I'm not shure I agree on the fact that Mellon Collie is their best album... Siamese Dream is one of the most solid albums ever made. There is no bad songs on it, there is no averange songs on it. The whorst songs on it are good, the best ones are awsome (Cherub Rock, Today, Hummer, Geek U.S.A, Mayonnaise). I havn't lisened too much on Mellon Collie, but for now I feel there are some drops of quality, and in other ways, Siamese Dream is keeping the tempo up a LOT better that Mellon Collie, there are allmost no songs you feel is just slow (possibly Luna, but that is the last song, placed there to finnish it all off). But then again I havn't really lisened THAT much to Mellon Collie (got Mellon Collie for X-mass, and I have been busy doing a couple of other things).
And about the free album, I think they weren't allowed to release it, so they just gave a few copies to friends to spread out. Maybe I should download it...
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