Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Smashing Pumpkins

"It's the backseat of a convertible driving through a cookie-cutter neighborhood in the heat of summer, when the sky looks as if it could be the ocean, as if you could swim in it. It's the timelessness of the playground, when existence is just a series of time slots without knowledge of anything else. It's the heartbreak of not knowing what you will do without someone, and the heartbreak of the possibility they will forget you. It's the joy of being with someone, two people in a crowd, reckless and imaginative. It's seeing something rough and pock-marked as smooth and undefinable; and seeing the dimensions of something smooth."

When I listen to this music I feel a pain inside and remember MTV memories, not even of my past but of the classic images of children walking down railroad tracks and getting a soda at a gas station after school, all in the gritty sepia-tone camera shot. Their sound is so nostalgic its almost like they were recalling the "golden years" while still in their prime. There's something sad about that.

01. Galapogos
02. 1979
03. Today
04. Thirty-Three
05. Cupid de Locke
06. We Only Come Out At Night
07. Disarm
08. Mayonaise
09. Perfect
10. By Starlight
11. That's the Way (My Love Is)
12. Blew Away
13. Landslide
14. Take Me Down
15. To Sheila
16. Drain
17. In the Arms of Sleep
18. Luna
19. Dancing in the Moonlight
20. Farewell and Goodnight

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