 During 1995, Corgan wrote about 56 songs, following which the band went into the studio with producers Flood and Alan Moulder to work on what Corgan described as ""The Wall" for Generation X", and which became "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness", a double album of twenty-eight songs, lasting over two hours (the vinyl version of the album contained three records, two extra songs, and an alternate track listing).The songs were intended to hang together conceptually as a symbol of the cycle of life and death.Praised by "Time" as "the group's most ambitious and accomplished work yet", "Mellon Collie" debuted at number one on the "Billboard" 200 in October 1995.