Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me

[Castile100]

Magnificent! One of my absolute fave songs by this band. They were wonderful.

[boggedmaffus]

SLFMARTIN this was the 70's . . .

[pebbleintheunivers23]

You see Devoto's meaning of this song when you're 'peaking' on 100 freshly-picked.

[G0IFI]

Devoto's vocals were well suited to this sinister, dark sound, much more than the cute pop-punk sound of the Buzzcocks.That's not to say 'Spiral Scratch' isn't one of the best EPs of the 70s, it's the early Manchester punk sound at its finest. Had Magazine formed two years later with this sound they'd have been bigger, much bigger. Kids weren't quite ready for this in 78.

[SLFMARTIN]

This music is dark, the 80`s were dark, i grew up in the dark, i love the dark :-]

[siarung]

johnny mac on guitar(sigh)the best ever...RIP kid ,we'll never hear the same again

[debruno55]

Brilliant track from a brilliant group of post-punk legends.

[faceinembryo]

crucial in development of post punk

[tigerhorsefield]

looking back,..this was cool as fk.

[heavydutydudes]

post punk no junk

[Cordero787]

Tremendo, Howard Devoto es un puro genio!

[xyaqua]

devoto

quasi-diety

never popular, always crucial.

[Mehello987]

does anyone know how to play the bass for this song?? i cant find a tab anywhere

[SEYMORDICK]

@Mehello987 ....just figure it out...thats what we used to do before the net

[brookbart]

@SEYMORDICK i KNOW LOL ... I did the guitar parts recently and my husband played bass becuase we covered it with our band and then I checked the "tabs" later and I was like WTF?? Didn't make any sense to me and our version sounded just fine. I just watched him in the video too which actually helps. I had only seen him (JMcG) with Banshees and not with magazine.

[pebbleintheunivers23]

@Mehello987 - a tab might help, I suppose.

[thunderferretsarego]

if you have come across this and like the guitar playing. Check out ju ju by souixsie and the banshees. When it comes to atmospheric soundscape guitar it sounds like he was raised in a mortuary _ quite simply stunnining awesome and very creepy. luv it

[kbr61263]

@thunderferretsarego

get the 12" version of spellbound. willmake your hair stand on end

[xyaqua]

Oh my God does this take me back. Magazine, Visage, steve Strange.... devoto, the buzzcocks and luxuria.

sublime cool.

[NineShagnasty]

Pink cashmere v-neck FTW!

[jeffreyeason]

These guys were a most unusual band in the punk/new wave era. The band was immensely talented and the songs were much more than three chord rockers. As beautiful as their songs were, they were always dark. I compare them to Stone Temple Pilots in that you have a fantastic band with a tortured, drug-addled frontman.

Does anybody know what kind of guitar John McGeoch is playing? He plays it in every video I've seen. Looks like some kind of Gibson, but I'm not sure...

[drlaim]

McGeoch is playing a Yamaha SG2000. He used this guitar with Banshees, Armoury Show and PiL. He did use others but this was his main instrument. Amazing guitarist!

[TheHevquip]

these guys must have a lot of their older, original fans and unfortunately haven't picked up many new ones because i read over some comments and i noticed no one has mentioned that Ministry covered this song on the Animositisomina album, and that's what brought me here. maybe other ministry fans don't have such good and varied tastes as i do. not trying to insult any of them, just saying...

[debruno55]

Just got into this group a few years ago. They were brilliant!

[Bigsbeee]

Barry inspired me to learn bass at 16..

Manchester was a great place to be in the late 70's..

Magazine..what a great f##kin band..

[stakka79]

Love how he walks out of shot after he has sung the verse.....Genius

[sunregent]

Wish JM was alive to see what a legend/inspiration he's become to so many.

[brookbart]

@ sunregent -- he inspires my playing every day still -- always has! xxxx

[declan3906]

JM?

[declan3906]

4th march 2004 died in his sleep.any more info?

[MarkEff1]

AWAYDAYS =D

[marcopage1960]

I like much that song!!!

[pilotprospecteur]

sounds like joy division sometimes, no?Slightly at 1.12. not at 3.00 . amazing.

[retrorichie80s]

I agree

[brookbart]

JM -- jesus brilliant and sorely missed ...

[kurisutokaochan]

Just heard this for the first time in, "Awaydays." Amazing. Thanks for posting.

[1172404]

John mcGeoch is a great great guitarist really great

[ejshulman]

just great music

[bennyshambles]

Devoto's t-shirt looks like it's a Linder Sterling design. She's the singer of Ludus and dated Howard Devoto and did the cover art for Real Life, so it makes complete sense. I'd kill to get me one of those!

[Kingfisher921]

I love the cover art Linder did for Ludus

[hugobear1]

fantastic...far too good to be punk...it's prog!

[hugobear1]

Did we? I'm not so sure we did. I came into music jounalism a couple of year slater I admit but I'd wager 'post punk' was an idiom invented MUCH later. 'New Wave' certainly was the general term. The Buzzcocks were definitely considered to be punk, especially with Howard.

[brookbart]

whatever -- I am just a musician who was actually there at the time -- let me not argue with journalists : )

[brookbart]

dig jm hand behind the back pose -- beauty : )

[shufflevans]

Whos playing guitar nowadays?

[professoricon]

On guitar nowadays in the latest incarnation of Magazine is Noko, who was previously with Devoto in his band Luxuria. Excellent he is too, but no-one can replace JM.

[shufflevans]

Thanks for the info. And youre right about John McGeoch

[BdumBedum]

CLASSIC......watch their full set from the electric proms on the bbc, you won't be disappointed.

[abagail4me]

Absolutely brilliant..still sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday. Still proud to own my vinyl copy of "Real Life" .

[DubDealaJoe90]

need to find when there touring. if any1 finds a date in uk let me know. might even buy ya a ticket

[JamesBCS]

It's already happened, they did five dates in February and then some festivals over the summer. Although they haven't ruled out more.

[carbenali]

brilliant on jools i presume a tour on the way

[corkbender]

I miss the 80's. So much great music packed into a few short years, it's amazing. Great song!

[bouverieboy]

This was actually from 1978 I think. Went to see them at The Russell Club in Manchester at the time - I was about 15 I guess. Awesome band.

[garymilli]

the russell club,later the factory........thanks for that not heard that name for yrs,i saw u.k.subs there when i was 13 got thrown out for being too young.......cheers.

[roquefort88888]

Thanks for posting this. I'm just discovering this band.

For me a lot of this postpunk stuff - Magazine, Siouxsie & the Banshees, early Ultravox etc, stands the test of time a lot better than the Sex Pistols etc It's like

Mainstream 70s music = Constipation

Punk = Enema

This stuff = Ahh that's Much better...

[StrummerLivesxxx]

John McGeoch :)

[simleybaton]

Lovely slow burner of a song. Majestic and melodic. They don't make 'em like they used to!

[StrummerLivesxxx]

No they dont :(

[HarmonicsExplorer]

not surprising,....

[CHILLO1231]

aaaagggghhhhh i hate being fifty fuckin two ........need i say more

[HryMuscle]

Dude, chill! We lived through the best music EVER!

[CHILLO1231]

yeah your right........i,ll just remember the great times we had when music was real .....cheers

[alansready]

yes this was the best music ever and i want to go back in time and do it again

joy division , cure new order bauhaus omd physchadelic furs 999 buzzcoskcs iggy pop souixis and banshees

[Zephyrus5491]

Great song! post punk at its best

[kaney200]

AAAAAHHH YES!!!!!!

[ZAOUWV]

Magazine- I was a huge fan and listening to it now makes me realize that they were a great band. All good musicians. Love this song

[ELGONZALESS]

absolutely love it

[axellock62]

a big thanks to sham64andahalf for exposing sheer brilliance to the world.keep it up .

[stevejah7]

my fave mag song ever. why don't they tour? can't afford to go to london.what do you of morrissey's "song from under.."?

[murray1234567891011]

they toured at the tail end of last year

[sean3415]

brilliant and timeless. I had the same epiphany when I realized that John McGeoch was the common denominator on some of my favorite recordings.

[progfr0g]

Jeepers they look young here. Love this song heaps, especially the groooovy keyboard backing. On the John Peel sessions with Magazine, he mixes the keys way up and it it becomes almost haunting

[whitechapelone]

Stunning, timeless sound. Very evocative of these immediate post-punk days. After the excitement, statement but actual musical austerity of punk, no one really expected Magazine, PIL, Siouxsie Sioux, etc, to provide such original avant garde groundbreaking lyrics alongside its sweeping, majestic new soundscaping & all delivered with an uncomprisiming edge.

[roywebber]

Great track & the 3 bands you name all had John McGeoch in them at some time. Coincidence?

[Castile100]

This has been one of my FAVE Magazine songs for years! Thanks for posting it!!

[ACroft13]

One of the best songs ever...bloody brilliant, they don't make them like this anymore...sigh

[letsaveyer]

was a good song to awaydays ost

[rastesdcat]

NOSNAWS ...

[dookie2kie]

SWANSON...

[Parmsingh1234]

Boy this song takes me back.

[spassy13]

checked out .minisrty there version is great , just leaves this in my head

[TheGreatWendt]

did they have to pay royalties to gary glitter?

[xyling]

Gotta love synths on both sides...the guy's only playing one note, but in the 1980's, you still gotta have two keyboards.

Great song.

[strangeparty]

Magazine is the most brilliant and least appreciated of the English bands of their time.

[Kalunga76]

The Ministry's version of this music is great fantastic

[Zarb1302]

Yeh right Like some cheapo tribute band!

[geegarry]

has anyone seen then on the 2009 tour??? Are they still as good as they were?

[junglesam]

Yeah, I saw them, They were brilliant, even though i had never properly listened to them. I had always loved post-punk so my dad said let's go. I lso met Barry Adamson: one of the nicest guys ever!

[3589546]

Wow, this is great.

[ViktorValov]

It was never the same after that. It cuts through everything, needs no aids. A different, magnetic beauty. United States of Erotica.

[brunosis]

Pete Murphy does a pretty decent version n'all. I think it's on 'Should The World Fail To Fall Apart.'

[TheShazwani]

One of the most fabulous punk songs ever... Ahhh, memories... Anyone remeber the Screaming Believers version? Probably better than the original...

[nignatz]

Every Light Pours Out Exactly The Same

[missmong1]

Brill, Razorcuts do a good version of this song too.

[dita86]

This tune, together with the first sighting of the Pack, has to be the best scene in 'Awaydays.'

[hartz476]

i seen them at the newcastle gig mentioned by dadswizz, and i agree, they were something else, very good and way ahead for the time ! ! howard devoto intresting type of guy eh !

[LordNothing]

who were first, Joy Division or these guys?

[haveyouseenherlately]

Joy Division, technically, although they were putting out music at the same time.

[Lithium2162]

Both great bands.

[FrancoDamn]

Magazine formed by april 1977, and Joy Division became Joy Division a bit later (they called themselves as Warsaw). By the time, although Magazine released their first single "Shot by both sides" in early 1978 while Joy Division released An Ideal For Living EP in June. Magazine, i think.

[ronnie7749]

This song was never a Buzzcocks song. Are you thinking of "Shot By Both Sides"? That song was originally recorded by the Buzzcocks as "Lipstick", then Devoto rewrote the lyrics for Magazine.

IS CORRECT !

[fuguestate101]

pritty sure i thy played it ,or something very much alike when seen 76 ish ,sounds like a shelly riff anyway..thanks for reply ronnie7749

[sp4172]

Very Cool indeed ..... This song was also covered by Peter Murphy ...

[dadswizz]

classic timeless fucking great. loved it then and now. seen them at newcastle uni 78 and they blew the place away

[kirkwallboy]

Time flies, time crawls. The conspiracy. The light pours out of me.

What a poet, with music attached. And not just any old music.

Makes you kind of think.

[JohnOliver82]

Just Brilliant !

[luvumo2day]

creativity /light /bonzo76rockon........bolocks ,then its over, worlds a stage ,good thing 4 me ,cheers rock over wtf wtf dobbs fing ferry brown hedge hogs look at the tulips and watch them grow!!!!!!!!!!!

[jacquelinepage]

Great song, great lyrics, great band

Why analyse, question or debate

The history, the type of Guitar, the "in knowledge" - that's crap - just listen

[luvumo2day]

drunk rock oh no i said it rockon bonzo 76 wellcomposed good use of condencers lbonzo76rockon!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fuguestate101]

anyone got the orig busscocks/shelly version...post it please

[Babyhowdy233]

This song was never a Buzzcocks song. Are you thinking of "Shot By Both Sides"? That song was originally recorded by the Buzzcocks as "Lipstick", then Devoto rewrote the lyrics for Magazine.

[FrancoDamn]

i need to know what kind of bass was that Barry used in these 78' vids. I know it was a Rickenbacker and it's discontinued, but i need to know what was because i want to own one (although used).

[1986uno45s]

Looks like a modified Rick 4001 with a different neck pickup. It might be a 4000 model actually, I can't see if it has traingular or dot markers. If it is a 4000 then these only came with a bridge pickup, which might explain the custom neck pickup in Barry's guitar. Never seen another one like it so can only assume Barry had it modified to his own specs and therefore it's unique. Nice sound from it though!

[1986uno45s]

Just checked out some other Magazine videos and Rickenbacker sites. Barry's Rick has dot markers, no binding and probably came with twin pickups, therefore it's actually a 4001S and not a 4000. It still looks to be modified though and I'd love to know what that neck pickup is!

[FrancoDamn]

Yeah, i also. However, some or many people say Rickenbacker basses have limit sounding, and that is the reason many former Rick users changed to others....OMD's Andy McCluskey to Fender Jazz/Prec, Jam's bassist to Fender Prec (but i saw in a 1980s video rick returned with him). I think they are referring to the current 4003 versions, which i think also these basses have a limit sounding, but Barry's Rick seems better and i can comparate it with my Squier Precision...

[starvengers67]

who died ?

[TheDulwichOnion]

Great song.

John McGeoch must be one of the greatest guitarists ever. Check out his work in anything he's been involved with: the Banshees, Magazine, PIL.

Genius!

[Babyhowdy233]

I quite agree!!!

[Babyhowdy233]

He was listed as among Mojo Magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of Rock", often called "the post-Punk Jimmy Page" although for my money he was BETTER than Page!

[woodiestv]

Man, I love seeing all these clips, I bought the download of Scree last week and am just catching up on all these Youtube posts, brilliant, it's nice to see loyalty

[trepanatedman]

this is really good :)

[NeoandGeo]

Trent Reznor definitely took a few key notes from these guys, hehe.

[thunderferretsarego]

mcgeogh topped himself, i cant believe it . best guitarist the banshees ever had. everyone listen to juju. in a dark room. be scared. be very scared

[tomdickhead]

hey man , i 'm not so sure he killed himself.

whatever, all of his recorded work is incredible

[thunderferretsarego]

I'm sorry. Don't shoot the messenger but i'm pretty sure he did. I read that he'd been living in either L.A or San Francisco and that he'd hanged himself after a long bout of depression. Mind you, its about 4yrs since i read it and i'd love it not to be true.

[professoricon]

It's not true - he died in his sleep at the age of 48. He is one of my top five guitarists. Whilst he had previously lived in LA and had a breakdown, he had since moved back to the UK and qualified as a nurse, but was also making background music for TV when he died.

[professoricon]

'The Light Pours Out Of Me' is one of my favourite-ever all-time tracks by anyone.

[DrHoldowicz]

Same here, absolutely..

[drilltime]

i'd say top three...he dominates my record collection pre johnny marr

[Rawlinson18]

Did he ?

[laurajanewayne]

was at glasgow on monday too.they were magnificent!

[kennywah10]

Opening track in Glasgow last night-Adamson's base still cuts the mustard. Devoto, well apart looking like my Grandad, he was as good as ever.

[SendInTheChickens]

That may be one of the coolest guitar solos I've ever heard.

[UltraTRex]

that's one of the coolest guitar riffs ever

[23111681]

magazine vendra a mexico?

[rozkendal]

saw magazine in 1978 (definitive gaze) at lancaster uni, i was 14 and again in 1979 (secondhand daylight) at blackburn king georges hall, remember it like yesterday, brill. so how chuffed ami got a ticket (thanks kev) for manchester academy tueday 17th of february, scary 30 years since last time, minus clash tee shirt, silver skin tight jeans, bondage straps, and leopard skin bum flap and 30" waist!

cant wait

[NN2Blue]

Well look forward to it - I've just got back from the O2 Academy, Oxford - very very good tonight!

[db02922]

Hey Roz, I was at the same gig Lancaster 78 and off to see them in about 4 hours at Manc Academy. Cannot wait - my wife has even forgiven me for not wining & dining her for Valentine's!

[dougboardley]

and they were great weren't they big fella,!Roz's skin tight silvers, legend!

[nipglass04]

pure class. defining era of music with the defining band

[jwqlb]

big grooooooove!

[dennisnails]

The Sound of Northern England.

[bingoace]

Classic song, brings back memories

[gracefell]

Damn, how did I miss Magazine?? Always thought this was a decent Peter Murphy tune, but this is amazing!

[secondhanddaylight]

Peter Murphy is blahblah

[guband]

superb..brilliant amazing musicians...

lyrics are amazing on all their songs....loved hearing these again...

[steinber]

I saw Ministry do a cover of this with Ogre on vocals back in 88. Heavy.

[Arjanajanath]

Sounds very interesting. Never heard (of) it... Didnt even knew Al and Ogre had done things togehter.

[theefishlippedone]

Funny i never noticed how glam this is.Shades of rocknroll pt 2:)

rip Mcgeoch what a great guitarist he was.

Trippy as fuck.

[asarapi]

Genius!

[limecoconut789]

My Dad saw him at Hull College in his carpet slippers in 1978!

[artcompressor]

why did your dad go to a gig in his carpet slippers?

[jennvixvids]

so so so so so so sooooo f_cking good.

[DrHoldowicz]

Thanks for saying what I'm thinking !!

[Arai64]

Late 70's Howard & Co were a breath of fresh air, believe me!

[ChernozymVideo]

Come To Toronto! Magazine was one of the best live shows EVER!

[Farquharson64]

John McGeoch was an incredibly inventive guitarist. One of the greatest, no doubt.

[tommygu444]

THIS SHIT'S PRETTY ROCKIN. i'd never heard of magazine, I was looking for ministry's, i didn't know it was a cover

[transeuropa]

'Noko' is the replacement for guitar.

JMcG RIP.

[themusicfella]

John McGeoch One of the greatesr and most underated guitarist of all time!

[juanpablojones]

Agreed, with Banshees an PIL included. Really enjoy reading views from young people, especially Americans discovering stuff like this, tho' not implyin thats you or any comments here, or that its a negative thing.

[FrancoDamn]

What kind of bass did Barry used in that vid? A Rickenbacker i think (4001? 4003?)

[Ogilvyvids]

Awesome. Can't wait for the 13th Feb. Any guesses for who McGeogh's replacement is?

[FrancoDamn]

I'd like many replacements: Pete Shelley, Robin Simon...or Vini Reilly!!!!

[ThisCharmingFan]

Great, great song by a great band. I lie the way the camera moves round each of the instruments as they come in.

[pjhs]

See you on the 14th.This is the end of the world in the centre of the the world.God will judge every one of those losers who cannot see art,music and true inspiration that is here.We will disappear before there eyes !!!!

[mancman21562]

Got tix for the 14 feb in the centre of the universe,hope to see a load of fat old punk's avin it......see ya there...

[rollagasper]

You Brits are really lucky. I hope the reunion gigs are successful and then maybe they will come to the other side of the Atlantic.

[jubilee64]

Timeless, beautiful, inspiring, joyous, breathtaking...North of England..nuff said..thanks for posting.