Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

Smashing Punkins live 1996/05/15 - Brixton Academy; London

full broadcast: http://bit.ly/4FQBcv

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shakedown 1979
cool kids never have the time
on a live wire
right up off the street
you and i should meet
junebug skipping like a stone
with the headlights pointed at the dawn
we were sure we'd never see an end to it all
and i don't even care
to shake these zipper blues
and we don't know
just where our bones will rest
to dust i guess
forgotten and absorbed
into the earth below
double cross the vacant and the bored
they're not sure just what we have in store
morphine city slippin' dues
down to see
that we don't even care
as restless as we are
we feel the pull
in the land of a thousand guilts
and poured cement
lamented and assured
to the lights and towns below
faster than the speed of sound
faster than we thought we'd go
beneath the sound of hope
justine never knew the rules
hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
no apologies ever need be made
i know you better than you fake it
to see that we don't even care
to shake these zipper blues
and we don't know
just where our bones will rest
to dust i guess
forgotten and absorbed
into the earth below
the street heats the urgency of now
as you can see there's no one around

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Smashing
• Punkins
• 1979
• live
• 1996
• Brixton
• Academy
• London

[mrquinnnc]

That is soo Awesome when the guitar comes in at 15 seconds! Everybody cheers!

Cool vid!

[seaofsorrow17]

Man I'm sick of everyone complaining of how the Pumpkins are so different now, relax, get over the fact that James and D'arcy aren't around anymore and enjoy this, I think its great Billy wanted to reform the band.

[GeneralEisenhower]

D'arcy <3

[OssianPosse]

What an epic song this is!!! They where not always great live, but this is awsome!! 

[francko14]

fantastico

[bladerunner6]

end song in Gran Turismo 5 did you know?? strange choice i think for this game

[csmelen]

@TheF0etus Definately fuck D'arcy, not James lol.

[williampatrickcorgan]

this part of the mcis tour b4 jimmy fucked

up was the best sp ever sounded, and the last tour that had the full original line up!

[YahtzeeLad]

My favorite ever song and their best live version. When they'd finished D'arcy said that Jimmy's drumming was better on the album track (which is synth before someone tries to correct me - she was joking).

This was one of the best gigs I've ever been to and made every other time I saw them feel like a pale comparison - especially their busk-a-thon in the Shepherds Bush Empire on the Adore tour.

[suitepee2008]

Smashing Pumpkins and Disturbed are both from Chicago and both in my top 3 favorite bands...along with AC/DC.