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let's not exaggerate, there are worse reviews

In the '90s, I don't think I ever read a list of the ten best albums of the decade that did not include it, so whether you like it or not, Mellon Collie is a MASTERPIECE, and your doubts will not undermine its importance and intrinsic beauty.

Anyway, reading the reviews you've written, nwg, a certain punk-metal spirit emerges, so your opinions are definitely understandable, although not necessarily shareable...

Dear nwg, the double of Mellon Collie was released at the price of a CD, at the insistence of Billy Corgan and to the detriment of the record label that wanted to release it at full price.

On We Only Come Out At Night, I can meet you halfway... but more than a drop in style, it's a slight dip from the stratospheric level of the other tracks.

which pieces do you (and I emphasize you) think are absolutely horrible?

I can also understand that Beautiful is a bit sappy... and we could say the same about Lily (My One And Only), but then we see: Thru The Eyes Of Ruby is the best track of the double album, Where Boys Fear To Tread and Bodies are among the best rock songs they've written; Thirty-Three and In The Arms Of Sleep are melancholy ballads without which the whole discourse would lose meaning, 1979 is a first venture into pop-electronic, Tales Of A Scorched Earth and X.Y.U. are incredibly violent hard rock songs, By Starlight and Farewell And Goodnight are the best epilogue of a rock album I have ever heard, sweet and seductive... then we have We Only Come Out At Night and Stumbleine that can be liked or disliked... but we're talking about a second CD that almost no band on Earth would be able to write even in an entire career. The shocking thing is that the first CD is objectively even better than the second. This makes the work in general an absolute masterpiece of rock music, and praise be to Corgan for choosing to release a double album instead of a regular and insignificant single CD.

I never vote twice, but I will make an exception.

a review we needed for a historic album

immense disc, poorly and trivially described in the review