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Certain Songs #2277: The Smashing Pumpkins – “1979”

January 26, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Year: 1995

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The thing, of course, about sprawling double-albums — especially in the CD era where they were off the equivalent of a 3-disc vinyl record — is that you get a chance to stretch out, do tracks that aren’t necessarily what the fans expect.

And so with that freedom Billy Corgan wrote an absolutely tremendous pop single, which literally sounded like nothing his band had yet done, a song that was comparable to The Police’s “Every Breath You Take,” especially in how it restricted a world-class inventive drummer to playing the simplest 4/4.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: 1979, Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness, Smashing Pumpkins

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