I liked the Smiths before I heard this but hearing this for the first time was a jaw dropping moment, I lived and breathed the debut album as an 18 year old in 1984.
Let's talk about why I love love love this song. First things first, the chords. There is so much flitting between sixth chords and fifth chords in the intro, creating a sense of joy and heating up to me, conflicting with the emotionally cooler minor chord. whenever I hear this song, I picture two people in bed together, kind of sheltered from the world, so that's why I enjoy the bursts of major chords throughout this minor key songs that act like pockets of energy. now lets talk about that chorus that absolutely intoxicates me on a good day. it's just melancholic moaning sounds really. again, the flitting between minor and major chords. makes it sound like something on life is coming together despite a sense of melancholy in the world around
Im 50 now & was a RELIGIOUS Smiths " fan in the 80s , had all there vinyl , but it wasent till 1996 that i bought a bootleg seethrough vinyl and i heard this for the 1st Time & It was like a Gift from GOD !!! It basically Was a Track that Should have been on the 1st : Smiths "" album , That Absolute Haunting Meloncholic , Hopeless Romantic sound , that No band have ever captured since !!! A True MASTERPIECE From Morissey & Marr !!!! ❤❤❤❤
This has always been up their being one of my favourite Smiths songs, I still remember back to being 9yrs old in 1985 and hearing this beautiful song coming from my older brothers stereo and falling in love with the guitar parts, from that moment I knew everything in my young boys life had just changed instantly! Going from a boy into athletics and football, to going into primary school the following day and saying I really wanted to start guitar lessons and learn how to play the guitar. That I did and guitar, instruments, music, playing in bands, sound recording & production completely took over and shaped my life to what it is now I am 47yrs old. All those lovely sounding guitar riffs, melodies & harmonies entered my head and have never left, inspiring my whole life in the jobs in music I have done, the bands I’ve played in, the style of music I love , the songs I’ve written and carry on writing now and in the future. It’s given me so much nearly everything, for that I am eternally grateful and indebted to Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Andy Rourke, Mike Joyce, so much so it’s not a case of I don’t owe you anything, I my life, it’s more I pretty much owe you everything! A brilliant song and I also love the Sandie Shaw version on vocals when she also sang Hand in glove and Jeanne. All three songs with Sandie singing are total brilliance.
theres something about their debut album, I perceive the art came through better. and morrissey absolutely crushed it here. subtle performance of them all and tight as can be
Yah, I have been living a wispered MiserAbel lie...because I need BOTH of My feet rubbed...& I will fight to the last breathe (whilst I AM lounging in a recliner) until My feet feel better🌻🪄🤪💍🐲😈😁...
Yah Je, You Are 1 in 3, aNd I AM sooOOOoo going to Marry God o'er My King~A~Ling, SteVen Patrick F¿@#(!$ Morrissey and Prince Lonnie Shawn Anderson o'er The Devil Standing In The Lonn, so We can be "The Three for All'ah" 🎶🎵L~O~V~E Love, Love is a walk down main street. Love is the apple that is sooOOOoo sweet. Love is something that cannot be beat~~~L~O~V~E~~~is strange to Me...I cannot explain this feeling, cannot you feel that salvation is FREEING. I give My All'ah for the glory, to be Abel to tell the story 'bout~~~
