Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins

Pros: 28 songs, a lot of variety. Drumming is especially rad.
Cons: Serious mood swings.

I've got to admit, when any mention is made of a "music god", the first image that creeps into my mind is Billy Corgan in that black robe with the white sparklies all over it, covetously performing "Tonight Tonight" at the 1996 Grammys. With the h ...

Pros: Lots of diverse, aurally intense, and overall very interesting tracks.
Cons: A few very long tracks, sometimes pretentious

Billy Corgan was always a bit pretentious. Despite appearing as just part of Smashing Pumpkins, he was actually the driving force behind the great majority of their music especially on the band’s highly successful sophomore album Siamese ...

Pros: Some awesome, diverse, and engaging music
Cons: Possibly too long, A few weak songs, The vocals at times

It would be very easy for someone with no foreknowledge of the Smashing Pumpkins and their music to get so many incomplete or blatantly wrong impressions of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Take a look at the band's name. The Smashing ...

Pros: A definite sense of depth and emotion.
Cons: Some songs just aren't that great.

Once upon a time, alternative rock albums were flawless. Smashing Pumpkin's 'Siamese Dream', Radiohead's 'OK Computer', and Beck's 'Odelay' are all flawless (or as near as you can get) albums from the mid 90s era of alternative rock and creativity. Sadly...

Pros: Excellent orchestration, thoughtful lyrics, great all-around songwriting.
Cons: A couple of average tracks, but they don't bog the album down

"...My Kids Have Stopped Dreaming Of A Future I Can't Possibly Provide." - Homer Simpson on the Smashing Pumpkins' music

With the January release of Zwan’s Mary Star Of The Sea, the...

Pros: The band's most intriguing effort
Cons: There was only one way to go after this... down

Sometimes I wonder if Billy Corgan even realized how great an album Siamese Dream actually was. Not simply that it was a success and all, but that it really was one of the best. We’ll never know I guess, however, Mellon Collie and the Infinite ...

Pros: some GREAT songs, solid songwriting, band feels tight
Cons: production issues, some LAME songs, pretentiousness rears it's head throughout

It's not everyday where a band will release an expansive, ambitious, double CD set and have that be the album that thrusts them into the music industry stratosphere in terms of album sales. To be sure, this practice happened in the 1970s an awful lot ...

Pros: An epic sprawling masterpiece.
Cons: A few throwaway tracks.

As I may have already stated in an earlier review, I was regrettably a late starter to The Smashing Pumpkins. I had owned their album Siamese Dream for a while, and hadn’t really given it enough attention, but a couple of months back I did a ...

Pros: Overwhelming depth and visualisation which has transformed this into an epic experience
Cons: Too many ideas floating around dont get their chance to flourish when they should

The smashing pumpkins 10 year reign throughout the ninties can be said at least to be a very unique one with ever pretentious yet persistent and intelligent songwriter billy corgan always remaining to have a tight grip on the influence of the band, as he ...

Pros: A classic of Alternative rock.
Cons: The epic feel of it may put off some.

Recently I was filling out an online survey form and I came to a question that asked, "What album or song reminds you of high school?” In my case it's the epic Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness by the Smashing Pumpkins. This album was actually...

Pros: A lot of songs! Excellent songs! Excellent music! Diverse in genres!
Cons: One or two throw away songs.

The Smashing Pumpkins, who are now Smashed and gone (they split up in late 2000, ending their career with two farewell 3-5 hour concerts), were known by some as one of the best Rock/Alternative Rock bands of the 90’s. I agree. They exploded into the...

Pros: Lots of music
Cons: Some songs seem rushed

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness was my second Pumpkin album. After hearing the masterpiece Siamese Dream, I was more than excited to hear this one. Obsessed was a better word. It just seemed to good. 28 new...

Pros: well varied, something for everyone, lots of songs (obviously), unique
Cons: kind of saturated, some "unecessary" songs

Flaws are inevitable, even by the great Smashing Pumpkins, when making a double-CD album. How can you make every one of the twenty-eight tracks just as great as the one before it? It'd be very hard. Obviously too hard for the Pumpkins. That's not too say...

Pros: -The 90's best Alt Band with their most creative and epic album

-A Masterpiece
Cons: -Does have a few filler tracks

The Smashing Pumpkins had already rocketed into the rock mainstream with the excellent "Siamese Dream" before this album came out. But being popular was not enough for Billy Corgan & Co... they wanted to be immortals of rock, and they achieved ...

Pros: Great Lyrics, Great talented music..... Everything on it.
Cons: Nothing

I just am in love with this album! It's the best album I have ever heard in my life, and I've heard alot of music. This is an epic cd in time and also in quality which spans 2 hours of great music. The cd is a double album containing 28 songs in all. The...