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The Hey everyone and welcome to their playing our song, the podcast where we make your song, our song.

I'm Robert Ferry Cruz. I'm your host, and I'm joined again by my lovely wife, Diana. Hi, Diana.

Hello. Thank you so much for coming again. So the purpose of this show is to talk about songs that are other people's songs,

but given the fact that this is kind of an amateur production, sometimes we're going to talk about

songs that are my song or Diana's song. So today we're going to actually dig deep into my

back catalog and talk about Tonight Tonight by The Smashing Pumpkin. Now, this song came out on

their 1996 album, Melancholy in the Infinite Sadness. You might remember it if you grew up in the

90s with that kind of cherub on the front, a big double album. It is really notable for being,

as Rolling Stones called it, the pumpkins at their finest. If you aren't really a big grunge person,

the smashing pumpkins were sort of one of the big trifecta of the, you know, kind of

post-Nirvana wave of music coming out.

This song is pretty popular, both for itself and also for the music video, which we will

talk about a little bit later. Now, Diana, I know this is kind of my song, so we sort of talked

about how we're going to do this. So I figure we'll just kind of do our musical notes like

we normally would, and then we'll just kind of do our musical notes like we normally would.

And then we'll sort of just talk about,

kind of talk about the song.

So hopefully I won't take all the conversation away.

One of the reasons that I love this song,

sort of like we talked about last time

when we talked about round here, is it really

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