Growing up I’ve never had a favourite band. I first heard of SP when I was 11 from a show I was watching on Animal Planet called Whale wars (which is my favourite show at that time) and they used the track bullets with butterfly wings for the show’s intro and the song blew my 11 year old mind and I became obsessed with the track. Whale wars would air on animal planet at exactly 7pm everyday but 6pm was my study time so what I would do is I would finish my studies quickly and hope that by the time I finished my homework, I get to turn on the TV at the right moment so I could hear that sweet intro. In Malaysia, hearing SP on the radio is almost impossible the only way us to surf the Internet but, my family doesn’t have a home computer at that time so one day I begged my dad to take me to his office so I could use the computer there and what a day it is. I searched for the lyrics online but because of my basic knowledge of the English language at that age I can barely understand anything at all but it didn’t stop me from screaming the lyrics at the top of my lungs. After hours of searching I finally got the name of the album of where the track was from. I saw the track list and went ahead and searched every single track after that and the other track blew my mind even further. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans is probably the first track ever to gave me goosebumps and I’ve never felt anything like it before. Jellybelly, Here’s no why and XYU made me go crazy obsessed with SP and MCIS. Although at that time the softer tracks like Thirty three, we only come out at night, 1979, Cupid de Locke, Tonight tonight didn’t really caught my attention at that time, it slowly grew over the months. MCIS is the first album where I’ve listened to it front and back. To this day I can never get a hold of a physical copy and the closest thing I got to finding a physical SP album was the Zwan album I found at my local record store. Maybe one day I’ll own one. The Smashing Pumpkins was my first favourite and it still is to this day and MCIS is my all time favourites. I couldn’t thank SP enough for creating this masterpiece. This album was the one that introduced me to the wonderful and magical world of music.