A song about youth . Dreams . Hopes. A song about growing up in the 80s .Those who wanted something different to the mainstream .Brilliantly realised .
An alternative take: this is a self-indulgent song which displays misplaced anger and frustration. The protagonist is clearly self-involved, self-important. She believes she is morally superior to those around her. She doesn't belong in this shitty town, amongst these selfish, shitty people. She is better. She deserves more. She shows her contempt for those around her, but also her cowardice: instead of debating with someone and having her ideas tested, she instead slyly drops her attacks on unprepared people. As the wise prophet Lisa Simpson said, selling angst to youth is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.
Late gen x here .. born in 80. And I agree luckily I had an older brother and older friends to introduce me into all of the great music of the 80’s. The 90’s were good too. But the 80’s were the best.
A time capsule for Southend-On-Sea in 1988 that needs to be cherished. Those days are long gone and the memories fade. One day this is all we will have
I remember those days.. The 80's were so weird at first and then you got used to all the new wave and alternative music.. I remember singing to the Violent Femmes and They Might Be Giants.. and then the 90's crept in.. It was still really good but these bands were beginning to fade.. their stuff started sounding old and played out.. Nobody wanted to see (or be caught dead at) the 4th showing of Depeche Mode.. Synth-pop was dying. Everyone was sick of poppy boy bands, big hair, brightly colored tights wearing pseudo rockers.. That grunge sh!t came in and the Pacific NW rock scene took over.. and just like that the 80's weren't cool anymore.
I'm from Brazil and I love Morrissey and The Smiths. Your songs are beautiful, beautiful songs that talk about subjects that few people talk about. The sadness that sometimes human beings go through, the depressions. Morrissey masterfully manages to put those feelings into words.
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday 0028am 9.10.23 you know what i hate? UK cunts who had no time for this band etc etc and then claim yer a jonhny cum lately cos you slip on a disc..... as for brazil. cool. it had excellent football team. good luck!!!!
Sou brasileiro também e concordo plenamente com vc. Eles conseguem colocar em músicas o que as pessoas sentem e vevenciam em suas vidas, às vezes de forma irônica, às vezes de forma melancólica. Suas canções são maravilhosas.
This song always makes me cry, is so beautiful on every single aspect, gen X here, filled with nostalgia for the good old days when music meant something.
PERFECTION. Complete and utter PERFECTION. The most beautiful and enigmatic human God has ever blessed us with. I’ve had his framed poster over my bed for 20 YEARS!!!!
perfect combination of sounds, melodies, lyrics and nostalgia for what's long gone, must listen on a cold rainy day only. He makes sadness look beautiful
Homework and my Mum's crap roast. Seaside much better than the shit hole I grew up in! Morrissey wouldn't have made it to adulthood had he been born in Tadcaster!
Anybody remember when sundays were sundays. Days spent with families no shops open maybe a newsagent or offy or a garage. How the times have changed. Brilliant tune Brilliant artist Glad this will never change 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Trudging slowly over wet sand Back to the bench Where your clothes were stolen This is the coastal town That they forgot to close down Armageddon, come Armageddon Come, Armageddon, come Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey Hide on the promenade Etch a postcard How I dearly wish I was not here In the seaside town That they forgot to bomb Come, come, come, nuclear bomb Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey Trudging back over pebbles and sand And a strange dust lands on your hands And on your face On your face On your face On your face Everyday is like Sunday Win yourself a cheap tray Share some greased tea with me Everyday is silent and grey
This song and video perfectly captures the mood and feel of a British seaside town that has long since seen its glory years. These towns are now trapped with this retro aesthetic, the thrills of yesteryear and a seemingly permanent population of old age pensioners that languish in this distant nostalgia. These are the places where the working class (some middle class too), displaced and pushed out of bigger more competitive cities, come to find some semblance of a more traditional family life. Their children end up like the female protagonist in this video, wandering aimlessly through a grey time capsule of a town, trying to find meaning in this decay and forgotten past. The sea provides a glimpse into the wider world and allows one to ponder on the possibilities, but is it enough to galvanise them? In the end most of them become content in the mundaneity of it all. The various trends, subcultures and consumer product that filters out from inland and into these towns can provide a distraction; but before they know it, they are the grey haired old bags and geezers that crowd the bingo halls and penny arcades. Whilst this all sounds very depressing, I do think the tale of the English seaside town, its rise and fall in the 20th century and beyond, is infinitely fascinating. This is a eerily beautiful vignette that illustrates this perfectly.
This song gives me goose bumps and reminds me of being a carefree teenager, feeling excited about life and looking forward to the future. Sunday used to be a special day when the country came to rest for a few hours. Now it is just another stressful day in a greedy and cut-throat world where the mega rich have their feet firmly on our necks..
Must be nice to have rose tinted glasses in reality domestic abuse was rampent everyone was over worked all the small coal mining towns were failing and people had no jobs alcoholism began to get out of hand and forget about fair pay ignore the racism and yeh perfect
@@yoshi0k262 he didn't say it was perfect. Also, everything you mentioned is still true, only now we have the added bonus of the destruction of the middle class and a control over society so thorough that the tiny scraps of hope that we clung to back then have been wiped away. Everything you just said, plus the casual kick in the face of absolute and irrefutable hopelessness.
His voice is one of those legendary voices that are just so unique and so perfect. Like Brian Ferry, Roy Orbison or Tom Jones. Don't have to like their music, but one must recognize their sublime voice.
man those were the days. we're so lucky to know what it was like "before". Look up some tiktok videos of high school kids in the 80s. make u cry being reminded of how we engaged with each other then...sigh...
I used to find this video hilarious when I was a teenager in Southend - by all accounts, apparently the local council were not amused and did not approve of the song's lyrical contents. These days when I watch it, I just feel sad. So many of these locations (the Golden Disc record shop in particular) were a huge part of my teenage years, and while I couldn't wait to leave the place, this video is such a beautifully shot period piece. Nobody cared about Southend in those days so there's not really much else out there from this time period. I always get a bit upset when I see the road at the top of the precinct at 2:00 - because yes, that actually was one of the points where our parents used to pick us up after a Saturday spent shopping or sulking around. Long gone days, and sadly mostly departed people.
Siempre será algo q siempre estará en ti, dentro tuyo. Y, ojalá te pase como a mí, q cada vez q la escucho, quiero soltar ese grito de libertad q en su momento tuve y, los años y circunstancias van reprimiendo. Hasta q vuelve a explotar de dentro hacia afuera, lastima q suele ser en momentos de autosugestión y, por desgracia, casi siempre en soledad. Un saludo.
It's like the soul got left behind when the clocks turned midnight at the start of the millennium. I'm an empty man in an empty world, longing for something true.
On my divorce I used to see my two young children every Sunday. After dropping them off back with their Mum I played this sog on the long drive home. I would be happy that I had seen them but so sad to leave them. I cried as I drove & I still cry now when I hear this. Such sad days.
Reading these words is like looking in a mirror mate... Dropping my lad off got me choked every time.. Trying to put on a face before I knocked the door on Xmas morning feeling so torn up that leaving a couple of hours later almost became a relief..? Chin up mate, they'll always know deep down who was really there for them (not a dig at their mum in any way as I'm sure you know) and so will you!
Omg.. I know exactly how you feel. I was an idiot, I ruined my marriage and seeing my 2 young children every other weekend was an absolute heartbreaker.. looking at the clock on a Sunday afternoon dreading that time to take them home. 6 years later even though my daughter is a teenager and has her own life my son is 12and taking him home still destroys me. I know it was my fault but God its still the hardest thing ever. This song is incredible but such sad times.
In the 80's I wasnt really a fan of the Smiths at all, but as time as gone on, I've realised just how good Morrissey really is. He is without doubt probably one of the most talented British artists of the last 3 decades. His lyrics, music, and most of all voice, are so unique. He is a legend.👍
Trudging slowly over wet sand Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen This is the coastal town That they forgot to close down Armageddon, come Armageddon! Come, Armageddon! Come! Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey Hide on the promenade Etch a postcard : "How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here" In the seaside town That they forgot to bomb Come, come, come, nuclear bomb Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey Trudging back over pebbles and sand And a strange dust lands on your hands (And on your face) (On your face) (On your face) (On your face) Everyday is like Sunday "Win yourself a cheap tray" Share some greased tea with me Everyday is silent and grey
Oh my GOD. I've never thought to look this song up. I'm 50 and this is blowing my mind. The fashions, the song, the vibe. Blasted this old man back to 1988.
Me too! I’m 48 and when I was 16 I wanted to be this girl so badly. It was my dream to be that cool. Now I watch this video and I think God what a brat she was! LOL. I guess 30 years does change a person.
I grew up in Southend, interesting to see it here. The two old ladies are eating at a place called the arches in Westcliff, or it used to be. The record shop at the start is the Golden Disc where I bought many a record... this video takes me back...
Come to Manchester and the town centre now is full of assorted uneducated toerags , shallow plastics and scroats with no appreciation of tge music from Manchester or its musical history.
I have a "special ritual" : every sunday I listen to this song and fall in love with this band... It´s been ages since I started and I do not intend to stop so soon ^^
This video was shot in the Southend of my teenage years. I worked a summer season in the Three Shells Kiosk which is shown and also in the record shop (Golden Disc) although after it was taken over by HMV. It perfectly sums up the sense of adolescent alienation from that provincial hometown. Now it just makes me feel nostalgic about the place though!
One of the best songs of the 1980's , Morrisseys haunting voice telling us about the Britain we lived in back then perfectly. Best songwriter ever IMHO
"I've already cried a lot when this hit reached the top 10 in 1988. This tune had mighty be the only real poem that could translate what you really felt at that..."!!!
As a 16 year old growing up in South Africa, I watched this music video with mates and loved the song. So irony of this story, is I now live in the town in the UK where this is shot.
Used to go out with a girl back in the 80's with hair like this. Now married to her and getting older. Something about this video which reminds me of that great time in my life. What a song.
Outstanding, I can't think of another artist who was with a phenomenal group and continued this into a solo career with as much vigor! Most solo artists have one or 2 hits and they fall by the wayside Pure magic
I saw him live recently, in a show that, inexplicably, was in this little town in Texas that I live near...I'd liked The Smiths, and what little of his solo work I'd heard, but, hey, somebody like this was playing here? I wasn't gonna miss that...It was in a beautiful old downtown theatre that had recently been restored and is far, far too underutilized...Great show...But he did this song...I may have heard it before, but that doesn't really matter, because this is one of those rare songs that even if you haven't ever heard it before, it feels like you have, and it feels like you always loved it, and it feels like it was always a part of your life...By the time he hits that first chorus, you are sold...
Eu Amo Essa Canção... Triste,Melancólica,Angustiante,Real,Conflitante,mas,ao Mesmo Tempo: Bela,Calma,Serena,Linda. Como Pode,Uma Mistura De Sentimentos,Tão Intensa,Numa Única Canção? Sensacional!!
I worked in record stores in the 80s. I'm from Chicago, but I went to graduate school in Cambridge, MA, during which time I worked at a record store in Back Bay, Boston. Afterwards, I lived in Revere Beach for a year, which is as close as we have to the kind of down-at-the-heels, coastal resort town that Morrisey is singing about. AND I've been a vegetarian since about 1981, so this lovely song and vid checked off nearly every item on my list.
Love love love this video. I remember it well. I've loved Morrissey since I was 14 am now 45, almost 46. Still love Morrissey and all the music I grew up listening to.
This song just makes we want to cry now. If the true meaning of nostalgia is the pain of an old wound then this song is the most nostalgic I can think of. Times probably weren't better 35 years ago but they seemed a lot better than now. At least when you're young there's hope and possibility but as you're worn down by life with nothing but a feeling of weltschmerz then I sure lament those happy days of the past . The only thing to be glad about in your 50's is that even a natural life means there's not an egregious amount of it left to endure. The state of the country and indeed the world is nothing to cheer about. Funnily enough, I live in the actual coastal town they forgot to close down. Come Armageddon, come Armageddon.
I'm watching this for about the millionth time in my life, and it makes me feel the same as it did in the 80's. Melancholy, sad, happy, and still wishing I was that girl in the video, or the girl in How Soon Is Now. It's silly really, but it's crazy the way a song can make you feel.
Watched 120 Minutes EVERY Sunday & or recorded it on a VHS tape for Mon after school! I kept a diary of band names, all so interesting then, Dinosaur Jr's & My Blood Valentines & They Might Be Giants & Cures & Lush & Cocteau Twins & none shall ever know the purity of hearing the music that changed life such as it did with me circa 1986+
I have ALWAYS loved your music. Always. When I was going through my divorce in the mid 90's, I listened to this cassette on repeat in my car driving alone with nowhere to go. These lyrics put me in and took me out of my dark place. My dark place is a good thing. She is still there listening to your music on repeat. One of my all time favorite artists❤. Right alongside The Cure, The Psychadelic Furs, New Order, etc.
This beautiful song was one of the very first english songs I started listening to back in the 80's. I couldn't understand a word, but I loved the melody. At 35, now, it's still one of my favourite ones...the only difference is that I get the meaning of it now!
Born in the mid-aughts. Fortunate enough to be raised on the UK's best from 1964-2000, Morrissey included. Words cannot express how deeply I yearn to have lived in the '80s...
I agree. Sitting on a shop step on a Sunday on a council estate in Stoke on Trent in 1988 was the most boring thing I remember doing as a young teenager with my mate Ziggy the biggest Smith fan on Newstead estate, apart from Terry Box, that is.
Errr, no, it's quite literally taken from Nevil Schute's book, "On the Beach", about the last survivors of a nuclear WWIII in Australia living out their last days, waiting for the fallout to finally reach and kill them.
johan- Morrissey is a polarizing figure because he reveals life's truths. We live in a world where telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ( my apologies to George Orwell.)
I was 17 when this was released, living in Southend where it was filmed. I wore exactly those clothes - DMs from a shop in the precinct. It was a bit run-down then but Lordy, this video makes me laugh now. Mardy mare, thinking she's Oh So Superior to the older women. Now she's old herself; having young women calling her a boomer. Great song.
I hear my daughter on tiktoc and the clips she plays i sometimes hear golden songs like this, a little piece of history I enjoy telling her about. These were the happiest days and I didn't even know it then! Take me back 😫
Hi all from Spain, I thought that I was the only one with that feelings on the Sundays. For me, Sundays is the "Diazepam day", other way can't start with the week. Thanks M, for this song!
What a beautiful song!! Morrisey is a legend of the 80,90 and still is for anyone who knows how to listen to good music. Hearing his music, his voice, is a privilege for mortals😉😎
Muito bom, a Inglaterra é um grande berço musical mundial, adoro ouvir as canções tanto da ex banda The Smiths como as músicas do Morrrissey, letras inesquecíveis !
This track captures the 80`s, nothing was open on Sunday`s it was still considered a "religious day", and yeah it was a boring bloody day... in the UK Sunday trading laws prevented shops from selling certain items at specific times, so as a teenager in the 80`s I can relate to the words of this track. I`m now nearly 42, and it makes even more sense.
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"How I dearly wish I was not here"
What a great line.
Me too
How can you not love Morrissey? His ability to articulate the ugly side of the world in a beautiful manner is a talent like no other
Of course we love Morrissey..
Also that 1987 Ford Orion base model in blue is incredible.
oh yeah!
@@MrGoneTroppo Ford really outdid themselves with this ad
his personality, for one
artistically? a genius 🧠 👍
I lived in Southend for 20 years and often sat on the bench at 1:11 in the video. It was still blue and white in 2018 when I was last there.
Released in 1988? Well I'm only 35 years late in hearing this but I love this song.
A song about youth . Dreams . Hopes. A song about growing up in the 80s .Those who wanted something different to the mainstream .Brilliantly realised .
They got it.
These quiet seaside towns won't exist for much longer. I'm not sure Mozzer approves of the change though.
What the fuck are you talking about? Are You foreign?
Spot on!
An alternative take: this is a self-indulgent song which displays misplaced anger and frustration.
The protagonist is clearly self-involved, self-important. She believes she is morally superior to those around her.
She doesn't belong in this shitty town, amongst these selfish, shitty people. She is better. She deserves more.
She shows her contempt for those around her, but also her cowardice: instead of debating with someone and having her ideas tested, she instead slyly drops her attacks on unprepared people.
As the wise prophet Lisa Simpson said, selling angst to youth is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.
what u know about youth! u were never young and never will be
The 80s were the best time of my life in every aspect.Glorious era for the Generation X no doubt.
I had more fun in the 90's
Absolutely,this gem of a video takes you right back to the mid 80swhat a treasure for gen x
Late gen x here .. born in 80. And I agree luckily I had an older brother and older friends to introduce me into all of the great music of the 80’s. The 90’s were good too. But the 80’s were the best.
I had a wonderful time! We all got along - no one looked at race, gender, orientation, nothing. At least that was my experience!
Shell suits no money thatcher u sure that u not got Ur toes tinting glassing on
A time capsule for Southend-On-Sea in 1988 that needs to be cherished. Those days are long gone and the memories fade. One day this is all we will have
All these former holiday towns are all Muslim now.
Holding back the yeaaaaaaaars
Eastbourne! Still rocking looool
Video was filmed in Southend but am sure Mozza said he wrote it after a trip to Morecambe. Happy to corrected though!
@TrickyTone873 no your right I'm sure, I was merely pointing out eastbourne still has those vibes for those looking for the nostalgia.
Much love ❤️
On holiday in an English seaside town listening to Morrissey (May 2023)
I'm pea-green with envy❤ greetings and salutations from the States love.
I am from Portugal,50 years and i agree with morrisey...Life IS hard...
not if you have portugal property, then you are a grillionaire. as rich as a european banker.
Love this man...he dragged me thru the 80's..35 years later, I still love him.
Perfect, 49 years old walking my dog to the store on a rainy Thursday night in Boston! Life is good!
What is this promenade walk about nonsense?
This is a song that transcends the desire to be free during periods of shite. On your face. Trudging over wet sand. Silent and grey. Sun came out.
He dragged me through the 80s too
He talks absolute cack though
What a wonderfully depressing, sad, uplifting, happy song. The 80s hey, how I miss that decade.
Nothing like melancholic pop music, this and For a Friend by The Communards stand as some of the best '80s examples.
Amen!
I remember those days.. The 80's were so weird at first and then you got used to all the new wave and alternative music.. I remember singing to the Violent Femmes and They Might Be Giants.. and then the 90's crept in.. It was still really good but these bands were beginning to fade.. their stuff started sounding old and played out.. Nobody wanted to see (or be caught dead at) the 4th showing of Depeche Mode.. Synth-pop was dying. Everyone was sick of poppy boy bands, big hair, brightly colored tights wearing pseudo rockers.. That grunge sh!t came in and the Pacific NW rock scene took over.. and just like that the 80's weren't cool anymore.
#nailedit
All I had to worry about was college and the Hacienda,boardwalk ….fantastic days I loved them so simple …
These were the days...crying my youth!! Viva Morrissey! Salute from Canada ❤❤❤❤
I feel genuinely lucky to have been alive when we had music like this, never be another like this
Epic song, by one of the most talented singer songwriters of the 80's.
May be all time
The girl is my mom
The most talented singer songwriter of the 80s by a mile.
Best
Are you guys real? Sounds like kindergarten music
I'm from Brazil and I love Morrissey and The Smiths. Your songs are beautiful, beautiful songs that talk about subjects that few people talk about. The sadness that sometimes human beings go through, the depressions. Morrissey masterfully manages to put those feelings into words.
I'm from the United States and I agree!
Well thanks for that cheers
Concordo.
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday 0028am 9.10.23 you know what i hate? UK cunts who had no time for this band etc etc and then claim yer a jonhny cum lately cos you slip on a disc..... as for brazil. cool. it had excellent football team. good luck!!!!
Sou brasileiro também e concordo plenamente com vc. Eles conseguem colocar em músicas o que as pessoas sentem e vevenciam em suas vidas, às vezes de forma irônica, às vezes de forma melancólica. Suas canções são maravilhosas.
This song always makes me cry, is so beautiful on every single aspect, gen X here, filled with nostalgia for the good old days when music meant something.
1961 - 1995 RIP They can't even do remakes of good songs and sound good.
absolutely love it😊
this is like the Gen X anthem . Or one of them.
PERFECTION. Complete and utter PERFECTION. The most beautiful and enigmatic human God has ever blessed us with. I’ve had his framed poster over my bed for 20 YEARS!!!!
Morrissey deserves to be in the Songwriters Hall of Fame
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
He is unlike no other, actually the best having write so many great songs.
makes britain's "silent and grey" seaside towns achingly beautiful.
1:16 reference to The Smith’s 2nd studio album, “Meat Is Murder”(1985).
I could hear this song repeatedly and not get tired of it!!
First time i saw the video for the song.
Unfathomably, people are currently streaming Ed Sheeran songs on endless repeat!!!!
May God have mercy on them!
Likewise!! 😊
no. eventually it would drive you to madness.
Tell me ABOUT IT ... omg
I could hear it on loop for DAYS.
Literally.
Morissey was a poet, such an amazing songwriter. Sad depressing song but strangely uplifting x
Yes I LOVE the way he genuinely makes sadness into a smile
I think the closest to morissey now in the UK for song writing is Sam Fender
what poetry have you read?
@@katyballard4375 What about you?
He was a GOOD lyricist but not amazing relative to many real poets. Some of his writing is awkward and simplistic but he wrote well for his music.
perfect combination of sounds, melodies, lyrics and nostalgia for what's long gone, must listen on a cold rainy day only.
He makes sadness look beautiful
I'm listening to this in Los Angeles under a blazing hot sun. I don't have the patience to wait for a rainy day.
in England clouds aloft, send us over that sun we'll swap you
The grass may not be greener but the sky is bluer
I wish it could work that way.
your so awesome Matey
wow
Morrissey is just on another level to anyone when it comes to turning emotions into lyrics
He really isn’t but song is catchu
@@diarmuidslattery why is that?
Amen from Taiwan
I can show you some. Very deep. But of cause, no english.
Sundays in the 80s when all the shops were shut, films and religious programmes on the TV. It could be silent and grey but I'd go back in a heartbeat.
Me and you both, Monty.
Yep, 100%
In a heartbeat
I live in a country where the shops are shut on Sundays and holidays. These are regarded as "family days". I love it.
@@SteveMcQueen999That is awesome! I’m a conservative area of Texas and still, all the shops are open on Sundays. Hate it!
Great track, one of his best. It's good to hear it again.
this song is England on a rainy Sunday. The emotions and feelings just summed up in this song. proper legend..bosh
A Sunday before Sunday trading
Homework and my Mum's crap roast. Seaside much better than the shit hole I grew up in! Morrissey wouldn't have made it to adulthood had he been born in Tadcaster!
But everyday is like Sunday.
M
Wish I could visit England...Cheers!
Anybody remember when sundays were sundays.
Days spent with families no shops open maybe a newsagent or offy or a garage.
How the times have changed.
Brilliant tune
Brilliant artist
Glad this will never change
🤗🤗🤗🤗
You want shops to be closed?
@@LarsRyeJeppesen
Nooo
I never said that.
All I said does anyone remember them days.?????😀
@@daveoneill8235 sorry
@@daveoneill8235 I remember! Coupled with the dread of school the following day, Sundays could be so bleak.
@@daveharo9878
Yeah n summer holidays were forever😀
There's nobody quite like Morrissey, its a privilege to be sharing the journey. ❤
Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench
Where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon
Come, Armageddon, come
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard
How I dearly wish I was not here
In the seaside town
That they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come, nuclear bomb
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
Trudging back over pebbles and sand
And a strange dust lands on your hands
And on your face
On your face
On your face
On your face
Everyday is like Sunday
Win yourself a cheap tray
Share some greased tea with me
Everyday is silent and grey
Gracias x escribir canción así la puedo entender
same here
@@musicland2024-gq2pb win yourself a cheap trade, share some Greens tea with me
This song and video perfectly captures the mood and feel of a British seaside town that has long since seen its glory years. These towns are now trapped with this retro aesthetic, the thrills of yesteryear and a seemingly permanent population of old age pensioners that languish in this distant nostalgia. These are the places where the working class (some middle class too), displaced and pushed out of bigger more competitive cities, come to find some semblance of a more traditional family life. Their children end up like the female protagonist in this video, wandering aimlessly through a grey time capsule of a town, trying to find meaning in this decay and forgotten past. The sea provides a glimpse into the wider world and allows one to ponder on the possibilities, but is it enough to galvanise them? In the end most of them become content in the mundaneity of it all. The various trends, subcultures and consumer product that filters out from inland and into these towns can provide a distraction; but before they know it, they are the grey haired old bags and geezers that crowd the bingo halls and penny arcades.
Whilst this all sounds very depressing, I do think the tale of the English seaside town, its rise and fall in the 20th century and beyond, is infinitely fascinating. This is a eerily beautiful vignette that illustrates this perfectly.
Wow. You are gifted with words. Perhaps you should write a novel. I'm not being sarcastic.
Thx for that!
full agreed!!
Sorry love utter shit,end of off
Can be any seashore anywhere. It's only what you do with it..
"Everyday is like Sunday" has never made as much sense as now.
We might listen to Panic in a different light too ;)
Thats why im here. Isolation by joy division next. :)
@@stereogrIm Isolation is better than Transmission!
YEEP !!!!
Poesy. Spirit unrivaled. Cannot tell someone how much this song means to me..
This song gives me goose bumps and reminds me of being a carefree teenager, feeling excited about life and looking forward to the future. Sunday used to be a special day when the country came to rest for a few hours. Now it is just another stressful day in a greedy and cut-throat world where the mega rich have their feet firmly on our necks..
Exactly
Yea, Sunday was a long day that seemed to be like 2 days in 1 ( daylight time ) how I wish it was like 1980’s Sunday today & its fkin Friday night 😧
Must be nice to have rose tinted glasses in reality domestic abuse was rampent everyone was over worked all the small coal mining towns were failing and people had no jobs alcoholism began to get out of hand and forget about fair pay ignore the racism and yeh perfect
👏👏👏🙌
@@yoshi0k262 he didn't say it was perfect. Also, everything you mentioned is still true, only now we have the added bonus of the destruction of the middle class and a control over society so thorough that the tiny scraps of hope that we clung to back then have been wiped away. Everything you just said, plus the casual kick in the face of absolute and irrefutable hopelessness.
A great song to start 2024! Health and happiness to all!! ✌🏻
salve!
Amen? Health and happiness to you, my friend! 😊❤️
Love you too! x
RIP Cheryl Murray
@Kre 2:43 amyKone tha.nks
His voice is one of those legendary voices that are just so unique and so perfect. Like Brian Ferry, Roy Orbison or Tom Jones. Don't have to like their music, but one must recognize their sublime voice.
I am so glad somebody said that...
Add Robert Smith to that list too
add vanilla ice to that list!!!!
Hi I have a song to recommend to you called 'where I come from' by Robert Nix
I'm so happy to have been alive in the 80s. The Smiths were a great band.🎸🎤🎹
Truly
man those were the days. we're so lucky to know what it was like "before". Look up some tiktok videos of high school kids in the 80s. make u cry being reminded of how we engaged with each other then...sigh...
That whole genre in that time was amazing. Here in Miami it was FIRE!
I used to find this video hilarious when I was a teenager in Southend - by all accounts, apparently the local council were not amused and did not approve of the song's lyrical contents.
These days when I watch it, I just feel sad. So many of these locations (the Golden Disc record shop in particular) were a huge part of my teenage years, and while I couldn't wait to leave the place, this video is such a beautifully shot period piece. Nobody cared about Southend in those days so there's not really much else out there from this time period.
I always get a bit upset when I see the road at the top of the precinct at 2:00 - because yes, that actually was one of the points where our parents used to pick us up after a Saturday spent shopping or sulking around. Long gone days, and sadly mostly departed people.
Great video from a true icon 🎉
Siempre será algo q siempre estará en ti, dentro tuyo. Y, ojalá te pase como a mí, q cada vez q la escucho, quiero soltar ese grito de libertad q en su momento tuve y, los años y circunstancias van reprimiendo. Hasta q vuelve a explotar de dentro hacia afuera, lastima q suele ser en momentos de autosugestión y, por desgracia, casi siempre en soledad.
Un saludo.
Excellent comment and thanks.
I love this Morrissey song Every day is like Monday every day is silent and gray great lyrics 😊from a 61 years young Irishman fan from Dublin 😊❤❤
When I meet a guy who feels Morrissey's music the way I do, I won't let go.
Lily V a shame no girls do anymore
Pity you weren't around when i were't lad.
Lily V And here I am living in Los Angeles asking myself the same question. 😞
right here
Lol! Bad luck then, cause it’s gonna be a gay man.
I'd give a lot to go back to Sundays like that.
Cruise ships for old people are like that.
Parts of Australia are like this also.
I wouldn't want to watch "That's Life" though - Sunday Night Dread for me as a kid.
It's like the soul got left behind when the clocks turned midnight at the start of the millennium. I'm an empty man in an empty world, longing for something true.
I get it
@@Backfromthestormsorry to hear that, bro
On my divorce I used to see my two young children every Sunday. After dropping them off back with their Mum I played this sog on the long drive home. I would be happy that I had seen them but so sad to leave them. I cried as I drove & I still cry now when I hear this. Such sad days.
Charles Yates I know exactly what you feel, mate.
Reading these words is like looking in a mirror mate... Dropping my lad off got me choked every time.. Trying to put on a face before I knocked the door on Xmas morning feeling so torn up that leaving a couple of hours later almost became a relief..? Chin up mate, they'll always know deep down who was really there for them (not a dig at their mum in any way as I'm sure you know) and so will you!
Omg.. I know exactly how you feel. I was an idiot, I ruined my marriage and seeing my 2 young children every other weekend was an absolute heartbreaker.. looking at the clock on a Sunday afternoon dreading that time to take them home. 6 years later even though my daughter is a teenager and has her own life my son is 12and taking him home still destroys me. I know it was my fault but God its still the hardest thing ever. This song is incredible but such sad times.
I stopped this. Now my son lives with me. Forget the mom. She is on her 4th marriage. She is a loser. My son lives with me now.
Força sempre! Abraços do Brasil 🇧🇷 hugs from Brazil!
In the 80's I wasnt really a fan of the Smiths at all, but as time as gone on, I've realised just how good Morrissey really is.
He is without doubt probably one of the most talented British artists of the last 3 decades.
His lyrics, music, and most of all voice, are so unique.
He is a legend.👍
The Smiths' music was written by Johnny Marr tho. I don't know who writes his solo stuff, but I doubt he's writing every song.
Smiths were not only Morrissey, don't forget that
Without doubt probably . Certainly maybe . Absolutely perhaps .
Me too fella
@@Chris-Ian Whatever. Moz writes the lyrics and sings brilliantly. And guess whose career is still massive?
Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon!
Come, Armageddon! Come!
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard :
"How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here"
In the seaside town
That they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come, nuclear bomb
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
Trudging back over pebbles and sand
And a strange dust lands on your hands
(And on your face)
(On your face)
(On your face)
(On your face)
Everyday is like Sunday
"Win yourself a cheap tray"
Share some greased tea with me
Everyday is silent and grey
Only Morrissey can paint a picture in two lines
Grazie!
@@stuartchilcott7183 And what a picture he paints.
Poetry ❤
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Oh my GOD. I've never thought to look this song up. I'm 50 and this is blowing my mind. The fashions, the song, the vibe. Blasted this old man back to 1988.
Buddy, I'm 56 and feel the same!
@@davidscottthayer8078 Are you guys really 50 years old man playing youtube sir? Cause it sounds something
Me too! I’m 48 and when I was 16 I wanted to be this girl so badly. It was my dream to be that cool. Now I watch this video and I think God what a brat she was! LOL. I guess 30 years does change a person.
@@betterunknown1194 56 buddy. Been listening to Morrisey and The Smiths since 1985.
@@davidscottthayer8078 61 here . Remember my 80's in England !
Stephen morrisey was a poet and a genius. Love his lyrics.. Funny. Ironic. Sad. A bit sarcastic. Fabulous. 😊🤗
And still is.
@Yvonne Watkinson yes i agree just the same as Fish from Marillion was
Thanks for your responses guys don't usually get one 😊
@@yvonnewatkinson840 Hey no worries
Yeh fantastic til he went all racist
I grew up in Southend, interesting to see it here. The two old ladies are eating at a place called the arches in Westcliff, or it used to be. The record shop at the start is the Golden Disc where I bought many a record... this video takes me back...
The Jukebox was playing nothing but Morrissey songs. We mexicans call him Moz. His songs have the melancholy melody which we love
Is that an Antman reference? 😅
Yup. It was the part where Luis was under the truth serum and recounting his grandma's restaurant that had a juke box
Come to Manchester and the town centre now is full of assorted uneducated toerags , shallow plastics and scroats with no appreciation of tge music from Manchester or its musical history.
@@notlob23 then they need to be bitch-slapped and be shipped off to boris johnson's home.
Oh no te gusta moz? Then adios.
I have a "special ritual" : every sunday I listen to this song and fall in love with this band... It´s been ages since I started and I do not intend to stop so soon ^^
Do you mean morrissey or the smiths? (The band he was in) if so give them a listen!!
Matthew Trapp Actually I was talking abou Morrisey and type "band"... my bad! lol, thanks =]
interesting!
interesting!
that's right perrito!
80's MUSIC NEVER DIES !
80年代の曲は、数え切れないほどの名曲が生まれてましたね。
どこか懐かしくて、憂鬱で、でも希望が残る素晴らしい曲です。
esperanza? donde?
This song mixes so many emotions, makes you feel nostalgic for stuff you don't even know about
i like it when she looks into visonhire.!!
Word
A 1980s melancholy masterpiece.
This video was shot in the Southend of my teenage years. I worked a summer season in the Three Shells Kiosk which is shown and also in the record shop (Golden Disc) although after it was taken over by HMV. It perfectly sums up the sense of adolescent alienation from that provincial hometown. Now it just makes me feel nostalgic about the place though!
Hi, do you recognise the street at 00:45 with what looks like Luke's Bar and Disco ?
skinnytinny hi. At 00:45 that was pier hill and on the right walking up the hill it used to be called Mr B's in the late 80's and 90's 👍🏻
Mr B s, owned by a Mr Mike Bolam. If I remember correctly.
That's exactly the comments section is so invaluable sometimes
I moved to Southend in the 1989s for work, I loved the four years there, and still have contact with friends I made in my time there.
One of the best songs of the 1980's , Morrisseys haunting voice telling us about the Britain we lived in back then perfectly. Best songwriter ever IMHO
"I've already cried a lot when this hit reached the top 10 in 1988. This tune had mighty be the only real poem that could translate what you really felt at that..."!!!
As a 16 year old growing up in South Africa, I watched this music video with mates and loved the song. So irony of this story, is I now live in the town in the UK where this is shot.
What's the name of the town?
@@Ozymandias1 Southend-on-Sea, it hasn't changed that much since this was shot. :)
Love it ☁🖤☁
@@james5995 I was there today and it´s still the same, with that twinge of sadness
Ever see those two elderly ladies?
Used to go out with a girl back in the 80's with hair like this. Now married to her and getting older. Something about this video which reminds me of that great time in my life. What a song.
Old fart
@@patttrick You're much older yet.
Easily one of the best songs in the universe 😂❤
This is more than a song, it's an anthem.
Yes Sir!
@Juan Perez both
Outstanding, I can't think of another artist who was with a phenomenal group and continued this into a solo career with as much vigor! Most solo artists have one or 2 hits and they fall by the wayside
Pure magic
I still appreciate his work as an artist, even though he chose to become a terrible person: white nationalist and rape apologist. Look it up
Yeah Phil Collins never did that did he?
And where’s Phil now?
We’ve just been to see Morrissey and he’s still writing amazing songs .
guy is a genius. tho i admit not all of his songs resonate with me but the ones that do are amazing.
+Nick Knowles cock
+Arch Stanton u take ur dumass pills?
+Nick Knowles Ironic.
Nick Knowles B-
So Morrisey is a half arsed genius, that's an oxymoron
80's, a wonderful time, true works of sound art, pure poetry.
I saw him live recently, in a show that, inexplicably, was in this little town in Texas that I live near...I'd liked The Smiths, and what little of his solo work I'd heard, but, hey, somebody like this was playing here? I wasn't gonna miss that...It was in a beautiful old downtown theatre that had recently been restored and is far, far too underutilized...Great show...But he did this song...I may have heard it before, but that doesn't really matter, because this is one of those rare songs that even if you haven't ever heard it before, it feels like you have, and it feels like you always loved it, and it feels like it was always a part of your life...By the time he hits that first chorus, you are sold...
JONATHAN LOCKE wow how lucky to see him live
Natalie Marchant does a cool version too. I don't know who is original.
@@Hoonozit Um...I'm sure Morrissey's is.
Ok thanks @lemurian chick.
It's been 30 years and Im still in love with that girl..
Forget it. I saw her first.
Which girl? You mean one of the elderly ladies?
Stephen is a a poem's genius. 😊
You dirty old man...
@@JimGall yes
Ah, Sunday - day of rest, odd day, day when we can feel very alone - captured so achingly in this song.
Sundays are depressing
Perfect songwriting dripping with genius.
One of the most haunting and emotional songs ever
There are days that I am devastated by a nostalgic feeling, for good times I've lived, wonderful people I met, and places I visited.
Too many happy memories can bring pain.
Agreed ... it's a bittersweet feeling
Essa musica é muito linda , Amo essa nostalgia, me faz lembrar momentos bons da vida
A beleza da música.
Só quem viveu essa época pode sentir!!
nome da atriz?
Lembro de quando meu pai escutava essa música!
Eu Amo Essa Canção... Triste,Melancólica,Angustiante,Real,Conflitante,mas,ao Mesmo Tempo: Bela,Calma,Serena,Linda. Como Pode,Uma Mistura De Sentimentos,Tão Intensa,Numa Única Canção? Sensacional!!
Isso é Morrissey
@@sea-goatbr7588 isso aí
Polêmico morrisey!!
@@sea-goatbr7588
Vc disse TUDO,meu Brother.
🖒🖒🖒👊😎
@@guilhermebatista1233
Verdade...
😎🖒
I worked in record stores in the 80s. I'm from Chicago, but I went to graduate school in Cambridge, MA, during which time I worked at a record store in Back Bay, Boston. Afterwards, I lived in Revere Beach for a year, which is as close as we have to the kind of down-at-the-heels, coastal resort town that Morrisey is singing about. AND I've been a vegetarian since about 1981, so this lovely song and vid checked off nearly every item on my list.
Love love love this video. I remember it well. I've loved Morrissey since I was 14 am now 45, almost 46. Still love Morrissey and all the music I grew up listening to.
This song just makes we want to cry now. If the true meaning of nostalgia is the pain of an old wound then this song is the most nostalgic I can think of. Times probably weren't better 35 years ago but they seemed a lot better than now. At least when you're young there's hope and possibility but as you're worn down by life with nothing but a feeling of weltschmerz then I sure lament those happy days of the past . The only thing to be glad about in your 50's is that even a natural life means there's not an egregious amount of it left to endure. The state of the country and indeed the world is nothing to cheer about. Funnily enough, I live in the actual coastal town they forgot to close down. Come Armageddon, come Armageddon.
I don't think funnily is a word but I love your passion
@@yasielpuig9991 Thanks! Funnily is an English word, it means in a funny or strange way especially if it's unexpected or coincidental.
was not a fan but found this six months ago, cant get it out of my head , Brilliant voice, song.
Don't despair folks ... we ACTUALLY lived through that glorious decade ... we danced, we loved, we lived!! ❤❤❤❤ ...so many can't say that!
Morrissey was ahead of his time. The most apt song to play during COVID1-9
Sundays used to be awful. Everything was closed.
The Specials 'it's all a load of BOLLOCKS' would of been more apt.
AKA 'pearls cafe'
I'm watching this for about the millionth time in my life, and it makes me feel the same as it did in the 80's. Melancholy, sad, happy, and still wishing I was that girl in the video, or the girl in How Soon Is Now. It's silly really, but it's crazy the way a song can make you feel.
Music brings people together as well as being good for your health and well being.
Totally understand Green ,i can see why people just drift off whilst listening to this (me included ) and i totally agree ''Every Day is like sunday''
Yuore the girl and i am a boy
The girl in how soon is now is Gorgeous
The girl is Miss Malcontent and looks disaffected. She stands for something. I can see why you’d admire her. 😊
One of the most underrated singers ever, but a true great in my opinion.
Steve Morley morrisey underated?
Bro dont ever let him hear you say that
Dumb comment.
Underrated?
Absolutely!!!!!💜💜💜
Watched 120 Minutes EVERY Sunday & or recorded it on a VHS tape for Mon after school! I kept a diary of band names, all so interesting then, Dinosaur Jr's & My Blood Valentines & They Might Be Giants & Cures & Lush & Cocteau Twins & none shall ever know the purity of hearing the music that changed life such as it did with me circa 1986+
I have ALWAYS loved your music. Always. When I was going through my divorce in the mid 90's, I listened to this cassette on repeat in my car driving alone with nowhere to go. These lyrics put me in and took me out of my dark place. My dark place is a good thing. She is still there listening to your music on repeat. One of my all time favorite artists❤. Right alongside The Cure, The Psychadelic Furs, New Order, etc.
This beautiful song was one of the very first english songs I started listening to back in the 80's. I couldn't understand a word, but I loved the melody. At 35, now, it's still one of my favourite ones...the only difference is that I get the meaning of it now!
Thanks for your sincere compliment and love, I’m not complete without you as my Fan 🌹🎻 I have you to be most thankful fan🎻🎻🌹
If you have suffered from major clinical depression you understand how beautiful this masterpiece is.
See research by professor Roland Griffiths on the benefits of psilocybin on anxiety and depression.
@@mediterraneandiet2483it’s difficult for most people to find someone who has some.
@@mediterraneandiet2483 Or maybe don't............
True depression never leaves. Ever.
Sheer class. British English talent. 🏴🇬🇧
The best times and the best soundtrack. Thanks for the great tunes.
I feel sorry for those who didn't grow up in the 70s and 80s listening to all the great music made
I agree, some of the best music hall songs were written between the 1870s and the 1880s. After that it was downhill all the way.
Wasn't just the music. It was almost EVERYTHING 😊
Born in the mid-aughts. Fortunate enough to be raised on the UK's best from 1964-2000, Morrissey included. Words cannot express how deeply I yearn to have lived in the '80s...
This song depicts the typical day of boredom in a coastal city in England. It Could be anywhere in the world. Morrissey is a genius
+terence magee. Thank you.
I agree. Sitting on a shop step on a Sunday on a council estate in Stoke on Trent in 1988 was the most boring thing I remember doing as a young teenager with my mate Ziggy the biggest Smith fan on Newstead estate, apart from Terry Box, that is.
Errr, no, it's quite literally taken from Nevil Schute's book, "On the Beach", about the last survivors of a nuclear WWIII in Australia living out their last days, waiting for the fallout to finally reach and kill them.
To everyone who's fortunate enough to come across this song at some point in life, know this: you've experienced something truly special.
JSMTC, Aug 88, played mercilessly in the NAAFI bar................
Spot on, that is exactly how I feel about Morrissey's voice and lyrics whether solo or in The Smiths.
90s baby here. That’s how I felt upon stumbling into The Smiths’ music. Didn’t think I’d be into it, but boy, oh boy was I wrong!
100th like should be over a million
I love Smiths and Morrissey this vibe it's something special, really cool!
I don't understand why so many people hate Morrissey. I love the Cure AND The Smiths/Morrissey
johan- Morrissey is a polarizing figure because he reveals life's truths. We live in a world where telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ( my apologies to George Orwell.)
Wow my name is also Johan
@@zephead843 Me too
Many love his songs but hate what he has become as a person.
some of us have to grow up to appreciate Morrissey
I was 17 when this was released, living in Southend where it was filmed. I wore exactly those clothes - DMs from a shop in the precinct. It was a bit run-down then but Lordy, this video makes me laugh now. Mardy mare, thinking she's Oh So Superior to the older women. Now she's old herself; having young women calling her a boomer. Great song.
I hear my daughter on tiktoc and the clips she plays i sometimes hear golden songs like this, a little piece of history I enjoy telling her about. These were the happiest days and I didn't even know it then! Take me back 😫
Still sounds as great as when I first heard it, brilliant vocals from a musical talent
It's Sunday and this song is helping me to finally relax. Thank you Morrissey ✌
Tanta nostalgia hay en esta canción,tantos recuerdos..como reparar algo que ya no existe 🖤
I'm a one man band on youtube. Hope you can enjoy one of my songs.
Stronketti e plinsini alla subato truffi exo alto cuche abantona á
Hi all from Spain,
I thought that I was the only one with that feelings on the Sundays. For me, Sundays is the "Diazepam day", other way can't start with the week.
Thanks M, for this song!
Me as well every Sunday nite. Cheers
What a beautiful song!! Morrisey is a legend of the 80,90 and still is for anyone who knows how to listen to good music. Hearing his music, his voice, is a privilege for mortals😉😎
Muito bom, a Inglaterra é um grande berço musical mundial, adoro ouvir as canções tanto da ex banda The Smiths como as músicas do Morrrissey, letras inesquecíveis !
Sempre vou amar o Moz ! Tchauseeeeeeees
We must support this great musician.
Yeah, I hear he's really struggling.
😂nice
Década de 80 e 90 só as melhores pra toda eternidade...Amém, rsrs...
These two 'come armaggedon' verses are the best experience to me this week
This track captures the 80`s, nothing was open on Sunday`s it was still considered a "religious day", and yeah it was a boring bloody day... in the UK Sunday trading laws prevented shops from selling certain items at specific times, so as a teenager in the 80`s I can relate to the words of this track. I`m now nearly 42, and it makes even more sense.
Watching and listening in 2024! Never gets old.
The young lady reminds me of how teenagers were the 80s: snot-nosed know-it-alls... I was one of them. Love this song.
nobody understands me because im different.
I wasn't one of them still aint
@@kyleferguson9311 if you say you weren't one, then you probably were.
@dialerproof6188 I was a teenager in army at 16
No one promoted animal rights better than Morrissey. Beautiful inside and out ❤
Sundays, only fools and horses, biscuits, hangovers and tea with the parents we will miss for an eternity.