With the lyric, "today is the greatest day," some listeners misinterpreted this as a hopeful song, when it was just the opposite. Billy Corgan said: "I was really suicidal. I just thought it was funny to write a song that said today is the greatest day of your life because it can't get any worse." ♥
Same happened with R.E.M in "Shiny happy people". The thing is people couldn't understand it neither because the video, it was a stupid dancing video. 100% sarcasm.
I was just listening to that song right before this one and was thinking the same thing. Like, "is sarcasm or irony really that hard for people to understand? No wonder they used to hate playing that song after it went big. None of the people asking them to play it understood what they were asking for."
When I was a kid in the 90s, I befriended another kid. We went to a few pumpkins concert in NYC. We were best friends and blasted SP together all day ,every day. In my 40s now. I lost touch with him over 15 years. I tried finding him for over a decade and couldn't. Pumpkins decided to go on tour 2023. I said gosh would be great to go with my old friend. Ended up finding him through his sisters number in the yellow pages on Saturday. My buddy and I went to SP concert on Wednesday. Finally found him, and I think its due to the magical SP!!!
Dang, nice to see a story that doesn't end with 'then he died, and every time i hear this song i think of him' or something along those lines like 90% of comments on songs more than 5 years old.
This video is inspired by a true event. When Billy Corgan was a boy, the local ice cream truck driver got fired and kind of snapped so he ended up giving away all of the ice cream in the truck to young Billy and all the neighborhood kids, all the while ranting "fuck this job!!!" Edit. Source: Today video commentary by Billy on the SP video collection DVD.
Exactly me too! That line was me at 18...I did everything to fight for for more and more and more until one day I sold it all and gave the rest away to try things a new way. I felt maybe I wanted too much of the wrong things. I was wrong. Nothing wring with wanting. It's good to want things. Keeps u determined.
Yeah, I only noticed this (albeit many years ago) when someone said this to me and then I listened more closely to the lyrics. He's relieved, comforted and finally happy bc he's ending his life that night via suicide. Made me feel dumb after I was told that, bc the lyrics couldn't be more unambiguous in that regard (once u know, I suppose)
When I was young, my dad was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and Liver Disease. He was given a 15% chance to live. The day he found out, he came home, decided to drink one last time, blared this album on our home stereo, and cried. I remember feeling heartbroken despite not really knowing what was going on and crying with him. His will to live and perseverance saw him through a grueling chemotherapy regimen and he's still here fifteen years later, but I'll always think about that day when I listen to this song.
Wow Kat this has truly hit home 🏡 with me on a number of levels I'll keep this short but I have stage 4 liver disease and should have been gone 7 years back though since December losing dad and now all memories of my family's life and dealing with two younger sibs that are as useless as tits on a bull I feel I'm headed to the end but there's more to my picture but I'm very glad to hear your dad is ok now and I wish I had kids and a wife though that's life and now about to hit 50 in a few weeks I'm glad I made it this far but now about to have another cold sweet beverage and yes I do understand what I'm doing but all will be fine and a big Merry Christmas 🎄 ⛄ from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺🦘🤗
My little brother passes away yesterday, I remember he loved this band when he was a kid! He was 23 years old but had an old soul, he found a smashing pumpkins album at our public library when he was 8 and would listen to them non stop from there on out, love you m.j. It’s only been a day yet feels way to long already.. love you brother!
My heart is broken for you. I can’t fathom your loss, so I won’t pretend like I do. I wish you and your family and friends well and hope you find your way through this.
So sorry for your loss, your brother had amazing taste in music. I love my older brother so much, can’t imagine what you’re going through. Stay strong ❤️
For me, this song means being so sick of life, you cant help but laugh at how absurd it is... depression, anxiety everything in one happening at the same time, you cannot help but sing a song like this
lol this album has like a million overdubs. I think soma had over 60 overdubs. This album has the best guitar fuzz on any album. Sounds like the tone from "sometimes" by my bloody valentine.
it’s really so weird. while i don’t have depression, i do have a lew of mental anxiety disorders which means much of my days are swallowed by stress and burden basically 24/7. the days that are good are the best days ever. mental health can really humble u fr
So many memories of this band and life. When serving in the Army (UK) (99-06) I used to blast their albums out all the time in barracks and people would always ask who they were. A great guy I looked up to Cpl Fordham never returned one of the cds of theirs I leant him haha but I don't care, it's a memory made in time. Great band. Great times. Music and photographs are the best for remembering moments in time ❤
And yes he still has it, hence the memories. We are now miles and miles apart but forever bonded together by our time in the Forces and this great song/album
I don't know if this was a reference to a dead meme or a clever pun. I don't know whether to cringe or ask, "Have you listened to the Smashing Pumpkins today?"
Space Woona That was a reference to a commercial with "The most interesting man in the world"; he always says "I don't always drink beer. But when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Stay thirsty my friends".
[Chorus 1] Today is the greatest Day I’ve ever known Can’t live for tomorrow Tomorrow’s much too long I’ll burn my eyes out Before I get out [Verse 1] I wanted more Than life could ever grant me Bored by the chore Of saving face [Chorus 2] Today is the greatest Day I’ve ever known Can’t wait for tomorrow I might not have that long I’ll tear my heart out Before I get out [Verse 2] Pink ribbon scars That never forget I tried so hard To cleanse these regrets My angel wings Were bruised and restrained My belly stings [Chorus 3] Today is Today is Today is The greatest day [Bridge] I want to turn you on I want to turn you on I want to turn you on I want to turn you [Outro] Today is the greatest Today is the greatest day Today is the greatest day That I have ever really known
Despite the lyrical ground being about depression and suicide tendencies, the whole concept of the lyrics approaches inspiration and hope, telling people to always look into the good side of the shit to find strenght (specially when things can't go any worse), and not to contemplate or romanticize suicide.
"I'll tear my heart out before I give up" indeed, as someone who deals with suicidal ideation, yeah...I've loved this album since I was 13 (I'm 36 now) I don't think I really understood it back then but now it sure hits different
Could be worse... Just whenever I'd say it couldn't, life could. Appreciate the lesson and struggle. Grow thru what we go thru. Bloom anywhere #beeblessed
This song has NOTHING to do with suicide or depression.. its about the damn ice cream man giving corgan all the ice cream in his truck when he was a kid.
i'm always alone on my birthday, too, ever since I was 17 or 18, a long time ago. I used to have to work every birthday (always had 2 or 3 job) which was good because then I wasn't home alone. But now I can't work, so... However, I'm very lucky to have a wonderful cat (had 2 but one died after only having her a year) who keeps me company and is always near me. Otherwise I'd have no one. I hope you are able to make a friend or 2, or get a cat. They truly save lives.
So i took this girl i liked out on our first date, had a great time. Ride home this came on., She started singing the chorus out of no where! I fell in love. First and only time i heard her sing lol, we been married for 6 years now.
I used to record all the music videos on MTV when I was 13. This one included. Brings back a flood of memories of when my innocence was taken away by pre-adulthood. Those are the best memories. My son is now the age I was when I discovered this band/music and it absolutely blows my mind. Named him Kurt. I'll let you guess why.
This is always such a great song to listen to when you're uncertain about life, or tomorrow. Anytime I feel pain, whether it's health-related or psychological, anytime I don't know what tomorrow holds, anytime I have to face the adversities of life, this song is just a good place to be. The lyrics just hit home.
actually found this song from my youth 2 wks ago & it came on the night that one my longtime foster dogs finally found a home.. he was riddled with health issues & this was so amazing & heartwarming. ❤️ unfortunatley, this song is even more bittersweet- he died a day later.. 😓😓😓
This is one of Billy's most personal songs. Even though this song is about suicide, his genius is that he always spoke his mind. The Pumpkins will go down as one of the greatest bands that never took the easy road and constantly changed their identity, sound, and lyrics.
College memories for me!! Such carefree days! The Gen X kids out in a world of possibilities, on our own and doing our own thing! A great time to be alive!
@@stevemcq.9911 you are the same age as my dad, i was nowhere near born (06) when this album came out and i love it , crazy to think its been out for 30 years and still sounds incredible to modern ears. Amazing
Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long I'll burn my eyes out Before I get out I wanted more Than life could ever grant me Bored by the chore Of saving face Today is the greatest Day I've never known Can't wait for tomorrow I might not have that long I'll tear my heart out Before I get out Pink ribbon scars That never forget I tried so hard To cleanse these regrets My angel wings Were bruised and restrained My belly stings Today is Today is Today is The greatest day I want to turn you on I want to turn you on I want to turn you on I want to turn you Today is the greatest Today is the greatest day Today is the greatest day That I have ever really known
After 30 years listening to smashing pumpkins music I can say that today is the greatest day . TONIGHT , TONIGHT* I will finally see them live for the first time in my life ...❤❤❤
My husband and I were in our early 20s when this was released and we played this song a lot. We saw Smashing Pumpkins perform at Lallapaloosa '93. It was a time of being young, poor college students where the big night out was going to a house party. Now I'm in my 50s, living a comfortable life, but hearing this song makes me miss my husband. He passed away a couple of years ago after 28 years of being together.
Lyrics: Today is the greatest Day I’ve ever known Can’t live for tomorrow Tomorrow’s much too long I’ll burn my eyes out Before I get out I wanted more Than life could ever grant me Bored by the chore Of saving face Today is the greatest Day I’ve ever known Can’t wait for tomorrow I might not have that long I’ll tear my heart out Before I get out Pink ribbon scars That never forget I tried so hard To cleanse these regrets My angel wings Were bruised and restrained My belly stings Today is Today is Today is The greatest day I want to turn you on I want to turn you on I want to turn you on I want to turn you Today is the greatest Today is the greatest day Today is the greatest day That I have ever really known
This song helped a lot of us through some tough shit. Shit you don't normally come back from. Thank you Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins for this music. BTW, that ice cream truck driver provided joy to a lot of kids, just like you provide joy to all of us loyal fans. Thank you for your music, you played a part in saving my life
Just a reminder for everyone who needs it to get help. You can talk to a therapist or psychologist. You can also text a free mental health helpline. Hope everyone is doing well.
Jaylie Bathory It totally is. It's about how things can't get any worse and that he just wants to give up it all to so he doesn't have to be what everyone wants him to be. It also conjures the feeling people get when they have completely given up hope, and that you've accepted your fate, that of suicide and are actually happy that things are ending. It's the most upbeat sad song in existence to me. I love it, but I understand completely what Billy Corgan was going through when he wrote the song.
Life is and will always be a constant struggle. It’s how we go about it that makes us who we are. We got this my friend! Help others and always remember it isn’t about you . God Bless you 💙
You're not trying hard enough to find good music AND you're not a kid going through changes so you can't relate to all the emotional transformation that results in great music, so it doesn't resonate like it once did AND your hearing diminishes with age, so subtilties of music get lost where once they were heavily stimulating your prefrontal cortex and occipital lobe. With music like this, from your generation, you have a huge chunk of muscle memory that gets stimulated and reinforced when you hear it. That's real, physical connections inside your brain and listening to this is like a little workout for that muscle or new paving on the highway of the mind as it were. LIstening to new music is like learning a new dance routine, or fitness regime, unless you make a habit of it to reinforce the network, you're brain will just prune back the experience, effect and memory.
@@iGame3D"not trying hard enough to find good music" - One has to look very, VERYdamn hard to find good music these days, and even then it's a matter of luck. The rest of the bs you wrote is exactly that. Wolfgang had it right: the music industry does not allow new rock music to reach the vast majority of potential customers who would be very receptive to good rock (for the most part anyway), and they only allow poppy music or hiphop to be heard (again, for the most part). You can try to deny it, but doing so would just be an act of deflection.
@@thefallenfaith1986people’s taste in music is completely subjective. What’s good music to you might not necessarily be considered good music to many of today’s youth and vice versa. Please try not to be a condescending jerk.
do you know what this songs about though ? (not that it changes the feel for you) but its about suicide...about Billy Corgan (he wrote it in the early 90s after their first album (GISH) in 1991...he was depressed, and on the brink of suicide (literally every week he kept pushing it off, and he decided he was going to kill himself on a friday) and when friday came...he said "do it pussy, stop hesitating stop being a dumb fucking pussy...ok well if I cant kill myself, and I dont have the nerves...well then I am going to sit down and write a song...cause today...well today must suck, but guess what if I cant kill myself then I am alive...and I guess thats fine, Ill just deal with it...so today must be the greatest day of my life, the day I decided to live, I cant wait for tomorrow though...cause I might not have that long" that is literally how the song was created, this song is (literally) about suicide and the idea of suicide, and on-the-verge- of killing yourself...its like the worse & best day at the same time... some of the best songs, are usually the darkest songs (literally)
The very obvious pain that he's expressing through the lyrics the hardships of youth and the struggles of life and the disappointment that everyone eventually faces when they realize things don't work out like you thought they would, as well as the suicidal undertones. And the video itself is just very different and tells a strange story which I believe was inspired by an ice cream man who gave away his stock of ice cream to the kids before he quit in billy corgans neighborhood when he was a child.
+Noah Jaybird15 "the disappointment that everyone eventually faces when they realize things don't work out as well as you had hoped" and dreamed of. YES YES YES!!!! I'm so happy that I'm not the only one who was thinking this 'cause I thought I was.
+Noah Jaybird15 I think the ice cream was a metaphor for your childhood happiness that you store in your head. Weather it was a happy childhood or not you tend to only relish and fondly look back on the good happy times
I grew up with Smashing Pumpkins, REM, Depeche Mode and INXS, this kept me sane and survived a comunist regime ...can't wait to see them for my first time ever, in Glasgow in June 🥰😍
There’s nothing like being 18 years old when this was new music. Went to see Smashing Pumpkins on this tour twice with my best friends. The early nineties was fun. Few friends I saw them with are no longer here to share the nostalgia. Life happens like that, but couldn’t miss the Pumpkins during this era.
I saw them too near Monterey CA in 97. Couldn’t afford to buy merch, but there was a shirt that I just loved and I wanted it so badly and can you believe I found one on the floor at the concert? I even held it up and asked anybody near me if it was theirs and nobody said yes, so I got the T-shirt I wanted for free and there was a couple there who bought me and my best friend beers too. That was back when you could get away with that shit!! Amazing night!!
So crazy to tear up about a song with a band introduced to me by my brother in his car when I was just a little kid riding in the passenger seat of his car. There are so many songs from my younger childhood that gut me wishing the times weren’t what they are. Such a simpler time compared to now. Can’t stop innovation but sometimes I wish I could.
nostalgic too even when it first released. even though it still feels fresh/refreshing to this day. they seriously had great talent for evocative harmony as a band.
michael ju the smashing pumpkins did still exist in the 80s so go do one. This song is my fav song from growing up so how is that being an attention seeker? You know what Hypocrite means? Look in the mirror and ull find out.
I was in 4th or 5th grade when this album came out. I can't even explain the feeling's I get when I hear it. it's life was so simple and beautiful back then. I think about all the house parties and overall great times I had in my youth. To me this song makes me think is a reminder of how precious life is and to always sieze the day. carpe diem
Ha Jordan I think I see what you are saying man. The first rappers were better...DMC....Ice-T.....Snoop Dogg.....Tupac.... okay I'll buy that, fare enough guy. Too bad those guy's music was so serious to them. I mean look how many of those guys killed each other. Biggie....gone....Tupac gone....and a bunch of guys in prison. That's probably some of my reason for not liking rap. But really I just don't think it's good music, buy of course I know millions of people love it. To each his own. I've been playing guitar for over 50 years. Since I grew up in the 70's and 80's pretty much. You know... Zeppelin.... The Who.... Stones, Bad Co.....Rush....UFO.....you see rock and roll. So I learned that kinda stuff on guitar. There wasn't much rap back then. On another subject....read John 3:3-6 in the Bible. That piece of scripture changed my life in 1981. I didn't know that Jesus said that. I invited Him into my heart 💓 and have had a relationship with Him and The Father by The Holy Spirit living in my heart. My sins won't be counted against me because I have received forgiveness for them. I still am a sinner and need forgiveness all the time. But at least I don't fear death anyone because He promises eternal life in heaven and in my heart I know I will make it there, plus He helps me in my life here until I die. I know that's a lot to say to you about God, but someone took the time in 1981 to tell me and now I'm doing it for you. I didn't plan on saying any of this. It just happened. So I know God must have known that you needed to hear this. I'm just a messenger. I hope you can receive this with an open heart. God loves you more than you and I can even comprehend. A lot of people think they know God but they are still dead in their sins. Okay....I'm done. Check out a song called Rushing Wind...by Keith Green. That song is touching to the heart. No more rap friend. Try Michael Schenker.
@@bradleypezy6394 Why is there always one of you in these comments? "Nah man...there is music just as good now." NO THERE ISN'T. The bands you just named...are very bland and are not as good as this.
Iha and D'arcy! I remember exactly where I was the first time I saw this video. MTV still played music then, and I was in the dorm room of the coolest chick I've ever known. Makes me smile every time I hear this. Then I remember, God I'm old... It was an awesome time to be 18 though.
The memories while this album played. Could fill volumes. It was part of what made up the soundtrack of me and my friends lives of slightly misspent youth. I will always love it, and the album it came from. When I hear any tracks from it, I’m instantly taken back to those times, and those friends, where we kicked around in a town just like any other, longing to get out of there, go anywhere; anywhere but there. Bonfires on the beach, the skating rink, the arcade, the public library-they were all our homes away from home. All our “haunts” if you will. Seems like a lifetime ago now, because it really was. Yet it’s still so vivid in my minds eye that it all could have happened yesterday.; yet it was long ago and gone now, all once upon a time. I’ll never forget those friends and all the great times we shared as this classic track and album played in rotation.
I used to really hate this band cause I was into metal music and SP were very soft for me, it took me so many years to rediscover them, and I'm addicted to their music, it's so weird how our taste in music change through time it's like the past version of me has nothing to do with me right now.
The greatest band of our generation. Underrated at the time. Overrated now cuz everyone seemed to only stumble upon their greatness late. But still.....dope as fuck. I remember being the only wierdo out of my friends to love smashing pumpkins.
Was the same but opposite. Loved smashing pumpkins, and other grunge, alternative rock bands as a teenager and hated metal like metallica and thought all metal sounds the same and generic but finally got into metallica at 19 during the hardest year of my life when my mental illness got so bad I ended up in the er and mental hospital for a month and would write metallica lyrics on my "coping skills" worksheets they wanted us to use to make me hear the song in my head and feel like I'm at home in my garage listening to them smoking.
@@Lavender_1618 I do agree, our generation was the shit, the late ninetees is the best by far in music and life style generally speaking even pop and RNB was great, without talking about rock and metal. I wish I could turn back to that Era to listen to those bands for the first time, for instance I remember listening to cryptic writings album by megadeth for the first time. I give everything to get back
Shit, I barely discovered them in late 2021 and I already love their stuff. I only found that I had a thing for alt rock in 2020. Before then I never had a favorite music genre,
Growing up, my parents always took me to their friends house where we would all play rockband together and this song was always played. Their friends died some years later and this song always reminds me of those nights with them.
I remember my father playing this in the car when I was 6. Naturally as a kid, you think that a high-pitched singing voice is a girl. When I first saw the music video I was in unparalleled shock. From that moment on it opened my musical horizon in so many ways. After not really caring about the pumpkins for years, today in 2020 at 17 years old, I appreciate and love the Pumpkins so much.
Why can't they make music like this anymore. It was my chill out music with friends as we flipped through magazines thinking about our future and how it would be!
A lot of the music that sells these days sounds like garbage to me. For example: 'Stargazing' which I find unbearable to listen to. Just something about the whiny pitch of the singer and the parts where his sampled voice gets all jumbled up and keeps repeating. I'd rather listen to something corny like the Backstreet Boys over alot of popular songs these days
time flies so fast, I was a kid and this was an alternative, something the majority was not into... i still see this as back then, a 15 year old kid, and wonder how kids see this today?
I used to play guitar hero world tour when I was like 10 one of their songs was on there one of my favorites I went and searched them up on UA-cam and listened to this song loved it I then spent the next couple hours listening to song after song and I couldn't find one I didn't like so that along with my mom introducing me to nirvana (another band that every song I love) pushed me into falling in love with alternative rock before then I didn't really know what I liked musically but i really found myself in the early nineties alt-rock scene which then expanded into every other form of rock/metal/punk now at 17 years old I'm a guitarist and an avid music lover...
This girl I went to Highschool with and was really close too passed away a couple years ago and one day on one of our walks home from school she said “I love smashing pumpkins” and I said “why would you smash pumpkins” that was one of the greatest days I’ve ever known and I wish I could go back just to jam with her one last time.
All of us artists paint our paintings with the blood from our open wounds. There is nothing more beautiful than an artist sharing this for the world to enjoy!
The song is also about the day that Billy decided not to commit suicide. And for me it's rather special considering today is February 15th 2022. About 7 or 8 years ago my cousin called me and we were talking on the phone as I was walking downtown in Chicago and he asked me about this song and I explained to him what it was about he didn't know that and he found it very interesting and profound because he actually had heard the song and he loved it. He knew I was a fan of the pumpkins. A few years after that my cousin committed suicide. I heard this song or I thought about it about a day or two ago and I decided to post this on his birthday. Cuz we didn't just talk about what the song was we went way deeper than that. It wasn't about dying it was about the joy of living and rising above whatever it was that held you down. And I wish somehow we would have been able to talk before he did that maybe we could have recaptured that feeling and that energy and maybe he would have realized that today is the greatest day he ever knew.
Make the most out of today folks! Be around the ones you hold closest if possible. Live TODAY, enjoy TODAY, make someone feel loved TODAY. WELL FOLKS, do the best you can today. There is no guarantee for tomorrow.
@Hunter Vonnegut Uhmmm... NO. If I had to choose only one to listen to, for the rest of my life, then it would be Brant Bjork. He makes way better music than Smashing Pumpkins ever did to date. And probably ever will.
This song makes me weep tears of joy and sorrow at the same time :) truly my favorite smashing pumpkins song especially as a survivor of attempted suicide. Today truly is the greatest, day I've ever known...
"I entered into this really horrible part of my life. At one point, I ended up sleeping on D'arcy’s floor. I lived in a parking garage for a while. I was completely obsessed with killing myself; it became my primary preoccupation. Out of the depths of this despair, I bottomed out, and it literally came down to a simple decision: either kill yourself or get used to it, work, live and be happy. So I wrote this song... As you can see I chose another kind of death which is rock n' roll... At this point in my life, it's a positive song; it's about survival." -Billy Corgan
yayayaya cocococo the first thing they’ll tell you when you get professional help is to recognize what your feeling and not to let those invasive thoughts consume you and rather make them more passive (ofc this is just my experience) so “getting used to it” is not a terrible coping mechanism at all it beats cutting or drugs
Alright let me interject here for a second. Everyone's coping mechanisms are different as you develop them throughout your life. Obviously - or so I hope - it's better to eventually deal with your feelings and confront them rather than to bottle things up indefinitely until you can't bear them anymore. "Getting used to it" is part of what people might do to cope for a while, but using someone that managed to barely escape suicide by using music to cope and deal with things as proof of no other (potentially healthier) method to deal with things is pretty narrowminded. If any of you or anyone reading this is feeling suicidal, please get professional help! There are healthy and unhealthy ways to deal with your feelings and, as sadly advocated for here, bottling them up forever is leaning to the unhealthy side. Feeling bad is okay and you're far from alone for feeling that way. Please talk to someone :)
It was the first song I played as a bass player in my first band in a pub in the historic center of Rome ... I was 15 years old more or less, and I remember the thrill of playing it. TODAY, 42 years old, while I work in front of this damn computer, I listen to this masterpiece and find the exact same emotions as when I was a teenager. Thanks Smashing Pumpkins, thank you very much.
What's interesting is that this song was written during Billy Corgan's darker moments. The lyrics are cynically driven. Thankfully, Billy was able to make his way past that dark time. I know how hard that can be. The world is better with him in it.
This song really embodies the feeling of “having nothing specific to be sad about, but also having nothing to be happy about”
To me, it’s the feeling of not knowing if you should be happy or sad.
anxiety
Yeah, It’s about depression and suicidal tendencies.
@@oliverhocking8027 yeah i think we got it
@@Bluegamerful Haha
With the lyric, "today is the greatest day," some listeners misinterpreted this as a hopeful song, when it was just the opposite. Billy Corgan said: "I was really suicidal. I just thought it was funny to write a song that said today is the greatest day of your life because it can't get any worse." ♥
Pa i izgeda suicidalno :/
yes he suffered of deep depression for many yrs..
Same happened with R.E.M in "Shiny happy people". The thing is people couldn't understand it neither because the video, it was a stupid dancing video. 100% sarcasm.
This is the greatest post ever.
I was just listening to that song right before this one and was thinking the same thing. Like, "is sarcasm or irony really that hard for people to understand? No wonder they used to hate playing that song after it went big. None of the people asking them to play it understood what they were asking for."
90’s rock just hit different. Immeasurably.
It still does.. no worries
Yesss
Yeah like Pantera
deeper groove. 70s and 80s rock sound ,skeleton rhythmic section. pretty sure all rap fans wont enjoy any 70s and 80s rock.
@@dodu8281 Oh contraire mon frere…I do indeed enjoy that era of rock as well as rock.
When I was a kid in the 90s, I befriended another kid. We went to a few pumpkins concert in NYC. We were best friends and blasted SP together all day ,every day. In my 40s now. I lost touch with him over 15 years. I tried finding him for over a decade and couldn't. Pumpkins decided to go on tour 2023. I said gosh would be great to go with my old friend. Ended up finding him through his sisters number in the yellow pages on Saturday. My buddy and I went to SP concert on Wednesday. Finally found him, and I think its due to the magical SP!!!
This is awesome I'm happy for you
Dang, nice to see a story that doesn't end with 'then he died, and every time i hear this song i think of him' or something along those lines like 90% of comments on songs more than 5 years old.
I love this story!
It’s one in Atlanta in August, I’m going to
This may be one of the most heartwarming SP fan stories I've heard. 🖤
This video is inspired by a true event. When Billy Corgan was a boy, the local ice cream truck driver got fired and kind of snapped so he ended up giving away all of the ice cream in the truck to young Billy and all the neighborhood kids, all the while ranting "fuck this job!!!" Edit. Source: Today video commentary by Billy on the SP video collection DVD.
Were the people making out in the plains part of that story or the cross-dressing truck-jacker?
I was there for the ice cream.
I wish this made sense
@@boolosboi7503 I doubt it. But ask Billy.
@@VanHellsing12 Was it Mr. Softee?
One of the best Alternative rock bands ever.
agreed
if not the best...
cant think of many better
+Wayne Evans tell me, i really want to listen more bands like that :-)
Foo Fighters is in that Alternative Rock section ;]
When i was 9 grader, i stole my dad's money to buy this album.
And he knew it.
I miss you Dad
RIP 😪
:( he's still here, look to the stars! Go for a drive and listen to his favorite music.
Every time you here this song know he lives on in your heart
Why steal when you can just ask lol
Kevin Nasty For some people it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission
Born in 1976. Now realizing how fucking lucky I was to have my formative years in the 80's and 90's, thanks in no small part to the amazing MUSIC.
Nací en 1976 y disfrute de un montón de bandas en los ochentas y noventas.
Nací en 1976 y disfrute de un montón de bandas en los ochentas y noventas.
Same!
Damn. Three years too early...
Born in 1969...I still ❤️ the 80's 😁
"I wanted more, Than life could ever grant me", resonated down throughout my spine
Hi I recommend checking out a song Called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
Totally!
Exactly me too! That line was me at 18...I did everything to fight for for more and more and more until one day I sold it all and gave the rest away to try things a new way. I felt maybe I wanted too much of the wrong things. I was wrong. Nothing wring with wanting. It's good to want things. Keeps u determined.
Yeah, I only noticed this (albeit many years ago) when someone said this to me and then I listened more closely to the lyrics. He's relieved, comforted and finally happy bc he's ending his life that night via suicide. Made me feel dumb after I was told that, bc the lyrics couldn't be more unambiguous in that regard (once u know, I suppose)
“My belly stings”. We all know that feeling, when you have a stomach knot due to your depression.
“I wanted more then life could ever grant me.”
Very real ass lyrics. Shoutout to my dad in heaven!!
So sorry for your loss. My condolences RIP
Thank you not looking for sympathy my bad just always thought that was a great lyric. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
RIP
mahmood thank you means a lot!!
@daAnder71 you don't need to correct that, we all know that you have a Master's degree in correcting UA-cam comments
When I was young, my dad was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and Liver Disease. He was given a 15% chance to live. The day he found out, he came home, decided to drink one last time, blared this album on our home stereo, and cried. I remember feeling heartbroken despite not really knowing what was going on and crying with him. His will to live and perseverance saw him through a grueling chemotherapy regimen and he's still here fifteen years later, but I'll always think about that day when I listen to this song.
Its amazing to know he’s doing better
I'm glad he's still here. Eventually we gottta die but it's good you got that time
Wow Kat this has truly hit home 🏡 with me on a number of levels I'll keep this short but I have stage 4 liver disease and should have been gone 7 years back though since December losing dad and now all memories of my family's life and dealing with two younger sibs that are as useless as tits on a bull I feel I'm headed to the end but there's more to my picture but I'm very glad to hear your dad is ok now and I wish I had kids and a wife though that's life and now about to hit 50 in a few weeks I'm glad I made it this far but now about to have another cold sweet beverage and yes I do understand what I'm doing but all will be fine and a big Merry Christmas 🎄 ⛄ from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺🦘🤗
Good for him and you bruddah
Omg that made me cry. So glad your dads still here!
That guitar riff is immortal🎸🤘
All smashing riffs are legendary
My little brother passes away yesterday, I remember he loved this band when he was a kid! He was 23 years old but had an old soul, he found a smashing pumpkins album at our public library when he was 8 and would listen to them non stop from there on out, love you m.j. It’s only been a day yet feels way to long already.. love you brother!
I’m sorry for your loss! My thoughts and prayers go out to u and ur family
your brother is watching over you smiling, you’re keeping him alive by telling us about him!
My heart is broken for you. I can’t fathom your loss, so I won’t pretend like I do. I wish you and your family and friends well and hope you find your way through this.
Little do you know I'm your brother too, brother. God bless
So sorry for your loss, your brother had amazing taste in music. I love my older brother so much, can’t imagine what you’re going through. Stay strong ❤️
For me, this song means being so sick of life, you cant help but laugh at how absurd it is... depression, anxiety everything in one happening at the same time, you cannot help but sing a song like this
EXACTLY 💯
Totally agree. Listening to this song helps me feel grateful that I am still here.
Hard to explain that 90's feeling I get when I hear this.
It was on T.V for such a brief burst.
It’s like euphoria bro
i know exactly what you mean.
I feel you dude
Verdade. Sinto o mesmo e não consigo explicar
pure,natural,unpolished, unrefined,raw rock music how do we need you and miss you.
+Hermit the Hustler lol ikr. mario is a twonk
We also need and miss Inter in the champions league )-:
lol this album has like a million overdubs. I think soma had over 60 overdubs. This album has the best guitar fuzz on any album. Sounds like the tone from "sometimes" by my bloody valentine.
they played this song over the PA the last day of my senior year in 1999
Seniors 99 yay
@duckiedale80 people can be jerks )-:
20 years after 1979
For all the kids that failed two times.
I was born 1999
As a person with severe depression, this hits differently. When you're having a good day, it seems like the best day you've ever known.
Thats what I was trying to figure out for myself Thank you
it’s really so weird. while i don’t have depression, i do have a lew of mental anxiety disorders which means much of my days are swallowed by stress and burden basically 24/7. the days that are good are the best days ever. mental health can really humble u fr
😢❤
Me too, brother. Me too
don't have good days , problem solved
So many memories of this band and life. When serving in the Army (UK) (99-06) I used to blast their albums out all the time in barracks and people would always ask who they were. A great guy I looked up to Cpl Fordham never returned one of the cds of theirs I leant him haha but I don't care, it's a memory made in time. Great band. Great times. Music and photographs are the best for remembering moments in time ❤
And yes he still has it, hence the memories. We are now miles and miles apart but forever bonded together by our time in the Forces and this great song/album
i can relate. sea cadets
Platinum That's pretty gay.
Thank you for your service and great music taste.
Music, photographs and smells
I don't always listen to the Smashing Pumpkins... but when I do, it's Today.
+James D Stay alive my friends xD
I don't know if this was a reference to a dead meme or a clever pun. I don't know whether to cringe or ask, "Have you listened to the Smashing Pumpkins today?"
Space Woona That was a reference to a commercial with "The most interesting man in the world"; he always says "I don't always drink beer. But when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Stay thirsty my friends".
+I Don't Know 0123456789 Its the exact way I read it!!
Josh Cannon What?
[Chorus 1]
Today is the greatest
Day I’ve ever known
Can’t live for tomorrow
Tomorrow’s much too long
I’ll burn my eyes out
Before I get out
[Verse 1]
I wanted more
Than life could ever grant me
Bored by the chore
Of saving face
[Chorus 2]
Today is the greatest
Day I’ve ever known
Can’t wait for tomorrow
I might not have that long
I’ll tear my heart out
Before I get out
[Verse 2]
Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets
My angel wings
Were bruised and restrained
My belly stings
[Chorus 3]
Today is
Today is
Today is
The greatest day
[Bridge]
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you
[Outro]
Today is the greatest
Today is the greatest day
Today is the greatest day
That I have ever really known
I suffer from depression and anxiety so I can totally relate to this song
@@Kinnakeeter me too. This song just reaches out to me in a very personal manner. Another song that does this for me is Green Day's "21 Guns"
Billy Corgan has embossed my youth and life!!!
Despite the lyrical ground being about depression and suicide tendencies, the whole concept of the lyrics approaches inspiration and hope, telling people to always look into the good side of the shit to find strenght (specially when things can't go any worse), and not to contemplate or romanticize suicide.
"I'll tear my heart out before I give up" indeed, as someone who deals with suicidal ideation, yeah...I've loved this album since I was 13 (I'm 36 now) I don't think I really understood it back then but now it sure hits different
Eloquently said
Could be worse...
Just whenever I'd say it couldn't, life could.
Appreciate the lesson and struggle.
Grow thru what we go thru.
Bloom anywhere
#beeblessed
This song has NOTHING to do with suicide or depression.. its about the damn ice cream man giving corgan all the ice cream in his truck when he was a kid.
@@VapnFagan You described the vídeo, not the lyrics.
Today is my birthday, and i have nobody to share it with. Except for the smashing pumpkins. Love you guys.
Happy Birthday
i'm always alone on my birthday, too, ever since I was 17 or 18, a long time ago. I used to have to work every birthday (always had 2 or 3 job) which was good because then I wasn't home alone. But now I can't work, so...
However, I'm very lucky to have a wonderful cat (had 2 but one died after only having her a year) who keeps me company and is always near me. Otherwise I'd have no one. I hope you are able to make a friend or 2, or get a cat. They truly save lives.
Happy belated birthday, fellow SP fan!
Happy late birthday!
Today is my Birthday , and I sit here all alone ! just wanted to share with you Nokle.
So i took this girl i liked out on our first date, had a great time. Ride home this came on., She started singing the chorus out of no where! I fell in love. First and only time i heard her sing lol, we been married for 6 years now.
James Blaze cute
That's beautiful
She will leave you evenually
Ricky Spanish damn that's kinda messed up
I normally hate stories like this because it seems unfair how some people find happiness and others not, but this is a great story
I used to record all the music videos on MTV when I was 13. This one included. Brings back a flood of memories of when my innocence was taken away by pre-adulthood. Those are the best memories. My son is now the age I was when I discovered this band/music and it absolutely blows my mind. Named him Kurt. I'll let you guess why.
You were a wrestling fan?
Ah I know! Because of the lead singer of weezer!
Kurt Cobain
Please tell me that ice cream truck is in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame or a Hard Rock property somewhere. Iconic!!!!
I hope too.
They don't have this but they probably have Angus Young's catheter somewhere in there. The Hall Of Fame is a joke
Right?!
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@@donnafonseca1864 why
I love how when u think the vocals r gonna get harsher, corgan just stays with the chill vibe it sounds so good against the harder music
Hell yeah I love it
Hi I Recommend Taking a listen to a song called 'Don't Lie To me' By Robert Nix
Fr I was thinking the opposite for soma I love how satisfyingly predictable some songs can be in the best sense I could put it
Yeah i agree with you the song building up on this is crazy mellow voice when you're expecting harder vocal at the end❤
This is always such a great song to listen to when you're uncertain about life, or tomorrow. Anytime I feel pain, whether it's health-related or psychological, anytime I don't know what tomorrow holds, anytime I have to face the adversities of life, this song is just a good place to be. The lyrics just hit home.
actually found this song from my youth 2 wks ago & it came on the night that one my longtime foster dogs finally found a home.. he was riddled with health issues & this was so amazing & heartwarming. ❤️ unfortunatley, this song is even more bittersweet- he died a day later.. 😓😓😓
bloody oath!
Isn't health related and psychological the same thing?
@@rachelprovan9440 lol
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i remember wearing my 'mission to mars' tshirt in 6th grade in my little home town of KY, 30+ years ago. it eventually disintegrated from use.
Hey, did not expect my favorite teacher would be here. Thanks for helping me all throughout my Engineering school.
Same here. 6th grade 92. What a time to be alive. Glad I was there at that time!
He'll yea
This is one of Billy's most personal songs. Even though this song is about suicide, his genius is that he always spoke his mind. The Pumpkins will go down as one of the greatest bands that never took the easy road and constantly changed their identity, sound, and lyrics.
Billy was so cute back in the day...
devsox1 *nods and high fives you*
devsox1 No.
Yesssss 😍😍❤️❤️
devsox1 He's still cute.
devsox1 Weren't we all.
There are tons of rock bands I really like , but The Smashing Pumpkins always makes me feel equal amounts of joy and sadness at the same time.
Same
I am 48... The same dude, the same...
MAST3RCHIEF 98 there’s a reason I love that album so much
@Hunter Vonnegut Missing Smashing Pumpkins and already fed up with Solar “Bad Karma” Sutra and all the fxxxing spam.
30 years and still love this song and teenage innocent memories...
College memories for me!! Such carefree days! The Gen X kids out in a world of possibilities, on our own and doing our own thing! A great time to be alive!
The song is almost 30 years old and I was 20 at the time. I'll be 80 in 30 years. The thought drives me into melancholy.
I will open my arms and circle for you in 30 years. We're connected through art. I love you stranger.
@@petew4779 Thanks, Pete. All the best, Steve!
@@stevemcq.9911 you are the same age as my dad, i was nowhere near born (06) when this album came out and i love it , crazy to think its been out for 30 years and still sounds incredible to modern ears. Amazing
@@user-iw3le4tn2k I loved this record in the 90`s! :-)
Boomer
Loved being a teenager during the 90's. And loved reading the comments posted here. All you guys rock. Stay awesome!
Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow's much too long
I'll burn my eyes out
Before I get out
I wanted more
Than life could ever grant me
Bored by the chore
Of saving face
Today is the greatest
Day I've never known
Can't wait for tomorrow
I might not have that long
I'll tear my heart out
Before I get out
Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets
My angel wings
Were bruised and restrained
My belly stings
Today is
Today is
Today is
The greatest day
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you
Today is the greatest
Today is the greatest day
Today is the greatest day
That I have ever really known
FUCKIN LOVE YOU THANKS FOR ALL THE PPL WHO POST THE LYRICS JESUS LOVE YA
Dead Kid you aren't special
Dead Kid i
"My belly stings" I feel that.
After 30 years listening to smashing pumpkins music I can say that today is the greatest day . TONIGHT , TONIGHT* I will finally see them live for the first time in my life ...❤❤❤
My husband and I were in our early 20s when this was released and we played this song a lot. We saw Smashing Pumpkins perform at Lallapaloosa '93. It was a time of being young, poor college students where the big night out was going to a house party. Now I'm in my 50s, living a comfortable life, but hearing this song makes me miss my husband. He passed away a couple of years ago after 28 years of being together.
😔😐😶
Gay
@@RJStockton really? how long have you been out?
Sorry for your loss, this is unrelated, but How many children do you have.
Sorry for your loss.
May he rest in peace.
The first 40 seconds of this song is something that will never be surpassed.
tedGEGI I always skip the first 40 seconds
luke73tnt why
not that big of a deal for me actually
You must not like ice cream.
Alison Sanches Krinski She/he is talking about the music, not the video. So that person is more focused on watching than listening.
Lyrics:
Today is the greatest
Day I’ve ever known
Can’t live for tomorrow
Tomorrow’s much too long
I’ll burn my eyes out
Before I get out
I wanted more
Than life could ever grant me
Bored by the chore
Of saving face
Today is the greatest
Day I’ve ever known
Can’t wait for tomorrow
I might not have that long
I’ll tear my heart out
Before I get out
Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets
My angel wings
Were bruised and restrained
My belly stings
Today is
Today is
Today is
The greatest day
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you on
I want to turn you
Today is the greatest
Today is the greatest day
Today is the greatest day
That I have ever really known
Vibing to this right now. So good.
This song helped a lot of us through some tough shit. Shit you don't normally come back from. Thank you Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins for this music. BTW, that ice cream truck driver provided joy to a lot of kids, just like you provide joy to all of us loyal fans. Thank you for your music, you played a part in saving my life
My friend said it's about meeting satan. Burning his eyes out, he can't get out of hell, bruised wings, his ambitions stink and so forth.
Amen to that
Just a reminder for everyone who needs it to get help. You can talk to a therapist or psychologist. You can also text a free mental health helpline. Hope everyone is doing well.
It's amazing how music is powerful enough to change and even save lives
mhm...attention seeker
Smashing Pumpkins, thank you for once again making me feel happy enough to get up after another miserable day in high school.
It'll get better someday. But at least you got great music to get you through and I know how it feels, I'm in high school too
This song is totally about suicide though. Billy Corgan was fucking insane with depression.
Well the music might be depressing but like...I can't explain it but no matter what a song is about if a song is good it just...carries you through...
Jaylie Bathory It totally is. It's about how things can't get any worse and that he just wants to give up it all to so he doesn't have to be what everyone wants him to be. It also conjures the feeling people get when they have completely given up hope, and that you've accepted your fate, that of suicide and are actually happy that things are ending. It's the most upbeat sad song in existence to me. I love it, but I understand completely what Billy Corgan was going through when he wrote the song.
"You're not the only one whose life is a piece shit, but somehow miraculously we all seem to deal with it."
It can be so liberating hitting rock bottom, the only place left to go is up. Bless all of you still struggling.
Life is and will always be a constant struggle. It’s how we go about it that makes us who we are. We got this my friend! Help others and always remember it isn’t about you . God Bless you 💙
This song captures the feelings of my days in middle school. Why isn’t there any good music like this these days?
Cause music nowadays conforms to industry standards being it either has to sound poppy or rap/autotune esque
You're not trying hard enough to find good music AND you're not a kid going through changes so you can't relate to all the emotional transformation that results in great music, so it doesn't resonate like it once did AND your hearing diminishes with age, so subtilties of music get lost where once they were heavily stimulating your prefrontal cortex and occipital lobe. With music like this, from your generation, you have a huge chunk of muscle memory that gets stimulated and reinforced when you hear it. That's real, physical connections inside your brain and listening to this is like a little workout for that muscle or new paving on the highway of the mind as it were. LIstening to new music is like learning a new dance routine, or fitness regime, unless you make a habit of it to reinforce the network, you're brain will just prune back the experience, effect and memory.
@@iGame3D"not trying hard enough to find good music" - One has to look very, VERYdamn hard to find good music these days, and even then it's a matter of luck.
The rest of the bs you wrote is exactly that. Wolfgang had it right: the music industry does not allow new rock music to reach the vast majority of potential customers who would be very receptive to good rock (for the most part anyway), and they only allow poppy music or hiphop to be heard (again, for the most part).
You can try to deny it, but doing so would just be an act of deflection.
@@thefallenfaith1986people’s taste in music is completely subjective. What’s good music to you might not necessarily be considered good music to many of today’s youth and vice versa. Please try not to be a condescending jerk.
🎉wait friend, I'll become popular soon!🎉
His voice is so unique
Hi I recommend an indie song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
@@redskies4530 **@wreckk
I need to do a cover of one of his songs cause I can sound almost just like him.
It’s very…pixies
Have you heard it now 🫠…sucks getting old
Just a few hours until my 42 birthday...
And this is still the best song I’ve ever heard
Persca99 I'll be 42 on Valentine's Day. We are of the same era, spoiled by ridiculously good music during our teenage years.
I just hit 41 last Oct. Hope you had a nice birthday, and this is such a gem of a tune/era. ✌
@@wheelz23 it is bro. I mean, say it with me, "The 90's should NEVER have ended!"
@@peetah_gryffyn the time is still alive every time you step into my ride. Time warp.
THE 90S SHOULD NEVER HAVE ENDED
This song always reminds of sitting in my room as a teenager sewing and drawing just in my own world. I miss those days.
Alexis Arrizon I do that now, I’m 18 just get stoned af. Times ticking. Life stops for no one
do you know what this songs about though ? (not that it changes the feel for you) but
its about suicide...about Billy Corgan (he wrote it in the early 90s after their first album (GISH) in 1991...he was depressed, and on the brink of suicide (literally every week he kept pushing it off, and he decided he was going to kill himself on a friday) and when friday came...he said "do it pussy, stop hesitating stop being a dumb fucking pussy...ok well if I cant kill myself, and I dont have the nerves...well then I am going to sit down and write a song...cause today...well today must suck, but guess what if I cant kill myself then I am alive...and I guess thats fine, Ill just deal with it...so today must be the greatest day of my life, the day I decided to live, I cant wait for tomorrow though...cause I might not have that long"
that is literally how the song was created, this song is (literally) about suicide and the idea of suicide, and on-the-verge- of killing yourself...its like the worse & best day at the same time...
some of the best songs, are usually the darkest songs (literally)
@@Itzsfo0 boy that's true but
you're really dramatic aren't you?
Being 13 when this came out was so fortunate.
theres just something about they're mellow yet heavy tone that makes me absolutely adore their music
but your not a rapper!
+djtim06 good one
you're
+frenchyfryes grammar police on the beat
Glasses jacket shirt, call me glasses jacket shirt man..
This song is a timeless classic. At the end where the ice cream jingle returns with the guitars is an example of this band's greatness
This is one of the most emotional and surreal music videos ever.
why?
The very obvious pain that he's expressing through the lyrics the hardships of youth and the struggles of life and the disappointment that everyone eventually faces when they realize things don't work out like you thought they would, as well as the suicidal undertones. And the video itself is just very different and tells a strange story which I believe was inspired by an ice cream man who gave away his stock of ice cream to the kids before he quit in billy corgans neighborhood when he was a child.
No one is looking forward to our ultimate demise, I like your post. Look up the word "time."
+Noah Jaybird15 "the disappointment that everyone eventually faces when they realize things don't work out as well as you had hoped" and dreamed of. YES YES YES!!!! I'm so happy that I'm not the only one who was thinking this 'cause I thought I was.
+Noah Jaybird15 I think the ice cream was a metaphor for your childhood happiness that you store in your head. Weather it was a happy childhood or not you tend to only relish and fondly look back on the good happy times
I grew up with Smashing Pumpkins, REM, Depeche Mode and INXS, this kept me sane and survived a comunist regime ...can't wait to see them for my first time ever, in Glasgow in June 🥰😍
I approve of this message. Better than ezra deftones staind afi also
Therapist- billy corgan with hair doesn’t exist.
Billy corgan with hair -
Oyster cult ayy
Billy Corgan with hair
Google: did you mean Gerard Way
Gabsy yes. Yes I did.
Respect for the BOC avatar
Mr. C. is a 'grownup'.
look at S. Tyler !
The freedom of the sound of the 90s simply can't be matched today.
Neither can the 80's.
Neither can the 00s
There’s nothing like being 18 years old when this was new music. Went to see Smashing Pumpkins on this tour twice with my best friends. The early nineties was fun. Few friends I saw them with are no longer here to share the nostalgia. Life happens like that, but couldn’t miss the Pumpkins during this era.
You are so lucky!!! I wish I was a teen in the 80s or 90s so baddd. I'm so sorry for your loss aswell❤🩹
I saw them too near Monterey CA in 97. Couldn’t afford to buy merch, but there was a shirt that I just loved and I wanted it so badly and can you believe I found one on the floor at the concert? I even held it up and asked anybody near me if it was theirs and nobody said yes, so I got the T-shirt I wanted for free and there was a couple there who bought me and my best friend beers too. That was back when you could get away with that shit!! Amazing night!!
So crazy to tear up about a song with a band introduced to me by my brother in his car when I was just a little kid riding in the passenger seat of his car. There are so many songs from my younger childhood that gut me wishing the times weren’t what they are. Such a simpler time compared to now. Can’t stop innovation but sometimes I wish I could.
This song always makes me feel a rush of emotion. It's beautiful and timeless.
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Strange. Just strange.
nostalgic too even when it first released. even though it still feels fresh/refreshing to this day. they seriously had great talent for evocative harmony as a band.
I get that same rush every time I hear this song as well. It is amazing how much emotion is in their music
I was 6 when this song came out. I get what you mean.
For some reason when I think about my childhood in the 90's I picture everything in this color palette
Very true i know exactly what you mean as weird as it seems
lucky you to be able to live during those times
Or interstate lovesong or Gold soundz or any ramdon 90's rockband videoclip
Thank you Guitar Hero for showing me what good music really is.
Don’t you mean, rock band???
Slayor777 no he means Guitar Hero
Point made thank you
True
Guitar world tour!
One of the best happy sounding songs with a dark meaning.
Phew, this song is getting old, but hell it's still awesome
You have
Who cares if it's old! The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 is 50 years old, but it's still awesome.
It’s still awesome today
didn't expect to see you here
Older
One of the best songs I ever listened to when growing up in the 90s.
Smashing pumpkins will live a long time with me
the song came out in 93 but yeah its a great song
lol i was 13 then
michael ju Shut up, Ju.
michael ju the smashing pumpkins did still exist in the 80s so go do one.
This song is my fav song from growing up so how is that being an attention seeker?
You know what Hypocrite means? Look in the mirror and ull find out.
MaNiAc GAMING penis and vaginas are in my rrom with my vaginas
I was in 4th or 5th grade when this album came out. I can't even explain the feeling's I get when I hear it. it's life was so simple and beautiful back then. I think about all the house parties and overall great times I had in my youth. To me this song makes me think is a reminder of how precious life is and to always sieze the day. carpe diem
80’s and 90’s…you should have been there. Best times to be alive!
Never gonna kill myself. Not if there's a single person on this planet who loves or depends on me. Today sucks though, I gotta say.
Stay strong, friend
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Good luck on your journey bro. Never stop believing.
You got it baby
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Hey kids, the 90's were the best years for rock and rap!
nah, youre not searching good enough. there are a lot of good bands out now, like thee oh sees and ty segall
jordan gates rap absolutely sucks... No singing just a bunch of digital crappy beats with someone talking crap
Thomas Cusik that’s pretty much mainstream rap nowadays but back then it didnt
Ha Jordan I think I see what you are saying man. The first rappers were better...DMC....Ice-T.....Snoop Dogg.....Tupac.... okay I'll buy that, fare enough guy. Too bad those guy's music was so serious to them. I mean look how many of those guys killed each other. Biggie....gone....Tupac gone....and a bunch of guys in prison. That's probably some of my reason for not liking rap. But really I just don't think it's good music, buy of course I know millions of people love it. To each his own. I've been playing guitar for over 50 years. Since I grew up in the 70's and 80's pretty much. You know... Zeppelin.... The Who.... Stones, Bad Co.....Rush....UFO.....you see rock and roll. So I learned that kinda stuff on guitar. There wasn't much rap back then. On another subject....read John 3:3-6 in the Bible. That piece of scripture changed my life in 1981. I didn't know that Jesus said that. I invited Him into my heart 💓 and have had a relationship with Him and The Father by The Holy Spirit living in my heart. My sins won't be counted against me because I have received forgiveness for them. I still am a sinner and need forgiveness all the time. But at least I don't fear death anyone because He promises eternal life in heaven and in my heart I know I will make it there, plus He helps me in my life here until I die. I know that's a lot to say to you about God, but someone took the time in 1981 to tell me and now I'm doing it for you. I didn't plan on saying any of this. It just happened. So I know God must have known that you needed to hear this. I'm just a messenger. I hope you can receive this with an open heart. God loves you more than you and I can even comprehend. A lot of people think they know God but they are still dead in their sins. Okay....I'm done. Check out a song called Rushing Wind...by Keith Green. That song is touching to the heart. No more rap friend. Try Michael Schenker.
@@bradleypezy6394 Why is there always one of you in these comments? "Nah man...there is music just as good now." NO THERE ISN'T. The bands you just named...are very bland and are not as good as this.
Iha and D'arcy! I remember exactly where I was the first time I saw this video. MTV still played music then, and I was in the dorm room of the coolest chick I've ever known. Makes me smile every time I hear this. Then I remember, God I'm old... It was an awesome time to be 18 though.
I’m 46 and am blessed to have experienced in my opinion the greatest decade ever the 90’s! Life was so much simpler then it is today.
The 80s was the best!
It always was when you were young…
One of their best songs! This was when they were at their best, the whole album Siamese Dream is a winner from start to end!
Tonight is the best EVER lol
Definitely one of the best
The memories while this album played. Could fill volumes. It was part of what made up the soundtrack of me and my friends lives of slightly misspent youth. I will always love it, and the album it came from. When I hear any tracks from it, I’m instantly taken back to those times, and those friends, where we kicked around in a town just like any other, longing to get out of there, go anywhere; anywhere but there. Bonfires on the beach, the skating rink, the arcade, the public library-they were all our homes away from home. All our “haunts” if you will. Seems like a lifetime ago now, because it really was. Yet it’s still so vivid in my minds eye that it all could have happened yesterday.; yet it was long ago and gone now, all once upon a time. I’ll never forget those friends and all the great times we shared as this classic track and album played in rotation.
Thanks for this
Blessed to be a teenager in the 90's
me too..not the hashtag...just me too :)
lucky
Shit one
I'm currently 15 and have done lsd over 30 times lmao
And no, I'm not abusing the drug it's for self healing....
I am not joking. This song was the first song that came on when my husband and I finally took our daughter home from NICU. I will never forget.
Hope you’re all doing well now xx
Although the Smashing Pumpkins are an awesome band, they really suck at their day jobs of being ice cream men and gas station attendants.
tonecot89 they SHOULD quit their day jobs.
tonecot89 I mean, Corgan just let some random people drive off with his van and leave him in the desert. How much better could he get?
Mr. Catcrab Music he also wavved at them.. thats how much better lol
Mr. Catcrab Music You know your a cool guy when that happens.
Not to mention James getting fired from a convenience store TWICE.
I used to really hate this band cause I was into metal music and SP were very soft for me, it took me so many years to rediscover them, and I'm addicted to their music, it's so weird how our taste in music change through time it's like the past version of me has nothing to do with me right now.
Dude, you took the thoughts right out of my head. This how I felt, and now I can’t get enough of them
The greatest band of our generation. Underrated at the time. Overrated now cuz everyone seemed to only stumble upon their greatness late. But still.....dope as fuck. I remember being the only wierdo out of my friends to love smashing pumpkins.
Was the same but opposite. Loved smashing pumpkins, and other grunge, alternative rock bands as a teenager and hated metal like metallica and thought all metal sounds the same and generic but finally got into metallica at 19 during the hardest year of my life when my mental illness got so bad I ended up in the er and mental hospital for a month and would write metallica lyrics on my "coping skills" worksheets they wanted us to use to make me hear the song in my head and feel like I'm at home in my garage listening to them smoking.
@@Lavender_1618 I do agree, our generation was the shit, the late ninetees is the best by far in music and life style generally speaking even pop and RNB was great, without talking about rock and metal. I wish I could turn back to that Era to listen to those bands for the first time, for instance I remember listening to cryptic writings album by megadeth for the first time. I give everything to get back
Shit, I barely discovered them in late 2021 and I already love their stuff. I only found that I had a thing for alt rock in 2020. Before then I never had a favorite music genre,
today is the greatest song ever known
*pours a shot of you - proceeds to drink shot. repeats.*
Puts on my wizard outfit
This isn't the best song in the world.
MaimedWahine You cant tell him how he interprets the song. To him, this could be the greatest song
Ben Kelly i was just making a joke with reference to the lyrics lol, "today is the greatest day ever known", today is the greatest song ever known
1973 and still the best tunes in 24 ...always turned up on radio
Growing up, my parents always took me to their friends house where we would all play rockband together and this song was always played. Their friends died some years later and this song always reminds me of those nights with them.
I remember my father playing this in the car when I was 6. Naturally as a kid, you think that a high-pitched singing voice is a girl. When I first saw the music video I was in unparalleled shock. From that moment on it opened my musical horizon in so many ways. After not really caring about the pumpkins for years, today in 2020 at 17 years old, I appreciate and love the Pumpkins so much.
MISA from Band-Maid is also a fan. You are welcome.
Why can't they make music like this anymore. It was my chill out music with friends as we flipped through magazines thinking about our future and how it would be!
Ashley Boykin it won't sell ... theoretically
A lot of the music that sells these days sounds like garbage to me. For example: 'Stargazing' which I find unbearable to listen to. Just something about the whiny pitch of the singer and the parts where his sampled voice gets all jumbled up and keeps repeating.
I'd rather listen to something corny like the Backstreet Boys over alot of popular songs these days
Did your future turn out anything like you expected?
There are still good music out there but u just have to find them that’s no within the mainstream area
There're still plenty of indie rock bands out there. Every generation thinks their music is best.
Thank you, Smashing Pumpkins.
time flies so fast, I was a kid and this was an alternative, something the majority was not into...
i still see this as back then, a 15 year old kid, and wonder how kids see this today?
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I'm 15, Smashing Pumpkins are my favorite group. Can't wait for their new album!
every morning on mtv before school in the 6th grade. feelin old
I love it
I'm fifteen and love this music its so much better than music today
So glad I’m still seeing new comments on this music
Never let it fade away
We won’t
Never ❤️
It never will.
Glad I was a 90s kid listening to true alternative rock.
This is one of those songs that when you hear it you’re brought right back to the 90s❤
i was singing this in the movie theater last night to "if i stay"! love this song
Same!
Me too
same here!!!
The 90's should have never ended....
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i think im gonna start listening to this band seriously
Weezer Fanatic you're just now starting to think about listening to them? OMG.
haha!!! me too
They're one of my favorite bands. People shit on their newer stuff but I don't mind it.
I used to play guitar hero world tour when I was like 10 one of their songs was on there one of my favorites I went and searched them up on UA-cam and listened to this song loved it I then spent the next couple hours listening to song after song and I couldn't find one I didn't like so that along with my mom introducing me to nirvana (another band that every song I love) pushed me into falling in love with alternative rock before then I didn't really know what I liked musically but i really found myself in the early nineties alt-rock scene which then expanded into every other form of rock/metal/punk now at 17 years old I'm a guitarist and an avid music lover...
Nomad 17 nice story my dude.
Can't believe its over 30 years since this song was released in September 1993 - where did all the time go??
All the memories and people which have passed away
This girl I went to Highschool with and was really close too passed away a couple years ago and one day on one of our walks home from school she said “I love smashing pumpkins” and I said “why would you smash pumpkins” that was one of the greatest days I’ve ever known and I wish I could go back just to jam with her one last time.
All of us artists paint our paintings with the blood from our open wounds. There is nothing more beautiful than an artist sharing this for the world to enjoy!
The song is also about the day that Billy decided not to commit suicide. And for me it's rather special considering today is February 15th 2022. About 7 or 8 years ago my cousin called me and we were talking on the phone as I was walking downtown in Chicago and he asked me about this song and I explained to him what it was about he didn't know that and he found it very interesting and profound because he actually had heard the song and he loved it. He knew I was a fan of the pumpkins. A few years after that my cousin committed suicide. I heard this song or I thought about it about a day or two ago and I decided to post this on his birthday. Cuz we didn't just talk about what the song was we went way deeper than that. It wasn't about dying it was about the joy of living and rising above whatever it was that held you down. And I wish somehow we would have been able to talk before he did that maybe we could have recaptured that feeling and that energy and maybe he would have realized that today is the greatest day he ever knew.
Make the most out of today folks!
Be around the ones you hold closest if possible. Live TODAY, enjoy TODAY, make someone feel loved TODAY. WELL FOLKS, do the best you can today. There is no guarantee for tomorrow.
Still one of my favorite smashing pumpkins song. I just love how the note goes one up and then two lower. It just makes so much room for the bass.
@Hunter Vonnegut Uhmmm... NO.
If I had to choose only one to listen to, for the rest of my life, then it would be Brant Bjork. He makes way better music than Smashing Pumpkins ever did to date. And probably ever will.
This song makes me weep tears of joy and sorrow at the same time :) truly my favorite smashing pumpkins song especially as a survivor of attempted suicide. Today truly is the greatest, day I've ever known...
"I entered into this really horrible part of my life. At one point, I ended up sleeping on D'arcy’s floor. I lived in a parking garage for a while. I was completely obsessed with killing myself; it became my primary preoccupation. Out of the depths of this despair, I bottomed out, and it literally came down to a simple decision: either kill yourself or get used to it, work, live and be happy. So I wrote this song... As you can see I chose another kind of death which is rock n' roll... At this point in my life, it's a positive song; it's about survival." -Billy Corgan
"get used to it"? not very healthy way of resolving or coping. Better to seek professional counseling
yayayaya cocococo Yeah? What amazing songs have you written again?
yayayaya cocococo the first thing they’ll tell you when you get professional help is to recognize what your feeling and not to let those invasive thoughts consume you and rather make them more passive (ofc this is just my experience) so “getting used to it” is not a terrible coping mechanism at all it beats cutting or drugs
Alright let me interject here for a second.
Everyone's coping mechanisms are different as you develop them throughout your life. Obviously - or so I hope - it's better to eventually deal with your feelings and confront them rather than to bottle things up indefinitely until you can't bear them anymore.
"Getting used to it" is part of what people might do to cope for a while, but using someone that managed to barely escape suicide by using music to cope and deal with things as proof of no other (potentially healthier) method to deal with things is pretty narrowminded.
If any of you or anyone reading this is feeling suicidal, please get professional help! There are healthy and unhealthy ways to deal with your feelings and, as sadly advocated for here, bottling them up forever is leaning to the unhealthy side. Feeling bad is okay and you're far from alone for feeling that way. Please talk to someone :)
@@Jepysauce Jeremy spoke in class today lol
November 2024?❤
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Yup
It was the first song I played as a bass player in my first band in a pub in the historic center of Rome ... I was 15 years old more or less, and I remember the thrill of playing it. TODAY, 42 years old, while I work in front of this damn computer, I listen to this masterpiece and find the exact same emotions as when I was a teenager. Thanks Smashing Pumpkins, thank you very much.
damn, went from a rocking music scene to a computer scene ._. that blows
@@jake-cq7vv 😂😂
What's interesting is that this song was written during Billy Corgan's darker moments. The lyrics are cynically driven. Thankfully, Billy was able to make his way past that dark time. I know how hard that can be. The world is better with him in it.
Too Bad Kurt couldn’t do so
He embraced his one true love - professional wrestling