I'm 42 years old, married, a beautiful wife who I will love till my last breath, 3 amazing children, a good career and relatively good health. Yet this song makes me want to go back and do it all over again, find my teenage self and let me know that all the pain you've experienced and still will in your 20's will be worth it in the end, that you'll be okay, you will.
@@TheLottolandus Oh my God. Is it being made? I loved that book so much. I think about it all the time. I know someone was working on it, but I thought it died in the can or whatever they say. Is it happening?!
I'm 21 now, and have spent plenty of nights doing *most* of the things the video has. Especially the shitty driving 😂 Some of us still like to have fun without zombie walking into a hookah bar off 20 Xanax to talk about how loud the music is
@Waqas Khan I wish you 2000's kids experienced it also, times would be much different these days if you guys got to grow up the way we did. Simpler times
Ok. Let's be honest for a second, the 90s were all about rap, this kinda music was in the back burner. In fact listening to alternative rock was considered not that cool. Now the 90s were still cool but there was crappy music back then too.
@@uaujuan I was born in 2004 and this song with other 70s 80s 90s songs and bands make me miss the 70s 80s 90s good times without no hate between the boys and girls or the or the useless smartphones PD I own a sony Ericsson walkman and a Razr V3i inherited from my parents
@@kelleymcbride4633 Said NOT a Pumpkins fan, Only Pumpkins fans tend to like anything outside this double album.. as you are aware, this album was a perfect pop/mainstream album.. the rest.. you kind gotta be a Pmpkins fan.
@@didimeanso agree, we just didn't know how good it was at the time. Great vibe in the UK too with Radiohead, Oasis, The Verve, Prodigy etc all releasing great albums, but the Pumpkins were so dam good.
@@anneg1979 I grew up around cell phones, only I never had one until I was 14. And when I did, it was just a stick phone which I used for emergency, I never depended on electronics growing up, because society was still fairly good when I grew up, after getting older and realizing what other adults told me when I was younger, no kid will ever realize shit an adult would tell them until they become one themselves.
We have an opposite opinion here, in Russia. 90s was the worst time for us, that was a decade of homicide, drugs and misery. Bless god it's all gone past.
@@gachimuchenik7784 That’s a really cool perspective to hear. Everywhere I go everyone says that the 90s were a golden age which I guess they were in America, but not where you are from.
I was born in the 80's. The internet was deff a thing in the 90's... Especially the late 90's. AOL chat was the SHIT in 1998 lol. Really miss those times in my childhood. The 90's really was a lot better. Anything before 911. After 911 the country really changed. Everyone got angry and bitter and security was increased everywhere and then we also got these SJWs everywhere and stuff. 90's kids unite.
Lyrics : Shakedown 1979 Cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I should meet Junebug skipping like a stone With the headlights pointed at the dawn We were sure we'd never see an end to it all And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues And we don't know just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below Double-cross the vacant and the bored They're not sure just what we have in store Morphine city slipping dues down to see That 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 towns below Faster than the speed of sound Faster than we thought we'd go Beneath the sound of hope Justine never knew the rules, Hung down with the freaks and ghouls No apologies ever need be made I know you better than you fake it to see That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues And we don't know just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below The street heats the urgency of now As you see there's no one around
It’s so cool to think that right now while you’re listening to this someone in the other corner of the world is also listening to this and vibing with you without even knowing
Many of us really didnt understand the beauty of our youth. At the time we mostly dreamed of hurrying and finally growing the heck up so we could do what we wanted. Now as adults we at times yearn for some of the days of our past. The first girl that ever showed any interest in me ( an ugly duckling i considered myself to be) when i was 14 was the sweetest nicest girl. I came from a rougher home without much love and I considered myself quite unlikeable. She proved to me....that someone could actually like me. She ended up being the first love of my life. Unfortunately she died a few years after it all at only the age of 18. Now decades later i still think of her and her sweet spirit. How she had to have been an angel to like a misfit like me. Especially at such a crucial developmental moment of my adolescents where acceptance and love is exactly what i needed. I can still so clearly hear her soft voice from our childhood. Sad but i try to look back at the memory more with gratitude today. I'm just glad that it ever even happened. Sending strength and positive vibes to everyone who read.
6 months ago today my dads Toyota Landcruiser was in a car accident and the car was totaled. It was a perfectly preserved 2002 that was flawless. It could have gone another 100-200 thousand miles. Losing a car is nothing like losing a person, but It makes me sad that it was the car I grew up in and my family loved very much. My dad has always worked a lot and most of the times I spent with him were in that car. This was one of the songs he showed me while I was a lot younger. The road trips, memories, and surfing adventures can never be the same.
I have resonated with you friend. I have experienced something similar and you made me remember that part of a long forgotten life and feel the longing of something unreachable again. Thank you. I wish you the best.
Interesting....last months i try to revive the 90s and 80s feelings. By hearing those tunes, watching movies from that era, buying vintage shirts etc...but basicly im trying to live my childhood memorys...creating this playfull energy in the now...........any one else??? :)
Great comment pal always said the same myself you would listen to a song and it brings you back to that very time the girl or boy you were with but yeah music is a time machine 👌
Born in 1979 and I'll be 45 on September 12th ❤❤❤❤ my teenage years of amazing different genres of music 🎶, And I m grateful for the real time experience for all of it
1979 was the first year I shook those zipper blues. I met my husband. Best time of my life for the next 35 years until I lost him to cancer. There will never be another relationship for me.
Dang.. Sorry to hear that Emma. They say the best feeling a human can feel is thinking back on good memories. When we're actually experiencing them we don't understand how special they are, but looking back we realize how amazing and special they are. Remember and honor your husband by thinking back on all the great memories you had together. Hang in there ;)
You must have been listening to Dishwalla Emma Peel. I am widowed also, but still hold out hope for another love. These songs bring back good memories and sorrow.
This song is the definition of nostalgia. I miss when I was younger, and I wish I could’ve cherished the time I had before I lost my chance. I’m pretty sure this is something we all deal with. As kids we wish we were older to be able to do what we want, but never realize that all we want is already there.
your gonna make me cry dude. im 19 and i cant fucking get over the fact that my childhood is j8st gone..where the hell did all those years go, i miss my grandpa, and i wish i never tried cocaine.😔
yeah honestly, I mean Im only 12 but I´m scared of growing up because I don´t wanna grow older and since I had a lot of trauma and I am mentally and physically older than most kids my age its hard to stay a kid and have fun. So now that I just realized this a few days ago I´ve been trying to cherish my childhood. But eventually I´ll have to. oh well. I just wanna have fun and not want the rest of my childhood to be a nightmare like some of it was.
I'm 43, and this came out in 1996, the year I graduated from high school. Man this takes me back to such a great time in life. Something about them riding in that car, being young and free. Just takes me there.
I remember being a teenager in the 2000's and not liking this song but my best friend would play it all the time, along with the rest of there music and now that im 38 and a adult with life experience, I get it now.
Still driving around listening to this on full blast in 2022. It's still one of the best songs ever made and it's a time machine that takes me back to the 90's when my life was a lot simpler.
I was young once, and it was when this song was first released. This song is a part of my youth and soul, and I'll never forget it. This double album will echo through time.
I was 24 26 years ago... I was in the best decade, before 9/11, at the birth of the internet craze, best alternative rock, grunge and carefree times, without Facebook, social media, crazy politics... somebody build that way back machine quick, pretty please...
Remember that it's a song about being a teen and not about the 1970s. Around the time of the song release 1970s nostalgia was rising until it became fashionable (That 70s Show for instance came out a couple of years after this song debut) but the lyrics are truly an ode to naive and unceremonious adolescence and friendship. Although people in comments are talking about post-modern nostalgia of missing something you did not have lived yourself they do so because they're focusing on the video above all else. I think anyone can relate with what the lyrics are saying no matter what decade they have born. Even if you think your teenage years were boring or a total waste with no friends you can still relate with what the lyrics say about not caring. To not care used to be a privilege of kids and teenagers whilst to be adult is to take responsibility. And it is about the delights taken from this absence of responsibility he is singing about.
I also thought the same thing. We have a nostalgic day when we don't have responsibility just pure fun or even fool. This song just remind me that your past was cool and fun but this ultimate reality and responsibility now is things that push me to be a better person that means more responsibility, less drama and mindfulness.
This comment made me cry so hard, I never went to parties or had these experiences, I sat inside all my teenage years playing video games and doing other things. Glad you guys have these memories ❤
My song, my generation. I was 15 years old in 1979. I was born in 1964 and I'm now 55. This song and the video is like a time capsule of my teenage years.....
@@odros , 40 years has passed.... the teenage girl is now a mother of 2, grandmother of 5, a manager in a hospital, who is getting old and feeling her age.... I miss being young, pretty and full of youth and energy. I have many regrets, but in end I turned out just fine. I remember 3 channel TV's with round glass screens and no remotes, vinyl records, and black desktop rotary phones. We got information from encyclopedias and our local library. Now we have the internet! It tells you everything! I can communicate with people all over the world effortlessly. I can video chat with my grandson. Amazing! But I still feel nostalgic about the past. I miss the simplicity. Thanks for asking :)
"1979" Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I should meet Junebug skipping like a stone With the headlights pointed at the dawn We were sure we'd never see an end to it all And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues And we don't know Just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below Double cross the vacant and the bored They're not sure just what we have in store Morphine city slipping dues down to see That 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 towns below Faster than the speed of sound Faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope Justine never knew the rules, Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls No apologies ever need be made, I know you better than you fake it To see that we don't even care to shake these zipper blues And we don't know just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below The street heats the urgency of now As you see there's no one around
bloody hell. thos are powerfl and beautiful words, huh? i never really worried to much about the words, it was always the heart wrenching sound that sucked me in to this song and that beautiful clicking on the drum rims at the beginning.
I lost my wife Crystal last year June 2023. It has taken me this long to play this song again because I miss her so very very much. I really am alone because she was the only family I had left, the love of my life, and my only best friend.
Really makes me think of highschool, where the Mondays sucked and the Fridays were the best..... sometimes you don't realize how much fun you're having until after it passes.
Nigredo Kukai Highschool would only suck if you had no friends and were dumb at the subjects. if you went back you'd obviously champion at it all, it'd be nothing to you. unless like i say, you were dumb at all the subjects. :] toodle-oo...
The song and video hits way different when you're actually born in 1979. Everything in this video is what I was experiencing when this album came out. Never forget the first time I was in a car, free of adults, and with other kids my age. Our spirits couldn't be broken, our days could not be ruined. A time of wonder, a time of awkwardness, a time of discovery was upon me and I couldn't inhale it fast enough. What a rush it was to be a young adult discovering the world. Fast forward nearly 30 years and I'm watching my kids do the same thing. Sometimes I lay in bed wishing I had a time machine. Thankfully videos like this and my kids allow me to close my eyes and remember it as it was, where it belongs...inside me forever.
well said Michael, I do not think Kida today have any idea how free we were growing up, good and bad then they are. No cell phones, you had to get a new girl's number you met at the mall on a piece of paper. No directions on a phone when you were driving, shows that you missed if you were not sitting at the tv when they came on. Eating home cooked meals, going out was for when ya had a birthday. Drinking Kool aid or tang, soft drinks, yeah right.. Riding bikes till the street lights came on. playing Nintendo for the first time, going to an Arcade and the dollar movies. Seeing Mike Tyson become the youngest Heavyweight champ of the world!@ The first days of MTV.. i am older now but i would not trade those days for any today..80's and 90's music was the best..
I was born 1991. I know nothing about how life was then. But I miss the old days . No cell phone. I saw vcr . Life was so much different. I miss the old days.
This is a song about nostalgia, and I remember laying on my friend's bed late at night (or early morning) after partying, and this song came on the radio. I remember thinking, someday this song is going to be nostalgic when I'm old, and here I am. That night we had a similar party, furniture in the pool and all. It gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it now, and I pine badly for the 90s. You kids really missed out on a great time to be free and unconcerned.
I was 16 when this came out. It’s literally the soundtrack of my entire high school life. Barely knew what the Internet was, no cell phones, no social media. Just the radio, MTV and MuchMusic. If I had known those would be the best of times I would have made sure to soak it all in and truly enjoy it.
Yesss what a good old day.. Mayebe iam only 9 or 10 years old but band like this fill my days, maybe drugs were very rampant at that time, but it seems I'd rather die in those days, than live in this nft shit era lol
I was born in 1979. When I lived in the States, this song was at the height of popularity, and I was living the best days of my life, and I will always cherish my memories.
This song is too much man. Too much nostalgia. Too much sadness and happiness all in one. Makes you wonder what the hell this life is really about and why we are even here. But also makes you get the feeling there is a reason we are here and it’ll all make sense when we die. I’m not even depressed. I love life. But apart of me can’t wait to die to see the truth. Weird. Life is weird.
I found the reason. To get in a right relationship with Jesus and be saved from death by Faith alone in Christ, no works or good deeds are good enough. Check out some Living Waters university clips for more on that and Hope you find the truth.. dont wait till you die to find out.
Not really. The styles are not that different from today and everything in the video is exactly what kids do today -- even with the red cups. The video has a little bit of a retro feel, but it had that same feel when it was new because it was designed to evoke 1979 without all the very groovy clothing styles from the era (except for the cops and the corner store). The car is from 1972 or 73 -- no kid was lucky enough to have a car like this when the song came out. It was retro then.
Good times. Wish today's mainstream bands were half as socially aware. Videos and song writing have become so lazy now. Of course if that was a scary vision of youth, then just think what it might look like now?
Shakedown 1979 Cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I should meet Junebug skippin' like a stone With the headlights pointed at the dawn We were sure we'd never see an end To it all [Chorus] And I don't even care To shake these zipper blues And we don't know Just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed Into the earth below [Verse 2] Double-cross the vacant and the bored They're not sure just what we have in store Morphine city slippin' dues Down to see [Chorus 2] That we don't even care As restless as we are We feel the pull In the land of a thousand guilts And poured cement [Bridge] 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 [Verse 3] Justine never knew the rules Hung down with the freaks and ghouls No apologies ever need be made I know you better than you fake it To see [Chorus 1] That we don't even care To shake these zipper blues And we don't know Just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed Into the earth below [Outro] The street heats the urgency of now As you see there's no one around...
@@derekderek2570 right, it's equivalent to someone writing a song about 2005 today which i feel like ive been starting to see a lot of lately but it just isnt the sameeee :( even tho i was 6 in 1996 lol! still miss it
90’s are the greatest! Such an inspirational song. Miss my jamming days. Who’s here in 2024? Wherever or whoever you are.. know this I love you and you have a great day! Cheers!
Message to any young folk. You is a kid for a very short time. The days, weeks, years seem to last forever but they really don't. Cherish this time, don't be in a hurry to grow up because adulthood sneaks up on you and lasts the rest of your life. Then those days you were an innocent kid seem like a distant memory. And don’t forget to smile.
househansa thank you although this goes to younger kids I'm 20 & I feel like I'm at my peak of leaving everything behind but at the same time bringing everything with me along
The problem is that young kid dosent listen to this kind of music... I'm 16 and im the only one of my friend that listen to this kind of music... btw im young but cant live my young life because I got to prepare my futur life and everithing is based on this im tired of this thinking today.. live young wild and free!!!.. Hope yall understand im french hehe
I was 20 years old in 1979, I heard this song when I turned 40 (midlife crisis) and thought about 1979 and how simple it was. Now at 60 I listen to it and only feel FREE from the struggles of my past. Great song in the never ending circle. 1995-1999 had some of the best music, much better than the 60s.
Elder Mountain much better than the 60s? Well I’m only 16 but from what I’ve heard from the 60s I love most of it, many good songs came from that time period in my opinion.
It's good to know that in 30 years or so, I'll be getting over the crushing despair felt by a sense of lost childhood whenever my sense of nostalgy is stimulated.
Not sure I entirely agree with you. There are certainly 90s songs that stand the test of time, but there was also plenty of crap that hasn't aged very well at all. Color Me Badd? Ricky Martin? Hanson?
@@posysdogovych2065 at least we didnt have gg alin or Charles manson come from our era. 90s made the most hits of all times threw all genre's of music not just rock not just rap not just pop but all genre's
*staind, 1993 radiohead, One week by barenaked ladies, limp bizkit, bush, Illmatic, Sugar Ray, Coal Chamber, most 90s boybands, creed, Oasis' third album, the entire genre of post grunge with the exception of foo fighters, Van Halen's 90s albums, Achy Breaky heart, Venga Boys, Cotton Eye Joe, and much more say hi*
zzzzzzzzzz technology happens FFS you know that someone twenty years older than you would have said "videos and MTV etc etc " you are just perpetuating a cliched trope
I'd be honored if some 90s fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins, LONG DECEMBER by the Counting Crows, and NAME by the GooGoo Dolls on my YT channel in tribute to 3 great standards of the mid/late 90s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital enhancements. Peace out and stay safe in the '020s.
1996 i´ve dreams and no money. I was 19, no job. Live in same house with my best friend Alfredo. No food, no luck. But great times, i never forget.....
This song brings back such beautiful memories to me. Memories of feeling free as teenagers. Just doing silly things. Till this day when I still get that same feeling.
Every one. Just today turned 37. I'm still an overages 12 southern boy when this song plays. All other lessons after fall into perspective in the context of these so-much-more-than-nostalgic riffs. Raise a glass to the golden age of alt rock.
My dad used to listen to this song when i was a kid and i loved it so he got me a cd and a little portable cd player. recently my dad killed hisself and its been so hard keeping my composure. this song just brought back so many memories and it hurts. i know people probably dont care but i just really needed to say it.
Geraldo Twotimes just know that it wasn't your fault. I hope he's in a better place now. Surround yourself with ppl who care. Im sorry u hv to go through yhis
Maybe your dad got you the cd player to listen to this beautiful nostalgic song and remember him. I know that your life is extremely painful, especially right now, but time and music like this helps. And eventually heals. You have all of my respect and condolences.
I've had this song in my head lately, it reminds me of my mom. I remember sitting in the car in high school with her driving me wherever and smashing pumpkins would come on the radio and she'd tell me about the music videos she watched growing up. She was born in 1979, and she passed away November of 2020. It's crazy the things that can bring back memories so vividly and makes me realize just how much I miss her. What I would do to go back and go driving with her, even just for the length of one song, just to spend the time with her one more time (edit) tomorrow is the 6th of November, marking a year since she passed away, I am 20 and my sister is a couple months away from 18, I wish I could change things because this hurts so much sometimes.. I'm grateful for all the kind words, I never expected to get so many responses, and it's helped me feel a little less alone
Your Testimony is beautiful, my feelings for your mother, so young to happen. I'm 51 y o and ir seems like yesterday listening tod this sound. Hugs, here talking from Brazil.
Fun fact. Billy wrote the lyrics originally as a poem and then wrote the music without changing a single word to the original poem. What a musical genius. Edit: I'm sorry to the people in the comments that are definitely on the spectrum... You do you, I am sticking with he is a genius.
I'd be honored if some 90s fans would give a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of "1979" by the SMASHING PUMPKINS and "Long December" by the COUNTING CROWS in tribute to 2 of the most iconic bands of the mid/late 90s. Live acoustic with no autotune. Peace out and stay safe in the '020s.
[Verse 1] Shakedown 1979 Cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I should meet Junebug skippin' like a stone With the headlights pointed at the dawn We were sure we'd never see an end To it all [Chorus] And I don't even care To shake these zipper blues And we don't know Just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed Into the earth below [Verse 2] Double-cross the vacant and the bored They're not sure just what we have in store Morphine city slippin' dues Down to see [Chorus 2] That we don't even care As restless as we are We feel the pull In the land of a thousand guilts And poured cement [Bridge] 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 [Verse 3] Justine never knew the rules Hung down with the freaks and ghouls No apologies ever need be made I know you better than you fake it To see [Chorus 1] That we don't even care To shake these zipper blues And we don't know Just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed Into the earth below [Outro] The street heats the urgency of now As you see there's no one around
i was born 4 days shy of 1979, and this song always makes me feel , what if i did things differently? for every mistake, for every wrong doing, for every right thing i did, it all lead me to now. i wouldnt change where i am now for anything.
As I turn 38 tomorrow, I still remember riding my bike to the record store (rip 1988-2019😢) and buying Siamese Dream.... still remember seeing it on MTV....and yea it’s aging nicely....rock on
I was 17 when i first found this song. I remember that night. Im 25 now... College is done, job is secured, and ive gotten married. Feels like half a lifetime has went by in the the past 7 years (...7 years have gone by....). This song is a beautiful and painful reminder of the time that has passed.
I lost my high school best friend to suicide 3 months ago. We always listened to this song whenever we went on a long drive. I think about him everyday and wish I was a better friend. RIP Jesse.
My dad isn't here anymore, but he will forever be with me when I listen to the smashing pumpkins. Such a special sound that could never be recreated. I miss ya dad.
This song just remind me that your past was cool and fun or even fool but this ultimate reality and responsibility now is things that push you to be a better person that means more responsibility, hardship, less drama and mindfulness. Cheers for everyone who is keep struggling facing reality now!
I grew up with The Smashing Pumpkins, like many of us. I memorized all lyrics of Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness. I remember singing their songs out loud, feeling the music, and being alive. This song is a true masterpiece and it gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it, still, in 2023.
I'm from Poland from the continent of Europe this song is something special when I listen to it I feel the power flowing from it and the filling of nostalgia
I'd be honored if some 90s fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of "1979" by the SMASHING PUMPKINS th-cam.com/video/XqvFK_v3Xfk/w-d-xo.html and "Name" by the GOO GOO DOLLS in tribute to 2 great standards of the era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace out and stay safe in the '020s.
I’m 13. I listen to classic punk rock. And hard rock. No rap shit. And yes that is true. But I don’t really have any good mems because people are ghetto nowadays. :(
Back in 1996 when I was 16 and in the 10th grade, I was supposed to be in this video after school, but I was grounded.. One of the people in the video was a close friend of mine. Too bad, it looks like they had so much fun making this...
@@kellygoldsmith6662 Given that those comments were posted two years apart, I wonder if you (@kellygoldsmith6662) ever took the extra effort to track down @SpiderCollector000. Did you? If you haven't, and you're reading this now, I doubt it would be "too late". Just remember, someday, it WILL be too late, so, go for it!
Marco T I'm 16, born in 2000 and I get 90s nostalgia listening to this song. I feel like I missed out on something iconic and I wish I could have been a part of it.
This song takes me back to my high school days. Getting ready for school and seeing my dad sitting at the kitchen table drinking his coffee. I wish I could have one more day like that.
I may very well be the oldest one to post here. I love this song. I was 21 in 1979, and already been in service, but this song makes think about my teen years in the early seventies. Great song.
I hear you, I was 21 in 1979 as well and just joined the army. I feel the same way about it and the video reminds me of stuff that me and my friends did. The party, and pool hopping and cruising. Good times. 😉
Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I should meet Junebug skipping like a stone With the headlights pointed at the dawn We were sure we'd never see an end to it all And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues And we don't know Just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below Double cross the vacant and the bored They're not sure just what we have in store Morphine city slipping dues down to see That 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 towns below Faster than the speed of sound Faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope Justine never knew the rules, Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls No apologies ever need be made, I know you better than you fake it To see that we don't even care to shake these zipper blues And we don't know just where our bones will rest To dust I guess Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below The street heats the urgency of now As you see there's no one around
Man, I am currently 13 and will soon enter high school. My dad, born in 1976, has always been into 90s music. I remember as a really little kid hearing the many songs that he would listen to in the car, and I now have immense nostalgia for bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. I would do anything to get the chance to see what living in the 90s as a teen was like.
I was a teenager through most of the 90’s. The music was great but nothing else felt great about it. But I look back and am so grateful we didn’t have social media in high school.
As a guy heading into his mid 20's I'd suggest you make the most out of your teenage years on the era you're living, there'll be plenty of time for nostalgia later ;) cheers!
@@jadepopps Absolutely! I was a teen in the late 90's to early 00's, so I saw it come about, but it was much nicer when I had to call my friends up on the phone to talk for hours until my dad picked up the other phone and told me to go to bed.
I'm 67. Was raising two little kids when it came out, but since having two little kids and my husband around was such a great time in my life, this song is one of many that bring back so many good memories for me, too. Now my kids are adults, and my husband is gone, but hearing songs like this one reminds that I was blessed with a very good life.
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Crazy we are nostalgic about a song from 20 years ago which talks about nostalgia from 20 years ago
25 years ago i guess😥
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Yeah, people have always been nostalgic. Its different now, though. People REALLY HATE THIS TIME!
Ha! Good point
yeahhh, its fuckin awesome that time
I'm 42 years old, married, a beautiful wife who I will love till my last breath, 3 amazing children, a good career and relatively good health. Yet this song makes me want to go back and do it all over again, find my teenage self and let me know that all the pain you've experienced and still will in your 20's will be worth it in the end, that you'll be okay, you will.
Hey Justin can I use you for a quote for a film called "Replay" written by Ken Grimwood?
TheLottolandus Hi, yes you have my permission. Do you want my full name?
Ayyy man living the good life
Dude if your happy with your life why go back. If you fullfilled what you accomplished then set up new challenges.
@@TheLottolandus Oh my God. Is it being made? I loved that book so much. I think about it all the time. I know someone was working on it, but I thought it died in the can or whatever they say. Is it happening?!
I'm 59. In 1979, I WAS these kids.
What a beautiful, haunting song.
I'm 42, I was 1 in 1979, still I totally relate to this song
Heard that brother
My dad was 9 in 1979, and I also resonate with the song as a younger person. Amazing to find so many similarities with other people :)
I'm 21 now, and have spent plenty of nights doing *most* of the things the video has. Especially the shitty driving 😂 Some of us still like to have fun without zombie walking into a hookah bar off 20 Xanax to talk about how loud the music is
YEAH
In my opinion ,this is and always be the greatest 90s nostalgia song of all time
Your opinion isn't important
@@lollipop84858It IS important to me
@@lollipop84858Maybe not important to you ,my comment likes disagree 😂
It’s about the 70s
@@MontyGanzerit’s a song made 20 years ago about nostalgia of 20 years before that
The speed at which time passes is cruel, surreal and heartbreaking. The 90s were really special for pop culture in so many ways. Enjoy kids.
I graduated in 94. I miss those days. We were the cool kids.
Walter 1985 I was born in ‘93. Been a damn ride that’s for fucking sure. This song...
@Waqas Khan I wish you 2000's kids experienced it also, times would be much different these days if you guys got to grow up the way we did. Simpler times
I was alive in the 90s. Lotta drugs back then and I don't remember any of it.
I was born in 99.
Ok. Let's be honest for a second, the 90s were all about rap, this kinda music was in the back burner. In fact listening to alternative rock was considered not that cool. Now the 90s were still cool but there was crappy music back then too.
This song got me feeling nostalgia for memories that never even happened
that's exactly the feeling
@@uaujuan I was born in 2004 and this song with other 70s 80s 90s songs and bands make me miss the 70s 80s 90s good times without no hate between the boys and girls or the or the useless smartphones PD I own a sony Ericsson walkman and a Razr V3i inherited from my parents
Perfect summary of it
ggh
qwerty6801 me to man
I’m not even a huge smashing pumpkins fan, but this is seriously one of the best songs I’ve ever heard, a true masterpiece.
You should listen to their first album Gish
@@kelleymcbride4633 Said NOT a Pumpkins fan, Only Pumpkins fans tend to like anything outside this double album.. as you are aware, this album was a perfect pop/mainstream album.. the rest.. you kind gotta be a Pmpkins fan.
@desidagoat1995 now you're a pumpkins fan
Truly my fav
80's and 90's
Reminds me of the days when MTV used to play music videos. The 90`s were good times.
The 90s was all about MTV
@@jlouis4407 You said it all!
90s and early 00s were such warmer times. Would do anything to go back for a day, even if it was my last day
@@didimeanso agree, we just didn't know how good it was at the time. Great vibe in the UK too with Radiohead, Oasis, The Verve, Prodigy etc all releasing great albums, but the Pumpkins were so dam good.
This song feels like the last day of school before summer begins
That makes a lot of sense. It's like your friends and you are remembering what you all did together throughout the school year
you encapsulated the feeling perfectly!
The video was clearly inspired by "Dazed and Confused" which was released a couple years before.
🥺💔
wow i love this. gives me the feels. just thinking of school days.
A lot of people are saying this song reminds them of memories that never happened, I think this song reminds me of memories I *WISH* had happened.
Shit, you hit hard on that
I was born in 79. I got to experience my teenage years with no cell phones, no social media, and it was fantastic!
same
@@anneg1979 I grew up around cell phones, only I never had one until I was 14. And when I did, it was just a stick phone which I used for emergency, I never depended on electronics growing up, because society was still fairly good when I grew up, after getting older and realizing what other adults told me when I was younger, no kid will ever realize shit an adult would tell them until they become one themselves.
I lived it all!! it was fun as hell!
I feel sorry for anyone that didn’t experience the 90s. The last decade before the internet took over the world, and music was everything
I don’t have to experience the 90s. I love this song because of gta 4.
We have an opposite opinion here, in Russia. 90s was the worst time for us, that was a decade of homicide, drugs and misery. Bless god it's all gone past.
Wasnt the 90s controlled by giant record companies?
We are currently in the golden age of music.
@@gachimuchenik7784 That’s a really cool perspective to hear. Everywhere I go everyone says that the 90s were a golden age which I guess they were in America, but not where you are from.
I was born in the 80's. The internet was deff a thing in the 90's... Especially the late 90's. AOL chat was the SHIT in 1998 lol. Really miss those times in my childhood. The 90's really was a lot better. Anything before 911. After 911 the country really changed. Everyone got angry and bitter and security was increased everywhere and then we also got these SJWs everywhere and stuff. 90's kids unite.
Lyrics : Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Double-cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slipping dues down to see
That 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 towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it to see
That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around
This song is literally the definition of nostalgia and I can’t explain it
Yes, i was born in 1979... Cool kids never grow up 🤘🏻.
@Jimmy Johnson Yes, i'm.
Because it's a coming of age song, it's meant to invoke nostalgia.
@Jimmy Johnson Thanks, but I'm not, it's just i still look young, for some reason 🤷... Must be veganism i guess...
@@cornflakegirl1718 I hope I look that good when I'm 40! I might actually consider switching to a vegan diet now lol!
It’s so cool to think that right now while you’re listening to this someone in the other corner of the world is also listening to this and vibing with you without even knowing
@REMY THE RAT :)
Wow. I like that!
@@martineshamzin7535 ;)
I just got chills... im 37 now but feeling like 15 all over again... cheers!
@@cherieponce6180 That’s so cool
I'm deaf, but luckily before losing my hearing, I was able to live through the 90s and know their voices still in my memory.
legendary
Elona Musk ?
Wow. I'm sorry.
can you perceive bass?
@@seikousanneh6673 that can be felt
My dad was 30 years old in 1979, he passed away last July 12th
I miss you dad, I miss you so much but I must go on
Sorry for your loss. RIP
Stays strong brother 💪
this makes me miss people i will never see again, in a time that is forever out of reach.
:(
That was painful to read.
I Know :(
well said
Memorys is what they are now but that's what we make on a daily basis ....sad but true .... imagine being someone with no memorys
Many of us really didnt understand the beauty of our youth. At the time we mostly dreamed of hurrying and finally growing the heck up so we could do what we wanted. Now as adults we at times yearn for some of the days of our past. The first girl that ever showed any interest in me ( an ugly duckling i considered myself to be) when i was 14 was the sweetest nicest girl. I came from a rougher home without much love and I considered myself quite unlikeable. She proved to me....that someone could actually like me. She ended up being the first love of my life. Unfortunately she died a few years after it all at only the age of 18. Now decades later i still think of her and her sweet spirit. How she had to have been an angel to like a misfit like me. Especially at such a crucial developmental moment of my adolescents where acceptance and love is exactly what i needed. I can still so clearly hear her soft voice from our childhood. Sad but i try to look back at the memory more with gratitude today. I'm just glad that it ever even happened. Sending strength and positive vibes to everyone who read.
6 months ago today my dads Toyota Landcruiser was in a car accident and the car was totaled. It was a perfectly preserved 2002 that was flawless. It could have gone another 100-200 thousand miles. Losing a car is nothing like losing a person, but It makes me sad that it was the car I grew up in and my family loved very much. My dad has always worked a lot and most of the times I spent with him were in that car. This was one of the songs he showed me while I was a lot younger. The road trips, memories, and surfing adventures can never be the same.
I have resonated with you friend. I have experienced something similar and you made me remember that part of a long forgotten life and feel the longing of something unreachable again. Thank you. I wish you the best.
Thank you. Sending positive vibes back from Buenos Aires, Argentina!!
No words but these: God Bless you, brother. I stand with you. o7
sorry mate hold on to those happy memories Keep Safe and Strong ❤
It hurts because you remember how much fun it was, but you know you can't go back....
Robert Robinson ahhh. So much truth. We had it though. Better than most...
That part
Robert Robinson yeah know what you mean. Means your history will always be the same but your present and future is open to negotiation. Go for it.
Robert Robinson so damn true
Interesting....last months i try to revive the 90s and 80s feelings. By hearing those tunes, watching movies from that era, buying vintage shirts etc...but basicly im trying to live my childhood memorys...creating this playfull energy in the now...........any one else??? :)
I keep scrolling and reading comments about the 90’s. Its like a knife being jabbed into my heart. I am 19 and what I would to to experience the 90’s…
live in the village that didn't have a internet, thats how i feels when i remember 90's
Hi I Recommend a Song/video that's entitled 'Life Changes' By Robert Nix
I was 18, graduated class of '79, and this song still hits home at 61 years old...
Wow
ummmmmm what
@@heysiritellmeacoolprofilen7296 Math.
i envy you.
@@billybadass9031 fuck I didn’t read it
So far, music is the closest thing we've got to a time machine.
Great comment pal always said the same myself you would listen to a song and it brings you back to that very time the girl or boy you were with but yeah music is a time machine 👌
You’re right!!! Best comment I’ve ever read!
Perfect!
@@jonncash2169 g hg ggg
@@jonncash2169 go y
This song gives me memories of playing with friends not knowing it’ll be the last day we hangout before life hits.
😢
AlmightyAngel935 great interpretation.
Life hits harder then dads belt
Bad joke ?
Damn
Oof
Born in 1979 and I'll be 45 on September 12th ❤❤❤❤ my teenage years of amazing different genres of music 🎶, And I m grateful for the real time experience for all of it
Born in November 79, 90s were the last decade of normaity in the world. Enjoy your birthday.
Happy birthday 🎉
@@Glanmire1990Dec 1979
@@Spookyjimm enjoy your birthday, old now old, there is no true beauty without decay
True 😊@@Glanmire1990
1979 was the first year I shook those zipper blues. I met my husband. Best time of my life for the next 35 years until I lost him to cancer. There will never be another relationship for me.
Dang.. Sorry to hear that Emma. They say the best feeling a human can feel is thinking back on good memories. When we're actually experiencing them we don't understand how special they are, but looking back we realize how amazing and special they are. Remember and honor your husband by thinking back on all the great memories you had together. Hang in there ;)
Emma I'm very sorry for you're loss
I lost my
husband in 2016
and he loved this
song. I am sorry
you lost him.
god bless you emma
You must have been listening to Dishwalla Emma Peel. I am widowed also, but still hold out hope for another love. These songs bring back good memories and sorrow.
This song is the definition of nostalgia. I miss when I was younger, and I wish I could’ve cherished the time I had before I lost my chance. I’m pretty sure this is something we all deal with. As kids we wish we were older to be able to do what we want, but never realize that all we want is already there.
your gonna make me cry dude. im 19 and i cant fucking get over the fact that my childhood is j8st gone..where the hell did all those years go, i miss my grandpa, and i wish i never tried cocaine.😔
yeah honestly, I mean Im only 12 but I´m scared of growing up because I don´t wanna grow older and since I had a lot of trauma and I am mentally and physically older than most kids my age its hard to stay a kid and have fun. So now that I just realized this a few days ago I´ve been trying to cherish my childhood. But eventually I´ll have to. oh well. I just wanna have fun and not want the rest of my childhood to be a nightmare like some of it was.
@@Scarlett-no3cx you slund like you have good insight young man. thats good, you will turn out just fine. relax, and enjoy life dude.
Wise words!
Me 2 has been 30 years in America time passing by too fast :(
I'm 43, and this came out in 1996, the year I graduated from high school. Man this takes me back to such a great time in life. Something about them riding in that car, being young and free. Just takes me there.
nods 😎
Big hug !! 😘
Same here. If I had one wish: Back to 1996/1997 just for one weekend...
Shanti....the 70's was where it was at! Miss it BIG TIME!
@@krustykrustowski3167 Just one weekend would be heavenly. The air was even different back then.
I remember being a teenager in the 2000's and not liking this song but my best friend would play it all the time, along with the rest of there music and now that im 38 and a adult with life experience, I get it now.
Andy Bernard: "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them."
Tony Vu wow
I’ve been thinking about that lately I’m currently 18 but I’m gonna live like I am still in the good old days
yo i finally finished season 9 yesterday and this line hit me hard
I tell my kids all the time... enjoy being a kid.
"someone should write a song about that"
Still driving around listening to this on full blast in 2022. It's still one of the best songs ever made and it's a time machine that takes me back to the 90's when my life was a lot simpler.
I was young once, and it was when this song was first released. This song is a part of my youth and soul, and I'll never forget it. This double album will echo through time.
Dude same it reminds me of being in the backseat on a rainy day while my dad drove the car
I was 24 26 years ago... I was in the best decade, before 9/11, at the birth of the internet craze, best alternative rock, grunge and carefree times, without Facebook, social media, crazy politics... somebody build that way back machine quick, pretty please...
@@torrentbits Agreed, social media has destroyed mankind
Eu Também continuo ouvindo esse som do meu carro, e acredito que vou ouvir pra sempre....Brasil
this song makes me wish i was a teenager even though i am a teenager
Anime Is For Weebs same plus this song makes me wish I had friends rip
Russian Pickle F
TheGaystation69 F
Russian Pickle F
Makes me wish I was alive then, even though I was alive then.
Remember that it's a song about being a teen and not about the 1970s. Around the time of the song release 1970s nostalgia was rising until it became fashionable (That 70s Show for instance came out a couple of years after this song debut) but the lyrics are truly an ode to naive and unceremonious adolescence and friendship. Although people in comments are talking about post-modern nostalgia of missing something you did not have lived yourself they do so because they're focusing on the video above all else. I think anyone can relate with what the lyrics are saying no matter what decade they have born. Even if you think your teenage years were boring or a total waste with no friends you can still relate with what the lyrics say about not caring. To not care used to be a privilege of kids and teenagers whilst to be adult is to take responsibility. And it is about the delights taken from this absence of responsibility he is singing about.
We found the life of the party ^
I also thought the same thing. We have a nostalgic day when we don't have responsibility just pure fun or even fool. This song just remind me that your past was cool and fun but this ultimate reality and responsibility now is things that push me to be a better person that means more responsibility, less drama and mindfulness.
This comment made me cry so hard, I never went to parties or had these experiences, I sat inside all my teenage years playing video games and doing other things. Glad you guys have these memories ❤
@@realscenekidsorry to hear that!!!!
My song, my generation. I was 15 years old in 1979. I was born in 1964 and I'm now 55. This song and the video is like a time capsule of my teenage years.....
@@odros , 40 years has passed.... the teenage girl is now a mother of 2, grandmother of 5, a manager in a hospital, who is getting old and feeling her age.... I miss being young, pretty and full of youth and energy. I have many regrets, but in end I turned out just fine. I remember 3 channel TV's with round glass screens and no remotes, vinyl records, and black desktop rotary phones. We got information from encyclopedias and our local library. Now we have the internet! It tells you everything! I can communicate with people all over the world effortlessly. I can video chat with my grandson. Amazing! But I still feel nostalgic about the past. I miss the simplicity. Thanks for asking :)
I’m Feelin Ya , 55 Also Those were the Days 👍😬
@@davecowan6665 , hi five!
@@odros , awww, thank you!
You’re ass end of the baby boomers. I’m ass end of gen x.
"1979"
Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slipping dues down to see
That 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 towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made, I know you better than you fake it
To see that we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around
bloody hell. thos are powerfl and beautiful words, huh? i never really worried to much about the words, it was always the heart wrenching sound that sucked me in to this song and that beautiful clicking on the drum rims at the beginning.
thanks, i never got the lyrics before, makes the song more meaningful n sadder
Where can I get the lyrics ?
try that Google thingy
Katherine Palmado pure poetry.. And so fitting for the memories they evoke now.
Its so shocking that most of these 90s rock legends are already in their early 50s now.
Life is short.
I remember this coming out when I was 14yrs old. Time seems to have gotten away.. 🍂⏳🍂
Most of them are gone now to Od
@@karennielsen7696 thankfully there music lives on
It is😭
It's not shocking, it's math.
I lost my wife Crystal last year June 2023. It has taken me this long to play this song again because I miss her so very very much. I really am alone because she was the only family I had left, the love of my life, and my only best friend.
... ❤
hope you are taking care of yourself. i'm so sorry for your loss. sending you lots of love internet stranger ❤️
Aww I'm so sorry man .
You’re not alone, my wife’s name was Crystal.
Sr I’m deeply sorry, hoping you all the best for your future
Really makes me think of highschool, where the Mondays sucked and the Fridays were the best..... sometimes you don't realize how much fun you're having until after it passes.
I agree 💯
mondays still suck, and fridays are still the best.
if i could go back, every day would be the best.
High school sucked. I'd never go back...
Nigredo Kukai Highschool would only suck if you had no friends and were dumb at the subjects.
if you went back you'd obviously champion at it all, it'd be nothing to you. unless like i say, you were dumb at all the subjects. :] toodle-oo...
The song and video hits way different when you're actually born in 1979. Everything in this video is what I was experiencing when this album came out. Never forget the first time I was in a car, free of adults, and with other kids my age. Our spirits couldn't be broken, our days could not be ruined. A time of wonder, a time of awkwardness, a time of discovery was upon me and I couldn't inhale it fast enough. What a rush it was to be a young adult discovering the world. Fast forward nearly 30 years and I'm watching my kids do the same thing. Sometimes I lay in bed wishing I had a time machine. Thankfully videos like this and my kids allow me to close my eyes and remember it as it was, where it belongs...inside me forever.
What a beautiful reflection. Well said...
If you are actually born in 1979 you are too young to remember the 70's and what's in this video. It's a video about being a teen in those years...
@@Yu5aku yep, agreed. This song is named for the year when Billy Corgan was 12 years old.
well said Michael,
I do not think Kida today have any idea how free we were growing up, good and bad then they are. No cell phones, you had to get a new girl's number you met at the mall on a piece of paper. No directions on a phone when you were driving, shows that you missed if you were not sitting at the tv when they came on. Eating home cooked meals, going out was for when ya had a birthday. Drinking Kool aid or tang, soft drinks, yeah right.. Riding bikes till the street lights came on. playing Nintendo for the first time, going to an Arcade and the dollar movies. Seeing Mike Tyson become the youngest Heavyweight champ of the world!@ The first days of MTV.. i am older now but i would not trade those days for any today..80's and 90's music was the best..
This comment is so underrated
Kids who haven't even been born yet will feel nostalgia for this song
yeah, i remember hearing this when i'm still a gamete
@@supergamer303 LOL
I was born in late 2000s
@@leapasion358 hi hey it's 2019 how's your 19 year old life
Blade of fury I'm 13
I was born 1991. I know nothing about how life was then. But I miss the old days . No cell phone. I saw vcr . Life was so much different. I miss the old days.
This is a song about nostalgia, and I remember laying on my friend's bed late at night (or early morning) after partying, and this song came on the radio. I remember thinking, someday this song is going to be nostalgic when I'm old, and here I am. That night we had a similar party, furniture in the pool and all. It gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it now, and I pine badly for the 90s. You kids really missed out on a great time to be free and unconcerned.
I was born in 95 so I mean.... I was there, technically.
88, and I would give anything to go back. Better times.
I was born in 78 so I was a teenager in the prime 90's. What a party.
Indeed they did.
:)
Damn. This song is so different than anything I've heard. It's making me feel nostalgic for things that haven't happened yet, WHAT.
I love song but not really it just sounds like indie music😂
W Sjr Us 90s kids still got a lot of living left todo and a lot of greatness to still accomplish ✌🏼
I feel like the guy on ur profile picture wen after reading this
Look in to New Order
Marc Radice exactly what I was gonna say. Ceremony and Age of Consent especially
I was 16 when this came out. It’s literally the soundtrack of my entire high school life. Barely knew what the Internet was, no cell phones, no social media. Just the radio, MTV and MuchMusic. If I had known those would be the best of times I would have made sure to soak it all in and truly enjoy it.
I hear ya. I’m a couple years younger than you. The 90s were an amazing time. 80s too.
If only
I was 10, but totally agree.
You can still feel it. I'm 64 today and I lived the 70's,80's,90's and now. All rock is great. Enjoy.
Yesss what a good old day..
Mayebe iam only 9 or 10 years old but band like this fill my days, maybe drugs were very rampant at that time, but it seems I'd rather die in those days, than live in this nft shit era lol
I was born in 1979. When I lived in the States, this song was at the height of popularity, and I was living the best days of my life, and I will always cherish my memories.
This song is what nostalgia sounds like.
❤️❤️❤️
Even when it was new.
Fitter happier
@@stefan5149 more productive
@@RawPower7 lol
What a masterpiece of a song. Almost 30 years later, i still get goosebumps and all the feels.
Me too! l love the feeling this song gives me,
time fly
@@magdalenatrionfale1263 the days are long, but the years are short! Take care Gen X, i know you have what it takes!
Can’t believe it’s been almost 30 years.
you should listen to stone temple pilot - interstate love song 🎉
This song is too much man. Too much nostalgia. Too much sadness and happiness all in one. Makes you wonder what the hell this life is really about and why we are even here. But also makes you get the feeling there is a reason we are here and it’ll all make sense when we die. I’m not even depressed. I love life. But apart of me can’t wait to die to see the truth. Weird. Life is weird.
This is a strange place indeed.
This is gonna be my senior quote
Will Liv you’re reading my mind and my heart ❤️ 🥺❤️😣
You perfectly described how i feel when i listen to this song..now i feel like crying
I found the reason. To get in a right relationship with Jesus and be saved from death by Faith alone in Christ, no works or good deeds are good enough. Check out some Living Waters university clips for more on that and Hope you find the truth.. dont wait till you die to find out.
This video is so 90's it hurts
that's what makes it so great
Not really. The styles are not that different from today and everything in the video is exactly what kids do today -- even with the red cups. The video has a little bit of a retro feel, but it had that same feel when it was new because it was designed to evoke 1979 without all the very groovy clothing styles from the era (except for the cops and the corner store). The car is from 1972 or 73 -- no kid was lucky enough to have a car like this when the song came out. It was retro then.
Good times. Wish today's mainstream bands were half as socially aware. Videos and song writing have become so lazy now. Of course if that was a scary vision of youth, then just think what it might look like now?
+Astralis Lux The styles aren't at all like today
+emosh73 lmao sick story bro
Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skippin' like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end
To it all
[Chorus]
And I don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
[Verse 2]
Double-cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin' dues
Down to see
[Chorus 2]
That we don't even care
As restless as we are
We feel the pull
In the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement
[Bridge]
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
[Verse 3]
Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it
To see
[Chorus 1]
That we don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
[Outro]
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around...
Mantap bang
I knew I would find this if I looked hard enough lol
Thanks!!!
Man this song is about nostalgia for 1979 but it just makes me feel nostalgic for 1996.
fun fact, 1979 was only 16 years before this song was released, which was 25 years ago.
Agreed!!
@@derekderek2570 right, it's equivalent to someone writing a song about 2005 today which i feel like ive been starting to see a lot of lately but it just isnt the sameeee :( even tho i was 6 in 1996 lol! still miss it
You can't keep up with time. And you can't stop it. It will kill you and turn you to dust.
Yes sir. I think of 8th-9th grade when i hear this. Well that and GTA 4 😁
90’s are the greatest! Such an inspirational song. Miss my jamming days. Who’s here in 2024? Wherever or whoever you are.. know this I love you and you have a great day! Cheers!
Message to any young folk. You is a kid for a very short time. The days, weeks, years seem to last forever but they really don't. Cherish this time, don't be in a hurry to grow up because adulthood sneaks up on you and lasts the rest of your life. Then those days you were an innocent kid seem like a distant memory. And don’t forget to smile.
Wow...you hit the nail on the head with that one.
househansa thank you although this goes to younger kids I'm 20 & I feel like I'm at my peak of leaving everything behind but at the same time bringing everything with me along
wrong im still a kids i never grew up...
By the way I was 10 in 1966 Timeflies you don't have to have fun
The problem is that young kid dosent listen to this kind of music... I'm 16 and im the only one of my friend that listen to this kind of music... btw im young but cant live my young life because I got to prepare my futur life and everithing is based on this im tired of this thinking today.. live young wild and free!!!..
Hope yall understand im french hehe
I was 20 years old in 1979, I heard this song when I turned 40 (midlife crisis) and thought about 1979 and how simple it was. Now at 60 I listen to it and only feel FREE from the struggles of my past. Great song in the never ending circle. 1995-1999 had some of the best music, much better than the 60s.
Elder Mountain much better than the 60s? Well I’m only 16 but from what I’ve heard from the 60s I love most of it, many good songs came from that time period in my opinion.
spot on mate,
I agree!!!!
The year I graduated high school
It's good to know that in 30 years or so, I'll be getting over the crushing despair felt by a sense of lost childhood whenever my sense of nostalgy is stimulated.
90s music aged like fine wine
Jason Neoh - underrated comment my friend 🤙🏼
Just like 00s music will in a few years, trust me
Not sure I entirely agree with you. There are certainly 90s songs that stand the test of time, but there was also plenty of crap that hasn't aged very well at all. Color Me Badd? Ricky Martin? Hanson?
@@posysdogovych2065 at least we didnt have gg alin or Charles manson come from our era. 90s made the most hits of all times threw all genre's of music not just rock not just rap not just pop but all genre's
*staind, 1993 radiohead, One week by barenaked ladies, limp bizkit, bush, Illmatic, Sugar Ray, Coal Chamber, most 90s boybands, creed, Oasis' third album, the entire genre of post grunge with the exception of foo fighters, Van Halen's 90s albums, Achy Breaky heart, Venga Boys, Cotton Eye Joe, and much more say hi*
No phone, internet or social media. Just people living life and enjoying themselves
zzzzzzzzzz technology happens FFS you know that someone twenty years older than you would have said "videos and MTV etc etc " you are just perpetuating a cliched trope
This song makes me miss the 90's. Always remember watching my older brother watch mtv and have this song playing. I was only like 7 years old.
Unexpected to see you here :)
haha, small world over here on youtube :) Always nice to bump into a familiar face.
You got a Cool channel
COMIC BOOK HERO Thanks!
SuperJumpReviews Watch your brother watch something
This is a perfect musical representation of the word “Youth”
Exactly!
I guess I never had one
Wonderfully said
Starting crying when I read this, but also listening to this song which makes me cry, have been drinking and just love this song so much
I'd be honored if some 90s fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins, LONG DECEMBER by the Counting Crows, and NAME by the GooGoo Dolls on my YT channel in tribute to 3 great standards of the mid/late 90s era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital enhancements. Peace out and stay safe in the '020s.
1996 i´ve dreams and no money. I was 19, no job. Live in same house with my best friend Alfredo. No food, no luck. But great times, i never forget.....
Alfredo sauce is pretty good
Sounds like me but I got food but no dreams lol
Youth is wasted on the youth.
+Astralis Lux I so agree
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This song brings back such beautiful memories to me. Memories of feeling free as teenagers. Just doing silly things. Till this day when I still get that same feeling.
I was 21 in 1979. Man, this song hits hard! I tear up EVERY TIME the chorus starts. Treasure your youth and EVERY SECOND of your life❤️
god bless you
Im 24 i love every time this song comes on the radio always turn it up
I wasn't here in 79'' :) But like this;)
Every one. Just today turned 37. I'm still an overages 12 southern boy when this song plays. All other lessons after fall into perspective in the context of these so-much-more-than-nostalgic riffs. Raise a glass to the golden age of alt rock.
This was the last song they played when I saw them in bologna Italy. My god so many memories and emotions
My dad used to listen to this song when i was a kid and i loved it so he got me a cd and a little portable cd player. recently my dad killed hisself and its been so hard keeping my composure. this song just brought back so many memories and it hurts. i know people probably dont care but i just really needed to say it.
Bro, I'm sorry to hear that. Hang in there bud life and faith will heal you if you keep positive
Geraldo Twotimes just know that it wasn't your fault. I hope he's in a better place now. Surround yourself with ppl who care. Im sorry u hv to go through yhis
hoohoo109 condolences bro🙏🏾
Sorry for your loss, man. Stay strong, better times will come and just wait for you.
Maybe your dad got you the cd player to listen to this beautiful nostalgic song and remember him. I know that your life is extremely painful, especially right now, but time and music like this helps. And eventually heals. You have all of my respect and condolences.
I WISH THE 90s never left 🥺💔
They never did ;)
TH-cams here to remind us dont worry brother
You'll change your mind if you are still with us in 2040. Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins will see the benefits of their art!
Same. Even thought I wasn’t even born 😌
It's with us in are hearts at least 😌.
Turning 44 yrs old but 100% grateful for growing up in the 80s and becoming a teenager in 90s. Greatest one-two combo in history.
I'm 44 in August..... We're did the time go ⏰
@@fields1336 in the past
@@fields1336 right on man! It's August 22nd for me, God willing.
I'm 43 now and I agree 1 million percent. No one truly got a better growing up experience then 80s kids and 90s Teens. I thank god for that daily...
I'm 41...
Let's all make a prayer for those who are still finding this song...
Its better to have a wasted youth than missed one.
Thanks lol
Why thank you.
I had searched bald singers from 1980 to 1990 cuz that was my only lead lol after awhile i found a modern pic of him and then found the song
Fellow Noel Miller fan
I've had this song in my head lately, it reminds me of my mom. I remember sitting in the car in high school with her driving me wherever and smashing pumpkins would come on the radio and she'd tell me about the music videos she watched growing up. She was born in 1979, and she passed away November of 2020. It's crazy the things that can bring back memories so vividly and makes me realize just how much I miss her. What I would do to go back and go driving with her, even just for the length of one song, just to spend the time with her one more time (edit) tomorrow is the 6th of November, marking a year since she passed away, I am 20 and my sister is a couple months away from 18, I wish I could change things because this hurts so much sometimes.. I'm grateful for all the kind words, I never expected to get so many responses, and it's helped me feel a little less alone
Really sorry about your Mom!
@@arymonem thank you
Your Testimony is beautiful, my feelings for your mother, so young to happen. I'm 51 y o and ir seems like yesterday listening tod this sound. Hugs, here talking from Brazil.
Way too young! Sorry for your loss.
@@DeepOwl1073 way too young indeed. Thank you
Afro American and il stand on this. This song transcends all cultures, because it's beautiful
Fun fact. Billy wrote the lyrics originally as a poem and then wrote the music without changing a single word to the original poem. What a musical genius. Edit: I'm sorry to the people in the comments that are definitely on the spectrum... You do you, I am sticking with he is a genius.
I'd be honored if some 90s fans would give a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of "1979" by the SMASHING PUMPKINS and "Long December" by the COUNTING CROWS in tribute to 2 of the most iconic bands of the mid/late 90s. Live acoustic with no autotune. Peace out and stay safe in the '020s.
the direct link th-cam.com/video/XqvFK_v3Xfk/w-d-xo.html ("1979" acoustic cover)
That's how Underneath the Bridge was written too! RHCP's producer read the poem in Kiedis' notebook and convinced him to make it into a song
Побольше Здоровье тебе бро Билли!Долгых лет жизни!
Genius ?? The lyrics suck !
[Verse 1]
Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skippin' like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end
To it all
[Chorus]
And I don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
[Verse 2]
Double-cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin' dues
Down to see
[Chorus 2]
That we don't even care
As restless as we are
We feel the pull
In the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement
[Bridge]
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
[Verse 3]
Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it
To see
[Chorus 1]
That we don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
[Outro]
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around
Thanks!!!!❤
Thank you, loved the song but had more then a few lyrics wrong. It's a very profound song😢
Brilliant mate, thanks for the lyrics 👍👍
i was born 4 days shy of 1979, and this song always makes me feel , what if i did things differently? for every mistake, for every wrong doing, for every right thing i did, it all lead me to now. i wouldnt change where i am now for anything.
Being a teenager in 90's is one of the luckiest things could ever happened
growing up in the 70s was better.
Yet here you are commenting on 90s music👍
@@mehcol 80s and 90s
*if you grown up in West
Absolutely!
As I turn 38 tomorrow, I still remember riding my bike to the record store (rip 1988-2019😢) and buying Siamese Dream.... still remember seeing it on MTV....and yea it’s aging nicely....rock on
Evan Gincel hell yeah dude life changes but the past will never
Evan Gincel hope you had a great birthday! Hopefully 38 is a good age, because I’ll be joining ya in December!
isn't 1979 on mellon collie and the infinite sadness?
Been there, done that! ;)
Dude, your record store opened the year Smashing Pumpkins was founded
This song manages to be relentlessly bleak and relentlessly comforting at the same time.
Got damn
I heard Billy Corgan on Stern saying that's what he was going for on "Tonight, Tonight". This song immediately popped in my head when he said that.
That’s called nostalgia. Simultaneously the best and worst feeling.
Yes
Musicians that can do that are true artists. In my opinion they are rare today.
I was 17 when i first found this song. I remember that night. Im 25 now... College is done, job is secured, and ive gotten married. Feels like half a lifetime has went by in the the past 7 years (...7 years have gone by....). This song is a beautiful and painful reminder of the time that has passed.
This was one of my Dad's favorite songs. Now on is birthday it's definitely hitting home. Happy 43rd Birthday Dad! I miss you! ❤️ R.I.P.❤️
my absolute condolences
Sorry for your loss RIP❤
So sorry for your loss RIP ❤
43? I'm so sorry baby
🤟🏻 condolences and happy bday watching over you proud your still listening to this 🔥 I’m sure
I lost my high school best friend to suicide 3 months ago. We always listened to this song whenever we went on a long drive. I think about him everyday and wish I was a better friend. RIP Jesse.
My real name is Jesse.
I'm sure you are a great friend xx Rip JESSE x we send love x
Sorry
I wish we could help everyone
I I
will
Make a
Little prayer for your friend.
what a wanker
@@therolinga79 what the hell she is obviously hurting and that’s what you have to say
My dad isn't here anymore, but he will forever be with me when I listen to the smashing pumpkins. Such a special sound that could never be recreated. I miss ya dad.
Oh girl , my dad has cancer and i was feeling numb idk why , and i just saw ur comment and i started to cry 💔
Oh Sarah...i share your words and i have the same feeling....my dad isn't here anymore too but with this song i remember...kisses from France.
Me too bro but we will remain vigilant
He is with you now!
Stop whinning
This song just remind me that your past was cool and fun or even fool but this ultimate reality and responsibility now is things that push you to be a better person that means more responsibility, hardship, less drama and mindfulness. Cheers for everyone who is keep struggling facing reality now!
I grew up with The Smashing Pumpkins, like many of us. I memorized all lyrics of Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness. I remember singing their songs out loud, feeling the music, and being alive. This song is a true masterpiece and it gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it, still, in 2023.
your feelings were never more true than now brother
ela beija muito bem amigos
I'm from Poland from the continent of Europe this song is something special when I listen to it I feel the power flowing from it and the filling of nostalgia
Tf is Mellon collie???? It's melancholy
@@nonamepainter sorry I don't know the name of the album? I like the music and I didn't know that.
I cannot handle the nostalgia from this song.
tooo fucking hard mayne ...
i remember my ex girlfriend nicole....damn she doesn't even my ex..i cant even talk to her ;_;
I cant even ex
Al Roslee Why doesn't she my ex. Everybody needs to my ex sometimes. It's part of a healthy lifestyle
***** This is kinda fucked up. English is probably not their first/native language.
Being born in 1980, this song speaks more and more and more and more every year. Timeless melody and lyrics
I'd be honored if some 90s fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performances of "1979" by the SMASHING PUMPKINS th-cam.com/video/XqvFK_v3Xfk/w-d-xo.html and "Name" by the GOO GOO DOLLS in tribute to 2 great standards of the era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace out and stay safe in the '020s.
Grade 11 at that time....was an amazing era.....very positive to say the least...
Child of the 80's and a teen of the 90's. Blessed, cursed and done.
I'm also from 1980! How I understand you!
Hey
..
I think this guy is a real serious creep.
Une des meilleur chanson de tout les temps. Connu à sa sortie en 1996. Mes 20 ans. Que de souvenirs.
I can’t believe a year was named after this song lol
your name is 1979?
No my name is frozen croissant
I've never met a guy like you
nO tHe sOnG wAs NamEd afTeR tHe yeAr
No tHe YeAr WaS nAmEd AfTeR tHe SoNg SmH nOoB
This song is for memories that will never happen and for memories that you already have
indeed
@@Special_Agent_NSB yes it is part of growing up but you have the memories
Memories that can happen***
I’m 13. I listen to classic punk rock. And hard rock. No rap shit. And yes that is true. But I don’t really have any good mems because people are ghetto nowadays. :(
my only memories are... oh man. nothing..
I'm 51 yrs young and absolutely love this song. One of my favorites. I was 8 in 79. Bicycles, roller skates and out til the street lights came on.
Your soooo right! That Streetlight RULED Your World lol
🙋🏼♀️Dec. 1970
@@tara_ble1705 Ocr 1968
June bugs, lots and lots of June bugs.
Now people just sit on there phones
Forever 80s & 90s ❤ best times to be alive.
Back in 1996 when I was 16 and in the 10th grade, I was supposed to be in this video after school, but I was grounded.. One of the people in the video was a close friend of mine. Too bad, it looks like they had so much fun making this...
good story man but i got to ask why did you not sneak out i mean this would had to been one biggest points in your life
I was that friend what’s up bro
@@kellygoldsmith6662 Given that those comments were posted two years apart, I wonder if you (@kellygoldsmith6662) ever took the extra effort to track down @SpiderCollector000. Did you? If you haven't, and you're reading this now, I doubt it would be "too late". Just remember, someday, it WILL be too late, so, go for it!
The ultimate 90s nostalgia anthem..
Marco T I'm 16, born in 2000 and I get 90s nostalgia listening to this song. I feel like I missed out on something iconic and I wish I could have been a part of it.
Marco T For me it was early 2000s childhood memories.
SOCIAL REJECT iconic? maybe in the 60's
i'm 34 and was a teenager in the 90s. it was a lot of bad clothes and bad music for every cool thing that has survived.
Fuck yeah..
This song takes me back to my high school days. Getting ready for school and seeing my dad sitting at the kitchen table drinking his coffee. I wish I could have one more day like that.
I’m sorry for your loss I’m 13 this is my dads favorite song and wish I could see him again
This ❤
😢
Exactamente, ojala regresaran esos días
Zegordinhotempeiro
Its crazy how the guitar sounds just work even though it seems like they shouldnt. And they come together to bring a feeling i cant put into words.
I may very well be the oldest one to post here. I love this song. I was 21 in 1979, and already been in service, but this song makes think about my teen years in the early seventies. Great song.
interesting how nostalgic this song can be for anyone
I hear you, I was 21 in 1979 as well and just joined the army. I feel the same way about it and the video reminds me of stuff that me and my friends did. The party, and pool hopping and cruising. Good times. 😉
Happy 60th!
Sorry.....but i was 29 in 1979......
But there are still great groups in 2019....you just need to know where to look0
I'm right behind you Stephen, I was 14. SUPER SONG!
Everyone: 'Talking about Nostalgia, Pre-2000s, Old Memories'
Me: *WEEEEEEE*
Chase misprinted lies
xoro maldito Face the path of time
That's how it was growing up then. On my bike going fast af, just...wwweeeeeeee! I dont even care. Just...wweeeeeeeee!!
Yess😂😂
Born in '70 and came of age in the '80s. I didn't like a lot of the music that came out of the 90s, but this song and this band did something for me.
The nostalgia this song provokes, is a reflection of how the 90s felt. Pure and real.
Feels so 90s
the best time not like today, fake and boring without cool beats or spirit
Anemoia
Shake down 97.i was a senior in H.S.so many monroe HO's.lots of friends and partys.
Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slipping dues down to see
That 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 towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made, I know you better than you fake it
To see that we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around
THANKS. THIS SONG REMEBERS ME MY OWN 1979,,,, MAKES ME FELL I DIDN´T LOST MY YOUTH.
epic lyrics
Cool you looked up lyrics?
You're so angry, you must know at this point people pity you and they don't listen to what you say.
This should have a billion views.
Man, I am currently 13 and will soon enter high school. My dad, born in 1976, has always been into 90s music. I remember as a really little kid hearing the many songs that he would listen to in the car, and I now have immense nostalgia for bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. I would do anything to get the chance to see what living in the 90s as a teen was like.
yo sa,e
Haha i was a teen in the 90's as well i was born in 1975. My daughter is 14 she's into Nirvana. She grew up listening to all these bands as well.
I was a teenager through most of the 90’s. The music was great but nothing else felt great about it. But I look back and am so grateful we didn’t have social media in high school.
As a guy heading into his mid 20's I'd suggest you make the most out of your teenage years on the era you're living, there'll be plenty of time for nostalgia later ;) cheers!
@@jadepopps Absolutely! I was a teen in the late 90's to early 00's, so I saw it come about, but it was much nicer when I had to call my friends up on the phone to talk for hours until my dad picked up the other phone and told me to go to bed.
im 66 yrs old i heard this in my 40;s and i still feel amazing when i hear it. saved my life...listened to them non stop... ty SP..
good for u
I'm 67. Was raising two little kids when it came out, but since having two little kids and my husband around was such a great time in my life, this song is one of many that bring back so many good memories for me, too. Now my kids are adults, and my husband is gone, but hearing songs like this one reminds that I was blessed with a very good life.
A todos nos marcó esta canción en diferentes partes del mundo ♥.
I'm 12 and i hear this song when i was 7 and can already relate
I'm 68 3/4 this makes me feel like a 25 Yr old.... Etc
Takes me back to when life was easy and fun. I'll be 40 this year and it's been challenging but listening to music like this makes me smile.
Me to 😊
Same here.Glad to hear I’m not the only one.
I'll be 45 .. I miss my youth and would never change it . This just brings back memories. Cruise Gratiot and drag racing
Keep smiling ❤
I am 50. I have lost all hope. we are in such a mess today. We are beyond help.
The 1990s has something to teach the rest of time. I hope it listens.