The Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect (Official Music Video)

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Official video for Smashing Pumpkins song “Perfect” from the album Adore.
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To expand on the similarities between "Perfect" and "1979", the band released a music video which continued the story of the characters in "1979". Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
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[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@tudorburlacu15]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@pinakdasgupta6490]

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

[@Makkati.City.Chillin]

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

[@catherinec.7740]

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

[@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...?

[@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 😞

[@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.

[@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.

[@All_mixed_up-4]

Im crying when this song starts playing

[@throckmorton9321]

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

[@throckmorton9321]

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.

[@throckmorton9321]

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

[@barrygill4376]

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

[@cupiddelocke1813]

This song tears me up, their music is beautiful.

[@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

[@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...💜💜💜

[@TheGabolism]

the style..the love...the 90´s....the sound...PERFECT!

[@pguilhaus3378]

''You know you're just like me''. Could be the one and only reason why so many relations, at first wonderful and promising, finally wither and fail.

[@glass8703]

"So far I still know who you are but now I wonder who I was" Sublime.

[@analyzethisish]

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

[@mixpix]

I love how this video ties into the 1979 video. :)

[@danielcromarty8700]

+Terry Cameron The guy with the tape at the end was one of the kids from the 1979 filmclip.

[@IvanIvanov-xl6tz]

+Daniel Cromarty And the fair-haired girl from the "1979" is the one with the kid.

[@danielcromarty8700]

And she married the other kid who was in 1979. I'm not sure about the one in the hat who gets in the car chase.

[@creekandseminole]

Different actor. The one who was in the original video was in prison when they shot this, so they got someone else to play the role of the "other guy" who had the blonde hair.

[@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

[@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

[@SQGReviewShow]

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

[@JuegaPepeyito]

perfect song

[@redskies4530]

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

[@constanzaaguilera7029]

muero con este tema!!!! amo perfect....que nostalgia más grande

[@anniielopez9848]

¿quien en 2021 sintiendo nostalgia con SP?

[@neysamuel6071]

Yo... exáctamente ahora... muchas nostalgias... por supuesto es el sentimiento más grande quando escucho los.

[@darobles]

tu madre

[@michaelthompson9823]

Concert recording scene is perfect nostalgia 😢

[@averylangs]

happy valentine's day everyone

[@moonobsessed]

gives me the chills everytime

[@juancamacho5746]

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 were so free We promised that we'd be perfect, perfect, perfect

[@uno1r]

I miss the 90s best days of my life

[@Itsnoahscott]

I actually prefer this song over 1979. I just have a stronger connection with it. Like In time I’ll find a relationship it might take awhile but I’ll get there eventually.

[@OutdoorsWithShawn]

Please take me back to the mid and late 90s when it was a more simpler time with good music and less BS.

[@Paulygoku]

It's like looking into the windows of the past..of a love that was never meant to be....perfect..

[@tippy302]

Play this song and all of a sudden its like being 16 again.

[@lindacarolinacorredor9527]

A MI ME DEDICARON PERFECT!!! Y VIVO ORGULLOSA DE ESA DEDICATORIA

[@johnnydrama8709]

This song. Perfect

[@redskies4530]

Hi I Recommend an Indie Song entitled 'Looking Into The Mirror' by Robert Nix

[@ABrugiatti]

Just perfect...

[@modoch]

This is the perfect song for me at so many pinnacle moments in my life ty Billy.

[@Hayyden]

That cowboy hat though... Billy *The Kid* Corgan

[@YukiKunikida]

😂💙

[@Kelli2582]

I used to spend my summers at my aunts hanging with my best friend/cousin JP. I have vivid memories as a teen hanging in the garage, listening to this album, and laughing all night. Sometimes we would sneak out after everyone went to bed to go walk around the park or catch the late showing at the drive in. Then in college sitting in the car with my 1st bf listening to them and Deftones again talking about life or cruising all night the outskirts of town. OMG I miss those days.

[@brincandocomalolo4223]

Que música da hora

[@irisvh9696]

cassete tapes, bell bottoms... corded phones...! take me back to the 90s!

[@Francesco-ll7pd]

We could have been more than simply friends.... But things have gone differently....

[@redskies4530]

Hi I Recommend an Indie Song entitled 'Looking Into The Mirror' by Robert Nix

[@patrioticyank4940]

The good old days miss this

[@reginasofiacastellanoscabr4985]

Con esta rola perdí mi virginidad .. que tiempos..

[@robertadinoia3347]

I was born in the 95 and I missed the 90s too

[@KevinBuress]

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

[@ahilleastsavalos5573]

I don't wanna leave!! I wanna jump into the video and live in there forever

[@mjane5930]

Me encanta ❤🇲🇽

[@paulmelgosa305]

This is the PERFECT love rock song of the '90's 🤘😍

[@grilindi]

What happen whit the good music. It's not the same anymore

[@damc8177]

Days with cd, cassette, pc games, outdoors version of sports, comics, real stickers, modems, 56kbps. Oh, please comeback 90's.

[@alexander02023]

Strangers on the street, lovers while we sleep ... perfect...

[@ZTYLER---]

Billy gracias por tu música increíble, has hecho de nuestra juventud única e inigualable, nada que ver con la actualidad que vivimos escuchando música mediocre pero lo bueno perdura en el tiempo, recuerdo cuando estaba pequeño y en las tardes daban magazines musicales y lo mejor de la tarde era escucharlos en la tv. i remember s.p.

[@niteporter]

Good old days. Miss them

[@ajahajaaaaaaaaa3425]

cried when they played this live 😭😭

[@WT99.]

Just saw them perform in Michigan, such an amazing experience!!

[@AlfaGiuliaQV]

I listened to this album a lot in my car 20 years ago...what a nostalgiashock it was to find this song again! Takes me back to my journeys through the cold and snowy winter nights...alone in my car

[@josephstahl3137]

Ugh.. kicked me right in the feels😢

[@Kjf2691]

this is so 90's lol

[@evalha0077]

your mom is 90's

[@juliocesarcapchaquispe752]

Este video es bravazo. .....vidas paralelas ...

[@A6SC]

Next time I promise we'll be perfect...

[@cindypadilla7146]

Listening right now 2024

[@KKCFaria]

Perfeita🎸🎧🎶

[@paulusjodhi7236]

2023...dan lagu ini selalu g puter dimobil biar anak2 g denger..😘😘

[@kiantorrifiel7456]

1979 episode 2.

[@johnperp6442]

Great song

[@paolopalmieri6454]

Incredibile che siano passati 25 anni da questa canzone

[@sammacaluso9828]

One of the lucky ones kid in the 80’s and teen in the 90’s what a ride!

[@CRXJDM88]

I remember seeing this video in 96 and 97 on the much music video top 90 or whatever they called it

[@metamorfosiscronica8414]

Alguien sabe el nombre de la rubia, la mama del bebe? por favoooooor!!!!!!! Please Smashing Pumpkins!!! Hace rato busco que fue la vida de ella

[@tbhon]

Ian

[@karelyhuertadelgadillo7984]

Nobody Knows :C

[@karelyhuertadelgadillo7984]

Nobody Knows :C

[@chisatatum649]

For Steven harrold ❤ you make me happy and i see your worth

[@karmakoma9743]

@ 0:39 Fuck that is a mid 90's hair cut on the dood.

[@maryhughes6372]

I love it. I still think that hair cut is sexy

[@TawallhaPlumbbalanch]

Poeslala poesl9ka 😊

[@dobazajr]

I remember MTV days way back late 90s. This video was constantly played though I'm not a rock/alternative music fan but I was hooked by the concept of the music video. I really miss 90s and 2000s era.

[@jonathanmontiel574]

😭😭😭😭😭😭 1998 mi juventud!

[@HEXVGRVM]

This song is epic; perfect, nostalgic, sad and happy at the same time! Only SP the ones able to put all the opposites together, this song takes me back when everything was way easier! I miss being a kid without worrying about anything! Thank you for that SP 🤍

[@upgradeyourlife9810]

Perfection is in the eye of the beholder.

[@UFOGHOSTHUNTER]

Perfect even in 2021! 📼

[@flamingstar8237]

Ya no se hacen videos así, y música menos😪

[@germanlerma4569]

Whenever I watch this video, I am overcome with a feeling of sadness. The poor guy seems to be a good father and husband, betrayed by his wife and ended up dead because of his wife's lover. So sad when I first saw this video and so sad right now. I miss the days of MTV and videos with good production and objective.

[@fwarddd6461]

dear younger me.. I miss you. 😭😭😭

[@marcodenicolo9131]

Ridateci gli anni 90😢❤

[@JetLagRecords]

Smashing Pumpkins, great video keep it up dude

[@albertoequivocado]

I'm not happy and I'm not sad.

[@shaolinotter]

This Night Has Opened My Eyes....

[@robertocarranza1877]

1998 saludos desde Perú, vivan los noventas buena música

[@volvo1354]

I'd be scared shitless sitting on that crane boom

[@koo-data4742]

Going through a bad divorce with the woman that I considered the love of my life. She completely ghosted me and we haven't been in contact since she left. I sent her a letter to tell her how I felt. This song hits so close to home. I'd give anything to go back to that "perfect" time.

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

Lost someone seven days ago, by her bedside for her final hours. This track makes me think of her and always will

[@kristen7948]

So sorry for your loss, but glad you could be there with her while she crossed over. It's such a beautiful song x

[@johnniea4684]

Amazing that they stuck Corgan on that crane hundreds of feet up. Pre-CGI days!

[@PaulMelgosa-id8gt]

A smashing pumpkins' true love song ! 💡🎹🎸🎤🥁😎

[@Oscubasteve]

Wow! Never knew 1979 and this song went together!