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THE REVIEW
I would like to begin my review of this masterpiece by talking about their music (which in my opinion is also poetry...) trying not to reduce this magic with a label, so I will write to you that the Smashing Pumpkins play "metal", play "punk", play "alternative" and other such labels.
The Smashing are a truly capable band, capable of reviving emotions that can range from love to the deepest hatred, Billy Corgan is perhaps the most sensitive artist that exists now in our musical scene. He stands out as a person as sensitive as aggressive, yet always speaking of love or themes recurrent to good feeling. In this album, the band brings back splendid moments, as romantic as they are aggressive. And this combination and alternation of these feelings makes this album a masterpiece. Speaking of music, I will quickly say that the band put in a lot of effort to create a double CD where music and poetry are the main elements; and this album is divided into two parts: "Dawn to Dusk" and "Twilight to Starlight". The first part is hinted at by the beautiful Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, but I believe that the first piece that delights the senses is "Tonight Tonight", a charmingly romantic piece tinged with a rosy red that gives you a little chill, like a sunrise in a deserted place... It embraces you in its splendor and makes you feel how warm the sun is. Staying on the theme that the album refers to the typical day of a young person, starting from sunrise to sunset and ending at twilight and starry night, all wrapped in a sense of pessimism of the '90s youth who is constantly cradled in "infinite sadness" (as the album title suggests). But right from this romanticism, it transitions to quite raw pieces like "Fuck You (An Ode to No One) and "Jelly Belly". On this, the band proves to be the first and only machine to build great sensations, including: anger, love, hatred, violence, sweetness, romanticism... then moving to slightly more contemporary themes like "1979" and "Beautiful". In my opinion, this album remains unique and unrepeatable, for what it has given me sentimentally all this time.
Apologies for the other reviews written, but I love this album very much, and it has particularly affected me.
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This review praises Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness as a masterful double album blending various genres and emotional extremes. It highlights Billy Corgan's sensitivity and the album's unique structure. The reviewer admires its balance of romanticism and aggression and considers it a timeless, deeply affecting work.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
The Smashing Pumpkins
American alternative rock band formed in Chicago and led by Billy Corgan, famed for 1990s albums such as Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.50 Reviews
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By serestoppone
Their music is like a person you know, who whispers to you, gently speaking to your heart.
An album that if listened to, felt, and experienced helps connect ourselves with the darker sides of our ego.
By AR (Anonima Recensori)
With this second album, there’s no need to skip for good music, because it’s very rare to find an unpleasant track.
I don’t consider it, like many do, a masterpiece, but certainly the best in the discography of the Chicago band.
By blu
This album is something beyond music, something precious that Billy wanted to gift to the world.
It is the sum of everything this immense soul had inside, and he managed to miraculously bring it out in these two hours of sublime beauty.
By NouQuito
This album demonstrated that grunge had evolved into something monstrous: a gaudy AOR for the pimple-ridden MTV generation and the wanking journalists who followed the phenomenon.
The second CD... is truly terrible, containing a series of crappy ballads with grotesque arrangements that transport us into a dimension of sterile and self-indulgent progressive.
By bramante
An immense record (along with "Siamese Dream"), sweet and bitter at the same time, which... remains one of the most beautiful of the 'nineties'.
Their music is a very particular fruit, difficult to replicate by other bands and... original and much less commercial than many other contemporary groups.
