"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" is the first album by TSP that I heard and that album, which coincided with the year I entered university, was like a knock out blow for me. The controlled fury that turns into aggression and lack of control when going through each of its songs is a kind of liberating mantra that I still revisit, 30 years later, now an engineer, a husband and father of 2 children, to shout again that "Despite all my rage, I'm still a rat in a cage".