Smile - Earth

UK - 1969
Smile were a London-based blues rock band best known as the predecessor to renowned rock band Queen. The band was formed in 1968 by Brian May, who went on to become Queen's guitarist

[@istugh]

What a shame this song is not on spotify

[@istugh]

@İbrahim Solmaz aight imma check it out ty!

[@barrymitchell6444]

@İbrahim Solmaz Never knew that, thanks. Morgan Fisher played on it too, before joining Mott The Hoople. He played keyboards live for Queen in 1982, before being sacked by Freddie with good reason!!!

[@JohnnyLaps]

Yes,it would get dozens of streams.🤦

[@perfectpiano1871]

Really?! It's a real shame.😤

[@timstaffell]

This song is on Spotify ;)

[@PartyDude_19]

It's amazing how even this early on, you could still hear whispers of Queen's distinctive style.

[@petsburg]

This isn't Queen this is Smile

[@facts2676]

​@@petsburglmao

[@PartyDude_19]

@@petsburg Mate, Queen was formed from Smile.

[@flybeep1661]

I hear nothing of Queen here. Sounds a bit like Van Der Graaf Generator but certainly no Queen. Some slight hints of Brain May's sound sure but overall this isn't Queen.

[@Lunarslay]

@@flybeep1661 i hear it, brians guitar tone, the harmonies, rogers sizzly hats

[@ChaoticBasil]

Lyrics: I might be at a table and suddenly I'll catch A fleeting vision of her crystal seas Or I might be standing in a crowded dockyard far away Underneath the sun I've never seen 'Cause I have seen many worlds for what it's worth But I'll never see again the planet Earth, my Earth I might be chasing waves of light out towards the rim Where stars are sparse and the cold of space seeps in But I might be in a bar room drinking methylated gin And thinking of the places I have been Yes, I have seen many worlds for what it's worth But I'll never see again the planet Earth, my Earth I have seen many worlds for what it's worth But I'll never see again the planet Earth, my Earth Cast adrift amongst the stars, I float from sun to sun Dreaming of the world that gave me birth All the places I have been remind me there is none To match the cool green rolling hills of Earth 'Cause I have seen many worlds for what it's worth But I'll never see again the planet Earth, my Earth

[@yajaros]

This is good. I hope with the movie more people listen to it.

[@yulay3215]

tu nombre no me engaña, hablas español Jajaja :P

[@carlos_aguirrexd]

@@yulay3215 XD x2

[@socal27]

Love this song

[@davidconnelly]

Just heard Brian May talking about this track on the Rick Beato channel. Turns out there's a key moment at 2:22 when the guitar has to suddenly disappear and make way for the vocals. Apparently they only had four tracks.

[@emdiar6588]

I came here for the same reason (even though I've had the Smile album on vinyl since 1985). They did indeed only have 4 tracks, and all but one of the songs on the LP are in mono, but what an album!!! It features the original version of Doing Alright, which is on Queen 1, and a proto version of the Brighton Rock guitar solo. A 'must hear' for any Queen fan.

[@davidconnelly]

@@emdiar6588 Yes, great call. I was programming last night with 'polar bear' on loop. Even without Freddie, I think this is a band that I could have really gotten into.

[@SixteenTonsOfMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXSngYZml6aDask - here's my stereo mix of the song

[@DukeEnlil]

Hahah, the same man!

[@JohnnyLaps]

That's why I'm here!!

[@stephendennis8739]

Shame that Freddie never had the chance to sing this

[@barrymitchell6444]

He definitely sang Smile's song Polar Bear. It can be found on here.

[@amabileboheme169]

I love this song so much.

[@colleenforrest7936]

Flash forward 50 years and Bryan May is at a party for a space ship that had been the first to Pluto and floating through the Kuiper Belt past another distant object deemed Ultima Thule, never to return this way again... Wow...

[@detunedplus6378]

*brian

[@elweyrompehuevos7646]

Great song

[@christineloader1835]

My Queen poster looking at me in disgrace while listening to this song hahah anyway i do really love this song now

[@wumbomandlx]

More like smiling. You've discovered it's roots.

[@marblackCanada]

Tim and Brian recorded this on Tim's album Amigo it is on Spotify.

[@Patricio1978]

No es esta versión, es otra más lenta.

[@dan1score]

Listening to the fetus of queen,magnificient

[@imajoketopeople6788]

I don’t like the way you worded that but yes it is magnificent

[@barrymitchell6444]

*Foetus. But people usually call Smile Queen's embryo group.

[@wumbomandlx]

​@@barrymitchell6444Fetus still works?

[@barrymitchell6444]

@@wumbomandlx Probably in America. I just realised it's yet another word taken from the English language (originally Latin) and wrongly spelled for simplicity.

[@barrymitchell6444]

Smile were treated unfairly. Mercury Records released Earth/Step On Me in the USA, saying if it charted there, they would release it in the UK too. It made no impact, so that was that.

[@hellohello5897]

Anyone here 2024?

[@desperado3853]

Yo

[@WagnerStoffelOne]

I didn't lose any year

[@PeterDoornbos1981]

Is it me or do I really rather see a Smile reunion in 2025 than a Queen + Adam Lambert concert?🎉

[@cassandra8466]

Well that's certainly an interesting idea - and probably vocally easier on Brian and Roger at this stage - and a truer reward for the more devoted fan.

[@aoey5]

Прекрасный (рro grace, krat), великолепный (well, whole) мелодизм (melody's ), замечательная (so meta) пеСНя (SoNg)! Предтеча "Queen", 70-е (70's)!

[@AtomicExtremophile]

Man, Staffell could sing, they had the makings of a great band, in my opinion.

[@sandrawestaway7149]

his voice has similarities to Freddy's

[@MadalinCristianRO]

Does anybody else thinks of '39 when he/she listens to this song?

[@PatriciaRascondeSoler]

yes, seems Brian´s song.

[@bruhfvdf3145]

Yes, this song is about leaving a point in terms of space, while ‘39 is leaving a point in terms of time

[@dorcimengintdurci]

​@@PatriciaRascondeSolerDef!

[@annakuch9108]

I love u for putting kn on here

[@Balloraaaaaa]

Only true Queen fans here listen to pre Queen

[@gabs_lightmylove]

Yasss 💪💪

[@albertomazza7455]

Am I the only Italian who is listening to and commenting on this wonderful song? I don't belive it!! 😂

[@dylanrei6924]

i'm the one brazilian

[@rockambolesco1790]

Eccomi 😅

[@therocknrollgamer9572]

@@rockambolesco1790 I am from County Cork Ireland, with an Irish Mother and a Bulgarian father So I am also one of those unique viewers

[@user-hm1ef4oq9c]

Questa canzone è Bellissima

[@petsburg]

From Londonderry

[@naummihajlovski4450]

Great song, but Smile is history... Queen is eternity!

[@lithograph-yx2ds]

And you’re a worthless nothinghead who’s gonna be forgotten why don’t can’t you just stfu and go away

[@ポケコロ韓国]

❤

[@julesfoster8769]

Smile reminds me a lot of Radiohead

[@vascogomes9488]

And now Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are in a band called "The Smile" 🤷🏻🤷🏻

[@aoey5]

Ирония судьбы или закономерность рока, преднамеренность или произвольность, неспроста или стечение обстоятельств, случайность или умысел-замысел-помысел-смысл?

[@miguelmontelongo4161]

Ray Charles 40s. Richie Vallens 50s Quarrymen 50s Beatles 1963 Smile 60s Queen 70s

[@SamA-oe7ft]

This comment makes no sense lol

[@miguelmontelongo4161]

@@SamA-oe7ft I understand you not a fan of oldies :)

[@SamA-oe7ft]

@@miguelmontelongo4161 stop commenting stupid crap you’re pissing me off lol you people get me too annoyed and in trouble lol

[@SamA-oe7ft]

@@miguelmontelongo4161 I am a fan you’re list just doesn’t make sense the Beatles were together from 1962-1969 smile wasn’t together that long Ray Charles want famous in the 40s you don’t know what you’re talking about at all

[@miguelmontelongo4161]

@@SamA-oe7ft the Beatles actually started in 1957

[@d.a.elliottjr.367]

Reminds me of Space Oddity by David Bowie.

[@lidhdilli6203]

The same 😳

[@lidhdilli6203]

1:51 sounds like David Bowie

[@steegosaurus]

It does use the Mellotron’s violin tape loop around 1:11, and Space Oddity also uses the Mellotron too.

[@PartyDude_19]

It really does sound like Space Oddity.

[@basstian]

It was recorded at the same studios either the day before or the day after Bowie did 'Space Oddity'. They literally walked past each other when entering/leaving the recording room. Because of the whole space race thing, it wasn't uncommon for quite a few musicians to be thinking of that at the time and incorporate it into their creations.

[@mateovelasquez4497]

There used to be a smile album on spotify. Now it is gone...

[@priolouisvital3562]

Who's here after Angel nene's queen transformation??

[@waltuh6202]

This sounds similar to some of Radiohead’s earlier stuff

[@chegoos]

Exelente!!!! adelantados a su epoca!!!!!!!!!!! Tim Sttaffel debio de suplir al fallecido Mercury!

[@ChrisSche]

Wow what a stroke of luck. This band was great and I don't think they would have felt the need for a new singer had he not left. Fate is strange.

[@johngellard1187]

Did this get a general releas?

[@gideonluis6996]

Sadly no

[@aoey5]

Тогда мало кто играл как Д.Бонэм и Р.Тейлор, единицы (тем более используя бочки, стандарт - тройничёк). С таким же успехом можно было под метроном или как позже под драм-машину. Это был прорыв в исполнительском мастерстве, феерия. Меркьюри увидел потенциал и стал ярым поклонником "Смайл" (не взирая на факты художественного whimsy-whimsle-вымысла в фильме "БР" / пипл хавает).

[@AlanPurpleOwls]

Rick Beato talking to Brian sent me here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYrQaIuVrKimhrM

[@misterwhy6026]

Weezer vibes (yes I know that this is the predecessor to Queen)

[@nevermore1963]

טים אתה לא בשביל סמייל ולא בשביל queen. אתה בשביל קריירת סולו שלמה וענקית, זה לא קרה...

[@aoey5]

Неопределённость. Только пассионарии (такие как Ф.Меркьюри, И.Сталин, В.Киселёв) тянут локомотив, убеждая других (социум же) в правильности "делай как должно и будь что будет". Хотя и испытывали действительность до 1976, не то что "Лёд цеппелин" (а пресса принципиально не любила "Квин")).

[@Captainomni]

Mostly awful…

[@lithograph-yx2ds]

I love Tim’s voice