I bought the album the week it was released. My favorite track is “Tonight, Tonight.” It felt so vindicating—a major creative statement by my favorite band. My most skeptical friends knew, now, that the Pumpkins were no flash in the pan. That they were Chicago people made it even better—Seattle had no monopoly on great music. Most of all, it was a Generation X touchstone. For the first and only time in my life, I felt in tune with the culture and with people my age. We’d been so maligned and ignored. Here was proof that the boomers didn’t own rock. Thanks, Corgan and Company, for that experience.