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''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' is the third album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released October 24, 1995 on Virgin Records. Produced by frontman Billy Corgan with Flood and Alan Moulder, the 28-track album was released as a two-disc CD and triple LP. The album features a wide array of styles, as well as greater musical input from bassist D'arcy Wretzky and second guitarist James Iha. Led by the single "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", the record debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' charts, the only such occurrence for the group with first week sales of 246,500 units.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.alternativenation.net/smashing-pumpkins-monuments-to-an-elegy-projected-first-week-sales-disappoint/ )〕 The album spawned five more singles—"1979", "Zero", "Tonight, Tonight", the promotional "Muzzle", and "Thirty-Three"—over the course of 1996, and has been certified diamond by the RIAA. Praised by critics for its ambition and scope, ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'' earned the band seven Grammy Award nominations in 1997, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year ("1979"). Not only did they all become hits on both mainstream rock and modern rock stations, but "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "1979", "Tonight, Tonight", and "Thirty-Three" also became the band's first Top 40 hits, crossing over to pop radio stations. == Recording and production == After the 13-month tour in support of The Smashing Pumpkins' second album ''Siamese Dream'' (1993), Billy Corgan immediately began writing songs for the band's next record. From the outset, the band intended the new record to be a double album, partly inspired by The Beatles' eponymous album.〔Alexander, Phil. ''Interview with Billy Corgan''. Mojo Magazine. February 2012.〕 Corgan said, "We almost had enough material to make ''Siamese Dream'' a double album. With this new album, I really liked the notion that we would create a wider scope in which to put other kinds of material we were writing."〔di Perna, Alan. "Zero Worship". ''Guitar World''. December 1995.〕 Corgan felt that the band's musical approach was running its course, and wanted the band to approach the album as if it were its last. Corgan described the album at the time to the music press as "''The Wall'' for Generation X", a comparison with Pink Floyd's 1979 album, one of the highest selling and best known concept albums of all time.〔DeRogatis, Jim. ''Milk It!: Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the 90's''. Cambridge: Da Capo, 2003. ISBN 0-306-81271-1, p. 46, 80〕 The band decided to forgo working with Butch Vig, who had produced the group's previous albums, and selected Flood and Alan Moulder as co-producers. Corgan explained, "To be completely honest, I think it was a situation where we'd become so close to Butch that it started to work to our disadvantage... I just felt we had to force the situation, sonically, and take ourselves out of normal Pumpkin recording mode. I didn't want to repeat past Pumpkin work."〔 Flood immediately pushed the band to change its recording practices. Corgan later said, "Flood felt like the band he would see live wasn't really captured on record".〔 In April 1995, the band began recording in a rehearsal space, instead of entering the studio straight away. At these sessions, the band recorded rough rhythm tracks with Flood. Originally designed to create a rough draft for the record, the rehearsal space sessions ended up yielding much of the new album's rhythm section parts.〔 Flood also insisted the band set aside time each day devoted to jamming or songwriting, practices the band had never engaged in before during recording sessions. Corgan said, "Working like that kept the whole process very interesting—kept it from becoming a grind."〔 Corgan sought to eliminate the tension that permeated the ''Siamese Dream'' recording sessions. Corgan said regarding the problems with recording ''Siamese Dream'', "()o me, the biggest offender was the insidious amounts of time that everyone spends waiting for guitar parts to be overdubbed. There were literally weeks where no one had anything to do but sit and wait." The band decided to counter idleness by using two recording rooms at the same time. This tactic allowed Corgan to work on vocals and song arrangements while recording was done in the other.〔 During these sessions, Flood and Corgan would work in one room as Moulder, guitarist James Iha, and bassist D'arcy Wretzky worked in a second.〔Thomas, Richard. ("Signal to Noise: The Sonic Diary of the Smashing Pumpkins" ). ''EQ Magazine''. October 2008.〕 Iha and Wretzky had a much greater role in the recording of the album, unlike the prior albums where Corgan was rumored to have recorded all the bass and guitar parts himself.〔 James Iha commented about the recording sessions, The big change is that Billy is not being the big 'I do this—I do that'. It's much better. The band arranged a lot of songs for this record, and the song writing process was organic. The circumstances of the last record and the way that we worked was really bad.〔Kelly, Christina. "Smashing Pumpkins-The Multi-Platinum Band is over the infighting but can the harmony last?" ''US''. December 1995.〕 Following the rehearsal space sessions, the band recorded overdubs at the Chicago Recording Company.〔 Pro Tools was used for recording guitar overdubs as well as for post-production electronic looping and sampling.〔〔"No More Guitars." ''BigO Magazine'', 1995.〕 Wretzky also recorded numerous backup vocal parts, but all were cut except the one recorded for "Beautiful".〔Evans, Liz. "The Last Word". ''Kerrang''. May/June 1996.〕 When the recording sessions concluded, the band had 57 completed songs which were up for contention to be included on ''Mellon Collie''. The album was originally going to have 32 songs, but this was cut back to 28 songs.〔Corgan, Billy. "King B's". ''Guitar World''. January 1997.〕 Corgan jokingly stated in a 1995 interview with MTV News that the tracks were narrowed down through playing parcheesi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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