and Pete - similar to real version, perhaps use D'arcy and James to sing Dusty and Pete's respective "lines" along with Billy if that's tastefully possible (I'm thinking the vocals in Beautiful and Farewell+Goodnight, not Daydream or A Night Like This)
James Song - amalgamation of the best parts of "Falling" (the verse riff) and "Winter" (the chorus)
Annie Dog - nearly the same as real version
Shame - nearly the same as real version
Nightmare - Cut out all the electronic stuff, rework instrumentation and arrangement to make the song shorter, use James and D'arcy and maybe Jimmy in the doo-wop breakdown
For Martha - essentially identical as real version
Blank Page - ditto, maybe backing orchestra?
Blissed and Gone similar in arrangement to SBA version, jury's out on the instrumentation, perhaps go all the way, not half-assed, with building all the song's percussive noises out of speech samples

World Turned Down

Remember in some Adore-era interview when someone asked Billy where the Pumpkins' music was headed, and he said something along the lines of 'totally unlistenable experimental rock'...well, this would be it...sort of a mix of the gritty aspect of M2 and the Ransom soundtrack, the electronica of Eye, and the cyber-metal sound of the Batman and Robin songs...analagous to the departure Radiohead made from OKC to KidA

TEITBITE - similar to Batman and Robin version, use lots of sampled vocals from the chorus and jumble them up/remix them in the 'breakdown', Jimmy drumming 'live' on both drums and electronic-noise-keyed drum pads
Ava Adore - live Jimmy drumming, make song simpler, grittier on verses, maybe some acoustic guitar like the later live versions during the first verse, that nice heavy metal riff from live versions on the second verse, and that rock-out ending from those live versions too
Perfect - live Jimmy drumming, a mix of styles: use a Nellee Hooper remix version vibe/rhythm for verses, and make the rhythm and instrumentation of the choruses like the real album version, but with several more layers of U2 guitars
Daphne Descends - more 'live' drumming and instrumentation, cut each chorus in half, use the first half for the first chorus, second for second; cut the ending much shorter so 'you love him' doesn't repeat 89 times
In My Body - You know how that awesome remixed version sounded on that silly gatmog anime clip? A lot like that.
Eye - Similar to lost highway version, perhaps live Jimmy drumming on electronic pads, not drum programming, turn the bass way up and buzz/distort it a bit, really play up that eerie choir sound at the end, lots of layering and reverb, etc.
Saturnine very similar to the M2 version (i love that guitar distorion), but with some industrial/metal/electronic elements that give it a hint of the Adore/demo version
White Spyder - total cyber metal freakout: rock ten times as hard and heavy as M2 version
SootnStars ?-perhaps a little shorter, varied instrumentation, go crazy with the electronica, the reverb, the voice distortion, maybe use some of the other bandmember vocals?

in addition, some fleshed out studio versions of

Friends and Enemies of Modern Music

Not much individual song explanation here...this is the band playing catchy, pure rock and roll, and doing it 'live' in the same vein as the MCIS studio version of XYU.

Glass - utilize that crazy vocal echo intro from the live late Machina era, use it again on the 'breakdown', speed it way up, sort of punk-ish
Dross - keep the syncopated breakdown from early live versions, shorten outro
SIYL - nearly same as Machina version, perhaps a bit 'live'-er
Vanity - cleaner production than M2 - not so far away/in a tin can, but still a bit of that vinyl feel
Slow Dawn - cleaner production than M2, keep that killer guitar soloing
Lucky13 - finish/flesh out more? (not necessarily longer...and Jimmy still needs to declare his jungle-drummed-out-ness at the end)
Here I Am - fleshed out from the demo version - full band instrumentation
Let Me Give The World To You - similar to M2 version, but less/no overdubbed instrumentation
Virex - a hint at what's to come (Machina), but simpler than the real album/TIV version - verses have random cutting between acoustic and electric rhythm guitar strumming, choruses explode into that 80s new wave revival guitar, short and sweet

(secret song)CashCarStarjuxtapose both versions of lyrics on second verse, end of the song is arranged like the late live versions

Machina

If There Is A God - a lot like the piano/vox Billy version perhaps the full band and reverb comes in at the very end, as the song fades out...into that intro buzzsaw of
The Everlasting Gaze - no 'you know i'm not dead' in beginning, instead an introductory version of the ihabow guitar line that hides in the background of verse 2, album version...production is simple and clear on verses, bass is turned up and fuzzed out, use the "disco king" bassline on the second verse, also on that verse bring out that ihabow line, way overboard on the sea of crackling reverb on the choruses, two simultaneous but not identical drum tracks on the choruses for extra Jimmy pummeling power, the vocal breakdown has a multitude of billy vocals glitching in and out, is backed by the drum track from the gatmog TEG remix, and has a real recording of a concert crowd singing along by the end of it...the subsequent 'freak out' part is longer and has multiple drum tracks that aren't identical but make sense in an organized chaos sort of way, go absolutely nuts/overboard on the heavy chaos here, and then come back down clean and tight on the outro, outro is arranged like the U.C. show, has that ihabow line riding over the very end and drawing the song up to a simultaneous climax and end
Real Love - go crazy on the reverb but send more of it to the background and out to the edges, bring Jimmy's amazing drum work, esp. the hi-hat, way up in the mix, add about 100 more guitars on last vew crescendoing seconds of the 'climax' and then drop them all out at once like the M2 version
Raindrops - much shorter, therefore less repetitive than the machina version, (we get the point after 2 minutes, but it's a good point), instrumentation is mixed to sound distant during verses, only fully comes into bloom for a few moments at the beginning of the song and then on the choruses
IOTM - fairly similar, add the extra propulsive ending used in the live versions, but shorten the song overall
Try - much shorter, similar to real album version, but with real piano and a dustier country feel
Speed Kills - Very similar to the SIYL single version
This Time - same as Machina version except maybe 'cleaner' mixing...and fade into the beginning of the song with a reversed version of the song's fadeout end
HMM - a studio recording of the arrangement used at the U.C. concert (esp. the intro and outro), keep it raw and rediculously heavy on the verses, and play up that excellent vocal overdub on the choruses, use the Machina version riff but also incorporate the M2 version riff and the riff from Jackboot
Home - crisper and cleaner than the M2 version, but still with plenty of atmospheric guitars, and a tremendous climax highlighted by an emotional vox delivery by billy
Wound - Billy sings an octave lower, song is shorter, really play up the 'dramatic' moments of the song, on the verses use simple, clean instrumentation, save the machina reverb for the choruses
WEL - acoustic, full band, minimal or no 'machina fuzz', perhaps not until the last chorus?
BSBT THE pumpkins epic...the beginning is similar to the Machina album version and the live machina era versions(slow, atmospheric), *******s the 'don't you want me' bridge and the great rolling jimmy drum break from whatever live version used to be on the old official site radio broadcast, and that builds into a version essentially the same as the heavy metal/M2 version, but for epic purposes let's make it heavier and put in the biggest song climax in pumpkins history at the end here, put billy in contention for best studio scream ever, and then have the song come crashing back down into the 'blue skies bring tears' chant from the end of the Machina era album version
Age Of Innocence - essentially the same as the Machina version, cleaner production with some of those great guitar lines in the middle of the song brought up in the mix