10 Double Albums Worth Hearing Start To End

7. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY342ZN3stU Smashing Pumpkins most successful album, both critically and commercially, was also their grandest and most ambitious. An impressively diverse album, Mellon Collie features a wide array of musical styles and instrumentation. The drastic differences felt throughout, from heavy metal and grunge to classical orchestration, from psychedelia to pop folk, keep things interesting and recapture your imagination any time it begins to wander. A very creative and experimental album, Mellon Collie is not just a guitar-bass-drums album. Corgan and his bandmates make use of a vast number of traditional and non-traditional items to create the aural landscape featured throughout. Everything from synthesizers and drum machines, to a live orchestra, to household items such as salt shakers, finds their way onto these beautiful recordings. The highs and lows of this album can be exhilarating and exhausting at the same time. It will blow out your ear drums with stomping drums and piercing distortion, only to ease them back to life with twinkling atmospherics and lightly plucked strings. A true masterpiece, Mellon Collie contains a little something for everyone. Best of Album 1: 1. Tonight, Tonight 2. Bullet With Butterfly Wings 3. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Best of Album 2: 1. 1979 2. Thirty-Three 3. Stumbleine
 
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