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I'm three songs deep into listening to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in its entirety for the first time in a long time and already feel like as though I've regressed 25 years
"Here Is No Why" is such a gem, I'm such a sucker for the melody of it and I've always really connected to the optimism of the lyrics - "if you're giving in, then you're giving up," "may the king of gloom be forever doomed" "in your sad machines you'll forever stay" indeed
"Cupid de Locke" is such a beautiful and weird song, especially when you think about how odd it would be to tell someone hype on Siamese Dream that the next Pumpkins record would have a love song that would sound like little angels flying around to computerized harps
I admire the restraint that went into arranging "Galapagos" - it would be so easy to make it a corny power ballad, but it's put together so that when the big power ballad moment comes - " if we died right now, this fool you love somehow is here with you" - it feels earned
"Muzzle" is the song that makes Billy's grandiosity feel very relatable, focusing in on the desire to feel significant and loved - also that line "and the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without" has stuck with me through life
"Porcelina" has one of Corgan's greatest riffs ever, the whole song is built around giving it a context so when it smashes in it feels as profound as possible and the vocal can really soar - "without a care in this whole world!"
