If I were to pick one from each bonus disc of the album:
Gish: Honeyspider
Siamese Dream: Rocket (Rehearsal Demo)
Pisces: There It Goes (always my favorite of the Pre-Gish songs)
Mellon Collie:
-Thru the Eyes of Ruby (Take 7): Somehow manages to be as dreamy as the album version while still sounding like you're sitting in the room with the band. D'arcy and Jimmy's groove is incredible.
-Speed
-Beautiful (Instrumental Middle-8)
The Aeroplane Flies High
-The Gravity demo of "Ugly"
-Zero (8 Track Demo): Not even that great of a demo, but shows how much the rest of the band takes a "good" idea and makes it great. The riff still sounds fundamentally badass, but the absence of D'arcy and Jimmy driving the song forward and James' guitar weaving with Billy's is sorely missed.
-By Starlight rehearsal (with Billy laughing in the middle)
-Live performance of "God" from the Double Door show
-That entire live bonus disc fucking rips
Adore:
-"What If" full band version (absolutely criminal of Billy to have replaced it with what we got on the final album)
-The alternate take of "Czarina" (possibly my favorite reissue moment)
-"Heaven" instrumental
Machina
-Heavy Metal Machine (Take 923: James Iha just stops caring version).
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