The song peaked at 39 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's fourth and final top-40 hit there, number seven in New Zealand and the top 30 in Canada and the United Kingdom.

[4] When the band released their greatest hits collection in 2001, Thirty-Three made neither the international nor the US version.

[7] The music video for "Thirty-Three", directed both by Billy Corgan and then-girlfriend Yelena Yemchuk, is a series of images shot in stop-motion, ending with a re-enactment of the Mellon Collie album cover.

[10] The B-side "My Blue Heaven" features piano by Keith Brown,[11] a song written in 1927 by George A. Whiting and Walter Donaldson.

[12] Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Ivy fame contributed piano for the B-side "The Bells".