this charming man.

[inudude15]

I'm all for covers, but if you're gonna redo or re-envision someone's lyrics, shouldn't you at least try to get them right? Both of DCFC's Smiths covers are lyrically wrong, and honestly they're both so bad they've kind of turned me off from DCFC almost entirely, and I used to like them.

[BaskingInTheRain]

disgrace

ah

[FattyHeartsTV]

Jesus christ what a god awful cover. Not only did they screw up the intro, they completely butchered the lyrics. Also, boring voice = shitty cover.

I like these guys, too, but wow. Just embarrassing.

[sorocabasampabrasil]

trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

[PaiganGibbons]

the original is 1000000000000x better than this.

[Eoinposse]

One of my favourite bands covering one of my favourite bands.

[electriclimits]

yeah, this version is way better IMO. less reverb...

[Mossy101010]

doesn't hold a candle to the original...

[JamesMakesGoodPlop]

This is the worst cover I've ever heard.

Super3426 you don't have what you're on about, don't be a cock.

[GnomesAmok]

@JamesMakesGoodPlop

youre a fucking moron, the cover is different but doesnt mean its bad, dont be a fucking asshole, how about that, shmuckface? i think this is better because death cab kills it.

[super3426]

wow i cant even imagine you could say that this is worse the Smiths version. First of all the smiths who? They are just another 80s band. The smiths are one the reasons that 80s music was bad and they are lucky they influenced one band and a great one like death cab.

[RenxRen13]

@super3426

THUMBS DOWN!!

The Smiths were incredible, are still incredible, and will always be incredible. There's no way on the planet that this could be better than the original.

[keroine9]

Butchery.

[wwdONELOVEallday2]

yes, they totally ruined a perfectly AWESOME song. fuck man

[Yaygens]

no noo f this morrisey sings it way better

[twiki2099]

i love death cab and i love the smiths :D

[SergeLktrRckr]

it's a weird cover....i think break the sexy charm of the song!!!

[a4l1l0i]

i like this version a whole lot better than the original version by the smiths..

[JODQ11]

i used to do videos like this (:

[munthank]

Well they managed to totally ruin this song.

[tyrone199]

DCFC:

This man said it's crucial

That someone so handsome should care

SMITHS:

This man said "It's gruesome that someone so handsome should care"

It's like reciting a poem...but changing it. tut

[barneysixx]

totally changed the meaning of the lyrics

it supposed to be a statement from the guy with the car that he shouldnt care if he doesnt have nice clothes because he's handsome enough

[tyrone199]

DCFC:

I'm just a country-boy

Who never knew his place

He said return the ring

SMITHS:

A jumped up pantry boy

Who never knew his place

He said "return the ring"

[tyrone199]

DCFC:

On two bicycles

On a hillside desolate

Could nature make a man of me yet?

SMITHS:

A punctured bicycle

On a hillside desolate

Will nature make a man of me yet ?

[tyrone199]

Why did they change the lyrics...?

[HumanJarv]

Oh dear, no charm, no Johnny Marr.

This is making me cringe..

[Blue7869]

ughh. this is awful. i like death cab, but this is just.. horrible.

[rifft69]

is this really death cab, different singer or something?

[XxMacarenaMayhemxX]

its death cab.

[joewalsh101]

I really, really, really love this version. Just something about it.

[sfscdsgigi36]

i know right a lot of people hate this version but i love it

[wowlovely4]

i love death cab for cutie and the smiths :)

[pfp217]

I could really care less if Morrissey is gay, if he's not he's got it planned out. The Dead or Live fruitcake is a fucking weirdo, that's neither here nor there. Why do you insist on dying on this "month old post" thing. Get a life

[thedaylightagency]

apparantly in the cd booklet, deathcab explains that they feel like asses for getting the lyrics so wrong

maybe they should've learned the fucking lyrics before doing a cover.

morons.

[djboony]

these "death cab" guys just dont understand the original.

there into american things, just leave em alone and they mite cheer up.

proper shite version thos, truely awful.

[Humboldter]

nice version...the vocals are almost verbatim...relax uber-smithnerds!!

[drunkenirsh420]

goddamn it you're a moron."verbatim" ?to consider this good is tantamount to desecration, a fucking blasphemy.Fuck you.

[Humboldter]

first of all i made this comment like a monthe ago (wat a loser YOU for replyin to such and old comment lmfao!!) YOU NEED MORE OF THE 420 AND LESS OF THE DRUNKENESS!! VERBATIM IS ACCURATE DESCRIP OF LYRICS NOT MUSIC!!! research yourseld you drunk bastard!!

[pfp217]

Seriously, you're gonna take the guy to task cause he responded to a month old post? I'll apologize for him, sorry he isn't an internet queer who has nothing better to do than respond to someone trying to make excuses for this sorry attempt at covering one of the greats.

If they wanted to rewrite the song with their cutsy little changes, they should write their own songs with their own gay lyrics...oh wait, they already do!

[Humboldter]

I'll apologize for him, sorry he isn't an internet queer who has nothing better to do than respond to someone trying to make excuses for this sorry attempt at covering one of the greats.

aplogize for who?? wat the hell are u even talkin about, i get email for some nerd (assholeBTW) who responds to MY MONTH OLD POST and now you take ME to task???wow!

[pfp217]

Hey wait, 4 hours is entirely too long to respond to my Youtube comments, don't be a nerd, only nerds aren't sitting and waiting for an e-mail to respond.

[drunkenirsh420]

you called me a bastard when replying to me, now I'm asshole?thanx

[drunkenirsh420]

you fucking prick, the lyrics aren't even verbatim.even if I were drunk or stoned, I wouldn't be able to listen to this shit.

[Humboldter]

ill say wat i said in another comment: its 2008 (21st century) The Smiths broke up when?? oh yeah '87!?!? And morrisey is still in the closet and i just heard "everybodoy loves sunday" in a fukin NFL commerical THE SMITHS WERE AN ALL TIME AMAZING BAND......so wat next?? Give these guys a break for their atteampt at covering the greats....jeeez oh btw ONLY NERD REVIEW MONTH OLD POSTS AND THEN make himself appear as an asshole (look it up everyone its wat all this dickhead does LOSER!!!!

[pfp217]

So, with that logic, you're saying, since it was way back in 87, it's not ok for us to say this is complete fucking garbage and they never should've wrote it,BUT it IS ok for some queer emo dork posers to cover it!!?? HA , are you shitting me?

Let's get something else straight, Morrissey has got it down better than any straight guy on Earth with the asexual rubbish, have you been to a show? All those chicks throwing roses and themselves at him? You're nuts to think he's a homo....homo!

[Humboldter]

so becuase women like him hes not gay?? wat about that dead or alive bullshit...asexual stil?? its fukin 2008 ya know the 21st century?? come out of the closet already !! omfg too funny ...yeah women just HATE homoesexuals lmfao!!! oh and btw....im not waiting for e-mails...at work i leave my messenger service open so when i get nerds who respon to fukin month old posts..i get notified right away...like i said 21st century...crazy huh??

[ARTYFARTYKATE]

They know the actual lyrics, there turning it into there own versions. God are you people idiots.

[damienmetalwind]

Wait, they had a good song and took the extra effort to make it bad (you really have to try to mess it up), and WE'RE idiots because we noticed that and you didn't?

They destroyed all the archaic language and homosexual subtext of the original. They even did away with the blatant references to lonliness.

This cover did away with everything that was intresting in the original and left the listeners with a boring experience. Good work Death Cab./sarcasm.

[thegoodusernameman]

Ha nice couldn'a said it better myself man, they "made it their own" in the most uninspired, unoriginal, and half-assed way. I mean on every level (particularly the talent and technical ability levels) these guys are amateurs, which I wouldn't have any problem with if they didn't happen to drift into my awareness via a cover of one of my favorite songs. I stick to my opinion, BLASPHEMY!

[slunk170388]

its a cover, get over it!

[damienmetalwind]

Pee on my leg and call it spring rain...

It'll still be unpleasant.

[pfp217]

Do they? Cause if they did, they probably wouldn't have fucked with em. Leave it to some shitty new school emo fags to fuck things up..how does "pontoon bicycle" make this song better, even Morrissey would beat their ass for this blasphemy. I hope your black eyeliner runs out.

[thegoodusernameman]

I'm sorry but to actually prefer, or even compare this drivel to the Smiths' masterpiece of a song, you'd have to be lobotomized. I mean he plays the intro riff WRONG. Fair enough don't do a cover the exact same as the original, BUT PLAY THE FUCKING PARTS RIGHT! Then, after the intro, the whole thing speeds up by a couple BPM. The band, whether you like them or not, are hardly the Experience now in terms of musicianship are they. Like. Holy fuck. Fucking terrible amateruish shite. An insult.

[ARTYFARTYKATE]

Get over yourself, your being pretentious. The smiths version is better but fucking sit down, shut up and listen to the greatness that is DCFC!, i've never heard a better cover.

[thegoodusernameman]

Piss off I'll voice my opinion on these talentless wanks if I like.

[pfp217]

I second, especially the wanks part. You new school emo turds are so into the fashion, that the music isn't there anymore...this is no exception...if I ever see the phrase greatness, and DCFC in the same sentence I'll sue you dumb fucks for libel, cause that's a big fat fucking lie!

[drunkenirsh420]

amen although if I heard that I'd either lynch the sorry bastards, gouge their eyes out and feed it back to them or disembowlment and that's just for starters

[drewbud315]

It's just cause he doesn't know the lyrics.

Crap cover.

[IchigoUzamaki2098]

im pretty sure if they were planning to do a cover they would take the extra 10 seconds to look up the lyrics.. and if you actually know the lyrics its easy to tell what hes saying, i like this version better.

[returnofbhavar99]

ah this guy changed the lyrics a bit..anyways it isnt bad... Stars did a much better cover

[qwerty1556]

I dunno why they would tweak the lyrics, but I still appreciate the cover.

It's very energetic and charged. A lotta' drive.

The video is interesting, I guess. But too many silly effects.

[zoggy9]

this cover is crap

[marokokisetter]

death cab is solid and original in their own right

but this cover blows

:-D

[sugarplumfairy1]

This is terrible.

THE SMITHS FOR LIFE!!!!!!

[exohexRuth]

Wooow.

Over 5,000 views, 44 comments, and still...no one has commented about how AWESOME my acting in this is!?

Hah.

p.s. I actually kind of like this cover...

*don't shoot* :/

[TykoEaston]

this version lacks intelligence. the lyric changes are useless, the drum is repetive and childish, and it overall gives a bad impression of a band that's very good. good thing not too many people know about this cover

[damienmetalwind]

Why change so many lyrics? That's just unnecessary. It makes me think that they listened to the song once before recording it.

Bad and insulting to a great lyricist.

[opprime1]

listen to the original.

[RedLight00]

I like these lyrics better than the original, to be honest.

[SmartAlex13]

I FUCKING HATE YOU

[hannah90974]

Ruined a great song!

Should be ashamed!

[bakedAsPie]

Actually, I think this is a energized and interesting take on this song. Nothing to be ashamed of really. On the other hand. If you want a good song ruined, try Fall Out Boy's attempt at Love Will Tear Us Apart. THAT'S something to be ashamed of. Death Cab's vers. of Charming Man is jumpy and electric. I like it. TO THE VIDEO: Pretty good! You should take more pictures next time, to help with the flow. But I really liked it.:)

[franciswatters]

Death cab can go crawl into a hole and die

how dare they bring shame to such a good song.

[Shoegal2]

oh ok....well good effort I suppose, but I still dont like it :-(

maybe its a grower????

[TrashFlavoredCo]

Ben Gibbard wrote on You Can Play These Songs with Chords that he has a "bad habit of not learning the song's proper lyric before chris hits the record button." He didn't mean to change the lyrics, he's just human and flubbed a little. Plus he was focusing on doing his best Morrissey impression, give the guy a break. The song's still cool, the lyrics just aren't perfect, so calm down purists. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[pfp217]

Awe Ben I'm sorry, but to be candid, your Morrissey sounds like complete shit, kinda like your re-write of the lyrics.

[Shoegal2]

2 bicycles? Im just a country boy?? Its crucial??? I dont get it....why change the lyrics? I like Death Cab just not their version of this song.

[damienmetalwind]

Maybe they're homophobic? The song is no longer about an isolated man seduced by a passing motorist. There are 2 people isolated together trying to get laid. The immaturity of the situation is emphasized by the added vanity that "it's crucial" for handsome people to be well dressed.

I don't even know why I'm thinking about this. They changed everything that made the song great--the charm of archaic language, the "gruesomeness" of vanity, the lonliness and desperation that lead to realization.

[hrdrockgrrl]

Well said. You summed up everything that was bugging me about this cover.

[pfp217]

come on....Morrissey is a-sexual!

Besides, they can't be homophobic, this cover proves it, it's VERY GAY!

[drunkenirsh420]

haha Fuck Death Cab

[silveryknight]

Jesus H. Christ! How dare they?! Can no one leave a sacred song alone? What the fuck is next? Suffer Little Children?!!...

[ashenkudo]

I think Morrisey warbles a bit too much, at least in this version you don't have to look up the lyrics, thats why everybody noticed the difference. Overall I think its a decent cover but I guess people just don't like change.

[TrueHardcore90]

Absolute, fucking dog shit.

You can't improve on perfection.

[carefree95]

Terrible.

If your going to cover, don't change the lyrics! If you've got something to express write your own song!!!!

[curiousmel]

"2" BICYCLES?!?!?!??!

IDIOT, It's "PUNCTURED"

[sltr1]

the new lyrics don't make any sense due to the song being particularly british, but I thought it was quite good.

[stoneroadster]

good try lads but leave it to the smiths find the music that suits you all noone can recreate marr he is so unique

[anonymice14]

OMG.

*dies*

Why cover this song anyway?

Why try to improve on perfection? XD

Killed it...

[Choffeloffeboffe]

I like this cover. The lyrics are all fucked up, the intro aswell, the singing is kind off gay. But still I like it. It's not meant to be played as the original. They've made a few changes and they did their own version. So please, fuck off with the "SUCKY COVER"-BULLSHIT!

[XX12music34XX]

NO DEATH CAB. WHY?!?!?!

This is the most disgusting cover I've heard.

I love death cab. I love the smiths.

But they are better separated.

wahhhh. i need to listen to the smiths now.

[norhamdan1985]

haha...this is retarded smiths cover.

the intro guitar riff is so so so wrong.

[NoraGary]

wtf is this? what a showcase of lack of talent..

[mikeys11]

What a horrible rendition of a classic. Someone should put these guys out of their collective miseries.

[26004]

all i'm saying is shite compared to the smiths

[ellieefish]

This song is TERRIBLE compared to the original!

[Tobie1327]

Agreed! Morrisey's voice is just incomparable.

[curiousmel]

Eww, I like Death Cab, Buthis was Definitely a big mistake. It sounds HORRIBLE. AND WHAT'S UP WITH THE LYRICS?@?!

Also, Jerk54 is an idiot, I bet you're on eof those fucking kids who doesn't listen to anything but Screamo Like Stupid Saosin and shit.

Society Spits on you.

[puppeteers420]

i do have to say the smiths version is way better and smoother... this is to crashy and choppy, i dont like it very much

[neckface123]

wow... this sucks

[fLuNkZ]

A bit guitary in a dustbin! but 8/10 not bad !!!!!never be a patch on The Smiths tho,dream on yankee doodles yeee haaaaa!!!!!

[roodye]

rawly shit.

[MitchGambino]

These new Death Cab For Cutie lyrics don't even make sense.

[Meddlepat]

I like the cover but I have to wonder how Ben fucked up the lyrics.

[djboony]

because he sdoesnt understand the original.

[joewalsh101]

i actuaklly like the cover, but not the video too much

[ThatCrazedGirl]

This is very annoying. I love the smiths...and this is murdering one of my fave songs. It hasnt got the nice melody...its all bangy crashy. Tsssshk.

[toasterbobrocks]

OMG! this version sucks arse, it's killing the song...

[Stinger911]

What a murdering of the lyrics...

[jerk54]

fuck you, it's WAY better than the smiths

[emptyspaces]

Are you retarded?....Death Cab destroyed this song.

[MrBritish01]

hahahaha seeing as they didnt write it and they cocked up th lyrics thats the most ridiculous opinion ive heard in some time i meen his band is one of those bands which will be completely forgotten in some years the smiths will always be great

[djboony]

who are you! who are you! who are you!

shut up shlowmo!

[afrakabob]

video = hey, better than i could do.

but damnit, ben gibbard, you sang the lyrics all wrong!

[jd1801]

cool video!