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  • Shocking quality, there really is no excuse for this pile of steaming excrement being on youtube :) its 2011 dont you know?

  • a macdonalds burger advertised on a smiths video...disgusting

  • What kind of shit it is? Was it recorded with a microwave or what?

  • @DimitriHadjopulos yes indeed

  • i think if your playing to a tape it should be mandatory for the guitarist to play stairway

  • I used to love it when the Smiths came on and those hand clapping, balloon throwing idiots didn,t get what was going on . I still do. TOTP was great though.

  • soz moz but that's a lip sync

    I know the song too well :p

  • thumbs up if #royalwedding bring you here

  • hey i hope that you like of my record!!!... thanks for upload this wonderful music!!!

  • I may be incorrect but I believe that this is the first time that I've ever seen the utmost favorite band of my life doing a song I love and the amazing clarity of noticing that Morrissey is lip-syncing. That's British television for you. :)

  • How about very poor quality ?

  • Yeah it's taped.The crowd is live though.

  • Yeah it's taped.

  • The Smiths lip -syncing?The shame. Also on heaven knows the i'm miserable now video. I'm not sure maybye i'm wrong but it sure sounds like it.They were supposed to be against all of that. But i think maybye they had no choice if they wanted to perform on top of the pops. Probably better to reach x amount of new fans than not do it at all. But they should have pulled a Nirvana and changed instruments or something and did an"ironic" performance to make it obvious it was taped.

  • @MrAzdaz the 1st time they did totp morrisey was pissed off that he had to lip-sync, so he used a bunch of gladioli instead of a mic so that it was obvious he was miming

  • @eichbienyermaw Sure but then they should have refused to to it. But still the flowers make it slightly ironic/comic so i guess it's not too bad.Although why the would make a talented singer like Morrissey lip synch is beyond me.There you go. R.I.P totps and probably for the best.lol.It was teeny bopper tv at it's not worst.

  • @MrAzdaz Sorry about the bad grammer there at the end but you know what i mean.

  • @MrAzdaz MC Grammer

  • 42 ppl were so in doubt about their sexuality preferences after Morrissey ripping his shirt at 1:08 than they pressed dislike.

  • woah 

    SCARRED

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  • He's not a bad singer, but he would be better if he'd learn some more notes.

  • @hurting Most of these "notes" are ones he purposely avoided. Just a heads up.

  • @hurting that can't be a serious comment... can it :s ?

  • wheres his mic? lol

  • Who gives a fuck about the US's foreign rhetoric..

    Fuck Palin, she's just a MILF

    Fuck the Tea Party, they won't do anything

    Just listen to The Smiths and enjoy the music

  • i bet anything that MOZ hated everytime he was on this show....

  • @loopiLuvsluigi Lol at the USA being an empire. The minute they try and gain more influence over a country than they have over say... Japan, is the minute that they get crushed.

    When Britain went and sought it's empire, it did so with enough decency to leave it's balls bare. America... colludes, which is just hilarious.

    Let us not forget that it took a couple of World Wars to prise way for America to seize a semi-empire.

    Lawl, the laughter is ours to be had.

  • People are arguing over politics just shh and enjoy the music

  • i would give EVERYTHING i have just to be in that place for a few minutes... ♥

  • Could we become a colony again? I mean we do have Obama now and everything, but we also have loony-tunes Republicans who think he is a Muslim intent on establishing a socialist dictatorship. And lots of them. And the Tea Partiers. Look, we will pay you back for all the tea we dumped in Boston Harbor in 1773, plus the tax, just please take us back! Sarah Palin could be our next president! Help!! God Save the Queen!!

  • Moz should've taken off his pants. Now that would've been exciting.

  • william it was really shit quality

  • @logix2010 LOL XD

  • That charming man loves running his hands over the passenger's seat (and another word that rhymes with it).

  • @kruddykuffar YOU BORING BASTARD. STILL SPOUTING THE SAME OLD SHIT . GET A LIFE FOR FUCK SAKE. YOUR FULL OF SHIT. INFACT YOU`VE GOT MORE TONGUE THAN COWS GOT CUNT.

    YOU CAN THANK ME FOR MY COMMENT OR MY OPINION LATER ,DICKSPLASH.

  • You read like a big, burly man, you brute! Are you in a committed relationship? How about it if we meet and exchange body fluids? Mmm.... body fluids.... glug.

  • @kruddykuffar Nothing against gay people , but have you ever tried gay sites or are you too ugly and ashamed of your appearance to make contact with someone as deprived as yourself?

    Like i have said to you in the past, there are millions of arsehole`s in this world and you are a 1st prize arsehole.

    Just remember there is only 1 smiths , but there are millions of you. Arsehole!!!

  • Well, that makes me indignant! You're prejudiced against assholes like me. You need to reexamine your values and realize that assholes are people too.

  • "Under the iron bridge we kissed, and although I ended up with sore lips," they were not sore from kissing.

  • @kruddykuffar Stop trolling kruddy.

    Anyone who hasn't seen, scroll through the pages of previous comments for this video. He is dropping bombshells left right and centre and whether he is right or wrong, needs to stop badgering on.

  • @owenhunt Oh why? Have I offended you? Have I committed blasphemy in the Church of Morrissey? Oh, boo-hoo! You don't like me! Whatever will I do?

    If you want me to change my behavior, you'll have to use force -- you know, like we Americans do.

  • @kruddykuffar It's the fact that you keep making trite remarks either about the lyrical content of Morrisey's lyrics or indecisive retorts to those who oppose you.

    Whether you are right or wrong about any of this, you should have stopped by now.

  • @owenhunt Has a sense of powerlessness overwhelmed the desire to issue commands? Doesn't that make you just like the Pope? The Pope of the Church of Morrissey?

  • @kruddykuffar No powerlessness felt whatsoever. I know i can't prevent your comments as you can't mine, but I will end my part int this debate here. I'm sorry that your intellect is so bordered by your delusions of rebellion against my cause or whatever it is you oppose.

    My feeling is that you are trolling and would do well to stop from this point onwards.

  • Thank you for commenting. Your opinion is valuable to me.

  • Smiths at the free festival Ken Livingstones GLC gave at Jubilee Gardens in the summer of 84 about 6 months before I saw the Clash at the Brixton Academy.Imagine seeing the Smiths and the Clash within a few months of each other! Yes people you have guessed it I live in London which is decidedly not a humdrum town

  • "the rain falls down on a humdrum town,this town will drag you down" Oh dear I come from the humdrum town it is Dundee in Scotland,an earlier contributor was correct when he wrote that the song was about Billy Mckensie of the Associates .In the early days they were friendly when they were both trying to make it both being supported by John Peel,I doubt if there was a gay relationship between them as most likely it would have come out (and who f**king cares anyway).On a happier subject I saw the

  • "Would you like to marry me? If you like you can buy the ring"

    *cue screaming from audience*

  • kiddies, he spoke to me way back then. like, the only cool out band was TRB, so we needed this. not like today & you're welcome.

    K?

  • the video quality is superb!

  • How can you say with a straight face I was raped?

  • Do I only hear what I want to hear? The pschiatric community thinks there's something wrong with me when I laugh a morbid things. Don't laught. Then, you cry.

  • My husband's name wa Billy. I always find some way to connect to Morrissey.

  • Really? People, if you don't like The Smiths and/or Morrissey get the fuck off the site. We're lucky people recorded this so we can see it. Now shut the fuck up if you feel a need to complain.

  • How can you stay with a fat girl who'll say...

    How many people up and down the British Isles ask themselves that same bloody question day in day out? Nice one Moz!

  • gavcunt - looking forward to pissing on your grave soon b1tch.

  • The song that my son William got his name from.

  • horrible video quality

  • but good song XD

  • kruddycocksmoker why are you such a prick? nobody hates you . we just think you have too much to say for a so called smiths fan . i think you are mentally challenged. one comment you say that you like the smiths. then the next you are giving one of the greatest song writers this world has ever seen shit. i think you need a check up from the neck up sunshine. don`t buy morrissey`s or the smiths cd`s if you feel so short changed. try taking an overdose you insignificant piece of shit. dork !!!

  • @kruddykuffar morrisey certainly wouldnt claim america as his home ....he treats the u.s like we treat bournemouth ,so lets not get silly about it ...put the thesauras /dictionary down pretenious ,self indulgent ,wannabe intellects with dellusions of grandure are myriad on youtube ....morriseys has no opinion on the u.s ,other than its good to go out to eat there.....wanker

  • @happentodie Wankers are people too, you know. I had no idea I was so offensive to your Worship Morrissey religion.

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  • well if it aint my old pal kruddykuffar ? i take it the circus had plenty of clowns then? what are you going to do now slack chap? never mind you can always come over to the uk it`s panto season. you could play mother goose or pussinboots.

  • typical war monger yank.

    U.S.A the land of the prick!!!

  • well done buefford3 keep it in your pants son . don`t try and steal kruddykuffars thunder. are you a good yank or just another war loving waste of spunk like the tosser above you? i hope you are a good one because kruddykuffar is a 1st prize arsehole and is letting the good old U.S.A down big time.

  • the glorious 80s

  • seriously people grow up and just enjoy the music

  • Yeah I know. This song kicks ass.

  • I think we've truly failed as a civilization when these kind of debates are done with a keyboard in the dead of night on the comment page for a video of a spectacular eighties band.

  • @ornge123 I couldn't agree more.

  • Kruddykuffar, you really made me laugh out loud here :-)

    It's great how stupidity gets a new dimension when practiced by an American. Really I was aware of oversea mental restrictions but Darwin would be glad to examine your primal thinking.

    Oh yeah, the animals in American zoos were all created in 6 days, forgot about that :-)

  • How about using some punctuation in the top two lines as it doesn't make sense.

    The Smiths (L)

  • I've always accused of being comma-happy, and now someone comes along who seems to be telling me that I haven't used enough. That's a refreshing change. There's a saying about commas in the U.S. that I usually ignore: "When in doubt, leave it out."

  • Ummm...for what?

  • ha ha ha!! (Kruddykuffar / Ulmeyda08 debate)

  • What a tedious,pointless debate seen down there

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  • Dear God, that guitar is heavenly! I Love the Smiths!

  • some of the lyrics make more sense if its about a man. according to Marr, he's bi. It doesn't really matter mostly, as longs as you understand the songs and can relate to them. Lalalalalalala

  • and you guys are debating about shit you don't even know about.

    he could be bi? those lyrics could be about anyone. don't judge him on what he writes, it's amazing and if it doesn't relate to you, don't listen and don't talk crap. fuckers.

  • 0:05 LMAO

  • wtf? isnt morrissey like lip syncing? cuz like thats the album version o_o

  • yeah. it was really common to lipsync on tv at that time.

  • re subject matter billy mackenzie of the associates is allegedly the love interest and he wrote Stephen it was really something in response...

  • I was named for this song. William, pleased to meet you.

  • What is this song about?

    Brilliant track btw.

  • This is the best video ever and The Smiths are totally amazing<3333

  • It's a nice thing to be liked and a rare one in youtube. As for my use of "egolatric" I wasn't quite sure of its existence when I wrote it down. Take as an explanation of sorts the fact I am not a native English-speaking person. In other languages similar words occur convey exactly the meaning I had in mind. If it turns out to be a real word, then I will be more than pleased. I think now I should have used "egotistical" but it has a "softer" meaning.

    The liking is reciprocal.

  • I couldn't agree more with you. In fact, when I watch videos of the Smiths which are not gig footage, I usually try not to watch them very carefully. I am a fan of the Smiths and it hurts me somehow to see such blatant evidence of Morrissey's egolatric merchandizing. However, I don't know if I would appreciate more Morrissey if he tried to seem nicer or more honest: I wouldn't believe in it.

  • We all know that the Mozzer is not the nicest person to have ever walked the earth nor the most generous. We know he has been mean and cheap and greedy and whatever you want, but for God's sake! stop making a fuss of it and just HAVE FUN! (one thing he used to be is real fun! I can't tell now, though.)

  • you fucking idiot krudykaffer top of the pops isnt live, morrisey is dancing ridiculously in protest at having to mime, as he did when he sang into a handful of flowers. grow up you fuckwit.

  • You're dumb... just want you to know.

  • Actually, I'm quite vocal! You haven't persuaded me on the accuracy of your opinion, which, like an arsenal, everybody's got one. I've got three, and any two in combination cancel out the other.

  • Will you please stop being up your own ass for a second, if you don't believe rob756 or me, there was even a documentary on the smiths and about how against miming morrissey was, as rob756 said he is doing it in protest are you that dumb that you don't realize, have some intelligence before you decide to comment.

  • Well then, have some writing style before typing anything (what with the run-on sentences and lack of proper capitalization). Where were you educated? England?

  • There is no lack of capitalization in my sentences, they are all in the right place thankyou very much, and as for "where were you educated" im still in education in England which has better education than were youre from, there was no need for two exclamation marks in your sentence so dont mock when you cant type yourself, you are just nit picking now because you knew you were wrong in the first place.

  • Yeah right Americans do it better, you wish!

    You do realise that your're 48 im 16 you should have correct punctuation, and im sorry but this is youtube not an literacy lesson!

    You know for a fact our language is correct

    and if Morrissey is such a cheap bastard, why watch this video?

    Do you have to be so childish to deliberately go on here just to mock him, are you just jealous of people from England?

  • By the way: Morrissey's birthday is May 22nd, 1959. Mine is May 22, 1960. His real first name is Steven. Mine is Stephen. He's gay. I'm not.

  • Yeah okay, i am not going to bother commenting anymore, i tried explaining something to you but you're just being childish, so i am not going to stoop to you're level.

  • Yes, you tried explaining something to me and I disagreed. I'm not sure to what level it is that you're avoiding stooping, but you're the one who wanted to answer me back. I just defended my initial proclamation, as is natural. Childish? Maybe, but at my age that's something of a plus.

  • Can we stop commenting now, because there is no point in arguing if we both have different opinions on the subject. its getting a bit out of hand dont you think?

  • So 'Kruddykuffar', what have you done with your life that is as brilliant and creative as Morrissey and co?

    Well let me see, you're middle aged, American (Lots of culture and good music there...) and have achived nothing. So don't criticize the youth of England when they have their whole lives to be creative. American youth however, tell me, do you like Miley cyrus and The Jonas Brothers? You pathetic failure.

  • The "success" is having made something of life and not acting like a arrogant prick while not having achived shit, like yourself.

  • And you're immune to this very same criticism? Snort!

  • I'm only 16 i've got a long time, so i'd say yes.

  • Worshiping him? oh please, don't even let me begin to start on his latest solo "efforts," and Johnny Marr wrote the actual music anyway.

    I'm just saying, don't bash the youth of England when we both know England has about 1000000 percent more talent and hope than America.

    Would you EVER see an American band as good as The Smiths, Stone Roses or The Beatles?

    Like fuck you would.

  • You claimed that we, the ENGLISH were not as good as Americans at speaking the ENGLISH language.

    That's like us baking a cake and somebody messily eating it and saying they are better than the chef,

    Also, England existed for 70,000 years, while America barely 400. So we were playing old medievil folk music before you were a twinkle in columbus's eye.

  • I never said it was a political entity for 70,000 years you plum, I said it existed for 70,000 years, E.G civlilization, and I can't quote you because youtube doesn't alow the comment to be posted if it has copy and paste in it. Also, i'll get an education when you get a life.

  • ...you smell!

  • Good one!

  • @kruddykuffar As much as you weren't toally in the wrong within this argument, telling a sixteen year old to grow up and get an education is not at all short of cagey stupidity.

    Was it not you who was leaving endless lampoons for Morrissey not-to-read on this very comments section. No wonder the lad picker you up on it.

    On a further note: What did Morrissey do to disgrace himself here? Give an example that I can't explain away...

  • @owenhunt I treat everyone as though he shouldn't be dumb. I had no idea how old my interlocutor at the time is / was (I presume [s]he isn't dead). And I don't care. For instance, I'm not going to bother looking up your information until you give me a better reason to find you more interesting than I do already, because I've given you more time than I should.

  • @kruddykuffar You made blatant claims towards the nature of certain lyrics such as 'Still Ill' and other such songs. No song of his plainly drives home a homosexual theme.

    I was firstly offended by your haughtiness to a 16 year old who was hardly lagging you in the intelligence stakes, and secondly by your cocksure assertions on the sexuality of Morrissey. And I don't need to give you a reason to find me interesting as we are on Youtube.

    Want me to post a juggling video? To tell a joke?

  • Nah...

  • Your right. The US is an empire, lol.

  • He's charming. You're not.

  • Did you watch the video?

  • h-h-he's.. dancing?! ... BASTARD

  • Yeah, the bastard. He's dancing and lip-synching and hamming it up in the cheesiest fashion.  It's really quite disgusting.

  • morrissey isn't really gay but he does act gay just to let yah know o_o

  • Whatta you mean he isn't gay? Have you listened to "You Handsome Devil?" Or how about this lyric: "Under the iron bridge we kissed,

    and although I ended up with sore lips,

    it just wasn't like

    the old days anymore."

    How do you think he got those sore lips? From not being gay?

  • well u could be right but once in this one interview these guys asked if he was gay and he replyed no but he could be lieing. o_o i don't care if he's gay or not but he makes some fucken good music.

  • Oh yeah, he's a fantastic singer and musician, and his lyrics are unmatched by anyone.

    I'm irritated with him because a lot of his official videos on YouTube have been shut down, and he also released so many albums where nearly half the songs were duplicated on other albums, so that you had to shell-out full CD prices for only 6 new songs. Those are miserly tricks for a rich man to pull.

    He and his record company should let the YouTube videos stand, since they raped us on the duplicate songs.

  • The Smiths' song Paint A Vulgar Picture addresses what you write about. pretty much the blame is placed on the record company as opposed to the artist. A lame argument after an artist has established him/her/them self(ves). they should know what they are signing Bottom line, Sire Records repackaged just about everything The Smiths released in the states and the result is some tracks are on four flippin' albums. disgraceful.

  • Thank goodness there are other critical The Smiths fans on the internet. Morrissey is great, but he isn't a god. He knew what he was signing, and do you think he didn't cash the royalty checks? He's a squeezer. He's a grotty little squeezer.

  • it's easy to pretend you aren't in it for the money :)

    he did that and thus nobody can judge him.

  • Disgraceful?

    Did I miss the part where Moz brought a child up on stage and raped him?

    Your pretentious comments really do show yourself to be a horrible individual.

    You need to grow up a little.

  • christ, u both need to go out a little

  • those lyrics are quoted from a book.

  • wow, well you need to get your mind out of the gutter.. cause ive kissed so long my lips hurt, or get chapped.. morrisey is a romantic, i cant see him giving a blowjob under a fucking bridge.. (allltho he could have, but i dont think thats what he was implying...)

  • kruddykuffar why make stupid comments on the best band that the world has ever witnessed? you obviously are not stupid so why put on a stupid front? the next time the circus comes to town may i suggest you join up with the clowns.

    or maybe enlist in the united states marine corp and shoot some poor innocent bastard like your war mongering bastard of a country has done for the last few decades. and us europeans can listen and view the smiths in peace.

  • Well aren't you just great? Um, you didn't do everything.

  • Umm what the fuck is with the "USA IS THE BEST" propaganda. Listen to the effing song and shut up about the country you seem to think is superior.

  • @kruddykuffar Do you spend a lot of time accumulating a presentable dialect to showcase on Youtube in order to perform ahem... self-validation. (My mind is in the gutter).

    You seem to have a steady if rigid intellect, and perhaps it is hard for you to get past his camp persona and homoerotic overtones when deciphering his lyrics.

    Morrissey's songs were never based in the figurative "gutter" either, his life was.

  • @owenhunt "Presentable dialect?" Thanks! You just made my whole life worthwhile.

  • The plot thickens..

    Also, here's another one. He's extremely intelligent. You, fine sir, are quite clearly a retard.

  • He sang without a mic because top of the pops wanted him to lip sync so morrissey thought well i'm going to sing without out a mic to show everyone what they wanted him to do, instead misleading everyone, he believed in live music, i don't think you'll ever get why he did it because i don't think you will ever understand. and it isn't pop its independent music.

  • The category is "popular music," so I just abbreviate it to pop. What I understand is that Morrissey is lip-synching to the studio cut. That is not a live rendering of the song; it's just Morrissey hamming it up. I understand perfectly. What Morrissey didn't have was the balls to refuse to do it because he's greedy, greedy, greedy!

  • I wonder why they lipsynced this. Where are they??