Topic: Album review #39: The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
+Anonymous A — 10.9 years ago #43,253
Say what you like about the thin, reedy, nasal whine of frontman Billy Corgan, but for a while there in the mid 90s he was a seriously prolific song-writer. Such that, not only does this huge, sprawling double album contain a mammoth 28 tracks, but each of its 5 singles ran the length of a mini-album in themselves, so many b-sides did he write.
Everyone knows the monster hits which were released from this album - Bullet with the Butterfly Wings, Zero, Tonight Tonight, Thirty-Three. But for me, the real gems are the obscure tracks, the ones which never got any airplay. Here Is No Why is a great song and grooves like a motherfucker. Take Me Down is a beautiful ballad. In fact there's really not a bad song on here.
If there's a problem, it's the same problem all double albums face - it would have been a better, more coherent listen had it been edited down to a single disc. But on the other hand I'm glad they didn't, because there's something so rare about this kind of confidence and productivity.
8/10
p.s: starting tomorrow will be reviews 40-50, which will be my top 10 albums of all time.
Everyone knows the monster hits which were released from this album - Bullet with the Butterfly Wings, Zero, Tonight Tonight, Thirty-Three. But for me, the real gems are the obscure tracks, the ones which never got any airplay. Here Is No Why is a great song and grooves like a motherfucker. Take Me Down is a beautiful ballad. In fact there's really not a bad song on here.
If there's a problem, it's the same problem all double albums face - it would have been a better, more coherent listen had it been edited down to a single disc. But on the other hand I'm glad they didn't, because there's something so rare about this kind of confidence and productivity.
8/10
p.s: starting tomorrow will be reviews 40-50, which will be my top 10 albums of all time.
+The Robot — 10.9 years ago, 9 minutes later[T] [B] #471,765
Beep bop boop
+GO BACK TO SHITCHAN — 10.9 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #471,824
·Anonymous A (OP) — 10.9 years ago, 46 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #471,839
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