It's time to peel back the layers of The Smashing Pumpkins’ iconic 1995 masterpiece "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" to explore how the haunting artwork shaped the emotional world created within the album. We jump into Billy Corgan and John Craig’s creative dialogue: the faxed prompts, the evocative collage of Greuze, Raphael, and found imagery, and how those visuals echo the album’s themes of longing, wonder, and melancholy.
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