Why worry about understanding life when you have materialistic posession, it’s morrisey commenting ironically that our desires for knowledge and understanding ourselves is overshadowed by consumerism or luxury . That’s my take on it anyway after all art is subjective 👍🏼🙂
"Punctured bicycle, on a hillside desolate", what an opening line to a pop song, running alongside Johnny Marr's great guitar line. Go Morrissey with those flowers. In later appearances he had a tree branch.
For me this is as about as perfect as pop music gets. It's under 3 minutes, it has an infectious guitar riff, a flawlessly groovy bass line, a simple but effective drum part, and the voice soars over with the most stylish and ambiguous lyrics. Genius. I put it up there with The Beatles greatest hits any day!
RIP Andy Rourke & condolences to the family. I first met Andy in the BBC bar after they'd just backed Sandi Shaw on Top of the Pops in 1984. Such a lovely fella & what a Bass Player, wow just wow. If anyone has any doubts about Andy's playing just check out what Guy Pratt says about Andy. It's such a sad day, he's gone but never forgotten, his music will speak for himself & his talent.
The vulnerability that is indeed the true power. No microphone in his hand. He is clearly saying it was a playback. Morrissey's presence on stage was so strange and different from the other pop singers of that era. Respect.
Happy to be here listening to Morri's voice, the perfect guitar of Johnny "F" Marr, Andy's bass and Mike's drums. Keep going, guys. We can overcome with this 2020, remember that "there is a light that never goes out".
All the performances on TOTP were done with backing track, and that means that Marr, Andy and Mike were just mimicking playing the song live. The only person who was actually performing 'live' here was Morrissey.
My dad was such a lucky bastard he got to see this live as he was 22 when this aired edit: let me reiterate i know that top of the pops performances weren’t performed live, i simply meant that my dad saw this as it was live on air, not the performance itself being performed live.
@@rushyy8765 Freddie also lipsynced on Top of the Pops. It's just how that show was. Both bands genuinely performed their songs love on other occasions lol.
I've got a boring af job, security guard, and totp downloads in my phone are a lifesaver! I'm 58 hence 78-88 is my era. I also watch motorbike and car vids plus George & Mildred from that era. Bit sad really but never mind.
@@tombartram7384 😆 I am a bit younger so 80s are my earliest memories. I am currently watching "Minder" because I remember the theme from my childhood.
Currently reading Marrs autobiography "set the boy free" ..... it invigorates your near 40 year love of this band and how it all came to be, Marr is a gift an iconic legend and a beautiful soul .
The Smiths were the perfect medicine after we had been infected by the likes of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, Wham, jeez man, they came along just in time. Thank You Smiths 🙏
Don’t wanna gloat but.......oh ok i will.....saw them live Twice 1984 Birmingham Tower Ballroom and 1986 Wolverhampton civic Hall - no day goes past without me thinking of those gigs.....they were as good as in your dreams!
A megastar was born that evening. I miss. TOTP and music how it was...(and this was before even my time.... but it was ‘better’.... it just was... than today).
I was such a rocker back in the 80's but I totally got into the Smiths and used to dance like crazy to this song! I was a bass player, but I just loved the guitar work!!!! And yes, I actually saw them live at Great Woods, outside Boston! It was perhaps in 86-87, maybe 88.
Never say something like this ever in your fucking life. Reading this comment I literally felt me heart stop working for approximately 3 minutes. I crawled from the ground to my computer (even though I can’t feel the right side of my fucking neck) to tell you this
@@ieatshampoo6323 oh he does, to a bouquet of flowers. The rest of the band is playing too, it doesn't matter though as their mics are turned off. The audio is the same as the studio version of TCM, it was clearly played over what the band was trying to do. To be clear, i'm not bashing on The Smiths here, i love them, it was probably the TV station that refused to let them play live and instead just used a pre-recorded version. Happened back then i guess
Top of the Pops used studio recordings since they had performances after another and they wouldn’t be able to get the right audio settings for each performer so they decide to do studio recordings instead of a live performances
thats top of the pops. literally everyone did it😂 its all prerecorded. oasis did a song and noel pretends to sing, while liam (the actual singer) played the guitar
1:02 Johnny uses a Rickenbacker 330/12. This was the first TV perfornace of this song I can remember and because of the tone of the guitar part on the recording and the presence of the twelve string, I think I and a lot of other people thought that Charming Man must've been recorded with it. Subsequently we found out about the use of the Telecaster and the story that the Rickenbacker was loaned by Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music.
They were truly fortunate. There are lots of wonderful bands that never had 10% of what The Smiths achieved in terms of selling records and the due respectful amount of consideration. They indeed put Rough Trade Records on the map.
Only God knows how much they helped me when I was feeling like there was no way out. It doesn't matter where life will take me, whenever I'll listen to them I'll think about the 16-year-old I used to be and time will be just a perception. "But they were the only ones who ever stood by you"...
i wish i was alive in the 80s. the music, the movies, everything seemed so much better. i wish i could time travel back in time. i’m 14 and i hate growing up in today’s society :(
You would not be disappointed! It was without doubt the most magical time. Life was different then, I felt no pressure going out, just enjoying ourselves, seeing live bands every week and just not being able to get enough of the songs on the radio, so many new bands with totally new sounds and image, coming out left right and centre. WE were literally spoilt for choice and we knew it. Did not know anything else so now looking back we can see it was like a pocket in time before it all started going to crap! If you find some documentary about bands from that time, you can get a bit of and idea what it was like! Have a great day!
It’s weird how much they stick out in the mid 80s, they’re flamboyant but not in the same way a lot of 80s bands were, they seem quite modern
I think it's Johnny Marr guitar playing that made them sound so modern.
Probably because they’ve been endlessly imitated to this day.
@n n Such an amazing tone signature of The Smiths:)
If you saw them walking down your local high street today, they wouldn't look odd.
Mozz was flamboyant, the rest were just regular dudes but Marr having that rockstar quality to him.
this is one of the greatest songs of all time
sure
Morriseys voice just seems to glide over the instruments. Majestic.
imagine this many smiths fans on youtube not registering that this is a lipsync. i figured smiths fans had some degree of music literacy
Why pamper life’s complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat. Genuinely one of the best lyricist of our time
gucci gang gucci gang gucci gang
finish teh song next time
@@tobybalmont9037 I believe history is a wheel...
English is not my native language. What does this lyric mean?
Why worry about understanding life when you have materialistic posession, it’s morrisey commenting ironically that our desires for knowledge and understanding ourselves is overshadowed by consumerism or luxury . That’s my take on it anyway after all art is subjective 👍🏼🙂
@@georgeydlfc i always this was about sex, why talk complex blablabla When we can just have simple joy. But i also think its meant ironic
"Punctured bicycle, on a hillside desolate", what an opening line to a pop song, running alongside Johnny Marr's great guitar line. Go Morrissey with those flowers. In later appearances he had a tree branch.
For a long time I thought it was ‘tortured bicycle’. Punctured makes much more sense.
LMAO when i was younger i thought it was hold your bicycle on a hillside yesterday but when i saw the lyrics xd
This isn’t pop
@@basketballadigonzalez5561 Jazz?
@@kevanbrown7620 It's Jangle Pop
For me this is as about as perfect as pop music gets. It's under 3 minutes, it has an infectious guitar riff, a flawlessly groovy bass line, a simple but effective drum part, and the voice soars over with the most stylish and ambiguous lyrics. Genius. I put it up there with The Beatles greatest hits any day!
This ain't pop though
@@santidudok4196 how?
@@joshbaino3087 alternative
@@santidudok4196 I mean, "indie pop"
I totally agree, great post
RIP Andy Rourke & condolences to the family. I first met Andy in the BBC bar after they'd just backed Sandi Shaw on Top of the Pops in 1984. Such a lovely fella & what a Bass Player, wow just wow. If anyone has any doubts about Andy's playing just check out what Guy Pratt says about Andy. It's such a sad day, he's gone but never forgotten, his music will speak for himself & his talent.
I’d build a time machine just to watch this live
The Smiths are the best 80s band of all time
Hmm I’d say Depeche Mode is the best. The smiths are still great tho
You'd be disappointed then since they're not actually performing
Shifting
Let’s just say, the 80s had a lot of amazing bands and songs compared to todays music scene
The vulnerability that is indeed the true power. No microphone in his hand. He is clearly saying it was a playback.
Morrissey's presence on stage was so strange and different from the other pop singers of that era. Respect.
See him these days … like a half-cut embarrassing old uncle at a wedding reception. Anachronism personified.
1:14 AAAH
AaAAhH
12:12
His voice is still so refreshing to this day
RIP Andy - that bass-line! This chiming riff wouldn't stand a chance over a root-note plod. Bravo sir.
Thats some good bass playing on this track
Andy Rourke RIP .
I'm an 88 year old Titanic survivor, and when I was in the lifeboat fighting for my life, it was this song that kept me going. Thank you Morrisons
what lol
Bruh
bruh
Holy sh we have living legend right here lol
@@JJStale missed the joke
Happy to be here listening to Morri's voice, the perfect guitar of Johnny "F" Marr, Andy's bass and Mike's drums.
Keep going, guys. We can overcome with this 2020, remember that "there is a light that never goes out".
There is a Light that never goes Out is A MASTERPIECE and will overlife ALL Generation
All the performances on TOTP were done with backing track, and that means that Marr, Andy and Mike were just mimicking playing the song live. The only person who was actually performing 'live' here was Morrissey.
Sungley Yeah, he is lip syncing. Hell, at one point he sticks his tongue out when "he" is still singing.
@@Fragrantbeard I'd say the fact that he doesn't have a mic is the bigger "hint" that he isn't singing live.
Oh look at that style. Awesome
My dad was such a lucky bastard he got to see this live as he was 22 when this aired
edit: let me reiterate i know that top of the pops performances weren’t performed live, i simply meant that my dad saw this as it was live on air, not the performance itself being performed live.
23*
@@tobybalmont9037 22 still, turned 23 in December
@@masteryeet3600 24*
i saw them at the Hacienda round about this time...
"live"
I'm so glad-ioli this song and video exists.
Best comment here - everyone else hung up on lip synching or earnest fawning
A terrible shame to hear of Andy Rourke's death. What a great bass player. My condolences to his family and friends. May he RIP.
He's so damn charming he don't even need a mic, the universe just obliges
Lol he doesn't need a mic because TOTP was all lipsynced then. Even the musicians aren't actually playing.
@@mrtoad1408 I heard it frustrated them and that's why he didn't even want to have a mic but flung flowers
@@mrtoad1408 this is why Freddie mercury is better
@@rushyy8765 Freddie also lipsynced on Top of the Pops. It's just how that show was. Both bands genuinely performed their songs love on other occasions lol.
I'm practicing this song on guitar. Marr's beautiful riff
It's very enjoyable to do!
cheers
Me too
I just did. Downloaded a looping pedal app. Its so fun to layer guitars
Didn't realise how much I'd miss T.O.T.P. I find myself watching repeats whenever I'm looking for something to watch and come across them on tv.
I've got a boring af job, security guard, and totp downloads in my phone are a lifesaver!
I'm 58 hence 78-88 is my era. I also watch motorbike and car vids plus George & Mildred from that era. Bit sad really but never mind.
@@tombartram7384 😆 I am a bit younger so 80s are my earliest memories. I am currently watching "Minder" because I remember the theme from my childhood.
Man their goes maar workin his guitar magic again. His guitar skills are so powerful he can all play without it even plugged in
One of the best and most memorables moments in rock history.
His quiff is o epic
Currently reading Marrs autobiography "set the boy free" ..... it invigorates your near 40 year love of this band and how it all came to be, Marr is a gift an iconic legend and a beautiful soul .
👊😔 revisiting today 19.5.23 ..... Andy Rourke R.i.P and thank you for the music
This song reminds of my brother, who I lost in the mountains in Hawaii
I would go out tonight, but I'm in quarantine
estamos igual
It'd be in vain i'm sure :P much like my ventures, only accept this time my vain trips come with an added health risk eeee :I
😉
@@tttobigs sí :(
I pictured Morrissey saying this, subsequently imagined Morrissey in quarantine, and became a bit sad.
this music remind me about so many things that i miss.. it was a nice nostalgia
Agreed, although it was just last year
STAN THE SMITHS
Honestly one of the best songs of all time
the smiths saved my life
same
same here
Same, and Oasis too😉
thank me later
Amazing
neevs agreed
What a song
Love the Smiths ❤
Zuru Calel, same
The most iconic TOTP performance of the 1980's. It was a complete & total cultural shift, a real cannon blow to 1980's music.
The Smiths were the perfect medicine after we had been infected by the likes of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, Wham, jeez man, they came along just in time.
Thank You Smiths 🙏
who else was never able to see them live and wishes they could time travel
I saw them in august 86 at the fox theatre in Detroit. Great show!
I'm watching them live, now
Don’t wanna gloat but.......oh ok i will.....saw them live Twice 1984 Birmingham Tower Ballroom and 1986 Wolverhampton civic Hall - no day goes past without me thinking of those gigs.....they were as good as in your dreams!
Saw them on The Queen is Dead Tour, Boulder, Co. Kissed Morrisey on stage.
Fortunate enough to see them at Lancaster Uni 1984.
A megastar was born that evening.
I miss. TOTP and music how it was...(and this was before even my time.... but it was ‘better’.... it just was... than today).
Best night of those flowers
I was such a rocker back in the 80's but I totally got into the Smiths and used to dance like crazy to this song! I was a bass player, but I just loved the guitar work!!!!
And yes, I actually saw them live at Great Woods, outside Boston! It was perhaps in 86-87, maybe 88.
Simplemente historico
my dad loves the smiths i’m 22 and love them too , he is in prison just now and listening to this reminds me of him he always plays it x
Free your dad x
The smiths saved my life
Top of the pops is the best thing created.
A certain Mr. Savile certainly thought so, … ow’s about that, then?!
@@LANCSKIDJim fixed it for the King!
@@LANCSKIDthat’s why it is matey.
Mano, essa música fará parte da minha playlist eternamente ❤
Somos dois. 😍😍😍😍😍
The smiths é poesia
Eu sou fanática em smiths e tipo caralho preciso da amizade de vcs
Mano amo esses cara ♡
a banda faz parte da minha playlist/vida
Bro this shit be slapping for eternity
Perfection
The Smiths are the best 80s band of all time
Never say something like this ever in your fucking life. Reading this comment I literally felt me heart stop working for approximately 3 minutes. I crawled from the ground to my computer (even though I can’t feel the right side of my fucking neck) to tell you this
@@Teajonmustard lol why?
Obi wan Kenobi people who don’t think there the best don’t fully understand Their music. Evidently your one of them ... 🤦🏼
@@Teajonmustard stay safe bro
@@TOB-mi2do umm that's not how opinion works
Good Song!!!!
brilliant band the smiths Morrissey had such a unique voice
Iconic.
How did shows back then have the audacity to just straight up play the studio recording. They didn't even try
Yes but I believe Morrissey is singing
@@ieatshampoo6323 oh he does, to a bouquet of flowers. The rest of the band is playing too, it doesn't matter though as their mics are turned off. The audio is the same as the studio version of TCM, it was clearly played over what the band was trying to do.
To be clear, i'm not bashing on The Smiths here, i love them, it was probably the TV station that refused to let them play live and instead just used a pre-recorded version. Happened back then i guess
Top of the Pops used studio recordings since they had performances after another and they wouldn’t be able to get the right audio settings for each performer so they decide to do studio recordings instead of a live performances
thats top of the pops. literally everyone did it😂 its all prerecorded. oasis did a song and noel pretends to sing, while liam (the actual singer) played the guitar
@@ieatshampoo6323 He's not; he has no microphone. (And besides, you can tell just by listening that it's the vocal track from the single.)
Loved the Smiths never forget seeing this for first time November 83 absolutely fu@#*%# brilliant
this is one of my favourite songs in the entire world oml
1:02 Johnny uses a Rickenbacker 330/12. This was the first TV perfornace of this song I can remember and because of the tone of the guitar part on the recording and the presence of the twelve string, I think I and a lot of other people thought that Charming Man must've been recorded with it.
Subsequently we found out about the use of the Telecaster and the story that the Rickenbacker was loaned by Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music.
the smiths will ever ever get old.
At number 30! What a decade of music
Saudade do que nunca vivi tenho 14 kkkk
A complete enigma for this era of pop music......so different....so brilliant....
They were truly fortunate. There are lots of wonderful bands that never had 10% of what The Smiths achieved in terms of selling records and the due respectful amount of consideration. They indeed put Rough Trade Records on the map.
Amo a The Smiths
The Smiths are LEGEND.
Cresci ouvindo Smiths... incrivelmente saudosa memória 👏👏👏👏
do u have a turkey version?
Beautiful then - beautiful now ......
Much like my mistress.
Paixão e amor eterno por essa banda 🎈
Only God knows how much they helped me when I was feeling like there was no way out. It doesn't matter where life will take me, whenever I'll listen to them I'll think about the 16-year-old I used to be and time will be just a perception. "But they were the only ones who ever stood by you"...
i also think about the time when u were 16 aswell
Sometimes it's hard to be yourself, thank you Morrissey for showing me that is not impossible.
I love you..Se puldesse escrevia mais em Ingles, ...mais não sei..Me basta Admira-los.. melhor banda..anos 80 de todos os tempos😍😘
concordo
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Verdade! 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
Beauuuuuuutiful song❤❤❤
Amo, amo, amo❤
Such a hypnotising voice
Love The Smiths!!
The best British band
Você Vai Ler Meu Comentário the cure
@@LyleStevik. @pode_copiar
his jawline wow
this makes me happy
Love the Smiths
thxs
Saw them live back in the 80's @ "the Channel" in Boston...they were awesome...!!!!
Should of been #1 on the chart’s
Bands from the Golden Age never to be repeated
minha música favorita deles ❤❤❤
Brazil love you guys! 01/11/2020
I love the Smiths
one of the best songs
Su música me hace feliz❤️
This made staying at home a lot more enjoyable
i wish i was alive in the 80s. the music, the movies, everything seemed so much better. i wish i could time travel back in time. i’m 14 and i hate growing up in today’s society :(
You would not be disappointed! It was without doubt the most magical time. Life was different then, I felt no pressure going out, just enjoying ourselves, seeing live bands every week and just not being able to get enough of the songs on the radio, so many new bands with totally new sounds and image, coming out left right and centre. WE were literally spoilt for choice and we knew it. Did not know anything else so now looking back we can see it was like a pocket in time before it all started going to crap! If you find some documentary about bands from that time, you can get a bit of and idea what it was like! Have a great day!
"I Think Youve Blown Some Minds, John"
For me the Smiths are like a good bottle of wine. they get better with age!
Hello there 👋👋,how are you doing today? Hope you’re having a good day?God bless you!!❤️
Sweet segue
I love the wireless guitar and bass
Minha banda preferida, saudades eternas que não voltam mais ..
thank you for providing us w this content whilst we’re staying in our homes
Los amo
La mejor banda ❤
This is history of music. Thank you.
isso é tão perfeito
facts!!!!
Free-flow highway cruisin' to the beach & other fun places, radio plays this + top-40 hits 1980s-90s diamond days forever.
Let's pretend the smiths are still together and they put this video here.
Anyway thank u ♡♡
Shut up Janis
@@idontgetjokes1918 very cool, great opinion sick mode kid
Let's pretend Morrissey wasn't an horrible person
they are together they're called travis scoott
Will still be heard and remembered and played in 50 years time. Unlike today's so-called pop & r&b.