Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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Template:Album infobox Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (also shortened to Mellon Collie or abbreviated to MCIS) is a double CD and triple LP that was released on October 24, 1995 by The Smashing Pumpkins through Virgin Records. Alongside the band's previous album, 1993's Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is widely considered to represent The Smashing Pumpkins's best work. Entering the U.S. charts at #1, the album has — as of May 2005 — sold 9.4 million copies in the United States.

In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Mellon Collie the 29th greatest album of all time. Template:RS500

Contents

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Track listings

The CD version of the album was divided onto 2 CDs, entitled "Dawn to Dusk" and "Twilight to Starlight". The cassette version is divided similarly. The triple vinyl version, however, is divided into 6 sides, "Dawn", "Tea Time", "Dusk", "Twilight", "Midnight" and "Starlight", respectively. The vinyl also featured 2 bonus songs, and a completely revised tracklisting.

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CD/Cassette version

Dawn to Dusk

  1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (2:52)
  2. "Tonight, Tonight" (4:14)
  3. "Jellybelly" (3:01)
  4. "Zero" (2:41)
  5. "Here Is No Why" (3:45)
  6. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" (4:18)
  7. "To Forgive" (4:17)
  8. "Fuck You (An Ode To No One)" (4:51)
  9. "Love" (4:21)
  10. "Cupid de Locke" (2:50)
  11. "Galapogos" (4:47)
  12. "Muzzle" (3:44)
  13. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" (9:21)
  14. "Take Me Down" (2:52)

Twilight to Starlight

  1. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" (4:22)
  2. "Bodies" (4:12)
  3. "Thirty-Three" (4:10)
  4. "In the Arms of Sleep" (4:12)
  5. "1979" (4:25)
  6. "Tales of a Scorched Earth" (3:46)
  7. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" (7:38)
  8. "Stumbleine" (2:54)
  9. "X.Y.U." (7:07)
  10. "We Only Come Out at Night" (4:05)
  11. "Beautiful" (4:18)
  12. "Lily (My One and Only)" (3:31)
  13. "By Starlight" (4:48)
  14. "Farewell and Goodnight" (4:22)
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Vinyl version

Dawn

  1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (2:52)
  2. "Tonight, Tonight" (4:14)
  3. "Thirty-Three" (4:10)
  4. "In the Arms of Sleep" (4:12)
  5. "Take Me Down" (2:52)

Tea Time

  1. "Jellybelly" (3:01)
  2. "Bodies" (4:12)
  3. "To Forgive" (4:17)
  4. "Here is No Why" (3:45)
  5. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" (9:21)

Dusk

  1. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" (4:18)
  2. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" (7:38)
  3. "Muzzle" (3:44)
  4. "Galapogos" (4:47)
  5. "Tales of a Scorched Earth" (3:46)

Twilight

  1. "1979" (4:25)
  2. "Beautiful" (4:18)
  3. "Cupid de Locke" (2:50)
  4. "By Starlight" (4:48)
  5. "We Only Come Out at Night" (4:05)

Midnight

  1. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" (4:22)
  2. "Zero" (2:41)
  3. "An Ode to No One" (4:51)
  4. "Love" (4:21)
  5. "X.Y.U." (7:07)

Starlight

  1. "Stumbleine" (2:54)
  2. "Lily (My One and Only)" (3:31)
  3. "Tonite Reprise" (2:40)
  4. "Farewell and Goodnight" (4:22)
  5. "Infinite Sadness" (4:02)

The singles from Mellon Collie... were collected on The Aeroplane Flies High box set, which also includes the vinyl bonus track "Tonite Reprise".

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Chart positions

1995 Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness The Billboard 200 No. 1
1995 Bullet With Butterfly Wings Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 4
1995 Bullet With Butterfly Wings Modern Rock Tracks No. 2
1996 1979 The Billboard Hot 100 No. 12
1996 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Billboard Hot 100 No. 22
1996 Tonight, Tonight The Billboard Hot 100 No. 36
1996 1979 Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 1
1996 Muzzle Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 10
1996 Tonight, Tonight Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 4
1996 Zero Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 15
1996 1979 Modern Rock Tracks No. 1
1996 Muzzle Modern Rock Tracks No. 8
1996 Tonight, Tonight Modern Rock Tracks No. 5
1996 Zero Modern Rock Tracks No. 9
1996 1979 Adult Top 40 No. 30
1996 1979 Hot Dance Music/Club Play No. 17
1996 1979 Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales No. 47
1996 1979 Top 40 Mainstream No. 10
1997 Thirty-Three The Billboard Hot 100 No. 39
1997 Thirty-Three Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 18
1997 Thirty-Three Modern Rock Tracks No. 2
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Personnel

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Trivia

  • The song "Where Boys Fear to Tread" samples the rocket launcher from id Software's Doom. This sound effect points to the relationship between Doom and the Pumpkins in the SPISPOPD (Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris) joke.

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