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| "'''1979'''" is the second [[:Category:Singles|single]] from [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]' third studio album, ''[[Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness]].'' "1979" was written by frontman [[Billy Corgan]], and features loops and samples uncharacteristic of previous Smashing Pumpkins songs.<ref name=longtrip>{{cite news |author=Greg Kot |title=A Long Strange Trip to 1979 |newspaper=[[w:Chicago Tribune|Chicago Tribune]] |url=http://www.starla.org/articles/mtc1.htm |accessdate=October 5, 2011}}</ref> The song was written as a nostalgic coming of age story by Corgan. In the year 1979, Corgan was 12 and this is what he considered his transition into adolescence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/09/top-21-songs-about-nostalgia/|title=Top 21 Songs About Nostalgia|date=September 3, 2018|website=[[w:Consequence of Sound|Consequence of Sound]]|access-date=May 19, 2019}}</ref>
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