1979

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Written by Billy Corgan for the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, this song features loops and samples uncharacteristic of the band. Corgan wrote it as a nostalgic coming-of-age story reflecting on suburban adolescence in the late 1970s.

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4:22 duration
1995 released

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