The Smiths 'This Charming Man'
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I definitely had a Smiths phase, love this song but it also makes me think of the comedy Early Doors - I think you’re the only reactors that would really get that, it’s incredibly dry
Kieran B
2025-07-22 18:48:50 +0000 UTCGreat reaction guys. As someone born pretty much after The Smiths were together, I think most of us go through a 'Smiths Phase' when growing up. Nice to see thats extended to your lads!
Daz Parker
2025-07-20 09:02:43 +0000 UTCThis is one of my favourites! You should check out girlfriend in a coma, ask and how soon is now! 3 of their best in my opinion.
Ryan Naylor
2025-07-20 05:06:06 +0000 UTCPlease react to more of there music this is very upbeat song, listen to There is a Light and it Never Goes Out it's great!
Ryan Totney
2025-07-19 20:48:24 +0000 UTCFantastic song from a great band. Released the year I was born. Definitely seems more timeless than many songs released that year!
Ash Jeffries
2025-07-19 12:21:03 +0000 UTCBrilliant band, they have some more classics worth checking out.
BrizeeB
2025-07-19 12:08:26 +0000 UTCThat's funny, I started liking him more with his anti-immigration rhetoric. Also, being anti-apartheid is not incompatible with being against mass immigration, they are two separate topics - well, unless you classify anyone who voices concerns about mass immigration as a drooling racist, which you obviously do.
Alexander Bond
2025-07-19 10:50:23 +0000 UTCJust ANOTHER brilliant British band, my goodness how does this tiny island keep producing music time and time again
buster
2025-07-19 09:36:49 +0000 UTCI was lucky enough to see them live, in 1984, at the Tower Ballroom, Birmingham (England as opposed to Alabama)
Wheaty
2025-07-19 09:31:24 +0000 UTC"Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?"
White Dwarf
2025-07-19 08:44:47 +0000 UTCJohnny Marr 🔥🔥
Mr Snrub
2025-07-19 08:41:05 +0000 UTCCould you make yourselves bigger on the screen?
Josh Read
2025-07-19 08:23:35 +0000 UTCI have a really complicated history with The Smiths: I loved them back in the 80s, they spoke to the lonely, disenfranchised teenage boy in his bedroom,; Johnny Marr's jangly guitars always at odds with Morrissey's arch, often dour, lyrics they were just the right mix of hope and despair (or, at least, yearning), their anti-capitalist stance, a middle finger to Thatcherism, greed and all things corporate fed me politically. I was genuinely upset when they split, I had already seen them play live twice (once at Wood's Leisure Centre in Colchester and once at the Ipswich Gaumont), but had missed their final gig at Brixton Academy because I had pneumonia. That love became indifference then anger when Morrissey began voicing his anti-immigration rhetoric, his support for far-right political movements and songs like Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want were co-opted by Trump and MAGA. Ironic, really, that that final gig was played out under the banner of Artists Against Apartheid. I still follow the career of Johnny Marr, a man who still has the integrity to turn down a lucrative paycheck for a couple of reunion concerts, but Morrissey? Morrissey can go eff himself. Rant over, sorry.
Andy Oliver
2025-07-19 08:16:14 +0000 UTCIt was a big part of the film ‘500 Days of Summer’. A Guilty pleasure movie
Mark
2025-07-19 07:49:47 +0000 UTCRough trade!
Ben Dunning
2025-07-19 07:49:46 +0000 UTCLabel?
Captain Cardboard
2025-07-19 07:17:38 +0000 UTCThere Is a Light That Never Goes Out is my personal favourite. Perfection.
Steve Cox
2025-07-19 07:07:05 +0000 UTCGreat song, great reaction, memories of a simpler time….
Paul
2025-07-19 06:50:03 +0000 UTCA couple of more modern Morrisey songs which I think you might like are the upbeat 'First of the gang to die' and the mellow 'Come back to Camden'
Simon Cross
2025-07-19 06:49:28 +0000 UTCPEEP SHOW next please! I just wanna see Jess CRINGE!!! :-)
Dandelion
2025-07-19 06:42:59 +0000 UTCSuedehead is a Morrissey solo song!
Spencer Chou
2025-07-19 06:17:23 +0000 UTCMorrisey would swing the gladioli around (though some argue these were daffodils). The Smiths have so many great songs, Suedehead being one of my favourites.
John Laverty
2025-07-19 06:13:29 +0000 UTCTop band, only 4 true studio albums but genuinely over 60 good tracks, many great.
Jason
2025-07-19 06:13:24 +0000 UTCMicky: "A pearl necklace?"
Terrahawk
2025-07-19 06:07:14 +0000 UTC
