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| Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | ||
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| LP by The Smashing Pumpkins | ||
| Released | October 24, 1995 | |
| Recorded | March-August 1995 at Pumpkinland, Sadlands, Bugg Studios, Chicago Recording Company and the Village Recorder | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 121 min 50 s | |
| Record label | Virgin | |
| Producer | Alan Moulder , Billy Corgan, Flood | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Allmusic.com | 4.5 stars out of 5 | link |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Chronology | ||
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is a doubleA double album is an audio album of sufficient length that two units of the medium in which it is sold (especially records and compact discs) are necessary to contain the entirety of it. Recording artists often think of double albums as a single piece art CDCD re-directs here; see Cd for other meanings of CD . A compact disc (or CD is an optical disc used for storing digital data. It was originally invented for digital audio and is also used as a data storage device, a CD-ROM. CD-ROM reading devices are a st and triple LP that was released on October 24, 1995 by The Smashing Pumpkins through Virgin Records.
The CD version of the album was divided onto 2 CDs, entitled "Dawn to Dusk" and "Twilight to Starlight". The triple vinyl version is divided into 6 sides, "Dawn", "Tea Time", "Dusk", "Twilight", "Midnight" and "Starlight", respectively. The vinyl also featured 2 bonus songs, and a completely revised tracklisting.