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At the same time, they had been working with Frank Olinsky, a designer in New York. It still didn't look really dark and dusty like that period. They found a woman who actually did do Victorian-style painting and had her do something, and it just didn't work out. So it sort of came up and then went away. He really wanted to do Victorian paintings, so after looking at my portfolio, I think he liked what he saw but still wanted to find someone who could paint in that style. Billy had such a big idea in mind he must have had this whole booklet idea already conceived. My Chicago agent, who mostly dealt with advertising and other corporate work for me, put us in touch because they were looking for a retro style, and I liked to use lost and vintage imagery. But the cover image, of a girl adrift on a celestial raft, was the simplest and the most indelible.ĭaoud Tyler-Ameen: How much did you know about The Smashing Pumpkins when you first signed on to work with them? Were you familiar with their music? Craig made other illustrations that appear throughout the album's packaging - animals smoking pipes, celestial bodies with faces, wayward children walking eerie dreamscapes - all with a vaguely antique quality. A collage artist, Craig had spent most of his career doing editorial commissions for magazines here, he worked from Corgan's scribbled notes and crude sketches, most of which arrived via fax. Her creator is John Craig, an illustrator from Pittsburgh who was living in Wisconsin when he began communicating with Corgan about what visual elements could bring the enormous ambition of Melon Collie to life. But unlike the real twins who adorned the cover of the band's previous album, Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie's figurehead is a girl who never really existed: a daydreaming star nymph with a split personality. There's plenty of imagery associated with this period of the Pumpkins' career: the Victorian-era costumes in the " Tonight, Tonight" video, Corgan's own shaved head, his long-sleeved black "Zero" T-shirt. It was a commercial and creative peak for Billy Corgan and his bandmates: Built to be a classic, it turned out to be a monument.
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The Smashing Pumpkins' 1995 opus, reissued this week as a massive collector's box full of outtakes and new artwork, did everything at double scale - two hours of music on two CDs, whose themes of day and night hinted at greater statements about life and death. It recently got a deluxe makeover, but Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was born grand.
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What Did You Expect… reminds me of Free Energy’s debut in that sense an album where every song is so solid that you can’t remember them all.The dreamy cover image of The Smashing Pumpkins' landmark 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the work of illustrator John Craig. There’s just not enough room in my brain. opening that is “Wrecking Bar” and “If You Wanna.” After every listen, I feel the only reason I can’t recall how the album ends is that there are too many great songs to process in the first half. Of course, this is only after the one-two K.O. “A Lack of Understanding” is a strong ballad, and sets up the back and forth pacing of the disc. The best tracks are the ones previously released, but every other song does its part to add to the vibe and the whole of the album. On the record, which clocks in at a slim 33 minutes, the band cranks out eleven (maybe twelve?) instantly memorable hooks for listeners to gorge upon. Almost every song on this LP is a potential single, from the Ramones-tinged “Norgaard” to the Strokes-flavored “If You Wanna.” They’re not afraid of an easy chorus, a catchy melody, or anything else that other groups balk at when looking for something more ‘artistic.’ If the Ramones made a career on three chords, I can’t imagine what the Vaccines will do with four. But what band praised by NME isn’t? Sure, I disagreed with their billing as the new saviours of rock ‘n’ roll, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t one hell of a solid band. These are just some of the reasons that their debut album is going to end up on my year end ‘Best of 2011’ list… All four of them get along with each other and are clearly enjoying the newfound attention their music is getting. They aren’t pretentious and don’t come off as anything except a band trying to play good music. I think the UK band writes great songs and put on great shows. As I’ve posted before, I like the Vaccines.