Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

believe that life can change
that you're not stuck in vain

we're not the same, we're different Tonight
—"Tonight, Tonight"

The World is a Vampire

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the third album by the Chicago band The Smashing Pumpkins. Coming off the sucess of Siamese Dream, the death of Kurt Cobain, the decline of Grunge, and the band's experience headlining Lollapalooza '94, Face of the Band Billy Corgan decided to write the album as if it was their last. The result was a double album produced by Corgan (who described it at one point as "The Wall for Generation X") and famous Alternative Rock producers Mark "Flood" Ellis and Alan Moulder, ranging in material from gentle piano ballads ("Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"), aggressive Alternative Metal ("Jellybelly", "Tales of a Scorched Earth", "Fuck You (An Ode to No One)", "X.Y.U."), loud-quiet-loud Grunge-ish tracks ("Bullet With Butterfly Wings", "Here Is No Why"), the band's trademark psychedelic, Shoegazing-influenced material ("Porcelina of the Vast Oceans"), quiet acoustic tracks ("Thirty-Three", "In the Arms of Sleep", "Lily", "Stumbleine") and more electronic-influenced material ("1979", "Beautiful") that foretold their style change on Adore.

The album gained very good reviews on release (except only the common nitpick about Corgan's supposedly Wangsty or pretentious lyrics), and spawned a few hits: "Bullet With Butterfly Wings", which married a rant about Corgan's exhaustion with fame and the alternative scene to one of their heaviest, most memorable Epic Riffs, "Tonight, Tonight", a combination of the band's Alternative Rock leanings with a Baroque Pop orchestra and a very memorable video, and "1979", an electronic pop-rock song.

Tracklist

Disc 1: Dawn to Dusk

  • 01 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  • 02 Tonight, Tonight
  • 03 Jellybelly
  • 04 Zero
  • 05 Here Is No Why
  • 06 Bullet with Butterfly Wings
  • 07 To Forgive
  • 08 Fuck You (An Ode to No One)
  • 09 Love
  • 10 Cupid De Locke
  • 11 Galapogos
  • 12 Muzzle
  • 13 Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
  • 14 Take Me Down

Disc 2: Twilight to Starlight

  • 15 Where Boys Fear to Tread
  • 16 Bodies
  • 17 Thirty-three
  • 18 In the Arms of Sleep
  • 19 1979
  • 20 Tales of a Scorched Earth
  • 21 Thru The Eyes of Ruby
  • 22 Stumbleine
  • 23 X.Y.U.
  • 24 We Only Come Out at Night
  • 25 Beautiful
  • 26 Lily (My One and Only)
  • 27 By Starlight
  • 28 Farewell and Goodnight

Tropes used in Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness include:

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