It was the end of summer 1994. Next week I was going to be a high school freshman. Everyone I knew was into other bands like Guns and Roses, Pearl Jam, or Nirvana. I was kind of dabbling in that scene as well, well, just as far as what we got on MTV.  I one day switched on the TV and caught the image of this pale, creepy man in silver pants with bad teeth, and a band playing in what seemed like an apocalyptic mosh pit. It was the video for “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”. The video was halfway done,  I wondered what the song was about? The rest of the week I waited for the video to run again, then I finally caught it. I relished the video from beginning to end, couldn’t get enough of that Pumpkins sound. Freshman year was awkward to say the least, the transitioning to your full teenage years is a messed up(In fact the whole time I was in high school my whole impression of it was “despite all my rage”…well I know for sure Pumpkins fans know the rest) . It was a month that went by I until I heard a new song, It was Zero, then I heard 1979 a few weeks later. That’s it I was hooked, I went to the music stores to buy the full album. Mind you it was 1994, music stores only stocked what was on the radio back then, The Pumpkins weren’t as well known where I lived. Long story short MCIS was the first Pumpkins album I ever got. It was in cassette. If anyone asks about my taste in music, I tell them I’m stuck in 1994.