The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (lyrics)

[@timtamz3223]

This song makes me feel something that I can't express. It's a weird feeling I don't know.

[@alancantu2557]

Makes me feel sad about missing the past when I could see my friends everyday

[@musicmsuic8494]

Me too

[@tedschlechte6783]

@@musicmsuic8494 Me as well.

[@marionetaklemcba]

@@alancantu2557 Nos hace sentir pendejos...recordar nuestra adolescencia. It makes us feel like assholes ... remember our adolescence.

[@natesipe5214]

This song makes me feel nostalgic for any rebellion performed subtle or otherwise I've ever deemed truly forthright

[@TheFool_0]

Man that bass line is so good. It's so simple, yet it adds so much to the song. I get goosebumps everytime it kickes in.

[@ghostrider6942]

Thats the way of music something so simple can be a masterpiece

[@legionarulsquad6676]

Same here

[@Palendrome]

Yes. 0:34 is an amazing moment.

[@michellemell9090]

Is that the bass?? Right 👍🤞

[@michellemell9090]

Is that the bass? Exactly 🤞👍

[@deansolistino]

The way he spaces his enunciation is wickedly creative/// it’s a song with layered meaning because of it.

[@giveittosanders109]

@Armando Ramos because its wicked, duh

[@vincentm.jiwatramani7779]

@Armando Ramos man what the fuck are u talking about

[@jamsplit]

Exactly!!!

[@tyronejohnson7979]

D'arcy is the best Bassist ever...#1 fan

[@leimanaang]

Armando Ramos wicked is also slang for cool, awesome. “That’s wicked brah!”

[@johnnygonzalez4206]

This might be my first time hearing this song but the feeling of nostalgia it gives me just makes me feel like I’ve heard this long ago on replay for every memory I have of pure joy

[@gabomur]

Yeah taht is the vibe

[@Brenda-ef9tl]

Same here and I'm 62 and listen to this a lot

[@MablesIdea]

This is one of the most underrated songs ever.

[@CouncilOfTheWolf]

It's the quintessential 90s nostalgia song lol

[@jeffreyg4626]

Damn good lines. I was 13 years old in 1979. Although this song was written in the 90's, it captures the vibe I felt in '79. The Smashing Pumpkins are about my age. And this is what a Great Song does.

[@theamazingspiderwuss4236]

San Diego y’all got all these good stories and that, I’m just here jamming to it for no reason besides I like the song lol

[@blondespitfire]

@San Diego I was 12 in 79' too...I feel like the only ones who are capable of really getting this song are the ones who were exactly the same age as Billy and I were in 1979.

[@sandracox4341]

I was 11 in 79

[@misha2197]

:)♡♡♡

[@johndevito2384]

I was born in 1979. Lol

[@justachocolatecake8143]

This song just overcomes my whole spirit with nostalgia. It just feels something so mystical, it is like this song is detached from all science and matter and is just an entity from another dimension.

[@AnthonyDelgado-s3g]

It's crazy cause the moment I heard this April 30 2024 it gave me the weirdest feeling of everything being at ease when my world was falling apart 🫶🏻🧘🏻‍♂️🛫🪐

[@TheresaLyonhart]

@@AnthonyDelgado-s3gsame for me today. May 10th, 2024 It’s that feeling that it’s alright if it all ends. Spread the love.♥️

[@RealBlueony]

This is one of those songs that sends a chill down my spine, but in a good way, like, "damn, look how far I've come, and I've only got so long" Especially with that chorus just... damn. Nostalgia but also sends a chill down my spine personally and makes me ponder my own mortality.

[@elmochomo8218]

So familiar I think mi tias use to put this kinda music on cold autumn mornings

[@shadowwolf9503]

Roger that. Getting to the point in your life when the finish line is is sight is very sobering.

[@146gods]

Reminds me of me waking up in a nice summer morning as a kid and knowing my cousins still lived in the same house and we could play i miss them

[@kirbywaite1586]

That one dissonant base note is a heartbreaker.

[@shnilla]

this song makes me think of summer sometimes. not sure why, but i kinda like the feeling. the song itself, i'm sure, is probably very nastolgic for some of the old timers who listened to it back in the day...

[@146gods]

Same that echoed voice in the background reminds me of summer at a young age when i first heard it i got flashbacks of good ol memories with me and my cousins playing in summer god i miss those days

[@AceFaceDesigns]

Me too! When I just listened it reminded me of the summer days and nights playing with the neighborhood kids. Like we had all the time in the world. No worries. No problems.

[@waynemartin9054]

Every time I here this it always makes me think back to being a teenager with all my pals , something about this song that no other song does , quality and always will be ..

[@jakefaust2815]

Nothing feels like this song. This is it. This is where you come to feel whatever TF it is you feel when you listen to this song. It's empowering yet vulnerable. It's dread and hope. It's vindication and condemnation. It makes me nostalgic for something I have never experienced.

[@Janiebelle01]

This song is so Amazing! It makes me so calm, happy and mellow. Love to listen to it over and over 😍

[@kwolf43]

One of the most coolest songs made it makes you feel cool and young.

[@pensacolian211]

I miss the 90's!

[@KatoNamus]

Thank you. I've recently come across the phenomenon of "have a theme song" and, as I was born in 1979, I do believe this is my theme song. Again, thank you

[@grandmarshalrainninja2531]

I have no idea why i cry when i listen to this song....

[@kirbywaite1586]

me too

[@clutchmc9717]

It's realizing melancholy and the infinite sadness

[@AchunkyBanana55]

nostalgic

[@pavijan]

Here is my shoulder.

[@spaghettisauce445]

Corgan is a genius that’s why, his vocal melody is heartbreaking

[@kruzekobain2702]

Lamented and assured To the lights and towns below Faster than the speed of sound Faster than we thought we'd go Beneath the sound of Hope

[@rowandunning6877]

So a lot of people here grew up with this song, were alive at the time and I just like this song, I mean my dad does and I inherited it from him but like it is just a genuinely great song and it still makes me feel nostalgic for a time I never lived in

[@stefan_chance2515]

One of my favorites brings back alot of memories of good times and simpler days

[@shnilla]

Im going to get a guitar and this is going to be the first song I learn. Peace be to you brother and thanks for doing this. Love this song.:)

[@michaeldaly5md]

Did you get your guitar and learn this song, yet?

[@David-uq2uk]

I play it strumming on acoustic it's a up down up down strum pattern 4/4 around 127 BPM and tuned to E flat . Abit tricky as fast key changes so strum pattern is half measure for the chorus 1 and 2 etc

[@EnvyBlu]

Love this song. I actually feel sorry for youth these days. They don’t have any good music being created like there was in the 60’s through the 90’s.

[@CouncilOfTheWolf]

Man, I'm almost 30 and there's still great new music out there, you just have to search for it. Music is so easy to access nowadays and everyone just has their own niche rather than a few songs getting super famous that everyone knows so it may feel like less classics are being created, but the good stuff is out there. Musicians didn't just stop being less talented. Lots of active groups like Fleet Foxes, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Tame Impala, Khruangbin, Dr. Dog, and Alt-J are a few I like. I used to think "wow modern music sucks, I hate the stuff on the radio.", but I wasn't putting in enough effort to find it.

[@miguelmaldonado7586]

they have NOTHING like we had it. I honestly tell myself and other that I truly believe I came to earth in this specific incarnation to experience my coming of age during the early 90's and have what I call "The Glden Era of all genres" as the soundtrack of my life during the time. its impossible to hear music ike this, an not be in love with being alive.

[@TheHonoredMadman]

Yes there is great music made now and in the 2000s and 2010s people just refuse to look for it

[@dumpsterfire79]

Lol of course there is you're just out of touch you boomer

[@rainb0wtw1zzler14]

There’s plenty of good music, you’re just refusing to look past nostalgia and it’s quite annoying. Also not too sure why you’d feel sorry for them when this music is still avaible and EXTREMELY popular.

[@marca498]

Oh my 1990's!!! My mighty 90s how I miss you my good days! Miss you eternally! Best of times in youth!

[@SkunkMom]

Matt, AMAZING! I love this song!! Always have since i was a kid

[@MattJonesIsWeird]

I love this song too...so so much... :)

[@jkl5712]

I was 12 in 79. They grasp what it was like back then. Alot of the bands in the 90s were from my Generation, GenXers.

[@alexramirez9401]

Yo tenía 12 años en 1979.En tiempos difíciles en El Salvador, llenos de terror y violencia pero, feliz corriendo en las calles polvosas de mi Cantón.

[@goneparonormal8046]

This makes me think of summer road trips. It also brings back memories that had been buried for so long.

[@blueturtle8113]

So nostalgic and haunting in a good way. Something about this tune man. I almost always break down thinking about my best friend that passed away.

[@23modernangel]

This is the deepest, most poetic YOLO song I’ve ever heard

[@btetschner]

I always confused the lyrics, but this video is very helpful. Thank you so much.

[@pdruiz2005]

I've heard this song a million times and never bothered to learn the lyrics while seeing the video at the same time. I love how the video starts with kids in a wheel--the wheel of life. Then it moves on to scenes of kids partying hard, being romantic in a pool like in a womb, and wantonly vandalizing a store. These are juxtaposed with cryptic lyrics about the impermanence of existence and the finality of death. Reminds me of Zen Buddhist poetry, which is also all about the wheel of life, and the need to suck the marrow out of life in the present for death is always waiting at the door. A junebug skipping like a stone--a line straight out of Zen poetry.

[@n.eonzebra]

This song always makes me cry, too many memories

[@louierodriguezjr1855]

Good music ,good lyrics and good times,. Glad I lived them.

[@gloriasuarez8953]

This was music 🎶 back in the 70s good lyrics I'm 66 yrs old and I still listen to it.

[@ollietamuff3340]

Love this tune. Memories of youth.

[@TheGrimmmer]

that feeling is key

[@muffinknight8101]

I don’t have the nostalgic connection to this song but there is something so calming a out it it’s hard to explain like it’s one of if not the only songs that I will hear during work and stop for a minute and smile no matter how rough the day is this song just takes me out of the stress for a couple minutes and I love it

[@zookeeperboy5311]

keeps remind me of my teenage life when i listen to this..hangout with friends is great memories back then .

[@cactuszak4454]

*GREAT SONG*

[@robertward2047]

this bloke's a friggin genius.

[@davelagatt2111]

Pure gold what a great band

[@davidthomerson751]

I don't necessarily think my youth was that much better than my life today, but I had one thing then that I don't have now: optimism.

[@heathergossett3828]

This song makes me cry, I was born 1971... so I was 8 and all he says about in this song was our life ! I was born in a very small town at the time we had 900. No technology then as anyone who born that time knew. Doing all the things in his original video was what we did... I miss it every day :(

[@zpushy633sora]

My Mom was 17 in 1979. She's 59 1/2 now. She'll be 60 this coming February 2022. She always Tells me she still feels that Age as the Years go by. Since we're all in a Brand New Decade I don't Blame her when she always Tells me every now and then that she still feels like she's 17 and now going on 60 this February my Mom still looks exactly the same from her Younger Years when she grew up in the 70's and 80's Especially in 1977-1979.

[@zpushy633sora]

You're the same Age as my 1st Oldest Cousin-In-Law. He was Born December 9th.

[@user-bx8iz7cj6l]

He is singing about how we are in a constant rat wheel in society. How it all just keeps turning without a regard for our happiness. With spiritual undertones

[@DissTopia-o7p]

Like a wheel in the sky.. that keeps on turning.. 🤔

[@user-bx8iz7cj6l]

Nice reference ​@@DissTopia-o7p

[@owenhans3633]

Thanks for posting the lyrics.

[@julieschultz5828]

Crazy good song because not only is the beat cool but the lyrics r excellent too!

[@justsusan8606]

The 70’s and 80’s were the best! 🥰❤️

[@mechanicman8687]

I’m 59 and in ‘79 I was 14… This song and the internet caused me to hook up with my old teenage friends… From all those years ago, we lived in a town of 350 people up in southern Humboldt County where there were only the few kids my age that would get together in 79,80 and 81

[@superluigi17]

this is the best verson

[@KettiexD]

Really is. The other lyric video is really warbly

[@GEROMESTAMARIA]

i speak english but yet i dont understand most of his enunciation here hehe, but the melody speaks for the song. genius and amazing

[@kuroe-chan9456]

Whenever I hear this song, I imagine being on a road with fields on both sides on a sunny day and you're just infinitely driving that road, just watching other cars pass by and the flowers in the fields.

[@CowboysCreed]

Idk why, but in an alternate reality I could picture myself growing up in Oregon or Washington during the fall of 1984 just having a good time while this song plays in the background.

[@dudleysmith-e9h]

It's a great song - one of the best - even in a supermarket it comes off well!!

[@MattJonesIsWeird]

hah

[@olivierdew1418]

Once in a while, I go back to this song! It mades me quit my job in Belgium in late 90's to Join a Boston grunge band for several years. Met my future wife. And went back with her to Belgium. Hearing this song make me wonder why, how music could push you to do amazing stuff! When I explain this to my son while listening this, he just shrug! And say!" You're crazy man! " (Tim Boston)

[@-Natty]

I cant believe 2020 is just around the corner

[@sandracox4341]

@David Lashner , just wait until you're 50 and wondering when did that happen and 16 feels like yesterday.

[@giveittosanders109]

Lmao isn't 2020 great?

[@Huskydude1997]

Turn back mate.. you don't want to reach 2020

[@bradley4698]

I’m 12 and I’ll be honest these years really sped by me.

[@v.nd.tt.s8943]

It's already 2021

[@mikereeves3976]

I was 24 and strung out on meth when this song came out. Sounded good but didn't make sense. Clean now and learned the lirics. This song gets better everytime i hear it. Song of youth...

[@bakedtheth102]

Happy to hear. Meth is one of the worst.

[@moppydavycoonsmith3034]

@Peter Evans May Peter's excoriable inimical existence cordially invite Peter to take Peter's next meal out of a toilet full of offal. There's nothing wrong with any drug; only the amount taken that might fry, bake, twist and so on and so forth one's existence so enjoy that toilet meal, mayhap, troll absolute loser Peter.

[@moppydavycoonsmith3034]

@@cruznathan312 Another Mouse's reply was not nearly sufficient; Another Mouse quite likely replied to a tacky turdulent troll.

[@sunnydaze50]

this song makes me feel good it has a great beat!

[@Gitmadb8tedpig]

I learned both guitar and bass and I can tell you, sometimes the bass is what carries certain songs. metallicas original bassist was straight up a lead bassist. Shits super rare

[@chrislinder7558]

I love the sound effects they use. I'm not sure what it is, but it makes the song

[@-Halloween-1234]

I lost my mom summer 2014 this was one of her favorite songs so this year 2023 I will smash some pumpkins while listening to this song at the end of October

[@landonbaker4075]

I’m sorry that you went through I hope your doing OK my prayers goes for your mom and you 🙏🕊️❤

[@40zncrack]

lol i am new subscriber you kicked it this is my favorite song

[@CLE4LIFE]

This pulls me in

[@Brough1111]

Love this song 💞

[@سيديمحمدالمغربي]

I was born in 1979, it's all me in this beautiful song.

[@EAGLE_OWL_RAPTOR_666]

Thanks mate for the lyrics they have a lot of truth and meaning in 2020. GOG BLESS 💯💥🙏👊❤

[@almosthilarious3826]

Remember kids gog bless

[@weslee5451]

Good luck finding a song today with depth like this!

[@retsuki100]

He creates a huge amount of words and sensations along the song and the final line "as you see there is no one around" seems like everything created was destroyed... idk

[@marcospatton]

Essa musica fez parte da minha adolescência 👋👋👋👋

[@steve-um7jf]

Powerful lyrics

[@larrypeaceful3150]

Thanks for sharing it with lyrics! Cheers!

[@zglledo5535]

Just discovered this in GTA IV. Good times...

[@MattJonesIsWeird]

Got a song you'd like to request? Just let me know :)

[@awesomepeanutbutter8909]

Matt Jones Could you do The Greatest by Sia

[@MattJonesIsWeird]

I've been trying to decide if I wanted to do The Greatest (and Cheap Thrills) yet, or stick to doing older more obscure Sia stuff for the moment... but sure :D

[@awesomepeanutbutter8909]

I like all of her songs honestly. It would make me happy if you did any of her songs.

[@Camothor10]

Why is everyone repeating station in Cali on the beach what's that turn it up!?!?

[@lons2swag]

Playing bass to this song, Im very happy it’s written the way it is.

[@moisesdorantes5095]

Thank you for the lyrics 🤟🏽🧸

[@Shizzlemanizzle1997]

sounds good😊

[@MattJonesIsWeird]

Yea this is one of those songs that I actually don't care what the words are....I just love the way it sounds :P

[@karenc84121]

This song!

[@melindabianconi4045]

1979 I was 10 riding my bikecdown Silver Creek Rd. We had the Best chilhood ever, YhecSilver Creek Gang!! We were tomboys, horse riding, tree climbing, Barn voyages. Made tunnells in the hay, walkeked the beams in the Barn. What a life!! The Best of times.

[@susanb4713]

For all the people that won't and don't take the time to the people that feel hate and feel unwanted , abandon, ridiculed, lonely and forgotten for all those that don't feel a apart of something I wish you the strength to go forward and carry on may your days get brighter you find what you are looking for in life able to seek the help you need what ever kind of help that is and the will and understanding to go forward and stay away from the people that hurt you and don't care what comes out of there mouths toward others or what kind of action they take on you which can just be as bad as their words. Stay with family if you can and others don't interfere and try to discourge you and make you out to be something you are not how crappy that think they have the power to do this for what ever is in their heart, make friends. friends that won't call you names knock you down but will be there for you when you need them and family too just not when its convenient for them. People don't always think what they say to others or what they do and some don't care. Misunderunderstandings happen all the time and lies and all for all those who don't want to work it out I really the best of luck because when you don't have a conscious you are not a human. How sad mean and cruel some people can truly be and they don't care to apolize they don't care so be aware being attacked or someone wrecking your car for no reason does not speak well for those that do that and they have no right what so ever to do that ever and they have no right to dictate to you that you can't see your family or children those people sound like they are manipulative and too controlling and don't respect people in general at all. So you know who you are get over it.

[@nebu9786]

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@cindyborthwick2615]

Nice your wish to the People like me you probably mean. Slowly i completely lose the Human in Human beeing. Care / Look After each other.... But thanks ✌

[@19STARK1LLER86]

I've always liked this song.. im 36 n never knew the lyrics tho....made me love the song tht much more.... ❤️❤️❤️

[@shakilkunju4781]

I might be out of cradle in 1979... And being a 90s kid ...I really can't get the vibes of those days... But as the essence of alternative music and purely 90s sounds also being a SP fan I really love this song

[@tycartier230]

It’s crazy to think this song is called 1979 and it’s from the 90s but majority of the comments I’ve seen say the feel the vibe from 1979 listening to this. Billy is something of a time traveller himself

[@marlonhosten4693]

Summer of 96, sweet days gone too soon !

[@markphillips199]

This song makes me want to be on a dance floor with it blasting very loud over the speakers!

[@zpushy633sora]

My Mom was 17 in 1979. She's 59 1/2 now. She'll be 60 this coming February 2022. She always Tells me she still feels that Age as the Years go by. Since we're all in a Brand New Decade I don't Blame her when she always Tells me every now and then that she still feels like she's 17 and now going on 60 this February my Mom still looks exactly the same from her Younger Years when she grew up in the 70's and 80's Especially in 1977-1979.

[@ladystardust8532]

My favorite! 🌸🌚

[@smallcontentcreato]

lyrics: shakedown 1979 Cool Kids Never have a Time On a Live Wire up off the street You and l should l meet Junebug skipping like a Stone With The Headlights pointed at the Drawn We were Sure we'd never see an end at it all And i Don't Even care To Shake theses Zipper Blues We Don't know Just Where Our bones Will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and Absorb into the Earth Below Double cross the Vacant and the bored They're not sure Just what we Have in the store Morphine city Slipping dues down to See That Even we Don't Even Care As restless As we are We feel the pull in the land of a Thousand guilts And Poured Cement lamented and assured To the Lights and Town Below Faster Than the Speed of sound Faster Than we Thought we'd go beneath The sound of hope justin Never Knew the rules Hung Down With the freaks and Ghouls No Apologies ever need to be made I know you better than you fake it to see That we Even Don't care To shake these zipper blues And We Don't know just where Our bones Will rest To dust l guess Forgotten and Absorb into the Earth Below The street heats the urgency of now As you see there's no one Around

[@retsuki100]

Damn this song make feel full and empty at the same time

[@patriciaburlow8469]

So depressing..expresses the futility of life on earth..certainly hope there's a heaven..😢

[@quixoticangels]

This song makes me think about the 80s and how my parents lived in those years and probably how much fun they had, but this song makes me think about getting bullied and "why are they bullying me?" or "Are they ok or do they hate me that much?".

[@janejambi8411]

This song freaked me out when I was a kid. LOVE IT now lmao

[@albertkundrat1734]

That's what lead me here a GREAT Song by this very talented Artist SMASHING PUMPKINS: what were the specific LYRICS to 1979? But the subtle Question, going BEYOND to Interpretation, becomes ("ASK"ING a Question is just Perfect for Me, as my very Name Initials to'"A.S.K." to "ASK", being Albert S. Kundrat!):Question: Is the MILIEU or Mentality of this Song "1979" actually the Mind-Set of any authentic 1979 TEEN, WHEN He or She was in that very Year 1979 as TEEN, when THINKING, FEELING, and BEHAVING the way KIDS of 1979 were actually like? Or is the Song only a Kaleidoscopic View of the 21st Century TEEN, seeing Himself or Herself, FUNWISE, as a mental Nineteen-Seventy-niner? or, Rather as a post 2000 TEEN, posing as if though a 1979 TEEN in nostalgic artistry, but not necessarily in cultural fact, any 1979er's mindset, culture and mentality wise?

[@aximusroh6453]

Thank you 👍

[@rubey2649]

This song reminds me of high school even though I hardly went cause I skipped school and got High all day. Fast forward 3 decades later, 2 stint’s in the penitentiary totaling 25 years. Oh how I wish I could go back and do a retake, I would have definitely smoked more

[@kiii3]

I recently moved to California leaving a lot of sad shit in my life behind. I didn't hear this song for at least 10 years. I don't why it suddenly popped up in my head

[@BLAX832]

flashbacks of when I was stationed in cali on the beach

[@luciferdiablo2509]

i heard ppl from California dont say cali so you are a filthy liar

[@coopercollins7792]

@@luciferdiablo2509 he was living in the military so he probably isn’t from Cali

[@biggmackthewackslack6654]

This is the kind of song I'd play if a meteor was coming for earth and I only had a day or 2 left to live... I would play music like this, reflecting on my many regrets, thinking about how much time I've squandered and given away, how I might have done things differently, done more with myself, experienced more.... Thinking about how nice it would be to have someone there beside me, to hold, and to cry with....oh well lol earth go boom hehe

[@sigma9326]

I was born in 1979 and this is literally my vibe

[@TuMadre8000]

i can never quite pin point the vibe of this song

[@richardlee5022]

Perfect song for when the party is over

[@VBC_Records]

if you see a massive uptick in this videos plays its me lol i am trying to figure out a part by ear and its driving me nuts