What movie is Bullet with Butterfly Wings in?

Q: What movie is the song today in?

Today is a 1964 folk song that was a hit for The New Christy Minstrels. Written by the groups founder, Randy Sparks, it was introduced in the American comedy-Western film Advance to the Rear (1964) and released on the album titled Today.

Q: What movie had the song 1979?

On The Edge (2001) The track 1979” by The Smashing Pumpkins is played at the beginning of the movie during a scene where the lead character, Jonathan Breech (portrayed by the talented Cillian Murphy), is riding his bike.

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What album is Bullet With Butterfly Wings on?
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Lead singer Billy Corgan wrote this about pain that comes from being a rock star. The lyrics are exceptionally dramatic, and Corgan has said they are a bit of a joke.
This was the first single off Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and Smashing Pumpkins' second biggest US hit - "1979" hit #12.
This won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. The next year, they won the same award for "The End Is The Beginning Is The End."
In the video, Corgan still has hair. However, when it was released, he had cut all of his hair off. Ever since, Billy has been bald. >>
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Possibly shedding some light on what to read into the lyrics, Corgan once said: "If people were interested in my own personal story and they knew every thing that had happened too me in my childhood, I think they would look at me differently because I was raised in a family that set me up to fail." >>

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"The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves," Corgan said of the album. He's saying that the anger and feeling of having no one to trust is a reflection of youth in particular and society in general. He also once said this song was a strong personal representation of how he felt at the time, particularly with his growing fame - "the world is a vampire" basically means he feels like everyone wants to latch on and take something from him. >>
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The video shows a large group of dirty diamond miners working as the band plays. They gradually descend to the pit where Smashing Pumpkins are playing, forming a mosh pit of sorts.
Billy Corgan worked on the video with Samuel Bayer, whose striking imagery is on display in the videos for The Cranberries' "Zombie" and Blind Melon's "No Rain." Bayer came up with the concept, which is based on photos Sebastiao Salgado took of Brazilian laborers.
Karen O covered this for the Amazon series Hanna in 2019; Smashing Pumpkins called it a "beautiful cover" in a tweet. She also contributed an original song, "Anti-Lullaby," to the soundtrack.
Billy Corgan wrote the song's chorus the same day that the band recorded their cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" at the BBC. He recalled to Kerrang:
"I was sitting there bored out of my mind (the producers) were dicking around with some microphone, and I had this line in my head, 'Despite all my rage. I'm still just a rat in a cage.' I was just sitting there, bored, and I picked up the guitar and I started singing. But what if the guy had been like, 'Ooh we're ready!'? People don't appreciate that there's a thing that needs to happen. The stars need to align."

If someone asks you if you like the Smashing Pumpkins don’t reply by saying “yes I love to do that!”, you might get a funny look as a result. The Smashing Pumpkins have lent their music to movies and TV shows for a while now and have been among one of the most loved and influential bands throughout modern history. They did break up in 2000 but since 2006 have been going strong with a different lineup and the same sound that made them popular in the first place.

Their following is pretty big despite not hearing about them as often anymore.

5. If I Stay-Today

How many reasons would it take for a person to stick around when they have an open invitation to come or go? Mia has the ability to move on from a life in which her parents and little brother have already passed, but she has so much still to live for that she might miss out on something truly great. In the end she decides to stay, as there will no doubt be a day when she will be reunited with her family.

4. Bad Words-Snail

What would it take to get someone to acknowledge you finally and admit that you had something to do with the way your life turned out? Jason Bateman plays a guy that openly sabotages a national spelling bee, something that earns him the undying enmity of parents throughout the nation, just to get to the man responsible for putting it on in the first place. It’s a giant middle finger to the educational system, but one that is more of a smokescreen for his his true intentions.

3. South Park-Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Oh South Park. The parodies they take on and fully enjoy are pretty comical most of the time and this one is no exception. It details a crew that goes out whaling and makes them seem like tough guys that won’t take any crap from anyone, least of all the very animal they’re going after. I wonder just how Trey Parker and Matt Stone spend their days when it comes to thinking up ideas for this show.

2. Transformers-Doomsday Clock

Now this would be balls to the wall and riding on nothing but sheer nerve. First of all you’ve got a bunch of murderous, intelligent robots trashing the city, and second you have another group of robots that’s on your side. The act of driving backwards is hard enough, but driving backwards into a firefight between two opposing robots is something that would take nerves of steel to accomplish.

1. Batman and Robin-The End is the Beginning is the End

Say what you want about the movie, it was in fact pretty horrible, but the soundtrack at least had some redeeming qualities that unfortunately weren’t enough to pull the reputation of the movie out of the gutter. It seems that sometimes the worst movies get the best soundtracks as a kind of apology to the fans for such a cinematic misstep.

They’re still rocking it and still one of the best bands around.

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What album is Bullet With Butterfly Wings on?

Mellon Collie and the Infinite SadnessBullet with Butterfly Wings / Albumnull

What movie is the song today in?

"Today" is a 1964 folk song that was a hit for The New Christy Minstrels. Written by the group's founder, Randy Sparks, it was introduced in the American comedy-Western film Advance to the Rear (1964) and released on the album titled Today.

What movie had the song 1979?

On The Edge (2001) The track “1979” by The Smashing Pumpkins is played at the beginning of the movie during a scene where the lead character, Jonathan Breech (portrayed by the talented Cillian Murphy), is riding his bike.