Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

I liked two songs on the this. The rest meh.

I said for the other Smashing Pumpkins album that it was the blandest of the bland. This was a little more interesting but fucking christ did this need to be 2 hours long? If you're going to release a 2 hour every song better be a fucking banger and worth it. Absolutely not here. It's 80 minutes too long and someone needed to tell Corgan to cut shit out. If you made it a 40-50 minute album I'd be happier but given how long it is I dislike it a lot. I hate long albums, especially albums with tons of filler, which this album has in spades. Seriously it feels like every other song was a B-side or something. Because of that I have to rate it lower.

too long

:(

I really enjoyed the first couple of tracks...then it just turned into an unrewarding task to listen to the end. An isolated bright spot here or there, but otherwise mostly uninteresting to me. I recall being intrigued by the sounds of the singles released from this album, but I would not have enjoyed the entire album then and still don't

Not my jam, I think the vocals are just too annoying and the songwriting is quite cringe.

Innostuin tästä albumista vähän ekan kappaleen perusteella, kun se sai odottamaan jotain muuta, mitä oon aiemmin kuullut The Smashing Pumpkinsilta. Kuitenkin tosi monen kappaleen kohdalla oli taas vahvasti sellanen tunne, että mielummin vaan skippaisin seuraavaan. Varmaan tähän pätee vähän sama kuin Pearl Jamiin, että teoriassa tykätä näistä kappaleista enemmänkin, mutta lauluääni häiritsee jostain syystä liikaa. Kun arvostelin aiemmin toisen The Smashing Pumpkinsin levyn (Siamese Dream), annoin sille kolmosen. En tiedä, tykkäänkö tästä periaatteessa yhtään sen enemmän tai vähemmän, mutta jo liialliselta tuntuvan pituuden takia päädyin vaan kahteen tähteen. Kuuntelin muutenkin vaan ne kappaleet, jotka oli julkaistu alkuperäisellä levyllä, enkä kokonaista noin kuuden tunnin versiota, joka oli Spotifyssa. Kappaleita, joista tykkäsin edes vähän enemmän: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, Jellybelly, Cupid De Locke, Galapagos, 1979

I think I could really get into this band...if they had a different singer. As it is, I gave up half way through the 2 hour ordeal.

Oof, this one was hard work, and let me tell you a round-about story as to why this is the album where the Pumpkins lost me... In 1991, I was working at Scratches Records, and I did the import ordering. One day, I was on the phone to Dogmeat Dave at Shock Distribution, and he said “Mate, I’ve a got a record that I think you would really dig”. I agreed to take a copy, and the Pumpkins first album “Gish” turned up. And I put it out for sale, and never listened to it. And it sat there for (at least) three months without anyone even looking at it. So I thought “well, I should at least listen to this thing”, and chucked it on the turntable. By the end of the first song I was hooked. It was heavy and fuzzy and trippy and I really dug it. So I bought that copy and took it home. And for the next six months I played it to everyone I could, and evangelised for the album. I played it a lot. But nobody could get a copy, because it wasn’t locally released yet, and the record company cracked down on imports because they were going to get around to releasing it locally, one day, perhaps. So, for a while, it was like a hidden treasure that I could share. Eventually in June 1992, over a year after its initial international release, it was finally released locally and it took off like a rocket. Siamese Dream was even bigger. I liked the Siamese Dream album too, although the rawness of Gish was always my fave. (Thanks to Andy Winter, who bought me the coloured vinyl LP of Siamese Dream for my birthday). The Pumpkins were huge. I eventually saw them at the Big Day Out and Selina’s in January 1994, by which time they were mostly playing the Siamese Dream album, but they rocked pretty hard live. So, then in 1996 they released this record. Now, I loved this band. I was all primed to love this record. I had some misgivings when I read this article in Rolling Stone prior to release (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/smashing-pumpkins-disillusionment-obsession-confusion-satisfaction-88432/). It starts with Billy Corgan comping vocal tracks out of multiple takes and spending days mixing tracks. And, after all that effort, the vocals _still_ came out as insufferable whining. He always had a tendency towards nasal whining, but when I read that this was _deliberately_ edited best of from multiple takes, I was a bit stunned. And it is such melodramatic self-indulgence. I mean, this thing runs two hours (except in the deluxe CD set, which runs six hours! Six. Whole. Hours.). It was too much. I couldn’t take it. Corgan’s voice wears, particularly on the more ‘sensitive’ numbers where a better singer could have really made a difference. It’s not as psychedelic as previous records. I know lots of people say it is their masterpiece, and not as uniform as previous records, but it is sooooo looooong. And I get really bored. Does the processing and editing reduce the energy of the band (especially Chamberlain’s drumming)? I don’t feel like the guitar solos have the same fire that they did on earlier records (an artefact of Corgan sharing the duties with James Iha?) Is there a really great 40 minute album in there? Undoubtedly. Personally, I would probably pull out the heaviest songs (Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Jelly Belly, Zero, Where Boys Fear to Tread, Scorched Earth, etc) for a full-on metal record. But, if you liked the ballads, there is probably a pretty good album there (although they are not so much to my taste). But I cannot get over the pompous humourlessness of this record, which was confirmed by the interview in that Rolling Stone article. I bought this when it came out, and listened to it all the way through maybe twice. I never wanted to listen to any new music by the Pumpkins ever again after that. And I listened to it again today. And my feeling hasn’t changed; this record is a massive slog to get through, leavened with occasional highlights like “1979”.

The cliche is always that double albums would make better single albums. Well this would make a reasonable EP. It doesn't help that I find Billy Corgan's voice truly grating but many of the songs are awful grunge dirges. Some of the gentler songs are better but overall this is a long long long mess. Best song: Tonight Tonight.

Couple of good tracks but why is this so bloody long

Boring

I despise his vocals. The rest of the band is great and pushes this rating from a 1 to a 2.

I brought three albums when I was trying to get into "real" music. Rage against the machine self titled, blink 182 take off your pants and jacket and this. I really struggled to listen to it back then and nothing has changed. His voice whines on, its far too long, some occasional tolerable stuff but over all just not for me

No fair judgement as his way of singing prevents me from listening objectively to the music

It started good… until he starting singing

The worst of Smashing Pumpkins. Overreaching, overdramatic, overproduced. Gish and Siamese Dream maybe set expectations too high for me, but this double album was just twice the let down. Yes, there are a couple redeeming songs, but not enough to save the collection.

nah

Dobbeltalbum, en blanding af rock og metal, til tider udmærket, men for langt

Coming in pretty blind. Heard a few songs at bars and the like but never got round to listening to them despite it being the seminal album of many of my university friends. Album starts well enough with an instrumental but I have always found the vocals a little off putting. The album is long. Very very long. It's filled with lighter numbers but it's generally pretty heavy. The riffs very in quality. There is a good song or bit here and there but I found it largely a total drag.

there's some good tracks on here, but whoever thought making it 2 hours long was a good idea...

see i absolutely love 1979 but all the others were incomparable in a bad way the scorched earth song made me want to stick needles in my ears and never be able to hear again the first two songs gave me some hope but it immediately dropped for the next two hours.

I was a big fan of Gish and Siamese Daydream but when this came out I never liked it...time for a revisit to figure out why or how wrong I was... Eh. Bloated. I do love the beginning... gentle piano medley into "Tonight, Tonight" but there's something that was lost for me in this album and never quite sure what. Billy Corgan's vocals were never smooth, obviously, but immediately I find them more abrasive than ever. I'll have to compare but I wonder if more effort was made to fix him dry and clear on these songs. Don't like. It's just too much. What I loved about the band's first 2 albums was the dreamy and mysterious sonic landscape they created...even in their heavier songs. Many of these - while rarely bad - just don't hit that same way. It ends up as a long aural assault that I still can't connect with. There are definitely moments and it never doesn't sound like the Pumpkins. And of course there was density on the first two albums but I always felt was countered with more dynamics and *space* - (e.g Hummer from S.D.) Also 2 hours come on. Should have at least Use Your Illusion'd it. Halfway between 2 and 3 and the answer to "will I voluntarily listen to this again?" gives it the tiebreaker. 5/10 2 stars

A generic representative of the kind of generic rock music that flows out of the USA, a kind that is so generic I fail to be able to latch myself to it.

Sone definite bangers but the length lost the album some points. Many songs spunded kinda samey

Best Song: Jellybelly. Tipped over into heavier territory, which I wished they would do more often. Worst Song: Bullet with Butterfly Wings. Despite all its plays, the nasal voice will still just annoy me for days. Overall: Something about this album, and Billy Corgan specifically, just annoys me. The egotism and lack of self-awareness it must have taken for Corgan to write such a wandering double album, forcing us to listen to him whine out "Love is Suicide" over and over and over.

Yeah it's just really not my type of music. Saying that, there are some really nice backing instrumentals through out, and I did like a few songs, but when there's 28 songs that's not enough. It's really the vocal style that I have the biggest problem with but that comes with the territory. Not a bad album but really not for me.

Got through disc one. Real range of styles but wasn't enjoying enough to continue. The vocals were grating. Didn't add.

What a slog. The Smashing Pumpkins barely have enough material for one song, let alone a 2-hour plus album.

This is the Smashing Pumpkins album I'm most familiar with. Not that I've ever owned it, but it was on the radio, MTV, etc. To be honest my friends and I used to mock this one a bit because of lines like "despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage" and Billy Corgan's melodramatic and whiny vocals. Only ever heard the singles before, but listening to it as an album it feels bloated and oddly paced. The first song on the album seems to be entirely ornamental and placed there in an effort to dress up this collection of songs with something that seems more serious and higher minded, posing as a concept album - which I absolutely do not think this is. The comparisons to "The Wall" are completely daft. It's not the size that counts. Not that I would enjoy it that much more but I wish they would have shown a little more discretion in their track selections. I couldn't make it all the way through. Honestly I'm sort of baffled that this was as big as it was.

2/5

It goes on a bit…

not my vibe and i'm not mad about it

I'm familiar with this album. All it reminds me of is horribly cringey moments in my teenage years. I think by today's standard's it's way too cliche but I have a weird appreciation for it where I can see past that because there was a time where this album had a much stronger effect on me. But I was never really a Pumpkins fan anyway. It's a genuine classic I don't deny the brilliance of it, but Billy Corgan is a chode that takes himself way too seriously and that's all hear in his music anymore

It was heavier than I thought it was going to be. Really wasn't in the mood for it.

I just get annoyed by his voice

One of those albums I just couldn't get in to.

So depending on which version of this "album" you choose to listen to, it will either be 2 discs or 5. This is completely unnecessary even at 2 discs. The music is not good enough to warrant such a tactic. There are some very good and memorable songs, but they are hidden amongst bad songs on the "album" that is over two hours long. I am not smiling politely....that's a Simpson's reference.

I have never understood the lore of this album. There's several great and even iconic songs, outnumbered only by a lot of unnecessary songs. It's a chore to get through the whole album in one listen.

Didn’t listen

🎤🎸🥁

Billy Corgan's voice is unpleasant to my ears. I probably would have enjoyed this album a lot more with a different singer.

Not a huge fan but I appreciate it

When the song composition is at its sparsest, both in sound and time, this album is engaging and lives up to its admittedly alluring title. However, the album is often too full and too long for its own good (and the good of its listener). This is probably best explained by the transition from “Tonight, Tonight” (a full, well-balanced power ballad) to “Jellybelly” (a confusing, thrashing, grating, nasally (oh so very, very nasally) song whose lyrics are drowned by the fuzzily mixed guitars and frantic drumming). This transition encapsulates my mixed feelings about this album; I love the “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” and “Tonight, Tonight”, I hate “Jellybelly” and “Zero”. If “Jellybelly” is too loud and grating, “Zero” is just quiet enough for me to hear Corgan’s truly awful lyrics (“Emptiness is loneliness/And loneliness is cleanliness/And cleanliness is godliness/And God is empty just like me” sounds like the scribblings of some teenager whose angst has driven him away from his childhood religion; it is genuinely painful to listen to). And that seems to be the story of this two hour long album. For the most part, the music is fuzzy, grating, and far too long (the songs average more than 5 minutes). When I can actually make out Corgan’s lyrics through the screaming guitars and the nasal inflection, I feel like I am listening to poetry he wrote when he was a teenager. However, the album is punctuated by truly beautiful compositions (“Tonight, Tonight”; “To Forgive”; “Cupid de Locke”; “Porcelina of the Vast Oceans”; “Take Me Down”; “1979”; “Thru the Eyes of Ruby”; “Beautiful”; “Lily (My One and Only)”). Unfortunately, for the most part these beautiful songs are exhausting to listen to because they are sandwiched between other exorbitantly long songs. “Porcelina of the Vast Oceans” sums this up perfectly. It is the longest song on the album, but when I listen to it without all the build up of the previous 12 tracks, I don’t feel its length in the least. However, put it back in the context of the album and it becomes laborious to get through. Further, not all of the softer ballads are winners. “By Starlight” stands out as a song of soft instrumentation punctuated by the infantile lyricism. This is an album that needed to be cut in half. It feels like Smashing Pumpkins included every song they finished in the recording studio because they couldn’t decide which they should cut. The connecting theme seems to be Corgan’s lyrics, which are often corny, superficial, and painful to anyone who has grown up beyond their teenage years. Frankly, it is a chore to listen to the whole thing. This is an album whose rare, far-reaching heights are overshadowed by the far more consistent lows of Corgan’s lyricism and voice, the grating instrumentals, and the exhausting length. 3/10.

Sorry, not my thing and not listening to 4 albums of it!

Too much flannel. Was a chore.

Completely over indulgent. Few good tracks. Got bored as fuck.

Got some good ones

It would’ve been a three had it not been 2 hours of music I didn’t really enjoy that much

I don't even really know, just too god damn long. A 6 CD album shouldn't be on here. In the past I've liked 1-2 smashing pumps songs, but just found all of it a bit whiney american rock shiz

boah, wie lang kann ein album sein

well, that was a bit of a slog. nothing on this entire album really grabbed my attention, which is a bit of a surprise, considering i generally liked their earlier work.

It is nit a bad album but it is not to my likings.

Seemed a little slow for my tastes.

Liian pitkä albumi

Too tocky

It started okay, but I wasn't really grabbed by it to be honest.

mediocre SP album. There's a lot of filler on here and it would've benefited from being a single disc release. the good songs are fucking GOOD though.

A very pretty cover & clever title but, unfortunately, just can’t stand Billy Corgan’s voice.

At 2hrs long, this double album was its own particular kind of hell. There were some brief moments where I didn’t actively find myself hating every moment, but these weren’t enough to make me score this any higher.

This album could have been a great maxi single or EP at best. A double album was totally unnecessary. Everyone knows the best Pumpkins album is Gish and even that has too many songs

Grunge is one of the worst genres of all time, even if it is enjoying a mystifying resurgence at present. Smashing Pumpkins were among the worst chancers thrown up during it. This album is another one for the 1001 albums to avoid before you die list.

There are a few songs that are okayish, such as Love, Zero, but overall the album is way too long. Moreover, almost every time a good part comes up, it gets absolutely ruined by the vocals. I don't think I'll be coming back to this album.

not great for me

always heard of this band but never listened. when i saw the comments about the lead singer's voice being grating i thought it was an exaggeration but they were immediately proven right. the production isn't bad. it's quite my taste at times. but the vocals are SO awful that i couldn't even focus on it. he sings like when you're at karaoke and you're not very good at singing, so you do silly voices to hide your embarrassment and make all of your friends laugh instead. at least it kept the album from being completely boring because i spent half of it with my face twisted in a grimace (total lie) (i was unbearably bored) (it sapped my energy like a parasite) fave track: 1979

I cannot stand the Smashing Pumpkins.

My first DNF. There were a few songs that were alright, but honestly, I think I wanted to like them more than I actually did. The style of vocals is really not my thing, either.

fuckin bad! 1!!!

This has to be a nostalgia album for those in the 90's. I can see the ideas and what the Pumpkins are tryna do but honestly, much better bands have executed them better. Also sounds like the band is trying, but ultimately failing, to save songs from Bill Corgan himself. Consider this Pumpkin, smashed.

did not finish. billy corgans voice.

Absolutely hated that rebellious rock for goody-two-shoes

1.5

Mid

favs: tonight, tonight bullet with butterfly wings galapogos 1979 thru the eyes of ruby we only come out at night beautiful farewell and goodnight rating 1.5/5

Bad almbum

Just not me thing.

I think this wins the award for the most cringey album title on the list so far. In fact, the whole vibe of the cover just stinks of insufferable wankery. The first two tracks are also a terrible opening to an album. If I had been a fan of Siamese Dream and then rushed out to buy this, I'd be severely disappointed. I can't help but think that this whole album is an example of a band being destroyed by their previous success. It seems self indulgent and pretentious, where 'Siamese Dream' felt carefree and expressive. There were a couple of moments of solid grunge/rock music to remind you of their former excellence. I thought 'Love' was good track and there are a couple of decent singles hiding amongst the chaff. The rest of it was bland music with an awful squeaker massaging his ego over the top. For two hours... Give me a break.

Final Smashing Pumpkins already, huh? Barely any time has passed since my last album of theirs. I listened to Siamese Dream 18 albums ago, which I didn't like all that much. Perhaps a one-star rating was a little harsh, but I really wasn't feeling the grungy vocals and hour runtime. I'm keen to listen to this final release from them. The name and artwork for this album are both pretty fantastic, especially when paired together. I've always had a passing respect for this album because of that, even if I've never felt compelled to check it out on my own. Feels surreal to know that my lack of familiarity with this album ends today. Here goes. Two hours. Twenty-eight tracks. Two hours. Twenty-eight tracks. Two hours. Twenty-eight fffffffuuuuuucking tracks. It seems The Smashing Pumpkins are an act that I'm fated to dislike despite my best efforts. I value conciseness for obvious reasons and I don't like albums with a ton of songs jammed onto them since I find that to be mentally exhausting. My opinion of this album is, sadly, predictable. However, the listening experience was a bit of a roller coaster. The nice, piano-centric, string-heavy intro immediately raised my expectations and got me excited for what was to come, only to be immediately plunged into the same grungy hell I remembered from their previous album. That being said, "Tonight, Tonight" was a serviceable track. I could dig the 90s, Midwest emo sound along with some of the nicer musical embellishments. Most of what followed sucked complete dick, however. While I appreciate the fact that you can be a rock star without necessarily being a stand-out vocalist, there is a limit to how far such a consideration can extended. Corgan actively and aggressively shits the bed on nearly every song where he features. I criticised Siamese Dream for having bad vocals, but these are on a completely different level. They're a lot nasally-ier than I remember them being which, when paired with the fact that Corgan is constantly screaming, that his performance lacks any charisma and that his vocals are occasionally butchered by some shitty, abrasive lo-fi filter makes for a uniquely hostile listening experience. He sounds like Eminem does on "Fack". The actual music isn't much better. While there are a handful of moments which feature decent instrumentation and interesting effects, these are exceedingly rare. The guitars have a slightly blown-out sound which undermines whatever depth they could otherwise have. I have a pretty strong dislike of this garage rock sound and I'm generally ambivalent to grunge, though I can admit that their grunge styling is more evolved when compared to their previous album. Everything sucking complete dick comes to a brief halt near the end of the first disc. The music slows down. The grunge and butt rock influence lifts, and Corgan stops blowing his lungs out for a second. The result is some nice, delicate, intricate music from "Cupid De Locke" to the end of disc one. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" is one of my favourite songs on the album despite the long runtime. The muted, atmospheric guitars were quite good. The leading riffs weren't half bad, either and Corgan is actually singing and harmonising for a change. "Take Me Down" is a good closer. The echoey ambience, restful guitar and meditative effects are quite nice. Just copy and paste my diatribe from two paragraphs ago here for disc two, as the album returns to being bad, overblown, grungy butt rock music. The album also winds down in a similar way to that of the first disc, but by that point I had more or less checked out from this album. Cut your shit down. Good Lord. I've heard "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" before. Not the actual song, mind you. I've just seen the chorus being posted around on the Internet before. I had always thought it was a Rage Against the Machine lyric, so it came as a surprise to encounter it here. It's an okay song, but not my speed. Those vocals are weak as usual, though the songwriting is admittedly decent. I could somewhat dig the rough, raw guitars, too. Heard "1979" before, too. Those guitars are pretty golden. I like the little bits of guitar reverb which disturb the flow for a second, and the deep, bassy guitar that occasionally kicks in is pretty sweet too. The vocals are, once again, nice now that Corgan isn't screaming his fucking throat out. Wow. A nice little reprieve from the latter half of this album. I feel like a changed man. Thank you, music. I can take the night off from book-skimming, thankfully. I know this album is an important and enduring classic, so I don't need to review the book entry in my usual Poindexter ways. I cosign this inclusion.

Where do i even begin? Billy Corgan is an awful singer who sounds like he plugs his nose while singing. Sometimes he also screams the songs, which is just awful. Furthermore, this album is 2 hours long, which takes something from bad to awful. Smashing Pumpkins are nowhere near good enough to warrant a 2 hour long, 28 song album. Just an atrocious and painful listen.

A little known fact was the us government was planning to use this album as part of the Waco siege until they discovered David Koresh was a fan.

A month in to this project, and I've reached the first album I couldn't finish. A couple of good songs, but they weren't kidding when they called it infinite.

DNL

90's rock? No thanks. Might be almost listenable if it were sung by a different voice, but it's not so....

UGH. I just can't stand Billy Corgan. I was planning on giving this a 2, but found myself so annoyed with this album and its length, that it's getting a 1.

Not really what I was hoping for. I fell in love with the cover but I am not familiar with the band since before and I think that I had higher expectations because of that. I enjoyed some of the slower songs and the intro but the other song are not really my thing. But Cupid the Locke and some songs like that one was good.

Não gosto desse tipo de Grunge, e todas as músicas parecem a mesma coisa.

3/10

Álbum duplo é sacanagem. E ainda mais de uma banda de pop-punk-rock, como eu gosto de dizer. Dito isto, não ouvi o álbum todo, mas ouvi o que eu julgo ser suficiente pra avaliar. Assim como qualquer banda desse estilo, é medíocre. Difícil eleger a melhor e a pior, então fica nessas mesmo. Melhor do álbum: "Zero". Pior do álbum: "Tonight, Tonight".

3/10

I haven’t finished the full thing but my god I do not care for this. They are clearly good at what they do but The Smashing Pumpkins are not for me.

Too long

One big sad blagh.... Truly, not my cup of tea. Some of the melodies were interesting, but overall it kinda sounded like some grunge reject album. I was never a fan, but after listening carefully to the album I can definitely say why this band isn't for me. And it's a double album?! Seriously, probably a blessing to fans, but a torture to others...

I just never liked them ot thought they were good. Time hasn’t been an improvement on my opinion.

Second time this band has come up in short succession. Where has variety gone. Load of American nonsense, as usual from America. 2 hours of this shit, you must be joking.

And I’m mad about it.

I promise I’ve been through the whole thing before and I swear I tried again. I just couldn’t make it. This is where Corgan and I parted ways. Tbh we’d only previously crossed paths vaguely anyway; I’d put up with Siamese Dream despite a lot of stuff I struggled with because at least there were a fair few proper tunes that kept me engaged. On this however the tunes seemed to have evaporated and everything that bothered me before became the driving force…Relentlessly…For 2 hours! The voice, the production, the tunelessness, the pretentiousness, the seemingly endless supply of self-importance. I refuse to listen to it all again. This review is my last word on the subject forever. And my last words of this review are “the dictionary definition of unchecked ego”

No.

I'm surprised music this bad exists

Sounds like a concept album, but boring.

1 star is harsh but this has zero redeeming qualities. Annoying singers are the worst - Two hours... oh boy - Instrumentals are nice but one of the singers is annoying. - Random metal song. Eclectic I guess - Next song is weird whiny rock - Paused on "Here is No Why" - just couldn't listen anymore - Resumed: It's only worse than I thought! Please take me out of my misery. 1 star is harsh but this has zero redeeming qualities

I really like the album art. However, I think there’s a reason why most albums aren’t two hours long. It would’ve been grating anyways, but I dropped a star due to the runtime

Not for me

No muy interesado

Admittedly jumped around through this because sorry but I wasn’t going to spend over 2 hours on one album that all kind of sounds the same to me and that sound being the 90s alt thing I never enjoy. And his voice is whiny to me. There is some nice melodic stuff at points though. (1.5 stars)

Bald fuck Billy Corgan

So you're telling me that you take 2+ hours out of your days to listen to this regularly, and call it great? I dunno man.

If you're going to make a two-hour album, consider making some of the music good.

My father has always hated the smashing pumpkins, but before now I had never listened to them. One positive thing I can say about this album is that it has made me understand my father more. 1/10 because why would you ever do this to yourself 26/08/25

Not for me

cupid de locke the only song i like. idgi this is too boy for me

No. Too long.

Nothing about The Smashing Pumpkins has ever been for me. The garishness, the whiny nonsense and self importance of it all leaves me feeling nauseous at the best of times. Minus the vocals, I can get with a few tracks here in an instrumental sense, but two hours of this was an experience that never bears repeating.

I really dislike the voice of Billy Corgan

This album and band suck ass. Absolutely -10/10 for album 1.

Achei uma bosta a voz dele Mas a open track é mto boa

I do not like this album and especially the “hit” songs

I didn't realize this was a double CD before popping it on, and then after listening to it felt it carried on for twice as long as it needed to. The concept was lost on me. The songs didn't seem to tell any story, and as others have said, Billy Corgan rhythmically shouts and moans into the mic rather than singing. The hits are hits because they're catchy, but they're far too seldom for a release of this length. I'm glad I didn't buy this one when it was released, because I had disposable income back then. Nope, sorry. 1/5

Main vocals are too torchuring to comprehend anything else about this.

Trim off about 75% of this and I might have been able to get through it in less than ten sittings. Absolute pants.

Listened only halfway.

hmm kiinnostava... uskomattoman paska mutta jollain tasolla myös hyvä ja kuunneltavaa... aivan liian vitun pitkä ehdottomasti. It is quite a feat to have an album this long that somehow doesn't feel bloated. Excellent kickass songs, and even better ballads. BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA.. alkuun baha että huomioidaan kuinka kova ääninen porvari hulvaton hahatus.. tuplasin vuokrat.. triplasin sähköt ja nelinkertaiset vedet päälle BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! tosiaan antakaa armoa jos viimeiset kymmenen prosenttia jokaisesta laulusta leikataan täälläpäin studiossa heh, joojoo seuraavaa eteen.. seuraavaa jesterin sketsiä kiitos.. hyvähyvä tuhannes lablumi pikkusen alakanttiin here is no why

Two hours of my life stolen to continual fury - for two solid hours all I could do was long for the opening instrumental as it would stop the horrendous vocals and hilarious lyrics. Never have I wavered so hard in my intention to listen to all 1001. Two. Fucking. Hours.

I don't like the voice. I don't like the rhythms - always meant to disrupt rather than groove. I don't like the guitar - squealy or grungy. Just dull. Satisfied people's idea of what dissatisfied people want.

Like listening to an American Shed Seven

I don't know who that is, but nobody deserves infinite sadness.

kinda some good songs, but really long, not too cohesive, and sound quality not to my liking

Wasn't going to listen to over 5 hours. Epic I know but too much, unless you are into them and I am not. 40 mins was enough

unnecesarily long not that much into rock, liked the first track and the others were kind of bothering, sorry. only ones worth saving are the first and two last ones. very disappointed 1/10

Always found Billy Corgen intolerable. Going to be impossible to sit through a double albums worth of him... I CAN"T DO IT ANYMORE

No

i was hoping today to listen to an excruciating 2 hours of a man doing a parody of singing! you really gotta hand it to billy for being that rare combination of insufferable prick and talentless hack! at least if you drop the "mellon collie" bit the album would have an accurate name!

Is he purposely trying to sing in the worst voice ever heard? Is this two hours of torture satire?

i think the fuck not

Die Stimme ist so nervig. Ich habe nur Disc 1 gehört, danach abgebrochen, weil ich keine Lust mehr hatte

Hjärtklappning i ljudform. Frustrerande att lyssna på. Dock riktigt groovy bas i många låtar. ”Galapagos” känns som en oas i en öken, enda låten som inte ger mig panik.

aburrido

This album is a million hours long and, with the exception of a couple songs, is torture porn for the ears. Billy Corgan at his most insufferable.

Remember how I said that Smashing Pumpkins would be better if they focused on being a scrappy indie band? Anyhoo, turns out they went entirely the other way in 1995 and released an incredibly overblown and tedious two hour long concept album. The punning album title is irritating too. It also turns out that the lead singer is a long time anti-vaxxer and far right loon, so he can get in the bin as far as I’m concerned

Die Stimme ist so nervig. Ich habe nur Disc 1 gehört, danach abgebrochen, weil ich keine Lust mehr hatte.

Way too whiny

It's me, not them.

hated hated hated the lead singer's voice! instrumental is normally decent but occasionally it tries to emulate how fucking annoying the singer is by going off the wall too!! can't imagine why anyone enjoys listening to this bitch whine at them for hours---this album is two hours long!!! obviously not gonna listen to the deluxe edition because that shit is six entire interminable hours!!!! subjecting me to that would be a war crime!!!!! most tolerable track: We Only Come Out At Night

Reilu kaksi viikkoa siinä meni että taistelin tämän loppuun. Huhhu, ei enää koskaan.

I bet those praising this only ever spin the highlights anyway and skip the tedious muddy gunk that makes up 80% of the album. It definitely has higher highs than 'Siamese Dream' and does not quite reach the levels of utterly annoying as that album. But it still suffers from the very same issues, Corgan being an insufferable presence lyrically and vocally, writing being uneven at best and monotonous at worst, the runtime being longer than dying from blood loss and about as pleasant.

No

What a load of c**p. The cover is the best thing about it.

That was incredibly tough to get through. Overly long and a bit pompous. Not for me at all.

Overlong. self-indulgent. 1979 can't redeem this album, and it's just as much a waste as I remember.

ruim

i really do not like the smashing pumpkins. i really don't enjoy Billy Corgan's voice... and i do not find that i enjoy their music

Here folks were complaining about Morgan Wallen putting out super long albums. This was a painful listen. Broken up into 3 sessions. I don’t like anything here. I don’t like this band. This is two of my least favorite things combined- prog and 90’s slop. Next.

Wat een verschikkelijke stem heeft de zanger van deze band. Een soort midden van schreeuwen en zeiken, het is echt dramatisch. Dan kan het instrumentaal nog zo vet zijn, wat het ook al niet is, maar dan word ik hier gewoon niet vrolijk van. Album duurt fucking 2 uur. doe normaal. Wie wilde dit? Dit album voelt als de blauwdruk voor edgy tieners die dan dit heel hard aan hebben terwijl ze denken aan alle wreedheid op de wereld die uiteindelijk heeft geleid tot dat ze niet op hun computer mogen na 10 uur s avonds. Houd. je. bek. Het is niet zo erg. FAVO: het moment waarop ik me realiseerde dat het was afgelopen.

Rot

i’m sorry but no… not for me and that’s ok! 1.5 for opening piano track

Grunge is the absolute worst genre, the music is mostly thrash without melody, I mean you couldn’t possibly hum one of these songs and have people have any idea what you’re doing. And the lyrics are mostly indecipherable, a fact for which we can be truly thankful.

I'm sorry, but this was simply underwhelming

Not my cup of tea. Too heavy rock a la AC/DC. Jagger like vocals. No . No . Nothing new or groundbreaking here.

I do not like this band in any way. Whiny voice

Booooooo

I remember this group being an American ‘institution’ back in the 90s, however they never really had the same effect here in the UK, I guess we were all distracted with Britpop! This is one of my least favourite music genres but I wanted to give it a chance in the spirit of this project. A few of the tracks are pretty good, objectively speaking, but frankly any goodwill I had tracks wise was wiped out by the vocals. Absolutely terrible. I understand his voice is considered an ‘acquired taste’ but I’m afraid for me it’s just bad. An assault to the ears. Also no album has any business being 2 hours long. In order for an album to be 2 stars I have to be willing to at least listen again, but for this I just can’t. So it has to be one star sorry

Horrible

There's a place for everything. The Smashing Pumpkins have earned their place in every 90's kegger between better songs by better bands. Going outside for a smoke or a quieter chat? Their music provided the perfect excuse. Some songs, like Bullet with Butterfly Wings, are cultural touchstones. But not in the way that the Mona Lisa or even Die Hard is. The best of this band will be remembered with the same reverence as the devil's air raid siren that announced you were seconds away from your dial up connection to the internet: it may bring to mind fond memories by association, but you're glad there are much better options and relieved that you'll never have to hear it again. Had this been a single album, I may have considered 2 stars for nostalgia. 2 hours? I listened, but it just made me sad... and not in a way that good music can.

Nah

Respect to Billy Corgan because if I heard myself singing for the first time and it sounded like this I'd try my hand at cartoon voiceovers instead. He deserves credit for his perseverance despite the obvious problems he suffers with his sinuses. I thought I knew enough about smashing pumpkins to guess what this album was going to sound like and that I wouldn't like it. Never going to be easy when the singers voice just sounds so affected. I didn't like it.

just 2 or 3 good tunes

No no no no no horrible voice and music couldn’t stand it

Too much racket

I don’t like sad

2 Stunden Grunge Melancholie. Anstrengend.

College

Ughhh not my fav, struggling to finish this. Maybe I'll revisit

Didn't like Smashing Pumpkins in the 90s. Still don't like them. Corgan's voice is so annoying

Made me ill

Not for me, music nice but didn't like his voice at all, didn't listen to it all

Realistically, I think Gang of Youths did this album better with go farther in lightness. I had to turn this one off

This album is way too long. Clocking in at just above 2 hours and it doesn’t keep your attention the entire time. All the songs start to bleed into one another, but it’s also all over the place at the same time. The slower piano-led songs are definitely better than the rock oriented songs and there’s way more rock than piano. I’d definitely never listen to this again.

bad

Not sure about the genre of this album- heavy metal?? punk rock?? in between?? Anyway, not up my alley. Even the most popular songs

Yuck. No.

Whilst the music on this is by far not the worst I've had generated in the 777 albums so far, it is inexcusably long, and the singers voice is inexcusably shit. Instruments 3* Length -1* Vocals -1*

I’m not a fan of BCs vocals

Way too much. Way too much moaning.

GOOD GOD this one was rough. no one should be making a 2 hour album. this whole thing was pretty forgettable most of the songs sounded the same to me. I did notice some of the songs seemed to transition into each other nicely. i’m sure my opinion of this album would change on a second listen but at 2hours 1 min we know that ain’t happening again.

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness: 2/5. It's a lullaby at best. Tonight, Tonight: 1/5. Sorry, can't stand the voice. Jellybelly: 1/5. It's an artistic dissonance, I'll give them that. Zero: 3/5. Somehow I like this more than its predecessors. Here Is No Why: 1/5. Unintelligible. Bullet With Butterfly Wings: 3/5. Actually good, this one has structure. To Forgive: 2/5. An attempt for clerical redemption after the hard rock. An Ode To No One: 4/5. An odyssey in and of itself. Love: 1/5. Not what I had in mind. Cupid De Locke: 1/5. Okay then. Galapogos: 1/5. Sleepy. Muzzle: 1/5. Right, more lullabies... Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans: 1/5. So, from intense music to bedtime? Take Me Down: 1/5. I was asleep here. Where Boys Fear To Tread: 1/5. None of these stand out! Bodies: 1/5. Aaaand we're back with the whiny rock. (Love is not suicide!) Thirty-Three: 1/5. So monotonous, I'm skipping. In The Arms Of Sleep: 1/5. Just ugly-sounding. Skipped. 1979: 1/5. Okay this album is clearly not for me. Skipped. Tales Of A Scorched Earth: 1/5. Torture but musical. Skipped. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby: 1/5. Oh my god, skipped. Stumbleine: 1/5. This album has more mood (genre?) swings than bipolars. X.Y.U.: 1/5. Can't catch a breath with this album's nonsense. We Only Come Out At Night: 1/5. Ugh, this is tiresome. Skipped. Beautiful: 2/5. A nice change of pace and style, even if very minor. Lily (My One And Only): 1/5. Meh, whiny again, skipped. By Starlight: 1/5. This is bad, deadass. Skipped. Farewell And Goodnight: 1/5. And goodbye, I'm not wasting my time.

nope

Two whole hours of emo dirge

There wasn't much that I liked about this. One-dimensional sub-metal college rock with no dynamics, and I really didn't like Corgan's voice enough to try to work out what the songs were about. I got six tracks in and bailed - the thought of two hours of this was anything but smashing.

скучно, долго, перебор

Kažkokia sysė

Listening to this felt like infinite sadness (I've got to try stand up)

Mediocre.

Well there went 2 hours of my life that I am never getting back. It wasn't all bad but man when it was bad it was bad. And the bad parts went on for so long. Why is so long, just why? The weakest point is easily the lead singer. Anytime he tries to actually sings it sounds like someone recorder their singing while cleaning a house with fully blasted headphones on. Meaningful lyrics are non existent and even the album's name is sad attempt at pun. How this made the list compared to some other albums from similar genre and time period is beyond me.

Why

Nope sorry. started off into it with a long intro, then the guy started singing in a crappy metal way but over garage rock tunes. 90s albums have been taking a beating here but oh my god this is just bad.

Wow, I forgot how much I hate this. I really liked Gish and Siamese Dream when they came out but this album ruined the band for me. A few songs in I thought if they'd done this as thrash/black metal with distorted vocals it could totally work. Somewhere in disc 2 I had to start hitting 'next' after half a song and even that was tough to get through.

no

Yeah this one wasn’t that great at all. I can recognize why some may enjoy it, but for me, it felt like every other alt rock album I’ve heard prior (a genre that so far hasn’t impressed me). The biggest issues for me were the vocals which got very ear grating after a bit and the runtime. This project did not need to be 2 hours long, I’m sorry. The instrumentation at least was decent for the most part. I’d say this is the first album I didn’t care for during this challenge which is unfortunate. Highlights: 1979 I guess

“An album that isn't worth your time or money"

отличная обложка альбома просто смак а песни калл какой то мне не зашло

Åter igen olyssningsbart bös.

Listened to a few songs. Wandered off to watch some paint dry.

Smashing pumpkins have never really been my thing.

I can't explain how much I dislike the vocals on this album. Not familiar with These guys, I also gave Siamese dream or w/e a 1. It's not for me at all. The most listened to song on this album was just okay to me. Writing sucks on it too.

Garbage

A whiny discordant mess.

No comment.

Good name shit band

Awful

Loved 1979 when it came out and love it all over again now. I could never hear the words before,but now with lyrics on apple, for the first time I saw them. Shows I am a rhythm, beat and music -more than lyrics girl. Another alternative rock I didn’t care for. The album cover is beautiful. A masterpiece of art traveling through space. Talent is there but I couldn’t find it. I am guessing it’s in the pumpkins they are smashing, in search of that talent.

Simply noise, and not very nice noise at that.

despite all my rage

Not a fan

This is the first review to really surprise me. Perhaps that means that the negativity is mostly on my mood, or wanting to be contrarian, or comparisons to the other low points so far. In any case, it feels a little shallow to complain about Billy Corgan's voice, but I find it truly annoying. The songs, on the other hand, are fine. The guitars are a high point sometimes. There are some pretty solid tunes (that I would like better covers). The second disc seems much better, but I'm not a little offended that I listened to the first to get to it. I would have appreciated these songs more in a compilation, which is what Mellon Collie sounds like. I'm shocked that it's an album.

Not pretty much my music

perseverance