Smashing Pumpkins poster in the window, with a CD shop full of people – oh how things are changing. This was the era of VHS and CD’s – and how I remember how tape-cassette became uncool.

I was a teenager as I walked into the CD shop, mom asked me what I wanted for my birthday and SP MCIS was def on that list. I was already hooked from Gish and Siamese Dream so this was a no brainer.

The sound created was amazing, the heaviness and yet creative ooze that pulsated from my sound system was too much. I remember how my dad hated the noise, but I didn’t care and why would I, I was a teenager.  This album and I became one as I would listen to it everywhere, I tried to learn the chords for songs but the technical wowness was far beyond my skills.

As teenagers, our group would listen to MCIS drink and smoke a spliff walking around at night in the streets with nothing to do but sing MCIS songs fresh in our memory and shout out the world is a vampire while kicking out street lights.

I wouldn’t want to have grown up in a world without Pumpkins!