Hard to imagine this is 40 years old. I'm 60's too and a punk, but remember when this (and a few others like Depeche Mode) hit the clubs. It REALLY WAS a New Age!
The decade of the 80's was probably one of the best in modern musical history. And thank god I was there to witness it. So many genres with so many hits and the underground was like nothing ever seen before or since.
Totally agree. I was there too, awoke in 1981 and God, what a years would follow… indeed The Smiths, and The Chameleons, Talk Talk, Prefab Sprout, R.E.M.. . Even U2 were great in those 🎸!days😉
Es la mejor década de los 80 a nivel Músical x lejos, pq existía todavía esa rebeldía e ingenuidad pero era genuino no era una moda de negocio barato, como es ahora en pleno siglo XXI.
@@gimmethepinkelephant3685 Translation: *"It is the best decade of the 80s on a Musical level by far, because there was still that rebellion and naivety but it was genuine, it was not a cheap business trend, as it is now in the 21st century."*
I'm 50. Remember first hearing this at an underage club in Chicago as a wee teen. Religious experience. Went on to be a musician. Played everything from punk to the blues and everything in-between. And decades later, it still comes back to Johnny Marr and this hypnotizing guitar riff. Gives me goose bumps to this day.
I'm 51 & this song still moves me the same today as it did back when teenage me first heard it. Music is dead now. We used to get a new genre & style every 4 years or so but modern music is just a homogeneous blob of formulatic crap.
University pubs, beautiful girls a dark smokey room, friends, this song playing, cranked. I m in my zone. Havent felt that good in a very long time. Thank you boys
TUNE!!!!! Music has gone down hill and off the edge of a cliff from about 2005. 70's, 80's, 90's were epic, kids need to discover this stuff and realise what good music is.
Yes. I found out years later that I was also dealing with depression. It’s tough growing up but I made. Finished college in 1989, got married, had great kids and career and am still breathing at age 58. Dealing with a bad bout of Covid but slowly getting better.
58 years young. This song is utterly timeless. 80s and early 90s were a magical time. This song still nearly brings me to tears thinking about the loneliness and general alienation I felt at the time. Johnny Marr has no peer.
No influencers. LOL - there have been "influencers" as long as there have been people grouping together. What do you think MTV was created for? The Movies? The Radio? The Newspaper?
Why re-release it? It's here for whoever wants it. I certainly wouldn't want to see a bunch of modern twinks screwing it up by trying to cover it again...lol!
I can't imagine you any other way but gay. I don't know if you are or not, but all the 75 year olds I know that aren't gay are listening to the Beach Boys and Joplin.
This is the song of songs. It just fit in my life so well. The university pub. They played it every night. Ahhhhh those were the times. I am blessed to have been part of those times.
Well, the fashion did suck. Then hair metal came along trying to ruin the world. Other than that, it was great. Although that's only because I was like 14yo! 😂😂😂
I am the son And the heir Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar I am the son and heir Of nothing in particular You shut your mouth How can you say I go about things the wrong way? I am human and I need to be loved Just like everybody else does I am the son And the heir Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar I am the son and heir Of nothing in particular You shut your mouth How can you say I go about things the wrong way? I am human and I need to be loved Just like everybody else does There's a club if you'd like to go You could meet somebody who really loves you So you go and you stand on your own And you leave on your own And you go home and you cry And you want to die When you say it's gonna happen now When exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long And all my hope is gone You shut your mouth How can you say I go about things the wrong way? I am human and I need to be loved Just like everybody else does
This song brings back memories of the 80's. Me being 16 or so. Head over hells in love with a girl...... who didn't know I existed. What great music we had back then.
The Smiths were built on the ‘swoon’ of Morrisey & the ‘soar’ of Marr - add in the locomotive drive of Rourke and Joyce at this pitch & it gets ridiculous. Staggering good
Like many of us who lived as teenagers in the 1980’s, we were blessed with masterpieces like this. I heard this track for the first time at a Goth party in 1984, it was pleasure for my ears…I don’t listen much to the Smiths now but this track is a favourite. Morrisey’s haunting vocals makes this track unforgettable! ❤❤❤
I was an international student from Ethiopia in a very exclusive boarding school in Indiana ! I was introduced by my American roommate at 16 - she literally welcomed me with this song when I first walked in our room ! The rest history ! I’m 48 and I still listen to the smiths !
Cruised the town at night driving alone. Despairing that I'd ever find someone. This song resonated to my soul. Still brings tears to my eyes, especially now that I've found Her. No longer alone, loved and happy. But a lot of strong emotions tied to this song
Same here. At that time, my addiction to alcohol and drugs had not totally taken over, but the song resonated with me too because I was often left alone since then I found some love and have a 17 year-old daughter with 19 years of sobriety and listening to the whole different way it’s amazing.
The smiths aren’t even a teeny tiny bit underrated by any critic or human in history. What utter nonsense. Why do sad mediocre bland people just write poorly thought out nonsense like “they are so underrated” then insert an extremely highly rated, multi award winning, famous band, singer, actor or film…that everyone on earth rates extremely highly. It’s embarrassing, shockingly unoriginal and totally false. It’s like they alone believe that they are “intellectual” and have somehow discovered an unsigned, unsuccessful talent that “no one else” figured out. 😂😂😂😂
My god I loved these times, we were young living life to the full and into a burgeoning and thrilling music scene in London and beyond, the decade that defined many of us ....... Steve Tucker, it was a privilege to call you my friend, you will never be forgotten, a huge missing piece of the jigsaw.
@@thescarletgraywitch8052 I just turned 60 the other day, which freaks me out. I Am trying not to slow down, as I just purchased a dirt bike. Surely this won't end well as I haven't ridden an off-road bike in 45 years.
@@patring620 well, tbh once I passed 50, i actually have to think out how old I am when someone asks. 😂😂😂 It just isnt registering in my brain since I've worked hard to remain as immature as possible! 🤣 Keep us informed PLEASE!! This dirtbike adventure could be priceless!! 😂😂😂😂😂
_"So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die"_ No, I lived this and wouldn't ever want to go back. Even if the romance was beautiful.
I think this song is another example of “ misunderstood lyrics” 😉 you know like singing the wrong words to one of your favorites for way too many years.. until the time when you get embarrassed by a friend who has the nerve to call you out and show you the lyrics 😳🤯🥺😫🫨😬😵💫🥴🫥 Don’t worry you aren’t alone in this!!!
I’ve never heard any music that describes so perfectly how my heart feels when it’s lonely. Not the lyrics, as poignant as they are, but how Marr’s guitar plays ache and longing.
The guitars & bass on this are something else. Love that reverb. No one else sounds like Marrs. Awesome! Just an all round great track with relatable lyrics. Hasn't aged a bit. Fab!
This song used to send the new strobe lights in my hometown main night club onto flash all the way through! The DJ on duty often did not know.... And half the folks who never danced to anything all night fled fron corners and the wings leaping in abandon chucking their arms around as if throwing imaginary daffodils at each other....as half the mainstream would walk off frustrated....! I never saw a song cause so much instant joy and disgust as a song on the dance floor in all my life as in Southern England in the 1980's ! it was tribal worship of The Smiths people who had waited all night for a Smith song would dance to wanton abandon in a gangly writhing thrall weird worship of this band and the mainstream norms wandered off to the bar ... .... It was GREAT!
I'm 57 grew up in New York on long island we had a radio station called WLIR there's been documentaries made about this time period and that radio station how they got all this great British music out of the UK to play on the station. Music nobody had ever heard arrived at JFK airport every Monday n was on the air that day. When MTV began this was the music that started it all off. Great Times wouldn't trade my youth for anything it was that special I saw all the greatest music the best bands and I still play today.
Being alive then at 26, i didnt have time to listen to music and with people my own age. Lost on a career during the time of AIDS. Years later at 66, this haunting hungry music fills the gap between now and who I've always been. No tune like it anywhere meant to stand out and be heard. Time is relative.
I graduated High School in 1984. The Smiths were of my top fav bands...but this song spoke to me like no other. Teen angst and such, but so appropriate. Right to the heart.
I died in 1894 for a few minutes. When I woke up on Xmas day in the hospital this was the first song I heard on the radio. Over the years I've actually grown quite fond of it, as it is one of THE songs of the 80s and my teens.
@@CordellPotts 1984suicide overdose, I was dead for a few minutes in an ambulance, woke up xmas morning in hospital. My birthfather was called Karol Lambrino and I was born in Ireland, but I'm the firstborn eldest male so I am actually the Dracul. Not a vampire, but do have an extreme garlic allergy. I wore a crucifix, as a irish roman catholic until I was 18 so no burny burny there. Unfortunately I look like my ancestor Vlad and do creep the fuck out of most folk.🖖
@@KieranSearleTheDracul Oh damn dude... I was joking bout the typo. I'm sorry, truly. Hey man, I'm 46 and I still fight that feeling.. I thank the Gods that I've got people who need me and love me now. It wasn't always that way though, I've dealt with the burden of knowing the true weight that we all carry since I was young. Some folks call it depression, I think it's more of a lack of ability to lie to yourself about the way the world is.
When I was around 18 years old, I heard this song and felt a sense of relief that SOMEBODY understands my depression and my frustration with the world I live in.
Definitely not my favorite Smith's song but I will admit it is probably their most important. I've been in love with the girl in this video for 40 years now.
I’m beginning my 69th time around the Sun. I’ve been hearing and loving this song for 40 years. Just recently learned who it was. What an iconically beautiful tune!
this song never gets old and im 54 and remember when it came out and instantly fell in love with it and i also dj for a college radio station here in Maine and i always have to play it at least once lol and its sad music cant be like thiis today
omg I love this song. The best era ever! So many memories of me and my best friend going to the “New Wave” clubs in Denver, just there with our peeps, most everybody wearing black. If there’s a heaven, it has a backdrop of 80s music.
Dead Beat Club, Rock Island.......Spent many, MANY nights there.... Rode my motorcycle down Sper, looking around, was in town to visit my son, was suddenly struck with the urge to look for Rock Island.... 4 decades makes for nostalgia
Such a great song, thank you Rex for uploading the 12'' version. I have to agree with the comment section the music was better in the 80s, so eclectic in the UK charts we had music from : The Cocteau Twins, Echo & The Bunnymen,The Cure, Joy division, John Cooper Clarke etc etc.
62 years old and still play Hatfull of Hollow and The Queen Is Dead constantly in the car - and the kids have now grown up over the years to love the Smiths too… Pay them forward !! Timeless brilliance…
47, sitting in the garage with my 17 year old boy , letting him hear why the Smiths were so Great. These songs, they make me happy and sad and the same time though... We've all lost so much time, And it seems to be moving faster every day.
Since this song reminds me of Charmed, I feel the need to say, RIP Shannen Doherty. Beyond that, absolutely amazing track that I come back to when I remember!
56 here still love this. I don’t think that The Smiths and Morrisseys got the recognition they deserved - they opened the floodgates for a huge number of successful bands.
Music, a time machine that takes you back to the place in time, where a memory was made.. Life is a full jukebox of songs, one for every moment in time....
An incredible song, one that sounds clean, fresh, and different no matter how many times you hear it. That guitar shimmer…how the hell does he do that?
I heard this back in the 80’s & I told the DJ Who was that & she said it was The Smith AND Man the next day ,…I went to the local record store & I bought it ,…Now I’m 70yrs old and Enjoying this song with my headphones 🎧🎶🎶 Zombie James 🥩
62 and half y.o. and I still love this song. Going to the clubs with my buddy, picking up chicks and dancing the night thru. It's what you did. Fun times.
As a teen I never felt that loneliness that Morrissey alludes. As a 47 year old man in this culture obsessed with cellular phones and filming everything, even going to a night club and not dancing but on their phones.. hell, I feel so alienated now..
I'm a mere 24, wish I was around when you guys were kicking it. 80s music touches my soul. I don't go out drinking as the music is so bad nowadays. Stay at home with these bangers on repeat
@Nuka-Quantum646 I feel sorry for you. When we actually went to clubs people weren't on their phones and people were pretty chill back then. I must say timing is everything. If you were there for it great! If not I do feel for you. I do thank you for keeping the spirit alive by listening to this stuff.
@@Nuka-Quantum646 times are what they are. We are living in an extraordinary time, when you have almost every song ever recorded at the touch of a screen, and a video, and the lyrics if you want and even comments. Music is a way of keeping time. People tend to cherish the music from their younger years when they felt more free. Young people that have grown up with these information technologies available to them behave in certain ways that would appear less free and more inhibited to anyone from genX. But each decade has its virtues and vices. Now you can find "communities" on social media that have shared interests. Try to find some people in your community that may share your taste in music.. try to find a tribe that vibes the way you do. I know it's mostly a dream, but dreams can become reality. Good luck!
This played at a lot of college parties when I was into old and authentic Texas blues, country western, and the Who. The Smiths seemed weak. But this out rocks Stairway to Heaven, Freebird, and lots of classics which I don’t believe will age well compared to this song. Beyond epic at every level.
I graduated in 84 and a week later I landed my first job at a record store. Started hanging around with the club kids. Fridays and Saturday nights we hung out at a techno club in Galveston, Texas. Sometimes we would make it to Numbers in Houston, that was the place to be. Between the clubs, the music, the alcohol and the drugs, even though some of it was often a blur, the 80’s were a great decade.
@@SamHell-wr8bi …Um yeah- no. He used twin-reverbs (with the tremolo and vibrato) switch , but you would know that if you’re a guitar player right ? I’m a guitar player as well since 1980’s…played LA circuit in 2000’s and EL Rey.. where’d you play?
@@Daatchmo Charlotte, Asheville, and Athens, 1990s. I don't doubt there's reverb in there, but that's not what's shaping the sound. It's tremolo/vibrato doing that. You can't make that sound with just reverb, no matter how much you use.
Baptism....first hearing this song. Late 80s. I am 47.. It changed everything then comes a full blown music Revolution in my High School years. (91-95)
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68 Years old and still floating with this Classic, Brilliant. 😄
Me 68 too and still dig it too.
59 this September
Es que The Smiths nos transporta a otra dimensión Músical, solamente los leales seguidores podemos entenderlo.
Hard to imagine this is 40 years old.
I'm 60's too and a punk, but remember when this (and a few others like Depeche Mode) hit the clubs.
It REALLY WAS a New Age!
66 year older than moz
The decade of the 80's was probably one of the best in modern musical history. And thank god I was there to witness it. So many genres with so many hits and the underground was like nothing ever seen before or since.
Say no more...
Totally agree. I was there too, awoke in 1981 and God, what a years would follow… indeed The Smiths, and The Chameleons, Talk Talk, Prefab Sprout, R.E.M.. . Even U2 were great in those 🎸!days😉
Es la mejor década de los 80 a nivel Músical x lejos, pq existía todavía esa rebeldía e ingenuidad pero era genuino no era una moda de negocio barato, como es ahora en pleno siglo XXI.
@@VaduzVaduz No hablo Espanol ... TH-cam no translation abajo ... Siento amigo.
@@gimmethepinkelephant3685 Translation: *"It is the best decade of the 80s on a Musical level by far, because there was still that rebellion and naivety but it was genuine, it was not a cheap business trend, as it is now in the 21st century."*
Rest in peace bassist Andy Rourke (1964-2023)… 😞🖤🕯️
El no quiere descansar, el quiere disfrutar su Música con los leales seguidores de The Smiths, pq el vive dentro de esta Muy buena Música.
Así es su legado permanece intacto ❤❤
But inmortals
😢🙏🏿💕
@mapymaYes! Emphatically! 9217
One of the most musically and lyrically brilliant songs of ALL TIME.
What else is there for a song other than its musicality and lyrics?
Totally agree 👑
@@321bytorSome songs have great melodies but rubbish lyrics and vice versa. This song is great in both respects (and rhythm)
Who is still listening to this in 2024? Me for sure.
yes there are ppl born in the 60s that love this. not many but a few
Me too !!!
👍👍🇦🇺
🎯
Me too🎉love it
One of the greatest 80s tracks. Definitely one of the Smith's best ever. Great student memories.
I'm 50. Remember first hearing this at an underage club in Chicago as a wee teen. Religious experience. Went on to be a musician. Played everything from punk to the blues and everything in-between. And decades later, it still comes back to Johnny Marr and this hypnotizing guitar riff. Gives me goose bumps to this day.
I'm 51 & this song still moves me the same today as it did back when teenage me first heard it.
Music is dead now. We used to get a new genre & style every 4 years or so but modern music is just a homogeneous blob of formulatic crap.
@@Yungrexy yeah music is not as culturally impactful & important anymore. Sad.
First time I heard it was walking in the door of Medussa's...a moment I'll never forget
50 next year 💚
You mean Medusa's? 😊 Oh yeah, then you head over to Punkin Donuts to keep the party going. I miss it. Great times.
University pubs, beautiful girls a dark smokey room, friends, this song playing, cranked. I m in my zone. Havent felt that good in a very long time. Thank you boys
Indeed, but such perfect days of the past cannot be relived and it kills me with sadness that I can't.
@@LAMF24 Not with that attitude it can't. The hell's a matter wit you, boy?!
@@LAMF24 self-medicate more...
Yes❤
agree
TUNE!!!!! Music has gone down hill and off the edge of a cliff from about 2005. 70's, 80's, 90's were epic, kids need to discover this stuff and realise what good music is.
It's not even music these days, those 3 decades were epic
I'm 56 & This is My Era ❤ The BEST Music EVER 🎶 😊
indeed. What a great time back then!
Class of '86!
hi
We had the best of almost everything ❤
Makes me painfully nostalgic.
This is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever dreamt of.
This song was for everyone who didn't feel like they fit in anywhere.. this was our mantra...
And siouxsie too good music good underground vibes
Yes. I found out years later that I was also dealing with depression. It’s tough growing up but I made. Finished college in 1989, got married, had great kids and career and am still breathing at age 58. Dealing with a bad bout of Covid but slowly getting better.
I still feel I don't fit in!
Wanting to meet a beautiful girl but too fucking scared to talk to one and leaving the club feeling totally defeated.😩
This and Mad World.
58 years young. This song is utterly timeless. 80s and early 90s were a magical time. This song still nearly brings me to tears thinking about the loneliness and general alienation I felt at the time. Johnny Marr has no peer.
I'm 55 and this song instantly transports me back to 15
Johnny Marr is a bit like Brighton.
Im 67 and still love the 70s and the 80s ride my old harley and just rock man.
The kids will never understand… no phones, no influencers, only talent.
Yes
Like Napoleon said,, are you lucky? 😊😊😊😊😊 lucky? 😊?
No influencers. LOL - there have been "influencers" as long as there have been people grouping together. What do you think MTV was created for? The Movies? The Radio? The Newspaper?
Fashion and Music magazines crammed stuff down our throats as well as MTV. We were always being manipulated.
Wow, no phones… I knew Morrissey was old, but I had no idea he was older than Alexander Graham Bell
55 now still enjoying this like back in the 80s and always will!! 🔥
Same!!
Same!!
62... and we are still young.
I'm getting older, this will never get old. The Smiths and many other 80s bands gave us immortal tunes.
True
I was 24 in 1984 I felt invincible and the music was incredible!!!
Blessed and honoured to have lived through the 80s 💙💚👌🏻👍🏻💪🙏👊🏻
.....who else have felt the same as me ?
It be rude not to ask
Lived through the 80s? I'm Still living in the 80S? Did they ever end?
Comrade!
@@martinwood744 definitely still going my m8
@@jennytaylor3324 respect 👍🏻
Somebody please re-release this tune. It is better than the crap that is turned out today.
Why re-release it? It's here for whoever wants it. I certainly wouldn't want to see a bunch of modern twinks screwing it up by trying to cover it again...lol!
WAY better.
Why re-release it when it's already out there? Not quite sure what good that does.
Tatu did it justice, believe it or not.
Try Snake River Conspiracy’s version
I’m 75. This here is on my playlist.
Fekin legend you xx
Seguís siendo un rockero de a pie de The Smiths.
I can't imagine you any other way but gay. I don't know if you are or not, but all the 75 year olds I know that aren't gay are listening to the Beach Boys and Joplin.
checked out your playlist on YT , dude you rock!
@jmitch623 I'm going to listen to your playlist :) thank you for putting it together.
I grow older but
this will never grow old.
Bad songs can get 15 mins of fame.. Good songs will find new fans forever! :)
This is the song of songs. It just fit in my life so well. The university pub. They played it every night. Ahhhhh those were the times. I am blessed to have been part of those times.
I'm 55.... This was our music in the 80s... 😊
55 as well. This song touches the soul. Truly a masterpiece
At 58 I'm right there with you!! 80's forever!!
I'm 65 and I still love The Smith's...9/19/24
I was 19 in 1984 ... still listening to this brilliant sound.
Same here. Using my altered ID to go to the clubs. This song blew me away. Memories
Also born in '65 here. To me, this is quintessential 80's music. Great music and fun times!
1984. What a great year. Forty years ago now. Where did the time go?
Well, the fashion did suck. Then hair metal came along trying to ruin the world. Other than that, it was great. Although that's only because I was like 14yo! 😂😂😂
Time waits for no man..
Mostly up my nose 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, what about time? As tense and desperate as this song. . . "i have already waited too long, and ALL MY HOPE is gone."
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
Thank you
Great song.💙
I'm fifty two and just realised that probably many humans never get to be really Loved by other humans.
Damn, i just liked this for the instrument arrangement, never actually listened to the lyrics. Dark.
Heavy
Thank you so much🖤🕯️
This song brings back memories of the 80's. Me being 16 or so. Head over hells in love with a girl...... who didn't know I existed. What great music we had back then.
Yep
The reverse backbeat. The industrial guitar. Morrisseys insecurity. Awesone
The Smiths were built on the ‘swoon’ of Morrisey & the ‘soar’ of Marr - add in the locomotive drive of Rourke and Joyce at this pitch & it gets ridiculous. Staggering good
I'm 54 but my head is there on 80s.
One of the most profoundly classic songs of the 80's. LOVE IT
Like many of us who lived as teenagers in the 1980’s, we were blessed with masterpieces like this. I heard this track for the first time at a Goth party in 1984, it was pleasure for my ears…I don’t listen much to the Smiths now but this track is a favourite. Morrisey’s haunting vocals makes this track unforgettable! ❤❤❤
I was an international student from Ethiopia in a very exclusive boarding school in Indiana ! I was introduced by my American roommate at 16 - she literally welcomed me with this song when I first walked in our room ! The rest history ! I’m 48 and I still listen to the smiths !
Deserve!
@mdte5421 I was there too the 80s.Best Decade for music.I'm 64 now.I'm listening to music back those days.They don't play music like this no more ever
Cruised the town at night driving alone. Despairing that I'd ever find someone. This song resonated to my soul. Still brings tears to my eyes, especially now that I've found Her. No longer alone, loved and happy. But a lot of strong emotions tied to this song
Same here. At that time, my addiction to alcohol and drugs had not totally taken over, but the song resonated with me too because I was often left alone since then I found some love and have a 17 year-old daughter with 19 years of sobriety and listening to the whole different way it’s amazing.
And in a darkened underpass, I thought “Oh God, my chance has come at last”, But a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn’t ask….
A masterpiece. Never ages, just brilliant
75 years old and love this so much feet are moving now the rest of me moving
G'wan Trev lad. Let the rhythm mova ya 😆
Are you 75 years old? I don't understand why marijuana is still banned in so many places in the world.
Such a talented group, so underrated yet so influential.
The smiths aren’t even a teeny tiny bit underrated by any critic or human in history.
What utter nonsense. Why do sad mediocre bland people just write poorly thought out nonsense like “they are so underrated” then insert an extremely highly rated, multi award winning, famous band, singer, actor or film…that everyone on earth rates extremely highly.
It’s embarrassing, shockingly unoriginal and totally false.
It’s like they alone believe that they are “intellectual” and have somehow discovered an unsigned, unsuccessful talent that “no one else” figured out.
😂😂😂😂
Thanks Martin, that needed saying. The Smiths are not remotely under-rated!
I'm really interested in how you come to the conclusion that The Smiths are underrated.
@@martinsolomon5500100% agree. I love The Smiths, I’m 57 now and they were never ever under appreciated or underrated!
The 80's. Strange style but never ending incredible music!! 55 now and still feeling 15
And to think we took it all for granted. Good days.
Y E S !!!
There were some real crap also…
I was 19 in 1984.
This masterpiece hit HARD 💯🤯
My god I loved these times, we were young living life to the full and into a burgeoning and thrilling music scene in London and beyond, the decade that defined many of us ....... Steve Tucker, it was a privilege to call you my friend, you will never be forgotten, a huge missing piece of the jigsaw.
Takes me back to my teenage days which I’d go back to in a heartbeat.💓
Lol. Wouldn't we all...
Yeah right!!? 😂😂😂 All these kids try so hard to be older, when it's usually all downhill after 25 or 30. 😂😂
@@thescarletgraywitch8052 I just turned 60 the other day, which freaks me out. I Am trying not to slow down, as I just purchased a dirt bike. Surely this won't end well as I haven't ridden an off-road bike in 45 years.
@@patring620 well, tbh once I passed 50, i actually have to think out how old I am when someone asks. 😂😂😂 It just isnt registering in my brain since I've worked hard to remain as immature as possible! 🤣
Keep us informed PLEASE!! This dirtbike adventure could be priceless!! 😂😂😂😂😂
_"So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die"_ No, I lived this and wouldn't ever want to go back. Even if the romance was beautiful.
I remember cruising Fremont Street , smashed out of our minds growing up in Vegas 80's. This song is timeless.
I went to middle school and high school from 1981 to 1987...What an incredible time to be alive with music like this!!!😁😁
I'm 55 world traveled. Just heard this 2 months ago. I know 80s and 90s is coming back around. KLO 🐻
First heard this when i was 13. Im 50 now and still love this sound and the vibe. One of my favorite all time songs. Thank you
I am the sun and the air. I am 55 now and this song never gets old.
same as...love it
I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar ...
I think this song is another example of “ misunderstood lyrics” 😉 you know like singing the wrong words to one of your favorites for way too many years.. until the time when you get embarrassed by a friend who has the nerve to call you out and show you the lyrics 😳🤯🥺😫🫨😬😵💫🥴🫥
Don’t worry you aren’t alone in this!!!
So glad I was able to see The Smiths live! It was 86/87, went with my band, Great Woods/Boston.
Awesome!
56 years old and this song is our era's "Stairway to Heaven", theme song of my youth for sure! Love it the same now as then
Whose era is "Stairway to Heaven"?! 😂
They had a style and sound all of their own. Unique and brilliant!
🤘😎🎸🤘
I can remember driving and this song would play on the radio. Always made the trip better. wherever I was headed...
I’ve never heard any music that describes so perfectly how my heart feels when it’s lonely. Not the lyrics, as poignant as they are, but how Marr’s guitar plays ache and longing.
Amazing.. better than anything out in the top 20 today
That’s not hard.
“Hey Mickey” by Toni Basil is better than anything in the top 20.
Taylor Swift can only dream of having a song of this caliber.
Absolutely
Feckin' A. This just came up on my feed. I had totally forgotten about this awesome group.
I'm 55 and STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE!!
Rock on!!
Crazy to think how much creativity went into this track. That opening is one of the most badass pieces of music ever created. Just damn.
Natural for us mancs, kid.
The guitars & bass on this are something else. Love that reverb. No one else sounds like Marrs. Awesome! Just an all round great track with relatable lyrics. Hasn't aged a bit. Fab!
The nostalgia is heavy with this song❤ Man I loved the 80's & early 90's so much. I love how music/songs can take us back in time
This song used to send the new strobe lights in my hometown main night club onto flash all the way through! The DJ on duty often did not know.... And half the folks who never danced to anything all night fled fron corners and the wings leaping in abandon chucking their arms around as if throwing imaginary daffodils at each other....as half the mainstream would walk off frustrated....! I never saw a song cause so much instant joy and disgust as a song on the dance floor in all my life as in Southern England in the 1980's ! it was tribal worship of The Smiths people who had waited all night for a Smith song would dance to wanton abandon in a gangly writhing thrall weird worship of this band and the mainstream norms wandered off to the bar ... .... It was GREAT!
Turned 50 last week....this song has lived rent free in my head since 1987... I am human and I need to be loved...just like everybody else does
Almost 70 no playlist without this tune
I'm 57 grew up in New York on long island we had a radio station called WLIR there's been documentaries made about this time period and that radio station how they got all this great British music out of the UK to play on the station. Music nobody had ever heard arrived at JFK airport every Monday n was on the air that day. When MTV began this was the music that started it all off. Great Times wouldn't trade my youth for anything it was that special I saw all the greatest music the best bands and I still play today.
WLIR Malibu sue and Larry the duck!! Omg those were THE DAYS!
Best songs ever on LIR
Malibu sue would host at spratts on merrick Ave.
Good times back then
Being alive then at 26, i didnt have time to listen to music and with people my own age. Lost on a career during the time of AIDS. Years later at 66, this haunting hungry music fills the gap between now and who I've always been. No tune like it anywhere meant to stand out and be heard. Time is relative.
I graduated High School in 1984. The Smiths were of my top fav bands...but this song spoke to me like no other. Teen angst and such, but so appropriate. Right to the heart.
Timeless - the music, lyrics, the feeling it evokes. Artfully done in 1984 and still resonates in 2024. ❤
In THAT moment, she was the most beautiful woman in this world.
Stunning
And no-one knows who she is...
Saw someone on Reddit saying her name was Kim Reese and was a model attending NYU at the time.
I died in 1894 for a few minutes. When I woke up on Xmas day in the hospital this was the first song I heard on the radio. Over the years I've actually grown quite fond of it, as it is one of THE songs of the 80s and my teens.
How long you been a vampire?
What killed you in 1894?
A wooden stake?
Did they just remove it and you came back to life?
I need to know!!
@@CordellPotts 1984suicide overdose, I was dead for a few minutes in an ambulance, woke up xmas morning in hospital.
My birthfather was called Karol Lambrino and I was born in Ireland, but I'm the firstborn eldest male so I am actually the Dracul. Not a vampire, but do have an extreme garlic allergy. I wore a crucifix, as a irish roman catholic until I was 18 so no burny burny there. Unfortunately I look like my ancestor Vlad and do creep the fuck out of most folk.🖖
@@KieranSearleTheDracul Oh damn dude...
I was joking bout the typo.
I'm sorry, truly.
Hey man, I'm 46 and I still fight that feeling..
I thank the Gods that I've got people who need me and love me now.
It wasn't always that way though, I've dealt with the burden of knowing the true weight that we all carry since I was young.
Some folks call it depression,
I think it's more of a lack of ability to lie to yourself about the way the world is.
@@CordellPotts totally man, anyway good luck to you👍
Lol im having another relaspe, back in the 80s again. Alway on replay and a quick exit to the past. Thank you Smiths
When I was around 18 years old, I heard this song and felt a sense of relief that SOMEBODY understands my depression and my frustration with the world I live in.
Definitely not my favorite Smith's song but I will admit it is probably their most important. I've been in love with the girl in this video for 40 years now.
Same here. She's been the stuff dreams are made of for generations!
Absolute beauty. Does anyone know what her name is? Forty years later, I'm still looking for her.
I’m beginning my 69th time around the Sun. I’ve been hearing and loving this song for 40 years. Just recently learned who it was. What an iconically beautiful tune!
this song never gets old and im 54 and remember when it came out and instantly fell in love with it and i also dj for a college radio station here in Maine and i always have to play it at least once lol and its sad music cant be like thiis today
This is on my stranded on a desert island playlist….40years on and still never tire of it. Always loved haunting melodies.
omg I love this song. The best era ever! So many memories of me and my best friend going to the “New Wave” clubs in Denver, just there with our peeps, most everybody wearing black. If there’s a heaven, it has a backdrop of 80s music.
Dead Beat Club, Rock Island.......Spent many, MANY nights there.... Rode my motorcycle down Sper, looking around, was in town to visit my son, was suddenly struck with the urge to look for Rock Island.... 4 decades makes for nostalgia
All Johnny Marr. That guitar sound is what made them famous.
Thank you Johnny Marr. He actually changed the sound of rock without even knowing it.
Not a single bad or average song from The Smiths! Glad to see so many teenagers coming back to this. So lucky I was a teenager in the '80s!
Such a great song, thank you Rex for uploading the 12'' version. I have to agree with the comment section the music was better in the 80s, so eclectic in the UK charts we had music from : The Cocteau Twins, Echo & The Bunnymen,The Cure, Joy division, John Cooper Clarke etc etc.
62 years old and still play Hatfull of Hollow and The Queen Is Dead constantly in the car - and the kids have now grown up over the years to love the Smiths too… Pay them forward !! Timeless brilliance…
47, sitting in the garage with my 17 year old boy , letting him hear why the Smiths were so Great.
These songs, they make me happy and sad and the same time though...
We've all lost so much time,
And it seems to be moving faster every day.
482 years of eternal youth and I never listened something so smooth since Moonlight Sonata
Diary of a Vampir: Discovering Morrissey :p
Since this song reminds me of Charmed, I feel the need to say, RIP Shannen Doherty. Beyond that, absolutely amazing track that I come back to when I remember!
56 here still love this. I don’t think that The Smiths and Morrisseys got the recognition they deserved - they opened the floodgates for a huge number of successful bands.
I met Johnny Marr and talked to him here at the house of blues in San Diego a great guy had a concert here back more than few years ago.
I think seriously I will always be 16 in 1985 listening to music like this and being so happy with my friends!!!💪
I will always be 24
Music, a time machine that takes you back to the place in time, where a memory was made.. Life is a full jukebox of songs, one for every moment in time....
An incredible song, one that sounds clean, fresh, and different no matter how many times you hear it. That guitar shimmer…how the hell does he do that?
It’s beautiful❤
I heard this back in the 80’s & I told the DJ Who was that & she said it was The Smith AND Man the next day ,…I went to the local record store & I bought it ,…Now I’m 70yrs old and Enjoying this song with my headphones 🎧🎶🎶
Zombie James 🥩
62 and half y.o. and I still love this song. Going to the clubs with my buddy, picking up chicks and dancing the night thru. It's what you did. Fun times.
It’s bittersweet isn’t it…
This song will live forever ❤
As a teen I never felt that loneliness that Morrissey alludes. As a 47 year old man in this culture obsessed with cellular phones and filming everything, even going to a night club and not dancing but on their phones.. hell, I feel so alienated now..
Just turned 47 yesterday and I can’t agree with you more. Gen X forever!
@@spyterus47 this past December. Gen x brother
I'm a mere 24, wish I was around when you guys were kicking it. 80s music touches my soul. I don't go out drinking as the music is so bad nowadays. Stay at home with these bangers on repeat
@Nuka-Quantum646 I feel sorry for you. When we actually went to clubs people weren't on their phones and people were pretty chill back then. I must say timing is everything. If you were there for it great! If not I do feel for you. I do thank you for keeping the spirit alive by listening to this stuff.
@@Nuka-Quantum646 times are what they are. We are living in an extraordinary time, when you have almost every song ever recorded at the touch of a screen, and a video, and the lyrics if you want and even comments. Music is a way of keeping time. People tend to cherish the music from their younger years when they felt more free. Young people that have grown up with these information technologies available to them behave in certain ways that would appear less free and more inhibited to anyone from genX. But each decade has its virtues and vices. Now you can find "communities" on social media that have shared interests. Try to find some people in your community that may share your taste in music.. try to find a tribe that vibes the way you do. I know it's mostly a dream, but dreams can become reality. Good luck!
This played at a lot of college parties when I was into old and authentic Texas blues, country western, and the Who. The Smiths seemed weak.
But this out rocks Stairway to Heaven, Freebird, and lots of classics which I don’t believe will age well compared to this song.
Beyond epic at every level.
Always been my favourite 40 years ago and still listening, great video 😍❤❤xx
Whenever I hear this master piece, I want a hug 😔
This song changed my life, nothing else sounded like this inthe 80s, i was hopelessly hooked
Thanks, man! I love this tune.
I graduated in 84 and a week later I landed my first job at a record store. Started hanging around with the club kids. Fridays and Saturday nights we hung out at a techno club in Galveston, Texas. Sometimes we would make it to Numbers in Houston, that was the place to be. Between the clubs, the music, the alcohol and the drugs, even though some of it was often a blur, the 80’s were a great decade.
Johnny Marr ran 4 twin reverb amps to get this sound, still 2024 it’s a relevant song- does that need any explanation????
❤
Brilliant
Reverb? I'm a guitarist. What makes this song is tremolo, not reverb.
@@SamHell-wr8bi …Um yeah- no. He used twin-reverbs (with the tremolo and vibrato) switch , but you would know that if you’re a guitar player right ? I’m a guitar player as well since 1980’s…played LA circuit in 2000’s and EL Rey.. where’d you play?
@@Daatchmo Charlotte, Asheville, and Athens, 1990s. I don't doubt there's reverb in there, but that's not what's shaping the sound. It's tremolo/vibrato doing that. You can't make that sound with just reverb, no matter how much you use.
Baptism....first hearing this song. Late 80s.
I am 47.. It changed everything then comes a full blown music Revolution in my High School years. (91-95)
A glorious moment in music
1984... Someone is batting One thousand. Love you
The NorthWest of England produces the best football and the best music we have.