ALBUM REACTION: The Smiths - The Smiths

[@electromamv6577]

suffer little children isn't as relaxing once you realize what it's about

[@AlexHaitz]

This is quite true.

[@dianablock1130]

Song was beautifully written...I saw the movie based on those child murders. "See No Evil: The Moors Murders".

[@OsoMarcol]

Suffer little children is a phantasmagorical tale. Nobody but Morrissey could have written so beautifully about such tragic souls.

[@mariomanno1]

I feel pretty dumb for not catching onto this sooner, damn.

[@reservedhogs4735]

14:09 *most romantic song The Smiths ever did plays, which is about loving someone so much that you don't care about what other people think of it* Alex: "This is so bleak, ugly and depressed"

[@AlexHaitz]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (I meant the instrumental, more than anything)

[@tillourtearsdry]

its not just loving someone, its a song about a relationship with another man

[@hoodoohullabaloo2848]

Just think about the fact its a first time listen. There are many, many Smiths song I found very boring when I first heared them. For example "I know its over" or "Still Ill". I was even annoyed First time listening to them, now I love them and cant wrap my head around how I hated them lol. Reel around the fountain is my no.1 favourite songs by the smiths now. When I listened to their debut album first 2, 3 times, are skipped it so often.

[@desertfenton]

Keep listening to it. It grows on you like a skin disease. The most beautiful rash you'll ever have.

[@SiLatics56]

You hadn’t heard This Charming Man before this??

[@thuggerthugger3796]

Cuz he’s a yank loser

[@trashley7937]

Miserable lie is such an odd song but I love it

[@iainweller452]

Some of the songs you’re not sure about you’ll grow to love the more you listen to them

[@666thestrokes]

Reacting to The Smiths without paying attention to any of the lyrics is a crime

[@antonioeisadora]

Reel around the fountain was the first song that i heard by The Smiths. It paralysed me...

[@mysticmavens811]

Still does me ❤️

[@giddekjehella]

Interesting take on The Smiths' debut album. Perhaps you could do a reaction to Joy Division's single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" which was released posthumously.

[@AlexHaitz]

I've heard it before, many times actually. It's played at work for years and it wasn't until I started doing reaction videos that I realized it was a JD song.

[@brillojoe]

You'll love miserable lie in 6 months i promise

[@madeliefhonnef4294]

miserable lie has to be one of my faves aha

[@Rod35477]

I don't think you have come to a very good understanding of this album on it's first listen. Keep listening to it, do some research and hopefully you will come to adore it.

[@OsoMarcol]

The Smiths, still for clever souls only...

[@connorbooth7207]

I just don’t think he’s into The Smiths that much lol. If This Charming Man or You’ve got Everything Now didn’t click with him that well I’m not sure if much will. Maybe it’s because this is my favorite album by them. I personally feel this album is better instrumentally than The Queen is Dead and Strangeways (as a whole album). It’s probably also because I like the “jangly” sound more than their later stuff lol, but to each their own

[@AlexHaitz]

I’ve grown to love This Charming Man a lot. Watch my videos after this, I did 90% of The Smiths song catalogue and I enjoy them quite a bit now. They’re a grower band for me.

[@jimmyjudge1382]

Alex Haitz takes a while to get in to them

[@SidewalkSurferPhotography]

My personal favorite from The Smiths is I Know It's Over

[@_burner8646]

Same it’s such an amazing song

[@SidewalkSurferPhotography]

@@_burner8646 actually, I'm kinda surprised by this but now my new favorite is A Rush and a Push and Land Is Ours

[@_burner8646]

@@SidewalkSurferPhotography that’s is also a great song the firsts three smiths albums are legendary, not to say the rest are bad though

[@AlexHaitz]

More THE SMITHS Reactions: The Queen is Dead: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZukoZ9_obKdlZI Hatful of Hollow: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5itc5-pgcd9lck Meat is Murder: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4nLoJyId8mMqNU Strangeways, Here We Come: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIq7lJ6BbaqBi80 The World Won't Listen and Louder than Bombs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYioZWedjbWobMU

[@jabbawonger6572]

To pin and mount a butterfly means to encase it in a glass display case.

[@ethanc1719]

Accidental partridge

[@brycesterling947]

you either fully understand morrisseys work or you dont. its that simple

[@reisurenivka]

Wrong

[@brycesterling947]

Samuel U. The love his fans have for him transcends sex. You know nothing lmao.

[@reisurenivka]

@@brycesterling947 listening to The Smiths does not make you special. Morrissey is talented, and you aren't. Appreciating someone's art does not make you special at all.

[@brycesterling947]

Ricardo Milos when did I ever say I was special??????

[@jdsawyer7895]

@@reisurenivka he never said he was special

[@sorryimsosad]

When he says “pin and mount me, like a butterfly” it’s not saying butterflies get pinned down. He’s saying like with your arms spread out. Butterfly being your arms pinned up. As if your arms are outlining butterfly wings

[@robmiranda7120]

How I wish I could’ve made a reaction video 35 years ago when I heard The Smiths !

[@davemahony6300]

The stone roses debut or oasis definitely maybe or (what's the story) morning glory?

[@asiangoofs4697]

Morning Glory? The dudes from leftover crack?

[@sionhughes9044]

PLEASE DO THE STONE ROSES (self titled)

[@TrueNorth10]

Maybe this hasn't aged well but when it first came out there was nothing more exciting and interesting to listen to for the punk new wave crowd. Morrisey's heroic lyrics coupled with Marr's guitar riffs and understated melodies made for some of most represenattive music for that time. You really had to be there. I'm glad that younger people today are discovering the Smiths.

[@MultiSUPERLATIVO]

If one considers what was going on with British pop during the days of The Smiths debut album was released, oh, this record was different !!!!!!!

[@yordanstefanov5570]

This happens to be my favourite Smiths album. Somehow the thiner post punk sound suits better the band. Too 1990s for me are the next albums.

[@thoru4367]

I've asked people about something similar to The Smiths on reddit and nobody can find

[@R0CKDRIG0]

Echo And The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain, maybe?

[@andy_berlin]

Wedding Present - George Best

[@stevenmorrissey180]

gene

[@daystrike5218]

I don't know if you do other genres besides rock and punk and stuff. But one of my fav albums is called blonde by Frank ocean. It's alternative R&B and hip hop but its like inspired by the Beatles and beach boys. Perhaps check it out? Solid the smiths reaction tho

[@bkhappyj]

Sorry if it’s been requested before... but has anyone tipped you off to the genius of Bernard Butler and Suede? Start with the debut... could probably skip the Head Music and A New Morning era, but plenty to work with there. McAlmont & Butler, Duffy, Butler’s two amazing solo albums. Best to you and the family. Really enjoying your reviews!

[@TrueNorth10]

I wouldn't mind seeing a reaction for Badly Drawn Boy-The Hour of the Bewilderbeast . Not widely regarded as a classic but there are few who will say its excellent. Including me.

[@Gr33nDayJunki3]

You just listen to Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life. One of the most depressingly haunting records out there

[@AlexHaitz]

I have, actually! A lot of great tracks on there.

[@motelghost477]

The woman you hear laughing in 'Suffer Little Children' was Myra Hindley, who tortured and murdered six children in Manchester in the 1960s.

[@JA-er1fn]

Its not actually Myra Hindley, it was one of Morrissey's friends who laughed to sound like Myra Hindley.

[@austinmatulka1797]

Let me start with saying I really love you Content man! But I compare the Smith's early sound to early R.E.M and just like R.E.M I think there sound totally evolved over time in too there more well known sound. Lastly I don't know how there reaction work on how you pick what you listen to but if you take requests then I think you should listen to the first few Violent Femmes Albums, The first few Talking Heads albums, Metal Box by Public Image Limited, Or a couple of R.E.M's Albums.

[@cheguevara1289]

can u please react to pretty Girls make graves? by The Smiths

[@ethanc1719]

9:00

[@gigaming1237]

Has anyone told him most of it’s about the Moors Murders yet???

[@OsoMarcol]

GI Gaming123 He should have done some post-research. Finding SLC “ relaxing” What a moron!

[@michaelgarcia314]

Can't wait for hatful of hollowww

[@seapea7402]

Fascinating to watch your first reaction and will be interested to see if their slightly underwhelming debut grows on you as much as The Queen Is Dead did. Notice the line from This Charming Man; 'A jumped-up pantry boy, Who never knew his place' has been pinched/appropriated by Morrissey from the wonderful 1972 Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine film 'Sleuth' kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKi1gXijmsekbNk

[@Eiron]

los smtihs-los smiths

[@chumpchumparino.3783]

You should review zappa's album "were only in it for the money".I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

[@benibbotson2014]

Some R.E.M please, I think you might like reckoning or murmur.

[@AlexHaitz]

I think I have Murmur on my To Listen To list.

[@mightguy123456]

Every The Smiths song is about "gay stuff" lol

[@AlexHaitz]

You're not wrong.

[@thoru4367]

Philip Larkin Morrissey said the lyrics themselves are androgynous

[@mightguy123456]

Lust for Awesomeness I know. Morrissey says a lot of things though-only about half ever makes any sense.

[@fatvex1819]

I guess it’s about gay stuff? What a weird thing to say

[@AlexHaitz]

The Wikipedia page for the song said: "Feeling detached from the early 1980s mainstream gay culture, Morrissey wrote "This Charming Man" to evoke an older, more coded and self-aware underground scene." I glanced at the page just before listening to the song, so I assumed the song was about gay culture.

[@felipeahumada797]

Please do a favour to yourself and listen XTC!!! Black Sea.

[@felipeahumada797]

Reel around the fountain is about being in love with young teens while your an adult....

[@jojomojo9950]

You du should have listened to this album first to get the evolution of the band. Error

[@AlexHaitz]

I still got the evolution of the band, regardless of how I listened to the albums.

[@nopenope7851]

This is painful

[@glennjonsson1819]

The production on this album is really poor. The radio recordings on "Hatful..." are much better. Keep up the good work!

[@chrisschneider850]

google b4 doing this shit. sheesh

[@kathleen109]

Oh, you've made me happy that you decided you appreciate The Queen is Dead! I was leery of clicking this video for fear you still didn't like "my" music.

[@iainweller452]

This is my least favourite Smiths album Hatful of Hollow is fantastic

[@andyallen4492]

relaxing song !!! its about kids being sexually tortured and buried.time you did an apology

[@AlexHaitz]

It was obviously the music arrangement that I found relaxing at the time, and not the specific lyrics about murders I’m unfamiliar with because they took place during the 60s in a country I don’t even live in...all of which I wasn’t paying 100% attention to anyway because I was too drowsy by the end of the video. No apology.