X.Y.U. by The Smashing Pumpkins *Album Version*

[FTWorWTF]

One of thier best angry songs imo.

[29julio1997]

and god said ... music is made ...

[finowa]

I BLEED FOR MYANMAR

[johnrechy1]

This song is not about rape..it is about me...

[CraigPhilipMyBeer]

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness = My favorite album of all TIME! Amazing from beginning to end. Corgan definitely showed the most passion, angst, and edge on this album.

[izizful]

KAAAAABOOM!!!



[dragonzord18]

Awsome Song from the 90's... Rock On Smashing Pumpkins...

[axlerage]

let us rape

[arklop5]

I thought this song was sort of about one's parents. X + Y = U

[designationzero]

Then he found jesus and now his music is neutered.

[MrShimazu]

I still can't believe I found this song in a bar's jukebox! I should have put it, just to freak all the pool players and make the dear miss Katy Perry shut up!

[XXplorher]

For the record, having read the lyrics again, I don't think it means anything other than an ode to going full-bore crackers. Love can make you crazy. It does so on a regular basis. When you're in purSUIT of it, unheard; unobtainable? You might go totally bonkers. And he shared that feeling. Put sound to it. Affirmed it. Gave it belonging. Bravely so. It's never been said so sincerely like this elsewhere. Ever. that boy Billy can really paint. He's ALL in.

[XXplorher]

There is virtually NO ONE on the planet that sheds grief like this guy. And I mean, NO ONE! This – is the color of angst, people. Kurt can’t get anywhere near this. Billy Corgan is the master of sonic angst. It’s absolute madness. The fact we can IDENTIFY with the chaos he’s serving up here... is just genius, man. I love it. There’s nothing else like it on the planet. Thanks so much for providing my grief... levity, Billy. I really owe you, man.

[NinetiesYouth]

@XXplorher Nirvana's just way better, in every way

[Snowyicewolf1337]

@NinetiesYouth corgan is more talented musically. nirvana has a cool sound, but it gets old. this kind of thing doesn't get old for me

[DavidKinner]

@Snowyicewolf1337 Soundgarden, and Smashing Pumpkins were both not afraid to experiment probably the two best.

[Snowyicewolf1337]

@DavidKinner i have to agree

[DavidKinner]

@Snowyicewolf1337 If you count Sonic Youth, and the Butthole Surfers they were pretty innovative too.

[chapstickman34]

XYU= Ex(GF), Why you?

[imissweed]

fuckin awesome GRRRRRR

[majunior000]

in my ears, this song sounds like a relationship....where a guy who wants to be with a girl (mary)....but in her eyes he is nothing more than a friend....and ends up getting with another guy, which the first guy cannot handle and turn crazy....

"still i was lonely, and she was by my side, my one and only"....stands out to me

"and into the eyes of the jackyl i say ka-boom"....the jackyl being the other guy

i love this track....reminds me of how i felt once with a girl i liked....

[donnypunani420]

this is the one album i have had 100times,and am going to have 100 more.  J ust.wow

[Franck26837]

Not violent enough!

[XXplorher]

@Franck26837

major laughs

[SmashingPumpkinsDao]

Smashing Pumpkins, simply the BEST BAND EVER.

[Sartious]

check our band out if you like alternative much like this!

[Olenishe939]

xyu=dick...

[izizful]

KAAAA- BOOOOM-BOOOM!!!!

[MorrisJoshua26]

And in the eyes of the jackal!

[pimpandprostitutetoo]

Fuck, man.

[MrWhatthespence]

4 people couldn't handle it...

[donnypunani420]

this song makes me wanna get up...AND KICK YOUR MOM IN THE FUCKING NUTS!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­. awesome. just. awesome.

[scumbaguk]

Tooo much man, too fukin awesome. Talk about a tune to wake you up in the morning. Scumbag had a problem, and scumbags not a stupid boy, scumbag heard some deep shit, scumbags got a massive smile. Wooooooooooooooooo

[maalbe987]

4:18 F*CK YEAH!!!!!

[MoreParksLessParking]

Lol I love how you have a scary screamo song about rape right here then on the very next track (we only come out at night) you have a cute, family friendly song that you'd imagine a bunch of nursery students singing in a circle in class. Gotta love mellon collie for it's diversity of music

[jsh020]

@MoreParksLessParking all the smashing pumkins albums were like this

[Slipknot808]

@MoreParksLessParking This is not screamo. Don't bring that gay shit into a conversation about the Pumpkins.

[HaleyJarvis]

@Slipknot808 Learn the correct usage of the word "gay", please. Music can't be gay.

[Slipknot808]

@HaleyJarvis Colloquially "gay" can refer to "homosexuality" or it can mean "lame" "uncool" etc etc. So, words can change meanings based on the context of their usage. In this context, it is perfectly acceptable.

[HaleyJarvis]

@Slipknot808 Why'd you use gay instead of the actual word then, huh? I don't understand why people keep using this word to describe negative things. Gay used to mean happy back in the day ... ~

[groovey65]

@MoreParksLessParking I agree with everything you said except the fact you used the term "screamo" c'mon man!

[z00no]

XYU= That's Why You

Bur that's just my opinion.

[simonsinferno]

Ex Why You.

Mary is the narrator's ex, I'm supposing, idk.

[Jayshammy92]

Man I just gotta comment again saying these guys are great I just ddiscovered them a few days ago and they instantly became my 2nd favorite band of all time. AWESOME!

[Jayshammy92]

holy shit this songs crazy haha wow my ears really just felt like they were being fucked by my headphones it was beautiful :O

[st00pidp0ckets]

@paintmask Ha well thats not true because the best part of the song is from 4:18 to the end of the song

[ashkiller713]

@st00pidp0ckets just for that you get a thumbs down

[MrFlacid1]

@portgseninja92 i must have missed the part where I said they were good

[venadem]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHH HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLL YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Excelente Recuerdo!!!!!!!! ;)

[DKistheone]

хуй in Russian means dick. maybe this is the real song name?

[cordfluidnevoie]

@DKistheone do you really think that billy corgan got inspiration from a russian prick? lol i dunno maybe not of my business..

[DKistheone]

all i wanted to say that instead of enjoying music, everyone here tries to explain what xyu means, so i showed you my own theory. idk where billy takes his inspiration/what he smokes, but getting inspiration from "russian prick", and randomly naming your song XYUODFJFG$GJRKSCNMDF, is just as realistic as getting inspiration from biological signs XX, XY, bla bla bla... to me. but thats my opinion:)

[legalizeit727]

KA BOOM AHHHH RAT TAT TAT! Love it!!! Man why didn't the pumpkins explore more of this sound!!

[suggadeg]

NOW MARYS GOT A PROBLEM, AND MARYS NOT A STUPID GIRL

[TomTheThankEngine]

RAWK!



[IwillbeWaiting]

Hexen days revisited

[gussitasodera]

ratata kabumbum..... che rolototootototaaa!!!!!

[MrTopflight29]

XYU got me listing to METAL!!

[billbollins]

I FUCKIN LOVE THIS. TURN IT UP AS FAR AS YOU CAN!!!!!!!

[sicralfe]

Ex, why you? :'(

[gerryw2camaro]

the reason i like smashing pumpkins is because of the way just about every album they have is an opus in some form of pumpkins way. I just didn't really follow them too much after mellon collie.

[suggadeg]

@gerryw2camaro perfectly said. I don't like too much after this album as well.

[MrJasonhenry7]

X you up!

[TheBucshot07]

I start driving faster when i hear songs like this. One minute im doing 25 mph listening to stumbleine then i'm hittin 120m in a 35 when this song comes on

[htfussman32]

AND IN THE EYES OF THE JACKAL I SAY KAAAAAA

BOOM!

[manrayer88]

Bill nye did this

[m2rendell]

Into The Eyes Of A Jackal I Say...............KAAAAAABOOM

[ForgottenSoul700]

Billy is mad as f*ck!

[Exitmuzic]

Rat-tat-tat!, Kaboom!

[Spydrfish]

He sounds like an angry Spongebob in parts of this song...

[markafc83]

@MrFlacid Don't get me wrong - I like early 90s alt rock/grunge but you do realise that Death Metal has been around since the early 80s, most of which makes Slipknot look like an episode of Barney.

[jsh020]

@markafc83 yah and then there grindcore that makes those death metal bands look like they have talent

[stryder13422]

i get to play this for my English class for a project! my class is going to think i'm crazy -_- goddamn stereotypes

[manvswolfman]

Apparently there's a live version of this song that merges parts with Where Boys Fear to Tread. it has different lyrics too. does anyone know where i could get a video or mp3 or something like that?

[nagramash15]

AND IN THE EYES OF THE JACKAL, I SAY KAA-BOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vimes1001]

Jesus, this is fantastic

[jamilka1225]

XYU means dick in Russian

[ec2tc3]

This song is not available on itunes. Anyone know where to find it online?

[0678421]

@ec2tc3 wwwDOTyoutube-mp3DOTorg

[mrwobbleheaddeluxe]

4 ppl were drunk and hit the wrong button...for that we shall forgive

[mangekyou10sharingan]

oh holy hell this is awesome

[baretillo]

Ka/ boom boom

[Saryonable]

Thanks for uploading, good to know more people appreciate this powerful song!!! This one's underrated imo

[3onamatch]

O MY FUCKING GOD, THANK YOU PEOPLE!!!! i don't hear anyone call SP a Grunge band. i don't know why. most likly becouse all they hear is the radio and they don't hear a nirvana clone. God bless ya'll.

[MrFlacid1]

Ah, the grunge days were great. We thought that this was going to be heaviest it was ever gonna get man. lol now look at bands like slipknot

good times.

[lxvlx]

@MrFlacid1 What are you talking about? Death metal and all sorts of heavyness were around before/during/and after this band... slipknot is just another heavy metal incarnaton... and if you're talking mainstream, well Pantera was pretty big around that time... but they are all different genres, so I dont know what youre on about.

[MrFlacid1]

@lxvlx I know it exsisted, and had seen that kind of stuff in a movie or two, but it wasn't in our worlds man.. i was in middle school

Plus the death metal I like today probably wouldn't have appealed to us yet at that age. So really i'm talking about the grunge we had, and the "numetal" that its evolved into.

[lxvlx]

@MrFlacid1 fair enough.. but, i was also in middle school and very much loved SP as well as heavier bands such as 'sepultura' and 'deicide' at the same time :--).

[MrFlacid1]

@lxvlx heh sweet. I didn't discover the metal metal till late middle-school/high school. Max Cavalera lives right down the street from me here in AZ.

[lxvlx]

@MrFlacid1 oh shit! you ever bump into him? say hi etc?

[MrFlacid1]

@lxvlx no but a few of my friends have. At circle K or at some show.

[ForwardN2Unknown]

@MrFlacid1 Slipknot is not heavy, just bad.

[MrFlacid1]

@ForwardN2Unknown

@humpmastajoe16

Luckily music is COMPLETELY based on opinion. If only some thickheaded assholes would realize that. I find slipknot heavy, so thats what it is. Smashing pumpkins used simple guitar work in this song, and slipknot uses similar grungy simple guitar breakdown patterns. *IMO* it is nice and heavy. Its definately not my favorite band by any means, but It's great HEAVY moshing/headbanging/breakdown kind of music. keep picking fights on the internet, losers.

[DGENERATE07]

@ForwardN2Unknown oh fuck off slipknot are awesome, dont like this bull shit

[EricRed1119]

@DGENERATE07

Then don't listen to it, simple solution

[DGENERATE07]

@EricRed1119 huh? if you mean dont listen to the smashing pumpkins, well, they're my favourite band. but slipknot are also a great heavy metal band... i hate it when bull shit gets the top comment and people promote it with likes

[EricRed1119]

@DGENERATE07

I was just stating that if you don't like Smashing Pumpkins then why feel the need to post, which is what I thought you were saying, if not then my apologies.

[DGENERATE07]

@EricRed1119 no worries man no worries, but FUCK! that top comment

[EricRed1119]

@DGENERATE07

It's all good dude.......btw, prob my favorite song from them along with Tristessa

[DGENERATE07]

@EricRed1119 ahh i dont have gish, i need to get it, but this certainly is a fucking classic

[EricRed1119]

@DGENERATE07

Oh man, you need to change that, get Gish ASAP :)

[EricRed1119]

@DGENERATE07

Oh man, you need to change that ASAP, it's a great album :)

[DGENERATE07]

@EricRed1119 all the more reason too!! thanks for the advice ill definitely get it now ;]

[humpmastajoe16]

@MrFlacid1 slipknot isn't heavy

[TheBlackswanwhite]

@MrFlacid1@MrFlacid1 sliknot had 2 fuckin perfect albums.slipknot ,and iowa.they were brutal and raw and honest.but then it came simply to the money and the slipknot was over.few bend dont sell their music they stay true ,honest ,underground but on the surface of the stream.bends like smashing pumkins,deftones,pantera(when they where "alive"as bend)radiohead etc....bands that follow they vision and respect to the music ,and people who listen to them.

[driekone]

@MrFlacid1 There were heavier bands when Smashing Pumpkins came out and way before...in fact, there were heavier bands than Slipknot too. It doesn't really matter, and I am not trying to be argumentative. Just saying.

[XxMissNoNamexX]

@MrFlacid1 Slipknot is no were near as heavy as this. And heavy metal originated back then. Slayer, anyone? That's real metal.

[TheWowmart]

@MrFlacid1 bit two dimensional to count the pumpkins as grunge, mudhoney they aint

[legalizeit727]

@MrFlacid1 Man you were sheltered from metal then! At this time, bands like Pantera were TEARING it up!

[Epic501]

@MrFlacid1 slipknot? heavy? lol

[WheelmanWakka]

@Epic501 took the words right out of my mouth

[MrFlacid1]

@Epic501 yayy you can read

[HellHammer66xx]

@MrFlacid1 There were bands that were much heavier than Slipknot when this song came out. lol Just saying.

[Urlande]

@MrFlacid1 Have you ever heard of Sepultura or Pantera?

[ergogonewild]

@MrFlacid1 this is way heavier than slipknot

WAAAAYYYYYYY fuckin heavier!!!! are we listening to the same song?

[lambofbuda]

4:58 grunge breakdown:o

[MsEnema]

100 % grunge ..ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!

[marcointerpol1]

YEAH BRO GREAT SONG , GREAT TIMES

[paula680o]

Super. I could listen to this song all the time. Triggers many emotions in me;)

[WPGfilms]

run your mouth fools tool. take a little of thus and alittle of that . how do you know if it's you. how do you know if it's the you that can do the things you can do without someone stopping you by cutting you down so constanly? and just destroying what you can be for their own sick and twisted desire? xyu really means penis in rissuian? that's freakin hilarious.

[ansoniaraton1]

XX = Female

XY = Male

XYU = Man University?

[GUACHEMX]

@ansoniaraton1 hahaha

[TenebraeAngelus]

@ansoniaraton1

no, is the short way to say "Ex Why You?"

i also thought about the chromosomes xD

[CAPTAINSARGE]

@ansoniaraton1

Good one

[TheDuraiya]

@ansoniaraton1 hahaha



[codex4861]

Please God take me back to the 90`s!!! Take me to their last concert in Lisbon where i where...

[shi2500]

i Love the chaotic solo at 5:42 !

[staernpeder]

One of the most scary and fantastic pieces of music ever written and performed!

[jamilka1225]

xyu means penis in russian



[MSSL06]

what does X.Y.U. stand for?? not to seem stupid or anything.

[AngryEwok666]

@MSSL06

ex. why. you?

[SOADSfetus]

4:46 is the scariest yell i have ever heard! it makes me wanna curl up in a ball and weep like a baby...

[rental99]

billy is f-cking nuts... one of the last great rock (living) legends....

[Jenny69698]

This is how Mary's garden grows.....

[zaynzaynzayn]

loved the way SP could go from cooing love to anger from hell.

[stonedNcreepy]

Any of you jerks here know what this song is about? ô.o

Doesn't seem so.

[shittybullshit]

@stonedNcreepy the anger and resentment a relationship brings

[stonedNcreepy]

@shittybullshit That's how you could say it O.o

But all those fuckers here don't seem to get that ...

[silentjav]

Fuck yeah! Smashing pumpkins breakdown! >:) @ocpud2999 Exactly

[ocpud2999]

This is an amazing album! both cd 's have a lot of great song. For me there is not one bad song on that album. it goes from soft to hard. It reelects life. We are never just always angry or happy. We change.

[zmoe255]

omg people, smashing pumpkins dont worship satin, they just smoked a lot of pot lol

[DrAwesome999]

AND IN THE EYES OF A JACKAL I SAY KAAAAAA- BOOM!!!!!!

[MissMischiv]

And into the eyes of the jackyl I say.......... KAAAAAAAAAAAA BOOOOOOOOM!!!

[Gdev02]

Billy is pure evil on this track!!!!

[estevancarlos]

This goes up there with Silverfuck.

[techy75]

RAT- TAT- TAT

KA- BOOM BOOM

NOW TAKE THAT

AND JUST A BIT OF THIS

when he starts those screams i scream with him xD

[grigir4o]

XYU having to relate to a drama and tramatic relationship between you and your girlfriend. Or having to relate to a just plainly AWFUL relationship, where the girlfriend is abusive, and deranged.... A relationship where you think to your self afterwards:"Ex.Why.You

[spamrobot2]

Don't you get the impression that you are on the wrong side of these blinking letters? Now we begin descent, to where we've never been. See, this is a hell on earth, we are all meant to serve. There is no going back.