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''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' is the third studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on October 24, 1995, in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States on Virgin Records. Produced by frontman
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with Flood and Alan Moulder, the 28-track album was released as a two-disc CD and triple LP. The album features a wide array of styles. Propelled by the album's lead single, " Bullet with Butterfly Wings", it debuted at number one on the US ''Billboard'' 200 with first week sales of 246,500 units. To date it remains the band's only album to top the ''Billboard'' 200. It spawned five more singles—"
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", " Zero", " Tonight, Tonight", the promotional " Muzzle", and " Thirty-Three"—over the course of 1996, and was certified diamond by the
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, equivalent to more than 10 million units sold. Lauded by critics for its ambition and scope, ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' earned the band seven Grammy Award nominations in 1997, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year ("1979"), as well as nine MTV Music Video Awards nominations, eight of which were for "Tonight, Tonight", including "Video of the Year". Not only did they all become hits on both mainstream rock and modern rock stations, but "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "1979", "Tonight, Tonight", and "Thirty-Three" also became the band's first Top 40 hits, crossing over to pop radio stations. Recording sessions saw a wealth of productivity: dozens of fully completed songs were cut from the album, and would turn up on later releases. A box set released in November 1996, titled ''
The Aeroplane Flies High ''The Aeroplane Flies High'' is a five-disc box set released by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins in 1996. It contains expanded versions of the five singles from their album ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' and also inc ...
'', compiled the promotional singles from the album, and featured approximately 30 fully completed songs from the ''Mellon Collie'' sessions which had not made the final cut for the album (including one track, "Pastichio Medley", which contained more than 70 short snippets of songs in various states of completion).'' AllMusic'' article:
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Both ''Mellon Collie'' and ''The Aeroplane Flies High'' later saw reissues which included even more tracks from the sessions.


Recording and production

After the 13-month tour in support of the Smashing Pumpkins' second album ''
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'' (1993), Billy Corgan immediately began writing songs for the band's next record. From the outset, the band intended the new record to be a double album, partly inspired by The Beatles' self-titled album.Alexander, Phil. ''Interview with Billy Corgan''. Mojo Magazine. February 2012. Corgan said, "We almost had enough material to make ''Siamese Dream'' a double album. With this new album, I really liked the notion that we would create a wider scope in which to put other kinds of material we were writing."di Perna, Alan. "Zero Worship". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Corgan felt that the band's musical approach was running its course, and wanted the band to approach the album as if it were its last. Corgan described the album at the time to the music press as "'' The Wall'' for Generation X", a comparison with
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's 1979 album, one of the highest selling and best known concept albums of all time. The band decided to forgo working with
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, who had produced the group's previous albums, and selected Flood and Alan Moulder as co-producers. Corgan explained, "To be completely honest, I think it was a situation where we'd become so close to Butch that it started to work to our disadvantage... I just felt we had to force the situation, sonically, and take ourselves out of normal Pumpkin recording mode. I didn't want to repeat past Pumpkin work." Flood immediately pushed the band to change its recording practices. Corgan later said, "Flood felt like the band he would see live wasn't really captured on record". In April 1995, the band began recording in a rehearsal space, instead of entering the studio straight away. At these sessions, the band recorded rough rhythm tracks with Flood. Originally designed to create a rough draft for the record, the rehearsal space sessions ended up yielding much of the new album's rhythm section parts. Flood also insisted the band set aside time each day devoted to jamming or songwriting, practices the band had never engaged in before during recording sessions. Corgan said, "Working like that kept the whole process very interesting—kept it from becoming a grind." Corgan sought to eliminate the tension that permeated the ''Siamese Dream'' recording sessions. Corgan said regarding the problems with recording ''Siamese Dream'', " me, the biggest offender was the insidious amounts of time that everyone spends waiting for guitar parts to be overdubbed. There were literally weeks where no one had anything to do but sit and wait." The band decided to counter idleness by using two recording rooms at the same time. This tactic allowed Corgan to work on vocals and song arrangements in one room while recording was done in the other. During these sessions, Flood and Corgan would work in one room as Moulder, guitarist James Iha, and bassist D'arcy Wretzky worked in a second.Thomas, Richard
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. ''EQ Magazine''. October 2008.
Iha and Wretzky had a much greater role in the recording of the album, unlike the prior albums where Corgan was rumored to have recorded all the bass and guitar parts himself. James Iha commented about the recording sessions,
The big change is that Billy is not being the big 'I do this—I do that'. It's much better. The band arranged a lot of songs for this record, and the song writing process was organic. The circumstances of the last record and the way that we worked was really bad.Kelly, Christina. "Smashing Pumpkins-The Multi-Platinum Band is over the infighting but can the harmony last?" ''US''. December 1995.
Following the rehearsal space sessions, the band recorded overdubs at the
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. Pro Tools was used for recording guitar overdubs as well as for post-production electronic looping and sampling. Wretzky also recorded numerous backup vocal parts, but all were cut except the one recorded for "Beautiful". When the recording sessions concluded, the band had 57 completed songs which were up for contention to be included on ''Mellon Collie''. The album was originally going to have 31 songs, but this was cut back to 28 songs.Corgan, Billy. "King B's". ''Guitar World''. January 1997.


Music

The songs of ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' are intended to hang together conceptually, with the two halves of the album representing day and night. Despite this, Corgan has rejected the term
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to describe it, and it was at the time described as more "loose" and "vague" than the band's previous records. However, Billy Corgan has also said that the album is based on "the human condition of mortal sorrow". Corgan aimed the album's message at people aged 14 to 24 years, hoping "to sum up all the things I felt as a youth but was never able to voice articulately." He summed up by stating, "I'm waving goodbye to me in the rear view mirror, tying a knot around my youth and putting it under the bed." Musically, the album has been described as featuring alternative rock,
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, alternative metal,
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and heavy metal. Its sprawling nature resulted in diverse music styles from song to song, contrasting what some critics felt was the "one dimensional flavor" of the previous two albums. A much wider variety of instrumentation is used, such as piano ("Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"), synthesizers and drum loops ("
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"), a live orchestra (" Tonight, Tonight"), and even salt shakers and scissors ("Cupid de Locke"). All guitars on the album were tuned down a half-step in order to "make the music a little lower", according to Corgan. On some songs, like "Jellybelly", the first string was tuned down an additional whole step to C (referred to by Corgan as "the 'grunge tuning'"). There was a greater variety to the number of guitar overdubs utilized than on previous albums. Iha said, " the past, everything had to be overdubbed and layered—guitar overkill. That wasn't really the train of thought this time, although we did that too." "To Forgive" consists of only one live guitar take, while "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" contains approximately 70 guitar tracks. The various sections of "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" were recorded at various times, with different instruments and recording setups, and were digitally composited in Pro Tools. Corgan and Iha shared soloing duties; Iha estimated that the guitar solo duties were divided "half and half" on the record. Corgan has said that "For the solo in 'Fuck You (An Ode to No One),' I played until my fingers saw blood, You can't play a weak guitar solo in such a propulsive song. It's got to be attack-style." He explains this method by saying "... I put on the headphones and stand one foot away from the amp. I turn the amp up so loud that I literally have to play harder than the feedback, because if I stop playing even for an instant, the whole thing explodes." All but two songs on the album were written by Corgan. The closing track from the first disc, "Take Me Down", was written and sung by Iha, while the album's final track, "Farewell and Goodnight", features lead vocals by all four band members and, according to the BMI database, was written solely by Iha, despite being credited on the album liner notes as being written by both Iha and Corgan. Iha wrote additional songs during the making of the album, but they did not make the final cut. Corgan said in a 1995 '' Rolling Stone'' interview, " ere are some B sides that James did that are really good. They just don't fit in the context of the album. And part of me feels bad. But over the seven years we've been together, the least uptight part of the band has been the music."


Packaging and artwork

The artwork and visual design was borne by John Craig (b. 1944), an illustrator native to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was living in the state of Wisconsin at the time he began communicating with Corgan about what visual elements could bring the enormous ambition of ''Mellon Collie'' to life. A collage artist, Craig had spent most of his career doing editorial commissions for magazines; here, he worked from Corgan's scribbled notes and crude sketches, most of which arrived via fax. Craig made other illustrations that appear throughout the album's packaging — animals smoking pipes, celestial bodies with faces, wayward children walking eerie dreamscapes — all with a vaguely antique quality. The woman on the front cover, who is plopped on top of a star, is actually a collage made from two paintings: the face was taken from a painting entitled ''The Souvenir (Fidelity)'', by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, while the rest of the body was taken from Raphael's portrait of Saint Catherine of Alexandria.


Release, reception, and legacy

''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' was released on October 24, 1995. The night before, the band played a release party show at the
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in Chicago and took part in a live FM broadcast across the United States. The following week, ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200, an unusual feat for a double-disc album that cost over US$20. The album was certified diamond by the
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. Originally 5,000 vinyl triple LP (3xLP) copies were pressed. The vinyl edition has two additional tracks ("Tonite Reprise" & "Infinite Sadness") which are not included in CD and cassette releases. Later re-pressing led up to 23,000 pressed but unnumbered copies. In 2012, a remastered 4xLP vinyl edition was repressed, with the tracklist order was same like the original CD and cassette releases, without the two additional tracks from the original vinyl release.


Critical reception

The album received critical acclaim. Christopher John Farley of '' Time'' called the album "the group's most ambitious and accomplished work yet". Farley wrote, "One gets the feeling that the band ..charged ahead on gut instincts; the sheer scope of the album (28 songs) didn't allow for second-guessing or contrivance." ''Time'' selected ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' as the best album of the year in its year-end "Best of 1995" list. '' Entertainment Weekly'' gave the album an A rating; reviewer David Browne praised the group's ambition and wrote, "''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' is more than just the work of a tortured, finicky pop obsessive. Corgan presents himself as one of the last true believers: someone for whom spewing out this much music results in some sort of high art for the ages. He doesn't seem concerned with persistent alterna-rock questions of 'selling out', and good for him: He's aiming for something bigger and all-conquering." ''
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'' gave the album a score of 9.5 out of 10 and said, "As the band's magnum opus it single-handedly changed the face of Alternative Rock. That said, it's not just music, but a work of art." ''The Music Box'' gave it all five stars and said, "Indeed, for all its melodramatic self-indulgence, ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' is one of the best double albums of new material to be released by anyone in a long time." '' Rolling Stone'' gave the album three out of five stars. Reviewer
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praised the album as "one of the rare epic rock releases whose bulk is justified in the grooves". DeRogatis noted that "the 28 songs on ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' aren't linked by a libretto. They're only connected conceptually through the broad theme of being part of a day in the life of a typical, alienated teen." The writer stated that the album's main flaw was Corgan's lyrics, describing the songwriter as "wallowing in his own misery and grousing about everyone and everything not meeting his expectations." DeRogatis contended that while ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' "may even match '' The Wall'' in its sonic accomplishments", Corgan's lyrics lacked in comparison. ''
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'' reviewer Ben Edmunds also praised the music while criticizing Corgan's lyrics. Edmunds wrote, " organ'slyrics appear to be the repository for the worst aspects of his most treasured influences. He writes with a heavy metal aptitude for wordplay and an inflated prog-rock conviction of its worth, a deadening combination. But there's a sliver of distance in his rage-mongering now that comments as well as expresses." In his
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, '' Village Voice'' critic
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picked "1979" as a "choice cut", indicating "a good song on an album that isn't worth your time or money".


Singles

The album spawned five singles. While Corgan considered issuing "Jellybelly" as the album's first single, he told ''
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'' it was passed over in favor of " Bullet with Butterfly Wings" because "'Bullet's one of those songs where, you know, it's easy to sing along to and e affects a drawlya gotta sell them records."Meredith, Amber. ''Chart''. November 1995. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" was the Smashing Pumpkins' first single to reach the Top 40 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, peaking at number 22. "
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", the album's second single, charted at number 12, becoming the band's highest-charting American hit. The " Zero" single was released as an EP with six
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s. All three of these singles were certified gold by the
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. " Tonight, Tonight" and " Thirty-Three", the album's final singles, reached number 36 and number 39 on the ''Billboard'' charts, respectively. While it was not commercially released as a single, the song " Muzzle" reached number eight on the
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chart and number ten on the
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chart.


Accolades

''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' earned the Smashing Pumpkins nominations in seven categories at the
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, the second-highest number of nominations that year. The group was nominated for
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, Record of the Year ("1979"),
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, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal ("1979"), Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal ("Bullet with Butterfly Wings"), Best Pop Instrumental Performance ("Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"), and
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("Tonight, Tonight"). The band won a single award, for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal for "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"; it was the group's first. In 2000 it was voted number 76 in
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's '' All Time Top 1000 Albums''. ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' also ranked at number 14 on the 1995 '' Village Voice'' Pazz & Jop critics' poll, and 487 on Rolling Stone's 2003 list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. On April 1, 2019 '' Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked it 26th greatest Grunge album of all time. In 2015, ''Spin'' included it in their list of "The 300 Best Albums of 1985–2014". The album was also included in the book ''
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''.


Track listing

''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' was intended as a two-record set. The CD and
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versions of the album are divided into two discs, entitled ''Dawn to Dusk'' and ''Twilight to Starlight''. The vinyl version, however, is divided into three records with six sides, entitled ''Dawn/Tea Time'', ''Dusk/Twilight'', and ''Midnight/Starlight''. The vinyl release also features two bonus songs ("Tonite Reprise" and "Infinite Sadness"), and a completely rearranged track order. In 2012 the album was remastered and re-released as a 6 disc edition, with 3 bonus discs of music and a DVD and also on 4 Vinyl LPs which contained the regular CD track order instead of the original LP order. All songs written by Billy Corgan, except where noted.


Compact disc/cassette version/2012 vinyl reissue

* Track 8 is listed as simply "An Ode to No One" on original pressings and later reissues.


Original vinyl version

This version adds the tracks "Tonite Reprise" and "Infinite Sadness".


2012 CD/DVD reissue

As part of EMI Music's extensive reissue campaign, a special edition of the album was released on December 4, 2012. The 5-CD disc set consists of 64 bonus tracks of previously unreleased material, demos and alternate versions of ''Mellon Collie'' era songs—including full versions of tracks notably featured as parts of the "Pastichio Medley" from the '' Zero'' EP—as well as six new mixes of original album songs. The package also includes a DVD consisting of footage from two live shows: Tracks 1–11 taken from the group's concert of May 15, 1996 at the Brixton Academy in London, England, originally filmed by MTV Europe, and tracks 12–15 from their show of April 7, 1996 at the
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in Düsseldorf, Germany that was filmed by the German TV show '' Rockpalast''. The bonus content and special features were curated from the band's archives by Corgan and were remastered from the original master tapes by Bob Ludwig. Electronic Dance Music pioneer BT contributed his own interpretation for five songs from the archives for the release.


Personnel

The Smashing Pumpkins * Jimmy Chamberlin
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, vocals on "Farewell and Goodnight" *
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, lead and
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, piano,
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,
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, production, mixing,
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on " Tonight, Tonight",
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and design * James Iha – rhythm and lead guitar; vocals, mixing, and additional production on "Take Me Down" and "Farewell and Goodnight" * D'arcy Wretzkybass guitar, vocals on "Beautiful" and "Farewell and Goodnight" Additional musicians * Chicago Symphony Orchestraorchestra in "Tonight, Tonight" * Greg Leiszpedal and
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on "Take Me Down" Technical * Roger Carpenter – technical assistance * John Craig – illustration * Flood – production, mixer * Andrea Giacobbe – photograph * Barry Goldberg – additional vocal recording, mixing assistance * Adam Green – technical assistance * Dave Kresl – string recording assistance * Tim "Gooch" Lougee – technical assistance * Guitar Dave Mannet – technical assistance * Jeff Moleski – technical assistance * Alan Moulder – production, mixer * Frank Olinsky – art direction and design * Claudine Pontier – recording assistance *
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– string arrangement on "Tonight, Tonight" * Chris Shepard – recording * Russ Spice – technical assistance * Howie Weinbergmastering *
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– mastering (2012 remaster)


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Certifications


See also

* List of best-selling albums in the United States


References

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