At the record store back in November 1995, I was holding MCIS and Green Day’s Insomniac. Since I was born far out in North Borneo, Pumpkins was new to me while Green Day was sort of controlling the magazines and the mtv at that time. Mysteriously and weirdly, I chose MCIS. For the first week, I had trouble absorbing the songs. Come into the second week, it started to grow on me and I began to love Bullet, XYU, Bodies and all the heavy songs. Fast forward to 1998, it still colored my daily life while I was waiting for the release of Adore. Thank you, Smashing Pumpkins. MCIS will always be my top 3 favorite albums of all time. The way the self titled intro set the mood for Tonight, Tonight and how the rest of the songs navigate from heavy to alternative to folk and vice versa, it’s a complete journey of an album pure of passion, joy, dreams and love.