Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins

Pros: 28 songs, a lot of variety. Drumming is especially rad.

Cons: Serious mood swings.

The Bottom Line: The Smashing Pumpkins have come a helluva long way. This makes Zwan's album even better!

Review: 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: Some awesome, diverse, and engaging music

Cons: Possibly too long, A few weak songs, The vocals at times

The Bottom Line: Worth the price paid for a double album.

Review: 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.

The Bottom Line: A deeply emotional, epic album , but at the same time, a flawed masterpiece.

Review: 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

The Bottom Line: One of the essential albums of the 1990s. Truly an epic, ethereal, beautiful album.

Review: "...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

The Bottom Line: She's my one and only.

Review: 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: An epic sprawling masterpiece.

Cons: A few throwaway tracks.

The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line wants out of here...now!

Review: 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 Bottom Line: It seems that this epic album will be remembered for a very long time to come as one of the more successful double albums, Best rock album of the 90's

Review: 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.

The Bottom Line: With this album, the Smashing Pumpkins delivered a classic of 90s alternative rock.

Review: 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 Bottom Line: Clearly one of the best albums of the 90's, spend the money, it's worth it!

Review: 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: well varied, something for everyone, lots of songs (obviously), unique

Cons: kind of saturated, some "unecessary" songs

The Bottom Line: Now the White Album should be called the 60's Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Review: 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...