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Screaming and croaky voice?? Tonight soporific??? Wanna go for a riiiiide....She's the one for meeeeeee.....

Sorry, how do you know that Corgan has never had problems??? "My reflection/Dirty Mirror/No connection/To myself"

ELP, Bon Jovi, Grateful Dead??? I mean, you’re not well... Nowhere...Noooooowhere to see...to see...Living makes me sick...so sick I wish to die...down in the belly of the beast...I can lie...

Dear NouQuito, if you're interested in broadening your knowledge on AOR, get yourself the debut album by Boston (self-titled - 1976) and leave poor Corgan alone. "We crucified the insincere tonight!"

Delirious review; immense album. "Life could change/We are not stuck in vain".

This review states well-known things: however, Joe Strummer did well to reiterate them with clarity and lucidity. "Blitzkrieg Bop" is one of the 10 most important rock songs of all time.

For children or for adults: hardly for young people.

@Zion: Mellon Collie is their most complete album, halfway between the indie-grunge beginnings and the future electro-pop. Many say that Mellon is too long (and that the second of the two CDs is packed with fillers), but I disagree: for me, no one has managed to make 2 and a half hours of music feel so intense like Corgan does! Siamese Dream still remains the pinnacle of their early work, one of the best rock albums of the '90s. Adore is certainly a bold attempt, even if not 100% successful, to do without blazing guitars and fierce screams to express Corgan's inner turmoil... here and there it falls into mannerism, but the inspired moments (Pistol Pete, Behold, Blank Page, To Sheila), overall, prevail over the weaker ones... I've always thought of the Pumpkins' albums as the succession of the seasons: Gish, a fresh spring; Siamese, a scorching summer; Mellon, a melancholic autumn; Adore, a freezing winter; Machina, the (unfulfilled) hope for a new spring for Corgan.

Moustache, you and I are twins, as far as I understand... :-D My favorite from Machina remains I of the mourning, but it was the chorus of Everlasting Gaze that enchanted me...Tabba, I also think Adore has questionable arrangements (Perfect is an example). Anyway, for me, the albums of the Pumpkins should all be listened to, including the precious debut Gish...And I reiterate, since I'm at it, the excellent quality and inspiration of the review, which captures the intimacy and crepuscularity of Adore very well...Come on Dune, it's your turn now! :-)

Well... I don't mind Machina either... that album is always treated poorly... or maybe it's just me who speaks too fondly of it, since it was the album that made me start to get attached to the Pumpkins... you know, one of those albums that change your life...