“Landslide”
by The Smashing Pumpkins (originally by Fleetwood Mac)
from the album Pisces Iscariot
1994
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I heard this in a cafe earlier this week and it got stuck in my head.

Yes, I admit, the Pumpkins’ version of this song was my first exposure to it, and I loved it. I remember listening to this album my freshmen year of college, and there was one older guy who lived in the dorms who heard me playing it and quickly denounced it as being inferior to the original.

Even so, this being pre-online music, it took me probably years before I finally heard the Fleetwood Mac version. I love that version now as well, but this one still gets me.

Two random related tangents…

1. I love singing this, and I know Lance does too, so I’m surprised we haven’t done it at karaoke. I mean, it’s a bit of a downer in a public room, but I would think it would have happened in a private karaoke room at some point.

2. In the past week, because of this blog, i’ve realized there are a few albums I’m missing from my iTunes catalog. First it was last week when I posted the Nirvana cover and realized I don’t have Bleach. I definitely used to own it, but now I can’t remember if I ever even had it on cd or if it was just cassette. The second was a batch of Pumpkins discs. A few years ago I sent all my cds to a service to be ripped, and apparently there were albums I forgot to ever copy to my library, since I had just been used to playing the CD. So now I’ve got a bunch of things to catch up on with Pisces Iscariot, Gish, and the whole Aeroplane Flies High collection. I’ve got the Rarities and B-Sides album, which has some of the Aeroplane songs I like, so I guess I never noticed. Clearly I have too much music to not even notice these things for this long.