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- Record Label: BMG Rights Management
- Release Date: Dec 9, 2014
- Summary: The tenth full-length studio release from the alternative rock band led by Billy Corgan includes Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee on drums.
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- Record Label: BMG Rights Management
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 31
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Mixed: 11 out of 31
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Negative: 1 out of 31
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Alternative PressDec 3, 2014Monuments to an Elegy is a stunning return to form, offering concise songs that plumb the vocalist/guitarist's stock in trade while offering new sonic veneers. [Jan 2015, p.93]
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Dec 17, 2014There's lots of good guitar playing, but no flashy riffs and absolutely nothing you'd call a solo. It gives Monuments its greatest strength: a self contained identity.
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Kerrang!Jan 14, 2015There's no fat. Here in abundance is evidence of Billy's enduring genius. [13 Dec 2014, p.52]
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Dec 8, 2014Monuments To An Elegy is essentially a Corgan solo record which shows flashes of his old power, while also straying into some seriously dodgy attempts to update the Pumpkins sound for 2014.
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Dec 12, 2014It's not as good as either of those [Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness or Adore], but it is solid middle ground. For The Smashing Pumpkins' third act, Corgan has finally unveiled the album he should have made 15 years ago.
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MojoDec 17, 2014It's hard to shake the sense that these songs ape Corgan's past but too often lack the spark of inspiration that fuelled his previous masterpieces. [Jan 2015, p.100]
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Dec 9, 2014These songs are failed epics in miniature.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 13
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Mixed: 5 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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Dec 16, 2014
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Jul 11, 2020Great album. If it had been released in the nineties it would have been a hit. And now this unfortunately is not popular among the masses.
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Jan 12, 2015
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Aug 23, 2015
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Dec 12, 2014
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Jan 9, 2015
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Dec 14, 2014
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