Smashing Pumpkins – «Tonight, Tonight» синглы және тарихы

1996 single by the Smashing Pumpkins

"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 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. A shorter acoustic version of the song, "Tonite Reprise", was included as a B side to the single and on the original triple LP version of Mellon Collie. This single also later appeared in an extended form on the box set The Aeroplane Flies High. Additionally, the song appears on the band's greatest hits release, Rotten Apples. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) used the song in their closing montage for the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs and ITV used the song in their montage for the 2012 Euros.

Billy Corgan began writing for the follow up to Siamese Dream after the tour in support of that album; however, the recording of "Tonight, Tonight" first began while the Pumpkins were still on the Siamese Dream tour when Corgan booked the band into a local Chicago studio to record all of their song ideas on tape. On The Howard Stern Show, Corgan has said that the song pays homage to Cheap Trick, with its black humoresque lyrics and theme, and that the song is addressed to himself, who escaped from an abusive childhood against all odds, so as to keep him believing in himself.

"Tonight, Tonight" is written in the key of G, performed on instruments tuned down a half step so the actual pitch is G/F #. In the original recording sessions, "Tonight, Tonight" was initially written in the key of C instead of G. Corgan said that recording with a 30 piece string section for the song "was probably one of the most exciting recording experiences I have ever had." The lyrics of the song have been compared to Robert Herrick's poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time".