The Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect (Official Music Video)

[@benjamindavidson4033]

So a little story about that brief concert scene starting at 2:14. I was living in Los Angeles at the time, and had been obsessed with the Pumpkins ever since Siamese Dream was released. As luck would have it, I must have been listening to the radio (KROQ) at the right time because they announced that the Pumpkins would be recording a video and that all you needed to do was line up at a certain address. This is before social media of course. So the next thing I know, I was there with a friend of mine -- it was one of those old abandoned buildings in Hollywood that once must have been magnificent but now was falling into disrepair. They let in the first however many people in that line, and we happened to be among of those. And let me tell you, the next two hours were incredible. There was some waiting around in this industrial-type room, packed tight with fans, with just a stage on it. Then the Pumpkins took the stage and they didn't just play Perfect -- in fact, they may not even have played Perfect at all. Instead, they performed an entire impromptu concert of all their hits from Gish and Siamese Dream. They must have been playing for at least an hour, totally rocking out, and we were all so close them. The energy was incredible and it was so intimate, so powerful. You can see how low the ceiling was in that room, I'm sure it was hot as hell too. Now, I can't see myself in the scene in the video, but I was there. It's an example of how, at least back then, the Pumpkins just loved playing music for playing's sake, and giving back to their fans. Same thing with their concerts, when they would do encores that lasted an hour. Here, they could have just showed up for five minutes and gotten the footage they needed, but no, they treated their fans to special, secret concert and a memory for a lifetime. Here's to Billy, James, D'arcy, and Jimmy. True class and genius.

[@juliocaesaralcaraz9891]

What a great story. And thank you 🙏 KROQ for all the great memories. From the 80’s, the 90’s and the 2000’s

[@samwindmill8264]

That abandoned building was formerly a legendary 70s punk rock venue called The Masque, if you didn't know

[@benjamindavidson4033]

@@samwindmill8264 I had no idea (or else i forgot). Thanks for that!

[@dilegox]

Thanks for sharing dude. That's an incredible story.

[@dunner079]

Lucky bastard. And to live in LA back then too.

[@connorklingman3711]

I gotta say, this has become my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song. It just fills me with a wave of nostalgia for adolescence and more importantly, that I have done so much more in life than I think I have.

[@smashingbrandon]

well said!

[@sus5434]

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

[@crayonbrain2187]

I arrived at the exact same place this week. This is a miracle of a song.

[@casualagent7250]

I concur 🎸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@MussolHeany]

Same vibe and similar structure of 1979 but i prefer this one honestly.

[@atravelerofbothtimespace4172]

The most haunting and affecting of all their songs i feel I cannot articulate the emotions i feel from this wutsoever Its not happy or sad its scattered somewhere light years in between the two polarities I feel alone in this .

[@justin7443]

Totally understand, I feel the same way. It's strange isn't it...?

[@a.x.4958]

I miss these days so much it hurts! I just loved how we would zap on the tv, watch MTV, with no worries besides doing homework and how to manage that school crush and SUDDENLY...BOOM! "Hey, that music video is awesome!". "Hey, it's that Pumpkin's new stuff". Then you would hit the record store, search for the album with that particular song. After hearing the whole stuff your heart would just melt. I miss you all, friends, loves, places and things. "Your home is here, within my heart".

[@pvtrichter8816]

+Aelius Antoninus hope your friends are out there still out there enjoying great music !! you'll always carry those memories with you !!

[@Mrsteisag2]

Lol you can still do all of that stuff

[@rgreed20081]

+Aelius Antoninus Today MTV seems to stand for Moron TV. While MTV has a lot of good shows, I do miss the true meaning of MTV, In a lot of way, I want MY MTV back.

[@scottyclancy6280]

Dude you did your homework??? hahaha j/k I miss all my 90's people too!!!!!!!! My true friends WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYyyyyyyYYYYyyYYYYyyYy

[@tac21_10]

Aelius Antoninus that's depressing for me cuz I had to be born in to this shitty pop world

[@paulmueller1520]

This song literally reminds me that I'm alive sometimes. Whenever I'm feeling lost, fed up, nihilistic, etc. I listen to this song and am instantly filled with a rush of emotions that are indescribable. "Perfect" is an understatement

[@bigbay1159]

okay....

[@NickyNicest]

@@bigbay1159 these comments trying to be all intellectual always come off as so weird lol

[@cleangoblin2021]

Have Jesus in your life. You'll never feel alone

[@payableondeath9091]

@@cleangoblin2021👀😇💯 🙏🔥

[@saksvgm7919]

I understand paul!

[@deucejmp]

Something I noticed: It's said that "Perfect" is a sequel video to "1979", with the same characters who are now 2 years older, and the story visits the same convenience store that the kids trashed in 1979 with the same clerk working the counter. Both videos were filmed in CA in or near The Valley. However, the vehicle license plates in 1979 are all Illinois license plates, and the license plates in Perfect are all California license plates. Since the Pumpkins are from Chicago, I would have thought they would have kept the IL license plates in the Perfect video, but it might mean that it wasn't a specific thought in the 1979 video.

[@MrKalonga]

This music really makes me nostalgic. It's deep, and takes me to distant places in my memory from when I was younger. A time passed; something nobody else can feel or replicate. Indescribable.

[@vybinn1805]

*This* feeling

[@weirdgetsaround]

I love this song and have just now witnessed the video - sublime. 👍

[@pressf4896]

Nic Foster bahahHahahah

[@Albertotdj]

You're not alone, we're two!

[@dirkdiggler7727]

Says DeezNuts lol

[@gianabakanos9131]

I honestly miss these days so much. Exactly, turning on MTV, with Smashing Pumpkins coming on. Or Foos, Pearl Jam, Nirvana. I just can't cope. Every time I hear their music I am just overwhelmed with emotion because the music was so genuine, so authentic, it had so many layers then. I keep hope that there will be bands like this in our time but I doubt it. At least we were around at a time when this music was at its peak and we got to experience it. Pfffft.

[@bbailey3055]

Yeah you’re fucking lucky

[@itsokay7989]

Same. Everything was on during that time. You could literally let the TV run all day. Nowadays we make playlists of what MTV used to be on a normal evening

[@inkmage4084]

We will have that again, once the age of stupidity is over. The woke crap, and even the addiction to social media has made everything pretty crap.

[@bryanasbury1387]

Amen, I was there too and lucky enough to experience it!

[@kqzzy2]

hey, just wanna tell you that i’m 17 and have been playing guitar with my brother, we met a guy and girl our age that play drums and bass. i’ve been working so hard devoting my life to music now and i promise you this generation will have great bands i have a feeling, and i hope to be in one of them. don’t fret we’re going to take over again and show this generation of brainwashed kids how it should be.

[@silviaruiz7546]

Billy is such a skinny legend on this video, that jawline can cut glass

[@comradehermit9320]

And the Hat! Like a goth rock cowboy riding a twenty-story tall steel horse.

[@sampedro9316]

Gives me twink vibes

[@zerohours.]

That's cuz they were on Heroin

[@powerfulpropertysolutionsw4384]

I can relate. I miss my jawline as well. Aging sucks. But not everyone is a bad ass in their youth.

[@CarecaRusso]

​@@powerfulpropertysolutionsw4384 its over.

[@rafaeltassio9565]

I know we're just like old friends We just can't pretend That lovers make amends We are reasons so unreal We can't help but feel that something has been lost But please you know you're just like me Next time I promise we'll be perfect Perfect Perfect strangers down the line Lovers out of time Memories unwind So far I still know who you are But now I wonder who I was... Angel, you know it's not the end We'll always be good friends But the letters have been sent on So please, you always were so free You'll see, I promise we'll be perfect Perfect strangers when we meet Strangers on the street Lovers while we sleep Perfect You know this has to be We always we're so free We promised that we'd be Perfect Perfect Perfect

[@peterrylance2]

Rafael Tassio AA

[@SunshinePeterman]

Rafael Tassio thnx man

[@riotrock07]

thanks for the lyrics>>>>perfect

[@johncontos8596]

men love compa ni mon ami

[@kalistasch5707]

Were*

[@spacefreak09]

This song was playing when I first learned that my dad was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. Sadly, he died less than 2 months later, which was this month. This song will always remind me of him. I wish things were 'perfect' again before his cancer and before having to work a full time job after college.

[@oscarsoto9512]

Cancer destroy everything ,

[@ValeriespersonalaccountBradley]

I hate cancer our storys so similar my pops died within 2 months '7 weeks after being diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma & luekimia 😩😭 i pray they arent in any more pain. I hate cancer

[@gerald4133]

I condolences I lost my dad to lung cancer to & it was under a bad argument. 🌹🌹 🌹🌹 🌹

[@mercedes-la-mer]

embersoftheabyss you could get an X-ray or other diagnostic test

[@augsbourne]

1979 was playing when my mother was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. She thankfully survived but I still think of her when 1979 comes on. I’m sorry for your loss.

[@Ltk2386]

My cat loves this song, he says it's purrfect! 🐱

[@nicholsjoshua15]

The album Adore is one of the most underrated albums ever. The flow is perfect, there's not a single filler song, the production is astonishing, and it's mind blowingly original. Who else had infused Gothic Rock, Electronica, and Jazz? Nobody that's who. With songs like To Shelia, Ava Adore, Perfect, Crestfallen, For Martha, Dusty And Pistol Pete, Shame, Blank Page, Tear, and and Annie Dog who could turn the noses up the beautiful Gothic Noire album? Most people unfortunately.

[@DanWithPlan]

It was just such a departure from their other stuff that people were caught off-guard (myself included). I've like the sounds more listening back to them. Pug may be my favorite on the album.

[@nicholsjoshua15]

dan n Yeah, I see what you mean, but it still sounded very Smashing Pumpkins. My favorite is For Martha.

[@dastardlybastardthe2nd]

I started listening to SP in '07 after I heard 1979 on GTA IV during my freshman year. By the time I was a junior I was neck deep in Machina II and in love with Home and Real Love. After all these years Adore is one of the only albums, along with Siamese Dream, that SP made where I can listen to it front to back. Daphne Descends is beautiful, Shame is sorrowful and rather depressing, and Perfect reminds me that life can be worth living - even if all we can do is naively grasp at an idealized version of the past for some respite from our suffering. I agree 100%, Adore is unjustly bashed by those within and without the fandom. But fuck 'em. For most if them if it isn't MCIS or SD then they don't listen. So who cares what fits their limited taste?

[@AlexisAnderson]

I love the album and also believe its underrated but there's definitely some filler on it towards the end..

[@JohnK-ph3vw]

I think it’s one of the first albums where I’ve heard electronic drum track with real drums. Sounds like a strange concept, yet it works.

[@leighannspencer3174]

"So please, you always were so free..." Gets me every time 😢

[@jenpet8789]

I will always be proud of loving someone as much as I did... as myself. No pretensions, no masks; vulnerable and courageous. I was listening to this song when we found each other. I am listening to it now that we've lost each other. We were imperfect together. I wish both of us the love and life of our dreams. How could I ever regret the great triumph of love? I am so happy I can truly say I loved someone and love myself just as well.

[@Catalantern]

beautiful, just what i needed tonight. sending love from one stranger to another ❤️

[@CarsonBuoy]

30 years from now, you'll be missing the now. Never stop living. Kickass everyday!

[@justin7443]

You are right

[@powerfulpropertysolutionsw4384]

Well said.

[@markescario3389]

This song is so heavy, this heart can't even carry. Just can't hold the tears. a 100% Nostalgia.

[@jedahn]

This video is heart wrenching when you realize these are the same kids from the 1979 video.

[@amberwallace3978]

yeah i noticed that too

[@pityblinder8752]

Such a real fact that majes me feel old 😕

[@centroholisticouniversal]

Not Only that, it was planned to do so, for the cabal iluminati that controls the music to make u believe that the status quo Is OK, just think about it

[@Schopy.]

I didn't know that. Just checked. Thank you. It reminds me this great movie : dazed and confused.

[@fabiangaona]

@@centroholisticouniversal What?

[@ianmckeever7389]

to me the lyrics are a couple who had something serious but something changed, and they aren't together but try to be friends but that doesn't work and they fall away from each other. They both want it to come back but neither can make it happen. So when they see each other they seem like strangers to each other, but in their dreams they are still together.

[@evalha0077]

pretty much agree Ian: I'm thinking it's about people that broke up ....but he's speaking of a theoretical future in which it will work out, because it should have worked out ..... Next time they'll be different and better and be perfect. (which will never happen) This makes perfect sense to me because it's how I feel about an ex. Fuck this song (amazing tho)

[@sakurabloom4863]

Possibly written about Courtney Love if you read up on their history

[@waloacme]

Hes just talking about the dream every couple has when they leave their love to decide for the future... Beautiful!

[@rayinpau.s.a.6351]

amazing , you described my relationship with my ex .

[@jackpistone8015]

this is about so much more than just a relationship. its the shifting perspective you have on your life as you grow up and die

[@tudorburlacu15]

Songs like this one make history in someone's life, and they define a night full of thoughts and wonders.

[@creekandseminole]

The cassette tape falling off the car roof is a homage to the original 1979 video master tapes falling off the roof of the directors cars. They had to reshoot the entire video and what we have now was the remake. I wonder to this day if someone found those old film reels and has them stashed somewhere...

[@AmandaLaggan]

I wonder that, too.

[@nicholsjoshua15]

Probably an old woman who played it on her VCR, thought it was Devil Music, and burned while prayed to jelly bean man that Cthulhu didn't rise up and kill us all.

[@AlexTheWacker]

damn son you edgy

[@Taswolf]

I love mysteries...that totally sucks they had to reshoot everything. Did they end up making many changes to the video?

[@MrJeep75]

creekandseminole it was only the party scene

[@mtadams2009]

This song takes me back to the greatest time in my life, deeply in love and raising our two small children. It did not end well but we are still friends. Over the years we have talked and we still wonder how it ended so badly. We used to say how we were perfect for each other, we were to young.

[@michaelcastillo3231]

This album is a masterpiece. Among others. That’s how awesome they are.

[@nebulous8389]

It's pretty interesting. So I think Adore was the album that sold only a million compared to Mellon collie which was like 10 plus million. Adore I believe was when their popularity went down hill. But today on Spotify Adore is the 3rd most listened to of all their albums....underneath siamese dream and Mellon collie....shows how ahead of the curb they were.

[@nkad0249]

I remember a time when both life and the world at least made some sense. The video of this song and how it represents its era evoke memories from my past that I will never forget. Life before the war and before the immense obligations of being a husband and father set in. Although problems existed as they always have, they were certainly simpler and more straightforward than the complex and nuanced problems I face as a middle aged man. I remember life as it was then in the late 90s, as a college student whose greatest problems were papers due or girl trouble. Thank you to technology for preserving this video and helping me remember how far I have come.

[@SkipTwo]

Same...

[@AndreaSoucher]

"We can't help but feel that something has been lost... Next time, I promise we'll be perfect." I'm glad you're happy, I'm glad I'm happy too. I'm sorry we don't belong together... but maybe next time, next life, I promise, we'll be perfect.

[@emilylamberson1366]

Such a unique voice. Such unique guitar. I love this whole album is gold. Wish they never broke up

[@LuisGForero777]

Greetings I share the cover I made of this song, I hope you like it and support my channel thanks 😊 kzbin.info/www/bejne/haqQnnesqtOinJYsi=Z1D8sGxdxm46ixFX

[@riverevergreene]

"Angel, you know it's not the end.... we'll always be good friends..."

[@angelsinger4574]

Exactly .

[@jennifercadwalader5030]

:)

[@rabbsneitor]

:,C

[@TheTargaryen91]

Leonidas Riverson think it's about Courtney love

[@lapkap631]

Nat P More likely her ex-wife, Adore was mainly inspired from Billy's recent (at the time) divorce and other events... or maybe yes, it's about Courtney, or maybe someone else. These misteries make music wonderful, we can never know what an author was exactly thinking while writing his lyrics... just think of all the stuff we don't know about his personal life

[@markbrown3398]

probably the best band I've ever seen live. I feel sorry for anyone who hasn't witnessed them live. just breathtaking

[@hamronD73]

agreed. Saw them a couple months back and it was an amazing experience. Just as good live as they are recorded which is RARE.

[@paolomolinelli666]

One of the best music videos i’ve ever seen for one of the most special songs i’ve ever heard. Will always return to the Pumpkins

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend a song and video called 'looking into the mirror' By Robert Nix

[@paolomolinelli666]

@@redskies4530thank you, I will check it out

[@HarryIndeed]

This video is amazing. Just everything about it. The story, the ideas, the editing, the fact that it's a follow up to 1979 and it still makes sense. I guess I should have said it's a "perfect" music video :) Long live the Smashing Pumpkins.

[@lleooneiro]

@@rumplestiltskinn imwo the "good guy" in the suit with the baby goes to change out videos while his wife? finds out she's pregnant by the pizza delivery thief guy and tells him, so he goes out and on his way back he passes and distracts the baby daddy while running from the police, and mr family man dies while the guy who was looking to meet up with the party chick to listen to the band play disconnects with her because the note fell off the door and was stepped on my mr pizza and taken away. I could say this better.. it looks like it's saying the guy who didnt give a shit, mr pizza thelema is the one who makes it through.

[@42Torch]

This song makes me miss going to Blockbuster with my friends on Friday nights.

[@vampineze]

that almost brought me to tears

[@heythereitsRBK2]

Owen Simpson That did bring me to tears.

[@imderekhewitt]

I would agree with that but i don't have friends

[@hackfraud7842]

ha¡ we can still do that in mexico

[@jfrancisco819]

No:(

[@shaunsingh5179]

This song will forever, remind us of the good ol’ days🥹 the loved ones we once thought, we’d grow old with.. truly unforgettable times in life. How I wish I could time travel 😞

[@coryparsons7349]

I know all about growing apart from your friends. Oh the good times we used to have. I miss it so bad. now I have hardly any friends that I still have fun with

[@vanillacaffelatte]

Glad to see that it's not only me who feels overbearing nostalgia for 90s (times of my childhood) thanks to this band :)

[@shannabrackenstein]

My best friend died unexpectedly June 17th. This album and song were the first music to pop in my head. We wore this album out. “Angel, you know it’s not the end….”

[@Catallano1981]

My condolences. Stay strong!

[@jonitufarr]

❤

[@jlchavarria21]

que buen tema perfect me recuerda mis tiempos de veinteañero me encantaba esta pieza y hasta la fecha me facina al igual que muchas de smashing pumkins

[@ToeTag9899]

The 90's was not only the last great decade of music but also the last great decade to grow up in cell phones and social media ruined everything so glad I was born in 81.

[@alexgonzalez2195]

Ignorant comment right here I don't care if it's a year old

[@ToeTag9899]

@@alexgonzalez2195 It's just my opinion you don't have to agree.

[@alexgonzalez2195]

@@ToeTag9899 I don't agree but your right my bad

[@ToeTag9899]

@@alexgonzalez2195 No problem.

[@wsith]

it's so true

[@karinaf8326]

I remember watching this video on MTV for the first time. That's how I discovered the Pumpkins and fell in love with their music.

[@malquistoryanpaulm.608]

As a 90's kid I grew up listening to these kind of music, I remember playing them on a walkman and have the struggle to rewind or forward the tape just to get the song I wanted. Too much feeeeels. :(

[@ECpian05]

I get the goosebumps whenever I listen to this song, not to mention all of Adore. This particular record definitely brings out the genius within Billy in terms of his creativity and ability to provide us with remarkable lyrics.

[@SirEnVo]

I really ain't into the Adore album other than this song. I always wished I could get into it but it hasn't clicked yet. Siamese dream is my jam.

[@TheCreatorahahaha]

You need more clicks then It's an amazing album Every album is different I see from them

[@TAGMedia7]

If I'm not mistaken, James wrote the bulk of the lyrics.

[@ECpian05]

+TAG Media Most of the album was actually written in remembrance of Corgan's mother who had passed in 96'. Doubt James had a role in the process.

[@zachmorris148]

yep. and "For Martha" always gives me chills

[@zerohours.]

2:15 If anyone wondering why he has a tape recorder in a night club. That was how you bootlegged' new music by going to a show in the 90s and tape recording it, then selling it to your friends.

[@Carlos-eg8yx]

I thought you would record some live events if you were not able to afford an album back in the day

[@balung]

​@@Carlos-eg8yxVid camera, to big and bulky, to obvious, had to do it covertly.

[@wolfgang6442]

Ah ok thanks for that info damn so this was like the og way/tactic of people would get or leak said music intresting

[@arnie8604]

13th August 2019 now ..... I'm 48 and I'm still listening to these great songs.

[@libby5623]

We're the same age, five years later

[@elijahgibran7569]

Pumpkins were responsible for some of the best songwriting in music's history.

[@chriscap2006]

You can have a Perfect relationship with a person even tough you don't like each other in the same way. It's hard to accept and it can break your heart at the beginning. However in order to be liked by someone you have got to be yourself and this way to live will help you feel better and it will improve the relationship. Being a deep person in the 21st century is hard but it's better than use people just for your stuff losing interest when he/she's in trouble. I dedicate this comment to all people who have suffered from depression and that think they're rejected every day like me. I'll promise we'll be Perfect, one day.

[@thearmedforcesoforganizedc9958]

I was searching for this song for a decade and I've finally found out it was a smashing pumpkins song.god damn it.

[@AdelleRamcharan]

So dreamy. Take me back..

[@danielcromarty8700]

+Adelle Ramcharan Such a great song.

[@warmthboy]

+Adelle Ramcharan miss th 90´s so much :/

[@AdelleRamcharan]

Arch S. I knooowww :)

[@KeefyGizzle]

Do we even keep track of the eras like we did in the 1900's?

[@danielcromarty8700]

Keith D.K. I keep track of the 80's alot.

[@EricRasmussen-mc5gj]

This song was a time and place for me. Long before I found out there was a video. Love it.

[@barryfruitman5516]

This video is so sad and so good.

[@US395Official]

1:38 And James Iha lost his job at a convenience store YET AGAIN. I feel bad for James Iha. Always loosing his job at convenience stores.

[@15Gercon]

The reunion will get him back.

[@harveylee51]

you would've thought since 1979 he'd learnt his lesson by now !! But least he got a better haircut and a sweet gig with a banging underground band!!

[@gordgang]

The way I see it, it's the same gas station. You don't get fired for shoplifters. It happens every day.

[@mike325ci]

Haha, good to see the video back to back with 1979 on KZbin... Back in the day you couldn't do that on MTV/VH1, so now I realize he's wearing the exact same uniform... It was only a few years ago that I realized my 2 absolute favorite songs off Siamese were written by Iha: Mayonnaise and and the beginning part of Soma... (There not a single bad song or note on that entire album, mind you, but those 2 are just my all time favs...)

[@roninoveldo]

LOL

[@danny.217]

I gotta say it. This is my favorite SP song. I don't care about Siamese Dream, or Mellon Collie, this record is different and special, and THIS song, is absolutely beautiful.

[@svtman93]

I used to listen to this song pretty much every day on my early morning subway commute to highschool in NYC when I was a freshman. Brings back so many memories of a different time. The nostalgia this band has to me is crazy

[@cupiddelocke1813]

This song tears me up, their music is beautiful.

[@lukerodriguez]

Even though we're hours apart and aren't as close anymore, I miss being by your side with every inch of my being Kasey

[@analyzethisish]

Billys voice is all I need. Just his is sufficient. How poetic and very genuine. I love it

[@nwannyana]

Was born in 1979 and I love that song as much as I love Smashing Pumpkins. I'm 41, its December 2020 post lockdown but now they're talking about another lockdown since COVID spike going on. I miss the 90s so much, 2020 sucks but everything happens for a reason. Everything is different, life is not the same when you have to wear a stupid face mask outside. Don't know where I am going with this rant but much as I love this song, it seems like everything is far from perfect this year. Much love to everyone still alive now listening to this perfect song💖💖💖💖💖💗🙏🏽

[@user-uh6lm5wv6n]

Beautiful song and film clip with all the individuals lives interwoven with each other in some flawed way, reminding us that we are all flawed as are our decisions and actions, but one day, next time, it will all be perfect...

[@rebeccasmith8019]

I lost the love of my life 28 days ago. The Pumpkins was one of our favorite bands, and this one of our favorite songs. It has so much more meaning now

[@jonitufarr]

❤

[@myu353]

never know this master piece exist. ty smashing pumpkins

[@tgf7w7]

You can't classify this music. That makes it....perfect.

[@Vinyljesus95]

one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard and my all time favorite song.

[@MrChrome748]

those were the 90s! the best time has there ever been!

[@barrygill4376]

Great Concert. God I miss the 90's.. Music never be like it was during that era.

[@hunter.k7524]

I was born in the 2000s but this makes me miss the 90s somehow

[@hr0727]

Hunter .K me too it’s weird 😂

[@ashton6478]

The 90s and early 2000s were exactly the same

[@kyle1m]

@@ashton6478 sorry no

[@serinadelmar6012]

Chronologically perhaps

[@Beenoman-]

@@ashton6478 bro just saying that shows you weren't there...

[@catherinec.7740]

This song really hurts. Gives me a kind of nostalgic feeling, like all the painful memories are coming back. 💔💔

[@carolinarojano1572]

Aun escuchando a smashing pumpkins de lo mejor! No me cansare de escucharlo cuando estoy nostalgica

[@Psychopatic-Killah666]

I randomly remember and really really miss this song. Those days 😔😢😢

[@hotgirlsarehot]

This song takes me back to being naive and in wonderment as a kid from the 90s. Never heard this song ever in my life until a few weeks ago. Really amazing song.

[@SQGReviewShow]

My god. The editing in this music video is so good with all those clever scene transitions!

[@isairoque2699]

Los videos de esta banda te dan un sentimiento de nostalgía único... Los Smashing me han acompañado en el diario vivir por mucho tiempo, los tengo en mi corazón.

[@Daniel-db6kh]

Lo sé jaja sólo de verlos me dan ganas de regresar a ésa época, y éso que tengo 24 años xD (siempre tuve ganas de ser adolescente en los 90s)

[@edgarjuarezdiaz9897]

Así es mis ojos quieren lagrimear cuando los escucho sus canciones, a veces voy manejando y siento que tengo 16 otra vez ahora tengo 42

[@alejandromendez1789]

@@Daniel-db6kh te perdiste de mucho mi estimado musicalmente hablando y aparte de los cotorreos chidos de esa época,pero bueno yo que los viví no me queda más que recordar con nostalgia como lo dice el valedor

[@raoulmoat6762]

This song inspired me to commit my first violent crime

[@germanlerma4569]

De tristeza si analizas el video y la situación, pobre tipo: traicionado por su esposa y gracias al amante termina muerto. Era cuando los videos dominaban al mundo y tenían sentido.

[@throckmorton.iscariot]

After watching the documentary on this video, I feel really bad for Billy. He was absolutely scared shitless while filming this. He has a fear of heights, so being spun around on the top of a crane way above Los Angeles was mortifying for him.

[@turkucelik5103]

Mellon Collie how can i watch the video?

[@hayleygordon7969]

+Sadland Machines haha! Then why did he do it!? Just curious

[@throckmorton.iscariot]

Hayley Gordon Just 'cause it looked cool and he thought it was a good idea for the video. He just figured he'd get over his fear for the sake of a cool video.

[@throckmorton.iscariot]

troubled moose Just search "smashing pumpkins making of perfect" on youtube. They have one for Tonight, Tonight and Thirty-Three as well.

[@budarydachas]

I heard he had trouble walking for the next few days cuz his legs kept uncontrollably trembling

[@Silver_Z_19]

Life wasn't perfect back then and sure isn't now. But man, this song. This song will always be perfect 💯🖤

[@therealWoD]

it never gets old... miss ya Annette

[@mariac771]

That song was in a cassete tape my first boyfriend gave me as present. 1999, I was 16 he was 15. At that time I didn't care to understand the meaning of the song... after year I've read and uderstood the lyrics...that was just our story, our teenage story, so short, so exciting, so pure and unperfect. So, Corrado, next time, I promise we'll be perfect ;).

[@patrickryan5570]

Adore still remains the PERFECT Smashing Pumpkins album.

[@Dearmanater]

Pretty weak album

[@SeismicJack]

This song and album just reminds me of when we bought this record at a Sam Goody. (If you actually remember those fucking things.) We would drive around and listen to it and I remember my mom would just keep on driving. She said it was cause she wanted us to keep listening to the album, since we liked it so much. But I really think now it's because we were insanely poor and her life was insanely hard then, and I think when my mom was actually at the house, the reality of the nightmare set in. So, it was easier to just pretend we were driving somewhere new; new and better. I still don't know why I play this song, because all I can do is cry.

[@ineedanewname9595944]

You are loved...💜💜💜

[@marielacantu9603]

I love this whole album my girlfriend have it to me on Valentine's and just loved it ever since, it's perfect!!!

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

[@danvolkov207]

So... 25 years later I realized it's D'Arcy at 3:25 playing the news reporter...

[@mofb8331]

The 90's are perfect

[@thomasacreman6007]

Makes me feel like I'm back in the old neighborhood I grew up in. All of us playing street hockey, building things in the woods, and hanging out in someone's bedroom listening to all the new music together as soon as it came out.

[@johnreynolds3943]

This vid is so clear, even though it's from the 90:s, amazing

[@ACreel27]

By far one of their best songs. Born in the 80s, and the band hit their high stride when I was in high school. Good nostalgic memories. Timeless music. Check out the last two minutes of Porcelina of the Vast Oceans from their Magnum Opus "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". James Iha's guitar work is very haunting and beautiful. Typical Billy Corgan to be wearing a cowboy hat when he was anything but.

[@babyyoda3467]

I didn’t grow up in this era, I’m still young, but for some reason this song has a special place in my heart. I moved away about half a year ago and left behind all I knew. I was in touch with all my friends but now it seems like they could care less about me. “So far I still know who you are, But now I wonder who I was.” For some reason this hits me, maybe I did something in my past I’m not aware of to cause my friends to lose touch with me. But anyway amazing music the pumpkins make, it truly can save lives.

[@ruthv2352]

Dude please listen to their album called Melancoli and the Infinite Sadness, then go to Disarm, and go listen the last album with Darcy, oh my God! Then please explore the other bands and singers from the 90's like Garbage, Pearl jam, Radiohead, Dave Matthews band (special song " Crush Into Me", Alanis morissette, Oasis, Blur, U2, Erasure, oh my God I can go on and on...

[@babyyoda3467]

Ruth I AM WHAT I AM ! Trust me I’ve heard it all, great music 💚

[@henrythegreatamerican8136]

Well, glad you enjoy the song, but this to me is not really a "quality" song by this band. It meets all the generic pop quotas though. Go listen to songs from before they became famous. Songs from their early demo tapes. Songs like NOTHING AND EVERYTHING. It came out in the late 80s and the solo towards the end has a bit of an Ozzy Osbourne / Van Halen sound to it.

[@babyyoda3467]

Henry TheGreatAmerican ya I see what you mean, I don’t love the song I just like the writing, and I’ve heard the entire Gish album 1000x

[@svsv9]

I was a kid in the 80's teen in the 90's omg What else can I want, Enjoyed the best music in history.....

[@sammy1470]

Omg I haven't listened to this song in so long, I forgot how much I love it

[@tutsybassista]

Adore is actually my favourite album! ❤ So nice to see Darcy here. I haven't even seen this video until now cuz I was in college at the time. Good times! 🎉

[@travisvanderberg1174]

This one of my favourite songs

[@donel1t386]

Aside from it being the continued story of 1979. The fact that Giuseppe Andrews from Detroit Rock City and Cabin Fever played a dad in this music video was and still is cool.

[@iamshadowbanned699]

I used to listen to this song a lot as a young kid in the 90s during road trips since my elder sisters were big fans of Smashing Pumpkins. I suddenly feel old lol.

[@richeeskullz]

I remember recording this song onto a cassette via my stereo back in the day. 98 rock in sac played it. Amazing song. Wish I still had the cassette.

[@evanproplayz6046]

I really got into TSP about 2 years ago and I really fell in love with the whole Adore album especially this song around the start the beginning of my sophomore year last year when I met my best friend and we would ride around listening to Perfect and she passed away a little while ago and I can't help but cry every time I hear this song thinking of all the times we had and how she won't be here to go with me to their concert at the end of this year.

[@minners19]

Saw them in concert in 1998! I've been to A LOT of concerts and they are still in my Top 5!

[@lay7504]

Billy Corgan will always put a smile to my face when i'm feeling a little low

[@zarnero]

omfg , i love SP and is the first time i heard this song entirely....im 38 now and they never cease to amaze me

[@spawn5068]

Everytime i listen to 90s music i am reading the comments while listening to it with a smile on my face...Yeah i am not alone....90s where are you?

[@cocoytzy5276]

Halloiw

[@badjokezach6359]

The 90s live on inside of those who experienced them

[@danielcromarty8700]

Ahhh, James working the Stop n Go. "Memories". The dude who recorded the set for his girlfriend on the tape was one of the kids from the 1979 filmclip too.

[@willycarter4547]

Para los fanáticos de la banda, el vídeo se realizó con los mismos chicos del vídeo de 1979.

[@tombrenes2411]

I can't get through this without a tear and heartbreak Perfect in 2020

[@randomdeadbydaylight3498]

I feel you bro

[@ranburrito8830]

Who listens to this during quarantine period. No perfect world indeed. Have a great day still.

[@shessomethingelse1639]

Well, being by myself is perfect but loneliness is isn't.

[@D1G1TALFOX]

@@shessomethingelse1639 😎 🏝 💟

[@jfbarabe6785]

i do

[@thelightswitchflickers3161]

Couldn't agree more 💚

[@unintervenant3564]

I know we're just like old friends We just can't pretend That lovers make amends We are reasons so unreal We can't help but feel that something has been lost But please you know you're just like me Next time I promise we'll be Perfect Perfect Perfect strangers down the line Lovers out of time Memories unwind So far I still know who you are But now I wonder who I was... Angel, you know it's not the end We'll always be good friends The letters have been sent on So please, you always were so free You'll see, I promise we'll be Perfect Perfect strangers when we meet Strangers on the street Lovers while we sleep Perfect You know this has to be We always we're so free We promised that we'd be Perfect

[@angelicavega9361]

I'm stuck in the 90's. Best time ever.