El sencillo fue lanzado el 23 de enero de 1996. Posteriormente también fue editado en versión extendida para el box set The Aeroplane Flies High. Además, la canción forma parte del disco de grandes éxitos del grupo, titulado Rotten Apples. En 2008 apareció en la emisora ficticia Liberty Rock Radio, perteneciente a la banda sonora del videojuego Grand Theft Auto IV.
Album Greatest Hits [2004] - Track 9
Rotten Apples: The Best of the Smashing Pumpkins [2001] - Track 9
Aeroplane Flies High [1996] - Track 1 Disc 2
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [1995] - Track 5 Disc 2
Género Alternative - Rock
Duración 04:22
"LETRA DE LA CANCION"
Shakedown 1979Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
June bug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in the store
Morphine city slippin' dues down to see
We don't even care as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it to see
That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess forgotten and absorbed
Into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around
