How The Smashing Pumpkins' 1979 Evokes Decades of Nostalgia
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- Nostalgia is a weird concept. We have an idea of it as this vague longing for the past that marketing teams are continually attempting to mine for profit. But from its Greek origin, the word comes from nóstos meaning homecoming and álgos meaning pain or ache. In its original form it was considered a form of melancholy, the idea that you can never fully return to where you came from, that once away home will never be the same. But this has morphed; today it's more of a positive or at least bittersweet emotion. This is compounded by the way that our memories work: we don't remember the event, but the last time we remembered the event - we are simply recalling the memory. This leads to embellishment and rose-tinting of the past. Nostalgia is the past idealised. One piece of pop culture that truly evokes this feeling is The Smashing Pumpkins' “1979”.
Its a song unlike anything else in their discography, lacking the suicidal themes of 'Today', the barely concealed hatred of 'Disarm', or the out and out rage of 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings' or 'Zero'. And its especially not like anything the Pumpkins are producing now in 2018, their less than good new releases. So we begin, back to 1995 and the epic double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
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America - Simon and Garfunkel
Belly Breathing - Birocratic
autumn breeze - j'san x nymano
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Literally every smashing pumpkins song makes me feel so nostalgic
Cassandra Nocera Is it because you listened to them when you were a teenager
I do feel the same way and I only started listening to them this year
@@50ShadesOfEndo definitely not only that, it's also because the songs are masterfully crafted to evoke those feelings in you
@@50ShadesOfEndo i used to listen to them a lot when i was a teen but the first time i heard Mayonnaise buy them, i couldn't tell you how hard the feeling of nostalgia hit me. I've never heard it before yet it still felt as if it had been my favorite Pumpkins song for years since before i first heard it.
Albin Lundholm I've never listened to them as a teen but all their songs still make me feel nostalgic
I was 30 when 1979 came out and hearing it at the time made me feel like a young teenager. I hear 1979 now and im 30 and a young teenager at the same time. At times hearing 1979 makes me feel so happy, other times, quite sad. Very few records do that to me. Quite simply, one of the greateset tunes ever.
Damn you old af. Maybe even dead by now!
There's that meme going around thats says, "at some point in your childhood you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time and nobody knew it" and that seriously hits me hard. I had a great childhood and I miss those days.
That hit me hard. I think that happened to me and my friends in about 1996.
i feel envy, i grew with pretty much with no friends, and no opportunity for socializing, I was isolated, and only talked to people at school, now I'm 19 and I will never get a chance to have that reckless teenage dream.
@@AlisonBryen Ooof! Me too, right in the stomach. I need to remember to think of all events or interactions could be the last one.
I heard something similar, but it was about how you are put down as a child and never picked up and held in the same way again and… im cry
I remember mine was 2008 a year after we all left school just before we started college and working part time jobs the sad thing is I saw all of them lots of times but was the last time we were all together in one group
Ultimately, I think the actual year is irrelevant. 1979 to me is more of a concept, an idea. That idea being the nostalgia of youthful, happier times as the video beautifully summarised.
My "1979" was actually 1996; I was in my early 20s, had quit uni, was living in the town I'd originally moved to for study and hanging out with my new friends doing carefree stuff. That summer was especially memorable. Two decades later, a lot has changed and we've all moved on, changed and in some cases lost contact with each other. 1979 encapsulates all of that, its ending alluding to how the passage of time eventually puts an end to it all.
If you listen to any rnb the song November by Tyler, the Creator plays with the same idea, in the song Tyler asks. What is your November? With many people stating times, places, people and dates, that en capture their happiest times.
As a 25 year old - thank you for reminding me to live in the present and not be so obsessed with the past. You reminded me that in 20 years ill be nostalgic of today... i wont forget the happy times, only try to make new happy times for the kids i influence. Cheers from southern virginia.
@@wolfgangbakariburst i was just about to say that. take me back to novembuhhh
My 1979 Was 1993 To 1996.
inphanta my 1979 was was 2009! Johnny had the best buds for $5 a gram! My 4 door green Ford constantly hitting the pizza joint down the street. Even reunited with the girl that got away. Boy had she changed. It's a cloud that passes right thru you
I remember seeing the video for “Tonight Tonight” when I was 9 years old and crying at the sound, falling for the aesthetics of the video. Ugh love Smashing Pumpkins! The creativity and lyrics were what I fell for.
I love how Steampunk it was before Steampunk was a thing. It's also very evocative of Trip to the Moon and other Melies films from the turn of last century.
My 1979 was in 1989, when I was 16.
This song always makes me cry.
The older I get the more I miss those times.
The older we get, them more numb we become. Then we remember what it was like to feel something, and it makes us feel again.. depressed and homesick.
Masterpiece of a video man! That song is pure nostalgia. I just want to say at 1:36 when the kid in Stand By Me tells his friend, ya his dad gets weird when he writes (the dad's friends said he was weird when he was young, as did my friends), hits me so hard because I feel that transition of being called weird but now embrace it at almost 40 and in that scene my whole life I always identified as the boy and now I identify as the man.
The song is even more nostalgic when youve been hearing it since childhood
The Musical themes of 1979 are as integral in invoking nostalgia as the lyrical ones. The main riff leans heavily on a major 7th (D# octave over an E major harmony) - providing a constant pull in the direction of 'home'. The next chord, A, resolves back to E in a plagal rather than perfect cadence, softening the eventual return home. While there are B chords (which cadence back to E to break up the sections of the song with some finality), the main progression throughout gives the song a floating, wistful quality which matches Corgan's lyrics and imho is just as important if not more so in the success of the song - whether you gauge success as a function of commercial accolade or the less tangible but I think more fitting measure of how effective the song is to the (average?) listener.
I agree that the use of Major 7ths was critical to the emotional punch of the song, but I don't think it has anything to do with a pull toward home, or anything like that. (It's in E flat, by the way; I may be mistaken, by I think I tested it once and found that everything on that album is tuned a half-step down.) I don't know why a plagal cadence is any softer than a regular 5-1. Arguably, going to the V-chord anticipates the return, although imho that's not so very critical. Maybe the Major 7th chord sounds more wistful than a plain Major triad because it contains a minor triad within it. Also, if your theory were correct, wouldn't it follow that the 7th of the IV chord (here, the note is G) which is also in play, would provide a constant pull to itself? I think to Western ears, the pull toward the Tonic is so ingrained it doesn't need the help of a 7th, even if it is the leading tone. If anything, it seems like extensions pull us away from the chord we're listening to. What I think is more likely is that Billy was subconsciously thinking of the '70s as a bygone era (of course it was before his own adolescence, but people feel nostalgia for eras not their own all the time) and a very prominent feature of '70s pop music was the Major 7th.
I was 11 when this album came out. 1979 was frequently being played on a couple of English language radio stations ( I live in Malaysia), and I fell in love with the song. But I never actually paid attention to the band. Lately I have been listening to a lot of Smashing Pumpkins, and every song of their every album from the 90's are amazingly nostalgic. I'm almost 35 now, and listening to this song makes all of my childhood and teenage memories come alive again :')
One of my favorite songs of all time, for me this song represents those moments with friends that I look back on with nostalgia, the joys and freedom of youth and the friends I made that grow up alongside me. It’s about the memories that I made with them and the happiness that came from us all just paling around and enjoying this roller coaster called middle school and more specifically high school. The fun ends once you leave high school because you know you’ll never see them again, we all got off of the roller coaster and all we got was a picture at the end, my friends parted ways with me and each other and now I’m alone with no one around, that last bit of fire extinguished, the memories will fade, now all I have are pictures.
I’m from Chicago and graduated in 92. Pumpkins was my youth. My angst amplified. Great video.
I was already 39 when this song came out and it immediately brought me back to my teenage years in the suburbs of Chicago. Even then I didn't really understand how the music and lyrics, could transport me back like that as strongly as it did. And I'm 64 and this song still does. This song is magic. And as one commenter said, it makes me feel happy sad. It's an all-time favorite of mine. He just looks so sweet singing so calmly.
We being that Billy.was from the Chicago burbs im sure you experienced very similiar things.
props man, subscribed after i watched this i remember this song when i was a kid and every now then still listen to it.
Nostalgia on the 80's and 90's. There are times in my school and teenage years that I miss while other times don't.
At least we have good memories to miss .. this generation will look back and miss their Instagram.. “god I miss the good old days staring at my phone”.
I never thought about it like this, it's terrifyingly sad.
as a gen z person, i think no one will miss it . the current generation has already accepted nihilism for the honest part... there is a common disdain for our reality, a lot of "i feel nostalgia for something i haven't experienced". a lot of numb in a void.
I was 13/14 when this song was popular...whenever I hear it, it always makes me remember just the good stuff from that period with my family, friends, and places I enjoyed.
To be honest, I like their new album. It’s exactly what I want in an album these days during the age of electronic pop. It takes me back to their old albums. I’m glad they didn’t change, at all.
THIS IS THE EXACT VIDEO I WAS LOOKING FOR! Listening to this song reminds me of sunsets over beach holidays and cold nights camping out, driving in a car with the windows down. I can't get over it
I always respected the smashing pumpkins but never really got deep into their music and this video encouraged me to do so, can someone tell me where to start tho?
Siamese Dream and the Mellon collie listen to em back to back it’s amazing
I started with Mellon Collie, then Siamese Dream, then Gish, then Adore.
Mayonaise and Tonight Tonight
I recommend Siamese Dream first
@Azhar Iqbal Gish too
I often times ruminate on the feeling of going outside as a teenager esrly in the morning during the summer, smelling the frah cut grass, hearing the cars going to work and wondering what i would do with my day, simpler times. I can still see the peeling blue paint of the door of the house i grew up in
This was absolutely spot on. The Pumpkins were my favourite band as a teen and 1979 was my favourite of their songs. Beautifully written, mate - well done.
i was 14 and this was definitely a trip. that video was so relatable. now it makes me SUPER nostalgic.
I think it’s not so much the longing to better times, it’s the logging for feeling. As we get older, our lives get consumed by responsibility, it’s makes you hard and numb. We used to be present and feel everything. Now we live in the future, with no feelings for the now.
1995 was a change year, just like 1979 was for me. Paradigm shift, etc. Loved this song then, still 1 of the best.
i was 7 in 79 and and a little less than a year from 50 now. and i know nostalgia very deeply, in which ever definition you choose. my childhood was awesome and awful in many ways, but something happened when i was 16. not anything awful or anything great just things happened and suddenly i was experiencing all the thigs i had been wishing i could be part of before that. it was sort of the year or even just the literal moment i found myself and it is barely exaggerating to say that over night i had this whole new group of cool friends, and people at school wanted to know me and would say hi in the halls and girls were actually interested in me. and that life sort of existed from when i was 16 till about 28, and all the while even then i knew it was something special and it was this moment and that it wouldnt last. so even then while it was happening i was already missing things and knowing it could stop at any moment and that i would miss it for the rest of my life. and as well as i remember all the good times that happened then i also still remember the bad times as well, but even in the bad times i knew that i was young and i was healthy and i still had my whole life ahead of me and i could still dream. none of those things are any longer true.
but now there is sort of a whole second layer of ironic nostalgia mixed with this song and this time period, because at the time i actually couldnt stand the 90s. in the 80s i had been on the fringe of a lot of sort of alternative subcultures, and in 92 when Nirvana and Pearl Jam first started getting a lot of play i was still only 19 about to turn 20. and i thought the whole thing was over rated and didnt like the way it was bringing the kids that once taunted the outsiders, into wanted to come in and explore their world. and through the whole 90s grunge/alt rock explosion i couldnt stand the 90s and i found it all to be inferior to what me and my friends just called college rock in the 80s. and i still to this day think the 90s ruined pop culture as a whole and sort of made every clique and genre mixed together to where everything is just sort of a boring bland hybrid today. and that is because in the 90s alternative music and underground comics and independent film ALL became mainstream and lost something. and yet here i am now all these years later and lately i have really been feeling 90s nostalgia even though i hated the 90s at the time. but even though some of the music such as this song have grown on me in the years since i do not miss the 90s because of the pop culture stuff which i still dislike, i miss it because i miss being in my 20s and that just happens to be the time period that it happened. i dont know its all weird, so now i miss the 80s that i loved and just as much i miss the 90s which i hated.
XTC is the most underrated band mentioned in this video even though they are not underrated by music producers such as Butch Vig. Like Billy Corgan I also love My Bloody Valentine and Joy Division.
My nostalgia is rooted in the 90s... What an amazing decade!
Yes, the 80s were great for childhood, but late teens-early 20s (& having such a reverence for fantastic music!) made the early-mid 90s so magical.
On the precipice of technology taking over the world, & music, it's holds a large piece of my heart & soul. Very bittersweet. I'd go back in a second!
ETA~ great video! Thanks!
I totally agree I was 20 in 93 so the decade was to the taking and I had fun :)
Christopher Michaud I’m happy someone understands & agrees!
Not a cellphone in sight, I think we were VERY fortunate!
We lived in the moment & made the most of those
moments... all while having the magnificent musical background of an explosion of amazing bands.
Absolutely the best possible time to be 20-ish years old! My opinion, anyway 🤷🏻♀️😉
Spot on , 1979 always takes us back to some of our best times ....;
3 Speaker High - Have a good time, if you want to experience mid 00s night life listen to that song very of the times.
Love Smashing Pumpkins so bloody much. Saw them live August 8th 2018 and I'm so glad I did cause they were brilliant.
Damn, awesome breakdown. Was pleasantly surprised when I saw this in my recommended, didn’t know other people shared the same emotional connection to this song as I do.
The metal band Tiamat especially their two Synth/Psychedelic albums "Wildhoney" and "A Deeper Kind of Slumber" always give me an European Summer Nostalgia for some reason. I think of summer in an Austrian Flowerfield. I think of myself as a 6 year old. I see myself back playing Playstation 1 and having fun with my old friends. Songs like "Atlantis as a Lover", "A Pocket Sized Sun" and "Gaia" really bring me back to a time were nature was untouched.
1979 year that i was born and i had 15 when this video was released... very nostalgic song, video and times.. :( i love this nostalgic song.. I lived the same thing that shows in the video at my hometown los mochis sinaloa mexico..
Holy Smokes! Thank you. This was beautiful. The last 20 seconds took my breath away. I can relate so much.
2009-2011 were my 1979 years, I was 15-18 and me and my bff would skip school just to hang out, roaming around annoying people and just being teenagers. I think it's that age where you spend more time around your friends than your family and almost see them as closer than your family because they understand you more
I just can’t get over how good that song is
Bryan Adans was born in 1959. He would have been 9/10 in 1969.
This channel is actually gold. I can already see it blowing up. Amazing content man, keep it up.
Billy Corgan turned 12 in 1979. I turned 12 in 1996 when 1979 was released. It is perhaps my most nostalgic song from the 90s at it's popularity coincided with my transition from elementary school kid to middle school kid.
This was a beautiful analysis and helped me realize a little bit about things I might be over idolizing from my youth. Thank you.
Beautiful way of describing nostalgia and adolescence
I born in 1979 and this song makes me feel so nostalgic of the better times.
I was 18 when this came out, last year in high school, it couldn't have been timed more perfectly.
Literally every smashing pumpkins song makes me feel so nostalgic
What's so great about the song is it's universality. By '95 my days of driving around with friends, hanging out and getting loaded, hassling with cops, looking for parties, and doing basically nothing had a 10 year head start on Corgan's youth yet the song still hit like a break-up when it came out and the emotions it rouses are still as strong today. They really captured a certain American kid experience that lasted from the '50s until... I don't know. I assume kids still do it today but everything seems real different now.
Very good video on pop culture. I have to say this is a well written piece, kudos! Smashing Pumpkins struck me as an aristic achievement when they first came out.
I was listening to this song on the radio as I drove to work today!
...although Billy Corgan is a kind of a freak, he´s a pure genious.
1979 is wettening my eyes for more than 2 decades now and will do that til the last day of my life.
I´m so looking foward to their show in Berlin next summer.
When '1979 ' was released I was already 24 years of age, and the video always made me feel, that as an introverted teenager, like I missed out on the shenanigans of youth. Now I'm 50 and have no regrets it all. We are who we are. Still think that '1979' is a classic.
ahh 1979 takes me back to middle school miss them days
I was 16-17 in 1997 when this song was at its peak of popularity. I was too much of a die-hard black metal fanatic to relent to the most popular album of the era.
However, in subsequent years, and to this day, every time I hear this song (and others by SP), it evokes that forlorn sentiment, that feeling of lost youth that stood still in time, that age when the world was still wondrous and so much yet awaited (or so I hoped). If that was the intended effect, than Smashing Pumpkins succeeded magnificently.
I was born in 1979.
Same here.... i feel so damn old
@@TheAsamjawa 39 Aint so bad. At least we'll be dead before the earth turns into Venus.
1979 Xennial lol
Hard to pick my favourite SP song, but theres something about 1979, the mid 90s were my transition years from kid to teenager, and that song was at the forefront of that time.
I strive to write a song as good and as evoking of that warm fuzzy euphoric feeling we all love as this one. It’s such a perfect portrayal of that indescribable feeling of bittersweet beauty that is nostalgia. This song always takes me back to my childhood, and will hopefully one day take me back to my life right now. This song has made me realise that I need to fully enjoy my youth while it still lasts. That’s how much of an impact this song has on me.
You're honestly one of my favorite channels, love your work
This song is very nostalgic to me. Just starting High School.
Tears in my eyes dude. THANK YOU
What’s interesting for me is that my teenage years were so insanely fun and crazy that it sounds made up. From road tripping and sleeping in a car for over a month, to being on a talk show, to meeting bands, being backstage at shows, etc, remembering my teen years isn’t idealized nostalgia. It really was even more fantastic than can be described. I’m almost 41 now. To this day, how extreme my teenage years were make me bore easily and feel like I’m always missing something.
1979 is one of the greatest pop songs ever! I remember how unusual it was for a hit in 1996
Saw SP at the I-Beam in San Francisco in '91 for $6. They were shy, humble, and fucking rocked! Gish is not only my favorite Pumpkin's record, but, in my opinion, the best rock record released during the "grunge years."
I appreciate this discussion. I instantly connected with the music and the video, later the lyric. Billy Corgan and I might be the same age. Whatever formula or happy accidents converged to create this tune, it works perfectly to remind me of being 12-13 in the late 70’s. And I find that the feelings are so specific-I’m back to being 12, looking ahead at what I thought was a hopeless future. Its perfect in many ways. I was wrong about that future but the 12 yr old me was convinced. Anyway, yes there’s a profit in nostalgia but I doubt they could make another song that hit like this. This was a once in a career and good for them.
The first girl I ever loved introduced me to 'Disarm', and it became 'our tune'.
She was Spanish, and we just spent one awesome month together and then it was over. Nothing but good memories and melancholy. 1992 was my 1979.
Miss you, Blanca. :p
I generally prefer country, but 1979 is my favorite song. Not only do I just love the song in general, but it makes me feel nostalgic like you said. Nostalgic for a time I never even experienced
It's the guitar riff that actually evokes the emotion of longiness.
My gods this is brilliant. THANK YOU !!! Namaste
I was 12 yo in 1995. Loved the song then. Love it more know that understand its meaning
I really thought I was the only one who felt this way while listening to this song.
Wait....there is a Stranger Things season 3 teaser out!? WTF?
Its going to suck. They used up their nostalgia.
Yeah, you pretty much nailed it. That was one of the best songs ever created.
My prime ended at the age of 12. Our family was very mobile so I could never really find a permanent group of friends.
1979 and , “Soco Amaretto Lomé” by Brand New always send me into a nostalgia trip.
Oh give me a break, they were good times, the best of times. It's just that many of us didn't realize it at the time...as for the song, it certainly does evoke a sense of nostalgia, musically and lyrically, love it!
All the best music I love nowadays was released many years ago, so everything I love sonically is dripping with nostalgia, this song being the anthem.
I was born in 79 and reminds me of high school in 97
Hmm you're acting like you're speaking for everyone here. I don't miss my teenage years at all and it certainly wasn't when I felt I was at my "prime". I much prefer my twenties to me teenage years.
J.J. yeah that part felt weird. not everyone peaked in high school lmao and i refuse to feel bad about who i am now. life can be just as great later in life, it's just different in some ways, but everything is still just as significant
Same! Although maybe my prime is yet to come? I’m a late bloomer
I was introduced to this song like two years ago, idk why it makes me feel nostalgic. So much so that I can’t finish the song
1979 and Perfect always take me back to somewhere beyond!
Today, this video would be teenagers sitting around staring at their phones looking up gender pronouns
And getting offended because using '1979' discriminates against all other years.
Today, this video wouldn't exist because teenagers would be to busy doing reaction videos....
No it wouldn't.
Damn, that's a true bitter old fuck comment.
And all you boomers were hippies back in the day.
The misery I know
Like a friend that won't let go
Is creeping up on me now once again
So I sing this song tonight
To the ghost that will not die
And somehow seems to haunt me till the end
Do you feel the same
For what once remained
Yesterday is gone, we can't go back again
Do you ever cry for the Ghost of Days Gone By
I remember summer days
We were young and unafraid
With innocence we'd glide beneath the stars
It seems so long ago
Beyond the life that I now know
Before the years would have their way and break my heart
Do you feel the same
For what once remained
Yesterday is gone, we can't go back again
Do you ever cry for the Ghost of Days Gone By
And I know it's drawing closer
With each day I fear the end
And I... don't wanna die
Don't wanna die, don't wanna die
I don't wanna die
Do you feel the same
For what once remained
Yesterday is gone, we can't go back again
Do you ever cry for the days gone by
Do they haunt you like a ghost until the end
Haunt you till the end, until the end
Until the end, until the end
I'm almost 20 and my teen years were Definetly super emotional for me man.
I remember the first time I heard this song when I was 17 in 2015, in my senior year. Yes I'm sorry that it wasnt in 90's or early 00's.
I heard it by my phone on Spotify and I instantly felt this nostalgia feeling and I was like. Wow this sounds so damn good. Like a song that You heard before but never. Like familliar. I heard it because they were going to play on Lollapalooza and I said well I have to investigate this band.
And then I heard it playing live. I remember me and my friends laying in the grass far from the crowd listening that beautiful song and many others by them. It was one of the best moments in my life.
Some years has passed since 2015. But now I'm 20 and remember 2015 was the summer that I felt like a real teenager, Going out, getting drunk, falling in love, doing nothing in the streets.
When i hear this song it reminds me of that summer. And it reminds me of things that happened last month. Its kind of strange how nostalgia works. It isnt necessary that events have passed by years ago. And like I said I'm 20 and I feel like I'm making this memories. And 1979 is becoming the soundtrack of this years of my life.
Me and my friends were always so proud to have been born in that great year, because of this song
As I watch this from early 2020, I can’t help but think about my chemical romance and their song “kids from yesterday”.
Song reminds me of playing GTA IV back in the late 2000s cruising around Liberty City in a muscle car I just hijacked lol
Same
I relate to this song so much, its no wonder.
Thanks for this video!
Also remember that there was a strong anti-1980s bent to much of the "alternative" rockers from the early 90s. Names like Madonna and Michael Jackson were downright triggering to long hairs strumming guitars in the 80s, and the decade defined by Reaganism, serial killers, cable TV, and AIDS seemed dystopian compared to the Aquarian 1970s. The year 1979 itself would have been the last book on the shelf of a less menacing cultural epoch which was gone forever.
Takes back to 95 amazing music
"So we all get old, we cannae hack it any more, and that's it?"
"Yeah"
"That's your theory?"
"Yeah"
"Beautifully fucking illustrated"
The past is a story that you tell yourself.
That's a badass house party in the 1979 video. Only went to one party like that only the band was set up in kitchen.
It's an awesome song but I have to admit there are time's when it just makes me to sad to actually enjoy it.
Awesome video friend. Thank you for this video.....
The problem with nostalgia is, the specific time you are nostalgic for is never as good as you might remember it.
This explanation makes me love the song even more
Also....the 1990s ended at the end of 1995. The pre 2000s began after that. The real 90s was 91-95. The one that people remember. 1979 was a similar year I think. That's part of why it's nostalgic. Corgan sensed the end. We all kinda did. Jamiroquai wrote a song about it for god's sake within a few months. Grunge rock died too.
Wonderful video. Thank you.
I remember there were days were a thought that the “golden years” were a distant, pristine, era that is far from unattainable; it felt like an imagination. This made me feel empty, disassociated with the present’s reality. I remember going back to my highschool, trying to relive those precious memories. And although they were nice and comforting, I realize it wasn’t anything out of this world. Let me rephrase, they were great times, amazing times that made me feel alive, but I still feel like those moments are still attainable in this present day.
One thing I can say for certain is that America’s loneliness epidemic plays a large role in making the past feel like a dream land. Because during highschool, you thought your true friends were people whom you spended your free time with. In truth, most of these people who you thought were your friends will leave you in the dirt to die. Although people and agendas change with time, in my personal opinion it’s selfish and even narcissistic to just leave your old friends in the dust without having a discussion that leads to closure. seems like today generation doesn’t like dealing with real emotions. Smh. Maybe I’m going thru a phase, but it’s just my two cents.
I was 11 in 1979, and although this song does bring a bit of nostalga, I say Arcade Fire ( The Suburbs) has more of the year 1979 feel,
In 1979 Supertramp released So ilogical, there you'll hear how Arcade fire's The Suburbs song is truly a nostlagic song.