Melancholy Monday

Along the same lines as last week's Melancholy Monday, we stay in the 90's.  For some reason I was late to the game with some of the 90's music.  I hated grunge when it was popular with the exception of a few songs.

I think it had something to do with me being a bit nerdy, with gold rimmed glasses, braces, jean shorts and Timberland shoes, looking at these big dudes with long hair parted down the middle, flannel shirts with shorts down to their ankles, smoking cigarettes and having these low man voices even in Junior High school.....all of which loved grunge music.  All the girls loved these guys including a girl that I had a major crush on....so I naturally had to resent it and love nerdy music like They Might Be Giants instead.  Anyway, the song "Drown" by Smashing Pumpkins I didn't like until 2001, well past the release date of 1992 and long past its popularity.  I listened to the song whenever I was in a melancholy mood and I've continued to ever since.  The full version is a bit long...I usually change the song or repeat the song as soon as it hits minute five but sometimes get lost in the endless guitar solos and let it play through.  It's all about that guitar riff though, so catchy, it gets stuck in your head.

  I might as well stay in the 90's for the next several weeks because I've got a lot of songs that I listened to when I was a moody teenager.  I could take at least a couple months on The Cranberries alone.