Thursday, July 31, 2008

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

This little piano piece always seemed to help me going through high school, and probably parts of college too. Whether I was playing it to fall asleep to, wake up to, or cry to, it always fit the circumstances. Maybe it's because of all that high school drama, but this song can still make me emote... well not this song. I always listened to the first track on disc one of the album with the same name. This is Billy playing what must be the full version of that song. The CD version starts in the middle of this, and I can understand why it was cut down for the record... they start it at the catchy part; that's what record producers do.

This is fun because you can tell it's really early in the song's life. Billy messes it up a few times here and there (nice to know that everyone can mess up now and then, although I'll say that Billy also messed up when he shut down Zwan... that pissed me off). Plus, you know it's old because Billy's still got his hair!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey so you know they'll be in town in August right? I've been weighing the possibilites of:
1. Going to Charlotte to see the Pumpkins on the 15th, Athenaeum on the 16th, and STP on the 17th.
or
2. Staying in Raleigh to see the Pumpkins on the 17th.

DMP said...

That's some big possibilities dude... Where would you stay in Charlotte, and do you think Mike could get us some backstage passes or something? Who is Athenaeum playing with?

Anonymous said...

I was thinking of staying at the KOA campground. I'm not sure who Athenaeum is playing with, I just happened to see that they're doing a reunion show that weekend...