A multi-platinum breakthrough known for its dense "guitar cathedrals" and hits like "Today" and "Disarm" .
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How do you follow a masterpiece? If you are Billy Corgan, you double down—literally. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is a 28-track, two-hour double album that remains the best-selling double album of the decade. Conceived as a song-cycle about the full spectrum of human emotion (from the titular melancholy to manic joy), it careens from the symphonic piano of the title track to the punk-thrash of "Bodies," from the sci-fi synth-pop of "1979" to the proto-emo wail of "Bullet with Butterfly Wings." The album’s sprawling length is both its glory and its flaw. There are undeniable filler tracks, but the sheer ambition is staggering. Jimmy Chamberlin’s drumming reaches its peak on the prog-metal assault of "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans," while "Tonight, Tonight" (with its sweeping strings and silent-film aesthetic) offers a fragile, triumphant counterpoint. Mellon Collie is the sound of a band believing its own myth and, for a moment, actually living up to it. A multi-platinum breakthrough known for its dense "guitar