The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes (12.07.83)

[RAMLIA1]

Thanks!

[slopoke2112]

There definitely should not be a dislike button for this song. Maybe when you hit it it should shock you with a volt of electricity, at least the 5 dumbasses who hit the dislike button for this song!!!

[ilovemysneakatoke]

@slopoke2112 one volt would do anything.

[sonicfruit420]

i was only 1 yr old and 2mos. when he played on this video, fuckin' amazing!

[duran9418]

This Night Has Opened My Eyes... and I will never sleep again.

Incredible

[lumifer]

Genius the one!

[NoNoseProduction]

I like at 2:37 when Joyce does a bit of a cymbal work Morrissey syncs his fingers. What we call a solid live band if they remember their own music ;D

[InTecknicolour]

The Smiths were indie before indie was hip.

They need to reform and rip shyt up.

[cuntylishus]

@InTecknicolour I think Morrissey's exact words were "I'd rather eat my own testicles" :D

[InTecknicolour]

@cuntylishus shame; he's an icon of the 1980s British music scene.

[granmanati]

she took away your troubles, oh but then again she left pain, bajón

[spiltbluhd]

i got tears in my eyes the first time i heard this song.

[Desimplification]

And I'm never happy and I'm never sad.

love it 2:05

[gemboys3]

Amazing!

[ChaosTitties]

If the smiths were fresh right now like brand new , theyd be even more huge than they are

[alex99fever]

marry meeeee!!!!!!!!! =]

[manthapantha3]

how I love this song! haunting!

[CarolinaContreras90]

Me encanta el audio... tan 80's!!!

VIVA SMITHS... VIVA MOZ

[mamamcqueen]

This has got to be one of the greatest Smiths songs. Morrissey's writing is exquisite.

[albatereza]

morro com essa música, querida demais.

[blechtman]

he has fantastic hair

[JamesGrady2]

he is so graceful and mesmerising to watch

[TheNEWBobDylan]

Thanks for posting. Pure genius.

[geridg]

what's that at 1:20, the view from the kitchen? WTF:)

[aquaskye]

brilliant as ever.....

[k7twenty2]

found out about this song through At The Drive In. Although, I do love this version.

[MrATDI]

This song is absolutely brilliant!! I'm not the biggest smiths fan, bit before my time. Hahaha. If you really like this song listen to a band, At The Drive In's cover you will appreciate it....

[aquaskye]

@MrATDI

their cover is absolute, pure shit.

[IainRockss]

My pet mouse is called Morrissey!!

[sircharliesavior]

lyrically this might be morisseys best work, at least in the smiths. definitely top ten

[IainRockss]

taste of honey.

This is the best song in the world

love you mozza

x

[dermot51]

" the dream is gone but the baby is real" lifted from the screenplay of Shelagh Delaneys "A taste of honey" and given an inspired Morrisseyesque twist

[NoWDivision]

Je ne me lasse pas de jouer ce morceau à la basse : une merveille !

[TheTrancereligious5]

when you fall on your face real hard - that's what I think and how I interpret this song - you stop living in dreams - you wake up

[pbuttandjam]

What a great video, thanks for posting.

[losinghell]

not happy and not sad...

amazing........*_*

[catlover1001]

and lyrics... and voice... and shirts. :)

[catlover1001]

morrisey had the best hair...

[rjg619]

This song was in a movie I saw a while back. It was a dance scene... I wish I could recall the name.

[Zeppelinfan25]

great lyrics...and guitar

[TheFranc77]

they were perfection

[rken23]

One of the best written songs ive ever heard.

[anchorlove06]

everything about this song is perfection.

[iluvmorrissey]

Very well said :) :)

Such a beautiful tune to this song..

[Title27GT]

i hear that man

[anchorlove06]

he knows.

[romarina]

Amazing, he is amazing

[Coonarrr]

what does he say at 1:51. The dream has gone, the " " is real. i know it should be baby. but thats not what he says here.

[plopplop1983]

tragidy

[snakeseed]

i think he says "the crime is real."

i could be wrong.

[wiganowl05]

The child is real.. i think...

[r1e2y4]

This song is one of my favorites. I love how the guitar sounds like a skanky reggae vibe and bass line just takes the lead. Its perfect.

[cubanzombie]

moz is the greatest poet ever.

[psykoosi]

I just had THAT feeling again: My hear is full of The Smiths and of this song in particular, I feel like hugging someone, or running, this music MOVES me too much! I LOVE YOU MR/MRS SMITH! What else can I say?

[rg92173]

mr/mrs smith? he's gay not a transexual.

go hug a cactus.

[psykoosi]

I was talking about THE SMITHS, not MORRISSEY :) And don't you put labels on him!

[losinghell]

listening to the smiths is always like inyecting poetry on your veins

[tugsandtost]

Such a beautiful, loving song.

[simolui]

a shoeless child on a swing

reminds you of your own again...

how can todays writers possibly cope with such lyrics, no chances!!!

[mmyyppaarrttyy]

i love 2:38

[psykoosi]

I watched that part more than ten times, adorable!

[katatmurderhaha]

1:39 wtf? :P

[stoneeyedkiller]

Fantastic. Johnny Marr's guitar riff on this song is pure bliss.

[ohnoeric83]

Fantastic lyrics.

Where did all the song writers go?

[crv110]

Agreed. So much modern music is just crap...

[voziboro]

divine

[utubeisubergay]

i just cant understand how live performences counld go from perfection like this to brittny spears and everyone else lipsinking their own shit.

[juliokingcunt]

Okey i sort of agree but dont talk bad about britnney wtf you try to dance all criographed and sing

[utubeisubergay]

im not saying what spears does is easy, but she is a performer and not an musician. she doesn't write her own music or decide her own dance moves. i doubt she even gets to pick out even the bra that goes with her outfits. so i see her as an actress more than anything else,so her performance should actually be held to a higher standerd. if everything she does can be done masterfully in a Broadway play with plenty of rehearsal, she should be able to do it to " if " she had the talent.

[simolui]

dude she dosent dance she moves... and she actually dosent sing, its playback!!!!!! on her shit concerts!!!!

[k7twenty2]

my favorite performance of this song.

[crv110]

Listen to his voice. This is LIVE! What an amazing thing...

[butcherasdf]

genius

[blockleg]

One of the best Smiths song imo. Thank you very much for the video!

[redlik]

wtf is this purple diamond thing lol

[suparni]

hahahah 80s editing!!! to the max!

[SilentLD]

I haven't seen this clip before thanks for posting a very good live version of a brilliant song

[desasterz]

sounds like Dogherty, pet is heavily influenced by the smiths

[lonelysingingdoll]

....please never compare anyone..or anything close to the smiths

to him.

[rockermask]

@lonelysingingdoll close to smiths or close to morrissey.. he´s just GREAT

[Coonarrr]

@lonelysingingdoll I missed out. comparing to whom?

[manthapantha3]

@Coonarrr To Pete Doherty

[chilly22]

i spit on your pete doherty comparison!

[manthapantha3]

@desasterz He is! so much so he's used some of Morrissey's lyrics in his own songs. total rip off!

[masqeradediva]

@manthapantha3 johnny marr? whatt?!

who....SO CONFUSED

[manthapantha3]

@masqeradediva Nooo, not Jonny Marr, Pete Doherty!!

[dxmlsd]

thank u love this song thanks again :)

[Caligula138]

He never does this song anymore... one of my favorites...

[blotchy67]

Read Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey. . .

[heelfan85]

The dream is gone but the baby is real.

[szzmm]

My favorite. Yet I don't the words either.

To me it sounds like how I might feel after a very important decision that I made.

[Bigscott89]

i think the song is about choices in a horrible situation.

[Larzuthul]

Is this supposed to be a love song? I could never really tell by the lyrics. But the composition of it has that romantic feeling to it.

[Atrix3349]

I always thought it was supposed to be about regret about abortion.

[Larzuthul]

What gave you that idea?

[Atrix3349]

or about giving away (possibly even killing) an unwanted child.

"wrap her up in the news of the world, dump her on a doorstep girl."

"she could have been a poet or she could have been a fool"

"a shoeless child on a swing reminds you of your own again."

you see where its going.

[moznico]

I take it from that perspective atrix3349...because I don't think moz would want his music to be sterotyped to any particular subject anyhow...each to their own I'd say...

[byrnecobain]

Doug Martsch's cover of this song is really good as well.

[spmrulez]

hey thanks for the info. never knew he covered this. found it here on youtube. was introduced to built to spill on HBO's show reverb

[suparni]

The Smiths did not cover this song... they wrote it. See album LOUDER THAN BOMBS.

[spmrulez]

i was replying to byrnecobain...sorry. i reply to someone and it goes to the top of the page. i dont know why

[ord1711]

My fav Smiths song. Johnny Marr's riffs are so freakin sweet on this song.

[NinetiesYouth]

As always

[jimtownresident]

Jeez I wish the cameraperson whould show Marr's fingers so I could figure out how he's playing this...

[itzoccor]

Everybody talsk about Johnny Marr and Morrissey, quite rightly, but I also think the rythmic section (Rourke and Joyce) was outstanding and very powerful and had a massive impact on the Smiths' sound and, ultimately, on their success.

[TheJibs]

I agree, just imagine Morrissey and Marr with some generic sounding rhythm section. It would not be the same. BBC refers to The Smiths as a "front man/guitarist double act". Its a shame that no one seems to notice Mike and Andy.

[dlf4242]

ye but a chimp could do that but not as good and in sinc,work that comment out.

[NinetiesYouth]

Well Mike sucks but Andy's the fuckin man

[rherrick123]

Andy is SO good, so underappreciated. His basslines are just superb.

Barbarism, Charming Man, and Shakespeare's Sister are three incredible basslines that spring to mind.

[karziflora]

Yes he is, my bass hero!!! Rusholme Ruffians, Well I Wonder, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Miserable Lie, The Death of The Disco Dancer, The Queen Is Dead....and every Smiths song. Perfect match to Marr's guitar tunes!

Love u Andy!!!

[gambleZ144]

While its so hard to choose, Andy's performance of This Charming Man @ Versailles really is an eye opener to anyone who doubts his bass abilities. You could say the bass was as even as jangly as Marrs guitar.However, I love the four of them dearly, more than they will ever know.

[Franny96]

thank you

[totoro68er]

L.O.V.E. !!!

[keithabconeill28]

"Rap her up in the 'news of the world'..." Amazing stuff. One of my favorites! It's Johnny Marr's riffs that give it that emotion. Great great song. Timeless!

[BenHudsonBen]

Just should have been a child, or a king, you should know.

[cappstreet89]

when he rings his fingers at 2:38...

I can't even begin to explain how great he is

[chrisah210]

i do agree it is so funny i love this song so much

[cappstreet89]

Morrissey is the greatest. EVER.

[anchpio]

He is such a wonderful eccentric

[ThisiswhyIlikeyou]

Mozzer's hair as at it's most fantastic here...look at that fluff! Excellent rendition of this sad song, although Moz kind of ruins the mood a little with the smirk at 1:30-1:36. He gets it under control before the next agonized groan. Something was obviously humerous in the audience. He does not sing in this low register anymore, ah the old days, we miss you, Smiths.

[SWAC424]

"I'm never happy and I'm never sad..."

[sheepthroat]

classic moz,a shoeless child on a swing.

[markeeledge]

Great song. One of their best. But don't you just hate it when somebody degrades the audio so much on a music video!!! Sort It out!!! FOOL!

[Mrbungleface]

First time i heard this song.... my jaw dropped... such powerful lyrics.....

[mozzyboy01]

"Wrap her up in the news of the world"

Wonderful lyrics

[KintrickPinch]

3rd richard&judy

[traductor]

1st marr&morrissey

2nd lennon&mccartney

[VenusInFurs3]

hermosa cancion... como me fascina, bendito youtube....

chingoneria

[mozzalini30]

let us debate

[amadeuswags]

My favorite song!

[tkmat]

incredible. hes my favorite singer, and live.. my god. best voice live EVER

[ajaakola]

very debatable

[AMinorThr3at]

Opinions aren't debatable. That's like saying almond snickers are better than peanut snickers. It's opinion. Damn.

[freddtrrre]

to everyone writing about Morrissey, good for you to belong and beleive in something - that something being Morrissey - but, please save your life; you've only got one....

[bargainmom]

One of my favorite songs ever. So sad, beautiful imagery, and very touching.

[albertcat31]

I know it's stupid to say this, or at least nonsense, but please, smiths, come back, even if you don't make any new album. Just go on tour.. We need you.. I need you

[martianware]

Reminds me of a great and happy time in my life when the summer was hot and I thought "God, yes, someone is thinking the same way as I am". Awesome

[SIHELL]

GOOD SHIT

[MOZZASSY]

classic smiths!! i love this!!

[cirEgnimrahC]

so many memories with song.... good and bad.

[gabbie72]

Beauty..! "and I'm not happy and I'm not sad" I love it, and just the way he changes lyrics, he drives me CRAZY..! (I promise you suparni, I'll never write stuff like "he's mine") LoL!!

[suparni]

Thanks Gabbie. I much prefer your tint of poetic cuckoo expression in the comments. That kgis posted the same "Morrissey is Mine" on about 100 of my channels videos again and again like a nutter with no vocabulary... that was the first and only person I have ever BLOCKED> but you rock on with your dramtic love letter posts. It was the psycho repetitive caveman half sentence poster that bugged me with 100 of the same post like a spammer. I hate that spamming attitude.

[lizard0323]

mr morrisey rules

[PeculiarChameleon]

I love this song.

[PeculiarChameleon]

I love this song.

[QPRLAD86]

The most underrated Smiths song IMHO

[kgis17]

MORRISSEY IS MINE!!!!!!!!

[suparni]

ahh many of us wish that... but as he puts it "I am mine" and Morrissey definitely is his own man... and so true to that and authentic in it that he is still fresh and best music has to offer today.

[XxLeahwxX]

we get it Karen lol!

[MozSweens]

I named my son after him

[dawndelver]

could of done without the random diamond frame thing. heart stealing/brakeing beautiful song. *cries*

[k7twenty2]

both versions give me that nice tingly feeling inside my brain. like endorphins being poured into my brain

[Mavarik]

i have ATDIs version and i was thinking it didnt sounds like there orig song so i looked and found out it was the smiths

both versions are amazing

[dennislixzen16]

great song

[bigbalko]

Thx to At the Drive-In for introducing this awesome song to me.

[andrian1987]

only morrissey can write a song about abortion that sounds so sweet.

[zemisha]

how can you even think this is not smiths ??

they do not have any cover of any band

and tehre are thousands of bands with covers of them ...

[timnosuke]

P.S. In fact, Marr has cited Morrissey's obsession of covering 60's singers, such as 'Cilla Black' (more famous for my generation (I was born in 1971) for hosting the tacky but watchable match making TV show'Blind Date'!) as a reason why he unfortunately wanted to leave The Smiths...

[stillilllife]

Yes, they do have that.

[dawndelver]

this song brakes my heart

[bargainmom]

Dawn, this is a very heartbreaking song! Does't Moz just look GORGEOUS in his skinny youth days?

[flowerlike42]

Yes..such wit and beauty and voice and kindness in the same person...how not love him ? ?

[njavieradcv]

best song ever

[nikolazrble2]

great song, just loved it.

[ferrell]

LOL @ 2:38.

Love it!

[njavieradcv]

uhh buenisima rola! me encantó...

[khoury1600]

"imitation is the highest form of flattery." i find it amusing that folks don't read songwriting credits before assuming a song is original. the same thing happens a lot with Hip Hop because of 'sampling' and when you introduce the original song to those who didn't know any better, there's that look of surprise and disappointment that their favorite artist did not create the masterpiece. This is definitely a Smiths track!!

[ncmahan]

ariel pink's version is the definitive cover

[Beatlefan8]

nope. At The Drive-In's is.

But that's my opinion.

[Jesustheanti]

i didnt like at the drive in's version and nither are as good as Moz and Marr did it

[spleengrrrl]

of course it's a smiths song!

[NoRomancelnChina2]

uhm, this is a smiths song, it's the b-side to one of their singles, and it appears on hatful of hollow, case closed.

[Mardyfella]

Yes. Case closed.

[Claymore2007]

at the drive in didn't exist as a band when this was written. They covered it. they did a damn good job of it too, but they didn't write it.

[joemad]

beautiful. love the atdi version better personally. is this a smiths original or a cover? I ask since this song isnt on any original smiths record