The Manics were the first band I listened to that seemed to understand what I was going through with depression. I was 19 and no one listened to me when I told them. I cried when I heard the lyric 'A mile empty inside' (from 'Life Becoming A Landslide') because that was IT! Someone actually got what I was feeling. Even though it made me sad it gave me hope. Lots of Manics songs speak to me that way, I love them for that.
I was there, right at the front and the Manics were fantastic that afternoon, one of the best bands of Reading '92. Nicky Wire smashed up his bass at the end of the set hurling into the crowd but it ended up hitting one of the security guards on the head.
I'm a person who has been on medication for depression for 9 years, many days i think of this song 'Suicide Is Painless' when i hate my own life. But, it's this song that gives me hope, it gives me strength, because of the word's "I can take or leave it as i please", to me it means i could kill myself, but i'm stronger than that, i can just as easily leave it. MSP are the first i ever heard singing this song, so to them i say thankyou.
OH MY GOD!!!! *.* just luv it, thanx for posting this!! i wish i had a chance to see richey with the manics but it's too late, so i can please myself with this!! :)
Can you really call it playing? It's like a random bar chord here and there. He was always musically surplus to JDB. So was Nicky Wire come to think of it.
@LtGerbal I know, but it first appeared in the movie. When the series came out, lots of people simply forgot about the low budget surprise masterpiece that won an academy award. A lot of people don't even know that a mash movie exists now a days. They only know mash from sindication of the show. So I thought I'd point that out :)
@winnetouch I see what your saying, I did a power point for a book report on mash, the background pictures were all from the movie and tv show. My teacher didn't even know there was a movie, I got full credit though. The very last slide was a picture of Hawkeye standing there with the rocks that said goodbye, I turned around and my other teacher had tear in his eye, gues it brought back memories. I got extra credit for it.
How many hits did the Manics have before the release of Generation Terrorists, I have heard of Suicide Alley which is amazing and the others that is on Forever Delayed. Also Aint going down is the best B side ever.
@jackdanielmason1969 I see what you mean. I feel like I start thinking of suicide as an escape whenever something bad happens to me...it's like a backup plan that I never use. Listening to really depressing songs, feeling all bad for myself. It's really not normal but it's almost like therapy. Like you I get over it though.
B4 -- yes suicide was definitely painless NOW -- suicide is a waste for I can disappear in plain sight -- no ties to ANYTHING -- NO debt -- no family -- 1 friend and he will not come looking for me -- so I am alone -- it is an odd feeling , just being alone in this vast world -- it is scary and exciting all in one -- can't describe it -- but being so isolated from all of society without trying and without a reason to be connected , it is just a strange feeling knowing that every time I leave the house -- I am alone in every way -- SO maybe suicide , for I thought was painless -- just might not matter anymore
Please, don't do it. Life can be so beautiful. Think of all the young lives ended abruptly by murder, abuse, war-- you're still here, I'm still here; we are the lucky ones. Please don't throw that all away. You say you are alone, but you can change that, you can start a family, find someone, or adopt a child who is just as lonely as you. You can adopt a rescue dog and have something to care for, a reason to exist. I hope things get better for you.
+Bella lero -- unfortunately I have all those things -- but I need to leave because I don't want kids of my own , would adopt in a second -- but none of my own. Got the dog from the rescue , but will have to leave her in the past as well. I am not going to off myself -- I am past that at this point -- but I am alone in a way that is hard to understand -- for after I leave this house I will have no ties to anything -- no debt -- no nothing -- just me -- just my fingerprints is possibly all that they can use to know who I am -- if I were to get hit by a car and die -- no one would know because no one is looking , now that is alone by any stretch of the imagination -- and you have to understand that I am alone in a world full of people -- it is just me , for now at least.
+signal44 it has been one year since you said that, but still I think you should use that loneliness to make something with your life, what I mean with this just find something you enjoy and pour your heart and mind into it, music is great and getting to learn it is frustrating but extremelly rewarding and a way to express yourself, start running get healthy, write or read a lot it's what I've been doing and it's been good for me peronally and I think that in yur position you could benefit from it. There are not many people that even care to give you a word but sometimes you have to be for others what people never were to you, so that is the reason I am giving my adice to you. It takes more energy to be quiet than it requires to speak the mind, have a nice day and may richey edwards rest in peace
Officially declared gone, and I am afraid to say all the evidence points one way, even so how funny would it be to just turn up in the local boozer..............
Staybeautiful33, could you please tell me who sang the original? I remember they were a brother and sister who sang close harmony, in a mainstream way which didn't appeal to me. Thanks, Coco
The Manics were the first band I listened to that seemed to understand what I was going through with depression. I was 19 and no one listened to me when I told them. I cried when I heard the lyric 'A mile empty inside' (from 'Life Becoming A Landslide') because that was IT! Someone actually got what I was feeling. Even though it made me sad it gave me hope. Lots of Manics songs speak to me that way, I love them for that.
Ditto!XXX X ❤❤❤❤
James is a great guitarist, very underrated
He's also an underrated songwriter
But he could do with the same breast removal scars he had here, thirty one years ago.
So nice to see Richey playing with sound :)
I was there, right at the front and the Manics were fantastic that afternoon, one of the best bands of Reading '92. Nicky Wire smashed up his bass at the end of the set hurling into the crowd but it ended up hitting one of the security guards on the head.
Mike Tunky haha gold
Oops nevermind lol
92 reading had one hell of a line up. Manics and Nirvana, would do anything to have been there
Watching this in 2020. I was at this gig, it was awesome
James' vocal range. . . and guitar skills. . . This song. . . Richey. . . I'm so in love with this x x
Cool! You can hear Richey!
Yep and he's playing fine!
This is so tight!
How is music like this not heard and loved by more!?
Amazing!
Nothing like good real live music.
Por tan solo esta versión,los manics,merecen un lugar en la historia de la música..
Versão genial. Como tudo o que fazem. E James tem um poder vocal fantástico e é um guitarrista de se tirar o chapéu
oh my fuck... this was amazing.. I didnt know they used to play like this..
I'm a person who has been on medication for depression for 9 years, many days i think of this song 'Suicide Is Painless' when i hate my own life.
But, it's this song that gives me hope, it gives me strength, because of the word's "I can take or leave it as i please", to me it means i could kill myself, but i'm stronger than that, i can just as easily leave it.
MSP are the first i ever heard singing this song, so to them i say thankyou.
Amen
A piece of perfection, remembered forever on youtube. I wish I could have been there.
I love this song so much it helps trough rough times
reading 92 was just an amazing festival, so much good music
They were perhaps the best band of the 1990s.
They were perhaps the best band of all time
they all look gorgeousss ahhh
This rocks the shit out of everything
Amazing! Absoloutely brilliant band!
The best version of this song.
Yes !
Fantastic!!!
OH MY GOD!!!! *.*
just luv it, thanx for posting this!!
i wish i had a chance to see richey with the manics but it's too late, so i can please myself with this!! :)
Havent seen that for a while. Class.
Nearly 200,000 views, genuinely think I have watched this 2,000 times at least!
Great song, my favorite version, even though they skipped the 2nd and 4th verses.
Ruby Trax was released to celebrate 40 years of the UK singles charts,40 music acts covering 39 Number 1's (and one number 2!)
Beautiful song that you can NOT listen to when you are sad.
Juliana S I listen when I’m miserable
Every time I see this in glorious 360p I think :
Wow, James got himself some serious belly beardage here
perfect song for all circumstances
4077 M*A*S*H* rip all dead actors and veterans
R.I.P. Ritchie Edwards.
Richey really did put himself down in terms of his guitar playing... this was only 92 and he was still able to play what he played here fairly well.
Can you really call it playing? It's like a random bar chord here and there. He was always musically surplus to JDB. So was Nicky Wire come to think of it.
was he plugged in ?
Its mental to me that James shops in my mum's garage 😂😂😂
I can’t wait wait….
@LtGerbal I know, but it first appeared in the movie. When the series came out, lots of people simply forgot about the low budget surprise masterpiece that won an academy award. A lot of people don't even know that a mash movie exists now a days. They only know mash from sindication of the show. So I thought I'd point that out :)
Two words - Fucking banger
Such an amazing song, and they pulled off a cover better than the original song. It's kind of depressing and hopeful at the same time.
THATS NAILED
yes !
The BEST
wow this is rare!
I have been thinking a lot about things lately
James 🤤🔥
@winnetouch I see what your saying, I did a power point for a book report on mash, the background pictures were all from the movie and tv show. My teacher didn't even know there was a movie, I got full credit though. The very last slide was a picture of Hawkeye standing there with the rocks that said goodbye, I turned around and my other teacher had tear in his eye, gues it brought back memories. I got extra credit for it.
So many people
This and "Cum On Feel the Noize" by Quiet Riot are the only cover songs I can think of that gained the band it's recognition.
No, that was Slade. Quiet Riot were Merry Christmas Everybody.
How many hits did the Manics have before the release of Generation Terrorists, I have heard of Suicide Alley which is amazing and the others that is on Forever Delayed. Also Aint going down is the best B side ever.
i can hear and see richey playing..!!?!?!
Christ 10 years already ?
that could not sound any better
@jackdanielmason1969
I see what you mean. I feel like I start thinking of suicide as an escape whenever something bad happens to me...it's like a backup plan that I never use. Listening to really depressing songs, feeling all bad for myself. It's really not normal but it's almost like therapy. Like you I get over it though.
@winnetouch It was the theme of the series too
MASH 4077 FOREVER!!!!!!!
oh and the one you were referring to is probably the lady and the bird version...
Really sad they looked great with RIchey..
B4 -- yes suicide was definitely painless
NOW -- suicide is a waste for I can disappear in plain sight -- no ties to ANYTHING -- NO debt -- no family -- 1 friend and he will not come looking for me -- so I am alone -- it is an odd feeling , just being alone in this vast world -- it is scary and exciting all in one -- can't describe it -- but being so isolated from all of society without trying and without a reason to be connected , it is just a strange feeling knowing that every time I leave the house -- I am alone in every way -- SO maybe suicide , for I thought was painless -- just might not matter anymore
Please, don't do it. Life can be so beautiful. Think of all the young lives ended abruptly by murder, abuse, war-- you're still here, I'm still here; we are the lucky ones. Please don't throw that all away. You say you are alone, but you can change that, you can start a family, find someone, or adopt a child who is just as lonely as you. You can adopt a rescue dog and have something to care for, a reason to exist. I hope things get better for you.
+Bella lero -- unfortunately I have all those things -- but I need to leave because I don't want kids of my own , would adopt in a second -- but none of my own. Got the dog from the rescue , but will have to leave her in the past as well.
I am not going to off myself -- I am past that at this point -- but I am alone in a way that is hard to understand -- for after I leave this house I will have no ties to anything -- no debt -- no nothing -- just me -- just my fingerprints is possibly all that they can use to know who I am -- if I were to get hit by a car and die -- no one would know because no one is looking , now that is alone by any stretch of the imagination -- and you have to understand that I am alone in a world full of people -- it is just me , for now at least.
signal44 same feeling here
+signal44
it has been one year since you said that, but still I think you should use that loneliness to make something with your life, what I mean with this just find something you enjoy and pour your heart and mind into it, music is great and getting to learn it is frustrating but extremelly rewarding and a way to express yourself, start running get healthy, write or read a lot it's what I've been doing and it's been good for me peronally and I think that in yur position you could benefit from it.
There are not many people that even care to give you a word but sometimes you have to be for others what people never were to you, so that is the reason I am giving my adice to you.
It takes more energy to be quiet than it requires to speak the mind, have a nice day and may richey edwards rest in peace
Love the Manics, love this song, and a few others,... could have done a little more with the drums though.
this was taped from the beat by crowley
Ha! I was about to post the same thing ;)
It's a Gibson Thunderbird bass actually.
Richey, where are you?
Ana Luiza Brown Dead.
Simon Morgan no
Ana Luiza Brown he definitely jumped
Officially declared gone, and I am afraid to say all the evidence points one way, even so how funny would it be to just turn up in the local boozer..............
Suicide is painless i agree and assure you.i died many times.
Johnny Mandel wrote it. But who is the performer is unknown to me. Originally it was featured in the movie M*A*S*H (not the series but the movie).
This is the onli Beatles!
hehe, sean's hair :)
it wasn't a chicken it was a baby !!!
Счастье людей не стоит жизни одного человека. И не ..й петь.
Staybeautiful33,
could you please tell me who sang the original?
I remember they were a brother and sister who sang close harmony, in a mainstream way which didn't appeal to me.
Thanks,
Coco
Еvangelisto...
2:32 - 2:38 - crowd is like zombies o_O
henry blake his spinning in his grave right now, im sorry hawkeye.
Was it a Bond theme or Serge Gainsbourg, or something? It sounds familiar.
Theme from Mash!
is he plugged in ?
Depends on how you do it ;)
I'm Jivoi.
Патрио о муэрте!..
Joey barton
Suicide is painless... Are you sure?
@paulyoungnow What a stupid thing to say, how do you know? he could still be alive living in another country for all you know.
The film director let his son write the lyrics for this song and made more money from this song and his dad😊
Где лидер-гитара?
No lenin. Whhere new?!
Rano sdalihs.
i agree. the one from the movie is better
You will never have sex....
you destroyed mash theme for me
c'mon Richey, you weren't THAT bad a guitarist
If he was a drummer he would be Lars Ulrich
Nice song but still rather hear the mash version
original is better... WAYYYYY better
Well, guys. Thank you for ruining such a great song. Tata
Yuck.
this version sucks. it's supposed to be a depressing. not a grundge whining song.
Suicide is painless... Are you sure?