The year was 1996, the month was February.  My buddy and I were were walking to high school (Sophomore year) and we were hit by a car.  I broke my leg, just above my knee, and ended up in a cast for 7 weeks.  I spent a lot of time on the couch watching MTV.  I was already pretty deep into music at the time, but hadn’t given the mighty SP much love to that point, then this video came on for a song called 1979 that turned my world upside down.  I taped it on VHS and watched it repeatedly.  I asked my dad to buy me the CD single, as he often did when I asked him to.  He worked as a security guard at the local shopping mall and was able to snag me a copy from Musicland.  I listened to that single non-stop for a week with Set the Ray to Jerry quickly becoming a favorite. I asked that my dad go out and buy MCIS the following week and he obliged. I listened to it constantly and was hooked from those opening piano notes on disc 1.  I went to my first SP show with my dad 10/25/96 and have seen them many many times since, but MCIS is what got me hooked. Fantastic album, fantastic band, fantastic memories. Thank you Smashing Pumpkins!