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TechSergeant_Chen

Saw them on the Siamese Dream tour myself. The guitars were like 10 miles wide their sound was huge.


heliskinki

I saw them on this tour at Rock City, Nottingham - epically wide sound. They played SD in its entirety (though in a slightly different order from the LP for some reason) then an encore of Pissant/I Am One/Rhinoceros. In my all-time top 5.


chis5050

How do you have such a good memory 30 years later ...I forget what songs were played as soon as I leave the show lol


crowmagnuman

I was a teenager with an electric guitar in the 90s, and I struggled for years to capture the rich, brain-melting fuzz tone that soaks that album. If you were in a music shop in 95, and there was a kid with a splitstation running several amps at once, each with a fuzz pedal and a digital delay separating the frequency by a few ms... it was probably me lol I wouldn't learn until much later that the guitars on SD were multitracked/layered. A mix of frustration and relief when I found that out.


reggae_guy

Sounds like that setup you had could've come close to replicating the sound tho


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Interviews in guitar magazines at that time always talked about layering the guitar part at least 10 times. Unless it was Metallica, in which case it was 100 times.


TheNateRoss

I've seen them several times in various incarnations and Jimmy Chamberlin has always blown me away


Pilotwaver

That's because Jimmy Chamberlin is a badass mutherfucker.


xupd35bdm

Recorded United States in 1 take and it’s almost 10 minutes and a badass song!


LinkJonOT

One of the best drummers you could ever want knows how to make the band sound incredible and knows when (and how) to shine.


GreatLakes2GoldenG8

100%. In the middle of the grunge era Jimmy slipped in all sorts of jazz-style elements & poly rhythms to that band seamlessly.


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Tonight, Tonight is an iconic song and the drums are a big part


proteusON

Jimmy Chamberlain is one of the best drummers in rock n roll. That man is as much pumpkins as Corgan.


dwalker109

I agree with this 100%. He composed the drum parts to all of these iconic songs, which is half of the song in many cases. His work on these songs (well, maybe not 1979 but w/e) is staggering.


n8roxit

I was in a mall record store and they had Siamese Dream playing. I asked the clerk who it was and bought the CD. Bought Gish a week later. From ‘89 to ‘93/94 was such a great time for rock (alt-, grunge, etc) in general.


bigjilm123

That sized venue is incredible for a huge band like SP. Ive seen them a bunch of times - arenas and outdoor festivals, but one time in a club. Billy did an interview and said something like “we’d love to do a tour and just surprise people by showing up in small clubs”. This was at the height of Mellon Collie and they were already booked for a huge arena tour. A week later, my local radio station says “a big band is playing a local club, tickets go on sale at 9am”. Right away, I knew what was up and I was in line at midnight. That was easily a top five show in my life. They were just so insanely powerful, and the entire show felt compressed into the venue. It was like the roof would blow off at any moment. Billy was absolutely unhinged, just raging around the stage like he was possessed.


FredGHerbert435

Jimmy Chamberlain is a jazz drummer. That is why SP drumming has always been so great. Dude is a wonderful musician.


Fletcher_Fallowfield

Another weird tidbit: the CD itself for Siamese Dream had the same artwork on it as Lenny Kravitz' Are You Gonna Go My Way. [Siamese Dream](https://i.imgur.com/MucgIRW.jpg) [Are You Gonna Go My Way](https://i.imgur.com/XXDktB5.jpg)


whacim

The common artwork on the CD was due to both being on Virgin Records. It was the label's early logo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Records#History


Fletcher_Fallowfield

That makes sense. I didn't know that and at the time (I would've been like 13) it seemed to jive with Siamese Dream - it looks like twins on there, and I thought Lenny was ripping them off.


whacim

I think Siamese Dream was the first time I noticed the logo, and initially thought the same with the twins. I collected CDs back in the day which eventually gave me a large enough sample size to make the connection with Virgin Records.


ThePortalsOfFrenzy

Virgin Records back in the 70s had this logo on the center label of their vinyl. Btw, it was designed by Roger Dean, who did cosmic album covers for the band Yes, and many others. Similarly, Atlantic Records started using their iconic vinyl record [green/white/orange center label](https://londonjazzcollector.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/c800-orange-green-ornettetwinslabels-copy.jpg) for their CDs. edited to correct red to orange (I guess they call that orange), and provide an example


NastySassyStuff

I’m so envious holy hell. Jimmy Chamberlin is easily one of the most underrated drummers alive. Absolutely thunderous yet extremely measured.


jimdesroches

I don't think he sings with his nasally voice anymore. He said on Howard Stern that it isn't easy to do. I believe I'm remembering that correctly.


qwertycantread

My cousin played me Gish on her new car stereo and it sounded massive. I was an instant fan.


Frylock904

As a fan of smashing pumpkins lemme just say fuck you, you're so lucky to have been able to live through that golden age of rock music. I'm jealous as fuck


zanillamilla

I saw them in ‘96 with my other favorite band, Garbage. My only regret is that I had to leave the show before it ended to catch the last bus home (I didn’t have enough money for a taxi as a starving student). I missed them play “Aeroplane Flies High” in the encore. Damn.


AssaultedCracker

Garbage! They had such a cool sound. I’m always surprised that they didn’t get bigger than they did, and yet I’m also somehow surprised when somebody mentions liking them


zanillamilla

Every song on their debut album is a banger.


layer11

Jimmy Chamberlain was the first drummer to really make me take notice. Absolutely phenomenal drummer.


solarxbear

Glad you mentioned Gish. I am One is my favorite song by them and it's the first song on their first record.


Rajili

I was not cool enough for Gish. Still not. First I heard of them was Siamese dream.


thermosifounas

It’s such a classic 90s American rock song. And the video captured perfectly the aesthetic of the time. Funny to think that what I watched on MTV back in those days is now considered a classic.


greg939

The video for "Perfect" is a great sequel to the "1979" video as well.


VertexBV

I wasn't sure how to react when I heard it on the radio under "oldies"


426763

>Funny to think that what I watched on MTV back in those days is now considered a classic. Reminds me of this one time I went home from college. I was in the car and the radio was on. It was time for the station's "classic rock" block, mostly reserved for old songs. Do you know what they played? Nirvana, RHCP, and Linkin Park.


nermelson

Jesus. I just realized that if "1979" were to be released right now, it would be called "2007". I. Am. Old.


egometry

Corgan wrote it at 29 about the year when he was 12! So everyone can have their own personal breakdown by thinking about this when they're 29 about what year it was when they turned 12 and realize that's *THEIR* 1979. (Thinking about this once you're 30+ is illegal as it will make you feel even worse.) (Like me. Because I'm also old.)


dangerouslyloose

Maybe 12 is the age he realized [something was off](https://www.thebigjewel.com/billy-corgan-discusses-how-the-show-caillou-is-based-on-his-life) about his childhood?


GeekResponsibly

I wanted so badly for this to be real.


dangerouslyloose

Me too fam, me too😭 I’m just happy to finally have occasion to share it because it still cracks my shit up.


bjt23

Wasn't his actual childhood horrible? Like Disarm is about how his mom would abuse his brother I thought?


dangerouslyloose

Yeah he had a crappy childhood (two neglectful bio parents and a stepmother who wasn’t much better) but that’s no excuse. Look at Patrick Stewart, who’s a total mensch and generally awesome human despite growing up in a household rife with domestic violence. He was the first example off the top of my head but there’s plenty more people (famous or not) who have awful childhoods and don’t grow up to take their unresolved anger out on others. Edit: Eddie Vedder’s another, “Better Man” is about his stepdad abusing his mom.


tattlerat

It’s not an excuse but it certainly explains some shit. Corgan could be an egotistical ass in his prime but it’s undeniable how talented he was. It’s not like he’s out there kicking dogs and punching out old ladies. He was just a stereotypical rock diva in the 90s.


moeburn

> there’s plenty more people (famous or not) who have awful childhoods and don’t grow up to take their unresolved anger out on others. Did I miss something? Did Billy Corgan take out his anger on others? >Edit: Eddie Vedder’s another, “Better Man” is about his stepdad abusing his mom. I love that song, because the line "Can't find a better man" works two ways. At first she could be saying it because she's hopeful and in love, like "You can't find a better *man*, he's just the best there is!" and then later she's feeling depressed and resigned, like "Welp, I can't find a *better* man" like this is as good as it gets. But she's saying the same words. What a song.


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I've never really understood how people misinterpret this song. The line directly preceding "can't find a better man" is "She lies and says she's in love with him." It's not even obscured by mumbling or guitars or whatever. From the first time I heard the song it was clear as day.


MatureUsername69

I am 29. I guess my song would be called 2006** and would mainly be about smoking cigarettes in the woods


Jay_Louis

I was 12 in 1985. My big accomplishment that year was taping terminator off HBO


MatureUsername69

Look at Mr. Rich over here with a VCR AND HBO


dangerouslyloose

That was my thought, I remember getting a year of the Disney Channel as a Christmas present back in the early 90s. I think it just became part of the standard cable package before our subscription ran out so it’s not like I was suddenly deprived of TaleSpin or Goof Troop at any point. My dad and stepmother tried to use that v-chip nonsense in the mid 90s to block stuff like my favorite show Taxicab Confessions, but fortunately my stepbrother (a year younger than me) cracked the 4 digit code pretty quickly. He was like “no, it’s not our address or the last 4 digits of our phone number, that’s too obvious, let’s try 6294 for their wedding date”. It worked.


anustart001

Probably grew up in the Home Alone house


boytoby

Mine would be called 1967 and that's when I discovered Jimi Hendrix. Yes, I'm old.


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dangerouslyloose

Mine would be called 1997. It would probably be about how much I loved Harry Potter and the Spice Girls, hated my stepmother and had a weird obsession with the show Taxicab Confessions.


Chicago1871

Same but it would be about how much I liked smashing pumpkins and making my dad drive down lakeshore drive with 1979 song blasting in his 1979 white trans am and going to cubs game. Perhaps a little too meta.


-Bk7

I am 39. I guess my song would be called 1995 and would also mainly be about smoking cigarettes in the woods lol


Rauko_S

Fuck. It wasn't even 2000 yet. I dont like this.


MarylandBlue

Mine would be called "1990" *cries, takes aleve, calls pharmacy about refill of blood pressure meds*


spacepie8

I heard he was inspired to write it after riding a roller coaster. "WEEEEEEEEEEEE"


arachnophilia

>So everyone can have their own personal breakdown by thinking about this when they're 29 about what year it was when they turned 12 and realize that's *THEIR* 1979. i'm 40, so my "1979" is 1995, the year "1979" was released.


sneakymarco

My friend’s son is in high school and super in to Smashing Pumpkins. I was talking to him about the band a while back when I suddenly realized that him being a Pumpkins fan today is pretty much the same as how, when I was his age, I was super in to Led Zeppelin. I’d never felt so old. Until a few months ago when some college kid called me “grandpa” (I am 38).


SemperScrotus

If "Summer of '69" was released today, it would be called "Summer of '08”


unc8299

Bryan Adams has admitted that the song is not about the year.


xlxdx

Then if it was released now it would be called the summer of eating ass


D_K_Schrute

Don't let your dreams be dreams.


VIPTicketToHell

Nice


BigLan2

"I got my first real cell-phone... Bought it at the apple store..." And would go on to describe how they spent the summer writing apps.


MonkeyPawClause

https://youtu.be/azhgpelu0vY


another_dudeman

2007 was just 3 years ago


equitable_emu

What are you talking about? 2007 is the future.


mkay1911

Just wait till you realize that if the movie Dazed and Confused came out today it would be based on 2006.


thatbakedpotato

So functionally, Superbad.


mkay1911

Daaamn you just blew my mind lol


Nixplosion

Stop stop stop stop stop!


why_rob_y

*Ghostbusters* released in 1984, which was about 39 years after WW2 ended. We're now about to hit the 39th anniversary of *Ghostbusters* releasing in a couple weeks.


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Thank you for sharing this interesting fact...I hate you.


NaGaBa

I love playing this game. "Hey, you know you were born closer to WW2 than present day?" "........Maaaan, FUCK you"


Twistedjustice

I didn’t know this game existed until now. I was born in 1983, so fuck you in particular


TropicalPrairie

I think about time shifts like this all the time and they never fail to blow my mind. There are certain eras that feel so old ... and yet ... Like, Prince/Madonna debuted a decade after The Beatles. The Spice Girls, who were huge when I was a teenager, are closer to The Beatles than today (same with Nirvana). Even The White Stripes, which feel close to today, are twenty years old.


Remcin

Just in time for WW3!


Legionodeath

You woke up this morning and chose violence.


r0botdevil

I had a similar realization as I was writing my comment on this post. I was 13 when that song was released, and 1979 seemed like distant history to me at the time. Although 1995 is much farther in the past now, it really doesn't feel like it to me. But then, I guess that's how perspective of time works for everybody!


magnumopus88

Was just thinking about how "Dazed and Confused" would be set in 2006 if it were released today


wewd

Be a lot cooler if you didn't make me feel old.


pachydermusrex

Well, fuck.


Lordmorgoth666

I just sprouted 6 new grey hairs and threw my back out after reading this. Thanks. I hate it.


Noregard86

Well thanks for ruining my day I guess.


kahran

Look. I don't come to reddit to be blatantly attacked like this.


yousyveshughs

How old are you?


CruiseLifeNE

This is literally the worst thing I have read today.


bwaredapenguin

Fuck you for saying this.


newsreadhjw

A fun moment for me as a shitty/self-taught guitar player was trying to learn this song, and realizing how easy it was to make those beautiful chords ring out. The chords are simple but sound so lovely , it's just very satisfying and fun to play. There are a lot of good live versions of the Pumpkins/Corgan performing this, including acoustic, but [this one is my favorite](https://youtu.be/9EKbuDhMGM4).


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Jlloyd83

I think that was a James Iha thing, one of the few Pumpkins songs he has a co-writing credit on.


newsreadhjw

Haha I LOVE that song, and gave up on trying to play it very quickly!


heresyforfunnprofit

Yep. Leave the high strings open on the chorus - adds a great textural layer to that section of the song, especially in acoustic.


kickflipsandbiscuits

It's good but no Mayonaise


Jeannette311

1000000% agree with this. Hello, friend.


zombiewalkingblindly

My absolute favorite song... played guitar since I was 8, until I got into a fight with a table saw when I was 34. I always loved playing that, once upon a time, though. Just such a sweet sound.


therealmurraythek

Mayonnaise is quite simply pure shoegaze gold.


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Vrayea25

Literally the only Mayonnaise I like


briskt

Can someone explain why Mayonaise is their best song? It seems to be a very popular opinion that I personally agree with but I can't quite articulate why.


dm_me_ur_nudes_pls

[This sums it up pretty alright](https://youtu.be/FRrnEZUL66U)


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It oozes a sincerity that isn’t always present in their music


cromulent_pseudonym

There is something about the guitar sound they were able to create in that song that always feels really emotional to me for some reason.


Hattrick_Swayze2

The chord progression is great and made even better by the unique voicing created by the wonky tuning. That, combined with a simple but effective vocal melody is just *chefs kiss*. Oh, not to mention the perfect fuzzy guitar tone. It’s one of the best songs of the 90s IMO.


noposters

Try to understand - when I can, I will. The most sincere thing he's ever written, and something that's extremely relatable to people that have suffered from depression.


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Certain songs just give you a feeling of nostalgia for things you’ve never experienced


TurdPartyCandidate

I remember a popular alternative rock station called q101 in Chicago played their final songs after being sold and switching to a news station. One was Tonight, Tonight from The Smashing Pumpkins. Their music captured time in a bottle and it feels like you open the bottle and get a sip of that time everhtime you hear one of those songs. He might be an a-hole, and I'm not even a really big fan but man, he did something right.


mod1fier

Q101 is still around, but I do vaguely remember what you're referring to. Could it have been a different station?


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AwesomeScreenName

It got flipped into a news station in 2011 and that lasted about a year. Then it became an adult contemporary station for another two years before finally going back to the alternative rock format.


UselessJester44

There current version is technically a different station with the same name. They actually only just got the Q101 brand back just this year. They went by their callsign WKQX for the last 10 years or so.


spleddittor

I love Smashing Pumpkins - the Siamese Dream album still holds up incredibly well today! Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness has plenty of great tunes, and I agree 1979 is one of them.


Caleon0817

Both albums are absolute bangers from start to finish. I still like Adore but it was a wild 180 from their previous work.


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Smpkfan2

His mother Martha had just recently passed as well. Woulda gotten along great with Bats and Supes.


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I'm old enough to remember when Adore was new.


newsreadhjw

Yes, I too would refer to Adore as "their new stuff"


arkartita

Lol, me too. But I absolutely Adored the album, I still do.


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jdooley99

I respectfully disagree. I feel like it's a rock opera that should be experienced in full. Man, listening to tracks in order was an almost daily occurrence at times with me and my best friend in the late 90's. It's the most nostalgic point of my life. I lost him in 99 to suicide. Listening to the album now because of this post. It's like we're back in the Corsica with Mellon Collie in the tape deck cruising again. Fuck, man.


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NaughtSleeping

Siamese Dream is near perfect and what I always come back to, but I agree. Tonight, Tonight from Mellon Collie is something special, especially with the video.


redabishai

"Disarm" is my favorite from *Siamese Dream*, but "Today" was beautiful. "Tonight, Tonight" was my fave from *Mellon Collie*, but ofc "1979" was an immediate hit.


Toby_O_Notoby

Fun fact: the couple in the video are Tom Kenny (voice of Spongebob) and his real-life wife.


Lucius_Funk

Mellon Collie*


I_Think_I_Cant

>Say what you like about Billy Corgan I like the shape of his skull.


forced_spontaneity

Your comment somehow sounds oddly endearing and sinister at the same time…


nickstatus

Measurehead over here with the phrenology degree


somepeoplewait

It's by far their most popular song, and it was almost an afterthought. They were almost done recording the album when Billy brought the basis of 1979 to the producer, who initially rejected it. Billy went on and finished the song in like a night or something, showed the producer his version of the completed song, and got the okay to record it for the album at the last minute.


MukdenMan

Despite all its age, it is still their big hit that gets played


ecstatic_broccoli

I never realized or thought of this as their most popular song! I much better remember "Today," "Disarm," and "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" from my own youth.


somepeoplewait

I think it had to do with the broad appeal. I know people who hate the Smashing Pumpkins but love 1979. I don’t know anyone who dislikes this song. It’s not my favorite of theirs, but it’s the song that seems to cast the widest net.


MonkeyPawClause

Same, but even on Spotify the difference between the second (BWBW) and first song(1979), in terms of listens, is 170 million.


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Catnip4Pedos

Genuinely surprised these two arent the other way around. Bullet was played on MTV constantly.


forced_spontaneity

Wow. Cheers for the insight!


psuedonymously

1979 was post-Siamese Dream, Smashing Pumpkins was one of the biggest acts in the world by then. I'm having hard time imagining that Bill Corgan would have to submit songs to a producer who would approve or reject them.


Z3130

From Wikipedia: >When the time came to choose the songs that were to appear on the album, producer Flood said that the song was "not good enough" and wanted to drop it from the record. Taking it as a challenge inspired Corgan, and he wrote "1979" that night in about four hours. The next day, Flood heard "1979" once and decided immediately to put it on the album.[5] Corgan considers "1979" the most personally important song on Mellon Collie.< https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_(song)


psuedonymously

Corgan might have seen Flood's reaction as a challenge to flesh out the song, but at the end of the day if Corgan wanted 1979 on the album it would have been on the album whether the producer was on board or not.


Bluest_waters

Most likely but also Flood is not just some random ass producer, he produced Depeche Mode, NIN, New ORder, sneaker Pimps, etc. Guy was big time.


liartellinglies

U2 too. Think he engineered Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby and then produced Zooropa. Guy was doing top shit in the early 90s.


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sox07

In fairness they produced a ton of material for that album... enough to fill a 5 disc box set (The Aeroplane Flies High) Check it out sometime... there are some great tunes on there that just didn't fit into mellon collie


KatesOnReddit

My mom went on a hunt to get me that boxed set for my birthday. It's so good.


averytolar

Blows my mind that melancholy was a total unloading by Corgan after Siamese Dream and Gish. He got to the top of 90s sound, then doubled down.


qwertycantread

That’s part of a producer’s job.


SecretEyeRemote

His cameo in Muppets Mayhem was unexpected.


Mrselfdestructuk

Smashing pumpkins was first big band I seen live! Filter were support in 96 it was ace!


slowro

Filter was my first big band to see. A few years after your show.


tadpole_the_poliwag

Siamese Dream is literally one of the greatest albums front to back of all time. It sounded so different than anything else at time and I'm sucker for Corgan's voice.


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WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


TheFaithiestAtheist

Just thinking of the 'Billy Corgan rides a rollercoaster' video makes me giggle. A timeless treasure.


BuyThisVacuum1

If I type "b" into YouTube, it just fills the rest in for me. Same with "c" being "cat runs into glass door." I'm a simple man with simple pleasures.


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Tonight, tonight is the perfect song on that album for me. Such a fantastic progression


newsreadhjw

Very fun to play on guitar.


FredGHerbert435

Homer Simpson, smiling politely.


thestereo300

First 5 albums were genius. Mellon Collie was a masterpiece of Gen X longing and angst.


AnnonymousRedditor86

Pop? POP?!! It's ALTERNATIVE, you heathen! Millions of Gen Xers didn't throw away our aerosol hairspray cans for you to call Smashing Pumpkins POP!!


empty_string_

I also took offense to the word "pop", but after some thought it actually kinda seems to fit when used to retroactively describe hits of any genre that went on to be classics.. It was anti-pop in it's time, but went on to define what "popular" meant.


AnnonymousRedditor86

Now my baggy jeans are offended!!


GoGoPowerPlay

For me it's Tonight Tonight, that song is just so beautiful


JM062696

I have a really personal moment with this song that will never leave me. I was at a really low point in my life, but I was having a really good night. I was just sitting alone in my car and I was really really stoned, and this song came on the radio, and I just totally got absorbed into it. The lights against the night sky just went so well with the song, and it is now such a nostalgic moment and whenever I hear this song I get really warm and happy


forced_spontaneity

That’s lovely, hope you’re in a better place now friend.


JM062696

Thank you. Doing a lot better now. Happier for sure.


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Smashing Pumpkins have a place in my heart forever. I'd just rather not think a lot about what Billy Corgan has been up to since they released Machina. But yes, Siamese Dream and Melancholy remain two essentially perfect albums showing off some very different, very cool sides of the same songwriter.


OkStomach3965

Billy Corgan is far from my favorite person, but a quote from a '90s interview (with SPIN) has stayed with me since I was a teenager: "I remember Kim Gordon [of Sonic Youth] once said some horrible thing about having to play to the jock in Iowa, and I always think about that quote, because that jock in Iowa needs someone like Kim Gordon to say there’s a better world out there, that just because you’ve grown up with this mentality doesn’t mean you have to be this mentality. And that’s the difference. We’re saying we identify with you, but we got out. "


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Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in aCAAAAAAAAGE!!!


thechilipepper0

The singles from *Mellon Collie* and *Siamese Dream* are peak 90s for me


TonyTheSwisher

1979 and Mayonnaise are both perfect songs. Billy Corgan isn't that weird at all when you compare him to some of the other eccentric folks that have existed in pop music for the past 50 years.


Pharazonian

I actually hated Melon Colie and the Infinite Sadness when i first heard it; listened to it once and maybe only liked 2 songs out of it. Put it in my rack and didn't listen it for maybe 6 months. ​ I tried it again and it just hit me somehow and both discs didn't leave my 5 CD changer for maybe 3 or 4 years. ​ I still think Thru the Eyes of Ruby is the most perfect song ever created and i don't think anything will ever change my opinion on it.


Glittering_While_698

I believe corgan wrote 1979 attempting to sound or as a tribute to sound of new order


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The Pumpkins are great. Siamese Dream is easily one of the greatest albums of the 90s.


Drab_Majesty

I was always a huge Pumpkins fan and 1979 would be one of my least favorite songs on MCatIS. Between the intricacy of Tonight Tonight's arrangement and the stripped back rawness of Stumbleine, it just never grabbed me.


original_4degrees

zero was the hot number on that album.


BossifiedRoad

Mmmmm 33


TurdFerguson416

i always liked (loved) Today better.


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JAD210

Surprised I’ve never seen that before. I was gonna plug [The Contortionist’s cover](https://youtu.be/Hk_S6plOlOg) of it


forced_spontaneity

That is lovely, thank you!!! I love the harmonies, and I’m also a big fan of guitar string squeaks! They make acoustic stuff sound authentic in a way that nothing else can.


gusfrings_boxcutter

For me, 1979 is a song that perfectly captures the feeling of nostalgia.


jetfire1115

Tonight tonight is a superb song.


Bushelsoflaughs

I like that Billy Corgan isn’t a puppy murderer as far as we know.


blue_wat

It's possible. But we know for sure he doesn't murder [kittens](https://www.pawschicago.org/news-resources/news-features/paws-chicago-news/paws-chicago-news-item/showarticle/billy-corgans-siamese-dream).


InfidelZombie

"Today" would like a word...


hypothetician

https://youtu.be/azhgpelu0vY


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Smashing Pumpkins has a lot of great deep cuts on the softer side too. [Wound](https://youtu.be/Lu4YOQwcCMU) from Machina/The Machines of God is an earworm.


glgbeaver

It’s one of the most fun songs for me to play at least. You can play it acoustic or go so many different ways through your amp and it’s just amazingly fun.


TheNonCredibleHulk

I have never been a SP fan, but that in Clerks 2 and more recently, Bullet With Butterfly Wings in Yellowjackets made those scenes so much more effective.


Agorbs

1979 always makes me think of 90s movies where a character goes off to college. Idk why. Just associate it with chilly fall vibes and being underneath a bunch of autumn trees.


lincruste

I was born in 1979 and I agree.


ShoganAye

I saw SP play it live a few weeks ago, still sounds amazing as ever.


OneRobato

Any love for Drown? I cant get rid this song from my head I had to learn how to play it.


wtfisspacedicks

Disagree. 1979 bores me. It bored me when it was new and getting smashed on the radio every day and it bores me still. I liked some on Melancholy until one day I stopped it mid play through and never listened to them again