@zeek_the_freek

3 years ago

I am 18 years old and I just got my own car a little over a year ago. The car is a bit on the old side, but it still has aux cord capabilities. The problem that I realized after I bought the car was that aux port didn't work. Luckily the car still had a CD player in it so all I had to do was scrounge around my dad's CD collection to find some tunes to play. As I scoured through CD case after CD case I found his Siamese Dream album and was captivated by the album cover and artwork on the top of the disk. I had heard of the SP's but had only ever heard Bullet with Butterfly Wings. Sure enough I popped the album into my car and instantly fell in love with it. Shortly after I began listening to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and eventually other albums like Gish and Zeitgeist. This band makes me feel emotions that very few other songs and artists have ever made me feel before. Whether it is a sense of rage, depression, nostalgia, or love within my heart and soul, the SP's works bring out and heighten those sensations and feelings within me. They are and will continue to be my favorite band. Mellon Collie is their one album that I am currently resonating with the most. Maybe I can connect to it since I just graduated high school and can feel whatever grasp on my childhood that I ever had left slowly slipping from me. 1979 puts a smile on my face when I drive around with my friends, but when I listen to it by myself I always nearly cry as I long for all the time I will never regain with people I may never see again. I can't explain or express everything I am feeling as I mature, but I just wanted to share the love and appreciation that I have for this band with the rest of the internet, and to express how I am looking forward to all the future works that the Smashing Pumpkins put out. - E.K.S.

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