Infinite Love

Bryan Booher Spring Valley, OH , US

The Smashing Pumpkins played Bogart’s in Cincinnati, OH as part of The Arising Tour in 1999. Jimmy was back in the band and they launched a small club tour. While waiting in line to enter the venue, we could see Billy and James in the local music store next to the Bogart’s, buying pedals and other guitar related items. That was rad. And the show was UNREAL! They played with a ferociousness that made the place go nuts. I’ve seen Smashing Pumpkins 28 times. The Bogart’s Arising Tour show is in my top 3 SP shows ever. The mighty SP are a part of me at this point. A part of who I am, a beacon of love and hope that has ignited my spirit for over 30 years. I can’t thank them enough for the decades plus of music they’ve provided. ❤️

Rat in a cage

Ramiro Roselli La Blanqueada, Montevideo, UY

"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" is the first album by TSP that I heard and that album, which coincided with the year I entered university, was like a knock out blow for me. The controlled fury that turns into aggression and lack of control when going through each of its songs is a kind of liberating mantra that I still revisit, 30 years later, now an engineer, a husband and father of 2 children, to shout again that "Despite all my rage, I'm still a rat in a cage".

Smashing Cookie

Steve Grez US

MC&TIS came out and connected with me at the right time. I needed it and it was there for me and saved my life. Forever thankful. 

Pink turns to Blu

Myriam Madrid, ES

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, inspired me a t shirt design i made in those times under the name of “pink turns to blue” inspired by the colour of the cds which evoke the Hüsker Dü song

20th birthday

Victoria Kerr Buenos Aires, AR

The image kind of explains itslef! I got my melon collie tattoo on my 19th birthday. A few months after that i met my now boyfriend and i introduced him to this huge part of my life called the smashing pumpkins. On my 20th he surprised me with this beautiful melon collie cake and that picture alone encapsulates my love for that album and tsp. Thank you so much for so many memories

Favorite gift from dad

Keri San Antonio, TX, US

I didn’t grow up in the richest or most stable family. However, we would always find a way to express love to each other when it mattered most. My dad knew SP had been my favorite band for several years by this time, and my birthday being October 24- he had surprised me with the double disc in a huge box filled with crumpled paper to throw me off. I remember binge listening for likely a full year afterwards, and in the years to come even after the disc set had long been lost to life being cruel, I never forgot how happy I was that day. I lost my dad to cancer in 2001, and that was the last birthday present he ever got me. I got to finally see SP live, in October a few years ago with Jane’s Addiction at the Moody in Austin. I was in the 15th row and felt like he was with me, especially when they played Talking Heads, a favorite of my dad’s. Thank you for everything, I’ll be 43 this October 24th. 

Playing Zero on the Drums

Victoria Kerr Buenos Aires, AR

Ive played drums since i was 12 years old. This is me at 16 (im now 20 😂) playing zero in front of an audience full of friends and family. Needless to say I kind of scared my grandma but she got into it. I Love you tsp

The Cherry on the top of the cake

Hélder Porto, PT, PT

I was 16. Terribly in love. Bought the 1979 single and found this Cherry at the top of the cake. Thank you, SP. You’re really Smashing. 

Time is never time at all

Calina Marysville, OH, US

I was born on October 12th, 2005. On the drive home from the hospital, my parents played MCIS and Tonight, Tonight for me. They were the first songs I ever listened to. 17 years later, I got to hear Tonight, Tonight live with my dad in Cincinnati. 8 months after that, I drove myself to my graduation in my own car, listening to those same songs. SP’s music has been with me throughout my entire life and in every moment, no matter how significant. 

The Beginning of the End…

Mike Salinas Houston, Texas, US

A friend gifted me ‘Siamese Dream’ and it changed my life!  Went out the first day MC&TIS came out and bought it on CD.  Made a cassette copy for a girl I really liked but was dragging my feet with. ( I was very shy and insecure ).  Anyways, a few days later she said we could no longer be anything… Was it the music?

Double delight

Adam Burton Dorchester, GB

A friend’s mum worked at the local radio station and sold me the promo cd copy they had. It had a sticker on it saying it was a promo and I slowly scratched it off, which I really regret doing.

I remember thinking I’m never going to be familiar with all 28 songs, but I was in no time and the sharp switch between heavy and mellow really gripped me.

We used to turn it up in my mates car for Billy’s solo vocal bits, like “the world is a vampire” and in zero “emptiness is…” 

Best belated birthday gift ever!!

Jen Chesterbrook, PA, US

Hands down my favorite album! My friend gave it to me for my 15th birthday. It was late bc my bday is on Oct 15th. So worth the wait! I am actually wearing my TSP shirt today!! 

Tonight, Tonight

NAOKI TAKASAWA TOKYO, JP

The time I saw you guys at the Nippon Budokan before is still my best live experience.

Embodiment of Love

Claire Columbus, OH, US

I fell in love with this album at 13 while I was in a toxic relationship. With my new amazing boyfriend, I received the MCIS CD from him. He loves and knows me so well, and I associate this album with the love I have to give.

Homecoming Night

Jesse Little Rock, Ar, US

I remember I had just gotten into SP a few months before my high school homecoming senior year. I had told all my friends I wouldn’t go if I didn’t have a date. That night, while everyone was at homecoming, I was out in the woods, looking at the stars, and listening to this album in its entirety. I have never had anything be so relatable as that album was that evening. 

Billy / Austin

Daniel G Brooklyn,Ny, US

I saw BC at Tower records in Austin day of their show. He was looking thru records. I said hello and thank you for Siamese Dream. He was quiet but sweet ❤️

just like my dad

Greta Busca, IT, IT

This album is really important to me because it’s literally the soundtrack of my teenage years and I discovered it thanks to my dad that listened to it when he was my age. This summer me and my dad finally went to a sp’s concert for the first time and I decided to take a tattoo of mcis, our favourite album.

So, note all ye lovers in love with the sound

Mydiana Atlanta, GA, US

 I was in 8th grade I was going through a tough time with my friends. One night I ended up talking to one of my close guy friends, Finny, who was on an overnight field trip at the time. We listened to spotify together and texted the entire night. He put the song “Cupid de locke” in the queue and it changed my life. It was so ethereal and what I needed to know that everything was gonna be okay. I even played the song at my quinceañera (Along with Tonight, Tonight) when I danced with my mother for the first time. Thank you.

University days

Margherita Trieste, IT

It was at my dad’s house, when I came over for the week end from the town I was attending university at. And it was like crossing a space gap through different galaxies. SP were always with me. Wherever I should go. Even saw them at their tour in Milan. 

Blowing my mind

Jorge Asuncion, PY

I was at a friend’s house. While he was waiting for his dinner to finish, I was in his room listening to his stereo. We were 15 years old in 1996. I knew the Siamese Dream album very well and the cuts that were shown on MTV from the Mellon Collie album. But I was tempted to play the record that my friend had. He had bought headphones that were great. I put them on. Press play. I closed my eyes while the instrumental track 01 played. And like a fist bump began JellyBelly, which is the next track. It was those guitars that sounded in stereo, the bass hit my body, the drums moved my limbs, William P. Corgan’s voice floated in those waves of aggressive sounds. It was a magical moment. 

Mellon Collie Era

Meg Washington, D.C., US

Representing SP in the 90s.

Adore

Meg Silver Spring, US

My poster from my room in the 90s after Adore came out. 

And I give all back to you…

Meg Silver Spring, MD, US

NYC before 2001 obviously since the twin towers are in the photo. I was on top of the Empire State Building representing SP.

Disarm you with a smile…

Meg Silver Spring, MD, US

Time Square, NYC in the 90s. 

Mellon Collie Tour

Meg Silver Spring, MD, US

My first rock concert was SP & Garbage in 1996. It was the last show for Jonathan Melvoin who died before the next show in NYC after an overdose on heroin. Fans were devastated and that was goodbye to Jimmy for awhile. 

Blurco and the infinite sadness

Hugo Sanchez Maracaibo, VE

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