I was either 13 or 14 when I bought this album, I can't remember, it was sometime near my fourteenth birthday in March of 2006. I bought it on a whim, for $20 at a bookstore, which even then I realized was a rediculus amount to pay for an album, especially one by a band I had only barely heard of and for the life of me I could not remember any of their songs, only that I'd heard them before and thought I liked them. Well, anyway, I took it home and popped it into my cd player (yes, at that time I still used a cd player) and was immediately impressed. Still, for the longest time I never understood the deeper meanings of all the beautifully written songs, especially "Today", the song that later literally saved my life.
Anyway, sometime later, I was in 8th grade and, well, you may know, it was middle school. I was depressed. I stopped talking to my friends and started to become withdrawn. I would write constantly, and just listen to Siamese Dream (by that time I knew what it was about). I was suicidal, I'm not kidding. I hated everything, I, formerly a straight-A student started to fall in school. I quit caring but for some reason listening to Billy sing his heart out about the same things I felt comforted me immensely.
I am now a sophomore in high school, and I literally owe my life to this album. I love the Pumpkins more than ever, and I own every one of their albums, not to mention b-sides, demos, live cuts, and more. But that's another story, for another day.
I LOVE THE SMASHING PUMPKINS!!!