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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
all yr friends invited
don’t go to yr b-day party
mom in the van
nobody answers their phone
"cool kids never had the time"
kenny, yr friend is there, bribe
“bullet with butterfly wings” video "Zero" and KROQ
overtook all sounds
instead of notebook and sorrow
u find some new friends tomorrow
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
as Billy C. said was made for 14-24 years olds
a goodbye letter wrapped in ribbon put in box neath bed
to all the angst, bye.
I haven’t listened to this album since I sold it for a plane ticket to Texas back in 2006.
Initially, left such impression, it was pieces collected after Kurt’s death. That album gave u everything while whirling in confusion of coming to age. Violence and Hope. Serenading violently timeless nostalgia.
Twenty years later, Bought it for .99 cents tax at Salvation Army
Play,
Everything hits at once.
This is the album that had me turn from aping silver necklace chains, khakis, coke, and speed dealer kids, finally walk away from the popular table.
To fully embracing strangeness, marijuana, peeling out, reflect, crime, zen, creating, not caring.
I remember “1979” video premiere came out it was bigger than the wrestling match that was going down.
I forget who was on the mat but it was at Walkkill Valley. I had to wrestle and won, but I was high by the time the video premiered.
Parents cheered. But our age wasn't paying attention to Varsity that night.
Special track jackets, cheerleaders rush’d to the tv.
That song, that video was timeless, we was all talking about it like a celebration.
I remember them playing it over the loudspeaker eventually by popular demand. Kids lost their shit. Knowing they were on the verge of jacking cars, making out, defying parents law and order. It was total rebellion before u stood a chance to greet it.
Hearing it now, I see it differently. I see the pattern. But it’s forever a missing link to that period. How could u not be affected by Smashing Pumpkins as a young teen listening to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness? 1995. God Bless us all for having been so confused to accept it.
Sounds daisy fresh as it ever did. I’m older and nit pick words, with open eyes, mind, mincing lines wit brows.
When this dropped it felt like everything was changing for the worst or better, simultaneously. I’d have to say this was the album of that day, and better than its predecessors, my opinion. I personally waited the October release date till my birthday in November to get it as birthday gift.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, leads and feels you to more than the detention wall blank stare. It’s better than the Beatles and Pink Floyd, I’ll always recall it as such. As diverse as it is… consistent. Mell'on Collie and the Infinite Sadness was a special moment in time that took the helms to define it and wearily stood as a pinnacle unawares of its next step. Or maybe half the cream of it is about Courtney Love.
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