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...album, the whimsically titled Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. It's the group's most ambitious and accomplished work yet, a double-CD set containing more than two hours of music. "We were trying to get everything the band could do onto one release," says lead singer Billy Corgan. "A lot of times things get left off because bands are trying to do a focused kind of rock album. A double CD widened the parameters of what we could...
Mellon Collie is a sprawling album of many moods. The opening track (also the title song) is a quietly moving piano-based instrumental; by contrast, the next song, Tonight, Tonight, is an expansive rock anthem, complete with soaring guitars and a 30-piece string section. "Believe, believe in me," Corgan sings, as if pleading for listeners to trust in his band's huge undertaking. Many of the songs here--such as Jellybelly, Here Is No Why and Muzzle--have an appealing, loose, raw edge. Others, like the nine-minute-long Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, flow gracefully and naturally along...
...Pumpkins' music often deals with disconnection. "There's nothing left to do," Corgan complains on Jellybelly. "There's nothing left to feel." While the lyrics suggest pessimism, the music offers surges of optimism, swelling up and sweeping the listener along, proving there is much left to feel. Alienation and confusion for this band are reasons for reflection, not surrender. As Corgan sings on Muzzle: "The world so hard to understand/ is the world you can't live without...
...hardest things to write is a song that has no specific meaning but nonetheless conjures up powerful feelings or ideas. Bluntly themed, big-haired, Bon Jovi-like rock anthems are commonplace. But it takes someone of exceptional talent--R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Prince--to create a song that makes little rational sense but still rings true emotionally. We expect this from poets; we rarely get it from rockers...
Clark knocked in a shot by Senior Martina Albright after a save by B.U.'s Corgan 12 minutes into the third period. Messmore wrapped up the Crimson scoring with her second goal, off of Wolfram's third assist of the game...