Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Studio album by Smashing Pumpkins
Publication (s)	October 24, 1995
Label (s)	Virgin Records
Format (s)	2CD, 3LP
Genre (s)	Alternative rock
Title (number)	28
running time	CD 1: 57 min 55 s CD 2: 63 min 57 s
occupation	Vocals , guitar : Billy Corgan Guitar : James Iha Bass : D'arcy Wretzky Drums : Jimmy Chamberlin
production	Flood , Alan Moulder , Billy Corgan
Studio (s)	Pumpkinland, Sadlands, Bugg Studios, Chicago Recording Company, The Village Recorder
chronology Siamese Dream (1993) Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Adore (1998)

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (abbreviated: MCIS ) is, after two regular studio albums and a B-side collection, the third regular studio album by the Smashing Pumpkins . The musical style is diverse and changes between thrash metal , melodic, baroque -style pop -songs, art rock , grunge and acoustic ballads .

Emergence

MCIS was recorded between March and August 1995 in various studios in Chicago. In addition to the 1993 album Siamese Dream , with which the band made their international breakthrough, this album is considered by critics to be the most versatile of the band. MCIS was also very successful commercially. After it was published, it entered the US Billboard charts at position 1 and sold a total of 9.4 million copies in the USA by May 2005 and 16 million copies worldwide.

Billy Corgan began working for MCIS after extensive touring activities for previous albums. According to his own account, he wrote 56 songs in one year. Originally planned as a concept album, he said this album would be The Wall of the 90s. A double CD with 28 songs was finally released. The great success of this record was reflected in part in Grammy nominations; it received a total of 7 nominations, including a. also for the album of the year.

In addition to these successes, however, there was also rainfall for the band. A fan was crushed to death at a concert in Dublin on the 1996 tour of MCIS. Billy Corgan said he considered leaving the band after this incident. At another concert in July 1996, the keyboardist on the tour, Jonathan Melvoin, and Jimmy Chamberlin were found with a heroin overdose. Melvoin died from it; Chamberlin survived but was kicked out of the band for continued drug abuse.

Corgan declared after all these incidents that MCIS was the band's last real rock album. He said rock music was dead because a lack of experimentation made it static.

Title list and chart placements

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness   DE 21st 11/06/1995 (42 weeks)   US 1 11/11/1995 (93 weeks)   UK 4th 11/04/1995 (37 weeks)

Singles

Bullet With Butterfly Wings   US 22nd 01/06/1996 (20 weeks)   UK 20th 10/28/1995 (3 weeks) 1979   US 12 03/30/1996 (22 weeks)   UK 16 02/10/1996 (3 weeks) Tonight, Tonight   US 36 08/03/1996 (20 weeks)   UK 7th 05/18/1996 (6 weeks) Thirty Three   US 39 02/01/1997 (20 weeks)   UK 21st 11/23/1996 (2 weeks)

CD 1: dawn to dusk

1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - 2:52
2. Tonight, Tonight - 4:14
3. Jellybelly - 3:01
4. Zero - 2:41
5. Here Is No Why - 3:45
6. Bullet with Butterfly Wings - 4:18
7. To Forgive - 4:17
8. An Ode To No One - 4:51
9. Love - 4:21
10. Cupid de Locke - 2:50
11. Galapogos - 4:47
12. Muzzle - 3:44
13. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans - 9:21
14. Take Me Down - 2:52

CD 2: twilight to starlight

1. Where Boys Fear to Tread - 4:22
2. Bodies - 4:12
3. Thirty-Three - 4:10
4. In the Arms of Sleep - 4:12
5. 1979 - 4:25
6. Tales of a Scorched Earth - 3:46
7. Thru the Eyes of Ruby - 7:38
8. Stumbleine - 2:54
9. XYU - 7:07
10. We Only Come Out at Night - 4:05
11. Beautiful - 4:18
12. Lily (My One and Only) - 3:31
13. By Starlight - 4:48
14. Farewell and Goodnight - 4:22

All songs were written by Billy Corgan, except Take Me Down ( James Iha ) and Farewell and Goodnight (Corgan / Iha).

The LP version consisted of 3 sound carriers; the pages were named: Dawn , Tea Time , Dusk , Twilight , Midnight and Starlight . There were also two bonus tracks on the LP version: The Infinite Sadness and Tonite Reprise . The following were released as singles: Bullet With Butterfly Wings , 1979 , Tonight, Tonight , Zero and Thirty-Three .

Web links

• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rick Reger, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness . In: Jim DeRogatis and Carmél Carrillo (Eds.), Hall of Shame. The greatest errors in the history of rock'n'roll , Rogner and Bernhard, Berlin 2006, pp. 358 and 363
2. ↑ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
3. ↑ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in the Official UK Charts (English)
4. ↑ Charts US