Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins

This is one of the best double albums ever produced. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness opens with a soothing, lush piano piece which is relaxing and calming, but from then on, the Smashing Pumpkins proceed to burst your ear drums with loud, crashing and beautiful noise. "Tonight Tonight" is a lyrical, emotion stirring masterpiece and the likes of "Muzzle", "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" and "Zero" show the Pumpkins rocking at their very loudest. However, it's not all drums and distorted guitar and songs like "Galapagos" and "Take Me Down" are keen to point this out. The songs combine beautifully well and ...

Somehow this album manages to be good. Great even. All of its component parts point towards the fact that it should be cack....I mean, let's start with the title 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadeness'....what the hell does that mean? Surely one of the most pompous, non-ironic, terrible album titles of all time. Next there is the artwork. Absolutely perfect for an album entitled 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadeness'. Pseudo-Victorian, opium induced, psychedelic visions. How amazingly intelligent and arty Billy, well done. Last, but not least, there's the fact that it's a double album and everyone knows that bar a few exceptions, that ...

Mellon Collie… was released as a double-album which is ambitious in itself. The songs within are at times pure brilliance, and at other times nothing more than a mess of over produced noise. Regardless, this double-album went on to record sales numbers, and is remembered by most as one of the defining albums of the last decade, and certainly one of the more important albums of the "alternative" rock genre. So what makes Mellon Collie… so special? For starters, it documents the period of the mid-nineties when "alternative" was just truly blossoming and the sound had matured into something meaningful. Singles like Bullet With Butterfly ...