Mellon Collie Quiz: The Smashing Pumpkins' Double Album

Billy Corgan wanted a sprawling record that moved from day to night, and this Mellon Collie quiz looks back at Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Play 10 interactive questions on the Dawn to Dusk and Twilight to Starlight discs, Tonight, Tonight and its silent-film video, 1979, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, producers Flood and Alan Moulder and the band's lineup.

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Year
When was Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness released?
Leader
Who is the band's singer and main songwriter?
Discs
What were the two discs titled?
Songs
How many songs are on the album?
Video
Which classic silent film inspired the Tonight, Tonight video?
Single
Which nostalgic single about youth shares its name with a year?
Grammy
Which song won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance?
Chart
Where did the album debut on the Billboard 200?
Producers
Which producers worked on the album with Corgan?
Guitarist
Who was the band's other guitarist?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: When was Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness released?
Answer: 1995
It followed Siamese Dream.
Q2: Who is the band's singer and main songwriter?
Answer: Billy Corgan
He wrote most of the album.
Q3: What were the two discs titled?
Answer: Dawn to Dusk and Twilight to Starlight
The album moves through a full day.
Q4: How many songs are on the album?
Answer: 28
It was released as a double album.
Q5: Which classic silent film inspired the Tonight, Tonight video?
Answer: A Trip to the Moon
Georges Melies made it in 1902.
Q6: Which nostalgic single about youth shares its name with a year?
Answer: 1979
It became one of their biggest hits.
Q7: Which song won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance?
Answer: Bullet with Butterfly Wings
It won at the 1997 Grammys.
Q8: Where did the album debut on the Billboard 200?
Answer: At the top
It was a major commercial success.
Q9: Which producers worked on the album with Corgan?
Answer: Flood and Alan Moulder
Both had worked with major alternative acts.
Q10: Who was the band's other guitarist?
Answer: James Iha
Chamberlin played drums and Wretzky bass.

Mellon Collie Quiz – The Smashing Pumpkins' Double Album

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is a 1995 double album by the Smashing Pumpkins, the Chicago band led by Billy Corgan. Its 28 songs are split into two discs, Dawn to Dusk and Twilight to Starlight.

Singles included Bullet with Butterfly Wings, which won a Grammy, the orchestral Tonight, Tonight, whose video honors Georges Melies's A Trip to the Moon, and 1979, a nostalgic song about youth. The album debuted at the top of the Billboard 200.

Flood and Alan Moulder co-produced it with Corgan. The lineup was Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, and the record became one of the best-selling double albums of the 1990s.

What This Quiz Teaches

Rock fans will enjoy these questions.

When the album came out
How it is structured
Which singles stood out
Who made it
How it performed

Did You Know?

Zero and Thirty-Three were also singles.
The cover art was painted by John Craig.
The album earned seven Grammy nominations.
A deluxe reissue came out in 2012.
Siamese Dream preceded it in 1993.