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Paul Rawlings

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Virgin Records - 1995

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the third album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Produced by frontman Billy Corgan with Flood and Alan Moulder, the twenty-eight-track album was released as a two-disc CD and triple LP. Led by the single “Bullet with Butterfly Wings,” the record debuted at number one on the Billboard charts, the album spawned four more singles—“1979”; “Zero”; “Tonight, Tonight”; and “Thirty-Three”—over the course of 1996, and has been certified nine times platinum 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.

Reid Dudley-Smith

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless - Creation Records - 1991

Despite this record being the best part of 20 years old, it's as dense and inpenetrable as ever. It’s like trying to explain why Jackson Pollock’s Full Fathom Five is what it is, or push the case for isolationist textures in modern sculpture or even trying to describe acid house to a badger. There really wasn’t, and still isn’t anything quite like My Bloody Valentine.