The Smiths - A Rush and a Push and the land is Ours - Video

[sharonspaintings]

this song is always in my head playing :0

[robbiejojo]

what shit. fuck this. morrisssssseeyyy you fuckinngg douche baggg i"m gonna slaughter a chicken just because I hate you.

[bunnyfish714]

"Oh,but don't mention love"

[AAwildeone]

Please phoooone me!

[lazyfreedom98]

google and you tube results are gamed

[Pastor9764]

@lazyfreedom98 No shit, Sherlock.

[moonsong66]

OMG. I haven't heard this song in forever!! Love it, thanks for sharing.

[juliomati]

shane o'neill brought me here lol

[kyliegotponed]

This is my favourite fucking song in the whole fucking world, you have no idea!

[robken0174]

Christ! Have the last 30 years givin' us anything more perfect, musically, than The Smiths? I think not. IMO, Morrissey/Marr were the Lennon/Macca of the 80's.

[TurkeyJones91]

I haven't listened to The Smiths entire catalogue yey but it seems like I just keep finding gems.

[rechtsanwalt78]

@TurkeyJones91 almost all of their songs are gems!

[joebstarsurfer]

is this the smiths ???.

[TheSanealaddin]

Fantastic video to one of the greatest Smiths songs, subtle as well powerful, great stuff!

[vilepete]

Lovely video! Great.

[rechtsanwalt78]

Yo soy el fantasma del preocupado Joseeé!!!

VIVA MOZ!

[lakshmimittal]

12 people are uglier than you and I.

[SStheruler]

Whoa this song is crack!!

[ryan49er1]

STRANGEWAYS was a great album but damn it was depressing to hear when your heart was broke...more other than their/his other albums

[BlackNarcissus888]

@ryan49er1 Does that mean that your heart was broken during the release of every one of Morrissey's works? :)

[gromanchemichel]

Shane!!!

[arakoiabense]

Drinking wine and listening to the Smiths - the greatest pleasure of a normal person!

[danileo13]

@arakoiabense Nooo, the greatest pleasure of a privileged person (not everybody has the heavenly chance to listen to the Smiths)

[tighty13]

this band and the cure were all i listened to for 3 years during the 80s nothing else came close

[roxyquinn]

A great video well selected and edited to an awesome song about reclaiming the ambition of youth, or that's how I see it anyway, and I'm profound

[chronokun17]

Excelente rola me gusta mucho

[rkt739]

is this song about the narrator being gay and having committed suicide? just wondering...

[Scrap5000]

LOL what is the story behind 2:22 ??

[markus310]

@Scrap5000

it's from the lindsay anderson film If.. it's a great scene, they kind of revert back to primitive animal instinct, they fight and fuck, then at the end of the film they revolt at school and go on a shooting rampage. Bloody public schools. I'm sure morrissey would have something to say about that.

[Scrap5000]

@markus310 Oh wow, I gotta check that out, thanks!

[CubsfanGSO]

This is one of the bands that got me through those tough teenage angst years!! They still make me happy when I am blue, or just lift my mood when I hear them!!

[babydub77]

awesome!!! Love you mozza x

[thedirtyweasel]

I really don't get the Smiths are depressing thing. They are one of the funniest bands ever with the exception possibly of half man half biscuit.

[whangie1]

I heard that this is based on an IRA song. Does anyone know if this is true?

[ItTakesStrength]

@whangie1 Don't think it is - i've read many a book about his lyrics etc and never heard that

[RossiovMicky]

Best song from their best album

[jebaronery]

@RossiovMicky oh no i won't share you, i've started something, last night i dreamt are better in my opinion

[MrMonsterstiffy]

@jebaronery Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, AFTER The Hand The Rocks The Cradle

[jonVomit]

Yeah I'm not the Mod expert but I think I spied Blow up as well

[guitarheroRP]

I just love how openly brutal Morrissey is.

[NeonTiger94]

one of my favourite songs

[NeutronDance]

I like the video, I think I spied Blow-Up in there

[777system777]

love the song, hate the video. I much rather watch the vinyl spin. Just my opinion.

[chapaxonga]

eros & thanatos

[catsdontshave]

i hate how everyone always goes on about how depressing the smiths are which is such bullshit, they are amazing! i mean granted there are a couple of songs that are slightly sad but that doesn't mean that they are all like that and those songs are still amazing! songs like bigmouth (unreal song) for example proves that not every song is depressing aswell

[KatesPinkZeppelin]

@catsdontshave No, but the majority are depressing which actually make us feel better deep down.

[johannesjuanes]

incredible great song. One of the most influential pop tunes ever..........

[misselzful]

What are the clips from?????????? 

[misselzful]

This band are awesome. I wish i was alive when everyone listened to this shizz.

[Mardyfella]

@misselzful Even back in the day, they weren't especially popular. And very much a boys' band. They had very few singles that went top ten even in the UK and were not at all successful internationally. But what has happened since has been amazing, - who would have thought that they would have such a legacy. But I'm delighted. One of England's greatest bands, and that's saying something.

[misselzful]

@Mardyfella Intresting, my dad used to listen to them alot in the 80's. Well, it's good people still listen to them. I want them to reform.!

[drstevie]

great video ! greatest band.

[BluesMan4613]

The first Smith's song I ever heard.

[fuqPrada]

some day,my friends....we'll see the Smiths perform before we die or at least i...ayahyay ...my adoloscent theme music..&.f/e

[plathmann]

@fuqPrada ........I've been and will continue to wait for that for over 20yrs......Please Please Please let me get what I want this time.

[fuqPrada]

some day,my friends....we'll see the Smiths perform before we die or at least i...ayahyay

[nalin826]

great tune!

[IReITaN]

amazing.

[dean24uk]

i think im in love :)

[keithm940]

all those bikers in the beginning of the video and not a helmet to be found. A rush and a push to the ER and a lifetime of disability if one of them loses his balance. A nice song, though.

[DGSE]

le pouvoir au peuple et vite !!!

[Faceman120]

@abundant87 vidtomp3.com is better and way faster

[jagger1001]

morrissey rules!



[Downbythewater73]

Nice vid !

[TheDaniellacat13]

Ahhh... this song takes me back to the golden days of discovering wonderful music. I was so bright-eyed thinking the world had an endless well of good music to to come. Little did I know that most music woudl turn sour by 1993 (I picked 1993 because I wanted to include Skinny Puppy's Last Rights album : ). Do I detect a bit of a reggae beat in this tune? Morrissey made me become a vegetarian when I was 15 too, and 19 years later I still am - thanks Morrissey - love ya!!!

[tingletangle1]

the best song of the group....strangeways here we come david

[Brascofarian]

RRRRRRRRRRRRush!

[FlameSquid]

Morrissey makes me regret beatin up on the nerds

[abbielovesoasis]

@FlameSquid ugh people like you at school make me regret life why would any one do that

[FlameSquid]

Wut u talkin about

[Quetzelamaya]

This is an amazing video and song.  Thanks for this Claudio and Travis.

[Caffeineinyourblood]

Great song to which I can attribute my username.

[Brascofarian]

The most important band of the 80's

[heyjubs]

phone me, phone me, phone me Morrissey ♥♥

[cmaxbenavides]

Too much cafeine in your blod stream...

[custer1968]

Brilliant montage...:)

[urdumb0322]

ONE OF THE BEST BANDS EVER MADE

[Xinaseason]

what film is the scene with the motorcycles?

[killercrabman]

what a song, what a very great song

[CeramicVideo]

Loved the if... scenes

[Dienekes888]

gawd awesome shit! best smiths album by the way

[FredericDaguerre]

Morrissey's sexuality, you will find, is highly irrelevant to his work as a lyricist and singer. Further, I rather like the imagery of this piece, but I wonder if it was cobbled together (in a loving manner) after the band's dissolution rather than an official release. I like the melange of fifties/sixties era films. Unfortunately, I only recognize "An American in Paris."

[theleterminator]

@FredericDaguerre This is the most pretentious thing i have ever read. Great song by the way.

[FredericDaguerre]

@theleterminator Clearly you haven't been on YouTube or the Internet long. Cheers, though.

[ar4216]

@FredericDaguerre

HaHa! Nice response.

[joeparrie]

@FredericDaguerre

Nicely done, sir.

[Admeralsarms]

this is why i haven't killed myself

[shazbotolo]

AR4216/ I feel exactly the same! I've never heard a SMITHS song that wasen't amazing and addicting. They had the midas touch for sure!

[ar4216]

How can one band produce so many incredible songs in such a short amount of time? I'm serious. It's baffling. It's like magic or something. I know a lot of solo Morrissey fans will disagree with me but the stuff Morrissey/Marr/Rourke/Joyce produced was just amazing- I tend to like it so much more than the solo Morrissey stuff.

[chrisdavid4026]

@ar4216 i am a big morrissey fan but i have to agree with you...the smiths stuff is truly amazing

[bw3ttt]

Pure class.. You haven't the slightest idea of what art is if you feel the need to mention painfully boring matters of sexuality when the almighty motherfucking SMITHS are on the screen,.

[TheHelenasan4]

@bw3ttt "The Almighty Motherfucking Smiths". You are my hero. :)

[superhero152007]

i travel to a mystical time zone!...hell yea!.....this song brings me back, ehhh only thing he was lost when he was younger *gay*...now he came to hes sences...good!

[nmn246]

you read into things too much. plus you make it seem like there's something wrong with being gay.

[petrusaloisius]

@nmn246

dont react towards does persons. They are not smart enuf to understand.

[piafedith10]

on a lighter note, i love the dancing couple.

[splatch1000]

Morrissey always said his lyrics are open to interpretation. You can see them however you choose.

[Foxlover666]

the song that got me into the smiths.

[hoitydoity]

Unfortunate that everyone just assumes that the lyrics have something to do with the very meagre knowledge they have on the man.

Morrissey is a wordsmith, an artist with combining words and sentences he finds elsewhere. It's the same with this title. As far as know the title has nothing to do with the rest of the lyrics. He probably just liked the sound of it. You might want to read "The Smiths - the songs that saved your life"to get a little more insight in the lyrics.

[autumwind86]

ur fdumb maybe ur do dumb tha u cant even see throu words and mayne thats why morrisey wrote things like this because people with no mind would never fiogure hthem ou tbecause these messeges are too powerful for stupid people

[076222]

the title is an old historic battle saying that was shouted before battles!! phone me phone me was stevens way of saying sorry! damn he`s as stubborn as me.. and when he says he doesn`t understand smith fans obsession with the songs... surely he wouldn`t forget keats earlier wordings/ no he loves them forever as we do!!!!! now plz plz plz get singing again steven not talking a song... sinatra only talked a song he never belted them out.. sing sing sing at the top of your tonsils my lad!..

[hoitydoity]

@autumwind86 Says someone who can't even write one word properly :-)))

[aviadmei]

This band keeps me alive. I really mean it!

[autumwind86]

i know isence i started to listen to the smiths i see life a way that is sad but truethfull

[hoitydoity]

@autumwind86 can't understand a word you say, hahahaha! Learn english before you use it, you dumb backside.

[Bigbahe2]

@aviadmei

AND HOW!!!

[makidtrej]

@aviadmei Don't forget the songs that saved your life!!

[GeoMarmolade]

@aviadmei me 2

[slideonronnie]

@aviadmei I totally get that! =)

[ItTakesStrength]

@aviadmei Me too - really

[remembertidusbramble]

God Damn Immigants

[DGSE]

bnp my dear my fellows citizen...

[rottenlydon]

I love this video I just wish it were of better quality

[gavhenrad]

this guy just loves wanking

[Caligula138]

The Sun Never Sets On The English Empire!

[flupke510]

I have heard that the expression "A rush and a push and the land is ours" was one that Oscar Wilde attributed to his grandmother. It was an aphorism to encourage resistance, specifically to English colonialism, and generally to any oppression. I always heard The Smiths to be expanding the resistance to heteronormativity.

[almamatters2471]

ahhh, the lovely irony that is The Smiths...classic, thanks for the upload.

[UGH6669]

I DO NOT THINK THIS SONG IS ABOUT RACISM

[MrBeefmuncher]

@UGH6669

What do you think it's about then?

Immigration?

[librepalestine]

i wish i could see them live

[calvara818]

what do the words mean?

[freedomwanted]

Its about immigration, and the social problems that occur when another group culture change society from what you feel as your home into something more alienating. Its an expression of emotions caused by feeling a threat towards your identity through what imigration can do. people who are uglier than you and I just take what they want and just leave.

[freedomwanted]

And then the strive to reclaim and to hold onto to what morrisy sees as rightfully his (a rush and a push and this land that we stand on is ours, it has been before so why cant it be now) what do you think?

[oowowaee]

@freedomwanted are you kidding me...

[HangLoosecaca]

i think it's not a taboo to talk about immigration, Morrissey has always given his opinion clearly on it.

It is not being racist saying that i a country accepts too many people from differents parts of the world it'll lose or simply compromise it's cultural identity. It's the plain truth

[Timmybear]

@HangLoosecaca - its, not it's. And what exactly is a 'cultural identity'? Last time I checked, people have individual identities. I know where my ancestors came from - that's where THEY came from, not me.

[culbeni]

that's racism and Moz clearly said it when he decided to open the eyes on something else than UK

He lives in Rome now and feels very confused about what he kept on repeating some years ago to get attention

[HangLoosecaca]

he lives in los angeles...

[MrBeefmuncher]

@culbeni

It's no surprise he left England...

[freedomwanted]

and many other things

[HiRodReigns]

omg where can someone buy this song? itunes doesn't have it and bbberr

[walleyrange]

Its on Strangeways here we come

[senman6]

@HiRodReigns buy the cd and rip it onto your pc

[marthamuffinkid]

i am utterly in love with the smiths and totally unashamed of my absolute adoration for Morrissey. i am just addicted ;)

[aviadmei]

The music of this divine band is streaming and flowing in my veins!!!!!!!! and in my arteries!!!! SO I DECREE TODAY: I'M ADDICTED TO THE SMITHS!!!!!

[josephillone]

The was the first song I ever heard of the smiths and ive been helplessly addicted ever since

[MrBeefmuncher]

We all know what the words mean

[aviadmei]

I really think that this masterpiece is probably the most underrated song of this divine band!!!!!!

[lynus111]

always chuckle when I hear the words: "Leave me alone because I'm alright dad" Mozzers Humour is always fantastic

[lynus111]

Technically probably yes, asthetically you can fuck off. :D

[DocWhat10]

so true, one of the best...his chords are unreal and his riffs show a very high technical level...it wasn't enough though to keep them together...they were just different...to me Moz might have been hard to read and Johnny mabey wanted to control things...who knows!

[reniez]

I love The Smiths... Johnny Marr one of the best guitar players of all time.

[tinyrebellion]

the smiths are legends! just cos theyre youn compared to you (wtf are you doing on youtube at your age???) doesnt mean theyre bad... your so daily mail get over yourself!!!! oh if only diana were here!

[oliviaisgod]

ahh if....!

[michinspirado]

The Beatles - Led Zep - The Smiths - Sublime - The Avett Brothers = all very different, but imo, the musical landscape changing artists of their time. Plz check out the Avett Brothers, and give them more than one listen - as most of the bands i hold near and dear to my heart i really didn't care for that much upon first listen...

[imangrynow]

@bw3ttt get over yourself you pompous twat!

O btw i'm an adult too!

[Slapbass13]

I hear what you're saying. But it is deeply unfair to lump all children into one stereotype that you have taken great pleasure in conjuring up. I am a fifteen year old english boy, I adore The Smiths. Cliched, I know, but there you are. So shut up, you wanker. I gave your comment a thumbs up, by the way.

[sully0001]

There's too much caffeine in your blood stream, and a lack of real spice in your life..., LOL, The plight of the American suburbanite

[666cfc]

and people who are uglier than you and I. They take what they need and just leave. What a great line!

[AintTooProudToBeg]

Can someone tell me what the keyboard bassline of this song is?

[veronica94952]

A lot of Blow up and West Side story, eh?

[theworshipful]

"Rush and a push" actually comes from an Irish nationalist poem written by Oscar Wilde'smother. Sorry to disappoint but the inspiration is not British at all.

[stillmoonmachine]

He won't care. You can't appease these fuckers or appeal to their reasonable side.

[bobjoshilly]

oscar wilde was morrisseys biggest inspiration, and marr wrote all the songs :)

[napolean123456789]

compositionally yes, lyrically no.

[blackgenet]

i hate you with a truly deep passion.

[MrBeefmuncher]

Glad to hear it!

[Myung13]

nah you dont you liar

[blackgenet]

oh really?

[stillmoonmachine]

Typical Morrissey fan. I don't know.

[mymindplease]

best smiths song EVER

[jokerdan78]

Love this video!! I wish i could get the names of the flicks the video samples were pulled from. And would deffinatlly like to know where the dancing couple clips came from!!

[Surdyyy]

From PassionsJustLikeMine:

"A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours"

Unfinished fan made video found on some bootleg video compilations. It supposedly was put together for an aborted Smiths exhibition using footage from the Rough Trade archive and the Alain Delon/Marianne Faithful movie "Girl on a Motor Cycle".

[jokerdan78]

thank you ... a little late, but thank you .

[sheilatakeabow1990]

Hello,

I am the ghost of troubled Joe :)

Legendary.

[Derovers]

Do you know who the troubled Joe is that Mr Mogs is referring to? I love this song and keep playing it over and over - one of my favourites of all time

[TheTroubleWithKathy1]

Amazing..hahaha...shame we gotta get old.....Johnny Marr by the way is up there with many great guitarists...shoplifters of the world unite...this charming man..they were..amazing...then..and still are..when..I would go out tonight...but I havent got a stich to wear..so...haha...but great song... thanx...my heel clicking days @ the now demoilshed hacienda..are no more...shucks.....thanx for this...

[lizzitab]

...Me encanta esta canción, recuerdo esos años maravillosos con mi amado...

[tom220787]

marr is my god!

[ergoscience5]

I love this video, it is cool the 2 dancers that keep dancing....

[VIVAVISCONSIN]

Ich auch!