It's apparently been five years since I last updated These Songs I Like, and I started to gravitate away from Tumblr as a whole when their "adult content" restrictions turned into restricting non-sexual LGBTQ-related content.
Anyway, here's Wonderwall. Err, an almost-2-hour Smashing Pumpkins concert from 1993:
As someone who generally resents the live version of songs, this whole set is a rare exception. In particular, the version of Starla here is incomprehensibly better.
Delightfully, the concert opens with Rocket, one of my favorites but for some reason not a chart-topper. It also led to me discovering the charming story behind Spaceboy, which is really relatable for me.
As an aside, the explanation for Hummer I've since learned makes me laugh. Lots of theories have been advanced for what it might mean for someone to be "a hummer," and the answer is delightfully matter-of-fact:
Ever since I wrote that song I’ve heard many definitions for the word 'hummer'. I’ve heard that there’s a car called a Hummer, I heard that Monica gave Bill a hummer in the White House, but quite honestly in my innocent youth, I imagined it being someone who just walked around humming a song to himself.