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 twenty-eight-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 first and only such occurrence for the group. The album spawned five more singlesâ€""1979", "Zero", "Tonight, Tonight", the promotional "Muzzle", and "Thirty-Three"â€"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. It is also widely considered one of the best albums of ! the 1990s. 1. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" 4:22 2. "Bodies" 4:12 3. "Thirty-Three" 4:10 4. "In the Arms of Sleep" 4:12 5. "1979" 4:25 6. "Tales of a Scorched Earth" 3:46 7. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 7:38 8. "Stumbleine" 2:54 9. "XYU" 7:07 10. "We Only Come Out at Night" 4:05 11. "Beautiful" 4:18 12. "Lily (My One and Only)" 3:31 13. "By Starlight" 4:48 14. "Farewell and Goodnight" Iha[16] 4:22
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