Quick before you read any further! I want to know your first thought when you saw the title of this song. Got it? Great.
Last night, I was checking out after a quick trip to Trader Joe’s. A woman who I figured was close in proximity to me in age was running the register.
First, I’m about to flex my 90s Grunge Princess muscle and tell you that the album title was spelled Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Second, my older-than-dirt moment came last year when my massively pregnant self was on the hunt for a Caboodle to store my nail polish. I went to Target and did a waddling happy dance in the aisle when I discovered that THEY STILL EXIST. I told the cashier how excited I was, even humming the commercial jingle “you got it together, Caboodle!” and it was all blank stares. Then she informed me she was born in 2000. Get off my lawn, whippersnapper!
OK, My first thought on reading the title: 1979 – no particular song connection, but it was a heck of a year with divorce in the wind, a business going poorly – definite melancholy material, not nostalgia. Maybe I should have been listening to Smashing Pumpkins, but I was more of the Grateful Dead generation and didn’t know what to do but keep on truckin’.
Well I ain’t no new messiah but close enough for Rock and Roll and I’m older than you. Like a lot. 🙂 Its like how I still eat Peanut Butter Crunch cereal, it tastes great, it’s nostalgic but lets not pretend it’s a bigger deal than it is. I had a similar experience with a cashier not knowing who Barry Manilow was. I killed her. 😉
Be grateful that you’re still as young as you are as I don’t know who the Smashing Pumpkins were or the song. In 1979 I was already married 9 years and going through all kinds of crap – and yeah, Grateful Dead. Although I was a lot cooler way back then.