The Smiths - Girl Afraid (Official Audio) 

This and well I wonder are one of their most underrated tracks !!

@@jasont.1792 this was a b-side

You've just seen the big picture, my friend!!! High-five to you!

This comment is pure gold, thank you

I’m 44 and still love this way

En guitarras la magia de Johnny Marr quien componía la música y ritmos.

Smiths era Marr.....best guitar licks ever! Then when Morisey lays down the vocals it's like youre not sure how it works but it does so well.

you are absolutely right

This is the magic of the smiths: happy music and astonishingly depressed lyrics

Music from the heart

Same. It’s been since 1987 listening to them, and I come back and talk wow. This is the best. Check out the Rockpalast 1983 show. Incredible. A band in the way up. No frills. Just massive energy. Cheers

So true x

Today I realized exactly the same thing.

@@nelliannevanderzee3280 cool 👍

i stopped listening to them last month because before that they really took over all my music aha, i love it but i end up killing it off quite quickly that way! it does not take long before i can come back and have them on repeat all over again

A lot of guys can relate to that lmao

Why did you edit the LOL was the best part

@@morgans.1146 i never realized i subconsciously copied the exact same comment in some other video and i hate it when people steal comments so i changed it

me too

My girlfriend told me that yesterday

Jhonny Marr creo toda la melodia y musica en la banda. Hes is the man!!

Love Forever the Smiths

Aye, here he is! The legend! Will you do a cover of girl afraid?

Look who it is

What does it mean

@Traxxattaxx thanks, I'm really bad at deciphering lyrics

To be honest I love the music. It would be amazing without any vocals

@@jdivision79 lol you're just saying cause Morrissey turned out to be a bitch

@@aniruddhagowda8072 hahahahah

Very few songs get both sides, even fewer get it right

Yes mate , and only about 19 years old!

is*

@@linsayspence7070 that's fucking mad

someone get johnny marr a nobel prize in music

God bless Johnny marr

Good one lol

Good one lol

@@toothyfangface1583 its not a sad song at all...

*Marr

I watched a video on 'music on the brain', it's all about mood centres in the brain and shows how music uplifts you or can make you cry. Soft sounds like mandolins are soothing, some sounds are upbeat and make you feel positive, them there's sad sounds of piano or orchestra that can do both; all linked to memory and emotions. I've worked with patients with dementia and there is strong evidence music is such good therapy. Music is key and essential to life, Morrissey demonstrates this perfectly 🥰

trust me if the feeling is strong embrace the fear briefly, tell them how you feel . Ive been regretting NOT speaking up since like 1980 haha

you and me both. a romance that was all wrong. i will never make that mistake again. i hope you make better choices. i know i have.

I think a lot of people can relate to this song. Relationships go sour like this all the time

Bravo!

Love u

Is this song about a guy who’s too stupid to know the girl he likes likes him back?

@@trips347 too scared*

he says "sat instead" surprisingly

Es el genio de la guitarra además creador de la música y melodía en The Smiths.

Best guitarist ever, atleast his songs with the Smiths. The layering, the shimmering notes, the chord progressions are out of this world, I have yet to hear anything like it.

I fully agree. I've been playing guitar for over 7 years and have progressed a lot through countless hours sitting in my room, practicing classical pieces till my fingers bleed. Every artist i listen to i think that i could have made something like that up. But with johnny mart, his riffs are literally more layered than a novel. The chord progression is so unorthodox at times that it just sounds so out of place which makes it all the more sensational. Cheers from a Smiths fan!

@@oliveravasic He is the closest thing to Bach I've heard from a modern rock artist for sure.

@@oliveravasic And if the chord progressions weren't enough, when Morissey lays down his tracks it just makes many of their songs one of a kind. So emotive.

Same 55 now it's in my car my house

Same 55, and in my bed too

I'm a young lad of 53 compared to you old farts. The Smiths are always on my Bluetooth headphones when I work.

Still going strong since I 1st picked them up in '87. Timeless.

Me too. 54 and still my favourite band ever

But she doesn't even like me!

And I know because she said so.

In the room downstairs she sat and starred.

I'll never make that mistake again !

No.

looks like we're soulmates

what about unlovable and half a person?

@@camusafterworld306 and oscillate wildly! all of them deserve much more attention

Also Rubber Ring

And wonderful woman

Even greater in 2020...any Smith heads out there agree? Raise your hand

Bret Kindell 🙋‍♂️

2020

☝️

Here

As is Girlfriend in a Coma. 😉

they are my favorite band. nobody else sounds like them. they are stand outs, totally original.

Seems very few ppl are ‘with you on this’ - mostly down to the ‘Style of 80’s music’ being tacky, ridiculous and generally dreadful . The Smiths were one of the very few - who didn’t dress up in bloody horrible clothes. Even U2 looked unbelievably uncool in some of the garb they festooned themselves in. Style wise the 80’s was a decade to forget !! Plus it brings back horrific images of Thatcher decimating whole communities by way of the miners - steel industry etc etc. A terrifying time. The threat of nuclear annihilation almost came true with Chernobyl - not good !! Although I personally had a fantastic time - being in a rock group with my mates and living the hedonistic life of a musician was fun in the extreme - the polar opposite of what was happening in the real world. I was lucky to have lived in a beautiful paradox - living exactly how I wanted to live. Basically you can’t beat that way of life. I’m still living the same way today - just a bit slower for preservation... Anyway this was only meant to be short - yet I’ve written a book instead ! Lol. Cheers n Peace !! Rx

​@@RikiNewtonMusicianSongwriter Japan (David Sylvian) dressed up in those clothes. But they were an artistically creative band. Even Morrissey said he liked them. Punk bands also dressed oddly (New York Dolls, Television, The Birthday Party), so it goes to show it's not about how people dress, really (although A-ha and ABBA took that to new lows). However, the abysmal band Queen existed and became prolific in that generation, which in itself makes me want to drop my overall re-collective standard of the 80s down from anything above/on par. Queen destroyed the genuinity in music, in my opinion.

Steve Melendez- it’s called “jangle pop”

@@RikiNewtonMusicianSongwriter80's fashion was far more put together, than the sloppy frumpy shit people, especially girls wear today. In the 80's girls looked sharp just going to the store, today girls wear their pajamas, and don't even brush their hair.

you don't have to miss it it's still here left for us.. :-)

best part 2:49

thanks roberta

Rather than cure me, I found it conspired with the concoction to make me a Smiths maniac.

Agreed mate

“But sheeeeeeee....dooooooesn’t even _like_ meeeeeee! Painfully relatable

from america, welcome to the club of great music.

oh shut up

@decaffeinated african Nerd

@@emmaoswald8043 another pretentious smiths fan ...... kinda cringe..... 😔

@decaffeinated Nope I just like to get people annoying

No. Full stop

Most unique for sure..which sounds even more valuable imho

Brilliant song but this wasn't recorded for a John Peel session.

@@guiltbyimplication yes you're right.

And this is why we are men of culture.

This along with "Handsome Devil"

Heck yes! My favorite song by Marr though it might have to make room for "That Joke isn't Funny Anymore">