My dad showed me this song. He said he first heard it during his freshman year of college. He says he was woken up by it early in the morning after his first college party, and it was playing extremely loud. He said that was the definitive moment he realized his freedom, from being a kid to being a man. Since he told me the story it’s become one of the most powerful songs I know.
My parent’s lived in Dubai in the late 90s/early 2000s, and when they met they used to meet with each other and listen to The Smiths. This was my dad’s favourite song of theirs.
Omg my dad and mom used do you have fart contests to this song while smoking toothpaste on banana peels! This song transcends all cosmic gates and Narnia! Actually if you play this song backwards you get sucked into Narnia through a vacuous black hole
4-8 fender Twins with their tremelo function manipualted to play off each other in real time as Marr's Casino guitar played back in the studio, the tuning on the second guitar was adjusted to allow for the iconic slide part-two notes or double stops and a Bo Didley Beat. Marr used chorus as did half of the eiighties bands, It's still a cool effecr but it not's why this song sound like this at all. Marr was using the same guitars, and Boss pedals and studio effects that everyone had access to in the studio then, Nowadays anyone with a laptop has access to hundreds more. Yet this song was a a fookin B SIDE.. He will remain one of the greatest guitarists to ever play the instrument. Because he could play Bach? No. But he had the technique to play circles around anyone else iin Engand without breaking a sweat, I play a lot of different styles or rock and country and blues. Playing like Marr is almost always the hardest Refer to my channell. Like Muddy Watters he didn't go to music school, They don't teach what he does with a few chords. I've seen Moz play this song too and it's great he's an icon but Marr would have been a legend regardless, less famous but a legend, Morrissey.....Marr handed him his career and template on a silver platter, then went on playing like no one else. He doesn't even play like himself here. This Charming Mar is a bit different. As is almost every song musically. Id been a fan of Rush and Ozzy, The Cure used plenty of chorus. They were cool too. This right here though is a guitar band. Three straight men and one giant gay singing :shut your mouth I want to be loved" After I discovered The Sniths and Rem I barely gave a single shit when Grunge happened. I never saw hundred of apparently straight men rush the stage just embrace a pretentious albeit gifted clealy gay man. Before or since. Three guys behind him all kilin it. Marr was what 19? No peers. Simply because no on else chose the notes he chose. That has nothing to with a chorus pedal. Wish it did.
80's was the best era for music. Now, in my 50s, I still love the 80s music, my children love the 80s music, and for the most part, we can't stand most modern "music" being produced today.
music being produced in recent years is at the highest quality and diversity music has ever been produced, the billboard 100 may not be your thing but there is much more great stuff out if your willing to find it
It may be just my opinion, but It seems to me that contemporary music reached it's pinnacle in the 80's (rock In 90's) then just proceeded to get worse. I'm 68 now.
They did a bunch great songs, this one was a B side and got alot of radio play. Maybe that is why you like it, everything that gets alot air play gets liked.
Two years ago after his show, I told Johnny Marr "How Soon Is Now?" is my favourite song ever. He kissed my hand and gave me his guitar pick. As a 25 year old, I can't believe the 80's were even real. They seemed too incredible not be fictional.
Dude you just made my day by saying that.......it truly was a magical time of transition with the emergence of hands on technology in it's infancy but filled with room for hope and dreams!!!
Yesterday i watched The Killer on Netflix,with music from The Smiths,throwback to when i was 17 in 1984! Today i am playing this song on repeat! Tears in my eyes!
I am a metal head but this blows me away every time. I can't explain why - it is everything from beginning to end. Every note, every lyric, every waah.
I'm very oriented towards stoner rock, sludge & doom metal, psychedlic & prog rock, and other rock that jams hard and usually* slow. Yeah, this song's feeling grooves well with my taste. In fact, this song reminds me of Anemone by The Brian Jonestown Massacre in lots of good ways.
This song… is a time machine. I’m suddenly a teen again and feel all the feelings and emotions of angst, love, hope… reminds me I’m not completely dead inside after 20 years of war.
Ashamed to say this,i only heard this for the first time at work recently. I physically had to stop what i was doing and stand by the radio. An absolute masterpiece 👏
You only need to see a doctor if the eargasm lasts six hours or more. But then again, if I'm having an 8-hour eargasm, I'm probably just going to enjoy it and the last thing I'm thinking about is calling a doctor 'cause I already feel gooooooooooood.
My dearest friend Michael introduced me to the Smith's in the 80's when we were just kids. I'm 53 now and their music will always remind me of him. RIP dear friend. You were loved more than you knew.
I'm 21 and from Puerto Rico, haven't met anyone here that likes or knows about the Smiths. Really don't know what my life would be without them. God bless the internet.
needing to be Loved is timeless. Jefferson Airplane the other side of White Rabbit on a 45 single .Don't you need somebody to love ...you better find somebody to love. Same concept It came out in 1968 .Most of yins were old people who didn't die and reincarnate so ya may have herd it in your past life
It's not even in this track, many of the smiths songs had interesting sounds and instruments. Even with his new stuff he implements lots of different things.
"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" - I felt that and related to that so hard, definitely my thought process on a average night out.
I do better with meeting people when I go out alone. Its almost hard to believe. Girls will sit right next to me at an empty bar. I'll be back at it once covid is done. GL buddy.
That's why I didn't go out nights in my twenties, thirties, and now. Besides, I'd had enough of people after a typical day... After you've been kicked in the nuts psychologically by enough people, that "wanting to die" feeling goes away somewhat. Ya just don't care anymore...
@@nicholasrhodes4550 I know what you mean. I'm only 29, but it's hard to imagine that feeling evolving much beyond this point. Would you say that it does? I wish TH-cam still had direct messaging. Wouldn't mind talking about it at length if you want.
“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.” How can somebody articulate something so heavenly painful?
I remembered being picked last in sports teams in school, but really the glass was half full. Everyone feels sad, its a mood. Sometimes you go to a club, and you find someone who loves Morrissey more than you, you go to bed with him, and you're on your own. But you still have " How Soon Is Now"
The fucking guitar sound in this song is absolutely spine tingling. Marr is a genius. Morrissey's vocals are absolute perfection too. Most underrated band ever when it comes to sales and general appreciation.
You must be joking? They were one of the most hyped acts ever. The darlings of the music press. They did some good stuff admittedly (& this track is a classic) but if anything they were overrated, not underrated
Mar wasn't such a good guitarist but he was amazingly creative in the way he took a few amps and effects pedals and used them to get a unique sound that was highly entertaining. Being a guitarist myself with very limited playing ability I've gotten better response from audiences playing with my band than hard core musicians did playing at the same venue .I made very likable sounds with the guitar that captured people senses. It not how good the musicians are , it's how well the audience listening , likes it .Kurk Cobain is another example of that . He barely knew how to play guitar . But he was a great entertainer with a very likable sound .
I learnt to play the song in about an hour . And I'm the worst guitarist from canarsie .There are a few different people showing how to play it on TH-cam
If I liked the song and I wanted to do a cover it may take me a week or so to do it .I listened to it and didn't think much of it . I listened to all the songs I could find on the Smiths and Johnny Marr because I like How Soon Is Now so much . I find it's the only song I like of Marrs and the Smiths. If Marr wrote the music to that song , he most likely wrote what came natural to him with the style and from what patterns he uses to practice with . Marr may be able to play that song with ease because it's in him . He may have trouble learning what music I have written . It's just repetitious practice .I'm learning How Soon Is Now because someone I know wants to do a cover of the song when she gigs out . She writes her own material ,both music and lyrics , but feels she want's to do a few covers in between her own stuff. Since she moved here from another town and doesn't have her band anymore I may get to play out as part of her band .I'm old and rusty but there's nothing more I like than playing in a band and gigging out . Here's the person's own materialwho want's to do a Marr's cover . If ya think it isn't to your liking be easy with criticism. People get their feelings hurt when people make negative comments of their art . th-cam.com/video/bSokxhIbJGg/w-d-xo.html
Morrissey is a genius writing timeless lyrics, his vocals and the rest of the band made beautiful music together. Without Morrissey's talent, the band would have never made it in the competitive and awesome decade of 80s music.
@@license45 Oh Wow! 1. I Want To Know What Love Is The rest of Top 30 in no order: Head Over Heels What About Love? How Soon is Now? Like A Virgin Material Girl Turn Up The Radio Relax We Don't Need Another Hero A View To A Kill Don't You Forget About Me Run To You Somebody ___________ Born in the USA Fortress Around My Heart Jungle Love-The Time Saving All My Love For You We Are The World I Feel For You High On You Carless Whispers Everything She Wants Along Comes A Woman In My House Rhythm of the Night Some Like It Hot You Give Good Love Valotte Lay Your Hands Can't Fight This Feeling Be Near Me I Can't Hold Back
I was 18 and remember back in 1988, this was used in a Pepe Jeans commercial in England...I used to cry every time it came on. I’m 50 now, and it still gets me. Johnny Marrs guitar cries. I met Johnny a few years back and he said the song almost didn’t happen because of how complicated it was to get that now famous sound out of the guitar...apparently it took weeks to get right, but he said now, a kid could create the sound with an iPhone. Long live the kings
Back in the day when this song was new, it didn't play on the radio continuously but when it did people would stop talking and listen to it. One of those songs that transcends into your soul.
I worked with Morrisseys dad at the Bupa hospital in Whalley Range Manchester. He got Morrissey a job there once and that's when he wrote heaven knows I'm miserable now.
@@KrashyKharma It's actually a tremolo, possibly straight from the Fender amp, with an old-school rockabilly riff. Not wah or phase pedals. Really simple...but with all the 80's stuff layered over it. Timeless.
Leo Fender invented tremolo amps . He's amazing Mar just uses two of them at different speeds .Any guitarist could learn how in an hour to get the same sound
Amazing : to cause great surprise or wonder. I'm neither surprised or in wonder .More accurate is you are amazed by Johnny Marr sound . Me I just needed to find out how he got the sound he gets because I know someone who wants to do a cover of the song when she gigs out and I'm helping her with the effects .Without the lyrics the sound wouldn't have been what makes people like the song so much . Like Journey's Love Hurts . Without the lyrics , the lead break would have little effect on people's emotions ,which is the thing that captures the listen's attention
The Smiths were incredibly popular in Mexico. I partied in Mexico in the 90's and you couldn't go an hour without hearing this song playing in the clubs. This is such a badass hit. Brings back a lot of memories. Cheers.
Stayed at a resort in 2012 in riviera Maya i think and heard this several times. I remember telling my wife how cool and strange it was to hear an 80s song like this being played.
1985 H.S. grad. here. I agree with you hands down. I was a Metal Head, mostly Thrash, like Megadeth, Anthrax and of course the big ones like Maiden and Priest, but being a guitarist, I love all music with talent. This is pure and simple magic. An amazing synth groove and vocals /lyrics as well make this tune a big time Monster ! Just wish it was longer.
@@gib59er56 My brother was a guitarist & rocker & didn't like my "new wave" or early 80's newer music. I left for L.A. & he said he started loving all the music I played - he just wasn't ready (being into guitars, I don't like guitars much) so now he admits the 80's & this song are kick-*ss songs.
the bass line for this song... the intro... gah. can't. Marr talks about how they got it without pedals... www.westword.com/music/johnny-marr-on-how-he-created-the-sound-for-how-soon-is-now-without-effects-pedals-5704969
Lyrics: 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
One of my favorite songs of ALL Time, it gives me the chills every time I listen to it 🖤 This song describes me in High School with my social anxiety and depression
@@idontwantodoit Hi Tom 😀 Nice to meet you the message by the smiths came across the time and country to me We're sure to know the light that never goes out…
@@Matthphyl4561 I probably shouldn't say this, but I was bullied in high school by a teacher. And there was a long time when my sister was schizophrenic and my family was broken. I've been depressed for about five years because of them. (I tried to write English sentences that are correct but it may be wrong. I hope this sentences will be able to tell you what I want to tell.)
wow what a lovely and out standing profile you have here you profile was attracted to my eyes I can tell you are a very positive person with a positive mind and I'd love to be around such good energy. If it's okay with you I'd love to be friends!
Mark Obrien depressing music makes you feel better when you’re depressed. I’ve a theory that it’s like commiserating with a friend that picks you up, but who knows. Some things are better not analyzed
Thiago Rodrigues Mano não usa essa palavra com alguém q vc nem conhece, está contribuindo para a banalização desse sentimento, q hoje em dia já está muito banalizado, todos chamam tudo de amor isso só faz a palavra perder o significado.
Raphael Aveiro Todo tipo de amor é válido, inclusive amor ao próximo. Acredito na pessoa que se arrisca a morte certa apenas por ter 1 chance de tentar salvar alguém que nem sabe o nome, acredito que todos merecem ser amados (como diz a musica) mesmo se não a conheço, mesmo que não conheço o cheiro dela, a idade, sonhos e objetivos. (palavras de um solitário esperançoso)
This is pure magic...not from this world...I still can recall this feeling ...even after more than 30 years...again and again....thank you so much, Smiths....
Michaela Hansen there were so may great bands in the 80's lik : The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Psycadelic Furs, The Cure, Duran Duran, The Fixx, Talk Talk, Simple Minds, Tears for Fears, The Cult, Echo and the Bunnymen, Billy Idol, OMD, The Concretes....you get the idea ! The 80's ruled ! And this is not a coincidence, all these bands came from the UK....
"I can still recall this feeling"....mate,you don't have to say anymore. We all remember that feeling of being an unloved teenager in 1984. I recently divorced after 32 years,and find myself back here again. It's like I've come full circle.
that ringing guitar note right before he says "You shut your mouth" is pure brilliance. I've never heard the same note struck 4 times that ever sounded so good. The skill level there is first day beginner can play it. But putting that note in that key at that moment was genius.
I was sat in the garden tonight with my 16 & 15 year old daughter and I played this on the Sonos.. They were blown away!! no exaggeration! One proud dad :)
How incredibly deep, eh? Who else in the history of our species could have thought of two homophones and then so adeptly put them into one line of a song's lyrics? 🤯 🙄x 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
***** No. I'm saying that calling it ahead of it's time is calling it shite in a way, cuz music now is fucking dreadful and that's why it wouldn't be a compliment. I think it's an excellent song.
Didn't have a privileged childhood, but one thing I was graced with during my childhood was that my parents had me grow up with good music. Born in 1991, and I wouldn't change a damn thing, I got a taste of old music and current music of that day. Not the meaningless, repetitive "messages" they play on the radio to kids today. Keep the old music CURRENT!!! Let children EMBRACE the music of the past. Back when music actually made you FEEL something. Back when music MEANT something!!!!!
A song for all our youths. God that helplessness you feel when you’re desperate to meet someone but too shy to do anything about it. But thankfully a thing of the past.
The best thing about this song was dancing to it in night clubs. I'm not sure most younger people realize that almost all of these alternative songs were great dance songs. Turn down the lights, turn on the strobe if you have one, and just dance to one after another for an hour or more. Yes, by yourself...if someone else is around, they do their thing on the dance floor and you do yours.
@@protovision2010 As a friend of mine pointed out decades ago, punk (hardcore, industrial, etc.) was music meant to dance to...including slam dancing. In the '90s we saw it replaced largely by music to slit your wrists to. LOL
It's true, I had a remix of this song from a club in New Orleans. It was mind blowing. My room mate destroyed that tape because he was so sick of hearing that song. I should have killed him.
I’m only 18, but, this is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard, hands down. Y’all Gen X’ers had a good music scene. Edit: holy shit thanks guys, 20 years old still love the song. Thank you.
This song is pretty great. The 80s had its moments, but there’s more good music being released now than there ever has been, you just have to work harder to find it.
I was born in 1987 but my dear father was a huge fan of the Smiths and I was raised with their music and Morrissey's. I absolutely love the Smiths. Definitely reminds me of my childhood.😃
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Almost 40 yrs later and that riff still haunts me. This song is timeless.
They pull your soul and stretch it to its lengths. They’re divinity.
raoufbasit: A certain Buffy haunts me every time I hear this song.
Sighhhhhh
I AM THE SUN
was it not charmed??
I am human and I need to be loved, just like everyone does. One of the greatest lyrics ever.
True that!! :)
That lyric hurts me
I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.
...but I've already waited too long, and all my hope is gone. (Got married at 36 and had a baby 🍼 at 39. Still hope.)
🙌🏻
It's that damn guitar . . it's haunted me all my life.
it's a beautiful sound, and when i listened to it for the first time in years the nostalgia was stroong
Me too ,BooBoo, me too
100% dude
Immediate shivers from the beginning
Triggers feelings as strong as a scent.
Everybody Should Listen To This Masterpiece In 2024 🎶
Me
why cause you say so time troll
And Psychedelic furs, Flock Of Seagulls ...and the Sing "Send Me and Angel"
been listening since 2018
2024, 31 July 💜🖤
This song was ahead of its time.
Nope it was right on time
You are so right! I like it more today than I did in the early 90s.
This song is ahead of now even 👌🏻👌🏻
actually most stuff from the 80s is still ahead of this time
@@jonlenin9982 it's not
My dad showed me this song. He said he first heard it during his freshman year of college. He says he was woken up by it early in the morning after his first college party, and it was playing extremely loud. He said that was the definitive moment he realized his freedom, from being a kid to being a man. Since he told me the story it’s become one of the most powerful songs I know.
My parent’s lived in Dubai in the late 90s/early 2000s, and when they met they used to meet with each other and listen to The Smiths. This was my dad’s favourite song of theirs.
Dad sounds like a wanker.
Me too. Freaky?
Omg my dad and mom used do you have fart contests to this song while smoking toothpaste on banana peels!
This song transcends all cosmic gates and Narnia! Actually if you play this song backwards you get sucked into Narnia through a vacuous black hole
@@monsterpoo I just got dumber reading this
With that opening riff…you just know something magical is about to unfold.
The way it pans is really amazing with modern noise cancelling headphones. Take care.
You can feel that magical especially when high lol
@@Nex47128yeah tremelo is such a great effect
not chorus@@spaghettisauce445
4-8 fender Twins with their tremelo function manipualted to play off each other in real time as Marr's Casino guitar played back in the studio, the tuning on the second guitar was adjusted to allow for the iconic slide part-two notes or double stops and a Bo Didley Beat. Marr used chorus as did half of the eiighties bands, It's still a cool effecr but it not's why this song sound like this at all.
Marr was using the same guitars, and Boss pedals and studio effects that everyone had access to in the studio then, Nowadays anyone with a laptop has access to hundreds more. Yet this song was a a fookin B SIDE.. He will remain one of the greatest guitarists to ever play the instrument.
Because he could play Bach? No. But he had the technique to play circles around anyone else iin Engand without breaking a sweat,
I play a lot of different styles or rock and country and blues. Playing like Marr is almost always the hardest Refer to my channell. Like Muddy Watters he didn't go to music school, They don't teach what he does with a few chords.
I've seen Moz play this song too and it's great he's an icon but Marr would have been a legend regardless, less famous but a legend, Morrissey.....Marr handed him his career and template on a silver platter, then went on playing like no one else. He doesn't even play like himself here. This Charming Mar is a bit different. As is almost every song musically.
Id been a fan of Rush and Ozzy, The Cure used plenty of chorus. They were cool too. This right here though is a guitar band. Three straight men and one giant gay singing :shut your mouth I want to be loved" After I discovered The Sniths and Rem I barely gave a single shit when Grunge happened. I never saw hundred of apparently straight men rush the stage just embrace a pretentious albeit gifted clealy gay man. Before or since. Three guys behind him all kilin it. Marr was what 19? No peers. Simply because no on else chose the notes he chose. That has nothing to with a chorus pedal. Wish it did.
80's was the best era for music. Now, in my 50s, I still love the 80s music, my children love the 80s music, and for the most part, we can't stand most modern "music" being produced today.
music being produced in recent years is at the highest quality and diversity music has ever been produced, the billboard 100 may not be your thing but there is much more great stuff out if your willing to find it
@@abbyanderson2463 lol, ya TONS of talent. They cant sing without auto-tune, can't play instruments, just more and more technology. no thanks.
It may be just my opinion, but It seems to me that contemporary music reached it's pinnacle in the 80's (rock In 90's) then just proceeded to get worse.
I'm 68 now.
Sitting up late at night having a bourbon with my 24 year old...listening to his Spotify...this song comes on...I am the BEST DAD EVER!
I'm with ya.. 💯🤘🖤🖤🖤
I'm not really a Smith's fan, but this is one of the best songs ever written
This is the only Smiths song I really liked
@@endy5enduros307 How can one not like This charming man
This song is awesome!
They did a bunch great songs, this one was a B side and got alot of radio play. Maybe that is why you like it, everything that gets alot air play gets liked.
This song was perfectly written and played. Would make almost anyone a fan!
Two years ago after his show, I told Johnny Marr "How Soon Is Now?" is my favourite song ever. He kissed my hand and gave me his guitar pick. As a 25 year old, I can't believe the 80's were even real. They seemed too incredible not be fictional.
I hope that in all this years you never washed your hands
Your post needs to live forever.
Dude you just made my day by saying that.......it truly was a magical time of transition with the emergence of hands on technology in it's infancy but filled with room for hope and dreams!!!
The 80's had amazing timbre, but not as good as the 90's.
@@cgleck780 Um. No.
Yesterday i watched The Killer on Netflix,with music from The Smiths,throwback to when i was 17 in 1984! Today i am playing this song on repeat! Tears in my eyes!
Wow l actually listened to it today because of killer
I just read about this movie and came here cause the review mentioned it 😂
I'm here watching The Killer right now
LOL I just watched it today 19 Nov 2023 and its why Im here.✌🏻🇺🇸🍻
I watched it a few days ago and thought it was quite good. At the start it was slow and drawn out but the smiths kept me into it.
I was working late night shifts at a supermarket and this is where I first heard this in 87... Incredible.
That sounds like something written by Morrissey himself! 😊
Same. Although The Stone Roses got me through those nigh shift's.
"I am human, I need to be loved, just like everybody else does" hits me riiiiight there.
Just as lyrically powerful for me as Creep.
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Creep
I feel ya man....but creep is on another level...
@@andrewkempt9204Andrew Kempt 9204. 😊
which creep? the radiohead one or the stone temple pilots one?
I am a metal head but this blows me away every time. I can't explain why - it is everything from beginning to end. Every note, every lyric, every waah.
have you heard Shoplifters Of The World Unite?
Me two man
Me two
Same here.
I'm very oriented towards stoner rock, sludge & doom metal, psychedlic & prog rock, and other rock that jams hard and usually* slow. Yeah, this song's feeling grooves well with my taste. In fact, this song reminds me of Anemone by The Brian Jonestown Massacre in lots of good ways.
I know! I can listen to lorna shore and this still hits the spot
This song… is a time machine. I’m suddenly a teen again and feel all the feelings and emotions of angst, love, hope… reminds me I’m not completely dead inside after 20 years of war.
Nostalgia won't save u mate
You’re definitely not dead! Music is something to live for!
You're not alone
I hate your avatar
@@PerturaBased senseless comment
Ashamed to say this,i only heard this for the first time at work recently.
I physically had to stop what i was doing and stand by the radio.
An absolute masterpiece 👏
Yup. Wow
So many of us had the same reaction to this masterpiece😊
Exactly what we did forty years ago..
Same thing
My first time was from a TV show. I think it was supernatural
Happy Valentine’s Day to all the people who need to be loved (just like everybody else does).
10/10 comment
You can't help someone mentally if you need such help yourself.
What the fuck are you chatting
get help.
Same to you from the future
Gives me an eargasm every time.
Awesome. "Eargasm"
You should probably go see a doctor then.
You only need to see a doctor if the eargasm lasts six hours or more. But then again, if I'm having an 8-hour eargasm, I'm probably just going to enjoy it and the last thing I'm thinking about is calling a doctor 'cause I already feel gooooooooooood.
Ear Ear Dys.
I wonder if you can get multiple eargasms?
My dearest friend Michael introduced me to the Smith's in the 80's when we were just kids. I'm 53 now and their music will always remind me of him. RIP dear friend. You were loved more than you knew.
J P I’m 51 and I still listen to The Smiths now my daughter is a huge fan we even visited Salford Lads Club 2 weeks ago
Good friend, this Michael!
I’m sorry your friend is gone 😔
Class of 83 Here ! I miss the Real MTV when they had Videos and the Bands were Great.
RIP 2 ur friend bless him
One of the baddest beats ever made! Oh how i will i could go back to the 80's 😢
RIP Andy. Thank you for bass services to humankind. You will be missed.
The 80s WOW had my fun!!!
Quelle basse….🙏
wait... what? he DIED? oh no...
Did not know. RIP
Beautiful sentiments...❤💔❤
I'm 21 and from Puerto Rico, haven't met anyone here that likes or knows about the Smiths. Really don't know what my life would be without them. God bless the internet.
How does nobody know the smiths? Ask some older people
If they know them
Excellent. Keep enjoying more and more
Known the smiths for 30yrs...This music never dies..Its awesome
^^this
"I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does"
That hit me hard
needing to be Loved is timeless. Jefferson Airplane the other side of White Rabbit on a 45 single .Don't you need somebody to love ...you better find somebody to love. Same concept It came out in 1968 .Most of yins were old people who didn't die and reincarnate so ya may have herd it in your past life
It's up there with Journeys "Love Hurts " .And Duran Duran's "Cry for Yesterday "
I would leave the clubs thinking this.
Jesus loves you.
That takes courage to admit that we need love just like everybody does
Johnny Marr created such a unique sound. What a songwriter, and original guitarist.
It's not even in this track, many of the smiths songs had interesting sounds and instruments. Even with his new stuff he implements lots of different things.
This is the Classic
Bo Diddly riff.
Ask Johnny ❤
I hear this song and I think, "There's no way I'm already 55 years old!" Still love this song.
It creeps up on us all, time.
Shelly Rae Well, I've got ya beat, I'm gonna be 60 in December!!! Yikes!
I must be the baby in this gruop. 53.
Ditto im 54....the Smith's are ageless
I'm 54 and I still love it, I miss the '80's.
"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" - I felt that and related to that so hard, definitely my thought process on a average night out.
💕💕💕
I do better with meeting people when I go out alone. Its almost hard to believe. Girls will sit right next to me at an empty bar. I'll be back at it once covid is done. GL buddy.
That's why I didn't go out nights in my twenties, thirties, and now.
Besides, I'd had enough of people after a typical day...
After you've been kicked in the nuts psychologically by enough people, that "wanting to die" feeling goes away somewhat.
Ya just don't care anymore...
@@nicholasrhodes4550 never up, never in..........
@@nicholasrhodes4550 I know what you mean. I'm only 29, but it's hard to imagine that feeling evolving much beyond this point. Would you say that it does?
I wish TH-cam still had direct messaging. Wouldn't mind talking about it at length if you want.
One of the greatest 80’s song of all time yet totally underrated. The sound of the musical instruments crossing over eachother is brilliant
The were amazing until Morrisey turned into a giant egotistical jerk and ruined it all!
all that energy one stage. of course it caught fire!
It was the opening song for TV show "Charmed"
So many bad memories. Of heart break. This song kills my soul.
Yeses is delicious
This is my favorite Smiths song.
Manchester is the land of the alternative rock, the Smiths, the stone roses and oasis, god bless Manchester!!!
New Order and Joy Division as well, and The Bee Gees if that's your thing 😂
@@jamesmason8436 Ian Curtis was top!!!
Dont forget joy division 😊
beegees were the isle of man @@jamesmason8436
and the fall.
“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.” How can somebody articulate something so heavenly painful?
And true. I was considered 'too beautiful ' My nightclub experiences were a nightmare. Always stood on ny own and went home alone. Alone today at 58.
He’s articulating his life. Namely his childhood. He was always an outcast and bullied.
Jhgf
But so relatable..
I remembered being picked last in sports teams in school, but really the glass was half full. Everyone feels sad, its a mood. Sometimes you go to a club, and you find someone who loves Morrissey more than you, you go to bed with him, and you're on your own. But you still have " How Soon Is Now"
Just a hauntingly beautiful, totally relatable piece of music, art and magic.
Absolutely concure
And mistery
Beautifully put 👍
You do not find groups and songs like this anymore. Impossible to forget the bass and the guitar, even after 40 years.
I like the lyrics.
@@qwop1900 I will agree with you. However, i am a bass player, that's why i cannot leave bass and guitar unnoticed!
Youre insane by posting this track after more than a 4 décadas......
And the yesrs about to come.....
Music at it's BEST...!!!
No you don't find bands like this anymore absolutely not music today sux it's all water down traveling music
@@JaysonTripp-r5d I mostly agree. Try NXCRE & The Villains and Greta van Fleet for some modern kick @$$
The fucking guitar sound in this song is absolutely spine tingling. Marr is a genius. Morrissey's vocals are absolute perfection too. Most underrated band ever when it comes to sales and general appreciation.
Does that fall under 'general appreciation' to you failtroll?
*****
Lel.
You must be joking? They were one of the most hyped acts ever. The darlings of the music press. They did some good stuff admittedly (& this track is a classic) but if anything they were overrated, not underrated
Charlie Cairns Pipe down "Charlie"
Chris Martin
:'3
East Africa here, ugandans are loving this hard.
Great music almost travels by itself.
Nice one!
God, those Johnny Marr's guitar riff are marvellous
Mar wasn't such a good guitarist but he was amazingly creative in the way he took a few amps and effects pedals and used them to get a unique sound that was highly entertaining.
Being a guitarist myself with very limited playing ability I've gotten better response from audiences playing with my band than hard core musicians did playing at the same venue .I made very likable sounds with the guitar that captured people senses.
It not how good the musicians are , it's how well the audience listening , likes it .Kurk Cobain is another example of that . He barely knew how to play guitar . But he was a great entertainer with a very likable sound .
You know...back when I heard this song and those riffs, back in 84, It blew me away and gave me the chills.AMAZING:)
I learnt to play the song in about an hour . And I'm the worst guitarist from canarsie .There are a few different people showing how to play it on TH-cam
@@steveh7682 OK try playing william it was really nothing and see if you think he wasn't that skilled
If I liked the song and I wanted to do a cover it may take me a week or so to do it .I listened to it and didn't think much of it . I listened to all the songs I could find on the Smiths and Johnny Marr because I like How Soon Is Now so much . I find it's the only song I like of Marrs and the Smiths.
If Marr wrote the music to that song , he most likely wrote what came natural to him with the style and from what patterns he uses to practice with . Marr may be able to play that song with ease because it's in him . He may have trouble learning what music I have written . It's just repetitious practice
.I'm learning How Soon Is Now because someone I know wants to do a cover of the song when she gigs out . She writes her own material ,both music and lyrics , but feels she want's to do a few covers in between her own stuff. Since she moved here from another town and doesn't have her band anymore I may get to play out as part of her band .I'm old and rusty but there's nothing more I like than playing in a band and gigging out .
Here's the person's own materialwho want's to do a Marr's cover . If ya think it isn't to your liking be easy with criticism.
People get their feelings hurt when people make negative comments of their art .
th-cam.com/video/bSokxhIbJGg/w-d-xo.html
This song is timeless, and it's an absolute masterpiece.
The song is timeless. The video… is not.
@@TalleyrandsPuppet Why not?
Totally agree 👍👍👍👍
@@TalleyrandsPuppetI beg to differ.
Morrissey is a genius writing timeless lyrics, his vocals and the rest of the band made beautiful music together. Without Morrissey's talent, the band would have never made it in the competitive and awesome decade of 80s music.
RIP Andy Rourke (January 17, 1964 - May 19, 2023), aged 59
You will be remembered as a legend.
Very sad😢😢😢😢😢😢 so hard
❤❤❤
Very sad. Being only a year younger then Andy, this hits home. Cherish every moment you have. You never know when it might be your last.
Hey that's my birthday too! Hope I don't die the same day as him lmao
@@noctumnocturnal I'm pretty sure you won't because that day has already passed and you're still here! LOL!
this is literally one of the greatest songs ever
Just created a Top 30 of 1985 playlist. Definitely a badass Top 5 for that year. I cranked it. This is a theatrical moment in music to be heard.
Please share the 1985 list!
@@license45
Oh Wow!
1. I Want To Know What Love Is
The rest of Top 30 in no order:
Head Over Heels
What About Love?
How Soon is Now?
Like A Virgin
Material Girl
Turn Up The Radio
Relax
We Don't Need Another Hero
A View To A Kill
Don't You Forget About Me
Run To You
Somebody
___________
Born in the USA
Fortress Around My Heart
Jungle Love-The Time
Saving All My Love For You
We Are The World
I Feel For You
High On You
Carless Whispers
Everything She Wants
Along Comes A Woman
In My House
Rhythm of the Night
Some Like It Hot
You Give Good Love
Valotte
Lay Your Hands
Can't Fight This Feeling
Be Near Me
I Can't Hold Back
Why "literally"?
I agree my friend, the beat is just awesome
Talking to a friends daughter, she said her favorite music to play on guitar is the Smiths. Cool kid. 10/10
*My parents told me to respect* *this song because I wouldn't be* *here without it*
Ahahahah XD
hahahaha
Daniel you're my favourite post I've read today whether you like it or not
Daniel fountain XD
xD
I was 18 and remember back in 1988, this was used in a Pepe Jeans commercial in England...I used to cry every time it came on. I’m 50 now, and it still gets me. Johnny Marrs guitar cries.
I met Johnny a few years back and he said the song almost didn’t happen because of how complicated it was to get that now famous sound out of the guitar...apparently it took weeks to get right, but he said now, a kid could create the sound with an iPhone.
Long live the kings
What guitar sound are you referring to? (Sorry, I'm not a musician)
I always wished I was a was a teenager in the 80s!
Generation X gave us some really great music 🖤🙏🏽
@maripicelli The thing that sounds like "ahhhhhh"?
Wow! I had no idea that was a guitar. That's pretty dang cool.
The sound of the 80’s is like no other.
Original sound! What an Era
@@nachc6459 Yes Nach 👌
Yes my friend, beautiful music
The BEST song there is no question
Amen!!
Perhaps the most beautifully bleak song to come out of Manchester . Lyrically and musically ❤
One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
fuck yea
I'm 14 years old but the Smiths songs are simply beautiful, and they are one of those songs that I can listen to all day long and I won't get bored
Bless your heart young one! Glad you dig it!
Get otta here! Lmao jk.
I'm 17. Us kids must keep the music alive 💪
@babeno3606 you shut your mouth
@babeno3606 been a fan of Morrissey since 1988. I'm 54.
This song with headphones is magical
...and without headphones with big boxes and friendly neighbours - too ;-)
I’m 53 and this was the best song when cruising the Streets of LA -Hollywood and the Valley. God I missed the 80’s 😫
Rob 380 we can’t be the only two. Should start an emotional support group. Can all sit around listening to 80’s gold .
@@twistedjedi2040 Yup, I'll join that group in a sec
Rob those memories are all yours embrace them ,smile andraise a glass to those good times we were lucky enough to have
I'm 53, I'm ready to join this group!
My father is 50
25 Years since the first episode of Charmed. I just love the "opening", the song is truly timeless.
🙌🏻
Amen!🙏🏼
OK, but sun & air, is not son & heir.
Charmed. lol.
sadly, Charmed can't use this song anymore due to rights issues.......
Back in the day when this song was new, it didn't play on the radio continuously but when it did people would stop talking and listen to it. One of those songs that transcends into your soul.
Morrissey, Marr, Rourke, and Joyce made great music together for a short period of time. The Smiths will live on forever. Great alt band.
Irish names
I worked with Morrisseys dad at the Bupa hospital in Whalley Range Manchester. He got Morrissey a job there once and that's when he wrote heaven knows I'm miserable now.
Morrissey looks dead already . The guy didn't age too well . I know dead people who look more alive than he .
@@steveh7682 Regardless, he makes enough money to live happy, and distance himself from you disgusting libs and minorities. BOOM!!!
@@v-town1980 he is a minority.
Never gets old. How does Johnny get a sound like that out of a guitar. Genius
Wah/phase pedals and light overdrive
@@KrashyKharma It's actually a tremolo, possibly straight from the Fender amp, with an old-school rockabilly riff. Not wah or phase pedals. Really simple...but with all the 80's stuff layered over it. Timeless.
@@JohyeahM pretty sure he was plugged into 4 amps. idk i read that somewhere
That’s what missing from Morrissey’s solo tours
Tremolo and lots of overdub
I have tickets to the 80's. Who's coming with me?
90s
Guys I have new edits of The smiths on my page I would be very happy if you like my videos
@@jerusalem716 90s sucks 80s best
Me first!!👍🤣
🙌🏽
When I die, just sprinkle my ashes all over the 80s
The guitar actually sounds like it's being played underwater.johnny marr is amazing.
Leo Fender invented tremolo amps . He's amazing Mar just uses two of them at different speeds .Any guitarist could learn how in an hour to get the same sound
@@steveh7682 But they didn't.Marr did.
Amazing : to cause great surprise or wonder.
I'm neither surprised or in wonder .More accurate is you are amazed by Johnny Marr sound . Me I just needed to find out how he got the sound he gets because I know someone who wants to do a cover of the song when she gigs out and I'm helping her with the effects .Without the lyrics the sound wouldn't have been what makes people like the song so much . Like Journey's Love Hurts . Without the lyrics , the lead break would have little effect on people's emotions ,which is the thing that captures the listen's attention
@@steveh7682 Agreed.I just find it difficult to ignore Johnny Marr's successful efforts.
I think there were several takes of the riff merged together in the recording. Brilliant non the less by the band and producer.
The Smiths were incredibly popular in Mexico. I partied in Mexico in the 90's and you couldn't go an hour without hearing this song playing in the clubs. This is such a badass hit. Brings back a lot of memories. Cheers.
I just walked trough a crowded market in Mexico City and was happy to hear The Smiths coming from one of the stalls selling clothes.
That is actually crazy to hear, Would never expect The Smiths to be popular in Mexico
@@riderzinc Mexico is crazy about the Smiths and nuts about Morrissey.
I must add they still are very popular in Mexico to this day.
Stayed at a resort in 2012 in riviera Maya i think and heard this several times. I remember telling my wife how cool and strange it was to hear an 80s song like this being played.
I've lived through the decades, and I can tell you that the '80s were magical. The Smiths and their music were/are also magical.
I believe so, they brings beautiful feelings to my heart❤️
Still are!!
Hi there me too and wish we could go back special times.
1985 H.S. grad. here. I agree with you hands down. I was a Metal Head, mostly Thrash, like Megadeth, Anthrax and of course the big ones like Maiden and Priest, but being a guitarist, I love all music with talent. This is pure and simple magic. An amazing synth groove and vocals /lyrics as well make this tune a big time Monster ! Just wish it was longer.
@@gib59er56 My brother was a guitarist & rocker & didn't like my "new wave" or early 80's newer music. I left for L.A. & he said he started loving all the music I played - he just wasn't ready (being into guitars, I don't like guitars much) so now he admits the 80's & this song are kick-*ss songs.
Man, the sound of that guitar is crazy hypnotic. 🍻
My hair stands up all over my body every time I hear this song. So many memories, so much emotion. No other song has such a physical effect over me.
same
My roosters have feathers. So do my hens. Have a nice day.
+The Real MadMarker As soon as it begins, I'm hooked. Music today is complete shit! I was obsessed with Morrissey when I was a kid lol 😁
true
the bass line for this song... the intro... gah. can't. Marr talks about how they got it without pedals... www.westword.com/music/johnny-marr-on-how-he-created-the-sound-for-how-soon-is-now-without-effects-pedals-5704969
There are literally millions of lonely people who can completely relate to this song. This is a timeless anthem. 👍🏻
The arrangement and production, brilliant and ahead of its time.
HAHAHAHAH Can I buy some magical shrooms from you two?
haha yeah they make The Doors look like scrubs. hahahahahah
For some reason Im so disappointed this wasn't produced in the 90's. they were pioneers.
Ciclopea2 Time does not exist. Clocks do.
I dunno, the production sounds like 1984 to me
What?! They made this song?! 😮 yes. I’ve been under a rock.
This song fills my heart and the pit of my stomach with a sad, strong and unquenchable desire for the past.
Very much so!
You'll never get the past back, maybe try living to make new better memories.
I feel the same way..
For some reason,I feel like I'm 8 years old and watching a vampire movie..
We are getting old, brother ❤️
Yes
Man, the 80s are living rent free in my head.
Amen brother
I don't remember the 80s! My friend told me that I made out with Madona in a club Wirld,I had no idea
Yeah, better than an ex-boyfriend, living rent free
Rent free ? you should pay them tribute
Lyrics:
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 so much for these lyrics.
and the heir? xd
من وين انت ؟
Copy and pastes lyrics, available on several sites; gets two hundred plus thumb-ups. Idiots actually thanking them...priceless.
@@v-town1980 Woah there! Time to curb the negativity. Relax, my friend, relax.
One of my favorite songs of ALL Time, it gives me the chills every time I listen to it 🖤 This song describes me in High School with my social anxiety and depression
You and everybody else.
I've been searching for this song for at least 7 years! That 'train-like passing' guitar sound was so definitive! Glad I finally found it!
this song sucks idiot
Johnny Marr
damn that's a rough way to search, glad to me it was "that song from Smallville"
Look up Robin Trower. It's got that cry you speak of. Bridge of Sighs is a good song to start
'"train-like passing" guitar' - what a gem of perception!
So now I'm 54 and all three of My children love this song. I played the hell out of it day and night
Training your children well....keep up the good work.
The eighties songs are Oldies but Goodies now on 101.1 with Scott Shannon. I told my kids born in 78 and 79 lol
Are they the Charmed ones?🥺
this song is saving a boy who's a japanese and twenty years old.
the smith keeps shine forever.
Stay strong brother! That’s a tough age while your still finding your place in the world, but keep fighting!
@@idontwantodoit
Hi Tom 😀
Nice to meet you
the message by the smiths came across the time and country to me
We're sure to know the light that never goes out…
@@藤村譲 hi!
@@藤村譲 How are you doing after these weeks? Are you still the same? or do you feel that the situation has improved
@@Matthphyl4561
I probably shouldn't say this, but I was bullied in high school by a teacher. And there was a long time when my sister was schizophrenic and my family was broken. I've been depressed for about five years because of them.
(I tried to write English sentences that are correct but it may be wrong.
I hope this sentences will be able to tell you what I want to tell.)
endlessly convinced this will go down one of the greatest songs of all time
This song IMMEDIATELY invokes goosebumps for me.
goosebumps and goosebumps on top of the goosebumps.
wow what a lovely and out standing profile you have here you profile was attracted to my eyes I can tell you are a very positive person with a positive mind and I'd love to be around such good energy. If it's okay with you I'd love to be friends!
Some idiots say the Smith's are depressing but I loved the Smith's when I was depressed and I still love them now I'm happy.. maybe even more!!
You don't have to be depressed to listen to sad music
the smiths make me happy (most of the time).
I can’t wait to be like you. I crave happiness so much but it seems so unreal at the moment.
@@tomxd7660 my comment was 6 months ago I'm back in black now mate
Mark Obrien depressing music makes you feel better when you’re depressed.
I’ve a theory that it’s like commiserating with a friend that picks you up, but who knows. Some things are better not analyzed
I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does...
me too
Miss J then we love you
I love you!
Thiago Rodrigues Mano não usa essa palavra com alguém q vc nem conhece, está contribuindo para a banalização desse sentimento, q hoje em dia já está muito banalizado, todos chamam tudo de amor isso só faz a palavra perder o significado.
Raphael Aveiro Todo tipo de amor é válido, inclusive amor ao próximo. Acredito na pessoa que se arrisca a morte certa apenas por ter 1 chance de tentar salvar alguém que nem sabe o nome, acredito que todos merecem ser amados (como diz a musica) mesmo se não a conheço, mesmo que não conheço o cheiro dela, a idade, sonhos e objetivos. (palavras de um solitário esperançoso)
2024 and still sounds fresh and so relevant
This is pure magic...not from this world...I still can recall this feeling ...even after more than 30 years...again and again....thank you so much, Smiths....
Michaela Hansen there were so may great bands in the 80's lik : The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Psycadelic Furs, The Cure, Duran Duran, The Fixx, Talk Talk, Simple Minds, Tears for Fears, The Cult, Echo and the Bunnymen, Billy Idol, OMD, The Concretes....you get the idea ! The 80's ruled ! And this is not a coincidence, all these bands came from the UK....
Anos 80❤️🎧🙋
cocaine is a hell of a drug
"I can still recall this feeling"....mate,you don't have to say anymore.
We all remember that feeling of being an unloved teenager in 1984.
I recently divorced after 32 years,and find myself back here again.
It's like I've come full circle.
Definitely not from this world . Marr has a story about it that proves that point.
.....one of the greatest guitar riffs in music history.....
Mark Kalfahs it’s hey monna by bo diddley with more tremelo
that ringing guitar note right before he says "You shut your mouth" is pure brilliance. I've never heard the same note struck 4 times that ever sounded so good. The skill level there is first day beginner can play it. But putting that note in that key at that moment was genius.
it won't exist music like this anymore
That guitar riff just never gets old, absolutely landmark!
I was sat in the garden tonight with my 16 & 15 year old daughter and I played this on the Sonos.. They were blown away!! no exaggeration! One proud dad :)
You done well, dad. Respect. I'll remember this when my 7 and 5 year old's become teenagers.
The genius of the lyrics “I AM THE SUN(SON), I AM THE AIR(HEIR)” are immeasurable.
Not that good
@@Oogidahboogidah Hater
How incredibly deep, eh? Who else in the history of our species could have thought of two homophones and then so adeptly put them into one line of a song's lyrics? 🤯
🙄x 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
@@StoneE4 it's well found imo
Idiot
charmed opening, 90's kid here
Duuuude the girl I like said she remembers that, I said I heard it in that Netflix movie the killer
Even though I'm an 80s kid 😂
I’m watching Charmed again and came to play this for my husband. Hes never heard it before!
my favorite show of all time!
Vc já está bem velhinho, diga-se de passagem,meu formidable amigo
"I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does..."
Amo!!
way ahead of their time; even now
Ken Young but how soon is now?
Days of future have not passed Ken.
that's not the compliment this song deserves, if you think about it.
***** No. I'm saying that calling it ahead of it's time is calling it shite in a way, cuz music now is fucking dreadful and that's why it wouldn't be a compliment. I think it's an excellent song.
***** No. The opposite. I'm saying music nowadays sucks ass.
The qualities of this song are haunting and special. I never get tired of this sound.
sounds like piss
NOPE NEVER!!!! 💯
One of the great songs of the 80s. The Smiths at their peak.
Right on. Mainstream ain't like this anymore.
BTW get lost nuisance TH-camr.
Thanks, dude.
Didn't have a privileged childhood, but one thing I was graced with during my childhood was that my parents had me grow up with good music. Born in 1991, and I wouldn't change a damn thing, I got a taste of old music and current music of that day. Not the meaningless, repetitive "messages" they play on the radio to kids today. Keep the old music CURRENT!!! Let children EMBRACE the music of the past. Back when music actually made you FEEL something. Back when music MEANT something!!!!!
Back when the music had MUSIC in it!
I swear, the Ramones sound like Mozart compared to the allegedly popular music today.
africkinamerican Best comment on the internet!
+PATS FOOTBALL. Patriots suck ass. Brady and gronkowski are big bags of assuck. Oh and sorry bout ur childhood
Im a mechanic at a chevy dealership keeping ur assholes cars on the road. So fuk off:)
Jags had jones drew and thats about it. Not no more. Tho raiders haha
You go home & you cry & you wanna die.
That was our jam. 15 yrs later... transcendental!
So this was you jam?
I guess you are also going to the latest Beyonce tour?
This song is 40 years old right now. Unbelievable. ~V~
The sounds of our youth. Still resonates today in my 50s.
A song for all our youths. God that helplessness you feel when you’re desperate to meet someone but too shy to do anything about it. But thankfully a thing of the past.
The best thing about this song was dancing to it in night clubs. I'm not sure most younger people realize that almost all of these alternative songs were great dance songs. Turn down the lights, turn on the strobe if you have one, and just dance to one after another for an hour or more. Yes, by yourself...if someone else is around, they do their thing on the dance floor and you do yours.
I always consider this (and their others) as catchy, dance-able sad songs, which is rare.
Suedehead was hot in the club when that came out
@@protovision2010 As a friend of mine pointed out decades ago, punk (hardcore, industrial, etc.) was music meant to dance to...including slam dancing. In the '90s we saw it replaced largely by music to slit your wrists to. LOL
so high.......... the groove takes over
It's true, I had a remix of this song from a club in New Orleans. It was mind blowing. My room mate destroyed that tape because he was so sick of hearing that song. I should have killed him.
I’m only 18, but, this is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard, hands down. Y’all Gen X’ers had a good music scene.
Edit: holy shit thanks guys, 20 years old still love the song. Thank you.
This song is pretty great. The 80s had its moments, but there’s more good music being released now than there ever has been, you just have to work harder to find it.
its released in '84...Gen X is until '81. so technically, it's a millenial (Gen Y 1981-1996) song...
14. Beat ya mate haha
@Nv Johansson hey calm down man, i'm on your side here...i'm just saying, the song was made in my generation, enjoyed by yours..
No one is going to be shocked by your age, just enjoy the song whichever version of it there may be.
Hard to believe this song is 40 years old. I remember it from Art School. Still sounds fresh and new.
Please don’t say it that way. Besides, I had just finished school 😬
@@mcribs7811He or she can if they want, who gives you the right to dictate speech?
@@soybasedjeremy3653 whoa
@@soybasedjeremy3653they're probably making a joke about how old they are
I can't get enough of this track. I've been trying for decades but what the hell? I just can't. Legend!
The echoes of 1984 running through my soul with this masterpiece
👁️
That's was a year! 1984
There is something totally unsettling and ominous about this song, yet it's completely addictive to listen to
Love the sounds that seem inspired by the trains, industrial noise of my childhood in Manchester.😊
sinister is what you seem to look for?
This song still stops me dead in my tracks; one of the best I have ever heard.
One of the most awesome songs of the New Wave era...and all time
I was born in 1987 but my dear father was a huge fan of the Smiths and I was raised with their music and Morrissey's. I absolutely love the Smiths. Definitely reminds me of my childhood.😃
I was born in 1973 so just the right age to appreciate The Smiths as soon as they starting banging out the tunes.
Love that riff til the day I die. So haunting and foreboding. Like descending down the rabbit hole of loneliness. Beautiful 😌
Probably one of the most brilliant masterpieces the music ever created