i can remember "tonight tonight" playing on rage when i was 10 haha, i though it was a cool clip with the mermaids and all
but i didnt get into them until my cousin made me a tape of adore 4 years later. i was too busy swooning over clove

i saw my brothers sp poster tonight tonight style... it looked cool.

college. . early 90s. .gish material

This is going to sound so lame, but The O.C. In the fourth episode of the first season, they played "To Shiela" as the closing song. I know The O.C. has the rep of a crappy teen soap, but it really isn't. The music is fantastic; the show is known to play some of the best music out there. Pick up the first season on DVD if you don't believe me.

I was 6 and my step dad always listened to them in the blue camaro we used to have. Gish reminds me of those days in the Summer when we would all cruise down to the beach in old blue. Good Times.

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This is going to sound so lame, but The O.C. In the fourth episode of the first season, they played "To Shiela" as the closing song. I know The O.C. has the rep of a crappy teen soap, but it really isn't. The music is fantastic; the show is known to play some of the best music out there. Pick up the first season on DVD if you don't believe me.


ha i think thats great. i have heard an interesting choice of music on that show, dont think i can handle much more than 10 mins though. its always on at work.

"This is going to sound so lame, but The O.C. In the fourth episode of the first season, they played "To Shiela" as the closing song. "

thats the second time i heard them- thats the song that REALLY got me into them (as in the band, not only their songs)
the first time i heard them (Acknowledged them) was when i was driving home with my big brother and he had a cd on and 1979 was playing. at first i was like: 'this guy sounds terrible' but after a while i really warmed to his voice and the lyrics. i told my brother i hated them but i secretly LOVED THEM, because i didnt want him to think i was following his trend.
now im the pumpkins fanatic and he just thinks im crazy. he still thinks 1979 is an AMAZING song- as do I.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who heard them on The O.C.

My first memory was seeing the Today video when I was little, when I used to go round to my nanna and grandads house and watch their sky tv, we didnt have it, and I'd turn Kerrang off if they came back coz I'd be embaressed about watching alternative music... oh how times change

I think the first time ever...was when I was around five. My mom had walked out of the room and I went in to watch TV and the music video for "Disarm" was on. I changed the channel and then she came back, telling me to turn it back. So I did and then I returned to whatever I was doing before....

The other times were from five to ten years old when she would play Siamese Dream in the car. So everytime I listen to SD I always remember road trips and that vibe I would get in the car with the music playing. And my mother's singing voice (l.o.l.)

The time I acutally acknowledged SP was not long ago...It was actually the past March. My best friend, my mom, my bro, and I were all going on Spring Break to Pensecola, Florida and we went through all of the CDs and we listened to SD on the way back. And about a month later I went and got it from the car because I needed to listen to new music.

And that is how they came to be my favorite band!!!

Yo!! 1996 My first love had just moved away and I had just got my first SP album, Siamese Dream. The CD completely matched the way I was feeling - angry, sad, confused: everything that goes along with being a teen in the 90's.

- It got me through and I'll always view them as the greatest band ever.

I think it's all about how you connect with the music and that's what makes their music so powerful - you can instantly connect. Here's a quote from Billy I really love...

"I don't want to achieve the distance of a rock band that's too cool for you to deal with or too whacked out for you to relate to -- but the exact opposite... I want our music to come across like someone whispering into your ear and going right inside your brain. Instead of letting the sound go from our mouths and our hands through a thousand rock pretenses and Spinal Tap-isms, I want it to be like we're right in front of you. That's the kind of intimacy and trust I'd like the band to achieve." BC

more great quotes @ http://www.netphoria.org/quotephoria/billy.htm

korganite link=topic=310.msg4291#msg4291 date=1155947540]
Yo!! 1996 My first love had just moved away and I had just got my first SP album, Siamese Dream. The CD completely matched the way I was feeling - angry, sad, confused: everything that goes along with being a teen in the 90's.

- It got me through and I'll always view them as the greatest band ever.

I think it's all about how you connect with the music and that's what makes their music so powerful - you can instantly connect. Here's a quote from Billy I really love...

"I don't want to achieve the distance of a rock band that's too cool for you to deal with or too whacked out for you to relate to -- but the exact opposite... I want our music to come across like someone whispering into your ear and going right inside your brain. Instead of letting the sound go from our mouths and our hands through a thousand rock pretenses and Spinal Tap-isms, I want it to be like we're right in front of you. That's the kind of intimacy and trust I'd like the band to achieve." BC

more great quotes @ http://www.netphoria.org/quotephoria/billy.htm


hahaha thats amazing "...like someone whispering into your ear and going right inside your brain" thats how id sum up the pumpkins for me, definatly

Ruby link=topic=310.msg4307#msg4307 date=1155976929]
korganite link=topic=310.msg4291#msg4291 date=1155947540]
Yo!! 1996 My first love had just moved away and I had just got my first SP album, Siamese Dream. The CD completely matched the way I was feeling - angry, sad, confused: everything that goes along with being a teen in the 90's.

- It got me through and I'll always view them as the greatest band ever.

I think it's all about how you connect with the music and that's what makes their music so powerful - you can instantly connect. Here's a quote from Billy I really love...

"I don't want to achieve the distance of a rock band that's too cool for you to deal with or too whacked out for you to relate to -- but the exact opposite... I want our music to come across like someone whispering into your ear and going right inside your brain. Instead of letting the sound go from our mouths and our hands through a thousand rock pretenses and Spinal Tap-isms, I want it to be like we're right in front of you. That's the kind of intimacy and trust I'd like the band to achieve." BC

more great quotes @ http://www.netphoria.org/quotephoria/billy.htm


hahaha thats amazing "...like someone whispering into your ear and going right inside your brain" thats how id sum up the pumpkins for me, definatly

I knew you'd like that one Ruby, We think alike!


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I borrowed Siamese Dream from my sister. She forgot I had it when she went away to college, I think. That was the first good music I'd heard in my life.

Disarm video. I loved the song. It kept in my mind during many years until I bougth my first SP album, looking for that song, and the rest is history...

The first time I remember seeing them would've been when I was much younger and I saw their appearance on The Simpsons in the Homerpalooza episode, I thought they were cool but I didn't immediately attach to them. Then about a little less than 2-years-ago I heard Where Boys Fear To Tread, which got me interested, I looked into them a little more and heard songs like Bullet With Butterfly Wings, 1979, Mayonaise, Zero etc. I bought Mellon Collie and it was the greatest album I'd ever heard.
And that's how I became hooked on the Pumpkins.