Life Begins Again is the debut album

Album

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 by the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex (side project band of The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan frontman and James Iha , the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin , D'arcy Wretzky , and currently includes Jeff Schroeder Mike Byrne , and Nicole Fiorentino The Smashing...

/Zwan

Zwan

Zwan was an American alternative rock band that was formed by members of The Smashing Pumpkins, Slint, Tortoise, Chavez, and A Perfect Circle. Zwan was started in late 2001 by Billy Corgan, lead singer and guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins, after the Pumpkins disbanded in December 2000. The band...

 drummer Jimmy Chamberlin

Jimmy Chamberlin

Jimmy Chamberlin is an American drummer, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the former drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. After a drug-related incident with touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin in 1996, Chamberlin was fired from the band and joined The Last...

). It was released on January 25, 2005 and as an Enhanced CD

Enhanced CD

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. The album stars several guest musicians and vocalists including Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan

William Patrick "Billy" Corgan, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet best known as the frontman and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois in 1987, the band quickly gained steam with the...

 (Smashing Pumpkins), Bill Medley

Bill Medley

William Thomas Medley is an American singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers....

 (The Righteous Brothers

The Righteous Brothers

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), and Rob Dickinson

Rob Dickinson

Rob Dickinson is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter previously of the band Catherine Wheel. He is now a solo artist. Dickinson was raised in Norfolk, England, and is the younger cousin of Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson....

 (Catherine Wheel

Catherine Wheel

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).

Track listing

All songs were written by Jimmy Chamberlin and Billy Mohler

Billy Mohler

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, except where noted.

1. "Streetcrawler" (Chamberlin, Mohler, Sean Woolstenhulme) – 4:05
2. "Life Begins Again" – 3:44
   • Features Rob Dickinson
     Rob Dickinson
     Rob Dickinson is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter previously of the band Catherine Wheel. He is now a solo artist. Dickinson was raised in Norfolk, England, and is the younger cousin of Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson....
     
      on vocals
3. "P.S.A." (Chamberlin, Mohler, Woolstenhulme) – 5:46
4. "Loki Cat" (Chamberlin, Mohler, Woolstenhulme) – 4:09
   • Features Billy Corgan
     Billy Corgan
     William Patrick "Billy" Corgan, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet best known as the frontman and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois in 1987, the band quickly gained steam with the...
     
      on vocals
5. "Cranes of Prey" – 5:18
6. "Love Is Real" – 3:22
   • Features Rob Dickinson
     Rob Dickinson
     Rob Dickinson is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter previously of the band Catherine Wheel. He is now a solo artist. Dickinson was raised in Norfolk, England, and is the younger cousin of Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson....
     
      on vocals
7. "Owed to Darryl" (Chamberlin, Mohler, Woolstenhulme) – 5:14
8. "Newerwaves" – 4:13
9. "Time Shift" – 2:43
10. "Lullabye" – 3:45
    • Features Bill Medley
      Bill Medley
      William Thomas Medley is an American singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers....
      
       on vocals
    • Lyrics by Becca Popkin
11. "Loki Cat (Reprise)" (Chamberlin, Mohler, Woolstenhulme) – 1:11

Personnel

• Jimmy Chamberlin
  Jimmy Chamberlin
  Jimmy Chamberlin is an American drummer, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the former drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. After a drug-related incident with touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin in 1996, Chamberlin was fired from the band and joined The Last...
  
   – drums, producer, writer
• Billy Mohler
  Billy Mohler
  Billy Mohler is an L.A-based songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was raised in South Orange County and is Bill Medley's godson. He attended and graduated from Berklee College of Music where he studied electric and acoustic bass...
  
   – bass, keyboards, guitar, writer, vocals on "Newerwaves" and "Streetcrawler"
• Sean Woolstenhulme – guitar, writer
• Adam Benjamin – Fender Rhodes
• Paul Chamberlin – additional drums on "Loki Cat"
• Corey Wilton – lead guitar on "Love Is Real", additional guitar on "Time Shift", art concept
• Linda Strawberry
  Linda Strawberry
  Linda Strawberry is the nom de plume of a Los Angeles singer, best known as Billy Corgan's touring bandmate on the Future Embrace Tour. She signed to Chrysalis Records with a publishing development deal, but announced in her blog in October 2006 that she has since left the label, citing artistic...
  
  – backing vocals on "Lullabye"
• Tom Rothrock – mixer
• Mike Tarantino – assistant to Tom Rothrock
• Edmund Monsef – engineer
• Forrest Borie – video content production and editing
• Frank Gironda – management