Siamese Dream ***1/2
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness ****
Wenn ich jemandem das Gefühl in den 90ern beschreiben wollte, dann würde ich ihm empfehlen, sich die beiden Songs 1979 und Today jeweils mit den Videos anzuschauen und dabei die Texte zu lesen. Sie haben einfach einen Nerv getroffen, ähnlich wie auch zum Beispiel automatic for the people von REM. Eine zweifelnde Generation. Trotzdem war ich nie der große Fan, weil ich Billy Corgan immer als etwas zu sehr ichbezogen empfand.
Today
Today is the greatest
Day I’ve ever known
Can’t live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow’s much too long
I’ll burn my eyes out
Before I get out
I wanted more
Than life could ever grant me
Bored by the chore
Of saving face
Today is the greatest
Day I’ve never known
Can’t wait for tomorrow
I might not have that long
I’ll tear my heart out
Before I get out
Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets
My angel wings
Were bruised and restrained
My belly stings
Today is
Today is
Today is
The greatest day
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you
Today is the greatest
Today is the greatest day
Today is the greatest day
That I have ever really known
1979
Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we’d never see an end to it all
I don’t even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don’t know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed to the earth below
Double cross the vacant and the bored
They’re not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin‘ dues down to see
We don’t even care as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we’d go
Beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it to see
We don’t even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don’t know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there’s no one around
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I used to be darker, then I got lighter, then I got dark again