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1979 - Smashing Pumpkins.
My old man had Mellon Collie on cassette when I was a kid and I heard this song a lot growing up. It kind of sparked my deeper dive into Billy Corgan's discography later in my college years. Turns out, their first four albums were pretty great. Adore doesn't get nearly as much love as it deserves. They made two albums called Machina. Machina I is kinda meh, but it's got a couple good tracks. Machina II was made in a rush because the band was breaking up. I forget how it got out, but it's completely unfinished and rough, but it's got lots of really great deep cuts on it.
Oceania is the last Pumpkins album I'd really consider great. And then there's the Zwan album, which I hear is one you either like or you don't. I think the second part of Jesus I/Mary Star of the Sea features some of Jimmy Chamberlain's best drumming. It's very Geek USA.
Anyway, I had at one point 9 of their albums. I stopped listening to them so regularly around the time I got into Car Seat Headrest in 2016, but I still spin up one of my old Pumpkins CDs from time to time.
1979 playing at the end credits of Gran Turismo 5 is really cool. It really invokes this feeling I can't describe.