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Smashing Pumpkins: Part 1 with Rob Harvilla

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The Alchemy Rock Trick of Taking Something Specific and Making It Universal

This is the other alchemy rock trick of taking something, making a very specific song that becomes universal. It's just I don't know if there's a tangible way you can point to how he does this or what makes this better at that than virtually any other record I was listening to at the time. But just my very personal and unknowable pain radiates outward into the world and soothes everyone else's pain. You mean just like me at 12 sitting there being like, left me here to wither alone? What did I talk about? Who left you? Whither alone in denial, my crush.

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