Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995)

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Music
Genre:	Alternative Rock
Artist:	The Smashing Pumpkins

‘Love is suicide…’

‘You said something?’

‘Hmm… Nope?’

‘You did. You are talking to yourself again.’

‘I think I got a song struck so deep inside there (points to my forehead), and just keeps looping.’

‘What song is that?’

‘Trust me. You won’t prefer it.’

And when I discovered just the other day I was mumbling, ‘And through her window shades, I watched her shadow moved…’ I realized that I had to cure the itch. I had to have Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness.

This post was supposed to be a response to Jeniong’s entry on Smashing Pumpkins. Such coincidence that I had been running MCIS overdrive in my mp3 player for the past two weeks that Jeniong decided to raise a loyalty question on SP.

This entry was supposed to blog instead of a review, but due to a certain commitment issue I had in my blog section, I have decided to post it here.

Introduced by a friend when I was fifteen, MCIS was part of our lives for almost a decade, whether it was in our jamming sessions or plain conversations. Revisiting them again was refreshing and purifying. I had been listening to too much horseshit recently that my soul had been clogged with auditory filth like Snow Patrol, Fallout Boy and Jay Chou. It was refreshing in regards to the choices of songs this time round, revealed that I had grown as a SP fan.

I say, Fuck Tonight, Tonight.

Fuck Zero.

Fuck Bullet with Butterfly Wings.

Fuck 1979. (I take that back.)

Fuck Billboard, MTV and Grammys, platinum and more shit that made them radio friendly.

Radio friendly is a crime.

These are the songs we and many millions SP fans lived and breathe religiously for years, yet there are real gems in MCIS.

I had been running songs like Jellybelly, Lily, Here Is No Why, To Forgive, Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans, XYU and Love overdrive these days.

And their leader, the undisputed song of MCIS is Bodies.

'The empty bodies stand at rest
Casualties of their own flesh
Afflicted by their dispossession
But no bodies ever knew'

'Bodies' is a song that makes you want to crank up your stereo in the mid of the night so that everyone can hear Corgan screaming, 'Nobodies ever knew.'

'Bodies' is a song that makes your thumb sore from trying to full blast in your mp3 player, while cursing your earphones are impotent to cast the song's full strength and makes you purchase a bass orientated/crisp strings sounding headphone to accommodate your needs.

'Bodies' is a sorrowful song of decay, void of pussy whining emo and horseshit cries for intimacy. It did not swells with pretentious and meaningless lyrics like Zero.

'Bodies' is a song that makes you want to drum the whatever innards of your commute.

'Bodies' is a song that makes you want to listen to it, clocking another twenty hours a week, so that you could tribute it in a review that no one probably reads, but deep down you know it matters.

MCIS provided a range of music, supposingly mimicking the circle of life to end.

Best percussions effort showcasing the awe talent of Jimmy Chamberlin - Jellybelly.

Song that sound a little too much like tracks from Garbage - Love.

Songs to listen when you are silting your wrists - To Forgive, Stumbleine, In The Arms Of Sleep, Thirty Three.

There are even songs to cater to your craving for horseshit songs should your withdrawal symptoms kicked in halfway (mind you, MCIS is two hour playtime), there is always James Iha with his fraggy Take Me Down. Never fails.



P.S: Shiok! You peeps won't know how great it is to write about something else after a four month hiatus.