30 Day Song Challenge - Day 19
A Song From Your Favourite Album
My favourite album is "Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness" by The Smashing Pumpkins. I first heard it when I was 15. If you didn't hear your favourite album for the first time when you were between 13 and 16, I pity your teenage years.
It's an inevitable truth that all things start to lose their passion and searing emotion the further away you get from being a teenager, and music is no exception. Would I have the same love for this album if I had first heard it when I was 20 or 25, or today? I have no way of ever telling, but probably not.
It's not the most popular album for many Pumpkins fans, many of whom will place "Siamese Dream" defiantly on top - I expect to get a couple of comments along these lines after posting. The general consensus is that "Mellon Collie" is a bloated almost-masterpiece, which could use a trim around the edges to reign Billy Corgan's ego in to an acceptable level of rock majesty posturing.
Couldn't disagree more - there is a grand total of one track out of the twenty-eight on offer that I would consider skipping on a playthrough, and for me it is not so much bloated as epic. It just builds and builds with a psychedelic grunge energy that I haven't felt in an album before or since. I love the lyrics, the songwriting and the delivery - and spent more hours playing air guitar and singing along in my bedroom than are probably healthy for a growing boy.
I picked this song because it was my favourite from the album in those formative years. I'd probably go for another these days, but I thought it appropriate since this entry has already turned into a total nostalgia trip.
"The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet / At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk
Steeple guide me to my heart and home / The sun is out and up and down again
I know I'll make it, love can last forever / Graceful swans of never topple to the earth"
My favourite album is "Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness" by The Smashing Pumpkins. I first heard it when I was 15. If you didn't hear your favourite album for the first time when you were between 13 and 16, I pity your teenage years.
It's an inevitable truth that all things start to lose their passion and searing emotion the further away you get from being a teenager, and music is no exception. Would I have the same love for this album if I had first heard it when I was 20 or 25, or today? I have no way of ever telling, but probably not.
It's not the most popular album for many Pumpkins fans, many of whom will place "Siamese Dream" defiantly on top - I expect to get a couple of comments along these lines after posting. The general consensus is that "Mellon Collie" is a bloated almost-masterpiece, which could use a trim around the edges to reign Billy Corgan's ego in to an acceptable level of rock majesty posturing.
Couldn't disagree more - there is a grand total of one track out of the twenty-eight on offer that I would consider skipping on a playthrough, and for me it is not so much bloated as epic. It just builds and builds with a psychedelic grunge energy that I haven't felt in an album before or since. I love the lyrics, the songwriting and the delivery - and spent more hours playing air guitar and singing along in my bedroom than are probably healthy for a growing boy.
I picked this song because it was my favourite from the album in those formative years. I'd probably go for another these days, but I thought it appropriate since this entry has already turned into a total nostalgia trip.
"The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet / At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk
Steeple guide me to my heart and home / The sun is out and up and down again
I know I'll make it, love can last forever / Graceful swans of never topple to the earth"
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