{"id":10594,"date":"2026-08-15T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10594"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:07:28","slug":"ancient-chinese-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/08\/15\/ancient-chinese-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Chinese Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realized that beyond my whole-souled embrace of 1979<\/a>, I know virtually nothing about the music of Smashing Pumpkins, or Billy Corgan. <\/p>\n

If they had been producing music for the public a couple of years earlier than they actually did, I would have been all over them. By the time their first album came out, I was listening almost exclusively to news and talk radio, struggling unsuccessfully to get a real job in that field. My anthemic heroes looked more like Scott Carrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the Mellon Collie album came out, catapulting the band toward a kind of indie superstardom, I had given up on radio and was out over the road myself, driving big trucks. <\/p>\n

“Cool kids never have the time”. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Pumpkins, the core.<\/p>\n

Gish (1991)<\/a>
\nSiamese Dream (1993)<\/a>
\nMellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)<\/a><\/p>\n

More here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here too<\/a>. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Scott C. <\/p>\n

Old school, two and three and four decades ago as represented by the end of ‘Season Four<\/a>‘<\/p>\n

New school, from a year ago and up until a month ago as currently configured: Season Five<\/a> (link will change someday)<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Now that is some world-class distraction, right there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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