Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

[coolblue]

X.Y.U just might be my fave actually. Epic brilliance, perfect if you're feeling angsty.

[flygal]

Steve Albini period the end.

[s0n1ab1ad3]

I love this album, I have listened to it so much lately. But it's so depressing at points...

[dougness86]

ouch

Good review though but I do like this album and boo boo please do not post in here again or I and everyone else will start flaming Nirvana

[TravisS]

I agree with ReznorSlave... Siamese dream is definitely the best album

[buckeye10]

Its a very brief review, theres really nothing insightful about it its just something that either you'll agree with or not.

Personally I love pomp rock, and this album. This album does have filler but that goes for any double album, I still consider The White Album, The Wall, Physical Grafitti and Tommy to be great albums dispite their filler.

There are some bad songs. Love sounRAB like bad industrial metal and We Only Come Out Night is, well thats basically this albums "Wild Honey Pie". And Take Me Down might very well be the most sappy song ever written. And X.Y.U. I have no f*cking idea what they were on when they did that one.

But those are the only songs I have any real problem with. Tonight Tonight, 1979, An Ode To No One, Jellybelly, Thru The Eyes Of Ruby, Here Is No Why, Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans, Cupid De Locke, Where Boys Fear To Tread, Galapogos and By Starlight are my favorite tracks on the album.

Even though Siamese Dream is a much more consistant album with less filler. I prefer Mellon Collie as a whole.

I do think I understand though why a lot of Indie/Punk/Alt rock fans hate this album and The Smashing Pumpkins, its because the Pumpkins were labeled as alternative rock, but you had a lot of these purists who think alternative rock is about miminalism and lo fi production and sounding as less "arena rock" as possible. The Pumpkins took the opposite direction obviously, they were going for that prog rock grandeur. This album was a real leap for them and I fail to understand how even those that hate it can't still appreciate its ambitiousness.

[GAGO]

I dont think Stadium Arcadium was. I actually really liked every song on both albums.

[LAV]

Most albums that long are chock full of filler, just look at Use You Illusion or Metallica's Loaded/Reloaded.

Some banRAB just don't know when and how to edit themselves.

[meganelizabth]

It was when this album was released that I stopped listening to The Smashing Pumpkins

[Caribou "QUIT" Barbieâ„¢]

Meanie.

And i just noticed he only liked The Holy Bible, thats what interests me about Urban, he likes at least one album per artist and thinks everything else sucks. :laughing: