When I was 16, my parents got me my first digital music player: an iPod Shuffle 2nd Gen. (The first one that was really tiny, didnt have a screen, and had a clip on the back). It was criminally limited with only 1GB of storage but given the fact it was 2007 and up until that point I was still carrying around a CD Player and a CD wallet, I was stoked to have it and instantly loaded it up with music and was practically updating that thing like everyday with new music. Since I could only have a handful songs on it, I usually stuck to only adding a selection of songs from a bands album instead of the whole thing but I couldn’t help but make an exception for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The album wasnt new to me by any means as I heard it for the first time a few years earlier when a friend of mine put it on in their car and always remembering how blown away I was while listening to introductory title track. As much as I loved the album and had pretty much every song off both discs, I had never listened to it from start to finish, all at once, in order. And now that I had my iPod, I didnt have to swap out discs to do that. So one Saturday morning, I decided to go for a walk and listen to entire thing, not ending my walk and not going back home until it had ended. Needless to say, it was a very long and exhausting trip I made walking all around my hometown but it was more than worth it to hear the album in its entirety as a whole. That experience has always been not only one of my favorite memories I’ve had that’s associated with music but one of the most important memories of mine as well. Oh and final side note, there have been so many albums I’ve listened to that have had just some incredible closing tracks on them but none of them will ever be as powerful and as moving like Farewell and Goodnight is.