When I was about nine or ten years old, I remember hearing Tonight Tonight on the radio, and just thinking to myself, what the hell is this?
And suddenly, thanks to that one song by the Smashing Pumpkins, I found myself obsessed with music. Hearing Meloncollie and the Infinite Sadness for the first time was a pivotal moment in my life – the moment when beat and melody and rhythm changed the way that I looked at the world, and changed the way I thought. It was, and still is, a beautiful relationship. Music has got me through times when I feel like there’s just no point in life, and it’s been with me through all the good times. All of my memories are set to music – it’s the way I’ve managed to keep track of the past 24 years. I know the lyrics to almost anything, and I love the way that certain songs, certain bands, just make me feel like everything in the world is completely okay. The soundtrack to my life is diverse and eclectic but it starts with the Pumpkins.
Finally, tonight, after a very, VERY long wait of some fourteen or fifteen years, I’m going to see the Smashing Pumpkins life. Their set isn’t long enough – but it probably never could be. They’ll play too much off the newer albums that I don’t know, but I’m just hanging out for some Siamese Dream, some Meloncollie, some Adore, and I’ll be happy.
And if they play Tonight Tonight, I might actually cry.
Caught this site by searching the lyrics in the title. I hope this concert was what you wanted it to be.
Read the next post. It was.