Tonight Tonight review
The War Against Silence #82, 22 August 96
For example, the seven songs on the Smashing Pumpkins' single for "Tonight, Tonight" (on one disc if you get the cost-effective European version, or spread over two in the chart-minded UK incarnation), if you can believe that there are still more songs left over after Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, actually form a coherent little twenty-one-minute suite.
Following a stylistic thread of the title song's haunting orchestral grandeur that the album didn't really pursue, the new songs here are quiet and acoustic, graceful and gentle. "Meladori Magpie" has a slow, mournful lope, "Rotten Apples" finds a legato cello dueting with picked guitar , "Jupiter's Lament" is nearly a lullaby, "Medallia of the Grey Skies"'s guitar, piano and vocals seem to be coming from the back of an empty room you can only see when you close your eyes, "Blank" sounds like a forgotten Radiohead demo, and "Tonite Reprise" sounds like Corgan singing into a dictaphone in his dressing room at 3am after the orchestra from the album version has finally drunk all his champagne and gone home, reclaiming the parts of the song that he had to temporarily let go of in order to share it.