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 ..

I love this fucking album

Leon vilajcher Modi’in, IL

I listened to this album for the first time on a long car ride 3 months ago and I am still playing it on repeat and got the cd as well as Siamese dream and adore. I love every second of it. Every note every lyric everything. It’s the best. Thank you!

The useless drag of another day

Gerald Pena Cavite, PH

I always play Here’s No Why whenever I feel down, restless, hopeless, beat up, or just tired. Did that ever since I was a kid, still doing it now.

Childhood

Дарья Belarus, vitebsk , BY

I was listening to the smashing pumpkins since my childhood , my dad is a huge fan, so every ride in a car was accompanied by melancholy and infinite sadness album. Lucky me this year we went on a SP show in Bahrain , which was wonderful. I’ve met a lot of amazing people there and genuinely happy to hear Billy’s voice live. I want to say a huge thank you for the band, cause you guys are awesome.🙌🏻

My dad and I and the pumpkins

Haylee Las Vegas, NV, US

My dad raised me on the pumpkins. showing me the mv to bullet with butterfly wings, showing me the snl performance and explaining how shocking it was to see billy bald lol. we finally got to see the pumpkins together on the saviors tour in san diego and it was the best show ever ! year and years of being fans led up to it!

Natalie Athens, GR, GR

My dad went to a university in England for a year. He tells me stories from there. And I love it. He gave me the cd of mellon collie that he used to listen to when he was alone at his room, studying or chilling. I love his stories and at winter nights we listen to the cd and he tells me stories from there and I love him 🫶🏻

MCIS Release Day

Cory Winnipeg, CA

I still recall MCIS release day. I was the admin of Listesa, the Pumpkins mailing list. I was also a volunteer writer with my university paper. We had requested a review copy. Unlike a lot of review copies in the day we didn’t get an advance but this was couried directly to our campus office. I recall going in after my first class and we put it on in the office immediately. The immediate impression I had was how it was a major departure from the Gish and SD era sound that was so familiar at the time. Everything was so fresh and new it was a bit overwhelming at first as the style varies widely from song to song. At the time we had no idea what a massive success the album would become. 

The love of my life, Smashing Pumpkins and an expensive vinyl

Jessica Hartlepool, GB

My love, Alfie, has always (Ava) adored this band, and I must admit I didn’t know much about you guys, but I listened with him, watched the music videos and looked at him with such admiration when he lights up when you are mentioned. This band is everything to him, and this year we made his dream come true, on first seeing yous live with his girlfriend, but something even more beautiful, the Mellion Collie vinyl. This we agreed would eventually be a wedding gift, but no, when we went on our fortnightly trip to the local record store we saw it on the self, Alfie described it instantly as a ray of sunshine, and he lit up the way he does! We had to buy it, it’s was too good to be true! Now the vinyl lives on the shelf above our bed, looking over the both of us. It’s an absolutely beautiful and stunning album and art, the steampunk vibe is absolutely perfect, I cannot wait for our home to emulate this! 

This is an ode to my love, the man who introduced me to this band, the man I’ll spent the rest of my life with! Here’s to listening to smashing pumpkins till the end! 

My leg tattoo

Leon Wollongong, AU

I first found Mellon Collie watching the Simpson’s as a little kid. Since then have followed everything Billy and the band have done. 

Bullet with butterfly wings

Manuel Nicolas Pordenone, IT

A digital artwork inspired to bullet with butterfly wings