Smashing Teen Spirit
On Siamese Dream, remembering one of the greatest concerts of my life, moping, mushrooms, the week that the '90s ended.
If my Texas teenage mope circa ‘91 had a color, it was the exact hue of purple as that on the cover of Gish, the album that changed my life (just a few weeks before another one would do the same.) It was maybe also the color of Billy Corgan’s chin-length henna-hair, the color I looked for when I reluctantly went shopping for moping, over-sized maroon ba…
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