SMASHING PUMPKINS Mellon Collie Yellow Vinyl 3LP Rare
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SMASHING PUMPKINS
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Gatefold Sleeve With Lyric Booklet
Yellow Vinyl Triple LP
European Import
Long Time Deleted Now Repressed On Yellow Vinyl
Brand New & Unplayed!!
01 Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
02 Tonight, Tonight
03 Jellybelly
04 Zero
05 Here Is No Why
06 Bullet With Butterfly Wings
07 To Forgive
08 An Ode To No One
09 Love
10 Cupid De Locke
11 Galapogos
12 Muzzle
13 Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
14 Take Me Down
Twilight to Starlight
01 Where Boys Fear To Tread
02 Bodies
03 Thirty-Three
04 In The Arms Of Sleep
05 1979
06 Tales Of A Scorched Earth
07 Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
08 Stumbleine
09 X.Y.U.
10 We Only Come Out At Night
11 Beautiful
12 Lily (My One And Only)
13 By Starlight
14 Farewell And Goodnight
Also includes
Tonite Reprise
Infinite Sadness
For all the criticisms levied on head Pumpkin Billy Corgan,one thing he can't be accused of is being narrow in his artistic vision. On the breakthrough SIAMESE DREAM, he and co-producer Butch Vig built a landscape of layered, corrosive guitars that shimmered brighter with each additional glance. On MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS, Corgan turns his eye to the dreariness of modern existence and comes up with abroad alterna-rock opus that plays out like an offspring ofRoger Waters and Kurt Cobain--verbose and angst-ridden, bleak in its view, cathartic in nature.
With its two distinctly titled song-cycles and overture-like title track, there is no doubt that MELLON COLLIE is meant to be approached as a concept album, and Corgan's lyrical musings only reiteratethe point. The songs explore alienation in the physical andspiritual worlds, generally concluding that it can seldom be overcome. Only the early "Tonight, Tonight" offers a glimmer of hope ("believe that life can change, that you're not stuck in vain"), on the wings of a soaring, string-laden production. Far more constant are spiritually depleting images of "the world [as a] vampire, sent to drain" ("Bullet With Butterfly Wings"), of love as "suicide" ("Bodies'") and of heaven's unresponsiveness ("Zero").
The constant din of guitars that illuminated GISH and SIAMESE DREAM has been replaced with a varied sonic palette that reflects MELLON COLLIE's operatic nature. Piano interludes connect the opening title track and the closing "Farewell And Goodnight"; harps, harpsichords and other heavenly sounds trim "Cupid De Locke"; synthetic, Cars-like drums and a general faux-New Wave feel spur on "1979"; and "X.Y.U". explodes with distorted guitar wallops and yelped vocals that scream post-modern confusion. The 28 tracks are as motley and disconcerting as the world they describe, and MELLON COLLIE is a dispiriting glimpse from the eyes of a man whose last vestiges of hope seem lost.
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