Billy was on point when he said this is an idealized version of teenage life. I was born in '79 and was 15 when MellonCollie came out. The life I was living at that time was anything but carefree and fun. I'm glad those days are over but even more glad that I have great memories and appreciation of the first few pumpkins albums
Yeah, I'm 10 years younger, but I remembered hearing the songs from MCIS on the radio and TV a lot when I was around 7, so I downloaded it when I was 15 and listened to it a lot over the next 3 years. It was one of my favorites albums at that time, but I usually skipped this song. Frankly, this video bothered me a lot when I was 15-17, and it was because I just couldn't relate to the kids in the video at all. I think like you, I had my own issues I was dealing with at the time. My issues were probably different, but I remember those years isolating myself and being paranoid over a mutual attraction to my male track buddy a grade below (who knew how to play this song and others from MCIS on guitar...). Now I'm in my 30s and I still can't watch the video. Those years were wasted and they won't be coming back, and it feels like I'm just waiting for death at this point. Dan if you're reading this: I hope you forgive me for being an asshole towards the end of my senior year. I didn't know any better and societal pressures were just too much at the time.
@@twiff3rino28hey this is most likely pretty silly of me to say this haha. My name is also Dan (coincidence lol), but not the Dan you mention in your comment though. When i was in high school i never really cared about what ppl thought of me. I mean i did care, a lot in a sense, had a really hard time going up to a girl i liked lol Most people knew me as a class clown however so that was ok with me. But yeah in a way i also felt kind of like i didn't do the high school things like going to parties etc, things i would do in a heartbeat now if i could turn back time. I actually started doing all that in my mid 20s. I hope you can find the Dan from your school and that you guys can talk and catch up. He sounds like a really cool dude. You're not too old in your 30s to do all those things. Its not a wasted life.
Crazy, learned that the song is written from a 27-8 year-old (at the time) writing about what he never had. Kind of proves that popularity and wealth isn't everything for some people.
Billy paints a picture of his youth in 1979 he was a kid hanging with the cool guys. They took him a long for the ride and it was awe inspiring for his childhood. Something he never forgot yet somehow still reminece.
THANK YOU, YOU'VE ANSWERED ALL MY QUESTIONS I HAD NO IDEA THAT IRATE NEIGHBOR WAS PLAYED BY THE ONE AND ONLY D'ARCY AWESOME!!! SHE WAS ALWAYS MY FAVORITE PUMPKIN ANYWAY BUT ANYWHO'S THANKX
This is what you call magic. Rarely found in the music or video world these days. I was 11 years old when I saw this. Liked it, but it didn't move me. A few years later I'd be these kids. Decades later I'd be watching this video, remembering the time between and no longer taking the trip for granted. Shakdown... 1999!
I wish I had this chance... now I'm 34 and nothing feels fun anymore, and the regrets after watching this each time make me wonder if there's anything left worth living.
Which is strange....when you look at Spike's Sabotage video (Beastie Boys) or the 100% video (Sonic Youth) their content and style are very much in line with this video (band at a house party, band wearing costumes/wigs and playing someone other than themselves, 60's/70's era cars)......
it truly was remarkable .I often visit this song . i was 17 in 1979 and the honesty of this nostalgic song and video really reslly captures the true essence of the time .
I was 12 when this came out and was obsessed with rap but I couldn't help but love the Pumpkins. Any suburban kid can relate to this. Driving around aimlessly and ending up at random peoples houses and motel parties. Getting trespassing warrants for being "downtown" after 10. Buying weed through a classmates bedroom window. Hiding on the floor of the backseat of your friends car who had OJT (on the job training) so you could leave school early. Everything but what you were supposed to be doing lol.
Back in 1994/95 i was an exchange student in the US for a year, it was a great year ill never forget and i saw all those video clips and became a fan of SP And im from 1978… Saw them live in Brazil but without jimmy Then i planned a trip to canada just to see them again but this time with Jimmy. It was in Vancouver in 2007 and a person died that night in an accident in the show ( mosh pit i guess). I was in the first row… I wish i had the opportunity to see them live in the 90s with the OG band Nowadays it’s sad that there is not the felling of opening that cellophane of the vinyl or cd, reading the booklet, that smell of new music… I miss that brief year in the us and all the friends made… i get that for them i was just a South American kid that went there for a school year and others followed, but from my perspective it was life changing, got fluent in English and it was an incredible experience living away from my family ( remember in that time communicating abroad was very hard and expensive…) I went to Springfield HS in akron OH btw…
I love this song... and the video. I'm surprised no one in the video said about how the they filmed everything and lost the footage so they had to re shoot it. Lol
I’m into this video so deeply! I exactly felt my youth even if I couldn’t get a single word back at time because I was a little ‘90s italian kid (and our English school program didn’t still exist…)
you guys are right. this music video is flawless and its the best music video to have ever existed. im not american nor have i ever been there but i can feel like i lived there as a teen and its amazing 🥲 u have no idea how real it feels.
When I first hear this song and saw the video, I was in my thirties. It made me think of 1979 when I was 15/16 and some of the few times, I ever hung out with friends(I was a loner). But now in 2024, hearing this song makes me nostalgic for the 1990s when I was in my thirties and singing this song at karaoke bars. Back then, it was on my short list for songs I sang.
Omg!! I just noticed that im living 1 block from the liquor from this video!! Is the liquor where i always get my shit < 33 next of it is a bar called "shooters"
I had a Great life just like this!! Rich parents and traveled the Country racing Bmx outta my parents Motorhome!! Now I'm an Actor who's worked for Michael Bay and Eminem!!! Life's always been Great!!! FRANK BALAZS THE ISLAND!!!
I remember hanging like this in high school. Kristen, courtney, and jason. Your in this evaporating time you finally feel happy in your skin. Just when ya do reality sets in and your all alone.
How the hell did nobody get in trouble for allowing a bunch of 15/16 year olds to bang in the bathroom, especially in a state like California? 😂 Im sure if it happened now it'd be a different story.
I’m surprised they didn’t bring up the story of when they literally wrapped up on shooting the video, the tape that had all the footage got ran over by a vehicle, destroying it in the process, and had to start all over again from scratch.
The Pumpkins were first time in Brazil about 20 years ago and Billy got attention for being unnecessarily rude on a tv show when was answering the audience questions. The situation got better when the own band girl made an irony with him: someone asked if he had a girlfriend, and she: "Oh, what girlfriend?" Everybody laughed.
It's a awesome music video. I remember it very vividly as a kid when it played on mtv. Do you know where i could find the name of the londe girl and the other kid actors?
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I love the way Billy smiles while in the car 😂🙌
same! ❤️
Yeah thats my fave part too. That's not acting. That's real.
Gay.
@@AGENTARMES w
Same!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍
Billy was on point when he said this is an idealized version of teenage life. I was born in '79 and was 15 when MellonCollie came out. The life I was living at that time was anything but carefree and fun. I'm glad those days are over but even more glad that I have great memories and appreciation of the first few pumpkins albums
Well technically 16
17 if you were born before Oct 24 1979 :p
yeah
Yeah, I'm 10 years younger, but I remembered hearing the songs from MCIS on the radio and TV a lot when I was around 7, so I downloaded it when I was 15 and listened to it a lot over the next 3 years. It was one of my favorites albums at that time, but I usually skipped this song.
Frankly, this video bothered me a lot when I was 15-17, and it was because I just couldn't relate to the kids in the video at all. I think like you, I had my own issues I was dealing with at the time. My issues were probably different, but I remember those years isolating myself and being paranoid over a mutual attraction to my male track buddy a grade below (who knew how to play this song and others from MCIS on guitar...).
Now I'm in my 30s and I still can't watch the video. Those years were wasted and they won't be coming back, and it feels like I'm just waiting for death at this point.
Dan if you're reading this: I hope you forgive me for being an asshole towards the end of my senior year. I didn't know any better and societal pressures were just too much at the time.
@@twiff3rino28hey this is most likely pretty silly of me to say this haha.
My name is also Dan (coincidence lol), but not the Dan you mention in your comment though.
When i was in high school i never really cared about what ppl thought of me. I mean i did care, a lot in a sense, had a really hard time going up to a girl i liked lol
Most people knew me as a class clown however so that was ok with me.
But yeah in a way i also felt kind of like i didn't do the high school things like going to parties etc, things i would do in a heartbeat now if i could turn back time.
I actually started doing all that in my mid 20s.
I hope you can find the Dan from your school and that you guys can talk and catch up. He sounds like a really cool dude.
You're not too old in your 30s to do all those things. Its not a wasted life.
Are you sure you are Gen X? Not carefree nor fun? Meh...
The Smashing Pumpkins made some of the best videos.
Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton.
My favs are all of their videos.
probably one of the most iconic and greatest music videos of all time
One of the most unforgettable music videos in my lifetime.
YES!!! Sure was. Nostalgia!!!!
Crazy, learned that the song is written from a 27-8 year-old (at the time) writing about what he never had. Kind of proves that popularity and wealth isn't everything for some people.
Billy paints a picture of his youth in 1979 he was a kid hanging with the cool guys. They took him a long for the ride and it was awe inspiring for his childhood. Something he never forgot yet somehow still reminece.
Now, these 15, 16 years old kids are 40 years old gentlemen and ladies. Man, time really flies!
That is so beautiful to think about
Shjdkdksbdkdbd i can’t believe I’m 16 now whatttttttteggsdhhd
Yes us '79ers are all turning 42 this year
Yup. I was in my early 20's in the Air Force. In 3 months I'll be 50. CRAZY!!!! Time sure does fly....
they're all probably hyper politicized and neurotic.
I'm kinda glad you didn't make the alien hotel video too.
This came out in elementary school and I still get that nostalgia feeling all these years later. Best song ever!!
The song came out when my brother was only 3.
The greatest song ever made! Brings me back to the 90s when I was a teen 🥲
It's a awesome music video. I remember it very vividly as a kid when it played on mtv.
Timeless video. Nostalgia on nostalgia on nostalgia... Generations have passed and yet this video and it's song remain relevant
Your PFP looks like Radal.
THANK YOU, YOU'VE ANSWERED ALL MY QUESTIONS I HAD NO IDEA THAT IRATE NEIGHBOR WAS PLAYED BY THE ONE AND ONLY D'ARCY AWESOME!!! SHE WAS ALWAYS MY FAVORITE PUMPKIN ANYWAY BUT ANYWHO'S THANKX
W H Y R W E Y E L L I N G ? ;)
This is what you call magic. Rarely found in the music or video world these days. I was 11 years old when I saw this. Liked it, but it didn't move me. A few years later I'd be these kids. Decades later I'd be watching this video, remembering the time between and no longer taking the trip for granted. Shakdown... 1999!
I wish I had this chance... now I'm 34 and nothing feels fun anymore, and the regrets after watching this each time make me wonder if there's anything left worth living.
Those were my friends you found in old town Pasadena. They did great!
Watching in 2020: Look at all that wasted toilet paper..
Underrated coment
Look at those care-free wasted teens :-D
ha ha
That gave me a belly laugh. Well done!
Didn’t notice my comment got so many likes haha, keep up the good vibes. Sending happiness from Australia 🤙🤙 #longliveSP
It’s my fave pumpkins song I just love it
beautiful a time gone
Squidbillies1000 honestly...
This video is absolutely perfect and timeless. It seems only yesterday I watched it for the first time but it's been decades
My favorite song ever.
Love this song brings me back many memories
0:09 This song captures that feeling so incredibly well. I wish my teenage years were something to look back fondly upon.
The rejected alien hotel video concept he talks about but won't name the director was Spike Jonze.
Which is strange....when you look at Spike's Sabotage video (Beastie Boys) or the 100% video (Sonic Youth) their content and style are very much in line with this video (band at a house party, band wearing costumes/wigs and playing someone other than themselves, 60's/70's era cars)......
Definitely one of the best music videos of the 90's
I love this video so much. The song and video is timeless
it truly was remarkable .I often visit this song . i was 17 in 1979 and the honesty of this nostalgic song and video really reslly captures the true essence of the time .
Fantastic, your work is timeless
I was 12 when this came out and was obsessed with rap but I couldn't help but love the Pumpkins. Any suburban kid can relate to this. Driving around aimlessly and ending up at random peoples houses and motel parties. Getting trespassing warrants for being "downtown" after 10. Buying weed through a classmates bedroom window. Hiding on the floor of the backseat of your friends car who had OJT (on the job training) so you could leave school early. Everything but what you were supposed to be doing lol.
I'm only 5-6 years younger than you, but this wasn't my experience.
Back in 1994/95 i was an exchange student in the US for a year, it was a great year ill never forget and i saw all those video clips and became a fan of SP
And im from 1978…
Saw them live in Brazil but without jimmy
Then i planned a trip to canada just to see them again but this time with Jimmy. It was in Vancouver in 2007 and a person died that night in an accident in the show ( mosh pit i guess). I was in the first row…
I wish i had the opportunity to see them live in the 90s with the OG band
Nowadays it’s sad that there is not the felling of opening that cellophane of the vinyl or cd, reading the booklet, that smell of new music…
I miss that brief year in the us and all the friends made… i get that for them i was just a South American kid that went there for a school year and others followed, but from my perspective it was life changing, got fluent in English and it was an incredible experience living away from my family ( remember in that time communicating abroad was very hard and expensive…)
I went to Springfield HS in akron OH btw…
Take me back 😔
I love this song... and the video. I'm surprised no one in the video said about how the they filmed everything and lost the footage so they had to re shoot it. Lol
I really love this music and video. I fell into the illusion that I was a teenager like the guys in this video when I watched it the first time.
Billy's smile is so beautiful. Love you!
My son has that same smile
Love this clip and song. Love this kids and this making of video.
Perfect song. Perfect video.
I’m into this video so deeply!
I exactly felt my youth even if I couldn’t get a single word back at time because I was a little ‘90s italian kid (and our English school program didn’t still exist…)
My DVD of this straight up won't work. It's so nice to have access to this.
What's the name of the DVD?
@@TAGMedia7 I chucked it. It was just a collection of all their music videos up to machina, with bonus footage and commentaries.
I like to find the making of great old videos and to know how actors and musicians are today.
This vivid video quality makes 1995 seem like yesterday.
Was at a view looking over all of LA, was with my friend's drinking and this song comes on randomly and it just felt right
Imagine opening a garage door and finding the green charger and the ice cream truck intact.
It would be a dream to see that beautiful charger
Poor James taking the microphone to the head at 2:18.... Those SM58's are heavy! This B-roll footage kinda makes me wish the video was even longer.
BEAUTIFUL
Superb video
The feelings of the song and the video work together great
you guys are right. this music video is flawless and its the best music video to have ever existed. im not american nor have i ever been there but i can feel like i lived there as a teen and its amazing 🥲 u have no idea how real it feels.
This video is highly unrealistic. I loved this album when I was 15-18, but I couldn't stand this video at the time because I was envious of the kids.
Yeah sure
When I first hear this song and saw the video, I was in my thirties. It made me think of 1979 when I was 15/16 and some of the few times, I ever hung out with friends(I was a loner). But now in 2024, hearing this song makes me nostalgic for the 1990s when I was in my thirties and singing this song at karaoke bars. Back then, it was on my short list for songs I sang.
Just F-ing Dam Awesome.
I disagree with billy that it's their best music video. That accolade goes to either Tonight, Tonight or Ava Adore.
Omg!! I just noticed that im living 1 block from the liquor from this video!! Is the liquor where i always get my shit < 33 next of it is a bar called "shooters"
i thought that was winnetka holy shit
What state?
@@amberkiley8676 Its in Bakersfield California.
@@Alezerex No, in Winneetka, CA.
This is my 3rd favorite video ever. My 2nd favorite pumpkins video after “Rocket”. My favorite video ever is Zombie.
thank god my teen years were similar to this
I had a Great life just like this!! Rich parents and traveled the Country racing Bmx outta my parents Motorhome!! Now I'm an Actor who's worked for Michael Bay and Eminem!!! Life's always been Great!!! FRANK BALAZS THE ISLAND!!!
god I loved this so much as a kid
TOP 3 90s Piece!!
I remember hanging like this in high school. Kristen, courtney, and jason. Your in this evaporating time you finally feel happy in your skin. Just when ya do reality sets in and your all alone.
every band i have sung in we have performed this amazing unique
song
About 2 seconds into the video what part of Santa Clarita is that? Almost looks like Stevenson Ranch
Saugus
Anyone know how they got the TP shot done? Cuz the TP is revolving but the camera is still (and somehow attached to it?)
How the hell did nobody get in trouble for allowing a bunch of 15/16 year olds to bang in the bathroom, especially in a state like California? 😂
Im sure if it happened now it'd be a different story.
Quisiera vivir eternamente en un bucle infinito en ese video
Esto es lo más bonito que he leído acerca de este vídeo y esta canción entre tanta chorrada.
@@TheLiebde hace dias los pude ver en vivo y casi lloro conn esta cancion
I still don't know how they got the camera rigged on the toilet paper some 15 years before GoPro and action cams. Such a cool shot!
They basically did do the alien hotel idea for all their future videos tho...
who is the blonde girl? this is unanswered on the web, somebody knows?
seriously that's what im trying to figure out.
Graf Zorba yeah it's really weird... I thought it would be easy to find out her name too, but it isn't listed anywhere! She's awesome.
im looking for this also. any news?
@@davideduardoaguilar884 The brunette girl is Lauren Amelia English. The other one I don't know.
@@just-passin-thru Yeah I know who you are talking about but she is not her. They are different.
I love you that song , 1979 the best song from TVE world
👍😍I love this song...well the beat & rhythm....I still don’t understand the lyrics after all of these years. 🤨😩
NOSTALGIA!!!! 💖💖💖🌻
No way! I think you're right :) That's pretty cool
Did anyone else see Billy balancing his guitar on his head? How the hell did he do that?
It was just stuck between his head and the ceiling.😊
Do you know where i could find the name of the londe girl and the other kid actors?
Analogmp3 Giuseppe Andrews
And the girl in the red jacket is Lauren English.
04:11 Gerard Way
YAAASSSSS
The name of the teen that drives the car is Giuseppe Andrews
joey murcia is your real name from florida
That's great! Where's that footage from? Some dvd or what?
What's the name of the girl in the front seat of the car
I’m surprised they didn’t bring up the story of when they literally wrapped up on shooting the video, the tape that had all the footage got ran over by a vehicle, destroying it in the process, and had to start all over again from scratch.
Very well played they made it "1979". If it were "2010" he probably wouldn't fit in the back of a modern compact with two other kids.
Was somebody sitting with Billy when this video ended?I like the music video I wonder what happend to the kids and the other people?
I wonder where that charger is now?
3:49 josephgordonlewitt?
How do you leave out the pool scene and ziploc bag detail?
The hotel video sounds like it would’ve fit in well as well but i guess they didn’t want to do it because they already did the tonight tonight video.
and that nameless director with the alien hotel vision, was Akira Kurosawa
Oh videoclip green Charger where art thou in 2023?
When I was a kid, watching this on MTV, I had a crush on the blonde girl in the passenger seat of the car
Me too!
Hey Billy! What are you singing in the airspace of this song!? Is it "Ooooooohhh, twelve again!"? Or, "Ooooooooh, today ah!"
Does Kevin Smith know you made a Kevin Smith movie with out him?
Dodge Charger
It's been a couple of decades since this song came and as you see there's no one around
was the blonde girl related to Billy or Kirsten Dunst? :p
Watching in 2021.
2023 for me
nice, i didn´t know chamberline was one of the cops and darcy as the lady with the mask haha
1:22 Billy has alopecia.
He has eyebrows
Cause James always is the best and handsome
The Pumpkins were first time in Brazil about 20 years ago and Billy got attention for being unnecessarily rude on a tv show when was answering the audience questions. The situation got better when the own band girl made an irony with him: someone asked if he had a girlfriend, and she: "Oh, what girlfriend?" Everybody laughed.
La escena del papel higiénico, cómo diablos la hicieron?
who is the blonde hair girl??? I need to know!
Who is the red jacket girl ?
Aaron Castillo lil tay
Her name is Lauren English
It's a awesome music video. I remember it very vividly as a kid when it played on mtv.
Do you know where i could find the name of the londe girl and the other kid actors?
Those 13 year olds are now pushing 40!
theedrstrangelove youth is fleeting. It’s weird to think that 90s teens are now in their 40s.
Giuseppe!!♥️
2:19 ; - )