Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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