The Smiths and The Story of Rough Trade

From The Story of Rough Trade - "The record label needed commercial success but fiercely guarded its independent identity, built on the alternative credibility of its music. The perfect solution to all of these problems came from a pair of ambitious songwriters from Manchester."

[@victorymansions]

When I heard This Charming Man, I picked up a guitar and I really think that was the start of my maturing/modesty process. It humbled me, and inspired me to be amazing at the same time. In short, I was absolutely blown away. Nothing like it before or since.

[@Dblue862]

Johnny Marr on the hustle being proactive...that's how you get on in life not by sitting there waiting for stuff to happen.

[@DJSTOEK]

🖤

[@thommytaranto]

Tell me about it!

[@sally8657]

Leave Club Tropicana alone! They're both good songs

[@mattvdh]

a grain of hope..which is difficult to have... lol oh morrisey, always overly dramatic and poetic about everything

[@arricammarques1955]

'You hve to have a grain of hope, which is difficult to have' Sage words...

[@mrkipling2201]

The smiths, Stone roses, happy mondays, oasis, sex pistols all made music that wasn’t only great but was so good that people are still listening to it 20, 30, 40 years later. You can’t say that about any music today

[@timotheusn.h.nakashona1001]

Good music is timeless.

[@mrkipling2201]

@@timotheusn.h.nakashona1001 well said. I totally agree.

[@maryreilly5102]

whats with the creepy music

[@ritalovesthebeatles]

Mary Reilly serial killer doco kinda music right?!

[@galas062]

what with the hate....

[@blackferdinand2260]

Mary Reilly it’s mozzer haunting you for eating meat

[@tonyboyle3043]

Knob

[@distortiontildeafness]

you don't need a lot of promotion to make great music

[@bartpitt2991]

Fact

[@ericsilberstein667]

Morrissey, Marr, Rourke and Joyce were the best.

[@arricammarques1955]

Like the low fi video footage, of the rough trade office. Shame this documentary isn't 16:9 or HD! :)

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

The eerie music is confusing me…

[@CaptainReedo40]

Where can one watch the rest of this documentary?

[@GodInTheMachine]

just remember that 'right guy' had about 1000 of those cassettes. it's never been easy jakub.

[@justinfracasso5826]

Good times for change, fuck oasis , U2 , bla bla bla, so real, lucky enough to have seen them , landed I Sao Paulo many years layer and they loved them,

[@Lexthebarbarian]

Simple Minds rubbish? Butler do not know shite about music. before Simple Minds became PC Bono wannabes they were divine.

[@danielnuttman6511]

jimeas popoloiv Ah yes Bernard Butler knows nothing about music that must be why he’s a successful musician and your not

[@themodernday5699]

Old Grey Whistle Test in 1983

[@paddyskate]

Green tele

[@joewas]

never knew rough trade grew with the smiths

[@TheGalwayFarmer]

likes his stripey t shirts doesn't he?

[@BlastProcessingGames]

@romarina yeah, wut.

[@Calvinism1517]

The greatest band of all time...

[@ericmourinho9589]

Name one bad smiths song or album

[@kurtcobainsmicrophone6969]

They have songs that are weaker (Vicar In A Tutu, Rusholme Ruffians) but every album is perfect.

[@TelecastPropellor96]

Golden Lights. Everything else is great.

[@CaptainReedo40]

There are bootlegs and soundchecks that are better than “Rank.”

[@achintobe5410]

Meat is murder (the song not the album) is pretty shit

[@eddielasowsky7777]

Simple Minds were utter shite

[@TelecastPropellor96]

Simple Minds for simple minds

[@milltimberwhite]

Aye they’re horse piss

[@MrMHughes68]

Bernard Butler's remarks are moronic and show how little he knows about the aspirations of the groups he defames. The Smiths are where the rot sets in, as far as i'm concerned. Compared to Scritti, The Pop Group, This Heat and Robert Wyatt, they were positively reactionary. Morrissey's subsequent support for the far right was par for the course.

[@sexobscura]

It's very true that Rough Trade kicked Go-Betweens *right off the label* to sign The Smiths

[@philjames6206]

That is tragic. Along with The Smiths, The Go-Betweens are one of my favorite top 10 guitar groups from the 80's up to The Libertines.

[@sexobscura]

@@philjames6206 obviously a man of discerning, cultured taste