Lex’s smiling head shake is literally the embodiment of this song. Smashing Pumpkins managed to literally record childhood nostalgia in this masterpiece.
But only the youth pre-digital era.... kids from now wouldn't relate at all, which is sad. This is the kind of childhood and teenage life kids SHOULD have, now it's forever history
@Punishedplushv2 credo che i tempi passati accomunassero un po' tutti i giovani di quegli anni.. almeno anche qua in Italia lo stato comunista ha distrutto tutto le nuove generazioni non capiranno mai cosa hanno perso
To me this song is about the nostalgia, rebeliousness, and confusion of being a teenager. 1979 is when the singer/writer would have been a kid coming into adolescence. It is artsy in that it is more about painting the picture than describing it literally. Being an outcast teen, not knowing where you'll end up, feeling the urgency of the current moment - not worried about tomorrow, not caring how things turn out just going with the times. And the music, to me, sounds like that too - it feels like that. I love this song. This is a mid 90s song btw. I guess you'd say Alternative Rock.
@@joseoliveira4880 I only listen to their 80’s 90’s albums, but I was really impressed with the concert this time, really really awesome live sound. (Quem me dera ter visto em 2000 mas aí ainda só tinha 6 aninhos eu 😅)
I think 100% of the time Lex says something like, "His voice reminds me of a kidney bean" my immediate reaction is, "I don't know how we got here, but we're absolutely in the right place".
And that response was instantaneous! He asks, "How would you describe his voice". Before he even finishes the question Lex goes, "It's like a kidney bean". What? WHAT? LOL!
Brad's big problem, and I think he should realize this, is that for most great songs, you really can't understand the lyrics on first listen. Maybe not ever. Maybe after reading more about the person who wrote it, if you're lucky. But not on first listen and he shouldn't expect it or even want it imo.
@@nickdoe7770 From a RadioX article. Written by Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan the song was entitled 1979 because it was the year that Corgan was 12. If you're wondering what was so significant about that age, it was the year that the rocker - who was born on 17 March 1967 - considered to be his transition into adolescence.
@@andie4950 It's kinda crazy to think about because I was born in 83 so I was 12 in 1995 when this came out and I was listening to them and Bush, Nirvana, Green Day etc throughout middle school and high school etc. Man it takes me back.
I was in a rock band that did a lot of covers. We covered this song. It wasn't easy, capturing the vibe and sound of this song. We eventually got it, but it took much longer than most other songs. There is something mystical about this song. I could never seem to put my finger on it. It's a classic for all time. I think one reason is because the writer had the best and most pure intentions when he wrote it.
There's some great videos on here of all the different elements of the song isolated (guitars, synths, voice effects). I think it's really hard to cover the song without all those.
First time i heard this song i don't know why but it brought memories of cruising around with friends listening to music in the 70's. Surprised later on when i saw the video kinda depicting that.
The guitar and bass parts are super easy (they require a little bit of stamina, but nothing crazy). It's the layering of several guitar parts on top of synth, vocal loops, etc. that gives the song so much depth and makes it really difficult to replicate live. I've found it works better live as an acoustic arrangement.
I mean, I wouldn’t say it’s atypical. They lean heavier on average I guess, but they have a lot of good slow, contemplative rock. You could easily argue this song and “Tonight, tonight” are there two biggest hits.
"Siva" or "I Am One" are great for their early sound and my favorites...but "Rhinoceros" is what sucked me in, way back in '91 when Gish came out...never heard anything like that back then.
Absolutely! Those fat guitars... One of the best song intros ever!!! Siamese Dream is a master piece. Every single song an instant classic. Pixies next!! Monkey gone to heaven.
This is one song that has the perfect music video to understand the meaning. One of my favourites. Thanks for the awesome reaction. Now do Zero or Bullet with Butterfly Wings (or both!) And have your mind exploded.
Whenever I hear songs from Smashing Pumpkins I'm in 8th grade again... I did get to see the original line up back in the 90s when they played with Garbage at the Coliseum in Hampton Roads, VA. Miss those older albums.
"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" and "Siamese Dream" are both awesome albums. Very artistic musical journey for both albums.Billy Corgan is a musical genius..I put him up there with Trent Reznor for musical talent and wizardry!
And Billy could tear the universe apart with his guitar, whenever he wanted. One of the best of that era. We were all sad when it seemed that he had fallen out of love with playing it. Billy could have stepped in and become the lead guitar in ANY band of the 90s, no questions asked.
I would put Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream up there as contenders for the best of the 90s. Of course that's difficult because the 90s were incredibly prolific musically, so the competition is intense. I'm a child of the 70s, but ultimately I have to come down on the 90s as my favorite decade. So far at least, though I hold little hope that anything like that will ever come back. Adore is pretty amazing as well.
Yayyy! I’ve been requesting the Smashing Pumpkins for a while. I’m glad y’all did it. They have so many more good songs. (Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Disarm, Mayonaise, Cherub Rock, and Today) these are a couple of the popular and good ones by them!
Not sure if underrated so much as underheard? Past few years I've noticed most people cite Mayonaise as their best track and one of the best of the 90s
What I love about your SP reactions, other than someone discovering the magic of one of my favorite bands, is the dichotomy between you two. Lex just gets into the music and enjoys it, which is what it’s meant for, but Brad thinks about the lyrics and analyzes them, which is w also what Billy’s music is about!
You both were possessed by the beat. 1979 is about good times as a teen. The happy moments you experience with friends, like being up all night and watching dawn break. "Headlights pointed at the dawn". It's happiness
Lex just gets the Smashing Pumpkins vibe all the way. I love her enjoyment of this band, one of my favorite groups. Smashing Pumpkins gave my teen self life.
Lex has come up with some unique comparisons. Smooth bacon grease, grape juice, a can of coke when you 1st open it, to name a few. Now she comes up with this beauty, "canned kidney beans, a little hard a little soft, it goes back and forth". You're the best Lex.
Brad -- bingo. You nailed it. This song is from 1995 and looking back to the singer's adolescence in the year 1979. The official Smashing Pumpkins video for this song brings it all together. It's about the hope and hopelessness of suburban youth who are simultaneously on the precipice of life and at the same time bored with their existence.
I LOVE how Brad acts shocked when Lex compares Billy's voice to a kidney bean, but then asks if she means cooked or uncooked, and then somehow "uncooked" makes perfect sense to him and he's suddenly cool with that analogy 🤣
The Pumpkins have a massive range to their music, from beautiful acoustic/piano (Disarm, 33, To Shiela, MCIS) to face melting heavy guitar (Zero, Bodies, X.Y.U, Everlasting Gaze) and everything inbetween. I'd give Drown and Thru the Eyes of Ruby a listen, as they show what the Pumpkins are all about, then just listen to the whole of Siemese Dream as it's perfection.
Thank you for mentioning something other than the same three Pumpkins songs I see over and over in every comment section. I'm dying for people to react to X.Y.U....boy, that song is like therapy for the soul lol
Us 90's high school kids just did stuff, never hurting peeps but just living. Living life to what we thought was the fullest. Watch the video and you can relate.
Alternative music is All about Us accepting that we all are rejects of society on some level and we come together not to judge one another but to experience love and the camaraderie in the moment, absent of time and responsibility with hope and the feeling that we all belong where we are when we're together... IMHO ☺️✨
@@georgekelley3044 yes it does I'm glad I run all music on my spotify don't do classical or old country (any other style of country) but my music is always varied.
From the writers mouth. Corgan stated in VH1 Storytellers: "Sometimes, when I write a song, I see a picture in my head. For some reason, it's of the obscure memory I have." The memory that he wrote this song on was a memory of him driving down the road on a rainy night near his home. He continued "it emotionally connotes a feeling of waiting for something to happen, and not being quite there yet, but it's just around the corner." The song had the most meaning to Corgan, and that is why he put so much extra work into it when the producer told him it wasn't good enough for the album.
This is quintessentially 90’s for me. Billy’s voice gives me chills and brings back so many feelings from that decade. Growing up and listening to his voice, always being a calm influence on my days. Thank you guys for listening to them! I love feeling like I’m sharing a part of my child-hood’s happiness with others. As far as the meaning behind the lyrics, I always assumed those are personal things to the bands own childhoods. Zipper blues, headlights towards the dawn. I felt like he was saying to appreciate every day, every small thing, every person because if you only have today, why focus on the bad when there is still so much good to see/be. I could be wrong in my interpretation, I’ve never researched it. Just giving you Hèlio when she was a 13 y/o thoughts.
This song. I am not a smashing pumpkins fan at all. But this Is one of my all time favorite songs. Top 10, maybe top 5. I absolutely love it. This one the video is a real bonus. Just kids driving around being teenagers, going to a party, it really feeds the feeling of being restless with nothing to do. They bottled that feeling in this song. And now it feels nostalgic. It's just really good.
So freaking nostalgic. I get so taken aback with this song. And I love the way Lex can always do such a good job placing a song l, so close its the 90’s
This is from a double album, pretty much every song is different , so many styles blended yet all somehow fit in an odd way, the Album its from goes from pop to pretty much Metal and all in between. 90's album, it was quite ahead of its time. Some of this band , tracks like "Silverfuck" "Geek USA", "XYU", "Fuck You (an ode to no one)", "Bodies", "Tales of scorched Earth" and similar tracks are all very heavy, but then you get tracks like "Disarm", "1979", "Thirty Three" , "In the arms of sleep"and others are much more chilled and kind of "innocent" sounding I thin The Smashing Pumpkins and Tool were quite ahead of the curve and were quite grand in vision compared to a lot of the stuff around. The 90's scene was very much about strip down direct simple songs and a very DIY punky attitude, which was cool, but with that some complexity vanished for a while, I fell like the likes of Tool and Smashing Pumpkins and to some extent Alice in Chains and Soundgarden kept that more technical flag flying, with Tool and Smashing Pumpkins having an almost "prog" like Album vision
Loved this reaction!! Lex was so cute dancing around, then the kidney bean thing!! And Brad really understood the metaphor; y'all are evolving your communication!!
YES!! Finally!! I have been waiting so long for you to do Smashing Pumpkins! Every song on every album is different!! PLEASE DO MORE!! and don't pay too much attention to the words with these guys, it's more about the feel of the songs.
Flashback indeed. Song is a *VIBE*. I stop what I'm doing whenever I hear it come on the radio (or streaming service). I was 12 in 1979, 28 in 1995 when this song released, the same age as Billy Corgan. He grew up in the Chicago suburbs, I grew up in the L.A. suburbs. His parents divorced when he was 3, mine when I was 7. It was still rather common in the 1970s for parents (especially divorced parents) to be rather the opposite of 'helicopter' parents. They didn't drive us to school, and they didn't plan out any activities. Sometimes they went out partying, especially on weekends, and trusted us not to need a babysitter. We were more or less free to do what we wanted, and the lyrics (and the music video) describe the gleeful (if fleeting) sense of independence. Thanks for the memories, Brad & Lex. Even at 56, this song has lost none of its power to pull me back, like a musical Proustian madeleine. 🎶
The Smashing Pumpkins are probably the most iconic alternative rock bands of the 90's. They had dozens of singles, dozens of music videos and won lots of awards. They were, literally, all over the TV for that entire decade. Oh, and this song is about living your life to the fullest because you never know where, or when, you will die.
This song to me is a master class in song writing that gives me nostalgia. The whole rhythm and cadence of Billy's singing brings me back to my carefree teenage years. A time when you felt invincible to the world and fun and friends were the only thing that mattered. Very few songs can portray that sense properly in a song, but 1979 does it wonderfully. For me it's musical glimpse into a late night with friends with the "headlights pointed at the dawn".
I'm glad i found yall. I haven't heard some of these tracks since i was a teenager. Yeah this one was in the 90s when i was in high school huge radio song.
1979 is pure concentrated nostalgia. If you want heavier Pumpkins, try "Bullet with Butterfly Wings." Edit: Y'know, it's funny - I'm starting to think Brad just doesn't *feel* music at all. I heard this for the first time back in high school; I wasn't even born yet in '79, but I could feel the nostalgia just rolling off this song in waves without even understanding the lyrics. Weird to feel nostalgic for a time period you were never in, but its all there in the sound and it just picks you up and carries you there. Same waves hit Brad and bounced right off with a "thunk!" like a cannonball off Old Ironsides.
I'll reserve my judgement on Brad but I understand exactly what you mean about the "feel" of this song. I was 9-10 when I heard it for the first time, not even close to being equipped with the life experience to process feelings of nostalgia, and yet I still received the message somehow.
@@trickvondoom2354 Don't get me wrong: Brad's a cool guy and clearly quite intelligent, but he just seems to interact with music in a very peculiar way that makes him ill-suited for rock music specifically. There are plenty of rock songs out there with deep, meaningful lyrics and powerful messages, but overall the genre is more about "feel" than it is anything else. Lex gets it intuitively, but Brad seems to be the polar opposite. They are almost like two ends of a rock music magnet.
I definitely see what you mean. Brad tends to come at it from a very analytical perspective. His focus is geared towards lyrics and song meaning Whereas Lex _feels_ the music and is able to pick up on the vibes and can describe things pretty well. Very interesting to see as a viewer. Personally, I resonate with Lex because i'm also very intuitive and i feel the music so heavily. It just moves me in a lot of ways that not much else in life really can
After watching a few videos, Brad looks like somebody completely clueless about a lot of things, what's the meaning, what's the meaning? Who cares? Did you like the song? Good. No? That's fine too. This song is pure nostalgia and it went right by him.
Lex is spot on. As usual. I love this song. It's evocative. My mom died in 1979 so when this came out (not in 1979 Brad) it just hit home. You need to keep digging into Smashing Pumpkins.
One of the greatest and diverse bands ever. So many different vibes from different tracks. Lex will love them without any doubt. Even be surprised by them.
Lex makes a great point/observation at the end that I think needs to be touched on. You can read the lyrics to "Hey Jude" by the Beatles...or hear the backstory about how Paul wrote it for Julian Lennon to help him through his parents' divorce.....or you can turn it up and sing along to it at the volume and with the passion that the band is playing it. By the time you get to the "LA LA LALALALAA LALALALA HEY JUDE" part, you might be wondering what the song is all about when just reading lyrics....but if you are singing along with all of the heart and emotion that comes with the song, you will likely get a great impression of what the song is about. 1979 is one of those songs as well....Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana....Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam.....Deathbed Atheist by Norma Jean....just sing along and get lost in the emotion. That emotion (and a couple of obvious lyrics) is what it's about.
Almost every reaction Brad is like "well, this is...different" and then Lex is like "his voice sounds like Kidney Beans (or some random food description)😅Love it. By the way, I never even take notice of the lyrics in 1979 nor really in any song I just enjoy the instrumentation but not until watching song reactors apparently this is super important to alot of reactors🤔
Smashing pumpkins is 90s alternative rock. Place them in the same genre/time period as nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, oasis, janes addiction, etc…
I connected with this song through the official video. It is about teenagers in 1979. While my teen experience was more straight and narrow, I still love this song, and the lyrics definitely match the feeling of the ups, downs, angst, excitement, malingering of teenagers. At 60 years old I’m a lot closer to “get off my lawn” than the antics of the teens in the video, but in 1979 I was 17 years old. And even though I wasn’t a punk I absolutely connect with this song and its video. Thank you for covering this!
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Lex’s smiling head shake is literally the embodiment of this song. Smashing Pumpkins managed to literally record childhood nostalgia in this masterpiece.
And at this point the song itself is nostalgic.
young teenage me is in Lex's seat not knowing what it was about. Old me loves the reaction to those years for me, keep it up you two!!!
It's about living in the moment
Imo this song should be the soundtrack for the new WONDER YEARS show .
Absolutely!
“1979” is an homage to youth and all the pain, angst, and happiness that goes along with it.
Spot on!
But only the youth pre-digital era.... kids from now wouldn't relate at all, which is sad. This is the kind of childhood and teenage life kids SHOULD have, now it's forever history
@Punishedplushv2 concordo con te... Le nuove generazioni non hanno mai assaporato e mai assaporeranno quei tempi
@Punishedplushv2 credo che i tempi passati accomunassero un po' tutti i giovani di quegli anni.. almeno anche qua in Italia lo stato comunista ha distrutto tutto le nuove generazioni non capiranno mai cosa hanno perso
For me, this song oozes pure adolescence.
To me this song is about the nostalgia, rebeliousness, and confusion of being a teenager. 1979 is when the singer/writer would have been a kid coming into adolescence. It is artsy in that it is more about painting the picture than describing it literally. Being an outcast teen, not knowing where you'll end up, feeling the urgency of the current moment - not worried about tomorrow, not caring how things turn out just going with the times. And the music, to me, sounds like that too - it feels like that. I love this song.
This is a mid 90s song btw. I guess you'd say Alternative Rock.
And it came out when I was about the same age he was in 1979, one of my favorite songs of all time
I think you have summed it up well Steve
Great song. Damn I remember when this song was released. My favorite song from this band.
Steve gets it....nothing more to say
Steve excellent explanation!
Billy Corgan is a musical genius. They can mellow or rock out. Give them more than a song.
@Big Homie Steve The Metal Head Siva; Geek USA; & Tonight, Tonight would get my vote
funnily enough the next song on the album is Tales from a Scorched Earth lol
hard to believe that and 1979 would be on the same album.
Very diverse band, don't let the sound of this song fool you into thinking all of their stuff is like this. They can rock hard with the best of them.
Wish someone would remind Billy of that.
They still seem to lean into the heavier stuff when they play live.
@@jzeke1712 Saw them live 2 years ago in Portugal, one of the best concerts I have ever been to
@@heliosvice i was a big SP fan, but they suck now. They should have ended in 2000.
I saw them in Lisbon (Belenenses stadium) and Porto in 2000.
@@joseoliveira4880 I only listen to their 80’s 90’s albums, but I was really impressed with the concert this time, really really awesome live sound. (Quem me dera ter visto em 2000 mas aí ainda só tinha 6 aninhos eu 😅)
I was a HS senior in 1979 and even though this is a song written years later, somehow it still reminds me of my youth.
Stop lying Steve you where not a hs senior in 1979 😂
@@ari8184 i was....
I was a Senior in '77 and I agree. I'm sure not many of you get the "Zipper Blues" reference but denim was huge in the 70's...
Damned right mate, it's like our Antham I loved 1979 and I am getting on the piss tonight with my1979 Best friend we are now both 57.
I think 100% of the time Lex says something like, "His voice reminds me of a kidney bean" my immediate reaction is, "I don't know how we got here, but we're absolutely in the right place".
This comment is so fucking good!!!!
😂😂😂
Exactly. I almost always know exactly what she means. She is a genius.
Analogies so out of left field, they must be right.
And that response was instantaneous! He asks, "How would you describe his voice". Before he even finishes the question Lex goes, "It's like a kidney bean". What? WHAT? LOL!
I seriously can't imagine experiencing music the way Brad does. Lyrics are the last thing I focus on when discovering new music.
Facts
Brad's big problem, and I think he should realize this, is that for most great songs, you really can't understand the lyrics on first listen. Maybe not ever. Maybe after reading more about the person who wrote it, if you're lucky. But not on first listen and he shouldn't expect it or even want it imo.
People experience music different I suppose
This song came out in 1995, referencing the nostalgic feelings of being a youth in 1979. 😀
No, it's about people that were born in 1979, who would have been 16 when the song came out
@@nickdoe7770 From a RadioX article. Written by Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan the song was entitled 1979 because it was the year that Corgan was 12.
If you're wondering what was so significant about that age, it was the year that the rocker - who was born on 17 March 1967 - considered to be his transition into adolescence.
@@nickdoe7770 why would he write a song with lyrics about being a young kid in 1979 if it's about being born in 1979? You're dumb.
@@andie4950 It's kinda crazy to think about because I was born in 83 so I was 12 in 1995 when this came out and I was listening to them and Bush, Nirvana, Green Day etc throughout middle school and high school etc. Man it takes me back.
@@TheGoldenCapstone Honestly dude, get a life for being so offended by a youtube comment. I'm dumb? You're a loser.
I was in a rock band that did a lot of covers. We covered this song. It wasn't easy, capturing the vibe and sound of this song. We eventually got it, but it took much longer than most other songs. There is something mystical about this song. I could never seem to put my finger on it. It's a classic for all time. I think one reason is because the writer had the best and most pure intentions when he wrote it.
There's some great videos on here of all the different elements of the song isolated (guitars, synths, voice effects). I think it's really hard to cover the song without all those.
First time i heard this song i don't know why but it brought memories of cruising around with friends listening to music in the 70's. Surprised later on when i saw the video kinda depicting that.
The guitar and bass parts are super easy (they require a little bit of stamina, but nothing crazy). It's the layering of several guitar parts on top of synth, vocal loops, etc. that gives the song so much depth and makes it really difficult to replicate live. I've found it works better live as an acoustic arrangement.
This is a great song, but not typical of their sound. Try Bullet with Butterfly Wings or Cherub Rock or my fav: Siva.
I mean, I wouldn’t say it’s atypical. They lean heavier on average I guess, but they have a lot of good slow, contemplative rock. You could easily argue this song and “Tonight, tonight” are there two biggest hits.
"Siva" or "I Am One" are great for their early sound and my favorites...but "Rhinoceros" is what sucked me in, way back in '91 when Gish came out...never heard anything like that back then.
Siva!
Great songs! Those would be my recommendations. Especially Cherub Rock
@@ticosandoval there's an "Rhinoceros " reaction out in youtube land...she knows!
You’ll love “Cherub Rock”! It’s a must listen!
I agree, Cherub Rock is my favorite from them.
Great guitar riff on that one
Absolutely! Those fat guitars... One of the best song intros ever!!! Siamese Dream is a master piece. Every single song an instant classic. Pixies next!! Monkey gone to heaven.
The whole album is
The Siamese Dream album! With Disarm being my personal high point. It's all about the bells...
You gotta react to “Disarm” by Smashing Pumpkins. I think you guys would really like it!!
Great song.
Try Try Try ia great as well
Smashing Pumpkins are such a fun and interesting world to get into
The song literally makes me feel what youth was like in the 80s and 90s. It’s amazing how a song can make you just feel the decades
When driving alone down a desolate road with this bumping through your speakers. It all makes sense.
So true
I can only give you one thumbs up….but this deserves more. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@adamdonovan4071... have a feeling if we knew each other we'd probably be pretty good friends.
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Road trip. 👍
@@mapexzildjian6361 a friend group based on one comment. count me in.
The lyrics are little snap shots of his youth. Memories, emotions , flashes of people and places
This is one song that has the perfect music video to understand the meaning. One of my favourites. Thanks for the awesome reaction.
Now do Zero or Bullet with Butterfly Wings (or both!) And have your mind exploded.
This song, written in the 90s about nostalgia for the 70s, gives me nostalgia for the 90s!
"Disarm" is one of their better songs as well. Surprised I'm not seeing it more on the comment section
I think the same with "Apples + Oranges".
I think the sound is a bit too similar. Better to contrast this with something like Where Boys Fear to Tread or Quiet.
@@mabutler1782 Hell, if we REALLY want to blow their heads, we need them to check out XYU. But I don't think I would recommend that to a beginner lol
Easily the next song they should play.
Mayonnaise is one of my favorites
Whenever I hear songs from Smashing Pumpkins I'm in 8th grade again... I did get to see the original line up back in the 90s when they played with Garbage at the Coliseum in Hampton Roads, VA. Miss those older albums.
Lex is a fucking vibe. I thoroughly enjoy her reactions to the music of my youth.
For sure.
What an amazing double album this was. I remember buying this from the CD store and listening to it non-stop.
"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" and "Siamese Dream" are both awesome albums. Very artistic musical journey for both albums.Billy Corgan is a musical genius..I put him up there with Trent Reznor for musical talent and wizardry!
And Billy could tear the universe apart with his guitar, whenever he wanted. One of the best of that era. We were all sad when it seemed that he had fallen out of love with playing it. Billy could have stepped in and become the lead guitar in ANY band of the 90s, no questions asked.
Gish and Siamise Dreams are probably my favourite albums, but Mellon Collie and Adore are great too.
Don’t sleep on Gish. I’d stack the first 4 songs on that album against just about anything.
I would put Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream up there as contenders for the best of the 90s. Of course that's difficult because the 90s were incredibly prolific musically, so the competition is intense. I'm a child of the 70s, but ultimately I have to come down on the 90s as my favorite decade. So far at least, though I hold little hope that anything like that will ever come back.
Adore is pretty amazing as well.
Both Trent Reznor and Billy Corgan are Prince heads... Both loved him
Yayyy! I’ve been requesting the Smashing Pumpkins for a while. I’m glad y’all did it. They have so many more good songs. (Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Disarm, Mayonaise, Cherub Rock, and Today) these are a couple of the popular and good ones by them!
You have to try mayonaise by them. Such an underrated masterpiece.
I second this. Amazing song.
Third, one of the best intros out there
I would also like to try billy corgan’s mayonnaise
I feel like “Soma” just edges past it into first place 🥇
Not sure if underrated so much as underheard? Past few years I've noticed most people cite Mayonaise as their best track and one of the best of the 90s
What I love about your SP reactions, other than someone discovering the magic of one of my favorite bands, is the dichotomy between you two. Lex just gets into the music and enjoys it, which is what it’s meant for, but Brad thinks about the lyrics and analyzes them, which is w also what Billy’s music is about!
One of my favorites the Smashing Pumpkins. They are a 90s band
You both were possessed by the beat. 1979 is about good times as a teen. The happy moments you experience with friends, like being up all night and watching dawn break. "Headlights pointed at the dawn". It's happiness
Lmao at how fast Lex said Kidney bean
She always bustin out some hilarious comparisons lol
Lex just gets the Smashing Pumpkins vibe all the way. I love her enjoyment of this band, one of my favorite groups. Smashing Pumpkins gave my teen self life.
Lex has come up with some unique comparisons. Smooth bacon grease, grape juice, a can of coke when you 1st open it, to name a few. Now she comes up with this beauty, "canned kidney beans, a little hard a little soft, it goes back and forth". You're the best Lex.
Brad -- bingo. You nailed it. This song is from 1995 and looking back to the singer's adolescence in the year 1979. The official Smashing Pumpkins video for this song brings it all together. It's about the hope and hopelessness of suburban youth who are simultaneously on the precipice of life and at the same time bored with their existence.
This is my childhood! One of my first concerts. Play, Tonight,tonight
90's!!
Play Bullet with Butterfly wings to get something more crazy!
You know, a great theme for a livestream would be orchestral rock, which tonight, tonight would showcase brilliantly.
I LOVE how Brad acts shocked when Lex compares Billy's voice to a kidney bean, but then asks if she means cooked or uncooked, and then somehow "uncooked" makes perfect sense to him and he's suddenly cool with that analogy 🤣
PLS it was so cute
The Pumpkins have a massive range to their music, from beautiful acoustic/piano (Disarm, 33, To Shiela, MCIS) to face melting heavy guitar (Zero, Bodies, X.Y.U, Everlasting Gaze) and everything inbetween. I'd give Drown and Thru the Eyes of Ruby a listen, as they show what the Pumpkins are all about, then just listen to the whole of Siemese Dream as it's perfection.
Thank you for mentioning something other than the same three Pumpkins songs I see over and over in every comment section. I'm dying for people to react to X.Y.U....boy, that song is like therapy for the soul lol
It's such a feel good song. I have so many great memories of driving around town listening to this with friends.
"Voice like a kidney bean" lol, that was hilarious Lex
Us 90's high school kids just did stuff, never hurting peeps but just living. Living life to what we thought was the fullest. Watch the video and you can relate.
Alternative music is All about Us accepting that we all are rejects of society on some level and we come together not to judge one another but to experience love and the camaraderie in the moment, absent of time and responsibility with hope and the feeling that we all belong where we are when we're together... IMHO ☺️✨
So true only caught on underground no matter how hard they tried to make it mainstream
@@TheNinjakat2010 It thrives underground! The 90's was a rare time when the masses went underground and brought it to the surface...🤗✨
@@georgekelley3044 yes it does I'm glad I run all music on my spotify don't do classical or old country (any other style of country) but my music is always varied.
From the writers mouth.
Corgan stated in VH1 Storytellers: "Sometimes, when I write a song, I see a picture in my head. For some reason, it's of the obscure memory I have." The memory that he wrote this song on was a memory of him driving down the road on a rainy night near his home. He continued "it emotionally connotes a feeling of waiting for something to happen, and not being quite there yet, but it's just around the corner." The song had the most meaning to Corgan, and that is why he put so much extra work into it when the producer told him it wasn't good enough for the album.
Every single time in the bar or club, this comes on and the whole place just smiles.....
😊
This is quintessentially 90’s for me. Billy’s voice gives me chills and brings back so many feelings from that decade. Growing up and listening to his voice, always being a calm influence on my days. Thank you guys for listening to them! I love feeling like I’m sharing a part of my child-hood’s happiness with others.
As far as the meaning behind the lyrics, I always assumed those are personal things to the bands own childhoods. Zipper blues, headlights towards the dawn. I felt like he was saying to appreciate every day, every small thing, every person because if you only have today, why focus on the bad when there is still so much good to see/be.
I could be wrong in my interpretation, I’ve never researched it. Just giving you Hèlio when she was a 13 y/o thoughts.
billy corgan has no bass in his voice that is what made him so unique not to mention his power chords.
Or Pumpkin Chords as Billy liked to say...😋
This song. I am not a smashing pumpkins fan at all. But this Is one of my all time favorite songs. Top 10, maybe top 5. I absolutely love it. This one the video is a real bonus. Just kids driving around being teenagers, going to a party, it really feeds the feeling of being restless with nothing to do. They bottled that feeling in this song. And now it feels nostalgic. It's just really good.
Mmmmm🙂 taking me back to highschool and the 90's. Love it! Always loved the pumpkins 😍
So freaking nostalgic. I get so taken aback with this song. And I love the way Lex can always do such a good job placing a song l, so close its the 90’s
This is from a double album, pretty much every song is different , so many styles blended yet all somehow fit in an odd way, the Album its from goes from pop to pretty much Metal and all in between.
90's album, it was quite ahead of its time.
Some of this band , tracks like "Silverfuck" "Geek USA", "XYU", "Fuck You (an ode to no one)", "Bodies", "Tales of scorched Earth" and similar tracks are all very heavy, but then you get tracks like "Disarm", "1979", "Thirty Three" , "In the arms of sleep"and others are much more chilled and kind of "innocent" sounding
I thin The Smashing Pumpkins and Tool were quite ahead of the curve and were quite grand in vision compared to a lot of the stuff around. The 90's scene was very much about strip down direct simple songs and a very DIY punky attitude, which was cool, but with that some complexity vanished for a while, I fell like the likes of Tool and Smashing Pumpkins and to some extent Alice in Chains and Soundgarden kept that more technical flag flying, with Tool and Smashing Pumpkins having an almost "prog" like Album vision
The bass is perfection. Not often there is a song where the bass is the instrument that dominates the tune!
By Starlight has my vote!
The bass does not dominate the song. That would be a song like "Roundabout" by Yes.
One of the great bands from a great decade of music
Loved this reaction!! Lex was so cute dancing around, then the kidney bean thing!! And Brad really understood the metaphor; y'all are evolving your communication!!
YES!! Finally!! I have been waiting so long for you to do Smashing Pumpkins! Every song on every album is different!! PLEASE DO MORE!! and don't pay too much attention to the words with these guys, it's more about the feel of the songs.
Flashback indeed. Song is a *VIBE*. I stop what I'm doing whenever I hear it come on the radio (or streaming service). I was 12 in 1979, 28 in 1995 when this song released, the same age as Billy Corgan. He grew up in the Chicago suburbs, I grew up in the L.A. suburbs. His parents divorced when he was 3, mine when I was 7. It was still rather common in the 1970s for parents (especially divorced parents) to be rather the opposite of 'helicopter' parents. They didn't drive us to school, and they didn't plan out any activities. Sometimes they went out partying, especially on weekends, and trusted us not to need a babysitter. We were more or less free to do what we wanted, and the lyrics (and the music video) describe the gleeful (if fleeting) sense of independence.
Thanks for the memories, Brad & Lex. Even at 56, this song has lost none of its power to pull me back, like a musical Proustian madeleine. 🎶
LAZY EYE BY SILVERSUN PICKUPS. AMAZING SONG!!!!!!!!!
Some people compare Smashing Pumpkins and Silversun Pickups. Everyone thinks it’s a chick singing lol. Panic Switch is great too
@@savsmiles3042 yeah I was lucky enough to see then live years ago. They put on an amazing show!
THIS IS 90's Grunge/Alternative Rock.
They have a lot of great songs, but Mayonaise is probably my favorite.
Rocket 🚀
@@urielgarcia3303 Anything from Siamese Dream...Rocket, Hummer, Mayo, Cherub Rock et al!
Thirty Three probably takes the cake for me....but Mayonnaise would make for a better reaction video.
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I grew up listening to this song, after school got a job at a store24, my first CD was this album, I still remember after all these years.
You have to do "Cherub Rock" by Smashing Pumpkins!
Here in March 2022. Just turned 40 last month. Watching the two of you vibe out to this song just made my entire weekend. Bless you both!
Lex has such a beautiful radiant energy love watching her bop along to the songs
Smashing Pumpkins is the most different and original band from the 90's.
It struck me as a nostalgic look at school friends/years
This Band will be an interesting journey for you. Enjoy 😎
Oh and CHERUB ROCK!!!
The Smashing Pumpkins are probably the most iconic alternative rock bands of the 90's. They had dozens of singles, dozens of music videos and won lots of awards. They were, literally, all over the TV for that entire decade.
Oh, and this song is about living your life to the fullest because you never know where, or when, you will die.
They grunge but more alternative, Cherub Rock 🔥
They're not grunge
More Smashing Pumpkins to check out "Stand Inside Your Love" "Everlasting Gaze" "Mayonnaise" "Tonight Tonight" and "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
This is the greatest music video ever.
Gotta do Mayonnaise or Geek USA next.
Mayonaise!
Idk about the greatest ever, it is great tho. My favorite would prob be I stay away by Alice In Chains, that video is so unique.
This song to me is a master class in song writing that gives me nostalgia. The whole rhythm and cadence of Billy's singing brings me back to my carefree teenage years. A time when you felt invincible to the world and fun and friends were the only thing that mattered. Very few songs can portray that sense properly in a song, but 1979 does it wonderfully. For me it's musical glimpse into a late night with friends with the "headlights pointed at the dawn".
(Cherub Rock) by this band would be another great one for y'all to experience.
I'm glad i found yall. I haven't heard some of these tracks since i was a teenager. Yeah this one was in the 90s when i was in high school huge radio song.
Great react. Other Smashing gems : Soma, The Everlasting Gaze, Mayonaise, Galapagos, Porcelina of the Vast Ocean...
Muzzle too. Highly underrated IMO.
Porcelina 👍🏻and snail
Such a great band! Check out Today, Disarm, Mayonaise, Geek USA, Landslide (cover), Cherub Rock.
This is more of one of their commercial type songs. Trust me, they rock the hell out! Dive deeper. Try 'Cherub Rock'
i adore his voice being described as a kidney bean. i audibly giggled.
This song has one of the best grooves ever !!
Yeah it put you in a mood.
I have never known nor worried about the lyrics to this song, I just love the music and the vocals are just another instrument to me.
1979 is pure concentrated nostalgia. If you want heavier Pumpkins, try "Bullet with Butterfly Wings."
Edit: Y'know, it's funny - I'm starting to think Brad just doesn't *feel* music at all. I heard this for the first time back in high school; I wasn't even born yet in '79, but I could feel the nostalgia just rolling off this song in waves without even understanding the lyrics. Weird to feel nostalgic for a time period you were never in, but its all there in the sound and it just picks you up and carries you there. Same waves hit Brad and bounced right off with a "thunk!" like a cannonball off Old Ironsides.
I'll reserve my judgement on Brad but I understand exactly what you mean about the "feel" of this song. I was 9-10 when I heard it for the first time, not even close to being equipped with the life experience to process feelings of nostalgia, and yet I still received the message somehow.
@@trickvondoom2354 Don't get me wrong: Brad's a cool guy and clearly quite intelligent, but he just seems to interact with music in a very peculiar way that makes him ill-suited for rock music specifically. There are plenty of rock songs out there with deep, meaningful lyrics and powerful messages, but overall the genre is more about "feel" than it is anything else. Lex gets it intuitively, but Brad seems to be the polar opposite. They are almost like two ends of a rock music magnet.
Heavier SP songs are Bodies, Where Boys Fear to Tread and Fuck You (An Ode to no One).
I definitely see what you mean. Brad tends to come at it from a very analytical perspective. His focus is geared towards lyrics and song meaning
Whereas Lex _feels_ the music and is able to pick up on the vibes and can describe things pretty well. Very interesting to see as a viewer.
Personally, I resonate with Lex because i'm also very intuitive and i feel the music so heavily. It just moves me in a lot of ways that not much else in life really can
After watching a few videos, Brad looks like somebody completely clueless about a lot of things, what's the meaning, what's the meaning? Who cares? Did you like the song? Good. No? That's fine too. This song is pure nostalgia and it went right by him.
This one of my favorite top 10 songs ..it was in the mid 1990's its about the nostalgia of his childhood in 1979 his youth
All you have to know it's pretty much a masterpiece
Lex is spot on. As usual. I love this song. It's evocative. My mom died in 1979 so when this came out (not in 1979 Brad) it just hit home. You need to keep digging into Smashing Pumpkins.
This is an album you should dedicate a live show to. Masterpiece.
MCIS is complete
One of the greatest and diverse bands ever. So many different vibes from different tracks. Lex will love them without any doubt. Even be surprised by them.
The best sound demo in a song from them would definitely be between hummer and drown. The tones are masterful
Both very representative SP songs. Hummer is a particular favorite of mine.
This is one of my absolute favorite songs. Just the way it hits gives a feeling inside that just makes you experience the song
Lex will like their music video "Ava Adore", because it's vampire themed.
Thanks for playing this... One of my favorites from the good old days. Very cool! You two know how to rock!!
Lex makes me so happy.
Lex makes a great point/observation at the end that I think needs to be touched on. You can read the lyrics to "Hey Jude" by the Beatles...or hear the backstory about how Paul wrote it for Julian Lennon to help him through his parents' divorce.....or you can turn it up and sing along to it at the volume and with the passion that the band is playing it. By the time you get to the "LA LA LALALALAA LALALALA HEY JUDE" part, you might be wondering what the song is all about when just reading lyrics....but if you are singing along with all of the heart and emotion that comes with the song, you will likely get a great impression of what the song is about. 1979 is one of those songs as well....Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana....Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam.....Deathbed Atheist by Norma Jean....just sing along and get lost in the emotion. That emotion (and a couple of obvious lyrics) is what it's about.
This is a vibe! Love them.
You two are amazing. You both come at songs so differently and I love it. Thank you
You gotta react to “mayonnaise” or “bullet with butterfly wings”, both popular songs by smashing pumpkins
Almost every reaction Brad is like "well, this is...different" and then Lex is like "his voice sounds like Kidney Beans (or some random food description)😅Love it. By the way, I never even take notice of the lyrics in 1979 nor really in any song I just enjoy the instrumentation but not until watching song reactors apparently this is super important to alot of reactors🤔
Love this song! Lyrics are poetic.
Smashing pumpkins is 90s alternative rock. Place them in the same genre/time period as nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, oasis, janes addiction, etc…
you guys definitely need to check out 'Today" by them
I saw them open for the Chili Peppers in 91 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia.
I connected with this song through the official video. It is about teenagers in 1979. While my teen experience was more straight and narrow, I still love this song, and the lyrics definitely match the feeling of the ups, downs, angst, excitement, malingering of teenagers. At 60 years old I’m a lot closer to “get off my lawn” than the antics of the teens in the video, but in 1979 I was 17 years old. And even though I wasn’t a punk I absolutely connect with this song and its video. Thank you for covering this!
This was a nineties song about 1979. Seeing the video helps put it in perspective. Reminds me of my high school days. Thank you peace ✌️
This song does make me think my little trip through the cosmos is going much faster than I ever thought it would.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was an AMAZING double album FULL of AMAZING songs...my teenage yrs wouldn't have been the same without it!!!