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Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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    #32
    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Zero1986 wrote: »
    If I was to make it into a single album it would probably look like this
    Zero1986 how can you leave off the fuzzy loveliness of Love?


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    #33
    Blackpitts
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    the more i remember how good is this album the more i feel sorry for how SP are now...


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    #34
    SilverScreen
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    Malice wrote: »
    Zero1986 how can you leave off the fuzzy loveliness of Love?
    It's good enough I guess, just not one of the better songs on the album. The distortion effect on Billy's voice kind of puts me off a bit as well.


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    #35
    PickledLime
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    Zero1986 wrote: »
    It's good enough I guess, just not one of the better songs on the album. The distortion effect on Billy's voice kind of puts me off a bit as well.

    I'd actually go as far as saying Love is one of the best songs on the album.

    I'd always say that an album that can be so divisive with its listeners and tracklisting is a mark of quality. :)


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    #36
    Malice
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    Zero1986 wrote: »
    It's good enough I guess, just not one of the better songs on the album. The distortion effect on Billy's voice kind of puts me off a bit as well.
    Fair enough, personally it's precisely that fuzzy effect that makes the song appeal to me.
    PickledLime wrote: »
    I'd always say that an album that can be so divisive with its listeners and tracklisting is a mark of quality. :)
    Very true. Here's what I eventually came up with for a 14 track album. I was able to cut it down to 17 tracks quite quickly. The three tracks that didn't make the cut after that were "We Only Come Out at Night", "Jellybelly" and "By Starlight".
    1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
    2. "Tonight, Tonight"
    4. "Zero"
    6. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
    9. "Love"
    11. "Galapogos"
    12. "Muzzle"
    13. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans"
    1. "Where Boys Fear to Tread"
    2. "Bodies"
    6. "Tales of a Scorched Earth"
    7. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby"
    9. "X.Y.U."
    13. "By Starlight"
    14. "Farewell and Goodnight"


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    #37
    Rothko
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    Fantastic album. It'd be in my top 10 albums of the 1990's and is also my favourite one by the Pumpkins.

    It's also one of those rare double albums that don't have that much filler.


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    #38
    googsy
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    Great band, pity they broke up... played this album to death when I got it.


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    #39
    Malice
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    googsy wrote: »
    pity they broke up...
    While they did break up for a few years, they have been back together since 2005. Admittedly Billy Corgan is the only one of the original line-up left.


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    #40
    spaceboy
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    Slightly off topic, bought the Siamese Dream remastered boxset over the weekend. Sounds fantastic, the whole packaging of the re-issue with the bonus cd, live DVD & booklet is amazing, deffo worth a purchase. Have to get the Gish re-issue also.:D


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    #41
    LH Pathe
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    Mr. Presentable wrote: »
    Mellon Collie is not clever, funny, just contrived sounding.

    still sounds like a strain of weed but this album had a profound effect on the more grungey sect of our circle.. particularly one kooky young thing we took to calling björk. did the death of a sm fan in a crush in the point depot alter concerts forever for safety reasons? Talkin bout them poxy barriers preventing freedom of movement


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