Day 4
TODAY'S SONG:
"Age of Innocence" by Billy Corgan
Well
here's a song I love. It's probably my favorite song off Machina.
The Smashing Pumpkins were my favorite band for a very long time.
When I learned that they were breaking up, I was devastated.
However, I didn't actually buy Machina for
another year or two after they'd played their “final” show. I'm
a sucker for concept albums, and even though the concept for Machina
falls short of spectacular by a
long shot, I totally bought into it. “Age of Innocence” was the
last song on that record and in my opinion a great wrap-up to the
album.
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| Yes. |
I
used to listen to this album on a portable CD player a lot, either
walking up and down Temple St. in Fredonia, to my friend Sean's house
(a fellow Pumpkin-head), mowing lawns, or while driving to Lake Erie
and sitting in the parking lot for no reason. This particular
recording I remember getting in college, either from Sean or from my
roommate Panfilo, where Corgan plays some songs solo-acoustic for a
live audience at some Atlanta radio station. He gives little
interviews in between. But I've always found the Pumpkins are a lot
more enjoyable when Corgan keeps his mouth shut.
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| No. |
Either
way, I remember listening to these recordings in Pittsburgh while I
was in college. I took an Amtrak to New York to see Zwan (Corgan's
brief post-Pumpkins band) with my brother Jory. I was still
lamenting the end of my favorite band and hungry for more. I'll
still defend Zwan, a little, but then Billy came out with his solo
record TheFutureEmbrace. And
then he got the Pumpkins “back together” to do Zeitgeist.
And ever since then I've found it difficult to care about what they
do. Sadder still, I find it more difficult now to go into the back
catalog of all those songs I used to love.
Although
whenever I'm at Record Theater now, I can't help but drool over that
$127 6-disc Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
reissue...
And now here's my song to Billy Corgan:
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