Due to the unprecedented success of (1993), the second CD by The Smashing Pumpkins, expectations for the follow-up were high. With no less than 28 songs in more than two hours, the band with Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995) got through. Singer, guitarist, composer, (co) producer and the face of the Pumpkins Billy Corgan showed much of his idiosyncratic character. Mellon Collie's two
… CDs thus provided a comprehensive summary of his psyche. As a result, the music could be very fragile one moment and overflow with anger the next. The alternating lighthearted and depressive songs also turned out to do well on the radio and MTV. The singles Zero, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Tonight, Tonight and 1979 became classics. That did not detract from the fact that Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness as a whole made a strong impression and had many more highlights. That is why the record should not be missing in the (short) list of successful double albums from rock history.more
