Billy Corgan “1979” on the Howard Stern Show 

My wife hates his voice and him 🤷🏽‍♂️

Johnny Johnson well your wife sucks, you can tell her I said it so you don’t get slapped when you tell her she sucks

His voice has changed & NOT for the better. I couldn't get thru this rendition.

what a perfect analogy >

Getting drunk on some Billy Corgan voice again! Premium Billy! ❤️❤️❤️

The youth of today won't have it as good as us (I'm 42 ) music was way better back in the day.

43 still young

Wait, but your life isn't so bad at 43 right? I hate to think that just because youth is gone the best days of our lives are gone.

Oh it's long past.. 😂

I'm trying at 32

I was thinking the same thing!

It’s actually not that hard lol

I love playing this song on guitar and is great on an acoustic, very true it’s bloody hard to play & sing as Billy’s vocal phrasing & melodies are brilliant and hard to master, but with a bit of practice I’ve got this song sounding pretty damn good if I say so myself, always room for improvement though, I love the rawness of this track and to me music brings so much more emotion when played with some vulnerability and not spot on perfect, although Billy’s playing is faultless on this performance and sounds quality, every time I hear this song it always brings a tear to my eye taking me back to happy & sad times in my late teens/early 20’s in the 90’s, the power of music & performance and the emotions it can bring to me is an amazing feeling and is what I love about also being a songwriting musician myself, the power of music & emotions brings much solace in my life.

Not easy??? It’s one of the easiest songs to play on guitar and sing. He’s just speeding it up and phoning it in here.

@@sinjon I learnt it today. I forgot how long it is though 😅 70% of the time I will master it 😬

I love you

We were all more connected then. Miss those days

I know what you mean! I'm only 27 so Im in the generation that eventually gravitated towards limewire/Spotify with music on demand. But I used to just sit through whole rotations patiently, until the handful of songs of my liking came on.

Ana Lyn and I waited every weekend for you

I miss those times

@Philip Kerr stick to your shitty Autotune then. That line is obviously over your head anyways.

One of the best written songs top to bottom, period.

The best line in great lyrics

@@sonyboy8638 He just means he understands a person enough to know when they are hiding how they feel.

@@rickyskellham6131 Ahh yes, now that you say it it seems almost obvious. But to be honest i had no idea either.

Exactly

He rarely gets credit for what an exquisite guitar player he is.

You can do this too! It’s not too hard!

​@Philip Demers I read he was basically considered a virtuoso.

@@CharlieRootsMusic He’s very good, but that’s a term that gets thrown around a bit too much these days. He doesn’t need to be one, because he’s great at what he does.

Never know what you’ve got until it’s gone. A cliché phrase but only because of it’s truthfulness

Like milk time at school

SW Pags You must be in your 30s

believe me. you had no idea you'd miss the time you wrote this.

That's the beauty and sadness of living

an important jerk to someone tho.

You're not that bad...

Bob Donovan it is for me and I’m pretty decent. Billy is incredible!

Better to be a jerk on the Internet than to jerk off to the Internet (not mutually exclusive).

I'm a good guitar player, but singing at the same time is still so frickin hard for me to this day. So yeah when I see Billy do this I'm pretty much in awe as well.

Deffo, along with Chris Cornell 😢 R.I.P

Underappreciated no way

I'm 129 and I approve this message

Go phone your mum and chat about the music, rekindle the relationship and just talk. We only have 1 mum, cherish her before she’s gone. ❤

145

Call her up ❤ I bet she thinks of you too

Tell your mum this exact thing

You might want to check out his recent performance 'Neath The Darkest Eves' ;)

Well he played a bunch of those

Of course. He still has it, he ain't nobody dinosaur

Hes doing just that in Europe now. The states in the fall

Their Bridge School Benefit show was acoustic, it's on RU-vid

Completely agree.

AGREED BUD! :)

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I was thinking exactly the same thing 👍

Rhinoceros is sooo much better

Eddie Money?

Agreed

80s were better.. you're just too young to know better :)

Same age here. Yeah,the ‘90s was different. I often refer to the genre as the generation of depression because of the depths that the music reached. Sadness,melancholy & dreariness seemed rampant. Perhaps there’s a cycle of emotion that’s played out in each generation. Or maybe each generation gravitates to an emotion as a response of being the victim of the previous generations emotion?

@Alejandro Moreno It's just another person who thinks his generation's music was the best, which of course it isn't. But I think we can all agree that pop and rock music have been abysmal these past 20 years :)

Matthew Douglas everything is better acoustic! ;)

Why? It's a melodic song that inherently translates well to a stripped-down "unplugged" rendition.

Matthew Douglas No lie. I thought I heard another Guitar then realized he was over dubbing the Sound with his IPad.

yeah that was impressive, but he knows the song inside and out, it was his creation... I'd be honored if some mid/late 90s fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of LONG DECEMBER by the Counting Crows, HIGH & DRY by Radiohead, and NAME by the GooGoo Dolls on my channel in tribute to the era. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace out.

That's probably how he wrote it

He's rushing the song but his voice sounds really good!

@@whatdothlife4660 he's keeping the young audiences attention

Loren Darcy he’s not rushing anything, he’s just playing it faster probably to get it over with

disagreed completely

That happens sometimes lol

And 1979 was almost 40 years ago. These are things that make me go FAWK!

yeah.....i was only 13 that time.....what a moment of life!!! great music and ppl were nice and music were phenomenal..bands were cool and lyrics were great. miss those sweet moment! :-)

I was 21 when it came out and it seems like yesterday.fuck.

I was born in 1979 and I remember when this song was new. Now it and I are old. Damn

Jesus christ 22 years ago...

Absolutely. Bush, Alice in chains, collective soul... 90s music was top tier

He's also playing right handed guitar while being left handed. Im the same way, learning his songs i learned some pretty clever ways to combat playing backwards. His muting of strings instead of not strumming them or keeping his hand in motion and lifting the pick to not play but keep momentum in his right hand helped me immensely. I didnt realize how hard his songs really were to learn when i learned to play lefty lol. Your barriers are your gifts to think differently than the rest i suppose.

Yea. But I don't enjoy his music. So....what's your point?

Philip Kerr I’m a lefty and play guitar right handed. As in I write with my left hand and definitely not ambidextrous in that regard. Although it’s kind of a forced habit to play righty because I originally would have played lefty, but due to not realizing you could mirror guitar hero I got more comfortable with a righty playing style. And I definitely cannot play lefty. The point I’m trying to make is that most lefties are born lefty and learn to be ambidextrous not because of natural preferences but more so convenience and how most things are designed.

@Philip Kerr No. He didn't hear it from anyone. He just made it up. People like making up storys in comment sections

He practiced at least 3 hours a day every day since he was a teenager

I agree that his voice may have improved.

His vocal technique was pretty bad live when he was younger. He might be more serious with it now. But he was a great guitar player and songwriter back then of course, and on records his vocals sounded good. Live not so much.

He took voice lessons about 15 years back. I like the way he sings either way, but really prefer the 'raw' Billy : )

The thing is back in the day he was being more of a vocalist than a singer.... he was constantly trying to do all sorts of affectations that wasn’t really in the realm of proper technique, and it really came across live where he was trying to make things rock harder or whatever. I believe he learned proper technique since. j Mascis is another hero of mine like this, he’s able to properly sing in tune now.

He sounds great 🎙💥

I wore Airwalks too. We knew what was cool huh J Smith! Always loved this song and their version of Landslide.

Shit dude I still do LOL

GOD I miss those days!

😂😂😂😂 Motherfuckin Airwalks

Right there with you on that man. My airwalk nexts and my board tearing up the curbs at the bank etc. Nostalgia brother. Such a sweet time for tunes too.

Yes, A great great song. A perfectly constructed pop song.

Same here Bro. Started college in 1996, spring semester. Talking about this makes me want to say something memorable, like when Richard Dreyfus (narrating the movie Stand by Me) mentions never having friends again like he did when he was 12. Here's to our youth, which we will forever lose 🍻

A todo dar!

Octavio Andrade Jr. 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

Amem, brother!

Don't ''Miss'' it.,,, but' Do be ''Care full' Though. eh.? ha.

I'd be honored if some mid/late 90s fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of LONG DECEMBER by the Counting Crows and NAME by the GooGoo Dolls on my channel in tribute to the era. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace out.

Gaaayeeee

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That also tells me im getting old 😕

I had Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness a double album which featured the track 1979. Classic album and a classic song.

you old as

Me too!

I was born in 1994

Same. 😭😭

Everything I love musically would have been around were I your age. I really envy you. Half of my favourite musician are either dead or not producing music and the other half are old and not in their prime. Consider yourself lucky, as I'm sure you do.

Chad Hyde m

Enjoy every day because they are all gone in the blink of an eye.

That means you were born in 1979, right?

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Days drag on and the years fly by. I'm 37 so I feel you.

this happens to me a lot. I'd say some of the old time songs really annoyed me as a kid but now they all get me so nostalgic. i drown myself in the music i "disliked".

I think you may have loved to hate it when you were younger not actually realising the actual emotions and chords it was really striking until now that you’re a little older & wiser and understanding & appreciating it more as we mature. I love this track it has always brought a tear to my eye each time I hear it, the power of music & performance to myself is truly an amazing feeling and why I am a songwriting musician and sing & play everyday of my life and will do everyday till the day I die, it brings much solace no matter how I’m feeling.

Exact same thing with pumpkins for me. I was a Nirvana kid and got into heavier music. Looking back now its the pumkin songs man. They get me every single time....

Who is justine?

Same. I didn't know what to expect, but he nailed it!

Why did you think it would be terrible?

It's literally the first video on youtube if you look up mayonaise acoustic..

oh how I wish... my fave SP song!

for a second there, i though about billy playing an actual jar of mayonnaise lmao

Look up “smashing pumpkins-mayOnnaise

Don't tell me what to imagine. Just for spite, I'm imagining him eating mayonnaise, nakedly. Gross. Hey, internet, if you're going to imagine Billy Corgan eating mayonnaise, I suggest putting some clothes on him. I'm not telling you what to imagine, like some people [cough pokerworld cough], just making a suggestion based on personal experience.

Yea I saw them in oakland it was a great show

Great tour, but I wish it were in smaller venues. The whole stadium vibe didn't really work for me.

They were fantastic in Las Vegas

I saw them in Indianapolis. Of all the concert tickets I've ever bought, that's one I'm most glad I didn't pass up.

I saw them in Portland last year and they played liked 3 or 4 covers, I was disappointed. I didn't want to hear fucking Stairway to Heaven, I wanted to hear more classic Pumpkin songs.

garyfrombuffalo Thats one of the Main reasons they were One of my top Fav . bands.Plus I love his Abstract Song writing.

I like this performance, but I truly prefer the voice he had in '90 and early '00...

Studio does the magic. He never was the greatest singer live. Having said that, he's an absolute genius musician and his ability to just layer the ever living shit out of guitar tracks is unreal.

I do

Remember month after month new amazing records coming out? Almost taking it for granted that amazing artists rise while hacks may get 1 hit & fade. I really feel like I took the great music for granted. Appearing new on the radios & going to shops to find more obscure stuff based on album covers & band names, reading the track list thinking this could be something! Sometimes a dud sometimes great. Then when cassettes were available recording off radio or copying other cassettes. Getting rare stuff off college radio then tracking down or calling them to find out what it was. There's still discovery of great talent on RU-vid but they will never get any recognition & if things don't eventually pay the bills you have to move on with life so we're gonna lose those artists

Really ''Nice Weed' is 'Probably ''More'' Like it ? Ya's Might have Both Been Dead Miserable' Without the Joint,,, ha,,,just Saying. (as they say)

They 'Do' Don't they. ?

no way

And everyone clapped...

I have a friend who swears that he used to smoke PCP with Metallica.

Jan Karlsson same

If you think the video for “1979” was perfect, then try the video for “Perfect” - which was basically a sequel to “1979”!

Mellon Collie

Here No Why is one of my faves

*still is

I still fondly remember seeing them on that tour. Good times.

Melancholy