What an album. Billy Corgan was ready to end the Pumpkins if this album didn't break through. Personal problems with relationships, depression, and drug addiction plagued the band and Corgan took most of the recording of this album into his own hands. The result is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Although this album is usually viewed as one of the pillars of 90's alt music and even an extension of Nirvana's grunge movement, this album is truly a masterpiece on its own. This album is way better then all of those "classic 90's albums." Mellotron, acid-freakout guitar solos, and Billy Corgan's usual beautiful poetic imagery. Billy Corgan was simply too talented and ambitious for any pretentious "music scene." It's really easy to claim Kurt Cobain as the most influential artist of the 90's because he probably was. But that's not a good thing in my opinion. People dug Nirvana for what the represented and for the angst that the youth could easily identify with. But we should really praise the artists who venture off to their own planets to bring us other worldly music that only exists in them. Siamese Dream is much more straight forward than Mellon Collie, but will still provide a clear example of why Corgan is so special.
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