Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

I completely forgot how great this album is, haven't listened to in full in years. Some favourites from my teenage years and at least one of my all time fave songs (1979). As with virtually every double album, it is a bit bloated and there are a couple of forgettable tunes. Some of the lyrics are a bit cringy now that I'm a 30-something ["God is empty, just like ME! >:(" for ex]. It doesn't quite live up to "Siamese Dream", in my opinion, but it is still a fantastic album.

Too long, not everything hits, has multiple personalities… reminds me a bit of my favourite Beatles album.

HL: 1979, Tonight, Thru the Eyes…and more

Mellon Collie: August 20th, listening while walking downtown
The infinite sadness: August 21st, commuting to work

It's a very good album. But it would be a stellar 45 minute album. Why is this thing two hours long? No one needs that much, especially since there are a few duds in that extra time.

Buff, este disco lo machaqué de tanto oírlo. Al final como Billy Corgan empezó a decir tonterías en épocas recientes le cogí manía al grupo y un poco a su música. ► Del primer disco me gustan: "Tonight, Tonight","Jellybelly","Zero","Here Is No Why","Bullet with Butterfly Wings","Cupid de Locke","Muzzle" y "Take Me Down" (Qué bueno es James Iha!!!). ► Del segundo disco: "Bodies","Thirty-Three","1979","Stumbleine","We Only Come Out at Night","Lily (My One and Only)" y "Farewell and Goodnight".
Volviendo a escucharlo con detalle veo que me gustan más las canciones más tranquilas y pop. Un gran disco doble que refleja una época desde una ciudad diferente a Seattle.

En ollut kuunnellu kyseistä bändiä aiemmin, mutta levyn alkupuoli mukavan monipuolinen Tonightin tunnelmoinnista siirrytään sulavasti Jellybeanin rouhisteluun. Loppupää tästä tuplasta taas vähemmän mielenkiintoinen, aika monta tylsempää biisiä (esim. Take me down). 3/5.

What a slog. The Smashing Pumpkins barely have enough material for one song, let alone a 2-hour plus album.

This is the Smashing Pumpkins album I'm most familiar with. Not that I've ever owned it, but it was on the radio, MTV, etc. To be honest my friends and I used to mock this one a bit because of lines like "despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage" and Billy Corgan's melodramatic and whiny vocals. Only ever heard the singles before, but listening to it as an album it feels bloated and oddly paced. The first song on the album seems to be entirely ornamental and placed there in an effort to dress up this collection of songs with something that seems more serious and higher minded, posing as a concept album - which I absolutely do not think this is. The comparisons to "The Wall" are completely daft. It's not the size that counts. Not that I would enjoy it that much more but I wish they would have shown a little more discretion in their track selections. I couldn't make it all the way through. Honestly I'm sort of baffled that this was as big as it was.

I don't know where I was in the '90s, but I know that I like Smashing Pumpkins much more than I tough before this album. A great piece of art with a lot of different styles, but still connected, even the more "experimental" songs are great and in line with the rest of the album. Definitively worths it

1979