I cry so much with this song.. It reminds me when I was married to a beautiful woman, my wife and then Cancer took her but she gave me a beautiful little girl who at 13 years old would pass away as well. 9 years as a single widowed dad I miss you little one...daddy loves you so much. these past 3 years have been hell on earth. December 22,2023 life sucks is all I can say. Till this day, i cry for my lovely daughter. I thank each and everyone, save for one or two people that think they know how it feels to lose a child, for your kindness to leave beautiful messages on here. I was watching this video and just poured out my feelings as a comment as i am kind of a loner ,and did not expect so much love and kindness here. Thank you again and again. To those who have lost someone theres not much ai can say as I know how it feels to lose someone and words are just words, i could say this though, live off memories made with that loved one. Religious or not there is that hole we will see them again sometime when we ourselves leave this earth.
All the great bands have that one album that transcends time and has no flaw within any measure of its score. I'm not the biggest pumpkins fan in the world, but this album is timeless and perfect.
I remember when i was at school and i was told that my best friend was hit by a car and died. I called my mom and she came to pick me up from school and this song was on the radio. She didn't say ANYTHING. All she did was turn up the radio all the way. On the way home with "Thirty-three"at full blast, i saw a cross next to the road with his name on it and flowers. All of a sudden i just started screaming and crying as hard as i could. My mother had no expression what so ever. She didn't say anything. She just let me get it out. when i got home, i shut my door and locked it. I freaked out and tore my room apart and my tantrum lasted for an hour. Eventually i fell asleep on the floor. Ever since, i cant listen to this song without thinking about Austin. Its an awesome song though.
@@dexalk2688Just try to keep track of your "tomorrows" - count them well, and if they aren't what you want them to be, then grab them and yourself by the throat and get serious (I turned 18 the day this album was released - Oct 23, 1995...so I resonate with Billy Bob). Pumpkins have a lot of songs that guide....hell, if you are in a shit relationship, listen to "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" - I should have listened closer. Just keep track of your tomorrows and you'll be ok.
Indeed. 33 was my jersey number at about that time. I didn’t ask for it. Very coincidental I got that number. And, it was suggested that I get that jersey specifically.
@@dexalk2688 Yeah live your life how you want to, follow your dreams have a back up plan but at least try and live what you want to do and never look back. If it doesn't work out at least you tried.
You know, the internet gets a bad reputation for its negative effects of individuals and society. But when you read through comments of Pumpkins videos, you can see the beauty the internet let's strangers experience together. It brings together people from all over the world that would have never met that have similar experiences, feelings, and emotions about something. It really is special in that way. Even though the internet can be harmful in certain ways, I think it's important to accept the good things it can bring to people's lives as well.
It's like a hammer: a tool. Used in the hands of bad actors, we see the cesspool it can be. Used by someone with a heart, and mind, it can be used to build.
Just when you thought you were weird or alone, it turns out you’re just like the rest of us…weirdly beautiful. I’m here for you, you’re here for me. We’re never alone.
as a teen, lonely and never thinking i'd find anyone, i listened to this and cried. Now, 36, with a goddess of a wife and an angel of a son, I listened again. and cried. life has a way of working out if you let it.
Christopher Pullen Great for you! Hope the same fate can happen to me, I'm the lonely teenager that cant find anyone right now. But that little sentence gives me hope, thank you.
That's awesome! I am currently that 13 year old that's constantly getting in trouble and going through many frivolous relationships that do nothing but hurt and waste time. I am trying my best right now to straighten out. My grades are gradually going up and I've been single for a while now. Comments and stories like these give me courage and a crave to do better so thank you, fellow stranger!
Christopher Pullen I'm 13 and just looking for someone to hold on to for the rest of my life, someone who's ok with traveling with my band and someone who wants kids, I just can't wait to find that person.
My mom used to always call in to radio stations and win contests and she won this album. I was only in 3rd grade and she gave it to me. These songs are totally like deep seeded in core childhood memories haha
This video/song is a masterpiece. During the taping of VH-1 Storytellers, Billy talked about the meaning of “Thirty-Three” when he said, “The year was 1994 and I just moved into a new house that was eventually going to be a purple Victorian house in Chicago. And this is the first song that I wrote for that album. And um, this song really embodies the spirit of that time. I had just gotten married, I’d just moved into a new house, the band was achieving the kind of success that people only dream of and I was really hopeful with the idea that I was eventually and someday -and it looked like it was going to happen- actually have a happy life. It didn’t quite work out that way. But I don’t think that’s what I really want to emphasize about this particular song. Um, you know, hope is really the key component in life because one must have hope and faith to actually get out of bed and do anything in this world. And um, you know, in my mind at that time, I think I was 27 years old, I thought that I had arrived. I supposedly had everything one would want: the wife, the cat, the house, the car, and the money and the -oh yeah, the fame. And um, but I think what I’m really trying to say here is all I ever really wanted was a happy home.”
Speak to me in a language I can hear Humor me before I have to go Deep in thought, I forgive everyone As the cluttered streets greet me once again I know, I can't be late Supper's waiting on the table Tomorrow's just an excuse away So I pull my collar up and face the cold, on my own The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk Steeple, guide me to my heart and home The sun is out and up and down again I know, I'll make it Love can last forever Graceful swans of never topple to the earth And you can make it last forever You can make it last forever And you can make it last And for a moment, I lose myself Wrapped up in the pleasures of the world I've journeyed here and there and back again But in the same old haunts, I still find my friends Mysteries not ready to reveal Your sympathies I'm ready to return I'll make the effort Love can last forever Graceful swans of never topple to the earth Tomorrow's just an excuse And you can make it last forever You can make it last forever You can make it last Forever you
Thanks for posting the lyrics. People rarely make lyric videos with the original video for the background so I like to find the lyrics in the comment section and read them with the video.
The first time I looked at my then girlfriend and realized that I loved her this song was playing. 16 years and three children later, she’s now my wife and I’m laying next to her in bed listening to this song realizing that I still love her just the same only more. This song brings me back to that exact moment in time and makes me look forward to forever.
Beautiful! Amazing my friend and congrats! May you and your family live a long and happy and healthy life together,filled with laughter happiness and love!
This was also the first CD i bought with my own earned money that wasn't allowance when I was 10 years old along with Evil Empire from Rage Against the Machine and Pablo Honey from Radiohead. I listened to these albums almost every waking moment for the first week after I bought them, RIP tower records.
I remember Mellon Collie getting lackluster reviews when I was a kid and wondering what the FUCK these critics were smoking. It has truly become a timeless classic among, well, seems like everyone. What an amazing double album.
Then there's this guy hahah.. Jk man... I literally have every one of their albums... But simple man is played out as shit! More like right up there with "4 walls of raford"
When I was 20 and in the Navy I would listen to this tune while looking at pics of my wife and infant son (who is now 6'3!) and it would seem almost as if they were with me. They both still are. Thank you Anna and Jon for sticking by me all these years. I love you forever.
Every time I hear this song, I sit and cry, and think about my son. He committed suicide in 2018 at the young age of 26. I think of the memories when we used to get in the car, go for a drive and sing "1979 together". As years went by, we grew apart. His addiction led to him taking his life. Later that year I saw them in concert for the first time ever. I nearly cried the whole time thinking of him. I lost it when they played this and 1979 almost back to back in their set. It's like they knew my pain. But that was the moment I released every emotion I could hoping he could hear me sing those songs at the top of my lungs. You can guarantee I'm crying while listening to it and typing this now.
I have a son. Therefore I know there are no words that could ever comfort you. But I also know somehow, somewhere, he heard you. The bond between a father and his son goes far beyond our understanding. Keep his memory close to your heart.
I can guarantee I'm crying while listening to it and reading this, I'm so sorry for your loss. The only things more beautiful than thirty three and 1979 are the memories people have shared that they have tied to these songs.
This song, and the Pumpkins generally speaking as a band, really, are THE band that defines my emotions during my mid teenage years. But, when I go "there" with them, to bask in nostalgia of the youth gone by, it rarely ends in the warm comfort it initially enticed me with, but rather a sad depth that I think we all experienced. Although I wanted to taste it for a second, I didnt ask it to take me THROUGH it again. Love. .....Loathe. Dont want to remember.......Can' forget.
It's funny - the comments around pumpkins songs are openhearted and deep. not the usual bullshit comments you see on youtube. It's like we're all friends, opened by the intimate sharing of the Pumpkins. without criticizing, hurting others, no insults. It somehow fills people with acceptance. I think that is a magical virtue of SP.
The most striking visual of the video to me was the sad man head down shuffling away down the street. BUT in his hand he held a pretty purple balloon of hope. Brilliant! Says so much
Time is free but it is priceless you can't own it but you can use it. You can't keep it but you can spend it and once it's lost you can never get it back. The biggest mistake that you will ever make is thinking you have enough time.
"Thirty-Three" Speak to me in a language I can hear Humour me before I have to go Deep in thought I forgive everyone As the cluttered streets greet me once again I know I can't be late, supper's waiting on the table Tomorrow's just an excuse away So I pull my collar up and face the cold, on my own The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk Steeple guide me to my heart and home The sun is out and up and down again I know I'll make it, love can last forever Graceful swans of never topple to the earth And you can make it last, forever you You can make it last, forever you And for a moment I lose myself Wrapped up in the pleasures of the world I've journeyed here and there and back again But in the same old haunts I still find my friends Mysteries not ready to reveal Sympathies I'm ready to return I'll make the effort, love can last forever Graceful swans of never topple to the earth Tomorrow's just an excuse And you can make it last, forever you You can make it last, forever you
Me too man. I'm just about to turn 34, and this song has been on my mind all year. I miss the 90's and childhood so much. This song has such a heavy meaning to me now that I'm older.
this song got me through my cocaine addiction and was clean on the other side.... nothing but love and respect to this band. you may have saved my life! gratitude isn't enough words for what you've gotten me through. thank you so very much.... 18 years clean this month..... bless you all, wherever you all may be..💓💛💜💖💗💙💚💟💞💝❣
Bless you.i was years addicted to speed for years .now im sober for 3years .i was listening to this song years ago .felt really depressed 'now i love this song .i always did. Strange feeling .keep on going sober!!
Congratulations what a blessing! You are one of the reasons you give people hope 🤗if you can change your life and say you can do it, everyone else should be able to also! She believed she could.... So she did😊
+Anthony Rauscher he actually did an interview saying it was about the point in time when he was married, had the cat and the house and the huge success and should have been happy but found that he wasn't...and had to deal with that and realized he wasn't. It was actually a really sad explanation.
+Jennifer Delamar If you're searching for success your entire life and you find it, you'll be happy once you're successful. But if you're actually searching for something else, then you won't be happy with success. But at least if you're successful you'll have a chance of finding what you're actually looking for... people working 3 minimum wage jobs to get by don't have enough free time to search for what makes them happy.
This whole album helped me get through my divorce and the ensuing custody battle for my son. Thank you Smashing Pumpkins for making music that has reached out and touched people.
@aaron collier That's messed up. Had a former friend try to sabotage my marriage, by pointing out all of my wife's flaws and making them seem 10 times worse. Nothing my wife had done was a deal breaker. Marriage is about ups and downs, overcoming the bad, and embracing the good, together. Eventually found out she wanted me to leave for her. I have a kid with my wife, and despite everything, I am not throwing in the towel. She doesn't understand that I would have gone from being able to see my daughter everyday, to hardly at all. Fuck that.
At 56 years old I can say I heard some really good songs in my lifetime.....but when I heard this I felt my soul stir and became part of the song....wow. What a voice....what a song....what a band.... What a journey it has been thus far...... lookin' forward to many more days......
This is Corgan at the very top of his game. The placement of the lyrics within the natural chorus is brilliant. By that I mean the verse "You, can make it last, forever you." By itself and within the song it references tomorrow not love. And tomorrow is a day that will always come but never arrive. The fact that he's talking using tomorrow as his excuse to not do whatever he needs to get done today (like, love someone? I dunno) is mind bending when you go back and listen to the song in that context. I used to get so caught up in how beautifully its sung and arranged and what a great song of introspection it was but its much more that that. Corgan edified his greatness with 33.
I'm 44 now, ex heroin addict and I wasted all my 30s to the devil that is heroin..... I'm back now!! I still had some fond memories amongst the madness ❤️🙄
This takes me back to probably one of the best times in my life-the 90s. And The pumpkins really defined that time period with this album. God what I wouldn't give to go back and live it all over again.....
I feel like the Pumpkins would have been even more successful than they were if more people heard the softer stuff. Billy's voice gets better the quieter they play.
This guy has a point. If you've never heard Adore, it's so beautiful and intimate. Also, Machina II has some incredible deep cuts. If you've never heard them play Fleetwod Mac's Landslide on Pisces Iscariot, you're also missing out there. Some of the Pumpkins' best songs are just toned down and quiet.
@@avalondreaming1433 Thanks for sharing this. I keep going back to that time, in my mind, almost every night before sleeping. It's the moment when everything went wrong, when something broke. Wish I could fix it. And I hope you can.
I remember being 10 years old in 95 already into music heavy, walking into Sam goody in my local mall, and buying this double masterpiece of an album on cassette. My friends at school all had the cd version(with the cool crying/happy face) All of us at the young age of 10 had and listened to this album daily that summer of 96.
vtelopez492 Me too! I’d sit against my bed with my guitar writing music.. Headphones always on in school.. God I loved the 90s. Yet my curiosity of Billy’s involvement with Courtney Love is still a mystery. Her stories don’t match each other and I remember the day Kurt died.. but I still love smashing implies and believe billy is a prodigy. Best years of my life.
If you need a smile... read: I'm sure so many of you reading this can relate. I was 12 years old when bullet with butterfly wings came out. I immediately purchased the entire album and listen to it over and over and over again. I became so obsessed with the smashing pumpkins. My dad took my mom and I on a business trip with him to Toronto one week. My dad found out smashing pumpkins were playing in Toronto & scalped some tickets for he and I only .. as he could only find two. It was on my moms birthday sadly the day that he and I went to that concert and sat in the third row. My dad, a very conservative man, never smoked pot a day in his life, me and 13-year-old girl obsessed with Billy Corgan. There is so much nostalgia for me and listening to this song and so many others. I sent Billy Corgan a birthday card on his 35th birthday. Literally that is how obsessed I was. Posters of smashing pumpkins covered my walls. And my concert T-shirt that I purchased at the Toronto concert I'm pretty sure I wore to school every single week until I was 16.... so much love for Billy and the band. ❤️
Had just sat down for dinner as this song happened to just by chance came on gently playing in the background. The steam still rising off the plates my wife had just set with a beam of sunlight coming through the window. My three children arrived laughing from horseplay smiling with joy all happening for me in slow motion. A magical assembly of goodness.
The saddest thing about RU-vid is that there's some absolutely amazing songs that haven't hit the reach they should have because they are old. This is one of them.
It bothers me that kids , my two daughters esp, wont know what it was like. The peak of modern civilization before digital came thru and fkd everything to hell. It wasnt to far into the 2000s that every thing started to slide in a negative way.
This album was the soundtrack to my transition from a teenager into an adult. I know they've always said it wasn't a concept album but I could hear the thread of a story though the songs. It encompassed everything I went though and ultimately would go through. There was such a sadness in a realization that all my anger and despair would likely bring me to an ending not unlike the last few songs of the album... Confused, scared, and left with the empty husk of a life that I thought could turn out so differently. Rage is the legacy that all the young inherit if they want, but in the end, if we don't learn to direct the pain of growing up in some useful direction, before you know it you're grown and you have left youth behind. If you didn't rise up to your life, you find yourself staring down the barrel of the rest of your life without purpose, and to there comes a day when it is too late to make the difference you wanted to. You're left with baggage full of regret, lost chances, broken hearts and the ceaseless voice inside that can't stop asking "what if I had done things differently?" I still listen to this record and feel as though Billy Corgan was the true voice of our generation, even though Nirvana will probably always hold the title of the herald of our time. I don't agree. This record is the perfect snapshot of that moment and the people like ourselves who came of age in the 90's.
You are correct. We are all humans, we all got feelings. We can be sad or depressed. Being depressed is obviously more serious, and must be treated. But Yea, like you said, it's ok. Things actually change, things actually do get better, but only if you let them get better
I No How You Feel Mate I'm Nearly 50 This Year Depression Is Hard Thing To Deal With I Pull My Collar Up And Face The Cold Each Day On My Own As I Walk The Streets With My Jangly Walk
Being a teenager in Chicago in the 90’s, I find Smashing Pumpkins to be the most Nostalgic band to me. How I miss the days of my youth that are gone forever and never will return. We live our life in the greatest moments of our past.
I’ll be 40 my birthday, and I always comeback to these songs, melancholy and the infinite sadness was one of the albums I bought to play in my 92 Honda Accord. With the CD PLAYER you plugged into your cigarette lighter ❤️
My Mother and Father used to play this song when I was in the womb!! They would put the speaker to my mothers belly back in 96 I'm 20 now.. Didn't know that tell I played this song in front of my mom !!!!!!!This Song means so much to me :)
I know everybody says this about everything but I believe from the bottom of my heart that they don't make music like this anymore and they never will. A perfect art rock band that existed in a time where musicians could make millions.
I completely agree. I grew up with this album, and I doubt any other band has had such an impact on who I am today, as silly as that may sound. I will always consider myself lucky to have been able to experience it firsthand, because the whole album has such a strong emotional and nostalgic connection to my past, and I’ll always cherish it.
This was one of my least favorite tracks on the album at the time of release and couldn't understand why it was released as a single with so many other great tracks available to release from MCATIS. I heard Thirty Three on the radio again just the other day for the first time in years and it blew me away; amazing how life and the perspective you have on it at any one time can be so different.
I love The Smashing Pumpkins!!! All there songs are so emotionally charged...I can take a walk down memory lane..or just be mad..happy..sad..etc etc..I love it.
I'm 45, and I can't help feeling so identified with this issue. My most rebellious, restless, disorderly times occurred in all that beautiful time of the 90s. Today I listen to this song, standing in my kitchen, with my headphones, and it is impossible to feel nostalgia
listening to this 90's songs hits me hard, takes me back to when i was just a teen and life was so much easier.... nowadays all my friends are gone, gotta work a shit job to survive, music is shit...
Hey man, it was a great time to be a teenager. Be lucky you got to live it. Things are way different for kids now. We were the last generation before internet.
This song stirs up so many memories and emotions. Some sad, some happy. 20+ years later it still touches me. It is a beautiful song that can resonate with teen me and old man me. For All those in despair and alone. Do not fret or lose hope. Things will get better. Love will find a way to get to you.
The smashing pumpkins have always been my favorite band. They evoke emotions better than anyone else out there. Even without explication of the lyrics billy hits an emotional synchronicity with the instrumentals that can be best be described as profound. They're also one of the few bands where I like all of their songs but I guess my favorites are porcelina of the vast oceans and muzzle
The video is a masterpiece that took a long time to make. Billy explained that it's not just that the whole thing was shot like a stop-motion movie... it's also that they were using a normal 35mm still camera (not a movie camera). Then, all those rolls of film were developed and the long, painstaking process of assembling the hundreds of photos into a video was done by hand. I think they also took some pictures with a Polaroid camera too, but can't remember. Using the still cameras gives everything a different feel than what you get from a movie camera. Beautiful...
Have you ever listened to The Noose by A Perfect Circle? It's the only other song that I can think of, at the moment, that begs to be listened to, over and over again. And I love, love, LOVE Life In A Northern Town. Now that you mentioned it, I do notice a very strong similarity between the two songs. They both seem to have that same dreamy, lighter than air flow to them. As does The Noose, for that matter. I love Maynard James Keenan. And while Tool will always be my favorite band, his work with A Perfect Circle was phenomenal! If you haven't listened to them before, I cannot recommend them enough. The Noose has always been my favorite of theirs.
Word Unheard listened to Noose this morning. It is on the rock side of this type of music. Thanks for the recommendation. I really dig transatlanticism from Death cab for Cutie. and a lesser know ln song called "shoreline" by Deas Vail. they have wonderful melodies.
This song is still so dreamy and dear to my heart after all this time. I have scribbled 'Tomorrow's just an excuse away' on my bedroom wall, to which my dad responded "Huh!" before admitting he'd done the same when he was a teenager. The Smashing Pumpkins are the sole reason I wanted to learn the guitar. Thank you for the infinite gifts.
