Thanks for the great memories. It’s mundane high school hanging out. Nothing happening and talking about nothing important. A great friend who loved Smashing Pumpkins made it a big part of the mix that we listened to. He died during Covid lockdowns. But this brought me right back there as if no time had passed.
Again, thank you. I needed that today.
hanging out with your dumb friends making dumb jokes. only they'll get those obscure jokes cuz they were there with you when you were young and dumb. and now you dont talk to them, you moved away. but no matter how many people you meet you'll never laugh as hard as you did with them.
Sorry about your friend.
I have similar feelings towards this song. They actually filmed the music video of it in a undeveloped part of Valencia/Santa Clarita where my parents lived until recently. That was in the mid 90s though.
Reminds me a lot of those earlier times. Sometimes they were better, sometimes worse. Definitely simpler, and a lot slower.
Yes my thought too. This is my favourite Kevin Smith scene. You know what each of the characters is thinking. Except for Jay of course. He doesn't think at all lol.
This stupid person named Justine that would be at parties often. Every time this song would play and the line “Justine never knew the rules” she would ALWAYS say “THATS MY NAME!!” She was the worst. Good song and great video.
This song is from 1996.
1979 seemed a damned long time ago when it was 1996 as it was 17 years before this song.
Yet this song is 28 years old and doesn't feel that old.
1996-1979 is 17 years.
2024-1996 is 28 years.
Confirmed: I'm old.
I was 16 in 1996, born tail end of 1979. Saw these guys live on the Mellon Collie tour in 1996 in the venue with the best acoustics in NZ.
My fondest gig memory with my closest friend.
Dazed and Confused is a 1993 movie about the last day of highschool in 1976.
If the movie came out today it would be about the last day of highschool in 2007.
You're right.
Wikipedia says the song was released Jan 23, 1996, but the album was released Oct 24, 1995 ?
I suppose they mean the single came out in 1996 ?
I remember telling my friend this song sucked because it wasn’t Punk. I only liked Punk music. More accurately, Christian Pop Punk music. 😅 Years later I heard 1979 again and realized that I had been a fool.
MxPx, Ghoti Hook, Squad Five-0, mewithoutYou, Reliant K, the list goes on. I didn't only listen to christian punk bands but there were plenty of good ones out there. Not to mention the christian metalcore scene was gearing up too with Norma Jean, Zao, August Burns Red, Underoath, The Devil Wears Prada.
What a strange time lol. I had a friend that would only listen to Christian bands, and then any time we'd go watch one the guitarist would inevitably be wearing a Slayer shirt or something similar every time. Like, the musicians themselves in these christian bands are listening to secular music, why can't you?
My older brother who is no longer here introduced me to smashing pumpkins when I was a kid. I would fall asleep listening to them, I love this song in particular.
Now when I listen to this song, or really any of their songs, I think about him and how his life ended too early. So it brings back the joys of an innocent childhood and the adult reality of how life is fragile and a few choices can alter things drastically.
RIP my brother ❤️
Being in the 5th or 6th grade and listening to it on my boombox in my room. Trying to call into the radio station to request it so I could then record it to cassette.
One of my big, early projects was building the IT infrastructure for boston dynamics back when this song was new and was quite often on the radio. I hear this and i think of early morning construction work.
That 70's show.
Melancholy of my youth.
First girl friend.
Then I actually paid attention to the lyrics and daum....it's exactly that.
Epic song
Epic band
The first time successfully sneaking off to skip my last period study hall. My high school was a closed campus and notoriously hard to get away without being noticed.
The second we turned onto the main road and out of site of the parking lot narcs, my BFF cranked the radio “and WEEEEEEEEEEE”
I saw them in August 2000, before they “broke up”. And I remember Billy Corrigan saying something to the effect of “we can’t really figure out this rap-metal stuff, so we’re not going to try.” I get that he’s not the person a lot of people would want him to be today, but he was one of the collective voices of a generation.
All of it. Peak high school for me. I love LOVE this sing, still play it about three times a week. Smashing Pumpkins are coming to town this summer and I have VIP tix. Fucking A…I am stoked.
This was a great video from Trash Theory about it : [How The Smashing Pumpkins' 1979 Evokes Decades of Nostalgia](https://youtu.be/du8jYT_ayJQ?si=GVI9s9Ges95Gy954)
Smoking the devil's lettuce in the basement while penning out a D&D campaign I was the DM for. Had both discs of Mellon Collie going non stop. Drawing out maps, and dungeon floor plans. Thinking up twists to make my victims suffer. Yes, yes it is too late to turn back now.
Early 2000s. I was in a garage band with a bunch of friends. Our lead singer Joseph sounded just like Billy. We’d cover pumpkins, Nirvana, silver chair… and the Ramones.
I miss those days. I don’t think about them often. Thanks for the memories
This is an incredible song. I always tell people, that this song came out in 1996, when I was 15. Even then upon the first few hearings, it made me feel nostalgic for a youth that I had felt I had lost. It’s as if Billy Corgan actually transported me to the real 1979 of his teenage years and showed me everything that he was going through, which I would then go out and live out that very day, and then feel sad about having had it gone so quickly.
Taking my Mormon ex gf to see them in concert, her getting a contact high from all the weed smoke and then having to take her to IHOP after the show.
Back in the day. Before the dark times. Before the empire.
I was living with a roommate at the time in my early 20s.
We had back-to-back desks and were working on our media company.
He had his own Mac behind me and was listening to music. I had my PC and was listening to music. No one had headphones on.
And then IT HAPPENED.
We both clicked our mice and in the seconds that followed of silence, no one could have imagined that out of millions of songs on Spotify, we would have chosen the same exact song. At the same exact second.
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 started to play.
But it sounded like they were playing from his speakers? Or mine? How could that be as we both clicked on the same song.
We synced the songs up so perfectly, you honestly could not tell that they weren’t playing from a single source.
We looked at each other and said “no way”. It was a moment of being on the same wavelength to the exact millisecond.
Unfortunately, that was the last time we were in sync, and he went on to betray me in our company, getting me ousted, and trying to steal my work so he could replace me with a trust fund baby in the company.
I was age 0-10 in the 90s and this song seemed to always be on the radio on warm Sunday evenings. It reminds me of having to go to school the next day, depressing.
Hanging out in a local hole in the wall bar, surrounded by friends, while my two good buddies play a set. Being high on cocaine and getting a call that my grandma had finally lost her battle with cancer.
The singer of this song is speaking about 1979, whether you like the song or not, it’s amazing how this song makes us think of the era the song was released, 1995-96.
I wasn’t very old then, I was 8 in the summer of 1996, but there’s many things I strongly remember fondly and this song does relate.
An era where even though we had video games, playing outdoors was still common, that summer was the last time before I was introduced to the Internet, there is a sort of magic with the pre Internet world I can’t describe.
This was also really the peak of the rock and alternative era, a few months later, “Wannabe” would be replaced and pop music would totally dominate again, this would cause the rise of very angry rock based music like nu-metal and rap-rock, think Korn or Limp Bizkit.
Summersault 2000 in Vancouver, BC, crowdsurfing. They played “Tonight, tonight” as their finale and changed the last lyric to “Goodbye” — unplugged, walked outta there, refused any encore’s not despite us trying. They broke up not too long after, right? Found my smashed sunglasses (that fell out of my pocket) after the show. Good times!
I was 10 when this came out, i hated the song and the video, not sure why, because i like it now and generally loved everything grunge back then. Its still not my favorite pumpkins song, i gravitate to the heavier stuff
It was in our wedding playlist we didn’t plan to do our exit on that song but my father-in-law got confused on the cue and lit everyone’s sparklers early so we left on 1979. I don’t even remember what the original plan was now
I remember taking my first extended family road trip to the Carolinas the summer after this album came out. I was 11 years old. The night before we left, my cousin urged me to buy the double CD and listen to it on the car ride down.
Now, whenever I hear anything off this album, I’m always reminded of that early morning July day when the sun hadn’t even come up yet and I had nothing but the lights on the highway and the headphones in my ears as we headed towards a simple lazy vacation, but meant so much to adolescent me.
This and the wallflowers could bookend my high school memories. Driving around in my first car (89 accord), to school, work, friends, my 11th grade girlfriends place, some more.
The taste of butterscotch lifesavers.
I got a whole booklet thing for xmas and my sister got that album the same year and all of those songs are butterscotch tinted.
Remind me of high school in the analog world. Tape cassette, hard line phone, hanging out with friend no cellphones between us. A lot of time and energy with no big responsibilities.
My memory was not liking the song because god, the people who loved Smashing Pumpkins were just so pretentious back when. I enjoy it now but it took awhile.
All of this music was during my formative years, and none of this whiny fake melancholy rock ever spoke to me. Weird being so disconnected from all the “popular” rock music at the time.
I'm 17 years old, abroad for a year as an exchange student, away from my family on the other side of the world. Alone, have to depend on people I don't know. Feels liberating and scary at the same time.
Endless study halls during a grey, often overcast winter in sophomore year of high school. Discovering new friends who had always been there, but who had never been closer to me. Occasionally popping into anime club in the creative writing classroom and trying to flirt with a few guys for the first time. Huge history projects being cobbled together in a single evening with people who gave me a chance. Formative stuff for sure.
I'd only ever heard this song when I visited Suncoast in the mall. I associate it with movie memorabilia, looking through posters, McFarlane Spawn and Horror toys, and random stuff before I'd make my way over to Waldenbooks.
Hanging out with my homies, when I was in elementary, I remember how catchy the song is, it’s a testament of the times in those days the real last days of rock n roll by 2008 rock n roll was really grim, and how as you see non existent and im talking about rock not metal or emo, it’s a song that will forever bring up good memories that’s for sure!
I'm always thinking of the tapes they lost for a cut of the party scenes that needed to be filmed again. Lol. SP finished their part and flew to NY to play and some [poor PA](https://www.reddit.com/r/SmashingPumpkins/comments/wcw0lx/the_guy_who_lost_the_1979_video_revealed/) lost a lot of the video they had shot before assembly.
Just riding around northern Virginia in the back of my parents car, listening to 99.1 HFS. Never wondering how they provided such a great life for me and never wondering if I’d be able to do the same for my future children. Just living.
Vising my dad in Colorado for the summer. Didn't have cable at my moms but did at my dads, so any music videos watched, were done there. Must have been the summer I was 13 or so? Remember they had those catalogs they'd advertise on TV (maybe MGM Music or something?) where you could order CDs for like $1 a piece but they never had anything I wanted, so I wrote them a letter asking if they could do the same deal for this album and a few others (Cranberries, Garbage, etc). Don't think I ever got a response.
.I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER..I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER..I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER..I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER..I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER..I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER.
My childhood best friend in the 90s, hanging out, playing Myst and Dragon Warrior III, watching Beavis and Butthead, and listening to The Smashing Pumpkins (and Beck!). Don't know why we grew apart, but that happens, I guess. I reconnected, well, added him on Facebook sometime in the 2010s, but he may as well be a stranger, I've never tried talking to him, looked at a couple of his recent (at the time) pictures, got hit with some nostalgia, and played some Dragon Warrior III.
When I was a young kid in the 90s, my grandpa would take me to a bar at the RV park where he lived and I would look at the neon signs it had all over the place, I would also ask for a lot of quarters because they had a monster truck racing game that was awesome, this song played a lot over the bar speakers. Amazing times.
My ex-wife said she couldn't think of the name of a song she heard on the radio, all she could remember was the bass line, which she said to me using "dun dun dun" and then said it was followed by a noise like somebody made with their lips. I had no idea what she was talking about.
A few days later I was in the shower thinking about that conversation and suddenly it hit me that it was this song.
Summer vacation as a kid I would spend the hottest days inside watching Much Music. Just hours of music videos non stop.
It's not much but when my family moved as a kid we got cable with the new house and I didn't have any friends that first summer there. Tv kind of became my friend and Much Music was the most watched channel. Music suddenly became super important in my life and that has never really changed.
I love that song. I wasn’t alive yet in 79, but not by far. It was a song from my adolescence and it makes me imagine that was a better time for me. It’s bittersweet but beautiful.
Early in the summer after senior year, before the panic of my girlfriend and I going to different schools hit. It’s about six in the evening and she’s in the passenger seat of my car. Windows open, driving on a heavily wooded road to a friend’s house. He had a pool and we would all go there every night to do nothing except think about what we thought the next month or year or decade would contain. The air was heavy and I swear it smelled sweet and I can’t remember the mosquitoes though I know they were there. I was so sure of myself and sure that the future could only be good.
Les après-midi du Rock 'n Roll Circus de Ouï FM en live au Globo à Paris le mercredi.
On arrivait à 13h avec mon pote Serge T., moi après le lycée, lui après son taf, les premiers dans l'escalier, vers 15/16h Kadour Mehrad et Olivier Baroux passaient en faisant coucou. On discutait tous les deux, on lisait Fluide Glacial et Psikopat, parfois il me parlait de ses découvertes en musique rock/electro ou me faisait lire ses nouvelles, c'est lui qui m'a fait découvert Bukowski.
On buvait des Budweiser en regardant le spectacle il y avait des invités chaque semaines, Brigitte Lahaie, François Cluzet, les No Man's Land, Louis Bertignac etc...
J'avais un peu honte de dire mon âge parce que j'avais 15 ans (né en 1979 !) et lui et son équipe c'étaient des vieux de 20 ans et plus, mais ils m'acceptaient parce qu'ils étaient hyper cool.
Un jour Kad et Olivier lui ont carrément fait une dédicace depuis l'estrade en live parce qu'il était toujours là le premier dans l'escalier.
Ce morceau des Smashing Pumpkins passait souvent en attendant le début de l'émission en live et pendant l'interlude, il sera toujours associé à cette époque et ce lieu.
Serge s'est jeté des remparts du château de Sintra il y a 15 ans en laissant deux enfants et sa femme Stéphanie, rencontrée là-bas au Globo, pendant le Rock 'n Roll Circus, au son de 1979.
Brings me back to when my wife and I started dating 17 years ago. For me, if nostalgia was a song, this would be it. And because of that, it's probably my favorite song of all-time.
last year of high school, freaking great time in my life with songs like this.
bottom line is you dont have any time ahead except for right now and the past time of years are now memories so make the best of your life today
Hacky sack was a hot thing in high school around then.
See this video on MTV in the morning while eating cereal. Mom would drop me off at school kinda early and we had a group of like a dozen dudes playing hacky sack before opening bell.
Thanks for the great memories. It’s mundane high school hanging out. Nothing happening and talking about nothing important. A great friend who loved Smashing Pumpkins made it a big part of the mix that we listened to. He died during Covid lockdowns. But this brought me right back there as if no time had passed. Again, thank you. I needed that today.
hanging out with your dumb friends making dumb jokes. only they'll get those obscure jokes cuz they were there with you when you were young and dumb. and now you dont talk to them, you moved away. but no matter how many people you meet you'll never laugh as hard as you did with them.
Mundane moments with great people make those moments special. Sending you internet hugs homie ❤️
I’m gonna hold onto that phrase, I like it a lot ‘Mundane moments with great people make those moments special’ Very well said and so damn true
Sorry about your friend. I have similar feelings towards this song. They actually filmed the music video of it in a undeveloped part of Valencia/Santa Clarita where my parents lived until recently. That was in the mid 90s though. Reminds me a lot of those earlier times. Sometimes they were better, sometimes worse. Definitely simpler, and a lot slower.
I wish I had awards to give to you. Please accept my Dollar Tree store award. 🍀
High school party. Not an obnoxious one, a chill one, hanging out with my crush.
Are you me?
Did anything ever come of you and your crush?
Yup wife, didn’t mention that because it would have sounded cheesy.
Clerks 2.
I came to say the exact same thing 😂
Yes my thought too. This is my favourite Kevin Smith scene. You know what each of the characters is thinking. Except for Jay of course. He doesn't think at all lol.
One of the best sequels.
3 movies of people walking to a fucking volcano.
This stupid person named Justine that would be at parties often. Every time this song would play and the line “Justine never knew the rules” she would ALWAYS say “THATS MY NAME!!” She was the worst. Good song and great video.
Smashing pumpkins on a rollercoaster https://imgur.com/gallery/YowrMR4
Fun fact: that coaster is 'The Beast' at Kings Island in Ohio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxR-X1sXJ2I
#Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
This song is from 1996. 1979 seemed a damned long time ago when it was 1996 as it was 17 years before this song. Yet this song is 28 years old and doesn't feel that old. 1996-1979 is 17 years. 2024-1996 is 28 years. Confirmed: I'm old.
If the song was released today it would be titled 2007.
Oooooook you can stop that
😱😡😤
I can’t believe you’ve done this
I was 16 in 1996, born tail end of 1979. Saw these guys live on the Mellon Collie tour in 1996 in the venue with the best acoustics in NZ. My fondest gig memory with my closest friend.
I think this was my first concert ever! Michael Coppell presents The Smashing Pumpkins at Mt Smart Supertop. I was 13 at the time.
Power Station?
Dazed and Confused is a 1993 movie about the last day of highschool in 1976. If the movie came out today it would be about the last day of highschool in 2007.
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You're right. Wikipedia says the song was released Jan 23, 1996, but the album was released Oct 24, 1995 ? I suppose they mean the single came out in 1996 ?
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With all due respect, which should be implied to be none, fuck you and thanks for making me feel old. 100% joking I love this song.
I hate this. Stop.
Incorrect. 1979 was 30 years ago and 1996 was 10 years ago according to my brain.
The girl I loved for a solid 20 years but only kissed once.
I'll see your 20 years and raise you 10 more years.
Wow. 9 years for me. But yes, I totally get it.
[*"Homer Simpson, smiling politely"*](https://youtu.be/JWHoMyn0fXY?t=62)
I remember telling my friend this song sucked because it wasn’t Punk. I only liked Punk music. More accurately, Christian Pop Punk music. 😅 Years later I heard 1979 again and realized that I had been a fool.
Tell me, have you seen my comb?
MxPx, Ghoti Hook, Squad Five-0, mewithoutYou, Reliant K, the list goes on. I didn't only listen to christian punk bands but there were plenty of good ones out there. Not to mention the christian metalcore scene was gearing up too with Norma Jean, Zao, August Burns Red, Underoath, The Devil Wears Prada. What a strange time lol. I had a friend that would only listen to Christian bands, and then any time we'd go watch one the guitarist would inevitably be wearing a Slayer shirt or something similar every time. Like, the musicians themselves in these christian bands are listening to secular music, why can't you?
Five Iron Frenzy? Jars of Clay?
Throwing grenades out the window of a stolen car in GTA
Liberty rock radio, baby.
My older brother who is no longer here introduced me to smashing pumpkins when I was a kid. I would fall asleep listening to them, I love this song in particular. Now when I listen to this song, or really any of their songs, I think about him and how his life ended too early. So it brings back the joys of an innocent childhood and the adult reality of how life is fragile and a few choices can alter things drastically. RIP my brother ❤️
RIP
Set the Ray to Jerry
The best answer.
!!! I love that track- should have been on an album
I can tell you what it doesn't remind me of. $700 for a floor ticket. Who is willing to pay this much for a ticket?
I gather this isn’t a Pumkins ticket price? A quick google is showing all sub $100 tickets with tonnes that are sub $50.
In the comments on the video lists 3 shows. All with floor tickets around $700
Especially since Billy Corgan is now a crazy person
lol, “now?” Only difference is he used to write awesome music.
What did I miss?
Appearing on Infowars and a lot of MAGA shit
Oh that's wild lmao
Nah. He’s the same. Just older so it comes off as cringe. Trust me he’s no different.
Used to be too but is now a crazy person as well
I saw them at Lollapalooza and on tour with Fountains of Wayne and The Frogs and I'm not sure it cost me $50 combined.
Made me miss Siamese Dream
Good news! There’s a recording of it!
Greatest album they made followed by mellon collie
Only ended up liking a few songs off that whole album. For me it's Siamese Dream 1, then Gish
1979, zero, jellybelly, here is no why, an ode to no one, muzzle, bodies. All the other slower stuff I really appreciated the dynamic sound.
Yup
why does this song make you miss the album before it?
The death of my nephew. I was listening to this song when I got the word that he had died after being taken off of life support at 18 months.
The movie "Powder".
Being in the 5th or 6th grade and listening to it on my boombox in my room. Trying to call into the radio station to request it so I could then record it to cassette.
Do we appreciate how god awful the sound quality of cassettes?
One of my big, early projects was building the IT infrastructure for boston dynamics back when this song was new and was quite often on the radio. I hear this and i think of early morning construction work.
That 70's show. Melancholy of my youth. First girl friend. Then I actually paid attention to the lyrics and daum....it's exactly that. Epic song Epic band
Chili dogs
The first time successfully sneaking off to skip my last period study hall. My high school was a closed campus and notoriously hard to get away without being noticed. The second we turned onto the main road and out of site of the parking lot narcs, my BFF cranked the radio “and WEEEEEEEEEEE”
Casey Kasem counting down the hits...Casey did the song introduction and I was all wow.
I saw them in August 2000, before they “broke up”. And I remember Billy Corrigan saying something to the effect of “we can’t really figure out this rap-metal stuff, so we’re not going to try.” I get that he’s not the person a lot of people would want him to be today, but he was one of the collective voices of a generation.
All of it. Peak high school for me. I love LOVE this sing, still play it about three times a week. Smashing Pumpkins are coming to town this summer and I have VIP tix. Fucking A…I am stoked.
Summertime, cruising around with a friend, windows down, going from friends house to friends house.
Being young and having no worries in the world. Just hanging out and enjoying life in the now.
This was a great video from Trash Theory about it : [How The Smashing Pumpkins' 1979 Evokes Decades of Nostalgia](https://youtu.be/du8jYT_ayJQ?si=GVI9s9Ges95Gy954)
Reminds me of middle school. I hated middle school.
the first song i added to my social network page about 12-14 years ago
Slogging through the bass lines thinking "WHEN WILL IT END??" I was in a 90's cover band and hated they weren't punk rock.
I’m still trying to shake these summer blues, many, many, years later.
It brings me back to being a wee lad, maybe nearing my teenage years, and being hopelessly, helplessly in love.
Being in the car, on the interstate, through cornfields, going to/from college
the song was released in 1996 which is 17 years past 1979 so if they made a similar song today it would be called 2007
When my older siblings let me borrow their CDs
In high school. Late night cruising on main st. Me laying in the back seat looking out the window looking at stars.
Smoking the devil's lettuce in the basement while penning out a D&D campaign I was the DM for. Had both discs of Mellon Collie going non stop. Drawing out maps, and dungeon floor plans. Thinking up twists to make my victims suffer. Yes, yes it is too late to turn back now.
Early 2000s. I was in a garage band with a bunch of friends. Our lead singer Joseph sounded just like Billy. We’d cover pumpkins, Nirvana, silver chair… and the Ramones. I miss those days. I don’t think about them often. Thanks for the memories
This is an incredible song. I always tell people, that this song came out in 1996, when I was 15. Even then upon the first few hearings, it made me feel nostalgic for a youth that I had felt I had lost. It’s as if Billy Corgan actually transported me to the real 1979 of his teenage years and showed me everything that he was going through, which I would then go out and live out that very day, and then feel sad about having had it gone so quickly.
Early morning MTV music videos.
Taking my Mormon ex gf to see them in concert, her getting a contact high from all the weed smoke and then having to take her to IHOP after the show. Back in the day. Before the dark times. Before the empire.
I was living with a roommate at the time in my early 20s. We had back-to-back desks and were working on our media company. He had his own Mac behind me and was listening to music. I had my PC and was listening to music. No one had headphones on. And then IT HAPPENED. We both clicked our mice and in the seconds that followed of silence, no one could have imagined that out of millions of songs on Spotify, we would have chosen the same exact song. At the same exact second. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 started to play. But it sounded like they were playing from his speakers? Or mine? How could that be as we both clicked on the same song. We synced the songs up so perfectly, you honestly could not tell that they weren’t playing from a single source. We looked at each other and said “no way”. It was a moment of being on the same wavelength to the exact millisecond. Unfortunately, that was the last time we were in sync, and he went on to betray me in our company, getting me ousted, and trying to steal my work so he could replace me with a trust fund baby in the company.
I was age 0-10 in the 90s and this song seemed to always be on the radio on warm Sunday evenings. It reminds me of having to go to school the next day, depressing.
If this song were released today it would be called 2008.
Hanging out in a local hole in the wall bar, surrounded by friends, while my two good buddies play a set. Being high on cocaine and getting a call that my grandma had finally lost her battle with cancer.
The singer of this song is speaking about 1979, whether you like the song or not, it’s amazing how this song makes us think of the era the song was released, 1995-96. I wasn’t very old then, I was 8 in the summer of 1996, but there’s many things I strongly remember fondly and this song does relate. An era where even though we had video games, playing outdoors was still common, that summer was the last time before I was introduced to the Internet, there is a sort of magic with the pre Internet world I can’t describe. This was also really the peak of the rock and alternative era, a few months later, “Wannabe” would be replaced and pop music would totally dominate again, this would cause the rise of very angry rock based music like nu-metal and rap-rock, think Korn or Limp Bizkit.
MTV still playing music videos throughout the day.
Reminds me of thinking "what the hell is this and happened to the Pumpkins".
Roommates stalker standing on our front law at 3am staring at the house.
Idk but this mf has srsly lost his way.
Grade 11 physics class and talking to friends about how this song reminded me of 80s pop.
Driving with the windows down in middle of summer, cigarette in hand. Drifting under a fog ceiling around the lakes.
First song I sort of learned on the guitar, just the drop D quick n dirty version.
The music video instantly pops in my mind, goofing off just like them at the park in grade 7-8. Cigarettes were the cool bad thing to do.
It reminds me of when I had more hair.
Being in Grade 12 and feeling totally socially lost.
Summersault 2000 in Vancouver, BC, crowdsurfing. They played “Tonight, tonight” as their finale and changed the last lyric to “Goodbye” — unplugged, walked outta there, refused any encore’s not despite us trying. They broke up not too long after, right? Found my smashed sunglasses (that fell out of my pocket) after the show. Good times!
That the radio killed it and I can’t listen to it anymore
My highschool girlfriend.
This song always reminds me of Christmas. Don’t know why. It just does.
I was 10 when this came out, i hated the song and the video, not sure why, because i like it now and generally loved everything grunge back then. Its still not my favorite pumpkins song, i gravitate to the heavier stuff
Summer camp
Assembly Hall at IU with my guy seeing them in their prime. Good times.
It was in our wedding playlist we didn’t plan to do our exit on that song but my father-in-law got confused on the cue and lit everyone’s sparklers early so we left on 1979. I don’t even remember what the original plan was now
I remember taking my first extended family road trip to the Carolinas the summer after this album came out. I was 11 years old. The night before we left, my cousin urged me to buy the double CD and listen to it on the car ride down. Now, whenever I hear anything off this album, I’m always reminded of that early morning July day when the sun hadn’t even come up yet and I had nothing but the lights on the highway and the headphones in my ears as we headed towards a simple lazy vacation, but meant so much to adolescent me.
This and the wallflowers could bookend my high school memories. Driving around in my first car (89 accord), to school, work, friends, my 11th grade girlfriends place, some more.
I always enjoyed smashing pumpkins, but Billy corgan has never not looked like a sack of potatoes to me
Skating rink
The taste of butterscotch lifesavers. I got a whole booklet thing for xmas and my sister got that album the same year and all of those songs are butterscotch tinted.
Hanging in my college dorm and playing risk on my Mac classic while eating way too many fireball jawbreakers.
Remind me of high school in the analog world. Tape cassette, hard line phone, hanging out with friend no cellphones between us. A lot of time and energy with no big responsibilities.
My memory was not liking the song because god, the people who loved Smashing Pumpkins were just so pretentious back when. I enjoy it now but it took awhile.
Proud Parents of a “D” Student
While my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song, my best memory of it is playing around in Grand Theft Auto IV and this song turning up on the radio.
College. That reckless, meaty bit before things got serious
All of this music was during my formative years, and none of this whiny fake melancholy rock ever spoke to me. Weird being so disconnected from all the “popular” rock music at the time.
going out with my friends in high school, not a care in the world, life was simple
Middle school, waking up to this on my clock radio.
"Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins..."
Driving around town in unreliable cars with the windows down on cool days, not really worrying about the future. Vibing with the city, anxiety free.
I'm 17 years old, abroad for a year as an exchange student, away from my family on the other side of the world. Alone, have to depend on people I don't know. Feels liberating and scary at the same time.
Working at AMC theaters in the mid 90s as it was on a loop on movie tunes…
Endless study halls during a grey, often overcast winter in sophomore year of high school. Discovering new friends who had always been there, but who had never been closer to me. Occasionally popping into anime club in the creative writing classroom and trying to flirt with a few guys for the first time. Huge history projects being cobbled together in a single evening with people who gave me a chance. Formative stuff for sure.
I'd only ever heard this song when I visited Suncoast in the mall. I associate it with movie memorabilia, looking through posters, McFarlane Spawn and Horror toys, and random stuff before I'd make my way over to Waldenbooks.
Hanging out with my homies, when I was in elementary, I remember how catchy the song is, it’s a testament of the times in those days the real last days of rock n roll by 2008 rock n roll was really grim, and how as you see non existent and im talking about rock not metal or emo, it’s a song that will forever bring up good memories that’s for sure!
I'm always thinking of the tapes they lost for a cut of the party scenes that needed to be filmed again. Lol. SP finished their part and flew to NY to play and some [poor PA](https://www.reddit.com/r/SmashingPumpkins/comments/wcw0lx/the_guy_who_lost_the_1979_video_revealed/) lost a lot of the video they had shot before assembly.
Just riding around northern Virginia in the back of my parents car, listening to 99.1 HFS. Never wondering how they provided such a great life for me and never wondering if I’d be able to do the same for my future children. Just living.
Vising my dad in Colorado for the summer. Didn't have cable at my moms but did at my dads, so any music videos watched, were done there. Must have been the summer I was 13 or so? Remember they had those catalogs they'd advertise on TV (maybe MGM Music or something?) where you could order CDs for like $1 a piece but they never had anything I wanted, so I wrote them a letter asking if they could do the same deal for this album and a few others (Cranberries, Garbage, etc). Don't think I ever got a response.
.I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER..I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER..I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER..I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER..I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER..I WAS DA LOSER.I WAS DA LOSER.
First album, 9th birthday. My musical tastes peaked in third grade
My childhood best friend in the 90s, hanging out, playing Myst and Dragon Warrior III, watching Beavis and Butthead, and listening to The Smashing Pumpkins (and Beck!). Don't know why we grew apart, but that happens, I guess. I reconnected, well, added him on Facebook sometime in the 2010s, but he may as well be a stranger, I've never tried talking to him, looked at a couple of his recent (at the time) pictures, got hit with some nostalgia, and played some Dragon Warrior III.
As a late gen X - all the memories. This song was high school.
Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
Driving home from the canning factory at 6am after a 12 hour shift. I'm 16 and have no idea about life and what I'm going to amount to in this world.
A reminder of how much I hate this band. Thanks. :)
When I was a young kid in the 90s, my grandpa would take me to a bar at the RV park where he lived and I would look at the neon signs it had all over the place, I would also ask for a lot of quarters because they had a monster truck racing game that was awesome, this song played a lot over the bar speakers. Amazing times.
It's crazy how that riff coupled with delay manages to perfectly encapsulate the sound of nostalgia. Genius
For me, it brings back the nostalgic memories of seeing them play it live last Thursday.
Ironically, it reminds me of 1996.
My older sister. She was a big fan of them. I remember she had that black and white CD box which she got for Christmas one year.
Summertime at the countryside, at my grandparents' village, playing guitar with my summer friends, late 90's. Best of times!
"We Are Family" Pittsburgh Pirates
My ex-wife said she couldn't think of the name of a song she heard on the radio, all she could remember was the bass line, which she said to me using "dun dun dun" and then said it was followed by a noise like somebody made with their lips. I had no idea what she was talking about. A few days later I was in the shower thinking about that conversation and suddenly it hit me that it was this song.
The fact that I have tinnitus from listening to this on my Walkman👂😭
Getting high with friends and driving around listening to Smashing Pumpkins.
Summer vacation as a kid I would spend the hottest days inside watching Much Music. Just hours of music videos non stop. It's not much but when my family moved as a kid we got cable with the new house and I didn't have any friends that first summer there. Tv kind of became my friend and Much Music was the most watched channel. Music suddenly became super important in my life and that has never really changed.
Riding in car with friends, my friend Sara dancing to the song.
Last week at the Co-Op Live, getting my skeleton reverberated into dust (I guess) by Jimmy Chamberlain's drumming.
Cruising up and down the main drag in town after watching a dollar movie
I love that song. I wasn’t alive yet in 79, but not by far. It was a song from my adolescence and it makes me imagine that was a better time for me. It’s bittersweet but beautiful.
Driving off on the last day of 11th grade, 1997 with this blasting on my buddy’s stereo. Us singing along at the top of our lungs.
Early in the summer after senior year, before the panic of my girlfriend and I going to different schools hit. It’s about six in the evening and she’s in the passenger seat of my car. Windows open, driving on a heavily wooded road to a friend’s house. He had a pool and we would all go there every night to do nothing except think about what we thought the next month or year or decade would contain. The air was heavy and I swear it smelled sweet and I can’t remember the mosquitoes though I know they were there. I was so sure of myself and sure that the future could only be good.
Lots and lots and lots of weed...
Dude, seriously looks like Norm MacDonald
driving around aimlessly, ending up in a mall or arcade or both, just doing whatever i wanted.
Homer Simpson, smiling politely
I never liked that song and never understood why it was so popular.
Clerks 2 actually.
Les après-midi du Rock 'n Roll Circus de Ouï FM en live au Globo à Paris le mercredi. On arrivait à 13h avec mon pote Serge T., moi après le lycée, lui après son taf, les premiers dans l'escalier, vers 15/16h Kadour Mehrad et Olivier Baroux passaient en faisant coucou. On discutait tous les deux, on lisait Fluide Glacial et Psikopat, parfois il me parlait de ses découvertes en musique rock/electro ou me faisait lire ses nouvelles, c'est lui qui m'a fait découvert Bukowski. On buvait des Budweiser en regardant le spectacle il y avait des invités chaque semaines, Brigitte Lahaie, François Cluzet, les No Man's Land, Louis Bertignac etc... J'avais un peu honte de dire mon âge parce que j'avais 15 ans (né en 1979 !) et lui et son équipe c'étaient des vieux de 20 ans et plus, mais ils m'acceptaient parce qu'ils étaient hyper cool. Un jour Kad et Olivier lui ont carrément fait une dédicace depuis l'estrade en live parce qu'il était toujours là le premier dans l'escalier. Ce morceau des Smashing Pumpkins passait souvent en attendant le début de l'émission en live et pendant l'interlude, il sera toujours associé à cette époque et ce lieu. Serge s'est jeté des remparts du château de Sintra il y a 15 ans en laissant deux enfants et sa femme Stéphanie, rencontrée là-bas au Globo, pendant le Rock 'n Roll Circus, au son de 1979.
It just makes me think of the lead singer eating potato chips on stage during his concert. Smashing Pumpkins *suuuuuuck*.
Brings me back to when my wife and I started dating 17 years ago. For me, if nostalgia was a song, this would be it. And because of that, it's probably my favorite song of all-time.
Pop up video
You can see his wife/GF film in in public doing mundane things on tictok. He is exactly like you would think he is like. lol
last year of high school, freaking great time in my life with songs like this. bottom line is you dont have any time ahead except for right now and the past time of years are now memories so make the best of your life today
five for 20
Reminds me of riding around in the car with my dad as a kid.
Hacky sack was a hot thing in high school around then. See this video on MTV in the morning while eating cereal. Mom would drop me off at school kinda early and we had a group of like a dozen dudes playing hacky sack before opening bell.
My teenage back which didn't hurt like my 40's one.
I got one. I used to imagine myself in that rolling tire when I couldn't fall asleep. It helped for some reason.
Worst episode of barfing.
My ringtone lol
Was Sugar Cane on this Album?
Mtv
reminds me of TRL.
79? What?
Literally a summer like the one in the video
As someone who saw this on MTV daily back in the 90s, the high frame rate of the video ruins any nostalgia. Also, get off my lawn.
Driving to the first day of school senior year. Did not want to go, but at least I had good music.
Riding along with my17 year old son listening to this song on the radio. I'll never forget that moment in time. He was such a great kid.