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1979

Song · 1996 · The Smashing Pumpkins. Album: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

for the aimless, golden in-between years 🚗

Who it's for

Billy Corgan wrote this as a nostalgic coming-of-age story about his move into adolescence around age twelve.

Restless, wistful→Tenderly nostalgic

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What it is

"1979" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from their 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, released as a single in January 1996. Billy Corgan wrote it as a nostalgic coming-of-age story about his move into adolescence when he turned twelve in 1979, and he considers it the album's most personally important song.

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