There may be many new bandmembers in this video of the Smashing Pumpkins performing the previously unreleased track “99 Floors” live in the studio. But with its somber acoustics, softly grooving backing instrumentation, and Billy Corgan’s pensive, 9th-grade-poet lyrics about a dissolving relationship, this eight-minute song — off the band’s forthcoming If All Goes Wrong DVD — harkens back to their ’90s glory days. Now if only D’arcy and James Iha were still around…
Watch: Smashing Pumpkins, “99 Floors” [Via Spinner.com]
