1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
"1979" [lyrics|buy CD single
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]Said to be based on Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan's "idealized version of teenagehood", the video reflects the careless freedom and audacity of youth which, tied in with the song's lyrics (we don't even care / to shake these zipper blues / and we don't know / just where our bones will rest / to dust i guess / forgotten and absorbed into the earth below), make for the perfect teen anthem.
The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video in 1996, and Corgan deems it has been "the closest we've ever come to realizing everything we wanted".
Trivia: Smashing Pumpkins band members can be spotted playing small roles on various scenes of the video.
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posted by Daene | Filipina in Flip Flops @ 07:06
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2 Comments:
One of my favorites too. I think it's the toilet-roll in the trees that does it.
That or the fact that I was a teenager when this video came out.
hey flowfield unity :D
it's probably a little bit of both! the video definitely brings back memories of life as a teenager...or, if you were a catholic school girl like me, how i'd had wanted my teenagehood to have turned out.
thanks for visiting!:D
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