"The Smashing Pumpkins' most commercially successful album, which topped the Billboard album chart and featured four charting songs including '1979.' The album, with its extensive double CD format, explores the cycle of life and death and humanity's endless suffering within it. Its style transcends the boundaries of goth, punk, psychedelic, and metal, and is considered one of the best rock albums of the 90s. It was named the best album of 1995 by Time Magazine in the U.S., ranked 29th in a Q Magazine reader poll of the strongest albums in 1998, and placed 487th on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time — too low!
The album was released in different versions; the CD version is divided into two volumes with a total of 28 tracks, the first disc titled Dawn to Dusk, and the second Twilight to Starlight. The vinyl edition consists of six sides with 30 tracks, divided into five-song chapters titled Dawn, Tea Time, Dusk, Twilight, Midnight, and Starlight, roughly following a chronological timeline."