WEEK #3: The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
This week’s album is one of the milestones of the 1990s.
The Smashing Pumpkins really confirmed their status as a key band of the decade with this true tour de force. Released on October 24, 1995 as a double CD as well as a triple LP, Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness features of 28 earth-shattering tracks, each one more gripping than the previous.
Although the title may give away the main atmosphere the album creates, The Smashing Pumpkins’ compositions are all extremely diverse in their themes, lyrics and melodies of course. Therefore, the sorrow which comes to mind at first isn’t only sorrow, but some kind of emotional state made of loneliness, revolt, love, lust which in the end add up to blast nostalgia in the ears of the listener.
Iconic tracks such as “Zero”, “Tonight Tonight”, “Thirty-Three” and “1979” materialize perfectly this dark, yet pleasant phase in which drowned frontman Billy Corgan when he wrote down all the notes, words and chords, without knowing that this particular effort would become one of the band’s greatest masterpieces.
Listen to it by clicking on the artwork.
