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{{quote|''believe that life can change 
''that you're not stuck in vain
''we're not the same, we're different Tonight''|"Tonight, Tonight"}}

{{quote|''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 [[Wangst|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 Riff|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.

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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 [[Precision F-Strike|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

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* [[Alternative Rock]]: At times bordering on [[Alternative Metal]].
* [[Anti-Love Song]]: "Bodies" and "Love is Suicide".
* [[Careful with That Axe]]
* [[Concept Album]]
* [[Distinct Double Album]]
* [[Epic Instrumental Opener]]: ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'', the first two minutes of ''Porcelina''
* [[Epic Rocking]]: ''Porcelina of the Vast Oceans'' (9:21), ''Thru the Eyes of Ruby'' (7:38), ''X.Y.U.'' (7:07)
* [[Genre Roulette]]
* [[Inspired By]]: The ''Tonight, Tonight'' music video was inspired by the 1902 film [[A Trip to the Moon]]
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: The band's mashup of Industrial and NWOBHM, commonly refered to as Cybermetal ("Zero", "X.Y.U.")
* [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: The vinyl version. There's around ~20,000 known to be pressed.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: 'And I still believe that I cannot be saved' (Bullet With Butterfly Wings)
** 'Love is Suicide' (Bodies)
** 'The Night has Come to Hold Us Young' (Thru the Eyes of Ruby)
** 'emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness and cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty {{spoiler|just like me}}' (Zero)
** 'Get on the bomb! Get back where you belong!' (Where Boys Fear to Tread)
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: The Album is all over the place. From 1 (Stumbleine, Take Me Down) to 8 (Tales of a Scorched Earth, Fuck You).
* [[Non-Appearing Title]]: As per usual, over ''half'' the song titles don't appear in their songs.
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]]
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "Fuck You (An Ode to No One)".
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The lyrics to ''Bullet with Butterfly Wings'' were inspired by the Billy's experience headlining Lollapalooza in 1994 and the decline of the Alternative Scene.
* [[Refrain From Assuming]]: "The World is a Vampire" or "some variation on 'Rat in a Cage'" for "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
** "Shakedown 1979"
* [[Record Producer]]: Mark "Flood" Ellis, Alan Moulder and Billy Corgan. Corgan had previously hired Moulder to mix ''Siamese Dream'' because he was a fan of [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]].
* [[Sampling]]: The rocket launcher explosion sound effect from [[Doom]] is sampled on "Where Boys Fear to Tread"
* [[Signature Song]]: The album is home to both "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" and "1979"
* [[Step Up to the Microphone]]: All the band members sing on ''Farewell and Goodnight''
** "Take Me Down" is a James Iha solo song.
* [[Surprisingly Gentle Song]]: "Cupid de Locke", "Galapogos", "Take Me Down", "In the Arms of Sleep", "Stumbleine", "Farewell and Goodnight".
** And as an inversion, a song called "Love" happens to be driven by a hyper-processed, distorted guitar riff, feature heavily distorted vocals and generally sound like [[Industrial Metal]] meets [[Glam Rock]].
* [[Updated Rerelease]]: A few months after the CD and Cassette release of the album, the album was released on vinyl with a re-arranged tracklist while adding two new tracks, Tonite Reprise and Infinite Sadness.
* [[Zeerust]]: The cover art has a woman, ripped right out of a [[The Renaissance|Renaissance painting]], riding a star-shaped ship through space while the art booklet has a picture of two [[Victorian Britain|Victorian dressed]] birds flying in a [[Leonardo da Vinci|da Vinci-style]] flying machine.
** The music video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOG3eus4ZSo Tonight, Tonight]

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[[The Stinger|IN THE EYES OF THE JACKAL I SAY KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOM]]

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