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https://www.wacoca.com/media/755489/ ジョニー・マー、“There Is A Light That Never Goes Out”について新たな発見があったと語る #JohnnyMarr #music #NEWS #TheSmiths #音楽
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🇬🇧 The Smiths "The World Won't Listen" – 1987
One of those compilations that hardly feels like a compilation at all. Bringing together singles, B-sides and selected album tracks, it offers an extraordinary snapshot of The Smiths at the height of their creativity...
#thesmiths #alternative #indie #indierock #janglepop #80smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinning #nowlistening
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How Soon Is Now - Johnny Marr Live At The Crazy Face Factory
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The bit that you skip #177: The Smiths – How Soon is Now?
A song with a strange lifecycle. Originally a B-side to William it was really nothing, How Soon is Now? carved a place of its own on indie darlings and their mixtapes. A song that you could dance alone to, specially if you were as terminally shy as the narrator. Sonically, it’s a far stride from what The Smiths were peddling. Jangly guitars, tambourine, and a slightly distant mixing now were replaced by studio trickery, tremolos, and a slick production.
Nothing wrong on both styles of The Smiths. They can coexist. The styles, not the band, though.
Always feels weird how so many classic bands like Joy Division, The Beatles, and The Smiths had songs with major appeal that weren’t on albums. Sure, the US edition of Meat is Murder has How Soon is Now? but for the United Kingdom, it was there, sandwiched between William it was really nothing and Please, please, please let me get what I want (at least on the 12 inch edition).
I was too young to “get” The Smiths when they were on radio. And to be honest, I think I was too much into The Cure or Depeche Mode to go for the poetic intimacy of The Smiths. What piqued my interest was Love Spit Love’s deft cover for The Craft, a movie almost all Gen Xer was attracted due to its cast and college radio friendly soundtrack.
Then This is England had Clayhill’s heartwrenching cover of Please Please Please let me get what I want. Then I really paid attention to The Smiths. It finally sink to me its importance. I remember going a few times to The Cookie Club in Nottingham on the gothic night, seeing people happily dancing by themselves listening to great tracks and not a single time was How Soon is Now? spared from being on the playlist.
I’ve mentioned before that you can accumulate a pile of “I’ll listen/read/watch later” stuff in your life and I know it’s unreasonable to believe you’ll be able to consume all of it. But start today, do a little bit. A page or two. An episode or two. Half an hour (or an act). A couple of songs. Never get stuck into a rut, listen to something new today, even if it was released decades ago. You won’t regret expanding your tastes.
-Sam J. Valdés López
https://youtu.be/hnpILIIo9ek?si=IF1lYf2SSm_-KpWs
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The Smiths, How Soon is Now? (Maxi-Single), 1984 on Sire
This is a US pressing of the 12" single, with a "Long Version" on the A-side and an edited shorter version on the B-Side, both of which are different than (or "different to" as they say in the UK) the UK 7" single version. One of my favorite Smiths songs of all time - that sound Marr gets on his guitar in the opening was a key touchstone of the 80s. I was happy to find this 12" single version at Mystery Train in Gloucester MA. Love the cover photo, which feels like it could have been me and […]https://goatless.org/2026/06/24/the-smiths-how-soon-is-now-maxi-single-1984-on-sire
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The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
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#Außenseiter erobern den #Pop: Mit #Wut, #Ironie und verletzlicher #Poesie prägen #TheSmiths ein #Album, das bis heute als eines der größten der #Musikgeschichte gilt.
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#Außenseiter erobern den #Pop: Mit #Wut, #Ironie und verletzlicher #Poesie prägen #TheSmiths ein #Album, das bis heute als eines der größten der #Musikgeschichte gilt.
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#Außenseiter erobern den #Pop: Mit #Wut, #Ironie und verletzlicher #Poesie prägen #TheSmiths ein #Album, das bis heute als eines der größten der #Musikgeschichte gilt.
https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/zeitzeichen/zeitzeichen-the-smiths-queen-dead-100.html -
#Außenseiter erobern den #Pop: Mit #Wut, #Ironie und verletzlicher #Poesie prägen #TheSmiths ein #Album, das bis heute als eines der größten der #Musikgeschichte gilt.
https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/zeitzeichen/zeitzeichen-the-smiths-queen-dead-100.html -
#Außenseiter erobern den #Pop: Mit #Wut, #Ironie und verletzlicher #Poesie prägen #TheSmiths ein #Album, das bis heute als eines der größten der #Musikgeschichte gilt.
https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/zeitzeichen/zeitzeichen-the-smiths-queen-dead-100.html -
‘If you thought the Smiths were boring, you weren’t at our Irish gigs’ – The Irish Times
During an imperial career from 1983 until 1987, The Smiths reigned supreme as the most revered British band…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #andy-rourke #AU #Australia #Entertainment #johnnymarr #mike-joyce #morrissey #sinead-oconnor #thesmiths
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‘If you thought the Smiths were boring, you weren’t at our Irish gigs’ – The Irish Times
During an imperial career from 1983 until 1987, The Smiths reigned supreme as the most revered British band…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #andy-rourke #AU #Australia #Entertainment #johnnymarr #mike-joyce #morrissey #sinead-oconnor #thesmiths
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“… Oh mother, I can feel
The soil falling over my head
See, the sea wants to take me
The knife wants to slit me
Do you think you can help me?” -
"William, It Was Really Nothing" is a song by the English #rock band #theSmiths. It was released as a single in August 1984, featuring the B-sides "#PleasePleasePleaseLetMeGetWhatIWant" and "#HowSoonIsNow", and reached No. 17 in the #UKSinglesChart. The song is featured on the compilation albums #HatfulOfHollow and #LouderThanBombs, as well as other best of and singles collections. In 2004.
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"William, It Was Really Nothing" is a song by the English #rock band #theSmiths. It was released as a single in August 1984, featuring the B-sides "#PleasePleasePleaseLetMeGetWhatIWant" and "#HowSoonIsNow", and reached No. 17 in the #UKSinglesChart. The song is featured on the compilation albums #HatfulOfHollow and #LouderThanBombs, as well as other best of and singles collections. In 2004.
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The Smiths, The World Won’t Listen, 1987 on Rough Trade
This is a compilation album—the second of three—including singles and b-sides from 1985-1987. Most of these tracks also appear on Louder Than Bombs (a 2xLP), but two are different versions and two are edits.
Fantastic collection of songs, including “Panic,” “Ask,” “Bigmouth Strikes Again,” “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,” “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore,” and “You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby.”
What teenager hasn’t felt “And I’ve got no right to take my place in the human race . . . “?
My copy—via a record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA—is a UK issue from 1987, pressed by MPO. (Louder than Bombs was released in the US in lieu of this record, which was not released on vinyl in the US until the 2011 reissue series).
#1980s #1987 #AndyRourke #JohnnyMarr #LowellMA #MikeJoyce #MillNo5 #morrissey #RoughTrade #TheSmiths #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
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The Smiths, Strangeways Here We Come, 1987 on Rough Trade.
Fourth (and final) studio album from The Smiths, produced by Stephen Street, Morrissey, and Johnny Marr and recorded at The Wool Hall in Beckington, Somerset. On constant repeat in my late 80s experience.
Strangeways was a prison in Manchester (now Manchester Prison) – The Smiths had previously used the Salford Lad’s Club for the cover of The Queen is Dead.
My copy—via A1 Records in NYC—is the 2009 Rhino reissue which sounds great (though I don’t have an 80s pressing to compare it to).
#1980s #1987 #2009 #A1Records #JohnnyMarr #morrissey #NYC #Reissue #Rhino #RoughTrade #Salford #StephenStreet #TheSmiths #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
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Hoy descubrí este cover de «How Soon is Now?» de The Smiths hecho por una banda llamada Snake River Conspiracy, a quienes tampoco conocía. Me gustó harto, así que se va mi playlist de covers.
#SnakeRiverConspiracy #HowSoonIsNow #TheSmiths #Covers #Rock #Música
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I knew there must have been a reason that the first song I chose for #FridayRockShow today just happened to be #HowSoonIsNow by #TheSmiths
Did I have a gut feeling about this? I'd not seen/heard any news site at all today... Was out all morning until at least 2pm.
So here it is again
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Not done #FridayRockShow for ages... and it's not really gonna be rock today either... but #choons from my youth all the same.
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It's like The Smiths without Morrissey:
How Soon Is Now - Johnny Marr Live At The Crazy Face Factory - Invidious
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=mY8eKQFyRJk
