Um Tune.

Gene were Gene ,a brilliant indie band....The Smiths were a great band who had Morrisey as their lead singer but imo the band were bigger than the lead singer... But Gene were the sum of all their parts...thats what made them so good

so underrated. Superb band

I know that Longpigs were signed to U2's now defunct Mother label. Do i detect the backing vocals of a certain Mr Paul Heaton?

Utterly brilliant!

Oh man, the lead singer is the image of a guy I dated when I was 18. He used me and dumped me! Love this song though.

This is absolutely live and a white knuckle ride at the front of the rollercoaster. The lift at around 2 mins does me in and then his voice and then them all the way to the end is ferocious - this is the nuts.

YOU A STAR A GENE AM NOT GAY I LOVE THE SMITHS AND MORRISSEY AND KING KURT

懐かしい、渋谷に初来日見に行来ました。

Should have countless millions of views

Where they really compared to The Smiths? I've only heard this of theirs but it sounds nothing like The Smiths, the guitar overdrive, there's no Marr-like riff... The only thing that's like them its his voice, which sound incredibly alike yo Morrissey's. If anything they sound way more like Morrissey's solo stuff than The Smiths.

THEY SAID THAT THEY HAVE TRIED TO TO BE THE NEXT SMITHS SO WOT THE BAND PLAYED THERE CHUFFING HEARTS OUT JOG ON

I went to see gene when I was 16 years old and loved it so much with my first boyfriend Richard.

oh no, darling. I'd better keep listening Morrissey

Just wonderful . . .

THIS IS THE SMOOTH RUNNING SONG BEING FROM WOLVERHAMPTON

I saw Gene so many times, they were always brilliant. Their albums are still some of my favourites. Totally underrated band.

'I was having the time of my life so why did you have to die'

The Smiths.

Gene sounds nothing like the smiths

Check shirts and sideburns. Yep it's 1995.

💛 still love after all these years

A corker. The lyrics are brilliant - "you walk me down to the hall/You're cart-wheeling too fast/And it's making me fall/But my legs are the chains to the floor/Now that you've stopped me dancing". They outshone everyone on that show

One of the best bands of the nineties in my opinion up there with ned's Atomic Dustbin and blur

Phil and Beard. Twin lead guitars are reminscent of The Rolling Stones and The Smashing Pumpkins. I wouldn't describe Marion as Britpop though.

How were they not one of the biggest bands on the world?

Brilliant ✨🌞✨

rinse

As a 2004 born kid, I'm upset such great songs are not there right now...

This makes me think of that film 'Face'

Good ol' times when it was possible to play only 3 instruments and come up with a great song.

Timeless X

I remember recording brit pop now on VHS, Oasis weren’t on it as Blur didn’t like Liam. It was all part of the British independent movement.

20 years later I just found out about this song and it’s so sexy lol

I think they would have been more successful if they had good marketing & had worked with a stylist. Martin especially (but the band's look overall) doesn't reflect the songs. It's hard to reconcile that. I bought the CDs when they came out, but I didn't know what they looked like. If I had seen him in flannel with yuppie trousers in an ad on NME or something, I'd be unimpressed. Compare that to Brett Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, etc.. There's your answer.

What a great time the 90's was for music. A great single nearly every couple of days, something for everyone.

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Time has been very kind to this band like many have mentioned I still too listen to their two albums . The Smile is an incredible stadium anthem that never was, scrap that , Marion were the great stadium band that never was As years gone by you can see how at odds they were in regards to being termed “ britpop “ they different in ambition , scope etc To me they could have been part of the classic British band lineage would never equate them with Sleeper or echobelly I have soft spot for Menswear lol but their music was unashamedly of the moment frivolous where Marion had that depth Harding whether in a chippy or drinking a shandy is a rock star regardless of units shifted I don’t know if part of their legacy , narrative is that they squandered their talent burning fast and in a way has worked leaving it to those old records to do the talking . God I am forty and remember watching this at fifteen 😂says a lot that so many years later there are us on here still saying great tune

This is great.

1995 ; " Els meus amics i parents he pecat No vaig sentir la sirena, ni el vaig veure rendir .se Els meus amics i parents He pecat, una altra vegada I ell va dir Londres, pots esperar ? Per totes les coses que he de dir Londres, pot esperar ? Els meus amics i parents he pecat L'alarma va sonar fort, els llums eren encesos No vaig veure res Els meus amics i parents La mort acaba de despertar, una altra vegada I ell va dir Londres, pots esperar ? Per totes les coses que necessito dir Quant de temps pots esperar ? Estava passant el millor moment de la meva vida Llavors, per què vas haver de morir? estic perdut Una altra vegada "

The Film Face fetched me here 👌

I don’t know everything about the Longpigs but after such a promising first album, I mean what a few great tracks like On And On, there were still moments of promise on Mobile Home.... but they seemed to self destruct and not be able to quite handle or mange taking the next step. Mobile Home itself almost summed their career up in that regard, promising opening but tailed off quickly....sad really 😰

Every day in 1997, I heard loudly in the car. Why don't you know this good music? ? After all, the best! ! ! from Japan

Great song, shame the singer went through some fucked up stuff after getting addicted to drugs and almost dying.

God I even remember that checked shirt so well!

i cant believe how much you wanna try.......seriously LONGPIGS are fucking cool and people who don't get that shit just don't fucking get it you get me

If only the band themselves wanted to emulate smiths... thanks god they failed at that.

Her daughter daisy has the looks....and judging by this probably the voice as well ...

Anyone remember the appearance they put in on Mark and Lard when Radcliffe/Riley had the late night slot on R1 back in the 90s - Speak to me someone and they chastised Martin for smoking when he was putshing his vocals to the absolute limit! Best radio show bar none !

tops!