Smashing Pumpkins - The Making of '1979' (With Commentary)

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2013
  • Here's the making of the 1979 music video. This was filmed in Santa Clarita, CA, in January 1996. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. This was the 2nd Mellon Collie music video. ©1995 Virgin Records.
    DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING IN THIS VIDEO. ALL MUSIC BELONGS TO THE SMASHING PUMPKINS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE LABELS.
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  • @lucasargandona4658
    @lucasargandona4658 6 лет назад +176

    I love the way Billy smiles while in the car 😂🙌

  • @303nitzubishi4
    @303nitzubishi4 3 года назад +86

    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

    • @vlcheish
      @vlcheish 2 года назад +2

      Well technically 16
      17 if you were born before Oct 24 1979 :p

    • @therodgodproject9942
      @therodgodproject9942 Год назад +1

      yeah

    • @twiff3rino28
      @twiff3rino28 10 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @christopheraparicio4482
    @christopheraparicio4482 7 лет назад +129

    The Smashing Pumpkins made some of the best videos.

  • @donny2700
    @donny2700 6 лет назад +75

    I'm kinda glad you didn't make the alien hotel video too.

  • @jorgemello780
    @jorgemello780 3 года назад +71

    Now, these 15, 16 years old kids are 40 years old gentlemen and ladies. Man, time really flies!

    • @EM-pj9mr
      @EM-pj9mr 3 года назад +7

      That is so beautiful to think about

    • @qnnikqs
      @qnnikqs 3 года назад +4

      Shjdkdksbdkdbd i can’t believe I’m 16 now whatttttttteggsdhhd

    • @303nitzubishi4
      @303nitzubishi4 3 года назад +4

      Yes us '79ers are all turning 42 this year

    • @caligirl3000
      @caligirl3000 2 года назад +4

      Yup. I was in my early 20's in the Air Force. In 3 months I'll be 50. CRAZY!!!! Time sure does fly....

    • @jay1jayf
      @jay1jayf 2 года назад +2

      they're all probably hyper politicized and neurotic.

  • @tgortl
    @tgortl 3 года назад +32

    One of the most unforgettable music videos in my lifetime.

    • @caligirl3000
      @caligirl3000 2 года назад

      YES!!! Sure was. Nostalgia!!!!

  • @trevordarezzo-burch4553
    @trevordarezzo-burch4553 3 года назад +57

    probably one of the most iconic and greatest music videos of all time

  • @kanivakil198
    @kanivakil198 Год назад +5

    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.

  • @joshwaciantardrums
    @joshwaciantardrums 4 года назад +141

    Watching in 2020: Look at all that wasted toilet paper..

    • @rottenapple6340
      @rottenapple6340 3 года назад +6

      Underrated coment

    • @ToiYeuYAHWEH
      @ToiYeuYAHWEH 2 года назад +3

      Look at those care-free wasted teens :-D

    • @newt66c33
      @newt66c33 2 года назад

      ha ha

    • @anonymousdude4011
      @anonymousdude4011 2 года назад +1

      That gave me a belly laugh. Well done!

    • @joshwaciantardrums
      @joshwaciantardrums 2 года назад

      Didn’t notice my comment got so many likes haha, keep up the good vibes. Sending happiness from Australia 🤙🤙 #longliveSP

  • @neilfraser1235
    @neilfraser1235 5 лет назад +22

    The rejected alien hotel video concept he talks about but won't name the director was Spike Jonze.

    • @bluewavechris
      @bluewavechris 2 года назад

      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)......

  • @god563616
    @god563616 3 года назад +17

    This came out in elementary school and I still get that nostalgia feeling all these years later. Best song ever!!

    • @okjeffy6581
      @okjeffy6581 Год назад

      The song came out when my brother was only 3.

  • @arkknight92
    @arkknight92 9 месяцев назад +4

    The greatest song ever made! Brings me back to the 90s when I was a teen 🥲

  • @delusionalwastelandproduct5092
    @delusionalwastelandproduct5092 5 лет назад +26

    It's a awesome music video. I remember it very vividly as a kid when it played on mtv.

  • @jasonhuntley4203
    @jasonhuntley4203 8 лет назад +33

    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

  • @Mrbungleface0u818
    @Mrbungleface0u818 Год назад +5

    Timeless video. Nostalgia on nostalgia on nostalgia... Generations have passed and yet this video and it's song remain relevant

  • @glennhubbard5008
    @glennhubbard5008 Год назад +3

    My favorite song ever.

  • @uverpro3598
    @uverpro3598 3 года назад +6

    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!

    • @twiff3rino28
      @twiff3rino28 10 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @Squidbillies1000
    @Squidbillies1000 7 лет назад +12

    beautiful a time gone

  • @charlesdjones1
    @charlesdjones1 11 месяцев назад +2

    Perfect song. Perfect video.

  • @controloz3310
    @controloz3310 2 месяца назад +2

    It’s my fave pumpkins song I just love it

  • @tompopolo8801
    @tompopolo8801 10 лет назад +16

    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

  • @bluefishjoe
    @bluefishjoe 11 месяцев назад +1

    Those were my friends you found in old town Pasadena. They did great!

  • @Hot80s
    @Hot80s 2 года назад +6

    Imagine opening a garage door and finding the green charger and the ice cream truck intact.

    • @isucc_64
      @isucc_64 2 года назад

      It would be a dream to see that beautiful charger

  • @Aiur
    @Aiur 5 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic, your work is timeless

  • @blackspace007
    @blackspace007 Год назад +2

    I love this video so much. The song and video is timeless

  • @jesusmtz29
    @jesusmtz29 Год назад +1

    This video is absolutely perfect and timeless. It seems only yesterday I watched it for the first time but it's been decades

  • @sofuknossum1
    @sofuknossum1 3 года назад +3

    Take me back 😔

  • @v2snider1
    @v2snider1 3 года назад +1

    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 .

  • @snorgisborg2
    @snorgisborg2 2 года назад +2

    Definitely one of the best music videos of the 90's

  • @c0smicc4nc3r4
    @c0smicc4nc3r4 3 года назад

    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

  • @davidfox7983
    @davidfox7983 3 года назад

    Superb video
    The feelings of the song and the video work together great

  • @Proxcreadora
    @Proxcreadora 7 лет назад +31

    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"

    • @SirHouseFly
      @SirHouseFly 6 лет назад

      i thought that was winnetka holy shit

    • @amberkiley8676
      @amberkiley8676 6 лет назад

      What state?

    • @Alezerex
      @Alezerex 4 года назад +2

      @@amberkiley8676 Its in Bakersfield California.

    • @ToiYeuYAHWEH
      @ToiYeuYAHWEH 2 года назад +1

      @@Alezerex No, in Winneetka, CA.

  • @satanichispanic8882
    @satanichispanic8882 5 лет назад +1

    BEAUTIFUL

  • @mybestyears
    @mybestyears 2 года назад +2

    Love this clip and song. Love this kids and this making of video.

  • @key809
    @key809 2 года назад +1

    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.

  • @m.r.4455
    @m.r.4455 2 года назад +1

    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…)

  • @quince2285
    @quince2285 3 года назад +1

    Billy's smile is so beautiful. Love you!

  • @paoloernesto2591
    @paoloernesto2591 2 года назад +1

    I like to find the making of great old videos and to know how actors and musicians are today.

  • @myautobiographyafanfic1413
    @myautobiographyafanfic1413 2 года назад +2

    My DVD of this straight up won't work. It's so nice to have access to this.

    • @TAGMedia7
      @TAGMedia7 2 года назад

      What's the name of the DVD?

    • @myautobiographyafanfic1413
      @myautobiographyafanfic1413 2 года назад

      @@TAGMedia7 I chucked it. It was just a collection of all their music videos up to machina, with bonus footage and commentaries.

  • @Seth_Walker
    @Seth_Walker 4 месяца назад

    0:09 This song captures that feeling so incredibly well. I wish my teenage years were something to look back fondly upon.

  • @GrubWarp
    @GrubWarp 3 года назад +3

    thank god my teen years were similar to this

  • @jungcooks5115
    @jungcooks5115 Год назад

    This vivid video quality makes 1995 seem like yesterday.

  • @airdriver
    @airdriver 5 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @whatsuphotdog
    @whatsuphotdog 4 года назад

    god I loved this so much as a kid

  • @GrandRoyaLBassMan
    @GrandRoyaLBassMan Год назад

    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…

  • @Dartheomus
    @Dartheomus Год назад

    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.

  • @v2snider1
    @v2snider1 3 года назад

    every band i have sung in we have performed this amazing unique
    song

  • @ernesto1978
    @ernesto1978 3 года назад +2

    Quisiera vivir eternamente en un bucle infinito en ese video

  • @urbienbryllejamellep.2318
    @urbienbryllejamellep.2318 Год назад

    TOP 3 90s Piece!!

  • @f3uibeghardt522
    @f3uibeghardt522 2 года назад +14

    Did anyone else see Billy balancing his guitar on his head? How the hell did he do that?

    • @CFK83
      @CFK83 2 года назад

      It was just stuck between his head and the ceiling.😊

  • @frankbalazs8816
    @frankbalazs8816 3 года назад +3

    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!!!

  • @astronomical13
    @astronomical13 5 месяцев назад

    This is my 3rd favorite video ever. My 2nd favorite pumpkins video after “Rocket”. My favorite video ever is Zombie.

  • @ChrisHillmon
    @ChrisHillmon 5 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @Utubesanarc
    @Utubesanarc 6 лет назад +10

    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.

  • @lasttime1372
    @lasttime1372 4 года назад +1

    That's great! Where's that footage from? Some dvd or what?

  • @caligirl3000
    @caligirl3000 2 года назад

    NOSTALGIA!!!! 💖💖💖🌻

  • @sandgaijin
    @sandgaijin 2 года назад +1

    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!

  • @rax816
    @rax816 6 лет назад +3

    They basically did do the alien hotel idea for all their future videos tho...

  • @edstark44
    @edstark44 11 лет назад

    No way! I think you're right :) That's pretty cool

  • @lovingatlanta
    @lovingatlanta 3 года назад +1

    👍😍I love this song...well the beat & rhythm....I still don’t understand the lyrics after all of these years. 🤨😩

  • @MrWhosaywat
    @MrWhosaywat 3 года назад +1

    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.

    • @twiff3rino28
      @twiff3rino28 10 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @lanochedelasaranas2403
    @lanochedelasaranas2403 3 года назад

    I love you that song , 1979 the best song from TVE world

  • @HARDIKSHARMA100
    @HARDIKSHARMA100 4 года назад

    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?

  • @jonyoungmusic
    @jonyoungmusic Год назад

    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.

    • @twiff3rino28
      @twiff3rino28 10 месяцев назад

      I'm only 5-6 years younger than you, but this wasn't my experience.

  • @pinku708
    @pinku708 5 лет назад

    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.

  • @justinbyers7443
    @justinbyers7443 9 лет назад +6

    About 2 seconds into the video what part of Santa Clarita is that? Almost looks like Stevenson Ranch

  • @rockvideos5748
    @rockvideos5748 9 лет назад +19

    04:11 Gerard Way

  • @kk2255aa
    @kk2255aa 11 лет назад +16

    Dodge Charger

  • @marklantosh
    @marklantosh 3 года назад

    How do you leave out the pool scene and ziploc bag detail?

  • @LuisEduardoBraschi
    @LuisEduardoBraschi 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @tomservo5007
    @tomservo5007 Год назад

    and that nameless director with the alien hotel vision, was Akira Kurosawa

  • @ramonkariri
    @ramonkariri 3 года назад

    Watching in 2021.

  • @zeitok8
    @zeitok8 2 года назад

    nice, i didn´t know chamberline was one of the cops and darcy as the lady with the mask haha

  • @Jamie61571
    @Jamie61571 4 месяца назад

    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?

  • @lkaykay_mori9344
    @lkaykay_mori9344 7 месяцев назад

    Cause James always is the best and handsome

  • @julianparedes6473
    @julianparedes6473 4 года назад +1

    The name of the teen that drives the car is Giuseppe Andrews

  • @handymatt1970
    @handymatt1970 7 месяцев назад

    Oh videoclip green Charger where art thou in 2023?

  • @mayare1919
    @mayare1919 Год назад

    Anyone know how they got the TP shot done? Cuz the TP is revolving but the camera is still (and somehow attached to it?)

  • @wlcrutch
    @wlcrutch 2 года назад +2

    When I was a kid, watching this on MTV, I had a crush on the blonde girl in the passenger seat of the car

  • @BedtimeStoriesChannel
    @BedtimeStoriesChannel 2 года назад

    I disagree with billy that it's their best music video. That accolade goes to either Tonight, Tonight or Ava Adore.

  • @asd-foot-lettuce94
    @asd-foot-lettuce94 2 года назад

    Giuseppe!!♥️

  • @douglas_fir
    @douglas_fir 11 лет назад +5

    Do you know where i could find the name of the londe girl and the other kid actors?

    • @johnwaynegacy695
      @johnwaynegacy695 7 лет назад +5

      Analogmp3 Giuseppe Andrews

    • @flentie
      @flentie 2 года назад

      And the girl in the red jacket is Lauren English.

  • @ChannelZero1031
    @ChannelZero1031 Год назад

    Hey Billy! What are you singing in the airspace of this song!? Is it "Ooooooohhh, twelve again!"? Or, "Ooooooooh, today ah!"

  • @TheEchomaker
    @TheEchomaker 11 лет назад +2

    3:49 josephgordonlewitt?

  • @undertaker666dead
    @undertaker666dead Год назад

    I wonder where that charger is now?

  • @karelyhuertadelgadillo7984
    @karelyhuertadelgadillo7984 4 года назад +1

    who is the blonde hair girl??? I need to know!

  • @Internet_Enjoyer
    @Internet_Enjoyer 8 лет назад +25

    who is the blonde girl? this is unanswered on the web, somebody knows?

    • @cartman64439
      @cartman64439 7 лет назад +8

      seriously that's what im trying to figure out.

    • @TonySnafu88
      @TonySnafu88 6 лет назад +7

      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.

    • @davideduardoaguilar884
      @davideduardoaguilar884 3 года назад

      im looking for this also. any news?

    • @OCTOCAMO
      @OCTOCAMO 3 года назад

      @@davideduardoaguilar884 The brunette girl is Lauren Amelia English. The other one I don't know.

    • @OCTOCAMO
      @OCTOCAMO 3 года назад

      @@juss-passin-thru Yeah I know who you are talking about but she is not her. They are different.

  • @paoloernesto2591
    @paoloernesto2591 2 года назад

    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.

  • @MrKnife.69
    @MrKnife.69 2 года назад

    Does Kevin Smith know you made a Kevin Smith movie with out him?

  • @ChannelZero1031
    @ChannelZero1031 Год назад

    1:22 Billy has alopecia.

  • @winterlynn9012
    @winterlynn9012 5 лет назад +3

    This is probably a stupid question but is the video supposed to be taken place in the 70s? Because the car and some of the clothing is definitely 70s style but some looks 90s or maybe the intention was to give it both a 70s and 90s look and feel combined. I always figured it was Billy's way of reliving how he grew up in the 70s and what it was like to be a teen at that time. Either way so glad I saw this:) Never knew that was D'arcy playing the neighbor

    • @Utubesanarc
      @Utubesanarc 5 лет назад

      The little kid chewing bubble gum is supposed to be bill. Hes talking about joy rides he had in chicago with much older kids. These kids were his definition of feeling alive. Its odd...I wonder if bill still talks to those guys. Or if they even saw themselves in the video. Crazy

    • @laurendayap762
      @laurendayap762 5 лет назад +2

      present day (well 1996)

    • @billybats4745
      @billybats4745 5 лет назад +9

      Mid 90s had this interesting retro 70s ish style thing going on that last like three years. Especially in years to t-shirts. Everyone mid 90s was wearing 70s style shirts that they got from the salvation army. During the time when the video was shot, it was like the pinnacle of that time. Pretty much anyways. It gives a really cool feel to the video cause yeah it could easily be mistaken as taking place in the 70s.

    • @MannyBrum
      @MannyBrum 4 года назад +1

      As someone who grew up in the 90s (in fact I was the exact same age as the kids in the video), it's definitely 90s. I had the shoulder length hair, black denim jacket that I rarely took off, t shirt, 70s cars were pretty common. In 1996 a car from 1972 would be like a car from 1995 today. Not everyone has one but they're not rare, and someone getting their first car is likely to get an old car.

    • @williamshaw9047
      @williamshaw9047 4 года назад +2

      @@billybats4745 Another thing that was popular around that time were shirts that looked like something an employee at a gas station would wear. They would even have phony name patches on them. Ringer Ts were coming back into fashion.

  • @theedrstrangelove
    @theedrstrangelove 3 года назад +2

    Those 13 year olds are now pushing 40!

    • @Inaworldoflove
      @Inaworldoflove 3 года назад +2

      theedrstrangelove youth is fleeting. It’s weird to think that 90s teens are now in their 40s.

  • @punt2263
    @punt2263 3 года назад

    Wait was this not actually filmed on a camcorder??

  • @stoicnotsad
    @stoicnotsad Год назад

    It's been a couple of decades since this song came and as you see there's no one around

  • @anjelinavillalobos3973
    @anjelinavillalobos3973 6 лет назад +1

    I didn’t like the song at first but then I watched the video

  • @arbjork
    @arbjork 11 месяцев назад

    was the blonde girl related to Billy or Kirsten Dunst? :p

  • @corgan59
    @corgan59 5 лет назад +1

    I want to meet the girl in Red! call me!!!!! (im French) smashing pumpkins fan since 1994

  • @frvo
    @frvo Год назад

    What's the name of the girl in the front seat of the car

  • @aldebarandorian8818
    @aldebarandorian8818 5 лет назад +7

    The girl in red

  • @gweenbean8412
    @gweenbean8412 5 лет назад

    That girl in the red jacket does not wanna b there