The fade out in the beginning was Marr trying the create the effect of opening a door closing it and then opening it again. This is one of my favorite smiths songs the guitar rift is magic. Oh and the song is a bit deeper than “size of breast” lol.
I'm relieved to find the song is pretty much about what I've always thought. Though I've always taken the last couplet simply to be about unrequited love. I'm not sure how controversial it is to say that "The Queen Is Dead" is their best album. It's certainly my favourite of their studio albums. But I have a soft spot for "Hatful Of Hollow" that slips it into first place. When it came out in late 1984 I was in the middle of high school, with very little money. Until then I'd only been able to buy albums after xmas or my birthday. Albums cost an average £4.99 at the time, if I remember rightly, and singles were 79p. If I skipped school dinners a couple of times in a week I could buy a single on Saturday but I just didn't have the patience to save for LPs. "Hatful of Hollow", being a collection of BBC Radio session recordings was significantly cheaper (£1.99 or £2.49 I think) and I had it in a couple of weeks. I still have that LP but it's pretty worn out now. (Sorry to go on so long, the memory of buying it came to me as I was typing.)
Checked out what Smiths you've done, "Girlfriend in a Coma" gets my vote. I'm "serious." Bouncy yet sad. Believe it or not it was a single off their fourth and final album "Strange Ways, Here We Come" from late '87.
This video is now pretty old so you may not see this, but the comparison to The Sugarcubes is a good one, and you might want to give them a reaction if you want to listen to more women singers (you mentioned that recently on the Elastica video reaction). Start where you like, but I often recommend Cold Sweat or Deus (and anything from Life's Too Good album). It's fronted by Bjork which some people have an aversion to, but remaining open-minded is always good. Thanks for the vids Nick. Always love your lyric breakdowns.
This song is NOT about breasts or fat girls.... its about men (and women that is) coming to the realization the POWER of feminine sexuality.... that is, us men see women, we love, we lust, we look, we chase, we die over their figures.... they in turn RULE the world for those moments, for those years when they are in full BLOSSOM. 😉... a woman's body is one of the most essential qualities that keeps our SPECIES alive. It's very simple, it's what all men AND women discover whence coming of age.... as he sings in the "....I have just discovered". It's not cynical, it's not ridicule... its merely facts of nature. This song is brilliant.
This is a joke lyric. Not really a joke, but a dismissive and ridiculing view on people's concerns with women's "sizes" and shapes and how the debate has gone on forever. I guess the same can be said about men... Then the music is just bliss. I think Morrissey didn't feel he needed to add too much to this riff. This could have been an instrumental really.
It's hard to figure out what to suggest to you. You've got tons of Tool and Smashing Pumpkins, and now The Smiths are well covered. This is where people start suggesting King Crimson but that stuff gets blocked quick. However, Robert Fripp's 1979 solo album "Exposure" seems to be on folk's YT channels without much of an issue. "Here Comes the Flood" with Peter Gabriel on vocals is great stuff. And "North Star" with Daryl Hall on vocals. A weird eclectic mix of songs. th-cam.com/video/VZA3qLXj8bA/w-d-xo.html
Johnny Marr: "Some tunes just drop out of the heavens, and the Some Girls guitar line was one of them"
It’s an incredibly haunting and beautiful riff, I still cant play it at all clean after 30+ years of trying..
Marr is taking about just OUTRO
Johnny Marr also has the god particle that's why he collaborated with hans zimmer. it's pure magic.
The fade out in the beginning was Marr trying the create the effect of opening a door closing it and then opening it again. This is one of my favorite smiths songs the guitar rift is magic. Oh and the song is a bit deeper than “size of breast” lol.
Morrissey wrote all the Lyrics, Marr wrote all the music.
Good stuff, morriseys lyrics are always deeper then the surface
I'm relieved to find the song is pretty much about what I've always thought. Though I've always taken the last couplet simply to be about unrequited love.
I'm not sure how controversial it is to say that "The Queen Is Dead" is their best album. It's certainly my favourite of their studio albums. But I have a soft spot for "Hatful Of Hollow" that slips it into first place.
When it came out in late 1984 I was in the middle of high school, with very little money. Until then I'd only been able to buy albums after xmas or my birthday. Albums cost an average £4.99 at the time, if I remember rightly, and singles were 79p. If I skipped school dinners a couple of times in a week I could buy a single on Saturday but I just didn't have the patience to save for LPs. "Hatful of Hollow", being a collection of BBC Radio session recordings was significantly cheaper (£1.99 or £2.49 I think) and I had it in a couple of weeks. I still have that LP but it's pretty worn out now.
(Sorry to go on so long, the memory of buying it came to me as I was typing.)
This song should be listened to while watching Carry On Cleo.
Ohhhhh I say
Supergrass did a cover of this on the b-side of ones of their singles.
The theme of this song is exactly the same as the song "Peaches" by The Stranglers.
Checked out what Smiths you've done, "Girlfriend in a Coma" gets my vote. I'm "serious." Bouncy yet sad. Believe it or not it was a single off their fourth and final album "Strange Ways, Here We Come" from late '87.
The song is "an ironic ode by The Smiths to the female form, Morrissey's play on male sexism in the breast obsession." (MOZIPEDIA book)
You need to get to the "Strange Ways Here We Come" album several good songs on it!!!!
Girlfriend in coma is a classic
Que aleatório as legendas em português kdkdksk
This video is now pretty old so you may not see this, but the comparison to The Sugarcubes is a good one, and you might want to give them a reaction if you want to listen to more women singers (you mentioned that recently on the Elastica video reaction). Start where you like, but I often recommend Cold Sweat or Deus (and anything from Life's Too Good album). It's fronted by Bjork which some people have an aversion to, but remaining open-minded is always good. Thanks for the vids Nick. Always love your lyric breakdowns.
This song is NOT about breasts or fat girls.... its about men (and women that is) coming to the realization the POWER of feminine sexuality.... that is, us men see women, we love, we lust, we look, we chase, we die over their figures.... they in turn RULE the world for those moments, for those years when they are in full BLOSSOM. 😉... a woman's body is one of the most essential qualities that keeps our SPECIES alive. It's very simple, it's what all men AND women discover whence coming of age.... as he sings in the "....I have just discovered".
It's not cynical, it's not ridicule... its merely facts of nature. This song is brilliant.
Can you try that joke isn't funny anymore next please. Loving your reactions
Thank you! And yes, that'll be uploaded tomorrow!
I agree
This may have been Morrissey's logic, but I wish he had done that with some other song.....
Depeche Mode Nick.
This is a joke lyric. Not really a joke, but a dismissive and ridiculing view on people's concerns with women's "sizes" and shapes and how the debate has gone on forever. I guess the same can be said about men...
Then the music is just bliss. I think Morrissey didn't feel he needed to add too much to this riff. This could have been an instrumental really.
There is absolutely no ridicule here my friend this is about discovering feminine sexuality
It's hard to figure out what to suggest to you. You've got tons of Tool and Smashing Pumpkins, and now The Smiths are well covered. This is where people start suggesting King Crimson but that stuff gets blocked quick. However, Robert Fripp's 1979 solo album "Exposure" seems to be on folk's YT channels without much of an issue. "Here Comes the Flood" with Peter Gabriel on vocals is great stuff. And "North Star" with Daryl Hall on vocals. A weird eclectic mix of songs. th-cam.com/video/VZA3qLXj8bA/w-d-xo.html
Love the Smiths but I can give this one a swerve quite easily
Incredible tune this as a guitarist i appreciate this even more
Break out the diary. Lol.