MCIS has had a profound impact on my life. In fact, I quite literally have never known a life without it. My dad was a massive Pumpkins fan, and MCIS was his favorite. When my mom was pregnant with me, he’d put headphones on her belly, and play MCIS for me. I’d always move around, and start reacting to the music.
Once I was born, my dad would rock me to sleep, and sing “Farewell and Goodnight to me.” As I got older, I continued to listen to the softer songs from MCIS, to fall asleep to. I often still can’t fall asleep without them.
Unfortunately, I lost my dad to suicide when I was 17. He left behind for me his entire Smashing Pumpkins collection, along with a mixed CD he created, as his final goodbye to me. The first song on the CD, is “Farewell
and Goodnight.”
MCIS has been there for me through the great, the bad, and the really ugly. It’s been the one constant I’ve always been able to hold onto, no matter what I’ve had to face in this life.
Cheers, MCIS! Happy 25th Anniversary to the album that started it all for me.