Tonight Tonight Lyrics Smashing Pumpkins Meaning

"Time is never time at all, you can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth" -This means that a boy met a girl and time stood still when she was around and he fell in love and never stopped loving her. "And our lives are forever changed, we will never be the same" -She changed his life by loving him, but now she's gone and he thinks about her still. He thinks about what could be different in life if she didn't leave and hurt him.

"The more you change the less you feel" -She left him and moved on and he thinks that her moving on and changing as her love grows with someone else will only desensitize her feelings for him. "And the embers never fade in the city by the lake, the place where you were born" -Their love and fire for each other has not been extinguished just yet. "We'll crucify the insincere tonight" -Anybody who stands in our way and judges us will answer to us, together. "We'll make things right we'll feel it all tonight" -We'll be together and feel again what we once felt, great and in love. "We'll find a way to offer up the night" -We'll give our love to each other and offer up our bodies for this one moment in life. "The indescribable moments of your life tonight" They have found true love and no words can tell you what that is like.

"The impossible is possible tonight" -Finding your one true love is one in a million, but they found it. "Believe in me as I believe in you tonight" -If you put your faith in me as I have you, then nothing can ever touch our love, we will be perfect. This DVD is compiled with every music video the Smashing Pumpkins ever did, except the one from the Batman & Robin soundtrack, "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning". The Pumpkins is one of greatest bands of all time, with their unique inspiration and daring approaches to music. In general, their songs and art and photographs in their album booklets have always had a theme of the complicated happy and sad concepts of nostalgia, which I find very unique, being inspired by personal past, values, and so on. The lyrics have always been deeply poetic, and Corgan's voice is unique and distinctly recognizable, though you either love it or hate it.

Iha's guitar has always been new sounds to my ears, and has always connected very well with D'arcy and Auf Der Maur's great bass playing. And Chamberlin is a god of drums, with his interesting choice of paces with a lot of the songs (especially in "Tonight, Tonight"). The videos have had daring approaches that don't leave the themes of their own albums.

They've always tried to be different from the usual MTV videos and did a good job with that, like "Ava Adore" and "Tonight, Tonight". What's interesting is that they don't leave their past videos alone either ("1979" seems to have a sequel, "Perfect"). However, some of the images in their videos are incredibly disturbing ("Try, Try, Try") though it is a very powerful video with a message to tell. "Tonight, Tonight" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, written by the band's frontman, Billy Corgan.

It was the fourth single and second track on the first disc from their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and was released in May 1996 in Europe. "Tonight, Tonight" was critically acclaimed and commercially well-received upon its release, reaching number one in Iceland, number two in New Zealand, number seven in the United Kingdom and number 36 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The music video accompanying the song was also successful and won several awards.

The original idea for the music video was for a Busby Berkeley-style video, complete with "people diving into champagne glasses". The band was set to begin production on the video when they discovered that the Red Hot Chili Peppers had done a similarly styled video for their song "Aeroplane", which was almost identical to what they had wanted to do. The second idea for the video was that as the band played on a surreal stage, the camera would go into audience members' eyes and the viewer would see that person's vision of the song. The third and final concept, inspired by Georges Méliès's silent film A Trip to the Moon, came from directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who got the idea for the video because the album cover for Mellon Collie reminded them of early silent films. Hence, the video was filmed in the style of a turn-of-the-century silent film using theater-style backdrops and primitive special effects.

Most of the video's backdrops and puppetwork were created by artist Wayne White. It is amazing how all the band members come together and play as a band, not like crummy repetitive bands such as Papa Roach, Good Charlotte, My Chemical Romance, etc. What also is amazing about the Pumpkins is how their music is of a wide variety. Music now a days seem to always follow the same verse chorus verse chorus bridge scheme, but the Pumpkins do different structures and different genres. You can see their variety by listening to these videos, watching slow relaxing songs to rock songs like bullet with butterfly wings. A shorter acoustic version of the song, titled "Tonite Reprise", was included as a B-side to the single and on the triple LP version of Mellon Collie.

It deals with the struggle against the highly addictive drug. On and on and where we go We can't forget about tomorrow Say goodbye to yesterday Tonight is in the sky Something about you caught my eyes The passing of time is a key theme throughout MCIS, and I think "Tonight, Tonight" is the explaination of that. This is perhaps the only Smashing Pumpkins record where they acted like an actual band rather than Corgan and his resentful charges.

It's hard to pinpoint where the influence of James Iha or D'Arcy came into play , but with the oversight of producers Flood and Alan Moulder, Mellon Collie was developed through protracted jam sessions and personal interplay. Siamese Dream, for all of its symphonic grandeur, was a fairly standard rock album and a solitary one-- nearly all of the guitar and bass parts were rumored to have been performed by Corgan himself. Meanwhile, Mellon Collie indulges in styles more associated with hermetic artists-- ornate chamber-pop ("Cupid De Locke"), mumbly acoustic confessionals ("Stumbleine"), and synthesized nocturnes (mostly everything after "X.Y.U."). And it does so while feeling like the work of four people in a room. Over the years, Smashing Pumpkins has released some fantastic songs. They have a unique sound that makes the band easily identifiable.

Corgan sung about love, life, death, philosophy, and many more subjects. Now, Smashing Pumpkins is considered one of the most iconic bands of the 1990s. Smashing Pumpkins, an alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois, has that '90s feel that holds a lot of nostalgic memories for many people. The band was formed in 1988 and has gone through many lineup changes over the years, including James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlain, Jeff Schroeder, and the iconic Billy Corgan. "Drown" is quintessential Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins in a variety of ways.

Not only is the dreamy, mid-tempo sound familiar to Pumpkins fans and the lyrical poetry and mysteriousness also a staple of the Pumpkins, the song was released first on the iconic soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's 1992 film Singles. Putting it out that way took nerve but the song has remained a band favorite for almost three decades and Corgan himself has said when the band plays it live it is treated as a hit record. "Muzzle" is a promotional single by The Smashing Pumpkins for their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. It was one of the last songs written by Billy Corgan for Mellon Collie, with the song's lyrics referring to what Corgan thought the public's perception was of him at the time. It was rumored to be the Smashing Pumpkins fifth and final single from this album, as is evidenced by the fact that a promotional single for the song was issued to radio stations worldwide.

However, the song "Thirty-Three" was released as the fifth and final single instead. The band went on to perform "Muzzle" for their next television appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien with replacement drummer, Matt Walker on February 25, 1997. They released their first album, Gish, in 1991 to moderate success. Corgan gained a reputation as a bit of a control freak as he insisted on recording all the guitar and bass parts himself, and the subsequent tour was difficult for the band.

Iha and Wretzky, who were in a relationship, went through a breakup; Chamberlin got into heroin; and Corgan became extremely depressed, even contemplating suicide. It was during this period that Corgan isolated himself and wrote the songs for what would become their commercial breakthrough, 1992's Siamese Dream. This song won the band a Grammy for Best Hard Rock performance in 1997, winning out against Alice in Chains, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots.

According to Billy Corgan, the song went through a lot of versions from 1993, when it was just Corgan doing the "The world is a vampire" part, until he wrote the chorus in 1995. The singles on this album are some of the best-known songs by Smashing Pumpkins and they all function really well both standing alone and as a part of the whole. My favorite single… I don't know, it's probably a three way tie between "Tonight, Tonight", "1979" and "Thirty Three". There's something in all three of those songs that sounds timeless, and that's especially important in a single as that's most likely what later generations will remember. While I like the more rock-oriented singles, I feel that they're more rooted in that 90's U.S. alternative rock sound– they're not as flexible. I made the video with somewhat of a character relationship in mind, that of Vaughn (original spelling. I swear! My friend is the one who translated it for the commercial releases and they made him change it) Fanel and Hitomi Kanzaki.

I feel that the song lyrics and feeling fit perfectly (then again I figured that out b/c my then girlfriend pointed it out, so I'm not really that perceptive). Lines like "Believe in Me" fit nicely with the theme and relationships in Escaflowne. Corgan briefly dated Hole singer Courtney Love in the early '90s, before she began her relationship with Kurt Cobain, but the pair maintained a friendship following the Nirvana's frontman's death.

Corgan even contributed to the recording sessions on Hole's 1998 album 'Celebrity Skin', and is credited on the music for five out of the record's 12 songs – including playing bass on 'Petals'. It's fascinating to do a list like this of 10 songs over 30 years and chart Corgan's metamorphosis as a lyricist. Reference this early passage from the Pumpkins' seminal first album. It feels much more abstract than later lyrics, but this love song, written for his future wife, still shows an early beauty and depth that would only get stronger in his work over the years. Something I really love about the louder, more rock-oriented songs on this album is the guitar work.

I haven't heard anything like the effect on the end of "Jellybelly" besides on Muse's "Origin of Symmetry", an album I consider to be the pinnacle of guitar-centric songs. For example, the layered, broken chords on Cupid De Locke sound absolutely magical with Corgan's voice becoming just another atmospheric layer in the song. Same goes for "Take Me Down"; it's a song that envelops you like a cloud. Live, the band played "Tonight, Tonight" with Georges Melies's 1902 "Voyage to the Moon" as the background. This came into play with the music video, as it was completely influenced by that film.

The fact that every song has a different pacing and tone makes it hard to keep up a consistent feeling. It's not that it's confusing, it just doesn't give you enough time to get into any one state of mind before racing on to the next one. I think maybe that's why I feel that I've connected emotionally more to the individual songs rather than to the album as a complete piece. Again, I don't see that as a criticism because I don't see how an album could maintain one emotional pitch over 2 hours. The point, as Entertainment Weekly pointed out, is to create a loosely-connected work of art from lots of individual pieces.

I think "the more you change the less you feel" is key to grab the idea behind. I personally feel that the song is about gowing up, about becmoming adult and more realistic, you know, more cynical an all that stuff. This is clearly represented visually in the videoclip, that uses an aesthetic that is really "naive" from a period that cinema was just in his youth and full of imagination and so. "you can never ever leave without leaving a piece of you".

You can´t grow without change, so essentialy we all gonna lose the spark from our youth at one moment in our lives. Whaterver it really means, is the most sad and beautiful song ever. It almost goes without saying, but in The Scientist, there's something almost tangibly sorrowful about the feel of the music and lyrics. We find a beautiful humility in the opening lines "Come up to meet you. Tell you I'm sorry." Similarly, we find a both contrition and capitulation in the line "O, take me back to the start," as if the writer is declaring his need for forgiveness.

Our relationship both with God and our fellow man needs it. We know how fragmented our world is; you can see it every day; just turn on the news. Some of us also know how fragmented own hearts, minds, and souls are; fragmentation certainly results from our strivings , wickedness we call righteousness, light we've put for darkness and darkness for light, however the great or small the degree. And of course, there's "1979", the one everybody can agree on. On a record that reveled in 70s prog and pomp without being restricted to it, it sounds futuristic.

And while just as youth-obsessed as everything else here, it's one of the few times where high school sounds like something that can be remembered fondly. Corgan loves to stress how it was the last song to make the record, and while its chorus does have an effortless charge embodying the "urgency of now," it's the only Mellon Collie song that functions best as nostalgia. That reading is no doubt abetted by another fantastic video, but while "1979" is an unimpeachable song, the rush to praise it as an outlier does its surroundings a tremendous disservice. While Mellon Collie is the realization of all Billy Corgan's ambitions, most of the criticisms surround the lyrics for not being as personal as those on the tortured Siamese Dream.

A lot of people get hung up on thinking the Goo Goo Dolls' song is a beautiful track about love, but the lyrics tell a much more complicated story. Iha even gets his moment in the sun, taking lead vocal on his Take Me Down, though its relegation to a low-profile spot at the end of disc one would sour his relationship with Corgan, sowing the seeds for the band's split five years later. There's a looser, more collaborative approach here than on previous Pumpkins records, with the famously dictatorial Corgan slackening the reins. It's one of the most varied, far-reaching rock records of the last 30 years, moving from gentle lullabies to heavy metal epics via electronic pop and razor-edged alt rock. It's three songs in before you hear a distorted guitar, though when it comes, on the thunderous intro to Jellybelly, it's worth the wait.

Still, it was a massive gamble to assume fans raised on Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, Metallica's Enter Sandman or the Pumpkin's own Cherub Rock would get that far. When Smashing Pumpkins announced a double album, almost everyone, from the press to their panicked record company, assumed it would be commercial suicide. It's just not something alternative rock bands did – certainly not something anyone got away with. There were rare exceptions, of course – the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Who – but those were super-league acts, already selling in their tens of millions. To that end, this year alone he's already penned and put into motion 46 songs, all in various states of completion.

As the band had already experimented outside of their traditional rock sound with Mellon Collie, with the immensely successful electronic-influenced song "1979" to show for it, they decided to hone in on electronica. Hoping to maintain this Progressive Rock-inspired experimentation, Corgan began envisioning a hybrid of folk rock and electronica that was as "ancient" as it was "futuristic". In a sense, it actually manages to be both Lighter and Softer and Darker and Edgier than the band's other material at the same time. The Smashing Pumpkins are the best band in the whole wide world. There is nothing to compare to their song writing, mellow distortion and acoustic sounds.

After I bought Rotten Apples, I thought they weren't going to make anything else Smashing Pumpkins related. My friend bought this tape, and it is the best thing in the world. This has ALL of the Smashing Pumpkins videos that they released except for "The End is the Beginning is the End" which is off of the Batman sound track. Another classic by the band, "Today" is a song about heartbreak and contemplating suicide.

Corgan once said in an interview that the lyrics "today is the greatest day I've ever known" were to supposed to be ironic because he can never remember feeling worse. "Today" is considered by many fans as one of Smashing Pumpkins' best songs. I take this as a general love song, which sounds powerful and quite upbeat by Smashing Pumpkins standards. Some fans say it's a message from the late Nirvana band member Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love, who some say killed him. It's a gorgeous ballad and deserved a spot on this list.

The Smashing Pumpkins release Oceania, their first full-length album since 2007, next week. The record is the latest entry in the band's sprawling discography, which includes everything from double-disc epics and rarities box sets to concept albums, EPs and assorted free MP3s. We asked you to name your favorite Pumpkins songs, and the response was so overwhelming and varied that instead of the usual Top 10 list for readers' poll results, we're expanding this week's results to a Top 20. Click through to see your picks, and listen to our Spotify playlist below.

After Billy Corgan's first band, The Marked, broke up, he returned to Chicago from Florida and began working in a record store, where he met James Iha. After starting out as a duo, they met Wretzky and Chamberlin and began playing as Smashing Pumpkins. Initially, Corgan was very influenced by post punk bands like The Cure and New Order, but when Chamberlin joined their sound began to change towards the sound they became known for. I've started looking at the lyrics, and I'm not surprised to find that a lot of them are crushingly despondent.