Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Critic Score
Based on 9 reviews
1995 Ratings: #222 / 508
User Score
1995 Rank: #12All Time: #337
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Entertainment Weekly

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is more than just the work of a tortured, finicky pop obsessive. Corgan presents himself as one of the last true believers: someone for whom spewing out this much music results in some sort of high art for the ages.

90
AllMusic

With Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the band turns in one of the most ambitious and indulgent albums in rock history.

68
Pitchfork

The Infinite Sadness is what the average Pumpkins fan is going to encounter after the initial listen to this album.

60
Rolling Stone

Although Mellon Collie clocks in at more than two hours, it’s one of the rare epic rock releases whose bulk is justified in the grooves ... The problem, at least for rock fans who want substantive content with their seductive form, is Corgan’s lyrics.

BGL13
88

28 tracks and only four of them are filler. that’s impressive

cakenator
100

I don’t know what to say, this is just a perfect 2 hour album

RemisReviews
86

Billy, open your nose

Before I start this review, I gotta say that Zero and Tonight Tonight have to be one of the greatest Alternative Rock songs ever. I always loved those ones, but never really checked out the whole album outside of the big hits. But yeah those songs are 11/10, just wanted to get that out of the way immediately.

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What intimidated me was the insanely long 2 hours runtime with 28 tracks. But apparently, there's little to no filler on here, so I finally braced ... read more

denkirena
80

I wanna hug my girlfriend tight and close my eyes when listening to this

SoupSlam
90

Beautiful

rocketsinfour
97

this is better than siamese dream, argue with a wall

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Added on: November 28, 2011