Monday, May 12, 2025
Time: 9:10 AM
Song: Silvery
Sometimes (Ghosts)
Artist: The Smashing
Pumpkins
Mode of Consumption:
Listening to Spotify while at work.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/0oCEQA7gByJXUvXztuF0ys?si=6f82f7ed5f4a475a
“Is that The
Smashing Pumpkins?” My co-worker, Ty, asked. He had slipped into my office to
ask another question.
“Yep.”
I almost said it was
from their new album but realized that they had released albums after. Then my
mind did a trick by registering that something that I perceive as new isn’t
really new anymore.
The song was
released on their album “Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol 1” in 2018. As I look at
the calendar on my door, I find that we are almost halfway through 2025. Seven
years. Amazing.
We saw The Smashing Pumpkins
in Chicago when they touring after releasing this album. It was an awesome set
at a small club that focused on the band’s 1990s hits, but did sprinkle in this
song and a couple others from this album. In many ways, the album was a
throwback to the 90s.
I have fond memories
of that concert, even though I probably lost several percentage points of my
hearing that night.
The strange thing is
that my mind will still sometimes place certain music released as far back as
the 90s as “new” music. The instant example is “Bridges to Babylon” by the
Rolling Stones. That album was released in 1997, and I still think of it as “new”
Stones. In two years, that album will turn 30 years old, as old (and even
older) than the Stones’ classic 1960s and 1970s albums that I would have
considered “old” Stones back then.
I have similar ideas
about 1990s Metallica albums. That’s “new” Metallica while albums like “Ride
the Lightning” and “Master of Puppets” from the 1980s are “old” Metallica. I
don’t even have a category for all the albums released by the band after 2000.
Maybe someday my
mind will adjust and think of some of these things as “early” period and “middle”
period and “late,” but I still find my mind is stuck on new versus old.
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