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Just hit me hard tonight. Funny thing is I didn't really know what he's singing most of the time. I was born in that year, so I think reminds more of my own aging. That, and knee pain.
Fp Edit: wow, great to hear from all of you, a nice thing to wake up to this am. I guess nostalgia is on a lot of our minds lately. Take care friends
Dolenmorgul
'disarm' always takes me back instantly to my first love, way back in the day
RobertTheBruise
Thanks to nostalgia I can now tolerate more than 5 disco songs.
jasonscrystal
I was born in 79 as well and when they dropped that song it meant a lot. They were by far my most favorite band before the song came out
MizWeirdo
Isgrimnur
Alexa, play Cat’s in the Cradle.
nightster07
Its like that song was written about MY dad.
lostinamapfactory
Right in the feels
HisBabes
That one is sure to make me cry every time.
BunnyGoesHopHop
Everlong still chokes me up after all these years.
TalkingSnake
Villains by The Verve Pipe. That opening takes my right back to the walk to school. CD player in jacket pocket, trying to not bounce it.
UptownWitch
That was exactly how I absorbed NIN, & Nirvana.
DimwitF
I really like their music, but man...just want to listen to instrumental-only versions. Billy's voice is like needles in my ears.
204060eighty
I always go back and listen to Smashing Pumpkins
littlecoatfatguy
MissSpelledTattoo
Mademegetanaccount
I’d give this a million upvotes as it never fails to make me giggle.
KixR4trids11
https://youtu.be/azhgpelu0vY
CyanideBreathMint
No rain now chokes me up like that.
Blackadam7
For whatever reason, the Mellon Collie album takes me back to high school. It always reminds me of youth.
freckledkink
It was the first concert I got to drive to. I took my little sister. That was sooooo long ago.
IMarriedAGinger
That's the beauty of music
FuckThemIfTheyCantTakeAJoke
This triggered my own nostalgia - "Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins", "Homer Simpson, smiling politely"
Oohhbeehive
I did the same thing recently and learn to fly by the foo fighters hit hard. Back to my early college days
seedye
My knee pain goes away if I get out and walk every day.
lostinamapfactory
Have to wear a knee brace for sports...didn't have to last year :(
freshthrowaway1138
I went to a Pumpkins concert, they played 1979 then the stadium emptied. Then SP started really breaking out the good songs. Amazing time.
ArcaneConjecture
The drums on "Tonight" and "Stand Inside Your Love" are some of the best drum tracks in rock. Fight me.
Grateful42
my friend has a youtube video up with another friend in it who is no longer alive, I watch it from time to time.
mentalmasticator
lostinamapfactory
That must be both comforting and hard to do
Grateful42
I've come to terms with the event, but yeah still makes me feel something. I'm glad I still do.
AnotherFailedAttemptAtHumor
I never liked Smashing Pumpkins, but that song is an all around masterpiece. So damn wistful you could lost for hours.
noodie
Ha you old bi$#@. (Me born in 80)
lostinamapfactory
Ah, kids these days! Get off my lawn!
noodie
Lol
hightechpirate
Cherub Rock was always my favorite Pumpkins song
BuckDitkis
It doesn't get all the hype but us true fans know what's up.
TheRimOfTheSky
My childhood music isn't exactly suited to my generation. I listened to classic country a lot. Johnny Cash is nostalgic for me.
lostinamapfactory
I guess it's when you listened to it. Love Johnny cash
freckledkink
I made my son and niece listen to Cash's version of Hurt after we heard the NIN version on the radio. I bawled for a good 30 minutes after.
freckledkink
I was telling them there are very few remakes of anything that are a good as or better than the original and this was one. And how the
freckledkink
Meanings of things change for you over time. NIN spoke to me as a teenager for reasons. Cash when I got older because he reminded me of my
freckledkink
Dad, and even more so now.
HypnagogicHallucinations
The release of that song is closer to 1979 than it is to today.
NuclearButtPlugFromPlanetX
HypnagogicHallucinations
lostinamapfactory
Well that fact isn't going to get me out of this funk now haha!
crackajackin
Far Behind by Candlebox for me. Just sends me back
pdp1
Now maybe…
lostinamapfactory
I had to look them up, same time period. All I know is I was really overwhelmed for a bit there, particularly by things in the video
Makerofthingsmasherofstuff
I don't want you no more!!!!
Monkofthepast
Dude, so apparently you are around 40-ish too? Now I'm going to go listen to it. Enjoy a moment from me!
davidCartoonVillain
This always hits hard for me too also In the Meantime by spacehog
MutantTurd
That song and Backwater by the Meat Puppets were songs that always just seemed to be in the background back then.
Sdream55
Hi fellow 1979er!
DrunkardsDream
Used to be so fun to tell people I was born in the 70's, now it's mostly the knee pain
lostinamapfactory
Hey not quite Gen xer but not quite millennial!
Sdream55
Analog childhood, digital adulthood
lostinamapfactory
Exactly
BigVag
Run by Snow Patrol.... Or.... when I was dancing w/ my babies and Landslide came on and that got me...
trebuilbur
landslide by the smashing pumpkins, or another artist?
BigVag
By Fleetwood Mac
UptownWitch
Always the Fleetwood Mac version.
BidenduexMaximus
1979 is about moving from town to town w his special needs brother, gun loving drug dealing dad, and abusive step mother. they made it.
WhyDontYouMakeMe
That's a hell of a stretch. There's basically nothing in the lyrics that supports your point at all, its more about growing up and changing
nijlonkai
Lol they could have watched an interview or be totally making it up
TacoPuncher
I thought Billy Corgan has said he doesn't like ascribing meaning to his songs, and the closest he got to this was saying: it's about the
TacoPuncher
Pt.2 transition of going from youth to adulthood
WeylandYutaniCorp
I took that to mean that he didn't like being specific about it because the reasons were personal even if the songs were not.
neffstradamus
Tell me not to ascribe meaning to "despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage" Billy
TheBlueMuppet
(time traveling teens) "Rat. Cage. Dude."
PineappleLoopsBroether
1979 makes me think of my childhood in 1993.
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
But that was two years before the song’s release?
PineappleLoopsBroether
So?
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
Yeah, thought of that after I hit enter. Doesn’t make a difference when it was released, any song from any time period can evoke memories.
PineappleLoopsBroether
Totally.