Smashing Pumpkins Kick Off Mellon Collie Tour with 32-Song Set Including Deep Cuts: Photos, Video + Setlist

The Smashing Pumpkins launched their North American “Rats in a Cage Tour” on Wednesday evening at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio, playing a marathon 32-song concert. The first set celebrated the 30th anniversary of their seminal album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, while the second set drew from their entire career, including some rare deep cuts. Frontman Billy Corgan and company played 16 of the 28 songs from the 1995 double album Mellon Collie, kicking the show off with two of its biggest hits right away: “1979” and “Bullet with Butterfly Wings.” Along with other singles like “Tonight, Tonight,” “Zero,” and “Thirty-Three,” the band also performed deeper Mellon Collie cuts like “Cupid de Locke” and “Galapogos,” both for the first time since 2008, “Fuck You (An Ode to No One)” for the first time since 2007, and “By Starlight’ for the first time since 2010. Find Last-Minute Smashing Pumpkins Tickets Here The second set, also comprised of 16 songs, saw the Pumpkins play four favorites from Siamese Dream (“Disarm,” “Cherub Rock,” “Mayonaise” and “Today”) alongside some rarities like “Le Deux Machina” (first time since 2000), “As Rome Burns” (first time since 2010), and th...