Names, G: Glynis

"Glynis," Smashing Pumpkins

From the album No Alternative

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DJ comments: Man, me and Sam probably both freaked out when this compilation came out. (I know I did.) This was before the days of file sharing, mp3s, CD burning by the masses. This was like finding a sweet mix tape in a CD rack: Pumpkins, Breeders, Beastie Boys, Pavement, Nirvana, Bob Mould, Buffalo Tom, Uncle Tupelo, Soundgarden ... — cwc

Once upon a time, I thought the Smashing Pumpkins were the greatest band of all time, and if they had died in a plane crash or something in 1994, nothing would’ve changed my opinion. But then, Billy Corgan had to shave his head for an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” and the band jumped the shark. They never recovered from his “Mellon Collie” egomania and it still breaks my heart after all these years (almost as much as the new “Indiana Jones” raped my youth). So I try to remember him as the driving force behind “Gish,” “Siamese Dream,” a solid B-sides compilation (“Pisces Iscariot”), plus a handful of other compilation tracks, like this gem. — sp