Yes he really wrote this when he was FIFTEEN years of age :) one of Australia's greatest ever songwriters and a unique and brilliant guitarist in anyone's language. Legend! R.I.P.
Mmmmmm....Well "one of" doesn't reallllly cut it does it? Sure, it was an okay song. That doesn't mean the guy is in the club. I mean, it is stupid to think that he is.
I didn't listen to Rowland since his funeral 10 years ago. I decided to reminisce about the good (andbad) times this week and it has been heartbreaking and cathartic at the same time. I miss him.
Nah you woulda found it at the right time... Perhaps. If you believe in magic which you do cause you listen to Rowland then you found him when you needed him...
Saw Cat Power last night and she did a mind-blowingly spectacular rendition of Shivers. She made it her own, but it was so full of love and honor for Roland S. I know he always had a somewhat difficult relationship with that song, but she did him proud with it. Man, RSH, one of the best.
I know this song was meant to be ironic but even though I don't see it like that and a lot of people don't, I am glad he gave it to us I love him... such an amazing soul and creative genius
I've been contemplating suicide, But it really doesn't suit my style, So I think I'll just act bored instead And contain the blood I would've shed? She makes me feel so ill at ease My heart is really on it's knees But I keep a poker face so well That even mother couldn't tell But my baby's so vain She is almost a mirror And the sound of her name Sends a permanent shiver down my Spine I keep her photograph against my heart For in my life she plays a starring part All alcohol and cigarettes There is no room for cheap regrets She makes me feel so ill at ease My heart is really on it's knees But I keep a poker face so well That even mother couldn't tell But my baby's so vain She is almost a mirror And the sound of her name Sends a permanent shiver down my Spine
I was lucky enough to see the boys next door Nick Cave & Roland S Howard in my youth brilliant memories RIP Roland Howard th-cam.com/video/C9VYYs8uGTE/w-d-xo.html
Some days I think you're right. As much as I adore Nick Cave - and I do - there are some days when I listen to his earliest material, his earliest prototypical dumb-yob punk songs (see here: th-cam.com/video/2EHOlZQQiOY/w-d-xo.html) and covers of the songs that every dumb-yob punk band did covers of in those days (see here: th-cam.com/video/6uuF4GzduBo/w-d-xo.html), and I think, "Gee, Nick was just a silly little Boy Next Door before Rowland got a hold on him." I think that Rowland must have smartened Nick up a lot - gave him an idea of what he could do with songwriting, an idea of how to use language intelligently and creatively in songs - and I think that Rowland gave Nick a golden opportunity to make himself noticed as a singer and bandleader with "Shivers", and that Nick just took that opportunity and ran with it. I like to think that Nick and Rowland had a wonderful creative partnership, at least for a while, and that they meant a lot to each other (at least, during the Birthday Party's early days), but I suspect that Nick never gave Rowland enough credit. Certainly not while Rowland was alive, and arguably not even after Rowland's death. If you watch AUTOLUMINESCENT, you'll notice (I did, anyway) that Nick seems rather less articulate and more awkward than you might have hoped. I found that to be the case, and I figured it had to be not just because of sadness and regret, but because of guilt. Rowland *made* Nick - Nick would never have become the performer he became if it wasn't for Rowland - and I don't think Nick ever realized just how much that was the case.
@@mattwhitington8754 Thank you. I'm so glad that you think I'm a good read. That's what every writer wants to hear, and I'm a writer. You know, it's strange: the idea that Rowland was responsible for Nick's talent and Nick's rise to stardom - and/or (even!) that Nick stole ideas and inspiration from Rowland - is something like the only conspiracy-theory I believe in, except it isn't really a conspiracy theory. Elsewhere on this site, I have (semi-facetiously) accused Nick of "spiritual vampirism." I know it isn't literally true, but I like to think about it sometimes.
@@elizabethhann4028 Oh, I absolutely agree. I love love love Nick, but had I been around during the early years, I definitely would have lost interest pretty quickly. I don't know if the change was due to influence or just natural maturation, but I don't think things got *great* until Your Funeral My Trial. Sadly, I haven't really enjoyed the foray into ambient styles the last few albums, but I can recognize and appreciate the artistic growth. It's just not my style. Still enjoy the songwriting, though.
@@ziegfeldgirl Thanks for writing back. Personally, I think that as soon as Nick and Rowland started working together, their music - and especially Nick's lyrics - became so much more compelling and vital, imaginative and wild. I love practically everything the Birthday Party ever recorded, especially the *PRAYERS ON FIRE* album, which featured Nick singing lyrics written not just by Rowland S. Howard ("Ho-Ho"), but by Genevieve McGuckin ("Capers") and Anita Lane ("A Dead Song"). One gets the sense, listening to *PRAYERS ON FIRE* , that in those days the Birthday Party was something like a genuinely collaborative and democratic group, and not just Nick's band. I think that Rowland (and Genevieve and Anita, and Mick Harvey and Tracey Pew in their own way) all profoundly influenced Nick, and educated him and helped make him a better lyricist. But the stronger Nick's songwriting became, the more he wanted to be the *only* lyricist in the group, and his control over the group's direction became that much tighter. This, more than anything else, was the reason the Birthday Party dissolved: Nick refused to sing Rowland's lyrics, and after a while, Rowland refused to play on Nick's songs. I think that Nick continued to improve as a lyricist (and as a musician) up through the Bad Seeds' first decade and even beyond (like you, I still enjoy his songwriting, though I'm continually amazed at just how Nick has matured over the course of his career. I like to say he's gone from Wild Colonial Boy to Man of Constant Sorrow). But I do think he lost something major (something I can't quite define) after his early days with Rowland. " I know everybody grows up, every artist has got to mature; I know Nick's not really the same person as he was in the Birthday Party days. But dome days I feel kinda sad that he'll never sound as loose and wild and free as he did singing "Ho-Ho" or "Capers."
When you write songs, you need a balance between the creative and cool undescribable and that thing one learns through repetition and muscle memory.. some call it technique i believe....you need a perfect mix, never even stevens from my understanding of it, but some perfect lightning in a bottle type mix that the song writing guy knows is achieved , when it illicits feeling. It feels whole and with an energy that is self contained and lives outside the influence of the songwriting guy. It had been manifested, a little spark had combustion formed to a degree which enticed further actions from the universe. It has purpose, a solitary piece of written musical expression. A powerful 4 four repetition, a layer in which visions can be applied onto. Rock n roll ..
no he aint doing a cover. he wrote the song. my baby is so vein she is almost a mirror,and the sound of her name,gives me a panamic shiver, down my..spine! love it.my favorite version of it.
TheMimifur close but this is the original www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D8Eeg-JqSO5c&ved=0ahUKEwihh4n2nMjYAhUCnZQKHXNZDWIQt9IBCEgwBA&usg=AOvVaw187hVq-hHKyOLoBctGR3Q2
No. See here th-cam.com/video/8Eeg-JqSO5c/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/QsIPoRTBV44/w-d-xo.html The second version by The Boys Next Door, got good coverage in Australia. RSH by then was 19. Nick Cave at 21 played on his good looks with rather pouty and histrionic vocals , I thought (I hadn't heard the first version the.) and I found the song hammy. I read years later that RH thought it was misinterpreted by Cave. I am partial to the first version. It probably shows a debt to Lou Reed/Velvet Underground, but quite impressively.
Screaming Jets not my cup of tea usually, but thanks for referring me to their version. It's really worth listening to. I've read that Rowland Howard wrote this song as a bit of a joke when he was sixteen or something - and it's gradually taken on a life of its own, one of those Great Aussie Classix, he'd probably enjoy that if he was still around.
@@henryhawk2904 How nice for you that you can get on that high horse. An addict yet he still shines & his addiction didn't detract from him being a good person, a consummate artist & an incredible musician, he's still touching people through his music all these years later, feel good on that pedastal while no one here will ever celebrate your goody two shoes life, what did you write at 15 thats still touches folks & is relevant today except this two bit redundant comment.
@@henryhawk2904 Not being a smack addict isn't an accomplishment. All you need to do is have no money and no connections and stay home. Most paraplegics and morbidly obese people can do that and still produce more. If being alive and not being hooked on junk are all you can think of to be proud of then you might as well just do junk. At least you'll feel good. Like damn he was in tons of bands and played great guitar, is admired by thousands and respected by his contemporaries. He also kicked dope years before he died of liver cancer. I can easily name a dozen incredibly successful people that did dope, stayed alive, wrote books, albums and advanced science all while addicted to opioids. So you're alive and not a smack addict you must be able to outdo any junkie in history so lets see what exactly do you have to show for it? Aldous Huxley has Brave New World and Doors of Perception/Heaven & Hell. We all know what the Marquis de Sade got up to. Burroughs was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. His books started coming out in the 50's and he shot H almost daily until he died in the mid 90's. The Beatles, Stones and Clapton were all hooked on smack for a while. Living and not being addicted to smack could also describe a potato or someone in a vegetative state. That just sounds like existing. Boring, risk-free yet somehow proud of it? I wonder, does it bother you that tons of people feel something so pleasurable it can't be described without overdosing or even becoming addicted? Granted most people have trouble with that but there are plenty that don't and they won't face negative consequences. Then there are plenty that are or were addicted and became incredibly successful and wealthy so if you're going to judge back it up and we'll see which song sounds better. Pff. Why are you even listening to this kind of music? Huey Luis and the News would suit you better. "Its hip to be square" I hear Sting is really into his health and U2 seem like they're into good christian living or you could just go Barry Manilow. Its post punk, if the musicians weren't into heroin it was something else. What were you expecting? Anyway I hope that being a non heroin addicted living thing gives you special protection against liver cancer cause thats what killed him and cancer is one of the biggest causes of death. Maybe it won't happen to you but just in case you better get a lot of accomplishments in soon, you probably have some catching up to do.
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kicking rocks cause i haven't heard this til now. what a beauty.
Yes he really wrote this when he was FIFTEEN years of age :) one of Australia's greatest ever songwriters and a unique and brilliant guitarist in anyone's language. Legend! R.I.P.
16**
At swinburne college, in Melbourne..
Greatest songwriter? Fuck me, that's a massive stretch. 99.9% of people wouldn't know about him. Mmmmmmmmmm
Henry Hawk it clearly says 'one of' Australia's greatest song writers..
Mmmmmm....Well "one of" doesn't reallllly cut it does it? Sure, it was an okay song. That doesn't mean the guy is in the club. I mean, it is stupid to think that he is.
I didn't listen to Rowland since his funeral 10 years ago. I decided to reminisce about the good (andbad) times this week and it has been heartbreaking and cathartic at the same time. I miss him.
🖤
Much respect for Rowland S Howard as a human being and artist. Great song.
This was always your song Rowland. RIP my kindred spirit. 💔
His voice suits this so much more than Cave's.
YES! It belongs to Howard. 💜💥
have you heard this version? th-cam.com/video/xFMbSNgzHJA/w-d-xo.html
TRUE
I agree. Also, I heard from somewhere that Rowland wrote this song when he was only like 15
It’s his song
I've never had a cleary favourite song till I discovered this.
Rowland!!!!! Australia’s best. Wish I discovered him earlier. Genius to write this at 15 when so relatable to me at 33
Nah you woulda found it at the right time... Perhaps. If you believe in magic which you do cause you listen to Rowland then you found him when you needed him...
At my darkest moment, this song was there for me
I hope you are happy wherever you are Roly
Saw Cat Power last night and she did a mind-blowingly spectacular rendition of Shivers. She made it her own, but it was so full of love and honor for Roland S. I know he always had a somewhat difficult relationship with that song, but she did him proud with it. Man, RSH, one of the best.
Where was that? Was Jim White playing drums with her?
His music effects us all, that said- tell me who would even come close to tje original.... it's fools gold
Ovo je moja I SAMO MOJA pjesma... Za razbijanje čaša i nove ljubavi! 10/10
dečko, ovo je pjesma svih nas koji volimo Rowlanda i ne razbijaj čaše, vodi ljubav
Good man Roland, thanks for you...
Gives me shivers every time, well done
Rowland always the best. This man!
God damn amazing and such a talent we lost.
When you are grieving and the tears won't stop then this is a song for you. I don't want to cry.
I know this song was meant to be ironic but even though I don't see it like that and a lot of people don't, I am glad he gave it to us I love him... such an amazing soul and creative genius
How is this supposed to be ironic?
Rowland is no dead 🙏
It's too good.
Anos voltando aqui e esse som fica cada vez melhor.
THE song.
RIP Rowland!
this world is a very sad place... RSH
Legend
Happy birthday Rowland
Saw Julia Jacklin cover this as her last song in Nashville at Mercy Lounge w Christian Lee Hutson, October 2019. Killed me dead
Current joys anyone?
Great guitar sound!
Medieval Richard sounds like a Tele into a Marshall to me :)
Didn't Roland S Howard always play his signature white Fender Jaguar though?
+Medieval Richard that's right, and he never played a Marshall either.
Fender jag into a Fender Twin reverb with MXR distortion inbetween
OMG ....the KING of the JAG. W a Fender Deville amp....and no wha,tremolo bar like NOBODY ..!!☮
sound is great
This guy, he effects people like no one else I've ever experienced- I don't know what you call someone like that....
Rowland
2024 ❤ ❤ ❤ 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉
I've been contemplating suicide,
But it really doesn't suit my style,
So I think I'll just act bored instead
And contain the blood I would've shed?
She makes me feel so ill at ease
My heart is really on it's knees
But I keep a poker face so well
That even mother couldn't tell
But my baby's so vain
She is almost a mirror
And the sound of her name
Sends a permanent shiver down my
Spine
I keep her photograph against my heart
For in my life she plays a starring part
All alcohol and cigarettes
There is no room for cheap regrets
She makes me feel so ill at ease
My heart is really on it's knees
But I keep a poker face so well
That even mother couldn't tell
But my baby's so vain
She is almost a mirror
And the sound of her name
Sends a permanent shiver down my
Spine
Thanks
There is no room? for cheap regrets
@@marceloeduardosanhuezavall4494 Yes, Rowland changed the lyric in this version
I was lucky enough to see the boys next door Nick Cave & Roland S Howard in my youth brilliant memories RIP Roland Howard
I was lucky enough to see the boys next door Nick Cave & Roland S Howard in my youth brilliant memories RIP Roland Howard th-cam.com/video/C9VYYs8uGTE/w-d-xo.html
Rowland made Nick Cave. With Shivers.
Some days I think you're right. As much as I adore Nick Cave - and I do - there are some days when I listen to his earliest material, his earliest prototypical dumb-yob punk songs (see here: th-cam.com/video/2EHOlZQQiOY/w-d-xo.html) and covers of the songs that every dumb-yob punk band did covers of in those days (see here: th-cam.com/video/6uuF4GzduBo/w-d-xo.html), and I think, "Gee, Nick was just a silly little Boy Next Door before Rowland got a hold on him." I think that Rowland must have smartened Nick up a lot - gave him an idea of what he could do with songwriting, an idea of how to use language intelligently and creatively in songs - and I think that Rowland gave Nick a golden opportunity to make himself noticed as a singer and bandleader with "Shivers", and that Nick just took that opportunity and ran with it. I like to think that Nick and Rowland had a wonderful creative partnership, at least for a while, and that they meant a lot to each other (at least, during the Birthday Party's early days), but I suspect that Nick never gave Rowland enough credit. Certainly not while Rowland was alive, and arguably not even after Rowland's death. If you watch AUTOLUMINESCENT, you'll notice (I did, anyway) that Nick seems rather less articulate and more awkward than you might have hoped. I found that to be the case, and I figured it had to be not just because of sadness and regret, but because of guilt. Rowland *made* Nick - Nick would never have become the performer he became if it wasn't for Rowland - and I don't think Nick ever realized just how much that was the case.
@@elizabethhann4028 good little read, i agree
@@mattwhitington8754 Thank you. I'm so glad that you think I'm a good read. That's what every writer wants to hear, and I'm a writer. You know, it's strange: the idea that Rowland was responsible for Nick's talent and Nick's rise to stardom - and/or (even!) that Nick stole ideas and inspiration from Rowland - is something like the only conspiracy-theory I believe in, except it isn't really a conspiracy theory. Elsewhere on this site, I have (semi-facetiously) accused Nick of "spiritual vampirism." I know it isn't literally true, but I like to think about it sometimes.
@@elizabethhann4028 Oh, I absolutely agree. I love love love Nick, but had I been around during the early years, I definitely would have lost interest pretty quickly. I don't know if the change was due to influence or just natural maturation, but I don't think things got *great* until Your Funeral My Trial. Sadly, I haven't really enjoyed the foray into ambient styles the last few albums, but I can recognize and appreciate the artistic growth. It's just not my style. Still enjoy the songwriting, though.
@@ziegfeldgirl Thanks for writing back. Personally, I think that as soon as Nick and Rowland started working together, their music - and especially Nick's lyrics - became so much more compelling and vital, imaginative and wild. I love practically everything the Birthday Party ever recorded, especially the *PRAYERS ON FIRE* album, which featured Nick singing lyrics written not just by Rowland S. Howard ("Ho-Ho"), but by Genevieve McGuckin ("Capers") and Anita Lane ("A Dead Song"). One gets the sense, listening to *PRAYERS ON FIRE* , that in those days the Birthday Party was something like a genuinely collaborative and democratic group, and not just Nick's band. I think that Rowland (and Genevieve and Anita, and Mick Harvey and Tracey Pew in their own way) all profoundly influenced Nick, and educated him and helped make him a better lyricist. But the stronger Nick's songwriting became, the more he wanted to be the *only* lyricist in the group, and his control over the group's direction became that much tighter. This, more than anything else, was the reason the Birthday Party dissolved: Nick refused to sing Rowland's lyrics, and after a while, Rowland refused to play on Nick's songs. I think that Nick continued to improve as a lyricist (and as a musician) up through the Bad Seeds' first decade and even beyond (like you, I still enjoy his songwriting, though I'm continually amazed at just how Nick has matured over the course of his career. I like to say he's gone from Wild Colonial Boy to Man of Constant Sorrow). But I do think he lost something major (something I can't quite define) after his early days with Rowland. " I know everybody grows up, every artist has got to mature; I know Nick's not really the same person as he was in the Birthday Party days. But dome days I feel kinda sad that he'll never sound as loose and wild and free as he did singing "Ho-Ho" or "Capers."
When you write songs, you need a balance between the creative and cool undescribable and that thing one learns through repetition and muscle memory.. some call it technique i believe....you need a perfect mix, never even stevens from my understanding of it, but some perfect lightning in a bottle type mix that the song writing guy knows is achieved , when it illicits feeling. It feels whole and with an energy that is self contained and lives outside the influence of the songwriting guy. It had been manifested, a little spark had combustion formed to a degree which enticed further actions from the universe. It has purpose, a solitary piece of written musical expression. A powerful 4 four repetition, a layer in which visions can be applied onto. Rock n roll ..
love it;D
no he aint doing a cover. he wrote the song. my baby is so vein she is almost a mirror,and the sound of her name,gives me a panamic shiver, down my..spine! love it.my favorite version of it.
+Dead Babies In Vomit panamic?? pretty sure it's 'permanent shiver'
+Dead Babies In Vomit my baby's so vain she is almost a mirror and the sound of her name sends a permanent shiver down my spine
+Dead Babies In Vomit Haha, I'd love to be able to hear the sound of her name again in my... spine...💀
Correct. Permanent shiver.
I have it in his own handwriting.
Mind you he changed it occasionally ❤
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I think Rowland was Tim Burton's inspiration for Edward Scissorhands
his image was based on Robert smith , but I definitely get your point
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cal dixon my mom was the actual inspiration
I could see that
@Lucas Chiara from Siouxsie Sioux.
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Yoooo
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Me encanta cuando recomienda canciones luego luego las busco tiene buen gusto
Fuck its so good
Rowland didn't think this song was that great. I'm glad he's wrong :)
nice!
Todo Amor
¿Alguien más viene por el podcast de Roberto Mtz?
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Me.
También yo
Yo también jajajaja
Awebooooo
Alcohol and cigarettes, I've got no use for cheap regret
👁 El ojo
Written by Rowland but first version that I know was boys next door.
TheMimifur close but this is the original www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D8Eeg-JqSO5c&ved=0ahUKEwihh4n2nMjYAhUCnZQKHXNZDWIQt9IBCEgwBA&usg=AOvVaw187hVq-hHKyOLoBctGR3Q2
He used to sing it with the Young Charlatans before the Boys Next Door and Nick singing it I'm pretty sure.
Am I the only who has recalled Joan Jett's Love Hurts intro cover?
Yes 😜
@@giannicoinu1098 I bet you went and checked by now....
@Nickrattigan does an amazing cover of this song.
Nicholas Budwine honestly ! I'm so upset that I didn't get to record it ): it was amazing
Nicholas Budwine yes! do you know where i can find it? if anywhere
Tommy Amsbry it was live man, I'm sorry :(
@@marissa2929 he made a cover for it for his latest album you should check it out !!
So i act bored instead
Is this the original version? It's the only one were I feel he is "contemplating suicide"
No.
See here th-cam.com/video/8Eeg-JqSO5c/w-d-xo.html
and
th-cam.com/video/QsIPoRTBV44/w-d-xo.html
The second version by The Boys Next Door, got good coverage in Australia. RSH by then was 19. Nick Cave at 21 played on his good looks with rather pouty and histrionic vocals , I thought (I hadn't heard the first version the.) and I found the song hammy. I read years later that RH thought it was misinterpreted by Cave.
I am partial to the first version. It probably shows a debt to Lou Reed/Velvet Underground, but quite impressively.
An amazing song, made all the more amazing by Nick Cave’s delivery, both of them are amazing
I love nick, but this song is Rowland's
I’ve been contemplating suicide... well I feel better
Depressing song.
I think this song is about heroin
I prefer The Boys Next Door version but it's still good.
Screaming Jets do it better.
Screaming Jets not my cup of tea usually, but thanks for referring me to their version. It's really worth listening to.
I've read that Rowland Howard wrote this song as a bit of a joke when he was sixteen or something - and it's gradually taken on a life of its own, one of those Great Aussie Classix, he'd probably enjoy that if he was still around.
Hahah....you have to be kidding!!! The Screaming jets cover is horrible....no heart or soul in it whatsoever
Yes they do a rather awesome version of it indeed!
Looks like an aneamic version of Johnny Thunders. Never a good look..................
Why, what's so terrible about it? I'm sure you look much better. X
Yeah, I think i'd say I was better looking. Anyway i'm still alive for a start and i'm not a smack addict. Good song though.
Henry Hawk fuck you
@@henryhawk2904
How nice for you that you can get on that high horse. An addict yet he still shines & his addiction didn't detract from him being a good person, a consummate artist & an incredible musician,
he's still touching people through his music all these years later,
feel good on that pedastal while no one here will ever celebrate your goody two shoes life, what did you write at 15 thats still touches folks & is relevant today except this two bit redundant comment.
@@henryhawk2904 Not being a smack addict isn't an accomplishment. All you need to do is have no money and no connections and stay home. Most paraplegics and morbidly obese people can do that and still produce more. If being alive and not being hooked on junk are all you can think of to be proud of then you might as well just do junk. At least you'll feel good. Like damn he was in tons of bands and played great guitar, is admired by thousands and respected by his contemporaries. He also kicked dope years before he died of liver cancer. I can easily name a dozen incredibly successful people that did dope, stayed alive, wrote books, albums and advanced science all while addicted to opioids. So you're alive and not a smack addict you must be able to outdo any junkie in history so lets see what exactly do you have to show for it? Aldous Huxley has Brave New World and Doors of Perception/Heaven & Hell. We all know what the Marquis de Sade got up to. Burroughs was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. His books started coming out in the 50's and he shot H almost daily until he died in the mid 90's. The Beatles, Stones and Clapton were all hooked on smack for a while. Living and not being addicted to smack could also describe a potato or someone in a vegetative state. That just sounds like existing. Boring, risk-free yet somehow proud of it? I wonder, does it bother you that tons of people feel something so pleasurable it can't be described without overdosing or even becoming addicted? Granted most people have trouble with that but there are plenty that don't and they won't face negative consequences. Then there are plenty that are or were addicted and became incredibly successful and wealthy so if you're going to judge back it up and we'll see which song sounds better. Pff. Why are you even listening to this kind of music? Huey Luis and the News would suit you better. "Its hip to be square" I hear Sting is really into his health and U2 seem like they're into good christian living or you could just go Barry Manilow. Its post punk, if the musicians weren't into heroin it was something else. What were you expecting? Anyway I hope that being a non heroin addicted living thing gives you special protection against liver cancer cause thats what killed him and cancer is one of the biggest causes of death. Maybe it won't happen to you but just in case you better get a lot of accomplishments in soon, you probably have some catching up to do.
Laura Jane Grace's cover is better in my opinion