I never had the opportunity to live in "the smiths' era" (I'm 17), so it's awesome to have a glimpse on what was going on at the time of the record, it makes me feel more connected to it
You’re not the only one there me too I did not get to live in that opportunity of when the Smiths first came out but I do listen to the Smiths and I started at the age of 17 and now I am 21 years old and I still listen to the Smith’s today
"fun faires in Machester...where communities come together for fun and frolic...and someone always ends up being stabbed...which of course, adds to the excitement" LMFAO
Listening to this album’s title track as a teenager was a big reason I went vegetarian. Such an amazing album. Good to see Morrissey articulate the sentiment of “Meat Is Murder” more in depth in this video.
Morrissey is now vegan. Neither dairy nor eggs are victimless products. In fact, dairy might be the most cruel of any animal product that is commonly consumed.
@@JeffreySmith84 Kudos! Like every vegan I know of, I wish I had gone vegan sooner. Once you know better, you do better. I was so ignorant. I really thought I had to eat animal products to thrive until I saw "Forks Over Knives."
@@JeffreySmith84 I'm sure you were glad to be able to correct the possible erroneous perception of those reading this thread that you still support dairy and egg production. Social media can be a powerful megaphone for veganism.
Kudos for being vegan! I hope you also take advantage of social media to advocate for veganism. Who knows? You could inspire the next Earthling Ed Winters, Joey Carbstrong, or Gary Yourofsky!
Love this, I'm veggie and it hit me like that. Had the struggle with all the non-veggies since around 1991, most just wanna take the piss and make me feel small, but hey now its 'fashionable' to be Vegetarian. I've never pushed my views on anyone but you've always got to take the challenging questions as to why you don't eat meat, most don't want to know and say your given teeth to tear flesh. If your veggie be proud of who you are, if not ok. Let's all try and live in harmony
I don't advocate for veganism in person. I use the amazing reach of social media. To see how powerful it is, consider the 2016 US presidential election and the effect Russian bots had.
At 6-23 omg JOHNNY MAR smoking 🚬 playing the guitar shit . Perfection . And look at Morrissey hair perfection one of my favourite albums ever . Awesome footage thank you so much
I bought "Meat is Murder" back in 85 and there was a track listed on the sleeve but not on the cassette. The song is called "That joke isn't funny anymore" only 300 and some were printed here in The U.S. I so wish I still had it. I wore that cassette out.
Love the Smiths is my favorite band, their music was my companion through a very harsh years and they were playing when I was like 4 years old Love Morressey.
If you ever thought The Smiths were ‘Doom and Gloom’, and didn’t see the hilarious, poignant and perfect lyrics, then simply you were never meant for The Smiths, and The Smiths were never meant for you..
These guys were so damn talented- that they found each other to bless humanity is another 80’s miracle. Had to laugh at Mo’s comment about these ‘serious times’. As an American there wasn’t a more lighthearted, joyful time in our history- and we long for those days to return.
After watching this video I am even more pumped about listening to a first pressing of this LP album which I recently bought on EBay. Just waiting on my turntable to arrive and that’s it!!
for me it's a toss up between 'meat is murder' and 'strangeways here we come' for best smiths album. They're all brilliant but these two are perfect to me.
Matheus Costa, Hatful of Hollow is fantastic. I view it as their second attempt on a debut LP, given that they have been on record saying they weren't happy with how their first album turned out.
The making of... a classic. Yeah Johnny looks cool, but Morrissey singing, for some reason looks more epic. Love J Marr but the last segment where Morrissey is singing is more like... magic.
"However, even vegetarianism in your hands, would make a capital article -- its connection with philosophy is very curious-- dating from the earliest Greek days, and taken by the Greeks from the East -- and so is its connection with modern socialism, atheism, nihilism, anarchy and other political creeds. It is strange that the most violent republicans I know are all vegetarians: Brussels sprouts seem to make people bloodthirsty, and those who live on lentils and artichokes are always calling for the gore of the aristocracy and for the severed heads of kings. Your vegetarianism has given you a wise apathy-- so at least you told me once -- but in the political sphere a diet of green beans seems dangerous." -Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters, p. 334, from a letter dated Nov. 12, 1887.
Vegetarians who are bloodthirsty? I don't think so. Some intelligent, widely admired people who chose not to eat meat- Pythagoras, Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Voltaire, Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Nikolai Tesla, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, George Bernard Shaw, Tolstoy, Thoreau, Saint Francis of Asisi, Nobel laureate and holocaust survivor Isaac Bashevis Singer, and many more. Some on this list switched late in life, but stayed on it to the end. "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -Einstein (Of course today, he would be vegan. So would the others on this list.) The famous Professor of Physics Brian Greene is vegan. You may have seen him on PBS hosting science shows for the layman. Jane Goodall recently went from a long time vegetarian to vegan. Greta Thunberg is vegan. Jon (Daily Show) Stewart is not only vegan, he owns a farm animal sanctuary!
The guitar playing is so complex but the way it's recorded they kinda squashed the EQ and pushed it back in the mix which doesn't do well to showcase tbe brilliant playing but that was the mixing style of the time.
"This song is about going to the fair and BEING STABBED . . ."
😂🤣
which of course adds to the excitement ..!?
uhh ohh..kek😂
He has a knack for putting snappy tunes to some of the most morbid stuff 😍
😂🤣😂 love you Morrissey
Is there anything cooler than a smoking Johnny Marr playing that green telecaster?
Yeah, like its 'just another day at the office'
no
My same thought exactly !
Nothing cooler. Except Paul Weller on his Rickenbacker .
No.... nothing cooler
Morrissey, Marr, Rourke, and Joyce made great music together for a short period of time. The Smiths will live on forever.
uve commented this on every smiths video but go off slay
@@mipchiplei350 ?
I'm listening to them now. Love them
Rourke died
@@SonyaBladesBooty 😔
Morrissey's haircut is still modern in the year 2017... which one cannot say about all haircuts from 1985
The only person with better hair was Joe Strummer
Joe was so handsome!
Arno Nühm what i he had a mullet ?!
Johnny Marr hair looks great too. So full.
Right? I was just thinking I should send it to my BF to show the barber!
I never had the opportunity to live in "the smiths' era" (I'm 17), so it's awesome to have a glimpse on what was going on at the time of the record, it makes me feel more connected to it
Me too man
same here
I’m with you
You’re not the only one there me too I did not get to live in that opportunity of when the Smiths first came out but I do listen to the Smiths and I started at the age of 17 and now I am 21 years old and I still listen to the Smith’s today
@@alishalegrand6139 I’m 21 now too! I don’t listen to them as often now though
Some of the most beautiful footage of the band. What a voice, and an absolute anomaly on the guitar; Marr is an absolute treasure
Robert Fraser oh yes and he’s got a great sense of humour too
One of the most interesting people
I am so in love with the way Morrissey talks
Hhhhh me too n im straight but jeez he looked so interesting and so funny
I love The Smiths and always will 'til my last day on this earth. I've been listening to them since I was 17 years and I'm 50 years now. Long time.
Huus67209 Huus67209 me too.....and I'm 59 !
Huus67209 Huus67209 II am 48. I feel the same way as you. They’re the bees knees
I'm 49 next week. This band/album ushered me through puberty! Nuff said.
Me since 12 and am 45 or so
I'm 52 and saw them 3X live. Have you checked out Johnny Marr's solo stuff?
3:25 the most intense bongo playing ever lol
Lily Bird Mike was making the love to that camera, man.
His eyes pierced the deepest corners of my soul
Too damn bad Mo' hated his guts.
LMAO
as a percussionist i’m wheezing
"fun faires in Machester...where communities come together for fun and frolic...and someone always ends up being stabbed...which of course, adds to the excitement" LMFAO
How does he look so cool handsome and effortless while singing such incredible lyrics I'll never get it
So unique, talented, and sophisticated, The Smiths were truly something special.
Bands today wish they were this cool. This sound defined the 80's
omfg johnny and morrissey are so adorable together
Listening to this album’s title track as a teenager was a big reason I went vegetarian. Such an amazing album. Good to see Morrissey articulate the sentiment of “Meat Is Murder” more in depth in this video.
Morrissey is now vegan. Neither dairy nor eggs are victimless products. In fact, dairy might be the most cruel of any animal product that is commonly consumed.
@@someguy2135 I'm vegan too. Since 2008.
@@JeffreySmith84 Kudos! Like every vegan I know of, I wish I had gone vegan sooner. Once you know better, you do better. I was so ignorant. I really thought I had to eat animal products to thrive until I saw "Forks Over Knives."
@@JeffreySmith84 I'm sure you were glad to be able to correct the possible erroneous perception of those reading this thread that you still support dairy and egg production. Social media can be a powerful megaphone for veganism.
@@someguy2135 I actually prefer not to be preachy about it (no offense)
3:02 Fuck it , Mike Joyce playing the bongos
Moz & Howard Jones influenced me to stop eating meat at 16. That was over 30 years ago. 🐷🐣
That's awesome🤩
Fuck yeah!
I’m at 23 years
unbelievable footage of this most important recording! a million thanks for this flashback. ...
this is great! Morrisey and Johnny Marr at their very best...and young!
And I find humor in a lot of his lyrics.
Jack Rasmussen that's exactly what I thought when listening to his lyrics. I never really found them depressing as I did witty and humorous.
Closer comes the screaming knife
M's lyrics can be both depressing or humorous to me. It depends on my mood and which point of view I choose.
Omg I love him so much. And his hair is just amazing
I want Morrissey saying "any" as my ringtone!
He’s spot on! Sadly the apathy of people Morrissey is describing hasn’t changed much since then!
The beginning of That Joke Isnt Funny Anymore is so good
4:50 OMG I have just discovered how much of a genius this man actually is! wow
Lmao
He's such a Beautiful Man 🙏♥️
I think the bongo drummer wants to kill me
Buddy Ollie 😂
Russell McKenzie yeah man. He'll mess you up
I look that way when I drink coffee.
What a perfect face! I love Morrissey's soul, the essence of his soul is the meaning of my existence
This is spot on ✨
Thanks for sharing this. I remember watching this back then. I am vegan thanks to that album. What a band they were.
Kudos for being vegan! I hope you also take advantage of social media to advocate for veganism. Who knows? You could inspire the next Earthling Ed Winters, Joey Carbstrong, or Gary Yourofsky!
I am in love with Moz. 😔
Marr looks like one of the Supremes with that 'do.
Clac Clackerson exactly! Or one of the Ronettes, lol
Love this, I'm veggie and it hit me like that. Had the struggle with all the non-veggies since around 1991, most just wanna take the piss and make me feel small, but hey now its 'fashionable' to be Vegetarian. I've never pushed my views on anyone but you've always got to take the challenging questions as to why you don't eat meat, most don't want to know and say your given teeth to tear flesh. If your veggie be proud of who you are, if not ok. Let's all try and live in harmony
Kudos for being veggie, btw.
I don't advocate for veganism in person. I use the amazing reach of social media. To see how powerful it is, consider the 2016 US presidential election and the effect Russian bots had.
Thanks for posting this on youtube! Great interview. God save Morrissey and Marr!
this is my newest 10/10 favorite album
The whole band is good-looking. Wow.
FR
At 6-23 omg JOHNNY MAR smoking 🚬 playing the guitar shit . Perfection . And look at Morrissey hair perfection one of my favourite albums ever . Awesome footage thank you so much
I bought "Meat is Murder" back in 85 and there was a track listed on the sleeve but not on the cassette. The song is called "That joke isn't funny anymore" only 300 and some were printed here in The U.S. I so wish I still had it. I wore that cassette out.
Huus67209 Huus67209 uh everyone knows that song it's famous
I've seen this happen in other people's lives and now it's happening in mine...
@@crunchyalmondbutter2239 park the car at the side of the road....
Love the Smiths is my favorite band, their music was my companion through a very harsh years and they were playing when I was like 4 years old Love Morressey.
He’s amazing. So bright and intellectually gifted
If you ever thought The Smiths were ‘Doom and Gloom’, and didn’t see the hilarious, poignant and perfect lyrics, then simply you were never meant for The Smiths, and The Smiths were never meant for you..
"someone always ends up getting stabbed, which just adds to the excitement" ...wow
6:14 Young Gods mastering their Art
These guys were so damn talented- that they found each other to bless humanity is another 80’s miracle.
Had to laugh at Mo’s comment about these ‘serious times’. As an American there wasn’t a more lighthearted, joyful time in our history- and we long for those days to return.
“Somebody always ends up being stabbed”
The 5 dislikes are from the Royals
reptilians
HIS FREAKING BOUNCY HAIR I NEED NOOWWW
Take care yourself charming man, you have a little sister who loves you in South America.
Johnny Marr's hair is so cool even though it's poofy like an old ladies. He also aged so well. We wasn't so bad on the guitar, either.
Amazing thankyou - fan for 25 years and not seen this - great stuff
Excellent post. Thank you! Johnny Marr's hair looks like a melted beehive! LOL
After watching this video I am even more pumped about listening to a first pressing of this LP album which I recently bought on EBay. Just waiting on my turntable to arrive and that’s it!!
Love this album and love a nice rib eye.
I love this channel....
Morriseey as the cool guy popular with that haircut also Marr as the chill guy with a cigar and a guitar dont given a fuck
Such a great album
I can't believe how great this band is and that I waited so long to listen beyond HOW SOON..... and CHARMING MAN.
That used to happen at my hometown's local royal show - It probably still does.
I can see now why I am a Smiths fan - haha! So much in common...
How cool is Johnny Marr??? (6:14)
6:45 what a cute little thing...
Great stuff - smoking in the studio!! LOL must be the 80s ; )
Good interview. To be young and making music.
All animals ask of us is that we simply leave them alone.
So true! Humans don't deserve our wonderful fellow earthlings...they just want to live peacefully
Wise words, and doubtlessly true. Is that a quote? If so, who said it?
They’re too tasty for me to leave them alone
"Is there anything worst in life than an meat eating member of the royal family?"
Certainly not but I’m on the lookout and I’ll let you know if I find anything
Watching Andy up close.. 💥
his bass playing/lines are as beautiful as anything the Smiths did
why does this interviewer have the exact mannerisms of Paul McCartney
He looks just like him
Paul is a long time vegetarian. Morrissey is now vegan.
I know that a lot of people already said that, but Jonny Marr is the coolest man EVER !
he's a total hoot this Morrissey.
I feel like Johnny Marr and Morrissey are the only ones in the band who got most of the attention.
they are mainly responsible for the songs so that will be why. i know rourke and joyce were great but it was primarily morrissey and marr.
morrissey: meat is murder!
also morrissey: someone being stabbed at the fair adds to the excitement
He’s in a good mood here
Just as relevant then as they are now. Honesty is the bees knees.
The best smiths album bass is off the charts
what a treat. Happy New Year!!!!
Great band. Morrissey superb
for me it's a toss up between 'meat is murder' and 'strangeways here we come' for best smiths album. They're all brilliant but these two are perfect to me.
Meat is Murder is my favorite. Strangeways loses me towards the end. Everything after Last Night I Dreamt I am not fond of.
™ ™ even 'I won't share you'?!
™ ™ I love every track except "Death at ones elbow" love everything else, especially Paint a vulgar picture
The Queen Is Dead is most certainly the best. But Hatful of Hollow is my favourite
Matheus Costa, Hatful of Hollow is fantastic. I view it as their second attempt on a debut LP, given that they have been on record saying they weren't happy with how their first album turned out.
Let's just face the facts: WE BRITS HAVE THE BEST MUSIC!!!!!
im 53.. and i love it.
Hearse Bus This music of our generation. I'm 50
I'm in my mid 60's and also love it. Like Morrissey, I am vegan too, btw.
The making of... a classic. Yeah Johnny looks cool, but Morrissey singing, for some reason looks more epic. Love J Marr but the last segment where Morrissey is singing is more like... magic.
andy rourke top lad.
class
what a subtle album title
Hey...uh...I'm from 'merica, what does it mean?
Brian Smith what does being from america have to do with not understanding the album title
Maybe they were quoting Benjamin Franklin, who also said that "meat is murder."
Rourke & Joyce were also great.
Smiths lyrics are so funny yet still serious
Not all of them are funny. "Meat is Murder" title track, for example! Serious subject was treated seriously.
I got the humor straight away. The song titles are hilarious. VICAR IN A TUTU ?? that is great
3:23 the best part
Love the way Moz pronounces 'Any' 😊
Just came from Morrissey concert in Dallas and he didn’t sing meat is murder. Just the pull fighting song 😭
U sense a lil irishness in the such a sad dream song amazing band my favorite ever in english!!!!
Geniuses
what does johnny say at 5:32 ??? I could only make out "incurable"
GeekStinkLaura Incurable macho man?
ahh thanks!
"However, even vegetarianism in your hands, would make a capital article -- its connection with philosophy is very curious-- dating from the earliest Greek days, and taken by the Greeks from the East -- and so is its connection with modern socialism, atheism, nihilism, anarchy and other political creeds. It is strange that the most violent republicans I know are all vegetarians: Brussels sprouts seem to make people bloodthirsty, and those who live on lentils and artichokes are always calling for the gore of the aristocracy and for the severed heads of kings. Your vegetarianism has given you a wise apathy-- so at least you told me once -- but in the political sphere a diet of green beans seems dangerous." -Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters, p. 334, from a letter dated Nov. 12, 1887.
Thats quite interesting. I am trying to become a vegetarian and also aim to become a politician in the near future haha
I posted it cause Morrissey is a huge Wilde fanatic
Vegetarians who are bloodthirsty? I don't think so. Some intelligent, widely admired people who chose not to eat meat- Pythagoras, Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Voltaire, Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Nikolai Tesla, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, George Bernard Shaw, Tolstoy, Thoreau, Saint Francis of Asisi, Nobel laureate and holocaust survivor Isaac Bashevis Singer, and many more. Some on this list switched late in life, but stayed on it to the end.
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -Einstein (Of course today, he would be vegan. So would the others on this list.)
The famous Professor of Physics Brian Greene is vegan. You may have seen him on PBS hosting science shows for the layman. Jane Goodall recently went from a long time vegetarian to vegan. Greta Thunberg is vegan. Jon (Daily Show) Stewart is not only vegan, he owns a farm animal sanctuary!
Strange how elvis -like morrisey is
He's the Elvis of the 80s. I've always thought so. lol
The guitar playing is so complex but the way it's recorded they kinda squashed the EQ and pushed it back in the mix which doesn't do well to showcase tbe brilliant playing but that was the mixing style of the time.
Who's here for Live? 02/11/2020
Gold
Could anyone make a subtitle to this video? I'm brazilian and I can't understand very well
When Morrissey and Johnny Marr split, these type songs with this feel were never made again, his new stuff after was just ok.
💘
I love how he talks about stabbings in England when nowadays they are completely rampant all over London.
So true about fun fairs in Italy is the same I’ve always detested them every time I went there was always a brawl