Chords for Smashing Pumpkins - The Making of 'Perfect' (With Commentary)
Tempo:
114.05 bpm
Chords used:
D
Em
Bm
B
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Billy came to us with the idea of doing a sequel to 1979.
He sort of felt [Bm] that somehow musically perfect was a relative of [D] 1979.
The basic premise of the [B] video is that it takes place five years after the first one.
[E] A lot of people when they heard [Bm] perfect, they said it reminded them of [Em] 1979.
I thought, well, why not revisit the same thing,
except maybe now [D] the people from 1979 are on [B] drugs, messed up, pregnant, [D] whatever else.
So we struck upon the idea of getting the original cast back together,
which we successfully did, I believe, [B] four out of five people.
There's only one problem, one of the [D] guys was in jail.
And so everyone's grown [Em] up and a couple of the people are married and some [D] are in college.
It's [B] really about these parallel moments that happen in one [D] evening
where these people are all over the city and their paths cross, but in [B] stupid little ways.
[Bm] [D] Kind of the most [Em] fun scene in it was [G] the band filming in what [Em] actually used to be the [D] mask in L.A.
It was an old punk club in [F#m] the late 70s and [D] early 80s.
All [Em] the graffiti was there from 20 years [D] ago.
It was amazing.
We [B] packed it with kids and we built kind of a big light [D] box that they performed on
[Em] and then we had these cameras that were on the [D] 360 turntable.
[G] So they kind of turned so you could see [D#] the whole space and then it changed direction
and there was a really good energy to that stuff.
It would have been a good thing just to cut the whole video in [F#m] there.
In 1979 I sank from the back of a car so we wanted to [Em] do something similarly as interesting,
almost as an [D] observer.
So [E] somebody, probably Jonathan, it seems like one of his [D] ideas,
came upon the idea of me sitting on top of a crane approximately 150 [G] feet [Em] above sea level,
which didn't really bother me.
And [Bm] you see the crane and you think, well, that's pretty high.
Oh, and by the way, they want to [Dm] spin the crane around and [Bm] shoot me [D] flying around Los Angeles.
[G]
I don't know if it looks [F#] as dangerous as it felt, but we got up there
and it was kind of spectacular looking, but it was really dangerous.
And Billy did an amazing job, but I think he was terrified.
And I think that we shot the next day and he was not himself.
[Em] I mean, I think it really took a [D] tremendous amount out of him.
[Em] There's only been a few times in my life I've ever experienced this,
but my [D] body went into a complete physical fear shock.
My whole body was shaking from the fear [E] of being that high.
I actually have a fear of heights, which I never told [D] anybody about.
I was scared shitless up there.
When this [Em] dad character is on his way home, [F] [E] he's watching someone being chased by a cop
and he doesn't look where he's going and he goes headlong into the cop.
And we did this elaborate thing [D] of smashing the camera through a windshield
and we had to blow out the windshield with explosives
and he's supposed to fly over the cop car and land on the pavement.
It's far short of [B] a John Woo film.
[D] I do like the cut to the hamburger patty [G] on the [Bm] grill.
I love the idea, [F#] it's just somehow we didn't quite get the [Em] execution right.
It might have been too [D] abstract.
I think the problem [F#] with videos is that songs are really [D] short
and they're supposed to be played on the [Bm] radio and stories take a long time to tell.
I like it, it's a cute video, but I don't know [B] if it really [Bm] told all the stories really well
and if people actually could follow it.
It's almost like a video you have to watch about three or four times to see what actually happened.
Maybe even watch 1979 and then watch this video back to
He sort of felt [Bm] that somehow musically perfect was a relative of [D] 1979.
The basic premise of the [B] video is that it takes place five years after the first one.
[E] A lot of people when they heard [Bm] perfect, they said it reminded them of [Em] 1979.
I thought, well, why not revisit the same thing,
except maybe now [D] the people from 1979 are on [B] drugs, messed up, pregnant, [D] whatever else.
So we struck upon the idea of getting the original cast back together,
which we successfully did, I believe, [B] four out of five people.
There's only one problem, one of the [D] guys was in jail.
And so everyone's grown [Em] up and a couple of the people are married and some [D] are in college.
It's [B] really about these parallel moments that happen in one [D] evening
where these people are all over the city and their paths cross, but in [B] stupid little ways.
[Bm] [D] Kind of the most [Em] fun scene in it was [G] the band filming in what [Em] actually used to be the [D] mask in L.A.
It was an old punk club in [F#m] the late 70s and [D] early 80s.
All [Em] the graffiti was there from 20 years [D] ago.
It was amazing.
We [B] packed it with kids and we built kind of a big light [D] box that they performed on
[Em] and then we had these cameras that were on the [D] 360 turntable.
[G] So they kind of turned so you could see [D#] the whole space and then it changed direction
and there was a really good energy to that stuff.
It would have been a good thing just to cut the whole video in [F#m] there.
In 1979 I sank from the back of a car so we wanted to [Em] do something similarly as interesting,
almost as an [D] observer.
So [E] somebody, probably Jonathan, it seems like one of his [D] ideas,
came upon the idea of me sitting on top of a crane approximately 150 [G] feet [Em] above sea level,
which didn't really bother me.
And [Bm] you see the crane and you think, well, that's pretty high.
Oh, and by the way, they want to [Dm] spin the crane around and [Bm] shoot me [D] flying around Los Angeles.
[G]
I don't know if it looks [F#] as dangerous as it felt, but we got up there
and it was kind of spectacular looking, but it was really dangerous.
And Billy did an amazing job, but I think he was terrified.
And I think that we shot the next day and he was not himself.
[Em] I mean, I think it really took a [D] tremendous amount out of him.
[Em] There's only been a few times in my life I've ever experienced this,
but my [D] body went into a complete physical fear shock.
My whole body was shaking from the fear [E] of being that high.
I actually have a fear of heights, which I never told [D] anybody about.
I was scared shitless up there.
When this [Em] dad character is on his way home, [F] [E] he's watching someone being chased by a cop
and he doesn't look where he's going and he goes headlong into the cop.
And we did this elaborate thing [D] of smashing the camera through a windshield
and we had to blow out the windshield with explosives
and he's supposed to fly over the cop car and land on the pavement.
It's far short of [B] a John Woo film.
[D] I do like the cut to the hamburger patty [G] on the [Bm] grill.
I love the idea, [F#] it's just somehow we didn't quite get the [Em] execution right.
It might have been too [D] abstract.
I think the problem [F#] with videos is that songs are really [D] short
and they're supposed to be played on the [Bm] radio and stories take a long time to tell.
I like it, it's a cute video, but I don't know [B] if it really [Bm] told all the stories really well
and if people actually could follow it.
It's almost like a video you have to watch about three or four times to see what actually happened.
Maybe even watch 1979 and then watch this video back to
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Bm
_ _ Billy came to us with the idea of doing a sequel to 1979.
He sort of felt [Bm] that somehow musically perfect was a relative of [D] 1979.
The basic premise of the [B] video is that it takes place five years after the first one.
[E] A lot of people when they heard [Bm] perfect, they said it reminded them of [Em] 1979.
I thought, well, why not revisit the same thing,
except maybe now [D] the people from 1979 are on [B] drugs, messed up, pregnant, [D] whatever else.
So we struck upon the idea of getting the original cast back together,
which we successfully did, I believe, [B] four out of five people.
There's only one problem, one of the [D] guys was in jail.
And so everyone's grown [Em] up and a couple of the people are married and some [D] are in college.
It's [B] really about these parallel moments that happen in one [D] evening
where these people are all over the city and their paths cross, but in [B] stupid little ways.
_ [Bm] _ [D] Kind of the most [Em] fun scene in it was [G] the band filming in what [Em] actually used to be the [D] mask in L.A.
It was an old punk club in [F#m] the late 70s and [D] early 80s.
_ All [Em] the graffiti was there from 20 years [D] ago.
It was amazing.
We [B] packed it with kids and we built kind of a big light [D] box that they performed on
[Em] and then we had these cameras that were on the [D] 360 turntable.
_ [G] So they kind of turned so you could see [D#] the whole space and then it changed direction
and there was a really good energy to that stuff.
It would have been a good thing just to cut the whole video in [F#m] there.
In 1979 I sank from the back of a car so we wanted to [Em] do something similarly as interesting,
almost as an [D] observer.
So [E] somebody, probably Jonathan, it seems like one of his [D] ideas,
came upon the idea of me sitting on top of a crane _ approximately 150 [G] feet [Em] above sea level,
which didn't really bother me.
And [Bm] you see the crane and you think, well, that's pretty high.
Oh, and by the way, they want to [Dm] spin the crane around and [Bm] shoot me [D] flying around Los Angeles.
_ _ [G]
I don't know if it looks [F#] as dangerous as it felt, but we got up there
and it was kind of spectacular looking, but it was really dangerous.
And Billy did an amazing job, but I think he was terrified.
And I think that we shot the next day and he was not himself.
[Em] I mean, I think it really took a [D] tremendous amount out of him.
[Em] There's only been a few times in my life I've ever experienced this,
but my [D] body went into a complete physical fear shock.
_ My whole body was shaking from the fear [E] of being that high.
I actually have a fear of heights, which I never told [D] anybody about.
_ I was scared shitless up there.
_ When this [Em] dad character is on his way home, [F] [E] he's watching someone being chased by a cop
and he doesn't look where he's going and he goes headlong into the cop.
And we did this elaborate thing [D] of smashing the camera through a windshield
and we had to blow out the windshield with explosives
and he's supposed to fly over the cop car and land on the pavement.
It's far short of [B] a John Woo film.
[D] I do like the cut to the hamburger patty [G] on the [Bm] grill.
I love the idea, [F#] it's just somehow we didn't quite get the [Em] execution right.
It might have been too [D] abstract.
I think the problem [F#] with videos is that songs are really [D] short
and they're supposed to be played on the [Bm] radio and stories take a long time to tell.
I like it, it's a cute video, but I don't know [B] if it really [Bm] told all the stories really well
and if people actually could follow it.
It's almost like a video you have to watch about three or four times to see what actually happened.
Maybe even watch 1979 and then watch this video back to
He sort of felt [Bm] that somehow musically perfect was a relative of [D] 1979.
The basic premise of the [B] video is that it takes place five years after the first one.
[E] A lot of people when they heard [Bm] perfect, they said it reminded them of [Em] 1979.
I thought, well, why not revisit the same thing,
except maybe now [D] the people from 1979 are on [B] drugs, messed up, pregnant, [D] whatever else.
So we struck upon the idea of getting the original cast back together,
which we successfully did, I believe, [B] four out of five people.
There's only one problem, one of the [D] guys was in jail.
And so everyone's grown [Em] up and a couple of the people are married and some [D] are in college.
It's [B] really about these parallel moments that happen in one [D] evening
where these people are all over the city and their paths cross, but in [B] stupid little ways.
_ [Bm] _ [D] Kind of the most [Em] fun scene in it was [G] the band filming in what [Em] actually used to be the [D] mask in L.A.
It was an old punk club in [F#m] the late 70s and [D] early 80s.
_ All [Em] the graffiti was there from 20 years [D] ago.
It was amazing.
We [B] packed it with kids and we built kind of a big light [D] box that they performed on
[Em] and then we had these cameras that were on the [D] 360 turntable.
_ [G] So they kind of turned so you could see [D#] the whole space and then it changed direction
and there was a really good energy to that stuff.
It would have been a good thing just to cut the whole video in [F#m] there.
In 1979 I sank from the back of a car so we wanted to [Em] do something similarly as interesting,
almost as an [D] observer.
So [E] somebody, probably Jonathan, it seems like one of his [D] ideas,
came upon the idea of me sitting on top of a crane _ approximately 150 [G] feet [Em] above sea level,
which didn't really bother me.
And [Bm] you see the crane and you think, well, that's pretty high.
Oh, and by the way, they want to [Dm] spin the crane around and [Bm] shoot me [D] flying around Los Angeles.
_ _ [G]
I don't know if it looks [F#] as dangerous as it felt, but we got up there
and it was kind of spectacular looking, but it was really dangerous.
And Billy did an amazing job, but I think he was terrified.
And I think that we shot the next day and he was not himself.
[Em] I mean, I think it really took a [D] tremendous amount out of him.
[Em] There's only been a few times in my life I've ever experienced this,
but my [D] body went into a complete physical fear shock.
_ My whole body was shaking from the fear [E] of being that high.
I actually have a fear of heights, which I never told [D] anybody about.
_ I was scared shitless up there.
_ When this [Em] dad character is on his way home, [F] [E] he's watching someone being chased by a cop
and he doesn't look where he's going and he goes headlong into the cop.
And we did this elaborate thing [D] of smashing the camera through a windshield
and we had to blow out the windshield with explosives
and he's supposed to fly over the cop car and land on the pavement.
It's far short of [B] a John Woo film.
[D] I do like the cut to the hamburger patty [G] on the [Bm] grill.
I love the idea, [F#] it's just somehow we didn't quite get the [Em] execution right.
It might have been too [D] abstract.
I think the problem [F#] with videos is that songs are really [D] short
and they're supposed to be played on the [Bm] radio and stories take a long time to tell.
I like it, it's a cute video, but I don't know [B] if it really [Bm] told all the stories really well
and if people actually could follow it.
It's almost like a video you have to watch about three or four times to see what actually happened.
Maybe even watch 1979 and then watch this video back to