My best friend died 20 years ago tonight. Car crash, he was 16. Timmy Bourque. He introduced me to Smashing Pumpkins. Tonight I'm drunk, listening on repeat, and loving the box of his memories I'll never give up.
Probably my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song of all time. One of the first songs I learned to play on guitar. The nostalgia is hitting me hard right now❤️
I'm 64... My mind tells me I'm still in my 20s. My body tells me the truth. Young people, go easy. You'll be here as quick as you blink your eyes. This song is a classic!
@jiml5233 This is personal. So, you can say so. Do you ever feel like we wasted time? I mean, if I could go back and start over, boy would I have done things right. MYbe, I would have known I was hooked up with a narcissistic for way to long. Here I am at 65 alone and wondering what the heck I am talking about. Sorry.
I am a 65-year-old African American male, when this song came out in 1996 I was 43 years old. I like all kinds of music and this song was incredible! The video was mesmerizing. Billy's voice pierced through all the noise - I bought this double album and it (along with Tupac's "All Eyez On Me") dominated my psyche for the next year at least. What a rush to spontaneously pull this up while working on a project. A time machine, music is.
I was 3 and didn't have much preference in music at the time ;) But this ended up becoming my favorite band 10 years later, and still remains my favorite more than 10 years after that.
I was 18 and into punk, although I had respect for Smashing Pumpkins ever since I heard "Gish" in 1991. In 1996 I first tried smoking weed and opened my mind to all kinds of different music. I had a crush on Fiona Apple. Time flies.
I was a green hotdog when this song first came in my ear after that I went to college and everyone saw me as a biscuit with butter..That was fun needless to have said it at all.
The nostalgic value of this song for me is through the roof. This video was on MTV so much at that time. I miss the 90s everyday. What a time to be alive.
Iv heard smashing pumpkins in a way i can only describe as the way/feeling of walking past someone and smiling, but without knowing what you two have been through, good and bad. But you look back and think, it was great to hear that song just like it was great to share the smile with the stranger. Iv broke down and reflected on my lifes ups and down’s listening to smashing pumpkins back to back today. And apart from feeling related to the songs and music, i read so many stories and comments on how their music has made many people feel… iv been left with an overwhelming feeling of bittersweetness. It brought up happiness, my depression, my love life, loneliness, my family, and most recently my children and amazing wife. Somewhere along the line i felt i lost the ability to cry and in turn loosing the ability to feel? The things everyones sharing along with these lyrics and music that cuts so deep, has literally opened my eyes so much today that i felt i had to share. Id like to say to everyone going through something hard or something beautiful, to hold on to it, good or bad, it will help you grow and gauge everything in due time. Iv been crying like i used to, something i found out was so helpful to me in the past that i lost connection with. Iv purged a lot of bad feelings and brought in a lot of good as well. Thanks for such amazing music and to everyone that shared those moments, thank you as well, the help has been some of the most iv had in my 34 years. To not know any of you personally yet receive so much has been needed for a while, im glad it changed today 🖤 best wishes
Word! Word for word! Iv felt this same exact stuff...Lollapolooza 1992...my first acid trip at 15. Smashing pumpkîns headlined and at that point my brain was deep down in the dirt just hoping for something positive to lift me up and carry me out of the negative trip. Thén this song literally got me up and made the rest of my night so happy, uplifting, positive, joyful ànd downright dreamlike to me now as I think back to those times. Where I was at that moment in time and what this music did for me then and how it paralells to my entire life. I almost feel i have risen ànd am able to visualize those deep deep and uplifting moments. Wow, music...
My wife and I married in 1994. We both came from broken homes, deceased fathers and rough lives. At the time in our early relationship, this was our anthem and still is. We have done life together for almost 28 years. We did it right and we fought off every difficulty in our lives as we are truly blessed in the end like this video alludes to. I love this video.
Awesome, it's really all you can ask for in this short life. I feel a sense of love reading about such kinship and shared devotion, especially with a song I love, too. I wish you both the best.
My husband’s song- I tiptoe here to listen occasionally when I feel strong. He passed away unexpectedly in ‘08 leaving me and our three children to miss him tonight, tonight with resolute urgency I recall the beautiful moments of our life together
He will be back and in the second run in life energy finds each other again. Science, organized religion and people who take large doses of psychedelic all say the same thing. The universe dies and comes back and has no beginning or end. Learn what you need to don’t do this life again there’s higher states of existing.
Damn, sorry to hear. I'm so jealous of the people that seem to glide through life unscathed. Without loss and pain. Maybe they are better at hiding it I don't know. But I do know that very few are ready when that time comes. How can you be? I feel for you and your kids
@@davegordon6943thanks Dave 🫂, my whole life was preparing me for the next loss unfortunately. My mom got terminal cancer when I was 8. I think you’re right, some people don’t seem to have much loss or tragedy in their life- others have enough for a dozen lifetimes.
I had my girlfriend listen to this and she said, "Every time I hear this song, I will think of you. This song you recommended to me feels like it represents you, and it is similar to your temperament, a bit tender, a bit indifferent, and a bit melancholic." I think she's marriage material.
Tell me about it, I remember the week this album came out. I believe I was in 7th grade at the time! This album no joke won like EVERY single award that year at the MTV awards and every other annual music awards show. It was that legendary of an album and nobody had ever heard anything like it. I feel SO lucky to have been able to see the original lineup of the Smashing Pumpkins live probably 6 times! In Baltimore, we had a local radio station who did something called the "HFStival" every year. If you ever wanted to see one massive line up of nearly all headlining bands, THAT was the festival to attend! And get this, tix for all those bands back then was only $30! You'll pay 5X that amount just to see ONE of those groups today! I'm talking bands like...Rage Against the Machine, Eminem, Korn, Limp Bizkit, No Doubt, Aerosmith, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Dave Matthews, STP, Alice In Chains, Hole, Slipknot, Pearl Jam, Etc. They also always did had a secret performer every year in the beginning, so I was blessed to have seen bands like The Ramones, Run DMC, The Runaways & more. I can't even list all of the bands I've seen just from that one festival!
What is it about the Pumpkins? Theres emotion, edge and art all wrapped up into their music. Its beautiful. It makes you feel sad, yet inspired. They're so damn good.
I sang this to my youngest daughter every single day of her life, and we played it for her as she was passing because I was too broken to sing it. That intro captures every bit of love, joy, hope, and despair I felt during the too short 19 days of her life.
I'm so sorry to hear that, Is there anything I can do for you? God can heal things that feel impossible, and I believe that one day God will undo all the pain and death!
I have an older brother, he's 39 and I'm 35. I've looked up to him my entire life, I still do and we're the best of friends. We live in different counties in Ireland but still game online together regularly. He was into all the best music in the 90's when we were growing up, so every time I listen to music like this it triggers a great memory of our childhood, there's a mix of joy and sadness when I realise we're older now and can't go back to these days. There is something bittersweet and I can't wait to be able to hang out with him again when this virus goes away. Just thought I'd share.
@@haydenmohammed4812 This Grunge band Can Relate By Nirvana & Alice in Chains & Soundgarden & Pearl Jam Too Stone Temple Pilots Screaming Trees L7 and Hole.
Best comment i’ve ever red on youtube because of relatability. I have a younger brother (best friends), and I hope I will experience the same feeling you have now with yours.
I am 54 now. I listened to this cd everyday driving to college. This song gave me the courage to keep going. I had two babies at home! It is crazy how music can influence u. Thank you Billy Corbin.
And vain related to vanity. So much hopelessness and cynicism is ties to vanity, pride, stubbornness, and a refusal to believe things can in fact improve and that we are all worthy of love.
@@brianlaudrupchannel On a budget, sure. A proper stereo setup with a high end subwoofer and acoustically treated room will do things headphones never can
I am not sure kids today will ever get the nostalgia hit teenagers of the 90s get listening to Smashing Pumpkins songs off this album. It was the sound track to so many important times for people.
I don't worry. I'm sure they'll (we'll? - gen Zer here) look back at timeless masterpieces like "W.A.P." and think "aw yeah, I remember my childhood - sitting on in front of an ipad browsing degenerate YT shorts and TikTok all day. Now I've got manic depression and am stuck at a dead end job paying 500k in student loans with no possible future whatsoever, but those memories just take me back. Such wonderful times!"
Kids these days will never know what it’s like to experience an album! They just download the specific songs they want to hear. Nevermind the whole physicality of purchasing an actual item, bringing it home, ripping the cellophane off the cd/record/cassette, throwing it on/in, pressing play, and reading the liner notes while enjoying the album artwork. :)❤❤❤❤
@@hydraulichydra8363 You just described my teen nephew's life to a T. I feel genuinely bad for him but he never listens to my advice about getting off his devices, especially TikTok :(
@@hydraulichydra8363 @barnold23 hace 1 mes ¡Los niños de hoy en día nunca sabrán lo que es experimentar un álbum! Simplemente descargan las canciones específicas que quieren escuchar. No importa todo el aspecto físico de comprar un artículo real, llevarlo a casa, arrancar el celofán del CD/disco/casete, tirarlo, presionar reproducir y leer las notas mientras disfrutas de la carátula del álbum. :)
When I was younger listening to it I felt like something great and bright will be in my future 28 years old today, only darkness and hopelessness is around me Still this song brings my a little bit of brightness
This song takes me back to being a geeky 16 year old 90s kid, spending long summers singing with guitars around fires with good friends, beers in our hands and life stretching out forever in front of us. Billy made those nights immortal
Only thing I would "change" would be ...the more you change the less you feel. The more I've changed the easier things feel., Maybe I'm lucky, maybe I'm an anomaly....but I just went thru third degree burns from the fire that destroyed an enormous amount of artworks I created , and 99.9999 percent of everything I "owned" as well as now having to move to? And, instead of a new chapter, I'll be "writing" a new BOOK , maybe a trilogy or just keep writing ...... Even forever now seems possible if I so choose and believe, believe.
This song is true melancholy... it completely captures and embraces the anxiety and insecurity that comes when you realize tonight is one of the big moments you'll remember forever as your youth, and that it all happened in one short night... Man it sucks the universe cursed us with such short days, nights, and lives, but I'm so thankful for the few beautiful people out there who feel the same nostalgia and butterflies in their stomach when they hear a song such as this.
"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it."
I was dating a girl when this song came out. I could picture myself growing old with her and going on adventures like this. She became my wife. Last fall, we went to Napa Valley to celebrate our 20th Wedding Anniversary. One activity we had planned was a Hot Air Balloon ride. It made me think of this video. Driving from the airport to our hotel, we heard this song on the radio. It literally gave me chills! How often do you hear this on the radio anywhere anymore?
Wow man, that's so good to hear.. congrats to you and her.. I had...quite the opposite experience with this song...For me it really lives up to the name of the ablum that it's on...
I saw them in concert when I was 17 in 1997. Fast forward to 2024 and my almost 15 year old (special needs) daughter loves this song. Their music is everlasting!
I’m 72 y/o and while listening to the music my teens did back then I came to love the Smashing Pumpkins and knew all their songs! This song reminds me of some of the best times of my life! 🤗
Good music know no bounds. I'm 52 and a diehard Grunge and death metal fan. BUT, The Zombies, Procal Harem, The Animals and The Moody Blues are some of my favorite bands.
"Tonight, Tonight" Lyrics Time is never time at all You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth And our lives are forever changed We will never be the same The more you change the less you feel Believe, believe in me, believe, believe That life can change, That you're not stuck in vain We're not the same, We're different tonight, tonight Tonight, so bright Tonight, tonight And you know you're never sure But you're sure you could be right If you held yourself up to the light And the embers never fade In your city by the lake The place where you were born Believe, believe in me, believe, believe In the resolute urgency of now And if you believe There's not a chance tonight, tonight Tonight, so bright Tonight, tonight We'll crucify the insincere tonight, tonight We'll make things right, We'll feel it all tonight, tonight We'll find a way to offer up the night tonight The indescribable moments of your life tonight The impossible is possible tonight, tonight Believe in me as I believe in you tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight
Winner of 6 MTV Video Music Awards 1996: "Video of the Year", "Breakthrough Video", "Best Direction", "Best Special Effects", "Best Art Direction", "Best Cinematography".
Me and one of my friends had the idea of listening to this last week. He lives in another city and neither of us had any idea that the other was listening to this at the same time, after all these years. The impossible is possible tonight...
This takes me back to the 90’s as a Mexican teen with little English that got introduced to this beautiful nostalgic music by my older cool brother. I felt the music - no language barriers when it’s felt deeply .We were blessed with quality music.
This videoclip is really carved in my brain. It left me speechless when I was like 8 years old and it still affects me today. What a wonderful piece of art it is, and such a sincere tribute to the pioneering magic of Melies.
For those who don’t know, this video was in heavy rotation on MTV. This video got so much play that it made me a pumpkins fan immediately. Thank you MTV.
Sadly, I was really late to the party and I only became a fan because my friend was wearing a Mellon Collie shirt and I liked the design and got hooked on the band. Must've been great to experience em like that.
French here, i can confirm. This was played like every days, few times a day, when I was in vacations in the USA in the summer of 1996. In that period, they also played a lot of Irony by Alanis Morisette, Popular by Nada Surf and Waiting Outside the Phone Booth... by Primitive Radio Gods.
First time I heard this song I wasn't prepared... I cried like a baby. Something about the lyrics touched me to my core. Music is something you feel, not hear. ❤️
@@Spaethon Every time I hear Gilmour's solo in that song tears roll down my cheeks instantly. The line - no one told you when to run you missed the starting gun - really cuts.
This song is bizarrely nostalgic. They wrote it and we listened to it when we were too young to even be nostalgic. Now we're at the point in life where it actually fits. It's like it was telling us what we WOULD feel.
People get nostalgic literally as kids. As soon as you reach an age where you can reason and can look back at a more innocent time and a personal past, you are nostalgic.
The last video in its kind, most of the nowadays videos are musicalized dance, but there are no videos with theatrical ambientance and scenographic work, today is all about sex, there is not a cinematographic work in movies, television and music videos anymore, Real Cinematography has died.
@@ca294 the most recent songs I've heard usually doesn't have a music video. But if it does it's the band on a stage or a horror movie type thing, and is some cases just people getting murdered. I also have seen a music video that's just straight up porn.
I’m 19, and i was raised listening to the smashing pumpkins, since my mom was a huge fan during the 90s. i’ve always felt a nostalgic sort of sadness in their music, but at the same time an arcane beauty. forever one of my favorite bands.
A song that touches me as sad when I am sad, as upbeat when I am happy, and as exhilarating when I am jacked up. Billy could tap into any and all moods. Just incredible song writing.
it's the odd juxtaposition of vocal tone and lyrics that on their own feel sad, melancholic and reflective, but a percussion and melody that on their own feel upbeat, uplifting and hopeful. The fact those two blend together so well is why this song is a masterpiece of creativity and can mean so much to so many people in so many moods.
DON’T FORGET THAT EVEN THOUGH EVERYTHING IS BAD IN THE MOMENT, THINGS WILL ALWAYS, ALWAYS GET BETTER NO MATTER WHAT!!! And their are ALWAYS people out their who care about you
I was in labor with my first child and this song was on the tape I was listening to. When he was born, I looked at him and I said “if you believe in me, I will believe in you“ from this song and 27 years later, every time I look at him as a grown man, this song plays in my head. Thank you Billy Corgan for writing such a beautiful song.
I was a really bad heroin addict. nothing could stop me from destroying my life. in rehab, I walked into the garden and the counselor had this song playing on a portable speaker and I got this feeling of absolute hope. I felt it and it kept me going, gave me the ability to wake up the next day and keep going. believe in me, cos I believe in you tonight.
Saga Sitches I’m so proud of you and ever grateful for your existence and this seeming small but powerful influence you’ve had on me with this one comment. Peace be with you. I love you. Forever and always.
You don't even know what your words mean to me. I mean, every time I hear this song, I remember my H addiction in the late 90s. I experienced something called the "Prague heroin epidemic". Several of my peers from our neighborhood died at that time due to an overdose. I think.. just few people understand you as well as I do, man. I wish you all the best in your life :)
Almost 30 years later, I am back to listen to a song that spoke to me like no other at the time. I was in a very abusive relationship and was desperate for change, but fearful of leaving. The lyrics, “That life can change, that you're not stuck in vain” was a continuous reminder that I could leave with two small children and no car. The song stuck in my head and encouraged me to move forward. I now have a new life without the fear of abuse. In a strange way, because I was born in a city by the lake, it really spoke tome, and became stepping stone that I desperately needed at the time
This song makes me cry. My parents got divorced when I was in the fourth grade or so, and my brother and I would visit my dad almost every weekend. The last weekend we got to see him on that schedule, I helped him cook and we listen to this album. We've seen him five times since that happened; He had to move south for work. I'm seeing him tomorrow for the first time in a couple weeks. This album has been keeping me going for a few months now. :/
I will pray for you and your family friend. Brokeness is real and we do not have to wear a mask. Jesus took mine off and told me He loves me and wanted to heal me. He did and now I am free. May He set you free and bring healing to you also 😊 I am here for you if you need to talk
Makes me tear up thinking about specific moments in time that I can remember with this song playing as the soundtrack. So important to me. Just a bunch of 17 year olds that didn't know everything wouldn't be the same
Congratulations!!! I would like to offer some advice. I'm a dad 3 times over and by far the best thing I've ever done or will ever do is be a dad. Please remember that your baby is there because of you. They don't know what you do and you can't expect them to. They are innocent and do not deserve to be mistreated or in any kind of environment that will scar them. Not saying you're going to do this, just please think about what is best for your child at all times. You wanted them here, you have them, you owe them the best you can give them. Please please love them as much as you possibly can. And enioy them in everything they do, right or wrong because before you know it, they will be on their own. I miss my kids so much. Spend as much time with yours as you possibly can.
I remember listening to this as a teenager in 1995 when it first came out, whole album blew me away. CD and headphones, close my eyes and escape into the magic.
I used to blast this in my bedroom alone and it would always bring me to tears. Tonight Im visiting my mom, staying in my old room and im blasting this for my baby girl due in a few weeks. Shes kicking up a storm and Im brought to tears again
Listening to this song makes young people yearn for their future and makes old people long for their past. But most importantly it makes everybody appreciate their present.
This song just never gets old for me. It feels like a timeless classic even though The Smashing Pumpkins are not a band that most would associate with a pop classic. It's just so well written and structured. Whoever worked on the string arrangements did a great job!
Time is never time at all You can never ever leave Without leaving a piece of youth And our lives are forever changed We will never be the same The more you change the less you feel Believe, believe in me, believe, believe That life can change that you're not stuck in vain We're not the same, we're different Tonight, tonight Tonight, so bright Tonight, tonight And you know you're never sure But you're sure you could be right If you held yourself up to the light And the embers never fade In your city by the lake The place where you were born Believe, believe in me, believe, believe In the resolute urgency of now And if you believe there's not a chance Tonight, tonight Tonight, so bright Tonight, tonight We'll crucify the insincere tonight (Tonight) We'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight We'll find a way to offer up the night (Tonight) The indescribable moments of your life (Tonight) The impossible is possible tonight (Tonight) Believe in me as I believe in you Tonight Tonight, tonight Tonight Tonight
I'd be honored if some fans of mid/late 90s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of LONG DECEMBER by the Counting Crows, NAME by the GooGoo Dolls, and "1979" by the Smashing Pumpkins in tribute to 3 great standards of the era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace out and stay safe in the '020s.
Fun fact: Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants) and his wife Jill Talley (who voices Karen, Plankton's computer wife) are the main couple in this video.
Took my son to his first concert, Smashing Pumpkins in 1996 when I was 34 and he was 8. We loved it of course, and even though he has turned mainly to more current music, and me to the sounds of the 60’s and 70’s I grew up with, the Pumpkins are where we meet in the middle. In 2022, they returned and this time, ages 61 and 35, the SP concert was on him. An incredible concert again, and a wonderful look back for us. Corgan and Co can still bring it. ❤
This video is a masterpiece. It’s like an unrequested childhood dream that keeps repeating itself suddenly every once in a while to make you cry while smiling.
He truly is and people seem to forget that. People happen to pay more attention to his ego than his genius songwriting ability, unfortunately. He takes music extremely seriously in contrast to some (not all) glam rock artists who just play in a band for the girls and drugs. The new SP record was really good as well!
This entire album really is superb and the fact there are still people here listening to it gives me some hope for the future of music. Really is a masterpiece.
I've been bored with music these days and decided to come back to Smashing Pumpkins, and my God, it's *still* brilliant! This song is what got me into them when it came out. I absolutely loved the violins mixed with guitars/bass, never heard any band do that back then. I bought the album, and fell in love with all their music across all albums. One of the best rock bands of all time.
It's amazing how rock bands who were in their teens and 20s in the 90s write lyrics to songs that the listeners only start to understand when they're in their late 30s and 40s. So many are wise beyond their years.
They say we reach our peak creativity around 25 years old. You still have the imagination of a child, the angst of a teen, and the maturity of an adult.
@@utuk3333 damn if that doesn't sound about right. I can say that as I look back from 34. I had the most friends and the best social life after getting divorced at 25 lol.
In the nineties all we could afford were camping vacations at Burlingame State Park in Rhode Island. After my girlfriend and son (who was a child at the time) went to bed I would stay up at a campfire and play this song among others on a radio at our campsite. Somehow being outside and looking at the stars and hearing this song was kind of magical. Existential loneliness I guess.
Time is never time at all You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth And our lives are forever changed We will never be the same The more you change the less you feel Believe, believe in me, believe - This part spoke to me.
@Theo1 The 70s and the first half part of the 90s ,to a limited degree the 80s, were periods of music history when the artistic LP/CD design and sometimes the music video was a quite important part of the listener's experience. The flatter more digitalized one-song-here-and-there(and all sound the same) concept today at iTunes and Spotify is a far duller story. Yet, ironically here we are finding old music kept alive and found just that way. 😜 A weird paradox. But TH-cam better ,being at least visual.
My best friend died 20 years ago tonight. Car crash, he was 16. Timmy Bourque. He introduced me to Smashing Pumpkins. Tonight I'm drunk, listening on repeat, and loving the box of his memories I'll never give up.
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Sorry about your friend. Cherish the good memories of time you spent together!
Beautiful in its pain
he will always be with you. he is watching your right now smiling at you. can you feel him? 😃 you will meet again!
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I'm Japanese. 47 years old.This is my favorite song now and past.Billy's voice is great.
本当に素晴らしい曲ですよね。僕も１番好きな曲の１つです。😊
It's a beautiful song that gives this feeling of hope. It always moves me.
Great song by a great band.
I'm currently in Minikami, Gunma listening to this.
そですよ。。。ロシア人です。このグルプが大好きな。 With respect and love from Russia!
I am from Russia. And my favorite song too, and DISARM.
Probably my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song of all time. One of the first songs I learned to play on guitar. The nostalgia is hitting me hard right now❤️
I'm 64... My mind tells me I'm still in my 20s. My body tells me the truth. Young people, go easy. You'll be here as quick as you blink your eyes. This song is a classic!
We r all classic & connected
Totally agree with you, classic song. 😊🎉
You are so right. We blink our eyes and time has gone quick. Some good, some not so, some what you made it
@jiml5233 This is personal. So, you can say so. Do you ever feel like we wasted time? I mean, if I could go back and start over, boy would I have done things right. MYbe, I would have known I was hooked up with a narcissistic for way to long. Here I am at 65 alone and wondering what the heck I am talking about. Sorry.
I am a youngster and I love these guys. Almost every week shift I have thier music in my rotation haha
The 90's ain't dead....just press play and relive the magic.
Exactly I listened to rap but this was one of the ones for the 90's!!
I was never a huge pumpkins fan , but this song is a masterpiece
So right❤
Spongebob's voice actor Tom Kenny and his wife who voices Karen in Spongebob are in this videi as the main characters
… just missing in action
I am a 65-year-old African American male, when this song came out in 1996 I was 43 years old. I like all kinds of music and this song was incredible! The video was mesmerizing. Billy's voice pierced through all the noise - I bought this double album and it (along with Tupac's "All Eyez On Me") dominated my psyche for the next year at least. What a rush to spontaneously pull this up while working on a project. A time machine, music is.
I was a 15 year old white youth listening to Wu Tang. Funny how music brings us together.
I was 3 and didn't have much preference in music at the time ;) But this ended up becoming my favorite band 10 years later, and still remains my favorite more than 10 years after that.
I was 18 and into punk, although I had respect for Smashing Pumpkins ever since I heard "Gish" in 1991. In 1996 I first tried smoking weed and opened my mind to all kinds of different music. I had a crush on Fiona Apple. Time flies.
I was a green hotdog when this song first came in my ear after that I went to college and everyone saw me as a biscuit with butter..That was fun needless to have said it at all.
It is!
The nostalgic value of this song for me is through the roof. This video was on MTV so much at that time. I miss the 90s everyday. What a time to be alive.
I was born in 1980, the 90s were my teens, I agree, whole heartedly
SAME!!!❤❤❤
I’m there with you
I was born in 2001 and I long to be existent in the 90’s there’s just something about it lol
@@wrldwide-oi4ns was an amazing time to grow up. Just enough technology but not too much. No phones just people living in the moment
Iv heard smashing pumpkins in a way i can only describe as the way/feeling of walking past someone and smiling, but without knowing what you two have been through, good and bad. But you look back and think, it was great to hear that song just like it was great to share the smile with the stranger. Iv broke down and reflected on my lifes ups and down’s listening to smashing pumpkins back to back today. And apart from feeling related to the songs and music, i read so many stories and comments on how their music has made many people feel… iv been left with an overwhelming feeling of bittersweetness. It brought up happiness, my depression, my love life, loneliness, my family, and most recently my children and amazing wife. Somewhere along the line i felt i lost the ability to cry and in turn loosing the ability to feel? The things everyones sharing along with these lyrics and music that cuts so deep, has literally opened my eyes so much today that i felt i had to share. Id like to say to everyone going through something hard or something beautiful, to hold on to it, good or bad, it will help you grow and gauge everything in due time. Iv been crying like i used to, something i found out was so helpful to me in the past that i lost connection with. Iv purged a lot of bad feelings and brought in a lot of good as well. Thanks for such amazing music and to everyone that shared those moments, thank you as well, the help has been some of the most iv had in my 34 years. To not know any of you personally yet receive so much has been needed for a while, im glad it changed today 🖤 best wishes
Word! Word for word! Iv felt this same exact stuff...Lollapolooza 1992...my first acid trip at 15. Smashing pumpkîns headlined and at that point my brain was deep down in the dirt just hoping for something positive to lift me up and carry me out of the negative trip. Thén this song literally got me up and made the rest of my night so happy, uplifting, positive, joyful ànd downright dreamlike to me now as I think back to those times.
Where I was at that moment in time and what this music did for me then and how it paralells to my entire life.
I almost feel i have risen ànd am able to visualize those deep deep and uplifting moments.
Wow, music...
My wife and I married in 1994. We both came from broken homes, deceased fathers and rough lives. At the time in our early relationship, this was our anthem and still is. We have done life together for almost 28 years. We did it right and we fought off every difficulty in our lives as we are truly blessed in the end like this video alludes to. I love this video.
live life bless you and your wife
God bless You both!
Awesome, it's really all you can ask for in this short life. I feel a sense of love reading about such kinship and shared devotion, especially with a song I love, too. I wish you both the best.
human triumph. lovely people you two are and I celebrate your victory.
@@Tyrell-d6o ❤Thank you.
The strings alone are enough to evoke tears. Masterpiece.
Go see Disarm by them it has the same feels of Bells and Strings and Orchestra-like sounds with another weird yet nice video
+Vincent Lavoie.....or basically any lana del rey song
GTFOH
i was about to say the same thing. haha. those violins in disarm are amazing.
oh yesss
My husband’s song- I tiptoe here to listen occasionally when I feel strong. He passed away unexpectedly in ‘08 leaving me and our three children to miss him tonight, tonight with resolute urgency I recall the beautiful moments of our life together
Condolences
He will be back and in the second run in life energy finds each other again. Science, organized religion and people who take large doses of psychedelic all say the same thing. The universe dies and comes back and has no beginning or end. Learn what you need to don’t do this life again there’s higher states of existing.
Damn, sorry to hear. I'm so jealous of the people that seem to glide through life unscathed. Without loss and pain. Maybe they are better at hiding it I don't know. But I do know that very few are ready when that time comes. How can you be? I feel for you and your kids
@@davegordon6943thanks Dave 🫂, my whole life was preparing me for the next loss unfortunately. My mom got terminal cancer when I was 8. I think you’re right, some people don’t seem to have much loss or tragedy in their life- others have enough for a dozen lifetimes.
Sorry for your loss.
20代日本人だけど、最近聴いて大好きになった。良さに涙すら出る。この曲と出会えてよかった。メロディも歌詞も演奏も完璧な曲だと思う。名曲って時間も距離も超えて愛されていくのだな
Love from Japan❤️
ええ趣味してるやん❤
20代アメリカ人です。お互いの国の音楽を楽しめて嬉しいです😊
名曲なんだよなぁ
18です。本当に大好きな曲です。
この頃のダーシーいる スマパンが良かったなぁ😂
This isn't a song, it's an experience
So accurate
I couldn't have said it better. A part of one's life.
I had my girlfriend listen to this and she said, "Every time I hear this song, I will think of you. This song you recommended to me feels like it represents you, and it is similar to your temperament, a bit tender, a bit indifferent, and a bit melancholic."
I think she's marriage material.
@@WJP1983 lame
Absolutely ❤
I swear I can't listen to this song without tearing up or crying. It always makes me think about how fast time is flying.
Why every thing means money for you guys ,that really scare me ,good luck for all the human race😊
Crying
Tell me about it, I remember the week this album came out. I believe I was in 7th grade at the time! This album no joke won like EVERY single award that year at the MTV awards and every other annual music awards show. It was that legendary of an album and nobody had ever heard anything like it. I feel SO lucky to have been able to see the original lineup of the Smashing Pumpkins live probably 6 times! In Baltimore, we had a local radio station who did something called the "HFStival" every year. If you ever wanted to see one massive line up of nearly all headlining bands, THAT was the festival to attend! And get this, tix for all those bands back then was only $30! You'll pay 5X that amount just to see ONE of those groups today! I'm talking bands like...Rage Against the Machine, Eminem, Korn, Limp Bizkit, No Doubt, Aerosmith, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Dave Matthews, STP, Alice In Chains, Hole, Slipknot, Pearl Jam, Etc. They also always did had a secret performer every year in the beginning, so I was blessed to have seen bands like The Ramones, Run DMC, The Runaways & more. I can't even list all of the bands I've seen just from that one festival!
I was 14 when this came out and the album was definitely something to remember being a double album with so many good songs
Same
The Song, The Video, The Entire Album.... A Masterpiece.
Hi I recommend a song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix
Mellon collie and the info. Sadness😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Agree. To me the Smashing Pumpkins are polished grunge! Simply perfect!
This song is an eternal masterpiece
What is it about the Pumpkins? Theres emotion, edge and art all wrapped up into their music. Its beautiful. It makes you feel sad, yet inspired. They're so damn good.
100% Agree.
BL Mike Best band ever.....
YES! I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME!
they give me a sense of nostalgia
never ever disgaree.. they were the Best Band ever in 90's.
I sang this to my youngest daughter every single day of her life, and we played it for her as she was passing because I was too broken to sing it. That intro captures every bit of love, joy, hope, and despair I felt during the too short 19 days of her life.
I'm so sorry to hear that, Is there anything I can do for you? God can heal things that feel impossible, and I believe that one day God will undo all the pain and death!
If you're reading this I hope you are doing better- that's probably the worst thing a parent can experience. Music is such a strong form of art.
❤️❤️❤️❤️ stay strong man
As a father, I can't--I can't even...
Pray that you have the strength to make it through each and every day. For her. For yourself.
Hand of Fatima
I have an older brother, he's 39 and I'm 35. I've looked up to him my entire life, I still do and we're the best of friends. We live in different counties in Ireland but still game online together regularly. He was into all the best music in the 90's when we were growing up, so every time I listen to music like this it triggers a great memory of our childhood, there's a mix of joy and sadness when I realise we're older now and can't go back to these days. There is something bittersweet and I can't wait to be able to hang out with him again when this virus goes away. Just thought I'd share.
Can definitely relate
@@haydenmohammed4812 This Grunge band Can Relate By Nirvana & Alice in Chains & Soundgarden & Pearl Jam Too Stone Temple Pilots Screaming Trees L7 and Hole.
Same in many ways.
@@hithere8753 Same Genres Sound in many ways
Best comment i’ve ever red on youtube because of relatability. I have a younger brother (best friends), and I hope I will experience the same feeling you have now with yours.
I am 54 now. I listened to this cd everyday driving to college. This song gave me the courage to keep going. I had two babies at home! It is crazy how music can influence u. Thank you Billy Corbin.
"That life can change, That you're not stuck in vain"
Such a perfect and poetic quote, this song alone can pull me out of hopelessness.
And vain related to vanity. So much hopelessness and cynicism is ties to vanity, pride, stubbornness, and a refusal to believe things can in fact improve and that we are all worthy of love.
Pessimists are never disappointed :)
I am getting this tattoed as part f a larger piece
Ein wunderschöner Satz, kann man nicht richtig ins Deutsche übersetzen. Vielleicht " Das Leben kann sich ändern, und du hast nicht umsonst gelebt"?
i love billy corgan❤️
This song hits different with headphones. The orchestra really stands out.
Man. I was just thinking the same thing!!
that's why I just put them on
Headphones are always better
@@brianlaudrupchannel On a budget, sure. A proper stereo setup with a high end subwoofer and acoustically treated room will do things headphones never can
Bone conductive headphones are incredible with this the quality isnt the same but actually feeling the music is amazing
I am not sure kids today will ever get the nostalgia hit teenagers of the 90s get listening to Smashing Pumpkins songs off this album. It was the sound track to so many important times for people.
I don't worry. I'm sure they'll (we'll? - gen Zer here) look back at timeless masterpieces like "W.A.P." and think "aw yeah, I remember my childhood - sitting on in front of an ipad browsing degenerate YT shorts and TikTok all day. Now I've got manic depression and am stuck at a dead end job paying 500k in student loans with no possible future whatsoever, but those memories just take me back. Such wonderful times!"
Nourish them. Pumpkins, Placebo, Depeche, the list goes on. They love it because it's all awesome.
Kids these days will never know what it’s like to experience an album! They just download the specific songs they want to hear. Nevermind the whole physicality of purchasing an actual item, bringing it home, ripping the cellophane off the cd/record/cassette, throwing it on/in, pressing play, and reading the liner notes while enjoying the album artwork. :)❤❤❤❤
@@hydraulichydra8363 You just described my teen nephew's life to a T. I feel genuinely bad for him but he never listens to my advice about getting off his devices, especially TikTok :(
@@hydraulichydra8363 @barnold23
hace 1 mes
¡Los niños de hoy en día nunca sabrán lo que es experimentar un álbum! Simplemente descargan las canciones específicas que quieren escuchar. No importa todo el aspecto físico de comprar un artículo real, llevarlo a casa, arrancar el celofán del CD/disco/casete, tirarlo, presionar reproducir y leer las notas mientras disfrutas de la carátula del álbum. :)
When I was younger listening to it I felt like something great and bright will be in my future
28 years old today, only darkness and hopelessness is around me
Still this song brings my a little bit of brightness
hey man, just wanted to let you know that i hope you’re doing okay! you’re loved and you’re important, friend, remember that
Dude I'm 37 and 28 was worst of my life. It gets better keep your head up
"Believe in me as I believe in you."
I don't know why, but that lyric gets me.
be leavin me as i be leavin you, did that just blow your mind?🤣🤣
@@alexludavertigo6926 Yes.
me too man.
This song takes me back to being a geeky 16 year old 90s kid, spending long summers singing with guitars around fires with good friends, beers in our hands and life stretching out forever in front of us. Billy made those nights immortal
victor leon Surprised? You think it's too early or too late? I remember I has been drinking hard alcohol when I was 15. It was very rare though.
victor leon I'm from Ireland, haha.
miracleofsound I know how is in Ireland!!! Best place in the world!
16 is very late for us.........nothing like a nice bit of Bush to help us sleep :)
Im a geeky 16 year old now and it still feels immortal
Mellon Collie is a f**king masterpiece
it's perfection omg
One of the greatest albums to date.
Anit. they real back in the. day in. the country going green and jam yea haw
Hell yeah. I grew up listening to pop, hate it. This is real music!!!
The best ever!
Maybe one day i will find my soulmate. All the mistakes i had in the past teached me so many lessons.
Hands down still one of the strangest, most beautiful and enchanting music vids and songs in the history of rock n roll.
Bravo, bravo!!! To your response.
Only thing I would "change" would be ...the more you change the less you feel. The more I've changed the easier things feel., Maybe I'm lucky, maybe I'm an anomaly....but I just went thru third degree burns from the fire that destroyed an enormous amount of artworks I created , and 99.9999 percent of everything I "owned" as well as now having to move to? And, instead of a new chapter, I'll be "writing" a new BOOK , maybe a trilogy or just keep writing ...... Even forever now seems possible if I so choose and believe, believe.
P.S., thank you seems far too insignificant to say to the pumpkins......maybe "happy Halloween forever"?
And you, bizotically yours 83, are a genius with the best "taste" in music, lyrics.....
You should write a song!
This song is true melancholy... it completely captures and embraces the anxiety and insecurity that comes when you realize tonight is one of the big moments you'll remember forever as your youth, and that it all happened in one short night... Man it sucks the universe cursed us with such short days, nights, and lives, but I'm so thankful for the few beautiful people out there who feel the same nostalgia and butterflies in their stomach when they hear a song such as this.
"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it."
Such a beautiful comment
couldnt have expressed it any better myself! such a beautiful song that will forever be a part of my life & my memories =)
The universe didn’t curse us with anything other than humans. Human beings are those who have constructed the notion of time.
eu me sinto assim hahahah amém
25 years ago, how is this possible!? Happy anniversary, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness!
I know! Even tho I wasn’t born when it was first released, this album is timeless.
Damn... I did get old
Genius
Funny grew up with them in Chicago now I work with his cousin.
It's a other world now
This is a brilliant song, and then the drumming takes it to an even higher level...
One of the best orchestral arrangements of modern music. Beautiful and timeless.
Hi I Recommend an indie rock song called 'looking into the mirror' by Robert Nix
your right
Emotion Sickness by SIlverchair...check it out
I know right?! I was listening with full admiration and pleasure. The person who wrote and composed it is pure genius
Absolutely
I was dating a girl when this song came out. I could picture myself growing old with her and going on adventures like this. She became my wife. Last fall, we went to Napa Valley to celebrate our 20th Wedding Anniversary. One activity we had planned was a Hot Air Balloon ride. It made me think of this video. Driving from the airport to our hotel, we heard this song on the radio.
It literally gave me chills! How often do you hear this on the radio anywhere anymore?
Amazing
Wow man, that's so good to hear.. congrats to you and her.. I had...quite the opposite experience with this song...For me it really lives up to the name of the ablum that it's on...
Congratulations
@@horizonbrave1533 hope it gets better man.
been there bro
I saw them in concert when I was 17 in 1997. Fast forward to 2024 and my almost 15 year old (special needs) daughter loves this song. Their music is everlasting!
I’m 72 y/o and while listening to the music my teens did back then I came to love the Smashing Pumpkins and knew all their songs! This song reminds me of some of the best times of my life! 🤗
Good music know no bounds. I'm 52 and a diehard Grunge and death metal fan. BUT, The Zombies, Procal Harem, The Animals and The Moody Blues are some of my favorite bands.
Some music hits the soul and it leaves a permanent impression on those whom it will. That is the bliss of music.
Tbh it was the best time of our lives for many of us when this came out and the many to follow this
Yep. I am 55. Stay young at heart, don't let anyone take that away from you.
can you tell me what the best period of your life was?
"Tonight, Tonight" Lyrics
Time is never time at all
You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth
And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change the less you feel
Believe, believe in me, believe, believe
That life can change,
That you're not stuck in vain
We're not the same,
We're different tonight, tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight, tonight
And you know you're never sure
But you're sure you could be right
If you held yourself up to the light
And the embers never fade
In your city by the lake
The place where you were born
Believe, believe in me, believe, believe
In the resolute urgency of now
And if you believe
There's not a chance tonight, tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight, tonight
We'll crucify the insincere tonight, tonight
We'll make things right,
We'll feel it all tonight, tonight
We'll find a way to offer up the night tonight
The indescribable moments of your life tonight
The impossible is possible tonight, tonight
Believe in me as I believe in you tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight
Thank you🪶
Thank You Kindly For Your Time. It is appreciated.
Thank you!
Appreciate it.
Genius, gorgeous lyrics. Believe!
Winner of 6 MTV Video Music Awards 1996: "Video of the Year", "Breakthrough Video", "Best Direction", "Best Special Effects", "Best Art Direction", "Best Cinematography".
Anyone here listening in 2024?
We are always listening. ❤
Eu estou, e amo muito esta banda
Me and one of my friends had the idea of listening to this last week. He lives in another city and neither of us had any idea that the other was listening to this at the same time, after all these years. The impossible is possible tonight...
FACTS! Such a great song! So beautiful.
❤
This takes me back to the 90’s as a Mexican teen with little English that got introduced to this beautiful nostalgic music by my older cool brother. I felt the music - no language barriers when it’s felt deeply .We were blessed with quality music.
I feel you, my older sister introduced me to a lot of different music and listening to this takes me back to those priceless moments!
Tu hermano tiene gustos muy refinados
BUILD THE WALL
I was in ColOmbia and for us this dudes were supergods that spoke a language so amazing I fought hard to understand ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Something is up bet three 🕒
This videoclip is really carved in my brain. It left me speechless when I was like 8 years old and it still affects me today. What a wonderful piece of art it is, and such a sincere tribute to the pioneering magic of Melies.
For those who don’t know, this video was in heavy rotation on MTV. This video got so much play that it made me a pumpkins fan immediately. Thank you MTV.
Because it's one of the best music videos of all time.
Yup!!
They played music videos on mtv
Sadly, I was really late to the party and I only became a fan because my friend was wearing a Mellon Collie shirt and I liked the design and got hooked on the band. Must've been great to experience em like that.
French here, i can confirm. This was played like every days, few times a day, when I was in vacations in the USA in the summer of 1996. In that period, they also played a lot of Irony by Alanis Morisette, Popular by Nada Surf and Waiting Outside the Phone Booth... by Primitive Radio Gods.
First time I heard this song I wasn't prepared... I cried like a baby. Something about the lyrics touched me to my core. Music is something you feel, not hear. ❤️
Hi I Recommend a Song on youtube called 'Where I Come from' by Robert Nix
Try "Pink Floyd - Time" next. Eyes closed. Keep tissues nearby :)
@@Spaethon brutally beautiful. That's how I describe Time. It's just one of Pink Floyd's masterpieces.
nostalgia
@@Spaethon Every time I hear Gilmour's solo in that song tears roll down my cheeks instantly. The line - no one told you when to run you missed the starting gun - really cuts.
This song is bizarrely nostalgic. They wrote it and we listened to it when we were too young to even be nostalgic. Now we're at the point in life where it actually fits. It's like it was telling us what we WOULD feel.
our life was all memories, imo.. some memories happened, and some didn't.
People get nostalgic literally as kids. As soon as you reach an age where you can reason and can look back at a more innocent time and a personal past, you are nostalgic.
Time travel
I agree 😊
I feel the same. We are time travelers. Tonight.
This song is absolutely beautiful and makes me so nostalgic for my early childhood
A great tribute to Georges Méliès. One of the most beautiful 90's videos, absolutely.
I would remove the 90s, I would add all the times.
I was looking for a comment pointing out that this is a voyage to the moon or whatever it's called.
Yeah...I kinda like moon videos...I made one of my very own...kinda inspired by this one...😎👍
The last video in its kind, most of the nowadays videos are musicalized dance, but there are no videos with theatrical ambientance and scenographic work, today is all about sex, there is not a cinematographic work in movies, television and music videos anymore, Real Cinematography has died.
@@ca294 the most recent songs I've heard usually doesn't have a music video. But if it does it's the band on a stage or a horror movie type thing, and is some cases just people getting murdered. I also have seen a music video that's just straight up porn.
I’m 19, and i was raised listening to the smashing pumpkins, since my mom was a huge fan during the 90s. i’ve always felt a nostalgic sort of sadness in their music, but at the same time an arcane beauty. forever one of my favorite bands.
same here
I’m 18 and the Pumpkins just transcend the concept of generational music, they just appeal to teenagers of every generation like me.
@@zuppadigamberetti7288 Interestingly, I only started listening to them actively after 20, which is your favourite pumpkins song?
Same.
Arcane beauty
This has got to be one of the best songs ever recorded. Ever.
Follow me
@@elllantodelgallo2219 no
Yes
It's up there, for sure. This was a pretty good album; lots of emotion pouring out
Ever!!!!
Love the fun dynamic of a real husband and wife doing this video! And to top it off its one of my favorite power couples, Tom Kenny and Jill Talley :)
A song that touches me as sad when I am sad, as upbeat when I am happy, and as exhilarating when I am jacked up. Billy could tap into any and all moods. Just incredible song writing.
you are so right.......the power an abused child has when he/she learned to wield that pain like a weapon in poetry, song or prose is unmatched.
A master of his craft, true maestro
it's the odd juxtaposition of vocal tone and lyrics that on their own feel sad, melancholic and reflective, but a percussion and melody that on their own feel upbeat, uplifting and hopeful. The fact those two blend together so well is why this song is a masterpiece of creativity and can mean so much to so many people in so many moods.
44 now, cancer patient, divorced and alone. Man life catches up quick. Not the life I pictured in the nineties.
I’m so sorry man. Stay strong brother.
Yes it does but you are not alone, we hear you.
DON’T FORGET THAT EVEN THOUGH EVERYTHING IS BAD IN THE MOMENT, THINGS WILL ALWAYS, ALWAYS GET BETTER NO MATTER WHAT!!! And their are ALWAYS people out their who care about you
I hope you recover and find some happiness
Damn, wasn't expecting all this. Thank y'all. I appreciate it
I was in labor with my first child and this song was on the tape I was listening to. When he was born, I looked at him and I said “if you believe in me, I will believe in you“ from this song and 27 years later, every time I look at him as a grown man, this song plays in my head. Thank you Billy Corgan for writing such a beautiful song.
So beautiful ❤
Imagine if he replies on this comment. “No problem bro”
What a wonderful post. Thank you!!!
Beautiful song and a beautiful comment!
No, no you werent
I’m 47 now and damn, this brings back some memories…
44 here and man, I feel you.
Me too! My favorite summer ever, 1996.
Danced with my husband four years ago at our wedding to this song. It holds a special place in my heart.
You and your husband are fucking awesome if you played Smashing Pumpkins at your wedding!:D
My wife walked down to this song at our wedding! Love this song.
Beautiful.
Perfect song for a wedding.
that's beautiful.
I was a really bad heroin addict. nothing could stop me from destroying my life. in rehab, I walked into the garden and the counselor had this song playing on a portable speaker and I got this feeling of absolute hope. I felt it and it kept me going, gave me the ability to wake up the next day and keep going.
believe in me, cos I believe in you tonight.
Saga Sitches I’m so proud of you and ever grateful for your existence and this seeming small but powerful influence you’ve had on me with this one comment. Peace be with you. I love you. Forever and always.
@@AlexTVFortitude how eloquent....
You don't even know what your words mean to me. I mean, every time I hear this song, I remember my H addiction in the late 90s. I experienced something called the "Prague heroin epidemic". Several of my peers from our neighborhood died at that time due to an overdose. I think.. just few people understand you as well as I do, man. I wish you all the best in your life :)
If y'all haven't seen it Try Try Try might be another fantastic song/video to watch.
The impossible is possible, tonight
"The impossible is possible tonight tonight" my favorite line of this masterpiece.
TRUE
Its one of the best orchestra recording for rock music
"the resolute, the urgency of now" - that did it for me, if I have those lyrics right, of course
Heading home
“the indescribable moments of your life” -encapsulated in this song
Almost 30 years later, I am back to listen to a song that spoke to me like no other at the time. I was in a very abusive relationship and was desperate for change, but fearful of leaving. The lyrics, “That life can change, that you're not stuck in vain” was a continuous reminder that I could leave with two small children and no car. The song stuck in my head and encouraged me to move forward. I now have a new life without the fear of abuse. In a strange way, because I was born in a city by the lake, it really spoke tome, and became stepping stone that I desperately needed at the time
Damn, this song is really magical. Very nostalgic. Gives me goosebumps.
This song makes me cry. My parents got divorced when I was in the fourth grade or so, and my brother and I would visit my dad almost every weekend. The last weekend we got to see him on that schedule, I helped him cook and we listen to this album. We've seen him five times since that happened; He had to move south for work. I'm seeing him tomorrow for the first time in a couple weeks. This album has been keeping me going for a few months now. :/
Keep strong.
I will pray for you and your family friend. Brokeness is real and we do not have to wear a mask. Jesus took mine off and told me He loves me and wanted to heal me. He did and now I am free. May He set you free and bring healing to you also 😊
I am here for you if you need to talk
HUGS its a wonderful album.
if your heart be troubled give you strength..peace be still..
Beautiful. Everything will be ok ❤
This is one of those songs you can hear 100 times and still love it like you never heard it before. The entire album is like that. So good!
Yes ! One of my Favorite albums of all time
Those drums are crazy bring me back memories when he beat everybody off the MTV VMA Awards
1996 j'ai connu ce groupe. Mes 20 ans. Que de souvenirs avec 1979.
Makes me tear up thinking about specific moments in time that I can remember with this song playing as the soundtrack. So important to me. Just a bunch of 17 year olds that didn't know everything wouldn't be the same
The tiny npr version just billy on acoustic and strings is amazing
My middle school teacher English teacher showed me this song for an assignment. She’s the one who revived my love for reading. Love you mrs knight
Listened to this song yesterday on the way home from the hospital with my first child, I cried like a baby, this is her song now 🥹
❤❤❤
Congratulations!!! I would like to offer some advice. I'm a dad 3 times over and by far the best thing I've ever done or will ever do is be a dad. Please remember that your baby is there because of you. They don't know what you do and you can't expect them to. They are innocent and do not deserve to be mistreated or in any kind of environment that will scar them. Not saying you're going to do this, just please think about what is best for your child at all times. You wanted them here, you have them, you owe them the best you can give them. Please please love them as much as you possibly can. And enioy them in everything they do, right or wrong because before you know it, they will be on their own.
I miss my kids so much. Spend as much time with yours as you possibly can.
A hug to the soul. Be the best version you can be, people, always.
Hi I Recommend a new indierock song I came across called 'Life changes' By Robert Nix
I remember listening to this as a teenager in 1995 when it first came out, whole album blew me away. CD and headphones, close my eyes and escape into the magic.
I relate so much, and this is something i still do often while listening to them.
Same here. 👍🏽👍🏽♥♥
I didn't ask
I used to blast this in my bedroom alone and it would always bring me to tears. Tonight Im visiting my mom, staying in my old room and im blasting this for my baby girl due in a few weeks. Shes kicking up a storm and Im brought to tears again
How are you is your baby here xxx
@Hunter Vonnegut Smashing pumpkins didn't go anywhere...
Music soothes the demons within
The moments that make life worth living
Same exact story..! My baby will be here in 10 weeks... Playing this song and crying...
The MTV era made bands make the most epic music clips.
This is quite an awesome music video. It may look quite cheap and out of date to some, but I love it.
I believe this won video of the year.
It’s meant to be a homage to the first science fiction movie ever made by French director Melier. One of the first movies made in history.
@ lol try 1995
I believe at the time they were called "Buzz Clips".
theres no fucking way that i could listen to this song without crying. I wanna go back in time, miss my teen years so much! oh 90´s you were amazing!
Why does this song do that to people? In fact, a lot of Pumpkins does this to me!
Me too. But to the 2000s instead
I/we planned to have this played at our wedding but she OD'd
Damn, that's terrible man. Sorry to hear that.
It's a truth that there will never be another.
A masterpiece.
Musically, lyrically and visually.
And that’s that xxx
Listening to this song makes young people yearn for their future and makes old people long for their past.
But most importantly it makes everybody appreciate their present.
I am a 15-year-old Japanese girl. I listened this song for the first time. I’ve never listened this song and this band, but I really like it now.
Okay.. But you are jail bait
If you liked this one I would recommend you to listen to "Today" or "1979"
Check out Cherub Rock and Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness (it's a beautiful piano song)
Just listen to the whole siamese dream album
So many beautiful songs...Try listening to Portishead
This song just never gets old for me.
It feels like a timeless classic even though The Smashing Pumpkins are not a band that most would associate with a pop classic.
It's just so well written and structured.
Whoever worked on the string arrangements did a great job!
It was Billy who did arrangements.
I didn't ask
@@madi4106 ass?
@@madi4106how'd that work out for you?
@@Notevenallowedtoburnwood yes
This takes me back to a time when I was young, free, and full of hope 🥺
Right?
Takes me back to when I was 2 of those; don't think I was ever full of hope
Get back on slug, this rode t'aint ova yet boi, strap yoself in
There's still hope my friend!:) Believe!
Before depression and anger ruined my life
This album was fucking beautiful... art for the ages
Time is never time at all
You can never ever leave
Without leaving a piece of youth
And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change the less you feel
Believe, believe in me, believe, believe
That life can change that you're not stuck in vain
We're not the same, we're different
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight, tonight
And you know you're never sure
But you're sure you could be right
If you held yourself up to the light
And the embers never fade
In your city by the lake
The place where you were born
Believe, believe in me, believe, believe
In the resolute urgency of now
And if you believe there's not a chance
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight, tonight
We'll crucify the insincere tonight
(Tonight)
We'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight
We'll find a way to offer up the night
(Tonight)
The indescribable moments of your life
(Tonight)
The impossible is possible tonight
(Tonight)
Believe in me as I believe in you
Tonight
Tonight, tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Excellent !!!
Thank you.
Thanks 😊
I like the song but the lyrics are terrible. Must be me being old school🤔
🙏🙏🎸🎸
That's one of the greatest songs ever written right there
It really is ❤
Pepis saludame en uno de tus videos
En el nuevo que saques, puedes hacer uno de american idiot.
Y te transfiero.
and one of the best videos!
simplemente un chico basado
his voice is iconic and really highlights the music + lyrics ...few can do that!!!! i had no idea who the band was until YT.
I love seeing everybody's stories here, what the song means to them and how special it is. The memories they've formed around it. It's like magic.
I'd be honored if some fans of mid/late 90s classics would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of LONG DECEMBER by the Counting Crows, NAME by the GooGoo Dolls, and "1979" by the Smashing Pumpkins in tribute to 3 great standards of the era. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Peace out and stay safe in the '020s.
Word up. Probably my favorite rock album and many fond memories that accompany it.
Indeed.
Man I miss the 90's. Good friends, good music.
Fun fact: Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants) and his wife Jill Talley (who voices Karen, Plankton's computer wife) are the main couple in this video.
Really? Cool. I would probably die without knowing it.
And Patrick star is singing 😅
It did sorta remind me of bikini bottom
I always thought it was Jimmy.
Amazing
Remember this been played on MTV all the time. When MTV was good of course.
Beautiful Psychosis they went from Music Television to Moronic Television
...you mean when MTV played music.... :)
Is MTV still a channel? If so, what do they air?
crap.. that's all they air now.
Miss those days
I will always be amazed by how beautiful this song is and how deep in my memory it lives
What a decade to be alive! I sure miss hearing music like this for the first time, although there is still magic in hearing it now.
nice
Going through the ailes of an actual music store putting head sets on to listen to albums. Great times
Truly magical
One of those songs I loved when younger, but that I never understood the meaning of until later in life.
Same here I used to watch it on MTV and wonder what the heck is going on.
Loved this back in the 90s hugely underrated in my opinion
Karl my bro. What are you doing here? I'm a kiwi subscriber.
I keep seeing you everywhere haha
Pakistan zindabad hehe
Took my son to his first concert, Smashing Pumpkins in 1996 when I was 34 and he was 8. We loved it of course, and even though he has turned mainly to more current music, and me to the sounds of the 60’s and 70’s I grew up with, the Pumpkins are where we meet in the middle. In 2022, they returned and this time, ages 61 and 35, the SP concert was on him. An incredible concert again, and a wonderful look back for us. Corgan and Co can still bring it. ❤
What a great memory.
That's Awesome! 😍🥰
Great story
Thank you for sharing this. It made me smile reading it, and demonstrates how we connect through shared moments weaved in music and memories.
The rap dead void has claimed too many
Such a great music video. My favorite ever ❤❤
This video is a masterpiece. It’s like an unrequested childhood dream that keeps repeating itself suddenly every once in a while to make you cry while smiling.
I love you Victoria
It really is wonderful homage to Méliès 'Le Voyage dans la Lune'.
LSD
it won music video of that year in the vmas
deus te ama muitooo
Billy Corgan is one of the greatest American musicians to ever live
He truly is and people seem to forget that. People happen to pay more attention to his ego than his genius songwriting ability, unfortunately. He takes music extremely seriously in contrast to some (not all) glam rock artists who just play in a band for the girls and drugs. The new SP record was really good as well!
I've been saying this since the 90s
lucho por supuesto viejo
Truly appreciate this comment he's iconic
Him and New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander
This entire album really is superb and the fact there are still people here listening to it gives me some hope for the future of music. Really is a masterpiece.
Yea it is
Ancora qui ad ascoltarla dopo tanti anni, la mia preferita di sempre 🎉❤
39 years old and this song and video still give me goosebumps
You still gotta be a bit older friend to appreciate to the max the times
i dont get it. what does the 39th year have to do with this song_ fail!!!
It's 28 years old! The song was made in 1995, and now it's 2023! So, it's 28, you fkn 5-yr old!!
I'm talking to you Matthew N
@@garyrovanpera I'm 39 too and i bought the double cd back in 96 when i was 12. Definitely nostalgia of my early teenage years.
I've been bored with music these days and decided to come back to Smashing Pumpkins, and my God, it's *still* brilliant! This song is what got me into them when it came out. I absolutely loved the violins mixed with guitars/bass, never heard any band do that back then. I bought the album, and fell in love with all their music across all albums. One of the best rock bands of all time.
I just watched the silent movie from 1902 where this music video was inspired from, I have a completely new appreciation for how creative this is.
What movie name?
@@Americanspy-hn2kw it’s called “Trip to the Moon”
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@@philipiusa My all time favorite film!
@@moneyman1995100 it’s very interesting film, how did you discovered it?
@@philipiusa I got into silent movies as a teen. I then discovered Milies and fell in love with A trip to the moon.
Pumpkins videos always have the greatest wardrobes. The fancy white top hats, Darcy’s ghostly dress, whatever James has going on…
It's amazing how rock bands who were in their teens and 20s in the 90s write lyrics to songs that the listeners only start to understand when they're in their late 30s and 40s. So many are wise beyond their years.
i think only the greats can do this
Its just a matter of perspective.
that's what makes them such great musicians
They say we reach our peak creativity around 25 years old. You still have the imagination of a child, the angst of a teen, and the maturity of an adult.
@@utuk3333 damn if that doesn't sound about right. I can say that as I look back from 34. I had the most friends and the best social life after getting divorced at 25 lol.
possibly the most beautiful song in the 90's!
Don’t forget All-star came out in the 90’s
In the nineties all we could afford were camping vacations at Burlingame State Park in Rhode Island. After my girlfriend and son (who was a child at the time) went to bed I would stay up at a campfire and play this song among others on a radio at our campsite. Somehow being outside and looking at the stars and hearing this song was kind of magical. Existential loneliness I guess.
Time is never time at all
You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth
And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change the less you feel
Believe, believe in me, believe
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This part spoke to me.
Josh Josh Reminds me of reading the song lyrics on the inside of the cover
The older you get, the more you long for the good old days. That portion makes me feel that way
"The more you change the less you feel" i dont believe in this
Roberta L that's because you're young
such a wonderful song makes me feel warm
it makes me sad....not in a bad way but sad nonetheless
You.mean melancholy?
I think he means Mellon Collie
I hope all the kids born in the 2020s understand how huge this song/video will always be.
I'm going tomake sure my 4 year old hears this, & I will be telling her how epic & awesome it is!!!
*those 56,821,864 views aren't going anywhere*
im 18 years old and im really happy that i found this recently, old never dies.
No only the song , the band Smashing pumpkins🎃
@Theo1 The 70s and the first half part of the 90s ,to a limited degree the 80s, were periods of music history when the artistic LP/CD design and sometimes the music video was a quite important part of the listener's experience. The flatter more digitalized one-song-here-and-there(and all sound the same) concept today at iTunes and Spotify is a far duller story. Yet, ironically here we are finding old music kept alive and found just that way. 😜 A weird paradox. But TH-cam better ,being at least visual.