October 24th 1995 was a historic day for me when I skipped school to buy this CD on the day it was released! Listening to it brings me back to a time when life was simple with no responsibilites. Thank you smashing pumpkins for bringing me so much happiness as a teen!
Oddly, this always reminds me of Roy's speech at the end of Bladerunner - the "Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion" speech. Where does all this feeling go? Nostalgia is never quite a square deal.
@electriclimits Everyone has different opinions, you don't know what's in his mind so who are you to judge his lyrics? Pooing on a cat might mean nothing to you but it might to other people?
I love this album too... but I'm not sure I'd travel back in time. I grew up with the music my dad played all the time-- all stuff I love, by the way. Without the Smashing Pumpkins, Lou Reed, Tool, the Grateful Dead... and all the other bands I'd been immersed in from Day One, I don't think I'd be the person I am today or listen to the music I do today.
I'd rather grow with this band than find them in my teens. :)
As I sit here, a washed up musician thinking of the reason I'm not working at IBM, I think damn this song is good. GIve me my guitar I'm going back to work. Cheered up my Christmas Smashing Pumkins you rock.
I love this Album it takes me on a journey of darkness and then back to the light for me anyways and there is a little trip to remember Kurt Cobain as well when he shouts Forever Stay in the song Here IS NO Why it was totally a tribute to Cobain he won't admit but you can just feel it in that song that Kurt was on his mind there.
I've read 12 pages of comments, completely amazed at how everyone feels exactly the same way about this. This song is pretty much the most amazing thing that ever was.
And the album… man, that album. There will never be such a flawless work of art.
It's heartbreaking in a way.
I love how everyone remembers being a kid in the 90's because of this album and how we all have a certain memory tied to this song. It's just fuckin' beautiful.
I wonder if Billy has any idea of how important this was…
So true. I'm pretty much a normal adult now, but when I was 16-22, if it wasn't for the Smashing Pumpkins and this album, I would have probably killed myself. When I was an outsider, a loner, and couldn't relate with the world, my "friend" was listening to this album, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, and the rest. When the pain was so great, I had this album to be my companion and at least make life bearable, because I was not alone when listening to this.
@imoretull lol. we're all on that boat. "pretty much normal" being the operative words. I owe music so much. Someone posted on this video that "music seemed to mean so much more back then". I guess they're right. We were a lot lonelier then!
We may not always have had someone to talk to, but we always had music to turn to.
@luiscueto yeah, lol, I'm pretty much 94% normal; still got about 6% of darkness left to extinguish... Although, I have to admit my emotions had more depth then. I had a subtle, observational, ironic view of life. Now, I am just blindly "content" or happy, pay bills, go to work. Not complaining, but my artistic abilities seem to have dissipated... Strange, reminds me the book Brave New World, and technology will eventually make everyone "stupid" happy...
Even when I didn't pay much attention to most of the words (some lines would trigger thoughts and send me wandering places sometimes), the instrumentals still brought this deep atmosphere that blended positive and negative, happy and sad, to dark and destructive, bittersweet, and overall -- scathing melancholic feelings.
when this album came out it was before internet and i couldnt afford the CD so i use to go into the record store and stand there and listen to it for as long as i could on the headphones there
It's interesting to see you write that, Centuryrain11. I was 17 when this album came out and it connected in a way that few albums ever have. This song in particular, "nobody nowhere understands anything about me" is such a haunting lyric. Music this rich doesn't come close to mainstream, radio sucks more than ever. SP were truely one of a kind.
@heartoftheisland This album was the height of Sp's mainstream success, so I don't really understand what you mean by "music this rich doesn't com close to mainstream". This music was the epitome of mainstream in the mind-ninties BECAUSE of SP. I'm not putting a value judgement on it, just saying thats what it was. This WAS mainstream and SP defined as such.
The music of this strange and uninteresting time is failing - and fast; there is little to nothing that is as unique or as passionate as the music of SP. As I am young (seventeen), I find that I cannot listen to the most recent bands who have "skill" but lack tthe true talent to connect to an audience, grip their hearts with a firm hand, and throw them into a whirlpool of intense, new, outrageously baffling thoughts and emotions. I wish I could have experienced SP as they were.
I remember, it was 1998. I laid by the window of my attic room, my hair was so long, down to my waist. I listened to this all the time, smoking a joint & gazing at the stars from a candlelit earth. Good memories.
Dude I wish I was born in this generation of music. I'm 14 and this song makes me feel a strong yearning for the past, even though I don't even have much of a past yet!!!! Beautiful song
Dude I wish I was born in this generation of music. I'm 14 and this song makes me feel a strong yearning for the past, even though I don't even have much of a past yet!!!! Beautiful song
@hippyboy12 i'm a little older, and I witnessed these guys growing up...you know the surprising thing is, even when these guys were on top, they never could beat out britney spears. hahaha But of course these are deeper.
My metamorphosis was when I discovered SP. Coincidently occurring during years spent lonely recovering from a mental illness. 30 and feeling good today. --Abe
this i probably my favorite album of all time. i grew up in the bronx new york, a hip hop kid, this was my first rock album and i loved it to death. it was the soundtrack to my family moving us to florida and me missing ny york and my friends and other family.
i moved back to ny after high school and now this album makes me MISS florida, lol. =/
Jennifer you were right I should listen to this when I have problems, I'm acually going to down load it! Superjelliott thanks for being a great sisster! ily!
@Murderith7 i agree i am a vivid sp fan and i have to agree mellon collie just examplifys my life the ups the down and everything else and stumbleine by god is one of the most overlooked songs on mellon collie the emotion it portrays is shear brilliance im working on the cover of mellon collie in art class in honor of the alubm
This was an acoustic demo cleaned up for the album. A demo. Listen to billy's MCIS demo tape, it's identical. How'd they do it? I don't know. It's great though.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is not just a CD....it's an epoch...it's a journey...I'm not sure if they intended for it to be a concept album....I'm pretty much certain they didn't, actually...but to me that's totally what it is. It takes you from dawn to dark and all the places on the way...it is absolutely impossible for anyone to make another CD that could even be compared to this one. Those days are long gone for music. And Stumbleine is my favorite song on it.
it's a pretty loose concept album, go to wikipedia and look at how they have the vinyl version set up, and then make a playlist on your itunes (if you have it) and put them in that order and they actually do flow together. It will completely change the album for you (in a good way)
@Murderith7 pumpkins rule when it comes to rock music, but if you're really into another form of great music, try Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, he composed it for Napoleon, who didn't show much musical appreciation.
You're totally right, the fact that this is on the same album as Zero and Bullet with Butterfly Wings is amazing, I don't think that any other band could have pulled it off. On the other hand, Billy Corgan's a genius.
Actually, it was meant to be a concept album. It's a concept album about the cycle of life and death. Billy Corgan wrote most of it to be enjoyed by teens and people in their mid to late 20s. It was all the thoughts and such he had during those times and he wanted to write an album so he never forgets that.
@Murderith7 Billy felt the pressure after Nevermind hit and said it was either swing for the fences or give up...he started working and called the two cd Mellon Collie "The Wall for Generation X"...
i agree with him and his ego on that one...nothing comes close.
@hatetechstuff while he did make that "swing for the fences" comment in response to the success of Nevermind, it was not about MCATIS, it was about Siamese Dream. The "wall for Generation X" comment was indeed referring to MCATIS.
@Murderith7 I agree with everything you said , only for me American Idiot has as much of an effect. There's an epicness in both albums that I doubt will ever be matched again. Stunning
@Murderith7 Try Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium, done almost 10 years before, does it much better. Wouldn't be so sure about writing off other bands and albums just yet if I were you. These things tend to go in cycles. Next few years people will probably be doing something like this again.
I remember listening to this song for the first time when I was 15 and being completely floored by it I couldn't believe it. Still has the same effect today, sublime song!
@firegrrrrl Its amazing how often I have ended up drinking and rediscovering this album, even though it will always be my favourite.... dark memories, but memories nonetheless
one song can trigger it, and all of sudden my next two hours im on this binge time traveling through the eyes of the 90's... crazy how they captured this youthfulness...
@JUMBOpin these two cd's are a whole lot of peoples youth :) . im glad i came accross this when i was younger and didnt fall for some of the other crap coming out at the time.
it's funny how they called us generation X. i own that. the music takes me back to that..flannels and piercings and tattoos and dreads and raves and whatever we wanted...we were cool. wish i could visit that again :)
The general peace and stability of our nation back, the prosperity...everything rolled together made the 1990's an amazing time. But the music, like Smashing Pumpkins and a select few other bands are what said it all.
1979 was the first song I heard when I moved back to the States in 1994/1995 . . . I was floored! THIS song . . . amazing . . . what a contrast between the beautiful music and lyrics that delve into the harsh realities of life and depression and pain . . . what can you say but wow!
I'm 14 years old and im a huge smashing pumpkins fan and i hate not being able to see the original pumpkins in concert its like my unrealistic dream to see them concert..it really is cause i doubt that james darcy billy will ever be friends again let alone bandmates.. i thought that the whole billy and jimmy thing was okay but i want to have the original members not that i dont apreciate what ginger and jeff done but still now jimmy isnt even in the band and its really sucks T_T
mm.. Mhm i agree, and i think everyone else does too, that the band was better with the original members. im 13 and im a huge fan too but i don't really like watching them live, they don't sound as good to me.
True that... I'm turning 14 in a month. Been listening to the Pumpkins for years now. I'd see 'em live just because I had the misfortune of being born in '95, and not earlier. The original make up of the band was better than now, I agree.
i seen them in all their full glory when i was 14, how odd...yeah it was definitly the best concert experience of my entire life, they were touring on this cd, they opened up with mellon collie then the stage lit up with tonight/t it gave me a feeling like no other
yeah it was unforgetable to say the least.. just imagine a huge arena, then all of a sudden there's a blackout, and the piano from mellon collie kicks in and the crowd is screaming so loud that you can barely make the song out, then the transition on the first tripplet of notes of tonight tonight hit, the sound was absolutely perfect. the guy from the frogs was there with his cape and jumping off speakers it was cool :)
No matter how old I am or will be every time I will be listening to that song will be just like the first one..... 12 years old unwrapping hastily the CD and listening to this amazing album for the first time.... I feel so happy to have been introduced to their music as a kid and when they were at their peek... You have to love Pumpkins in the 90's.... <3
hannah i'm with ya sweet, i remember running home with the cd and putting into my dads kenwood 6 stack and being totally blown away as a 14 year old kid
i'd do anything to have that moment again, music seemed to mean so much more then??
I do love it when Billy rocks out..but I think I secretly love his softer songs more. This one and these below are my fav's 1. Soothe 2. Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete 3. In the Arms of Sleep 4. For Martha 5. Thirty Three 6. Obscured 7. Landslide (not there's i know) 8 Medilla Of The Gray Sky 9. To Shelia 10. Once Upon a Time
I remember borrowing this CD from my best friend at the time and taking it on a lame trip that my family took to Kansas City. I remember discovering this song while we were driving around the city at night, and playing the mess out of it for a long time.
you know i used to listen to the pumkins when i was 12 like 14 years ago (damn) and good music transcends time and generations, your friends criticism is unwarranted and probably motivated by a sense of belonging to the masses, dig what you like and don't regret it, that's what makes you special.
smashing pumpkins has such an awkward sound. but thats what i love. they arent trying to be good like modern day popular bands. they are such a comforting, calm, cozy, sound. im 14 almost 15 and im proud to say that they are my favorite band of all time. my friends may not like them, but its their loss. the sound is so wholesome.
That's funny cus I'm 14 (15 in a month) and I feel the same about the Pumpkins. I get criticized by my friends about liking an 'old' band so much, but I feel that it shouldn't matter how old or uncool a band is they can still rock and be the most emotionally touching band in the world :]
@YourEverythingImTold Fair dues, you've got pretty good taste for your age if you dn't mind me saying! Are your friends going through that early teens, shitty metal phase? You should preach the Pumkins to them, before it gets too late!
@Probiscuit i started listening to the pumpkins at 14, too...today i'm 16 but then my friends don't listen to metal or anything like that. they listen to modern commercial music. metal is actually gold compared to that....=/
@YourEverythingImTold so glad to hear this. This is all i listened to when I was your age. And that was a long time ago - but when I listen to this, time has never changed.
there was and never will be any band quite like the smashing pumpkins. That seems like a bad thing but it's good. it just makes them even more special
i can never get to you ... thats how i feel sometimes
nishaalynn 6 months ago
COME AROUND RUBY I CAN NEVER SLEEP ALONE!
z00no 7 months ago
fuckin a
Chubachus 8 months ago
this song + youtube autoreplay = infinite pleasure
ri394 8 months ago
so sad, now...
flavorata 9 months ago
come around ruby, I could never sleep alone......
gerryw2camaro 9 months ago
October 24th 1995 was a historic day for me when I skipped school to buy this CD on the day it was released! Listening to it brings me back to a time when life was simple with no responsibilites. Thank you smashing pumpkins for bringing me so much happiness as a teen!
darthrudious 9 months ago 7
@darthrudious I skipped school to buy this album too...11th grade. Still listen to it and I bet I'd have forgotten that school day anyway
foxlight3 9 months ago 2
@darthrudious Amen I remmber the very day I bought this album too.
uh0oo 9 months ago
While I love everything they've ever done, for some reason I've always loved this song so much....
Vampiriclover86 9 months ago 3
And nobody nowhere understands anything, about me
airwalkcrazy360 10 months ago
I used to listen to the headphones over at my local Tower in Sonoma. Was my first concert, went and saw it with my folks, best of times.
mcsippel1182 10 months ago
nostalgia
KarenSofia21 10 months ago
I used to listen to this song while tripping on acid. Really mellowed me out. The tracers were gorgeous.
schmidt640 11 months ago
I can't get over how amazing this song is.
xLUMBERJACKx666 11 months ago
Fret buzz has never sounded so beautiful
111teamomori 11 months ago
how much i loved this song guys..... you all are right when saying "this album is an epoch"... it is defintevely my 16 years old age...
bit nostalgic listening this
NicolaZambelli 11 months ago
Oddly, this always reminds me of Roy's speech at the end of Bladerunner - the "Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion" speech. Where does all this feeling go? Nostalgia is never quite a square deal.
GhostyGu 1 year ago
When are they going to make a loop button?
funniedoug03 1 year ago
i like the part about the slaves. the rest is a bunch of nonsense.
electriclimits 1 year ago
@electriclimits Everyone has different opinions, you don't know what's in his mind so who are you to judge his lyrics? Pooing on a cat might mean nothing to you but it might to other people?
UnknownDnB 1 year ago
I love this album too... but I'm not sure I'd travel back in time. I grew up with the music my dad played all the time-- all stuff I love, by the way. Without the Smashing Pumpkins, Lou Reed, Tool, the Grateful Dead... and all the other bands I'd been immersed in from Day One, I don't think I'd be the person I am today or listen to the music I do today.
I'd rather grow with this band than find them in my teens. :)
TheMiilydork 1 year ago
billy corgan si lees esto...
te amo
pepenacho222 1 year ago
anaís, si lees esto...
te amo
danieljimenez1989 1 year ago
I'll be your stumbleine, I'll be you super Queen....
Come around ruby i could never sleep alone...
penguingirl1985 1 year ago
As I sit here, a washed up musician thinking of the reason I'm not working at IBM, I think damn this song is good. GIve me my guitar I'm going back to work. Cheered up my Christmas Smashing Pumkins you rock.
motoguy777 1 year ago 2
pure emotion. gotta love it
Bruzzo14 1 year ago
I love this Album it takes me on a journey of darkness and then back to the light for me anyways and there is a little trip to remember Kurt Cobain as well when he shouts Forever Stay in the song Here IS NO Why it was totally a tribute to Cobain he won't admit but you can just feel it in that song that Kurt was on his mind there.
megamo08 1 year ago
This song makes me think of a bulimic person, somehow..
My connection to it at least.
IlyxBijillion 1 year ago
Pumpkins. It's love. :]
AprilDescends 1 year ago
I like the sound this song has. Poetic, spendid, and all pumkins, priceless.
motoguy777 1 year ago
I've read 12 pages of comments, completely amazed at how everyone feels exactly the same way about this. This song is pretty much the most amazing thing that ever was.
And the album… man, that album. There will never be such a flawless work of art.
It's heartbreaking in a way.
I love how everyone remembers being a kid in the 90's because of this album and how we all have a certain memory tied to this song. It's just fuckin' beautiful.
I wonder if Billy has any idea of how important this was…
luiscueto 1 year ago
@luiscueto
So true. I'm pretty much a normal adult now, but when I was 16-22, if it wasn't for the Smashing Pumpkins and this album, I would have probably killed myself. When I was an outsider, a loner, and couldn't relate with the world, my "friend" was listening to this album, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, and the rest. When the pain was so great, I had this album to be my companion and at least make life bearable, because I was not alone when listening to this.
imoretull 1 year ago
@imoretull lol. we're all on that boat. "pretty much normal" being the operative words. I owe music so much. Someone posted on this video that "music seemed to mean so much more back then". I guess they're right. We were a lot lonelier then!
We may not always have had someone to talk to, but we always had music to turn to.
luiscueto 1 year ago 2
@luiscueto yeah, lol, I'm pretty much 94% normal; still got about 6% of darkness left to extinguish... Although, I have to admit my emotions had more depth then. I had a subtle, observational, ironic view of life. Now, I am just blindly "content" or happy, pay bills, go to work. Not complaining, but my artistic abilities seem to have dissipated... Strange, reminds me the book Brave New World, and technology will eventually make everyone "stupid" happy...
imoretull 1 year ago 2
@imoretull rock n roll! music is fukn magical!
Bruzzo14 1 year ago
so perfect after thru the eyes of ruby aswell
sammidoll85 1 year ago
my favorite song
pirataxi 1 year ago
Even when I didn't pay much attention to most of the words (some lines would trigger thoughts and send me wandering places sometimes), the instrumentals still brought this deep atmosphere that blended positive and negative, happy and sad, to dark and destructive, bittersweet, and overall -- scathing melancholic feelings.
MonstersNightmare 1 year ago 21
This song just isn't the same without the high quality. I really hope my ipod isn't broken much longer ._.
Spoonular 1 year ago
when this album came out it was before internet and i couldnt afford the CD so i use to go into the record store and stand there and listen to it for as long as i could on the headphones there
herbie37 1 year ago 73
@herbie37 ...just because i use to do the same!!
CubensisAtiv4Strings 1 year ago
@herbie37 thta is right on , man! i bought the cd and i would listen to it, full blast..lol. awesome music!
therealconnjr 7 months ago
one of the best albuns ever love love love it
cardonisca 1 year ago
This album is simply amazing.
Shannon5221 1 year ago 2
It's interesting to see you write that, Centuryrain11. I was 17 when this album came out and it connected in a way that few albums ever have. This song in particular, "nobody nowhere understands anything about me" is such a haunting lyric. Music this rich doesn't come close to mainstream, radio sucks more than ever. SP were truely one of a kind.
heartoftheisland 1 year ago 5
@heartoftheisland This album was the height of Sp's mainstream success, so I don't really understand what you mean by "music this rich doesn't com close to mainstream". This music was the epitome of mainstream in the mind-ninties BECAUSE of SP. I'm not putting a value judgement on it, just saying thats what it was. This WAS mainstream and SP defined as such.
loganbrennan 1 year ago
The music of this strange and uninteresting time is failing - and fast; there is little to nothing that is as unique or as passionate as the music of SP. As I am young (seventeen), I find that I cannot listen to the most recent bands who have "skill" but lack tthe true talent to connect to an audience, grip their hearts with a firm hand, and throw them into a whirlpool of intense, new, outrageously baffling thoughts and emotions. I wish I could have experienced SP as they were.
Centuryrain11 1 year ago
This song would make a biker cry
namatay1 1 year ago 4
where does time go?
83yomomma 1 year ago
I remember, it was 1998. I laid by the window of my attic room, my hair was so long, down to my waist. I listened to this all the time, smoking a joint & gazing at the stars from a candlelit earth. Good memories.
pranakhan 1 year ago
For me It goes
1.Smashing Pumpkins
2.Muse
3.Mastodon
4.Tool
5.A Perfect Circle
For me anyway...what are your top 5 Artists?
WheelchairPerson 1 year ago
sucsk
Commitment24Seven 1 year ago
i was 6 when this album came out and my parents played it all the time
reminds me of some of my old toys just because it was always playing
duhduhduhda 1 year ago 3
Thanx Billy! What a sexy magnetic song
RagexKage 1 year ago
ya
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jpnwproboarding 1 year ago
Dude I wish I was born in this generation of music. I'm 14 and this song makes me feel a strong yearning for the past, even though I don't even have much of a past yet!!!! Beautiful song
hippyboy12 1 year ago
@hippyboy12 Agreed. I'm 13
33MellonCollie 1 year ago
Dude I wish I was born in this generation of music. I'm 14 and this song makes me feel a strong yearning for the past, even though I don't even have much of a past yet!!!! Beautiful song
hippyboy12 1 year ago
@hippyboy12 i'm a little older, and I witnessed these guys growing up...you know the surprising thing is, even when these guys were on top, they never could beat out britney spears. hahaha But of course these are deeper.
dalecampbl7 1 year ago
our lady peace
jayvizer8 1 year ago
"jukebox fuckup hanging round the drugstore"
That line takes me right back to wolfman's nards
dasjerkstore 1 year ago
My metamorphosis was when I discovered SP. Coincidently occurring during years spent lonely recovering from a mental illness. 30 and feeling good today. --Abe
BHaverchuck0 1 year ago
yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
MrPurty97 1 year ago
Whenever I sing for my band I try to sound like Billy Corgan.
stoprejectingmynames 1 year ago
And what you never knew can never get to you, so fake it....
kalakaka99 1 year ago
MCIS is the soundtrack to my youth, I actually used to carry the book from the album wherever I went hah.. @Murderith7 you're 100% correct..
MCKOER 1 year ago 2
this i probably my favorite album of all time. i grew up in the bronx new york, a hip hop kid, this was my first rock album and i loved it to death. it was the soundtrack to my family moving us to florida and me missing ny york and my friends and other family.
i moved back to ny after high school and now this album makes me MISS florida, lol. =/
lonelywolfy 1 year ago 3
guitar very easy to play , simple melody , but so wonderful...
franckmagnus 1 year ago
Why does Billy say he wants to be a super Queen?
blackcrow1x 1 year ago
Grandiosa!
geraldmx 1 year ago
Jennifer you were right I should listen to this when I have problems, I'm acually going to down load it! Superjelliott thanks for being a great sisster! ily!
TheEmily016 1 year ago
@Murderith7 i agree i am a vivid sp fan and i have to agree mellon collie just examplifys my life the ups the down and everything else and stumbleine by god is one of the most overlooked songs on mellon collie the emotion it portrays is shear brilliance im working on the cover of mellon collie in art class in honor of the alubm
bkallday2909 1 year ago 2
love the guitar in this
ulliellax 1 year ago
This was an acoustic demo cleaned up for the album. A demo. Listen to billy's MCIS demo tape, it's identical. How'd they do it? I don't know. It's great though.
zerosoma33 1 year ago
Beautiful, cant believe i used to be able to play this on guitar!!
ironclaw1985 1 year ago
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is not just a CD....it's an epoch...it's a journey...I'm not sure if they intended for it to be a concept album....I'm pretty much certain they didn't, actually...but to me that's totally what it is. It takes you from dawn to dark and all the places on the way...it is absolutely impossible for anyone to make another CD that could even be compared to this one. Those days are long gone for music. And Stumbleine is my favorite song on it.
Murderith7 1 year ago 180
it's a pretty loose concept album, go to wikipedia and look at how they have the vinyl version set up, and then make a playlist on your itunes (if you have it) and put them in that order and they actually do flow together. It will completely change the album for you (in a good way)
despseekingsusan 1 year ago
@Murderith7 i agree. i think its a real work of art.
BigCherylFan 1 year ago
@Murderith7
I'm pretty sure that was the vision behind it :D Great success!!
Marixpress2 1 year ago
@Murderith7 damn straight.
nicolaaagh 1 year ago
@Murderith7 pumpkins rule when it comes to rock music, but if you're really into another form of great music, try Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, he composed it for Napoleon, who didn't show much musical appreciation.
dalecampbl9 1 year ago
You're totally right, the fact that this is on the same album as Zero and Bullet with Butterfly Wings is amazing, I don't think that any other band could have pulled it off. On the other hand, Billy Corgan's a genius.
stoprejectingmynames 1 year ago 6
@Murderith7 Stated perfectly!
duders28 1 year ago
@Murderith7 right on! 1 of the best albums ever. makes me wish i had a time machine.
Bruzzo14 1 year ago 2
@Murderith7 Truly inspiration! thank you! :)
nunitonick 1 year ago
Siamese Dream does the same exact thing. Both are 2 of my top 5 favorite albums of all time.
StackofNosiesFrtMn 1 year ago
@Murderith7
Actually, it was meant to be a concept album. It's a concept album about the cycle of life and death. Billy Corgan wrote most of it to be enjoyed by teens and people in their mid to late 20s. It was all the thoughts and such he had during those times and he wanted to write an album so he never forgets that.
TimelessWinter89 11 months ago
@Murderith7 Billy felt the pressure after Nevermind hit and said it was either swing for the fences or give up...he started working and called the two cd Mellon Collie "The Wall for Generation X"...
i agree with him and his ego on that one...nothing comes close.
hatetechstuff 11 months ago 2
@hatetechstuff while he did make that "swing for the fences" comment in response to the success of Nevermind, it was not about MCATIS, it was about Siamese Dream. The "wall for Generation X" comment was indeed referring to MCATIS.
lumbergfh 10 months ago
@Murderith7 Actually, it was intended as a concept album
Feehely93 10 months ago
@Murderith7 I agree with everything you said , only for me American Idiot has as much of an effect. There's an epicness in both albums that I doubt will ever be matched again. Stunning
gpfitz11 10 months ago
ugh... no.. @gpfitz11
Ahljay88 9 months ago
@Ahljay88 ugh...yeah...fuckhead. i did say "for me" afterall.
gpfitz11 9 months ago
@Murderith7 Try Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium, done almost 10 years before, does it much better. Wouldn't be so sure about writing off other bands and albums just yet if I were you. These things tend to go in cycles. Next few years people will probably be doing something like this again.
TAINTMYSOUL 9 months ago
@TAINTMYSOUL I thought the same thing might happen. I hope your right for goodness sake.
TheBucshot07 9 months ago
@Murderith7 It was made to "hang together as the circle of life", is what billy corgan said. My personal favorite is thru the eyes of ruby.
maddog9513 8 months ago
I remember listening to this song for the first time when I was 15 and being completely floored by it I couldn't believe it. Still has the same effect today, sublime song!
BalooMoo 1 year ago 2
It's pretty epic
TheStrossus 1 year ago
@BalooMoo thats whats happed to me but way more recent
just goes to show the power of great music/ the smashing pumpkins
SuperJElliott 1 year ago
Chills. Every time I listen to this..
IrisZenMoon 1 year ago 4
probably the best song ever
artistofwar1 1 year ago 2
This is amazing.
KSIDINGLExBERRY 1 year ago 2
what you never knew can never get to you
Augustus1316 2 years ago 3
i love the imagery. did i spell that right?
bjensenbjensen 2 years ago 2
This album is a masterpiece.
It gets you in a weird mood though.
fatesrush 2 years ago 7
nobody understands anything about me an all my dreams
spaceyvet319 2 years ago 6
Shake it up Judy, set your heart alive..
JanetEyre9 2 years ago 2
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what a joke this song is
SythDarKProductions 2 years ago
Why?
fatesrush 2 years ago
thats it..........im on a pumpkins binge. my god the flashbacks that this whole album brings....its intense.
firegrrrrl 2 years ago 7
@firegrrrrl Its amazing how often I have ended up drinking and rediscovering this album, even though it will always be my favourite.... dark memories, but memories nonetheless
debassed 2 years ago 2
one song can trigger it, and all of sudden my next two hours im on this binge time traveling through the eyes of the 90's... crazy how they captured this youthfulness...
arsefan55 2 years ago 3
this double cd was the best thing to come out...ever...period...those 2 cd's are my youth...wow
JUMBOpin 2 years ago 3
Same here. I still know how to play every single song off this album on my guitar. This song in particular means a lot to me.
subby33 1 year ago
@JUMBOpin these two cd's are a whole lot of peoples youth :) . im glad i came accross this when i was younger and didnt fall for some of the other crap coming out at the time.
music is life. and this here is my music :)
fredpunk123 1 year ago 4
@fredpunk123 dido Smashing Pumpkins for life!
SuperJElliott 1 year ago
Fuck yessss
mialovesvinyl 2 years ago
I love the Smashing Pumpkins
thedeadsalesman 2 years ago 42
i am so incredibly jealous. i would have done anything to see them. always will be my number one favorite band.
michelleserene54 2 years ago 9
it's funny how they called us generation X. i own that. the music takes me back to that..flannels and piercings and tattoos and dreads and raves and whatever we wanted...we were cool. wish i could visit that again :)
ingmire71 2 years ago
hey i feel ya man.. me 2 :P
nirvana19791979 2 years ago
Amen.
CmdrALF 2 years ago
intense song.
still gives me chills to this day.
xsamestesx 2 years ago
The general peace and stability of our nation back, the prosperity...everything rolled together made the 1990's an amazing time. But the music, like Smashing Pumpkins and a select few other bands are what said it all.
thejerseydude 2 years ago
i hope you just watched/ listened to thru the eyes of ruby before this.... because...because. a shivering combo of songs
tattoofthesun 2 years ago
the smashing pumpkins are amazing
TheStoopsgirl 2 years ago 3
indeed they are.
TheStrossus 2 years ago 2
1979 was the first song I heard when I moved back to the States in 1994/1995 . . . I was floored! THIS song . . . amazing . . . what a contrast between the beautiful music and lyrics that delve into the harsh realities of life and depression and pain . . . what can you say but wow!
jubjub2112 2 years ago
I'm 14 years old and im a huge smashing pumpkins fan and i hate not being able to see the original pumpkins in concert its like my unrealistic dream to see them concert..it really is cause i doubt that james darcy billy will ever be friends again let alone bandmates.. i thought that the whole billy and jimmy thing was okay but i want to have the original members not that i dont apreciate what ginger and jeff done but still now jimmy isnt even in the band and its really sucks T_T
SProcksmysocks456 2 years ago 5
mm.. Mhm i agree, and i think everyone else does too, that the band was better with the original members. im 13 and im a huge fan too but i don't really like watching them live, they don't sound as good to me.
Spoonular 2 years ago
True that... I'm turning 14 in a month. Been listening to the Pumpkins for years now. I'd see 'em live just because I had the misfortune of being born in '95, and not earlier. The original make up of the band was better than now, I agree.
ScarlettStaghelm 2 years ago
i seen them in all their full glory when i was 14, how odd...yeah it was definitly the best concert experience of my entire life, they were touring on this cd, they opened up with mellon collie then the stage lit up with tonight/t it gave me a feeling like no other
nirvana19791979 2 years ago
Damn, that must have been sick bro.
ScarlettStaghelm 2 years ago
yeah it was unforgetable to say the least.. just imagine a huge arena, then all of a sudden there's a blackout, and the piano from mellon collie kicks in and the crowd is screaming so loud that you can barely make the song out, then the transition on the first tripplet of notes of tonight tonight hit, the sound was absolutely perfect. the guy from the frogs was there with his cape and jumping off speakers it was cool :)
nirvana19791979 2 years ago 5
Man, I wish modern music was as awesome as that :D
ScarlettStaghelm 2 years ago 6
I envy you my friend!!
renzepp 2 years ago
Andres Montes RIP
kkkobbbe888 2 years ago
Im 31 and SP still reminds me of my High School dayz still love em. Wuz in de fan club also. The slow songs u can feel it in your soul
shaunjan 2 years ago 2
i absolutely love the soft sadder songs by SP. i play them on a rainy day and just sleep like a new born baby
romeo1892 2 years ago 4
No matter how old I am or will be every time I will be listening to that song will be just like the first one..... 12 years old unwrapping hastily the CD and listening to this amazing album for the first time.... I feel so happy to have been introduced to their music as a kid and when they were at their peek... You have to love Pumpkins in the 90's.... <3
HannahMagdalena 2 years ago 4
i feel the same way.
romeo1892 2 years ago
Absolutely. The first song I ever heard of the Pumpkins was 1979 (When MTV still showed videos...), and that just started my downfall.
wbarnhill 2 years ago
hannah i'm with ya sweet, i remember running home with the cd and putting into my dads kenwood 6 stack and being totally blown away as a 14 year old kid
i'd do anything to have that moment again, music seemed to mean so much more then??
jamiesomersuk 2 years ago 5
LOL I'd do the same to get back to those days, It was a great time for music.
dougfresh514 2 years ago
misspent youth thinkin up a rampage....
typ044 2 years ago
carliboy908 2 years ago 4
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brilliant song my fav from pumpkins
rabbatop 2 years ago 2
I remember borrowing this CD from my best friend at the time and taking it on a lame trip that my family took to Kansas City. I remember discovering this song while we were driving around the city at night, and playing the mess out of it for a long time.
I miss the 90s.
jcsavestheday00 2 years ago 11
And nobody nowhere understands anything about me,
And all my dreams ... lost at sea.
milossarian 2 years ago 3
jukebox fuckup hanging round the drug store...
BrettDubs556 2 years ago 2
no matter what you say, he'll be back for more...
jaspercullenz 2 years ago 2
you know i used to listen to the pumkins when i was 12 like 14 years ago (damn) and good music transcends time and generations, your friends criticism is unwarranted and probably motivated by a sense of belonging to the masses, dig what you like and don't regret it, that's what makes you special.
moonsojung 2 years ago 9
I agree with this wholeheartedly.
ManfredMitchum 2 years ago
smashing pumpkins has such an awkward sound. but thats what i love. they arent trying to be good like modern day popular bands. they are such a comforting, calm, cozy, sound. im 14 almost 15 and im proud to say that they are my favorite band of all time. my friends may not like them, but its their loss. the sound is so wholesome.
YourEverythingImTold 2 years ago 26
That's funny cus I'm 14 (15 in a month) and I feel the same about the Pumpkins. I get criticized by my friends about liking an 'old' band so much, but I feel that it shouldn't matter how old or uncool a band is they can still rock and be the most emotionally touching band in the world :]
snarf4president 2 years ago 9
I bet well over half the bands your friends like suck. Especially if they consider smashing pumpkins old
Haushinka1000Hours 2 years ago 4
same here man!
all my friends all wanna go to these all time low concerts, and im like fuckk that pumpkins all the way!
Xxmusicxl0vexlifexX 2 years ago 7
You need new friends if they don't like the pumpkins lol they are completely the epitome of great music
malice676767 2 years ago 10
Sometimes its a complexity not everyone can understand. A mixture between metaphoric lyrics and great musical style. Never gets old
Dylan31007 2 years ago 3
@YourEverythingImTold Fair dues, you've got pretty good taste for your age if you dn't mind me saying! Are your friends going through that early teens, shitty metal phase? You should preach the Pumkins to them, before it gets too late!
Probiscuit 1 year ago
@Probiscuit i started listening to the pumpkins at 14, too...today i'm 16 but then my friends don't listen to metal or anything like that. they listen to modern commercial music. metal is actually gold compared to that....=/
floppydisk35 1 year ago
@YourEverythingImTold, dude too bad you weren't around when they toured as the original band
dalecampbl7 1 year ago
@YourEverythingImTold so glad to hear this. This is all i listened to when I was your age. And that was a long time ago - but when I listen to this, time has never changed.
One love my friend x
thedeadsalesman 1 year ago
you have good taste YourEverythingImTold
SiliconBong 1 year ago
also the end of eyes of ruby
TheKatefantastic 2 years ago
death rolled up itno a tidy ball of hope.
a hope that carries burdon of hell.
SGzSynyster 2 years ago
this song is about a girl having an abortion
its such a powerful song
acadencePreD 2 years ago 6
there was and never will be any band quite like the smashing pumpkins. That seems like a bad thing but it's good. it just makes them even more special
WoodstocK6972 2 years ago 7
...and nobody nowhere understand anything about me, and all my dreams... great line
spiu 2 years ago 8
It's so sad that the same can be said for a lot ot children outhere
Invidente7 2 years ago
and then badass xyu kicks off...
dolorexa 2 years ago 6
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Not my cup of tea...
freak7koRn 2 years ago
i used to hate this song, but then i started listening to the lyrics. try it again in a few years
Teej212 2 years ago 2
u can just laydown in the grass and let the wind just pass you by...
this song is sooo peaceful....
rigojoey1 2 years ago 6
i remember this one WHOOO.!!!
LOL learning guitar to this track
"JUke box Fuck up hanging round the drug store!"
callieestes 2 years ago