Devendra just asked me to pick 7 tunes, over 7 days and tag someone else to do the same. Kinda like looking at someone elses itunes to get feel of what makes them tick, or tap their feet, or get up and dance. So here I go 1/7. --- It wasnt the first album I ever bought but Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was the first album I ever liked. Twenty years later its still one of my favourite albums of all time. Corgan is captured at his songwriting peak. So prolific they finished the demo sessions with twice the required material, but smart enough to resist the temptation of adding a third disc. Corgan wanted Mellon Collie to be The Wall for his generation, and he pretty much nailed it. But Mellon Collie is not just a fluke of timing. Off the back of the successful Siamese Dream album (which Corgan railroaded, recording everyones guitar and bass parts without permission), this double LP owes everything to a fleeting spirit of collaboration in the Pumpkins. Many of the initial demos were in fact Ihas songs, and those songs provide a lush innocence laid up against Corgans hard post-metal sonics. Its testament to Butch Vig + Corgans production that these songs hold together without incident. Not long into the Mellon Collie tour, Chamberlain is taking heroin with the tour keyboardist, they both overdose, the keyboardist dies - from here, any spirit of collaboration in the Pumpkins is dead. And they get increasingly terrible. It was really hard to pick a song, but ultimately, really easy. Tonight, Tonight may not have been the best single on the record but it best exemplifies Corgans mission and his new aesthetic. This video made with Wayne White gives the Pumpkins the dream-like visual identity theyve been striving towards. So theres my first song. I tag Paula Korunić
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:38:40 +0000
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