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Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie Reissue is a Fans Dream Come True". antiquiet.com . Retrieved April 12, 2013. Top Albums/CDs – Volume 62, No. 20, December 18 1995". RPM. December 18, 1995 . Retrieved February 9, 2021. Zero" and "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" are the ones that riled up the older folks and, yes, the lyrics are pissy and juvenile and fairly embarrassing. That said, they're far more interesting from a sonic perspective than they're often given credit for. They're the songs where Flood's digitized production fits better than the saturated, analog warmth Butch Vig lent to Siamese Dream. They're basically new wave performed as pop-metal.

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Australiancharts.com – The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". Hung Medien. a b c Kelly, Christina. "Smashing Pumpkins-The Multi-Platinum Band is over the infighting but can the harmony last?" US. December 1995. The Smashing Pumpkins are set to reissue their 1995 opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on 3 December as a six disc box set (5CD+DVD) and a four LP vinyl set.

Smashing Pumpkins 'Monuments to an Elegy' Projected First Week Sales Disappoint". alternativenation.net . Retrieved December 18, 2014. And of course, there's "1979", the one everybody can agree on. On a record that reveled in 70s prog and pomp without being restricted to it, it sounds futuristic. And while just as youth-obsessed as everything else here, it's one of the few times where high school sounds like something that can be remembered fondly. Corgan loves to stress how it was the last song to make the record, and while its chorus does have an effortless charge embodying the "urgency of now," it's the only Mellon Collie song that functions best as nostalgia. That reading is no doubt abetted by another fantastic video, but while "1979" is an unimpeachable song, the rush to praise it as an outlier does its surroundings a tremendous disservice. While Mellon Collie is the realization of all Billy Corgan's ambitions, most of the criticisms surround the lyrics for not being as personal as those on the tortured Siamese Dream. It's this way by design. EMI's Extensive Smashing Pumpkins Reissue Campaign Continues with the Band's Fourth Album Remastered for the Very First Time Mellon Collie' Mystery Girl: The Story Behind An Iconic Album Cover". NPR. Archived from the original on January 3, 2021 . Retrieved July 12, 2020.

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