How "Mellon Collie" Changed Music (And Made Pink Floyd Look Modest)

Picture this: it's October 1995, yeah? Britpop is conquering Britain, grunge is gasping its last breath, and in a Chicago studio called Pumpkinland, a bald megalomaniac with a god complex is about to prove that sometimes the best way to kill your scene is to transcend it completely. His name? Billy Corgan. His plan? Create a 28-song double album so ridiculously ambitious it would make Pink Floyd look modest.