SP girl for life!!! 🤘

Michelle Edmond, OK, US

Started listening to SP in the early 90’s. My 1st SP concert was MCIS in 1996. Blew my mind!!!! Still a HUGE SP fan after all of these years!!! 

Mellon Collie Tattoo

Joel Williams Christchurch , NZ

Got this done by ScottyC Tattoo a couple of years ago, absolutely love it.

Wedding day

Diana Gonzalez Toronto, ON, CA

In 2005 my fiancé and I decided it would be a lovely secret/inside joke for me to walk down the aisle to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. A lovely song with a title perhaps not fit for a wedding. Only one guest came up to us afterward and chuckled at the song choice – we love a good music nerd!  

While I’d love the submit the video so you can hear and see, it lives on a DVD, so this photo will have to suffice

The Aeroplane Flies High Box set

Jodi Walnut Creek, CA , US

I was a young mom in college, living outside of Chicago when this boxset came out, after spending the little fun money I had on this, I brought it everywhere, like it was a suitcase, I wore it to death, the CDs scratched as I listened to it with my toddler in the car, every day. Read that booklet endless times. Soaked in every image, every word. Well, it got stolen out of my trunk after a few years. Devastated. Couldn’t replace it. Fast forward over 25 years and that same daughter who was only about 7 when it happened, and never forgot how sad I was when it was gone, found one in SWEDEN on Ebay, and gave it to me for Christmas. Best gift ever. Had to buy myself a CD player again though! 

The Cupid’s arrow… worked!

Marie BR

I discovered SP through my boyfriend in 2022, while we were still friends. He showed me his entire collection, and in 2023 we we started dating long distance. SP was one of the things that brought us together; our love for music made us more connected. He dedicated a bunch songs to me, and Cupid de Locke is one that I feel is really special for us. 

The photo is of us in 2024 when we were finally able to see each other, for the second time. He always wears a SP shirt!

SP Winter 96’

James K Lowery Alabaster, AL, US

Originally from Detroit I’d just moved to Alabama. Homesick for a girlfriend I caught my first ever flight back to the D that winter. I went to stay with her and almost immediately got into an argument, and she asked me to leave (young love). With no place to go a friend offered for me to stay. He was a big SP fan and had recently bought the album. We listen to it constantly my whole visit. It turned one of my most awful experiences into one of the best memories in music I have today. 

Hillary Ojai ca , US

My sister and me, Christmas 1996

Cupid De Locke

Abraham Blackfoot Idaho , US

My Love and I. This was our first date and I played The Smashing Pumpkins to relax. Their music reminds me of the love I felt in air that day.

Love line

Matt Sacramento, US

I’ll never forget the first time hearing smashing pumpkins as a 10 year old while I was sneakily listening to Love line. I was listening to radio on my parents Walkman and it was the last song to come on before the station switched to Love line, and from that moment on it changed my life forever. I learned to play guitar because of that album and it made me the person I am today. Thank u pumpkins for changing my life!

Mellon Collie Forever

Luigi Québec, QC, CA

This is the very first album I got on CD, way back in 1995. The Smashing Pumpkins have touched and inspired me deeply throughout the years, happy 30th anniversary Mellon Collie!

Mellon Collie on my Thirty-Three

Satrio Rizki Dharma ID

I was celebrating my 33rd birthday that day. My ex-boyfriend bought me a horror-themed cake, and I wore a t-shirt with the cover of the greatest band in the world on it. Of course, that was intentional; I wanted to look my best on my birthday. And Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness certainly deserved that.

Banned from MCIS

Carly Brisbane Queensland, AU

I wasn’t allowed MCIS because of the song with the swear word title. I got the Presidents of the USA album instead. Imagine my disappointment when I opened the CD shaped gift. Turns out the PUSA album has exactly the same number of swear words in it and when I presented my argument to my mother she agreed to let me buy MCIS. Of course my friend had taped the CD for me anyway ….

Tattoo

Bill Dallas, TX, US

Mellon Collie tattoo!

The BC/AD Moment

ＦＥＲＲＯ Los Angeles, CA, US

In Gr.8, our assignment : “analyse the lyrics to your favourite song, and present it to the class”.  As a classical piano immigrant kid, I was at a loss.  I ended up doing Hakuna Matata from The Lion King, lol.

However, the two edgy girls in class both presented the same song : Bullet With Butterfly Wings by The Smashing Pumpkins.  It changed my brain – I could not believe the feeling that this music created inside of me.  It was musically impressive while being completely unhinged sonically and emotionally.  That song single-handedly made me pick up a guitar and pursue my career as a music producer today. 

Without question the MCIS album is the sonic and aesthetic foundation of everything I do – easily the most consumed piece of media in my brain, and it bleeds into every song I produce today.  I wouldn’t change a thing.

Memories of the Lost

Marie Ellis Gilbert, Arizona, US

I was 11 when this album came out, my now late best friend introduced me to the music and I was instantly hooked. I begged my mom to buy me tickets for my 12th birthday to the tour. We didn’t have a lot of money, certainly not for things like this, but she scraped and saved and bought three tickets.

One for me, her, and the best friend I mentioned. The opening to this concert, with the piano, then slowly fading out, and Tonight Tonight starting like a shockwave of sound and lights. It still makes me emotional to this day, for the music, for the sadness of loss, for gratitude… It’s one of my favorite memories with both of them. 

Wedding Invites

Naoise Morzadec Dublin, IE

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness themed wedding invite inspired by the two cats getting married from the album art work. Owners of two cats ourselves and my favourite album of all time!

HOCO 2025

Landon Ward Eldon, Missouri, US

I made a Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness homecoming poster this year

The start

Adam Hull, GB

When i was younger ,my dad was and still is very into music and would allways play things at parties and just on general occasions, he would frequently play smashing pumpkins, specifically 1979 and tonight tonight, after ,they became my favourite songs and as i grew older i listened to mcis and it totally changed my life as did the rest of their discography, and they were the start of my passion and love for music i have today.

Tyler Toledo, ES

Tonight Tonight was the last song I played for my childhood dog before she passed away at 17, love you forever Creepy <3

The embers never fade

Paulett Dubott Concepción, CL

I drew this vampire Billy Corgan last year, a month before seeing The Smashing Pumpkins live for the very first time in Chile.

There are not enough words to express how much that concert meant to me, and how their music has shaped not only my aesthetic as an artist, but also helped but also helped through an understanding of my own self. And on that note —the first tear rolled down during Tonight, Tonight.

Happy thirty years to Mellon Collie! The sadness is still infinite, yes, but sometimes I feel like we are in this together. The embers never fade.

My best friend art

Mariana Pellicer VE

Hello, I recommended my friend to do this drawing of the album cover, and she actually did it! She’s really talented and I hope yall like her art and this specific drawing.

Loreana Dublin, IE

Here I am in my bedroom as a teenager with my ‘Tonight Tonight’ CD single release poster! It was originally hanging up on the wall in Borderline Records in Temple Bar, Dublin to promote the release and stayed up for long afterwards. I nagged the owner for about 3 years to sell it to me, every weekend and some days after school! This poster stayed pride of place above my bed until I left home! I still have it to this day but I got it professionally framed and it’s hanging in my hallway now. Mellon Collie changed my life from the moment I heard it and I will love this album forever. I grew up to become a music photographer and got to cover a few Pumpkins gigs over the years too! Thank you 💙

Our song

Miss V Philadelphia, PA , US

Happy 30th to Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness! Tonight, Tonight is our song. So we decided to do a shoot to honor the amazing video. Thanks to @celestegiuliano for bringing this to life and to @rob.paluso for making my amazing costume! 

Tonight, Tonight Music Video

Carly New Hartford, NY, US

Growing up, my parents introduced my brother and I to all kind of music from the Grateful Dead to Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, to Steely Dan and more. But in the 90’s, little me looooved (and still have a soft spot) for pop music. That all changed one day after school, sitting directly in front of the TV in our family room when the music video for Tonight, Tonight came on. I instantly was hypnotized. It was THE coolest video I had ever seen. Really still is. I can distinctly remember the feeling of being in awe, absolutely loving the song (the orchestra is so beautiful in it!) and Billy floating in the stars, the couple jumping off into space together just as my favorite lyric plays, “believe, believe in me.” Totally mesmerizing. Thank you for a lifetime of great music. Also, love the podcast!

Best concert ever

Gabriel Dubai, AE

Ever since I discovered the smashing pumpkins back in 2019, it was my desire to see them live. They were my second ever concert, and my all time favorite. 

Poster & me

Laszlofalvi Miskolc, Hungary, HU

29 years ago I was an au-pair in London, and went to the gig to Wembley Arena by myself. Social media didn’t exist at that time, and I arrived only a few month earlier. One of my first Cd’s were the double one, and one of my first tickets. I had to go.♥️