Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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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
 
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.
 
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.
 
Yeah, I'll say Siamese Dream was a lot better than this one. Mayonnaise was my fav. tune off of that one, they were all pretty good. I think 33 of Collie was decent. Jimmy Chamberlain 1 of my fav. drummers. Listen to the drumming on Siamese Dream. It rocks the Casbah!
 
Nah, Siamese Dream is definitely my favorite album. Gish and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are close seconRAB. "We Only Come Out at Night" is definitely not a highlight off of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. What is "Wild Honey Pie"? I've never heard of that song.
 
Too clean for you, Subpop?

I quite like Melon Collie. I find Gish a bit too messy.

Machina and the Machines of God has one of the worst second halves to any album I've ever heard.
 
Hmmm, I bought this one within a week of release. It is still sitting on a shelf collecting dust. It might have gotten one full listen over the years.
 
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