Behind the Album: Revisiting The Smashing Pumpkins' 1995 Epic ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ at 30 Years
When The Smashing Pumpkins debuted in 1991 with Gish, they sounded like a Midwest relative to Hollywood’s Jane’s Addiction. Both groups shared a love of 1970s rock and glam. But Billy Corgan and Perry Farrell were two very different characters. Farrell not only liked to party, he also often threw it. Corgan had a different approach. Beneath the thundering riff of “I Am One,” he sings, “Try to look for something in your city to burn.” The hedonism of Jane’s Addiction now had its nihilist cousin.
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