Hollywood Palladium

Jennifer Shope Victorville CA , US

My 7th grade English teacher, who use to be a roadie, took 4 of us students to see Silverchair at the Hollywood Palladium as a reward. We got to the concert early so we were walking around and passed by the Palace. There was a sign outside saying “The Smashing Pumpkins playing here tonight”. Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness had just been released a few weeks earlier and that teacher had introduced us to the Smashing Pumpkins and Silverchair at the same time so we were so excited to pass by and hear the music coming from the front door. Then our teacher saw an old roadie friend carrying in equipment. After they reconnected he asked if we wanted to come in and watch the show!  We headed into the side entrance and straight to the front of the stage. I was mesmerized. Billy looked me dead in the eyes and started singing “The world is a Vampire” and then played the unforgettable riff that follows. My entire world was changed. The next year I was facing a lot of depression. The lyrics “today is the greatest day” help me live to see another. I plastered my walls and ceiling with Smashing Pumpkins posters and pictures. I spent my lunch money making copies of every magazine article they appeared in. My collage was such a beautiful work of art and reminded me that I could make every day the greatest day as long as that’s what I choose…and f*ck everything else. The Smashing Pumpkins are my angels that saved me from myself. 

Big inspiration

Jonathan VeraKat Olympia, WA, US

Billy Corgan has been a huge inspiration to me as a creative writer. I’m 40 now and SP was the soundtrack throughout my teen years. I listened to Mellon Collie on loop, and studied the lyrics. The picture is from a song I wrote called Supplication. It features the lyric: “I might just unleash seas of madness, the wrong type of wrath kid to lock me down in melancholy, rat behind a cage prolly, left for dead with infinite sadness.” Thanks for blessing the world with your talent and inspiring others Billy. 

Love born from a catalog

Angel Batalla Mexico City at the time, Toronto nowadays, CA

I must have been 7 or 8, one of those catalogs to order cd’s by mail. I remember taking a looked and being immediately attracted to the artwork. I don’t know how I convinced my dad to buy me Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, but he did. When it arrived I spent the evening looking at the album artwork and listening to it. Lyrics didn’t mean much to me at that age but as I grew older they grew up on me and have been in the high and lows of my life. 

Mel Baldwin Park, US

I made a colored pencil artwork inspired by the lyrics of Cupid De Locke! It’s my favorite SP song. The colors are inspired by the MCIS cover(s). 

Billy through the years

James Staten Island, US

It is an illustration I created for a contest held by the pumpkins. I’m a huge fan and even have a Mellon collie tattoo that I drew myself. I thought this artwork was the more poignant to share though. I remember listening to all the albums while making this and it was honestly a very emotional experience. With each Billy I drew I listened to the coinciding album. It was so fun to create! 

Rehearsing and playing Bullet w/ Butterfly Wings

Axel Richebourg, FR

In June, i performed Bullet With Butterfly Wings with my friends at our high school concert.

When I was 21…

Francesco MicioDJ Bologna , IT

Oggi compi 30 anni…

Era il 23 ottobre 1995, durante una delle tante giornate all’università sono corso da Nannucci a comprarti, ed eri anche in offerta a 37.900 lire, poi fuga a casa e dritto dentro lo stereo…eh niente, da quel giorno mi sei entrato nel cuore, sei uno dei dieci dischi che salverei se casa mia andasse a fuoco, hai letteralmente forgiato i miei 20 anni e ancora oggi dopo tanto tempo ascoltarti è un balsamo per l’anima.

Grazie ❤️

Buon compleanno 

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 

#mcis30

Vampires sing on cassette

Veli Helsinki, Fin, FI

It’s 1995, we’re playing the Kult rpg with demons and vampires, and We Only Come Out at Night plays in the cassette deck at just the right moment. Mellon Collie was a soundtrack to the dark fantasy of our teenage years.

Big part of my life

Leilani maxwell Highland Park il, US

I always loved the smashing pumpkins and it’s all I wear today o be honest I have the huf jacket and all the shirts people always knew that about me it’s just a part of me basically. From going to madame zuzu’s for concerts or for tea or even seeing Billy come out during my chemical romance to seeing him open for greenday I love this band sooo much and it’s helped me get through hard times and good times and meeting and takeing a picture with 

jimmy chamberlin was a honor 

Growing up

Keaton Atlanta, US

I’m only 19 but the album reminds me a lot of being young and with my parents. My dad loved Bullet with Butterfly Wings and I remember hearing him play it one time around when I was 15, and it began my love for this band and music. Thanks Dad, thanks SP!

My First Concert

Jill US

I’ve always had a love for The Smashing Pumpkins, my favorite song being Luna or Mayonnaise (depending on the day). When the State Fair announced the concert lineup for 2024, I was ecstatic to see that the Smashing Pumpkins would be performing there. I convinced my mom, who had also been a huge fan in high school, to come with me. It was the best first concert I could have asked for. I totally lost my voice that night, but it was well worth it.

MCIS 23/10/1995 – 16 year old Moi

Ben Lincolnshire, GB

I’ve got SO MUCH LOVE for this album… @smashingpumpkins ‘Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness’ was released 30 YEARS AGO today. I can still distinctly remember the first time I listened to it aged 16 years old. I skipped 6th form classes for the afternoon to race home to an empty house… curtains closed, laid on the sofa, volume pumped up… straight through start to finish… it blew my mind!!! It remains to this day my all time FAVOURITE & most listened to album! Whilst the 7th May 1996 ‘Mellon Collie Tour’ gig @ Birmingham NEC Arena – I attended with @thrutheeyesofjbr & @tom.mcmurdo – remains one of my FAVE gigs of all time.

The GENIUS mix of 28 songs… the beautiful, the melodic, the pop… and then at the other end of the spectrum… the raucous and aggressive. It supported me through some very dark times emotionally & mentally throughout those years… as well as the good times. The genius songwriting never fails to tap directly into my emotions regardless of my mood at the time! 

CD Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness

Eleonora Marconato Asolo TV, IT

OThis record reminds me of when I met my first boyfriend, Erik, on the train, he was listening to this CD with headphones on and he handed me one to listen to together. It was a magical moment that we still share many times together in exhibitions and conversations, we are still great friends and important people to each other. It was 1997 and I remember as if it were yesterday that moment that I jealously guard among the most beautiful of my life! Too bad we didn’t have a photo of that moment! ❤️🎃🫶

My 1st EVER Rock concert

Sophia York, US

My uncle got me tickets for my 16th birthday to see the Pumpkins live. It was the best day ever and completely changed my life. I’ll never forget it. The first song I ever heard from them was “1979” and seeing it live filled my heart! ⭐️ (there’s a post on my instagram with videos)

Forever Tonight,Tonight

Joe Yuma, US

I remember working on my 2nd week being at Starbucks, I was so so so nervous and I just felt like I was always in everyone’s way! But luckily I had amazing partners who I can call very good friends:) They showed me that they’re there for me no matter where I was and what situation I’d be in! One special memory was right when we took a cool little group pic on our Starbucks tablet, right when we took the picture it felt so good! I saw them as great friends and till this day they still are! And right when they walked away I had grabbed the tablet again to open the music app and guess what? Tonight, Tonight was playing!!! I was so happy because I love that song so much! It felt so right and just so cool! I LOVE THE SMASHING PUMPKINS!!!!!!!!

Married Because of Mellon Collie

Connor Yorkman Riverside California, US

 My fiancé and I quite literally fell in love due to The Smashing Pumpkins and Mellon Collie. The second I got any bit of money from a job in high school, I instantly ran to my local cd spot and bought Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness just so her and I could experience it all in the greatest way possible together. I asked her to be my girlfriend shorty after that and we´ve been going on 7 years now, all because I knew we loved the Pumpkins so much and ran to buy that double album. Thank you so, so much for 30 years of beautiful symphonies from Mellon Collie and thousands of fantastic memories with the love of my life due to it. 🩷🎃

The Rabbit Inventor flies high

Moe Curtin Dublin, IE

Judicious, beautiful, augmented, whatever……

vinyl release poster

Chris Gilbert, AZ, US

I was in an antique store and literally stumbled on this promotional subway poster for the vinyl release of Mellon Collie. I’ve never seen another one like it and new I had to have it so I bought it!

1979

Kathrina Mandaluyong City, PH

i got this 1979 tattoo from the album inlay of MCIS, just in time for the rock invasion tour in manila. i’ve always wanted a tattoo that honors my love for the smashing pumpkins, and this felt like the perfect moment to make it happen.

Treasure in my record collection

Andreas Berlin, DE

The most valuable record in my vinyl collection – First pressing, limited, numbered edition from 1996 💎😍💫

Fotos do meu álbum favorito do mundo

Julia Antunes Lopes Curitiba paraná, BR

O Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness é um dos álbuns mais marcantes dos anos 90, uma verdadeira obra dos Smashing Pumpkins. Lançado em 1995, é um disco duplo que atravessa emoções intensas, da raiva à melancolia, do peso ao alívio, e foi justamente isso que me fez me conectar tanto com ele. Aprendi a ouvir o piano dessa introdução por causa do meu pai, que me fez prestar atenção naquele som delicado e triste que abre o álbum. Com o tempo, percebi como cada faixa parecia traduzir sentimentos que eu mesma não sabia colocar em palavras. Algumas músicas me fazem sentir raiva, outras me acalmam, mas todas me fazem sentir viva. Mellon Collie tem esse poder de transformar o caos em algo bonito, de fazer a gente se encontrar mesmo nos momentos mais pesados. Por isso resolvi eternizar esse álbum na minha pele, como uma forma de carregar comigo tudo o que ele representa, o que me formou e o que me faz sentir bem até hoje.

Priscilla and Alyjha’s Wedding

Priscilla Williams Houston, TX, US

I walked down the aisle to, “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” played by my brother Phillip L. Cruz. This is the wedding of Priscilla and Alyjha Williams. We are coming up on our 14th anniversary this December. 

art i made

zest US

my friend introduced me to sp with this album and i had to recreate it drawing this cool cover hihi

My First Album

Hilario López Ciudad Real, SP, ES

In 1995, my Christmas present was a CD player I’d asked for with the sole purpose of listening to ‘The Melancholy’. It was the album that accompanied me from the ages of 13 to 15, playing nonstop on every walk I took, trying to keep the songs from stopping for any bump. If there’s one album that has marked my life, it’s this one. At 18, in college, that CD disappeared from my parents’ house, and it wasn’t until 20 years later, at 38, that it returned to my hands. I put it on the stereo, this time at home, turned up the volume, and for the first time, I was able to listen to that CD from my adolescence at full volume and relive for a few minutes the same sensations of shouting, “The world is a vampire!”

Sorrow in a beautiful way

Claire H Columbus OH, US

When I was 13, my father played “Farewell and Goodnight” for me to show that 90’s music was actually cool. The song immediately brought me to tears. For my 14th birthday my Aunt bought me the vinyl for this album. It’s my all time favorite. Happy birthday Mellon Collie!

Kristof Antwerpen, BE

I remember getting my first stereo with cd player when i was 12 in 1995 . One of my first cds was meloncollie . Played it over and over again ..

got to see the pumpkins at my first festival rock torhout in 1997 . Bought a zero t shirt and got obsessed with everything the pumpkins made .

changed my youth ..