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pearljammer13
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- #11
- Posted: 02/12/2013 01:30
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I like Siamese Dream a touch better...but I have both albums in my top 20. Both absolute masterpieces. There are countless amazing moments peppered throughout this album. A dazzling ride. I've said this a bunch, but the very end of the album coming back to the piano melody of the opener is one of my favorite moments in all the music I've ever heard.
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- #12
- Posted: 02/12/2013 01:37
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This was the first album I bought on CD
For that (and a few other) reasons, Mellon Collie has a special place in my music collection.
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bcaie16
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Location: Toronto
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- #13
- Posted: 02/12/2013 01:57
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| Jhereko wrote: |  and here I thought you were gonna go for a simpe "inb4jack"
anyway sp 90s:
Adore > Gish > Siamese Dream > Mellon Collie
Despite my issues with this album the first 2 tracks are pure bliss. |
Adore is vastly underrated.
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Le_Samurai
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- Posted: 02/12/2013 02:18
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Like others have stated, I prefer Siamese Dream over this, but this album deserves a lot of credit. Its a double album and has almost none (if any) filler. Sure, sometimes the lyrics can be, well, just awful (Zero, here's to you). But sonically, man, this albums amazing. "Tonight, Tonight" and "1979" are classics. Great album.
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- Posted: 02/12/2013 03:19
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I absolutely love the second cd
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revolver94
professional dilettante
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Location: DC suburb
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- #16
- Posted: 02/12/2013 03:42
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By far the best album the Smashing Pumpkins. It peaked at #5 in my chart, but it's still at like 13 or so now.
The second time I heard it, I totally got the album, and listened to it again and again for the next 2 days. I think I listened about 10 times. I didn't sleep for that whole time. So good.
One of the few cases in which I condone the use of the word "epic".
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- Posted: 02/12/2013 03:53
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Its very 90's...
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Charicature
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Location: Vermont
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- #18
- Posted: 02/12/2013 07:01
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| Shaco wrote: | | Its very 90's... |
...and there's nothing wrong with that. The Pumpkins had a great work here, and frankly it stands up to time pretty well. There's a few iffy songs on it - James Iha's vocals really weren't strong enough to lead a song, for instance. But the double album spawned about a half dozen great singles, which is quite a feat for any rock album. It's also one of the more successful albums in history, having gone diamond (over 10,000,000 sales) over time.
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Puncture Repair
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- Posted: 02/12/2013 16:10
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It's great, but too long by about half an hour. Can't do it in one sitting.
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- Posted: 02/12/2013 16:17
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A great album, but one I fall in and out of love with. Some days I think it's genius, other days I think it's a pompous, drawn-out attempt at seeming epic whilst essentially being full of overtly commercial alt. rock. I try and listen to it a couple of times a year, and if I'm in the right state of mind I always consider adding it to my chart. Then occasionally I'll listen to it and think, "what the fuck did I ever see in this?". It's in a pretty miniscule group of albums that prompts such extreme reactions from me depending on what day it is (alongside Dylan's Self Portrait, Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here and Bloc Party's Silent Alarm). I usually just label these albums "pretty good" or "tolerable" and move on, but that's not at all true. In fact, it's the opposite.
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