A music collage representing Judson Doncaster's most listened to artists in 2025. (Malachi Lefurgey/AQ) In 2025, I listened to an obscene amount of music. My total ended up at over 150,000 minutes and these are the tracks that I spent the most time with.  “Pennies” by The Smashing Pumpkins came in at number one for a good reason.  This song is airy and jovial without feeling mockish. While it is buried deep in the long and masterful album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadne

The Smashing Pumpkins album cover of Siamese Dream . (Credit: Pinterest) I could talk about The Smashing Pumpkins endlessly (and I do). The four band members are all individual legends and their sound together is irreplicable.  They burst onto the scene with their first album Gish , which at the time was the highest-selling independent album ever. They followed that success with something even better: Siamese Dream  in 1993.  This album was relatively different compared to th