Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness  by The Smashing Pumpkins

The third album of the Smashing Pumpkins from 1995 titled Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness starts with the cover. The girl's face is an imitation of the girlish face in the painting "The Souvenir" by the French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze, while the girl's body emerging from the star is from Raphael's painting "Saint Catherine of Alexandria". The artist John Craig was the one who conceived and created this composition.

Billy Corgan and his crew create the most representative album of the - then - rock scene in the heart of the 1990s. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness combines in an absolutely balanced way grunge, nu-metal, punk, noise rock, and even art-pop. Romanticism meets savagery, the vulnerable and sensitive find a match with the wild and raw. The twenty-eight compositions of this double album fall one after the other and the unsuspecting listener doesn't know what to expect to hear in the next song that will follow. The first single, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, is one of the most legendary songs released in the last decade of the twentieth century. The flawless production belongs to Billy Corgan, Alan Moulder, and mostly to Flood.

The album reached the top of the Billboard, while in the United Kingdom it reached No.4. The album sales have exceeded 10,000,000 worldwide and of course, it is the best seller of the band from Chicago.