🎵 The Smiths - I Know It's Over REACTION

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  • @Dostoyevsky1821
    @Dostoyevsky1821 Год назад +171

    "Oh mother..."
    It's not that he's literally talking to his mother, it's like he's calling out in desperation, fear and loneliness, reduced to a child like state of helplessness by the trauma of the situation.
    "I can feel the soil falling over my head"
    He feels like his life is over, like he is being buried alive, but in a passive, soft, almost indifferent way. The soil falling softly over him, slowly sealing his fate.
    "Climb into an empty bed... oh well, enough said."
    Obviously lamenting the fact he has no lover, "Enough said" obviously means the image of the empty bed says enough, but it is also a Morrissey style humours quip of mixing high romantic language with mundane, day to day (often northern English) phrases.
    "I know it's over, I don't know where else I can go"
    He understands that whatever relationship he had is over, but he can't let go emotionally, he doesn't know what to do.
    "The sea wants to take me, the knife wants to slit me"
    He's contemplating suicide, but he is transferring the agency to the sea and knife. Rather than saying he wants to drowned himself, it's the sea that's calling out for him, same with the knife. Poetry.
    "Sad veiled bride.."
    Here Morrissey describes the wedding of his lost lover, and in turn describes both bride and groom as both romantic and pathetic figures, a "sad veiled bride" who is also fat "give her room" and marrying out of desperation rather than love, and a "Handsome Groom" who is also a "Loud, loutish lover". Morrissey's equal treatment of them both makes ambiguous if it's the bride or groom who is the object of his love.
    "I know it's over, and it never really began..."
    This implies he never shared his feelings with the person he loved. He was too shy or afraid. But despite this he felt the love was as real as any.
    "You even spoke to me..."
    Both funny and tragic (classic Morrissey) it means he hardly even ever spoke to the person, maybe only once, and maybe this didn't even happen.
    "If you're so funny… clever... entertaining... good looking."
    His ego is taking a massive blow, if he's so clever and funny etc. why is he unable to get the one thing he wants most? Maybe he's not that great after all.
    "Your triumphs and your charms, they're in each others arms."
    Beautiful line. Says so much. It's his arrogance, his self aggrandisement that is really born out of a deep insecurity that prevents him from opening up emotionally to others.
    "It so easy to laugh .. It takes guts to be gentle and kind"
    Here the song moves into a more positive light, from his suffering has come insight. He must not let his love turn to hate, that would be weak and cowardly.
    "Love is natural and real, but not for you my love"
    Maybe the most Morrissey line Morrissey ever wrote. The first part a glorious affirmation of Love, the next twists this glorious affirmation into a cruel, sick joke that although Love is real, it will always elude him and by extension us "such as you and I". Here Morrissey is empathising with those of us who are empathising with him.
    “Oh mother, I feel..”
    I feel like I’m dying, repeat to fade.

    • @davidviteris
      @davidviteris Год назад +8

      great post!

    • @missandry5178
      @missandry5178 Год назад +4

      Thanks 👍

    • @dm101ultra
      @dm101ultra Год назад +8

      This is the most spot on explanation of these lyrics I have ever heard. That's why I love Morrissey. He is a brilliant lyricist that makes you think instead of making the song so blatenly obvious.

    • @marklozano9295
      @marklozano9295 Год назад +1

      👏👏👏

    • @TheGeneralGarcia
      @TheGeneralGarcia Год назад

      I always felt that when Morrissey states, "You even spoke to me, and said;" he then tells us what his lost love said to him, "If you're so funny, etc etc. Thus giving us insight that the love was not reciprocal, and that the marriage is the finality bringing what he knew to be true to a close.

  • @amys.4951
    @amys.4951 Год назад +260

    More of The Smiths!!! PLEASE! Every song on this album is fabulous and Morrisey's lyrics dripping with sarcasm are a treat.

    • @johnnygreen6205
      @johnnygreen6205 Год назад +3

      What’s your fav Smiths album Amy?

    • @amys.4951
      @amys.4951 Год назад +6

      @@johnnygreen6205 I LOVE The Queen is Dead, probably my fave. Louder than Bombs and Strangeways, Here We Come are also faves. I remember when Sheila Take A Bow was on 120 Minutes (the old MTV alternative music show) all the time. Loved that song!

    • @NoYoutubeName1
      @NoYoutubeName1 Год назад +4

      They do livestreams where if something gets the most requests And votes - it gets played. Then they edit the streams into separate song reactions and here we are!
      In case you or anyone reading didn’t know (you’re the top comment so I hope livestream-unaware people see my comment)

    • @autumnsnow8467
      @autumnsnow8467 Год назад +5

      @@NoRUclipsName1 I use to always vote for the smiths on their live streams & they almost always never win. I was so happy when they finally were able to do How Soon is Now? The comments on the stream seemed to be anti-the smiths bc I guess they have a large metal/hair bands audience so it’s not their speed. Happy to see we’re progressing though!

    • @missandry5178
      @missandry5178 Год назад +1

      "Please please please let me get what I want. Lord knows it would be the first time"

  • @Erol_808
    @Erol_808 Год назад +98

    The Smiths was a 80s band, good ones to check out are 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' and 'How Soon Is Now?'

    • @savsmiles3042
      @savsmiles3042 Год назад +11

      I believe that they already reacted to How Soon is Now

    • @alfredoarevalo725
      @alfredoarevalo725 Год назад +1

      Still Ill, Barbarisim begins at home, The Headmaster Ritual, Nowhere Fast.

  • @autumnsnow8467
    @autumnsnow8467 Год назад +70

    For first time listeners I would recommend, There is Light That Never Goes Out, Panic, This Charming Man, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, Big Mouth Strikes Again and What Difference Does it Make.

    • @ronaldmilner8932
      @ronaldmilner8932 Год назад +5

      How could you leave out "Still Ill, I don't owe you anything, A Rush, and a Push, William it was really nothing, Rusholme ruffians, Some girls are bigger than others, Half a person, Sheila take a bow, and... well you get the idea! Great band!

    • @NoYoutubeName1
      @NoYoutubeName1 Год назад +3

      Great selection. I would add Girlfriend In A Coma to that too.

    • @autumnsnow8467
      @autumnsnow8467 Год назад +1

      @@ronaldmilner8932 I honestly didn’t know how well others received Still III. I love that song. The more you know!

    • @xCaLLMeGHeTTo
      @xCaLLMeGHeTTo Год назад +3

      'Well I Wonder' is a banger as well. There was a rumor that Morrissey and Marr said they never played it live because it was too beautiful haha! It was probably because it was too hard to perform but I like the mystique of it being too beautiful.

    • @DarkStar5387
      @DarkStar5387 Год назад +3

      "That joke isn't funny anymore" it is also a beautiful song.

  • @andrewhallam237
    @andrewhallam237 Год назад +52

    This song is often described as the Smiths bleakest song, it's about a dying man looking back on his sad and lonely life. They are from the 80's

    • @rosiebottom3870
      @rosiebottom3870 Год назад +6

      I dont read it that way. I see it as a gay guy who had a thing with a straight man. Or may have had an unrequited crush. Straight man is now getting married to a woman and it feels like a death for the singer. The singers friends tell him how handsome, funny etc he is but the reality is he always goes to bed alone. He believes he will always crush on unavailable men who treat him cruelly.

    • @julien2231
      @julien2231 Год назад +6

      This is NOT from a dying man point of view. He is just feeling hopeless and all alone. Realising how miserable he is.
      I feel his pain because morissey really is like that, and so am i. I can relate on so many levels.

    • @tvscreen8397
      @tvscreen8397 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@rosiebottom3870no it is not. There’s literally an analysis of the lyrics in the comments section. Don’t defile the art.

    • @rosiebottom3870
      @rosiebottom3870 11 месяцев назад +5

      @@tvscreen8397 you do know that we are allowed to interpret a song anyway we like? Morrissey never explains his lyrics. The interpretation you mention was by a person who didnt write the lyrics - we can all only guess what Morrissey was trying to say.

    • @kevinkibble8342
      @kevinkibble8342 9 дней назад

      Yeah I also agree it's not about suicide or death, but the pain of unrequited love, and seeing someone you had such strong feelings for being love with someone else, who is living the perfect happy life you fantasised about in your head with them. I think the references to soil (being buried), knife (self harm) and the sea (drowning) highlights the narrator being unsure how he can continue in life without this person ever being a part of it. "I don't know where else I can go".

  • @surlechapeau
    @surlechapeau Год назад +69

    Brad & Lex, you'll love their "This Charming Man" !!

  • @iainprendergast8311
    @iainprendergast8311 Год назад +69

    What a masterpiece.
    One of the most interesting bands of all time.

  • @ElGwapo1927
    @ElGwapo1927 Год назад +4

    The Smiths - for those who get it, no explanation is needed. For those who dont, no explaining will do.

  • @ThisCharminManc
    @ThisCharminManc Год назад +40

    The best band of all time. They only put music out for 5 years, between 83-87, but it was a perfect run of masterpieces & classics.

    • @ChubbyChecker182
      @ChubbyChecker182 Год назад +4

      And Morrissey is still going strong, just finished his tour in Brighton tonight, 40 years since his first...and he was awesome 👍

    • @marklewen9384
      @marklewen9384 Год назад +2

      @@ChubbyChecker182 morrissey had a couple classic songs as a solo artist, but not a many as with the smiths.

    • @mozzerianmisanthrope406
      @mozzerianmisanthrope406 Год назад +1

      @@marklewen9384 All of M's oevre is great. He's released just as many fantastic solo tracks than with The Smiths, you just haven't been paying attention

    • @marklewen9384
      @marklewen9384 Год назад

      @@mozzerianmisanthrope406 No, not as many...and I HAVE Been paying attention since 1983.

    • @mozzerianmisanthrope406
      @mozzerianmisanthrope406 Год назад

      @@marklewen9384 clearly not, Mark. Open your ears.

  • @GhostlyEcheveria
    @GhostlyEcheveria Год назад +49

    This is one of my favorite songs from The Smiths. Morrissey's lyrics are so deliciously cynical and sarcastic. And then there is his voice. I love Morrissey.

  • @onestringrecordings
    @onestringrecordings Год назад +32

    Morrissey recorded that vocal in one take. Amazing

    • @kevinkibble8342
      @kevinkibble8342 9 дней назад

      Honestly, he gets all the plaudits for his lyrics and frontmanship, but I actually think he's really overlooked as a vocalist. So much talent, and a real ear for haunting melody.

  • @peterreist2882
    @peterreist2882 Год назад +35

    🎶”it takes strength to be gentle and kind”🎶

  • @emersonhistory
    @emersonhistory Год назад +24

    One of the greatest British groups of all time

    • @neilsun2521
      @neilsun2521 Год назад +6

      One of the greatest groups of all time, period!

    • @markbrownpictures4454
      @markbrownpictures4454 Год назад

      Wrong, the greatest british band of all time ;)

  • @autumnsnow8467
    @autumnsnow8467 Год назад +74

    Glad y’all are listening to more of The Smiths!!

  • @LauPulstar
    @LauPulstar Год назад +54

    i think it is a hymn to teenage intensity and feels. like he has been loving somebody inside his head but never even spoke to the person and then this person finally talks with him and made him feel inadequate and his whole World falls apart and the drama is intense and lashes out about failed and miserable relationships other people have and self loathing and self harm... at least that was my intepretation when i found the smiths in my 90s teenage years as a very shy person

    • @i_kill_for_zardoz
      @i_kill_for_zardoz Год назад +1

      Yea I think she's off and married with some other guy, thus the bride and groom part. It might have been the girl he loved talking to him, or maybe someone else. I always to took the "you even spoke to me and said" questions as maybe a friend, or his mother literally chiding him for arrogance and boasting. He obviously talked a lot about how great he was to others, but in reality he was a mess. Classic overcompensation. The singer is complaining how despondent and miserable he is, and I think it can work as both a "teenage" first love obsession song, but also as someone even older, and who's personal life didn't turn out how he planned.
      Gloriously melancholic Moz at his best.

  • @lisajohnson521
    @lisajohnson521 Год назад +21

    I LOVE The Smiths. Morrisey's voice... Delectable.

  • @jazznblues9496
    @jazznblues9496 Год назад +19

    For me, it sounds like a song of rejection, loneliness, regret and longing. Of looking backwards and questioning who you were and the decisions that left you alone.

    • @nealm6764
      @nealm6764 Год назад

      Sounds like a repressed gay man full of self pity and depression.

    • @nealm6764
      @nealm6764 Год назад

      @Lauren Lewis He rejected himself. He still has never come out of his self built dark closet.

    • @patrickdaly685
      @patrickdaly685 5 дней назад

      Perfectly put

    • @patrickdaly685
      @patrickdaly685 5 дней назад

      Omg ye guys just don't get it and you never will 😢

  • @naebodyknows7016
    @naebodyknows7016 Год назад +35

    Melancholic, overly dramatic and sarcastically funny- classic Smiths and I love it!!!

  • @revampenglish
    @revampenglish Год назад +6

    Arguably the most important indie band of them all, The Smiths wrote unique songs with an appeal that refuses to diminish. As a working band, The Smiths existed from just 1982 to 1987, yet their music continues to exert an influence on successive generations of fans.

  • @heliosvice
    @heliosvice Год назад +5

    The Jeff Buckley cover of this song is a must listen

  • @carlhowell791
    @carlhowell791 Год назад +8

    Morrissey is a song writing genius..

  • @davebuck6134
    @davebuck6134 Год назад +25

    Love Morissey's voice....his solo stuff is good as well

  • @teib757
    @teib757 Год назад +14

    This charming man is pretty good song you guys should try it

  • @pietersbart
    @pietersbart Год назад +7

    It is about someone who has never has loved anyone but in his imagination and from observation. And in this loveless life and in his despair, he might as well be dead: 'I know it is over' and 'the soil falling over my head'.
    The part about the sad bride is an observation about other people's love life. The part about if him being still alone if he is all that awesome, gives me the impression of an imaginary lover talking to him after their imaginary love life was over.
    Still he clings to live, tries to be nice, trying to find love but knows it will not come natural and it ends in despair.

  • @MrCharlesray
    @MrCharlesray Год назад +2

    Morrissey is pouring out his heart for a love he never had, a love he never experienced, he is angry and aggravated for having an idea of what it could have been, and yet, didn’t have the opportunity to embrace it. In the end of the song your hear his singing almost crying, OH MOTHER I CAN FEEL, THE SOIL…….. the love he dreamed about having, and looked forward to, ended before it began. In the song he laments it. When you experience what he sings, it’s a breath of fresh air. He is not in love with his mom, he expresses himself as a helpless child, who is experiencing extreme agony and calls out to his mom for help.

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley Год назад +9

    I think the song is about humiliation and self deception.

    • @TheGeneralGarcia
      @TheGeneralGarcia Год назад +2

      Absolutely agree. Coming to the sad teenage realization of self deception in terms of non-reciprocated love

  • @thomsevilla4956
    @thomsevilla4956 Год назад +6

    tearing up while listening to this song.....

  • @douglasmijangos3327
    @douglasmijangos3327 Год назад +13

    Ooohh man .. The Smiths ❤️ such a beautiful Band .. it’s ok to not be ok

  • @jasonraymond7907
    @jasonraymond7907 Год назад +7

    Jonny Marr's "Jangle Pop Guitar Style" influenced the sound of music for the next decade, he's one the greats.

  • @norler
    @norler Год назад +14

    Keep the Smiths reactions coming, and throw in some solo Moz too!

  • @ronaldmilner8932
    @ronaldmilner8932 Год назад +16

    The Smiths are one of the greatest rock bands in history!! I have waited for a long time for you to do another Smiths reaction! I hope to see a reaction to their song "Barbarism begins at home'!

    • @yomvanhaver
      @yomvanhaver Год назад +5

      Oh this one I remember so well the first time I heard it in 85 I was literally paralyzed totally chocked in the record store. With my awkward French accent and trembling voice of a young teen I asked I want this song. The seller watched me with a smile « welcome to our world »

  • @darrenhoskins8382
    @darrenhoskins8382 Год назад +5

    Aaaaaaaw ❤️❤️❤️the most beautiful song ever! You’re probably right about his voice not being perfect but it is perfectly yearning, soulful, mournful etc

  • @dmg19781978
    @dmg19781978 Год назад +17

    Smiths are freakin awesome. They are also one of Phil Anselmo, the singer from Pantera, favorite groups. Weird one but true.

  • @yomvanhaver
    @yomvanhaver Год назад +11

    🖤 Ha ! The 80s melancholy 🖤

  • @xlerb_again_to_music7908
    @xlerb_again_to_music7908 Год назад +6

    Morriseys songs are drenched in isolation, fear, angst and loss. The fear is always aloneness - so I interperate "feel soil falling over my head" as a dread of a forever empty life - dying alone, buried alone, always alone.

  • @samr6408
    @samr6408 Год назад +7

    Honestly one of the best songs ever

  • @jazzminb
    @jazzminb Год назад +40

    Its an 80s group. Their songs are all very angsty and indulge your sadness. I'm sure a lot of 90s groups were inspired by and fans of this group as they were hugely popular.

    • @nealm6764
      @nealm6764 Год назад +3

      Morrissey was a clinically depressed, repressed closeted gay man, who wanted to be an old school crooner in a progressive rock band, and his lyrics are full of self pitying and self loathing.
      But the songs do sound good.
      They were hugely popular in select groups, usually of angtsy college kids away from home for the first time. 90% of regular people never heard of them.

    • @jazzminb
      @jazzminb Год назад +12

      @@nealm6764 I've been a fan of the group since the 80s along with my friends since Jr High and High School - they were far more than a college band. They didn't become a legendary band as a result of only 10% of the population being fans

    • @peterandjunko
      @peterandjunko Год назад +4

      Oasis is the most famous follow on 90s group to The Smiths.

    • @THEDEEPDIVE
      @THEDEEPDIVE Год назад +1

      Lot of emo bands from the 00s are big fans too.

    • @neilsun2521
      @neilsun2521 Год назад

      @@peterandjunko The Stone Roses are an important link in that Manchester band continuum. (Smiths were studenty. Oasis were football lads. The 'Roses were the inbetween.)

  • @mynameispaul0530
    @mynameispaul0530 Год назад +9

    I doubt there will ever be another time period + band like the Smiths coupled together. Perfect match of time period and band.

    • @Murcatto-hu1ym
      @Murcatto-hu1ym 6 месяцев назад

      I think the Smiths fit into every time period. I think it hits hardest if you're still a young person. So that's why it probably resonated so well with you (and me) at that age in the eighties.

  • @Eijianthony
    @Eijianthony Год назад +2

    Moz, Marr, Rourke, Joyce - these are The Smiths!~

  • @Blisteryn
    @Blisteryn Год назад +12

    The Smiths saved my life from suicide, there are bands and there's the Smiths. Morrissey is my savior!!!!!!

    • @andrewcanady6644
      @andrewcanady6644 11 месяцев назад +1

      Their music is one of the things that helped me through dark times, too. I’m happy you’re still here. 🤙🏽

  • @DOMSKYTRANCE
    @DOMSKYTRANCE Год назад +3

    Morrissey said it was about a man nearing the end of his days reminiscing about past chances he threw away .

  • @Tbass-yy8uc
    @Tbass-yy8uc Год назад +13

    The Smiths are kind of like 80s hair metal you either love it or you absolutely hate it. As for me I love the Smiths

    • @neilsun2521
      @neilsun2521 Год назад

      I love. I've always suspected Smiths-haters to be folks who just don't get Moz's humour, and probably think he's simply whining.

  • @ramonarellano4988
    @ramonarellano4988 Год назад +3

    Every day is like Sunday !!@, next please Brad & Lex.

  • @nitegoat1369
    @nitegoat1369 Год назад +7

    I think the song is about losing a guy to a girl. My take is: this guy gave him all of these compliments while they were dating,or maybe just friends, then married a girl for appearances and financial stability, instead of love. I think he’s reflecting on all of the compliments his guy paid him, then saying to himself “then why am I alone tonight?” etc. He’s heartbroken to the point of being suicidal. When he says “It’s so easy to hate” “It takes strength to be gentle and kind.”, he’s giving himself credit/complimenting himself for not hating him.

  • @markburnham7512
    @markburnham7512 Год назад +9

    About time we got some Morrissey on this channel. Keep going, lots of great songs.

  • @davidjb-750
    @davidjb-750 Год назад +12

    One of the most beautiful songs ever written… Their output in the four years they were together was simply phenomenal!

  • @ijustneedmyself
    @ijustneedmyself Год назад +9

    What a lovely song from such a lovely band 🥀

  • @user-he2rv4pq5k
    @user-he2rv4pq5k Год назад +3

    There’s a reason they call Morresy the Pope of Mope

  • @NenadTrajkovic
    @NenadTrajkovic Год назад +4

    🇬🇧Proudly made in Manchester🇬🇧
    ….in 1980’s

  • @596479
    @596479 Год назад +6

    Manchester, so much to answer for

  • @richardgonzales4815
    @richardgonzales4815 Год назад +7

    This is the greatest Smiths song ever! But also check out :” Shop lifters of the world unite”.

    • @yomvanhaver
      @yomvanhaver Год назад +2

      Unit and take over

    • @missandry5178
      @missandry5178 Год назад +2

      " My only weakness is a listed crime.
      But last night the plans of a future war. Was all I saw on Channel 4"

  • @davorjuric1309
    @davorjuric1309 Год назад +4

    More Smiths, pleeeease!! And more Pixies!

  • @bridgethegapreactions
    @bridgethegapreactions Год назад +9

    God, I forgot how great Morrissey's lyrics used to be.

    • @missandry5178
      @missandry5178 Год назад +2

      Many still are from his solo stuff.

    • @mozzerianmisanthrope406
      @mozzerianmisanthrope406 Год назад

      They still are.

    • @loke3684
      @loke3684 Год назад

      @@mozzerianmisanthrope406 mate have you listened to his 2020 album? it’s possibly the biggest musical downfall i’ve ever seen from an artist

  • @SIRRUBADUBDUB
    @SIRRUBADUBDUB Год назад +6

    A difficult sensibility to come to terms with. Very much the idealistic romantic poet torn by life's harsh treatment. Joy then sadness, love then loss, kindness meets brutality... the poor soul is crushed by the antagonism of life. But, he can at least keep true, set this to poetry and sing it to his dear Mother, as a farewell - cos he's not sticking around for all that BS

  • @andrewnbrown
    @andrewnbrown Год назад +7

    The Smiths were a fabulous aberration in the 80s really when guitar groups and proper songs weren't really the thing. The name says a lot in a decade of excess they wanted the plainest name possible.

  • @wolfcorpse
    @wolfcorpse Год назад +8

    Please react to Morrissey - Suedehead 🙏 He's the lead singer of The Smiths and has an excellent solo discography

  • @3John16
    @3John16 Год назад +2

    My 80s childhood.

  • @grantpaterson1016
    @grantpaterson1016 Год назад +2

    Seen the Smiths for the Meat is Murder and the Queen is Dead tours......amazing band live..... as long as you don't have hay fever hahahahaha

  • @markbrownpictures4454
    @markbrownpictures4454 Год назад +2

    wow, I've never felt more British watching this.

  • @THEDEEPDIVE
    @THEDEEPDIVE Год назад +10

    This is song is incredible. Morrissey's voice is the epitome of sexy sadness. Got to watch the sound quality on those lyric videos. This was a rough listen.

  • @lomein6345
    @lomein6345 Год назад +4

    They're big in Cali like LA and have ties to the hispanic population there, very interesting band hope you listen to more.

  • @vanburger
    @vanburger Год назад +2

    The smith's weren't my favourite band back in the 80s. But god those songs have stuck with me. The most phenomenal act of the 80s

  • @doctordunc
    @doctordunc Год назад +2

    I used to listen to this to cheer myself up when I was a teenager...
    Ask is a good one that people seem to forget in all these lists :)

  • @jffullum4325
    @jffullum4325 Год назад +3

    There is a light that never goes out!

  • @03983764874
    @03983764874 Год назад +2

    Another one of the greatest songs ever.

  • @mynameispaul0530
    @mynameispaul0530 Год назад +6

    I think Morrissey wrote songs for other demographics (gay, bi, straight, etc). He claims in interviews he had miserable early experience with heterosexual relationships then decided to be asexual. Any song he wrote may likely not have applied to his own life but to others.

    • @ravenknight1704
      @ravenknight1704 Год назад

      Morrissey never said any of that

    • @mynameispaul0530
      @mynameispaul0530 Год назад

      @@ravenknight1704 He said it in an interview.

    • @mynameispaul0530
      @mynameispaul0530 Год назад

      @@ravenknight1704 ruclips.net/video/pcAJjcOlUG0/видео.html Watch the entire 3-part interview. It's in there.

    • @ravenknight1704
      @ravenknight1704 Год назад

      @@mynameispaul0530 I've watched every part of that interview dozens of times, he doesn't once say he's asexual.

    • @mynameispaul0530
      @mynameispaul0530 Год назад

      @@ravenknight1704 believe what you want to believe I'm not your personal assistant to get you up to speed on Morrissey lol

  • @davidwalker683
    @davidwalker683 Год назад +2

    This rabbit hole is phenomenal…

  • @perryedwards4746
    @perryedwards4746 Год назад +6

    Almost suicidal, I liked them though, because they were unique.. Sort of like the cure I felt... Great poet btw

  • @kesstron1
    @kesstron1 Год назад +4

    Love it. Moz loves Valli btw--great ear

  • @simonround2439
    @simonround2439 Год назад +3

    I was a student in the the mid 80s in the UK and The Smiths were my favourite cult band who made it huge. React to any song from the The Queen is Dead album and you can't go wrong. Morrissey, the lead singer was known for his somewhat over-dramatic and at the same time ironic lyrics . He also threw in a lot of literary references - a real character. It's worth watching a few of their live performances. Johnny Marr's guitar was brilliant and unique. Brad was right when he said it was hard to place them in time - they had a really timeless sound. My own favourite song is This Charming Man -- their debut hit from 1983. It kind of sums them up musically and lyrically.

  • @fluffymcdeath
    @fluffymcdeath Год назад +3

    So many years since I've heard this and every word and note comes back. I can sing along now like I did so long ago driving with this album blasting in the tape deck. So many good songs.

  • @mkmstillstackin
    @mkmstillstackin Год назад +9

    Love old Smiths! This one is circa 1986, by the way. More please! One of my all-time favs from this same album is "There is a light that never goes out", a must try!

  • @achbe13
    @achbe13 Год назад +2

    Oh the smiths , you are getting into,a void there … they are other worldly

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley Год назад +8

    Great song. So in a mood. maybe do more smiths please. Thanks. Try their song “Ask Me”.

    • @missandry5178
      @missandry5178 Год назад +1

      " If it's not love, then it's the bomb that will bring us together"

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley Год назад

      @@missandry5178 the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb.

  • @nobody_special
    @nobody_special Год назад +5

    Love The Smiths! "How Soon Is Now?" is probably their most iconic song. If you want to check it out, I recommend trying to find the original that's 6+ minutes long.

    • @Hasta-la-pasta
      @Hasta-la-pasta Год назад

      They reacted to this already

    • @nobody_special
      @nobody_special Год назад

      @@Hasta-la-pasta OK. I'll have to look it up. Thanks. 👍

  • @wadsworthaaron
    @wadsworthaaron Год назад +1

    The Smiths "Girlfriend in a Coma" will be a great follow-up

  • @tommypenisfingers
    @tommypenisfingers Год назад +2

    This song reminds me of the theme the band plays throughout "There's Something About Mary".

  • @pdbordelon
    @pdbordelon Год назад +4

    LOVE the Smiths! This song is hypnotic and mysterious, not only in its lyrics but in the music itself. Please review "Big Mouth"!

  • @Joshuadgog
    @Joshuadgog Год назад +5

    this charming man is better.

  • @IanCrouse
    @IanCrouse Год назад +1

    Released in 1986, my sophomore of college.
    Since Lex loves guitars, you would be happy to know that Johnny Marr, The Smiths guitarist, has been ranked as one of the greatest guitars of all time. Even guitar masters give him kudos. The Smiths are equal to The Beatles when it comes to influencing bands of today.
    The meaning of this record is twofold. The generic meaning is just desperation for love and feeling the depths of loneliness without it.
    My meaning was much more personal. There was this one girl in college that I loved, but when we broke up, I felt completely empty, and this song was my go-to for self-healing. I couldn't have her any longer and felt that love just would never come again.
    MEAT IS MURDER is a great song. Also, THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT.

  • @bencool8239
    @bencool8239 Год назад +4

    LOVE The Smiths...

  • @jaid2383
    @jaid2383 Год назад +3

    Definitely more Smiths! One of the greatest, most influential bands of all time. I've heard it said that Radiohead is what happens when Pink Floyd and The Smiths have a baby.
    Also, please react to Death Grips - Guillotine.

  • @zoeherriot
    @zoeherriot Год назад +2

    Smiths lyrics are hilarious. Definitely worth digging more into them.

  • @mcluvin65
    @mcluvin65 Год назад +1

    It is easy to laugh and to hate ,it takes strength to be gentle and kind

  • @cjdesign5700
    @cjdesign5700 Год назад +2

    Morrisey is so different..the Smiths are great

  • @douglasmijangos3327
    @douglasmijangos3327 Год назад +4

    I remember one day I was thinking “ that would be cool to have this awkward voice as a singer 🤔 why has nobody ever really don’t something like that .. It would be so great “ then I realized I was listening to The Smiths a few day earlier 😂 his voice is so awkward yet so beautiful and artistic.. no wonder so many people Obsess over the Smiths at certain points of their life

    • @Johnny_Socko
      @Johnny_Socko Год назад +5

      I think he had a great voice, but it's like he was too cool or detached to let it soar too much. There are few songs where he really belts it out, but he was definitely capable of it.

  • @kevinkazmierczak9161
    @kevinkazmierczak9161 Год назад +2

    Hand in Glove and Pretty Girls Make Graves are my favorite Smiths songs. Off their debut album, The Smiths.

  • @juanmauricioarrietalopez2395
    @juanmauricioarrietalopez2395 Год назад +3

    Make more of The Smiths.

  • @ramonarellano4988
    @ramonarellano4988 Год назад +4

    In this song he's telling his mother that his relationship with a girlfriend its over, but his mother always told him that he was a very good looking guy, so he's asking sarcastically to himself why he's spending the nights alone.

  • @eros727
    @eros727 5 месяцев назад +1

    This is one of my all time favourites. Hits me in the feels every time.

  • @ScottFree-
    @ScottFree- Год назад +2

    When I've seen "What's the saddest song of all time?" on my feed, I always answer with this song. The Smiths are amazing, super influential on late 80s/90s alternative music (and beyond). The Singer Morrissey has an incredible voice, had really great solo songs/career, but he's become kind of a d*** in the past 10-15 years. He wasn't always super nice, but now...whoa

  • @LA80sMike
    @LA80sMike Год назад +1

    They are ‘80s and Old school..
    Guitarist Johnny Marr is a genius… so influential

  • @gareth.s9146
    @gareth.s9146 Год назад +3

    More Smiths please

  • @karlosjakkal4062
    @karlosjakkal4062 Год назад +4

    Johnny Marr...the lead guitarist....phenomenal....The Smiths are truly great...Morrissey's lyrics and singing......even his solo material ...try the duet with Siouxsie Sioux "Interlude".....astonishing cover...he dwells on some very dark topics eg. the Moors murders ..."Everyday is like Sunday" brilliant....yet the Smiths only lasted 5 years....but they burned twice as brightly....

  • @Duck420Ag
    @Duck420Ag Год назад +2

    Brad, you might want to sit down for this, but : some Ambrosia salad has both Cream Cheese AND Sour Cream along with the whipped cream. Now wrap your taste buds around that.

  • @badkitty4922
    @badkitty4922 Год назад +4

    Morrissey always had a gloomy, suicidal sound in his songs.
    A crooner for sure but, on heavy, deep, and somber songs.

  • @donnieroush58
    @donnieroush58 Год назад +5

    Morrissey(the lead singer) is known for catching the teenage anxieties and depressions with his clever and catchy lyrics.

  • @libertyjustice1620
    @libertyjustice1620 Год назад +2

    There Is A Light That Never Goes out |
    T H E S M I T H S

  • @n2nother
    @n2nother Год назад +1

    Oh my god. I can only imagine how badly Brad is going Bomb this interpretation.

  • @brdc86
    @brdc86 7 месяцев назад

    I’ve never seen someone smile so much listening to this