The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again - Live At Whistle Test 1986

The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again - Live At Whistle Test 1986
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Lyrics:
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I'd like to smash every tooth
In your head
Oh ... sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking
When I said by rights you should be
Bludgeoned in your bed
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt
Oh ...
Bigmouth, la ... bigmouth, la ...
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
Oh, bigmouth, la ... bigmouth, la
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her roman nose
And her hearing aid started to melt
Bigmouth, la ... bigmouth, la ...
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
Oh ...
Bigmouth, oh ... bigmouth, la ...
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
Oh ...
Bigmouth, oh ... bigmouth, la ...
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
Oh ...
Bigmouth, oh ... bigmouth, la ...
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the Human race
Oh ...

[@Adam_Barrett]

Morrissey's voice is at it's absolute peak here

[@julianr602]

So were those blue jeans

[@bazookahorse]

Seconded!

[@tinychud6327]

it's incredible how good his voice still holds up even today!

[@user-rr5pl2uh1z]

i am joan of arc.

[@BigLebowski2000]

😆@@julianr602

[@cvtt3194]

This song is just cool. No one sounds like this anymore.

[@chrilborn4138]

No one sounded like it back then

[@davidwoods8181]

Tbf nobody sounded like it in the 80s either

[@cvtt3194]

@@davidwoods8181 you're right!

[@JMBluecoat8289]

I beg to differ. I was in Kentish Town for a gig the other day and Rick Astley, backed by a band called Blossoms, sounded just like this when he sang the song…

[@kimsung2384]

Agree - no one before/after

[@aires69uk]

An integral part of the Smiths was the bass and the drums and that is so often overlooked.

[@theoneandonlyownage]

Andy Rourke for me is one of the most underrated British musicians ever

[@hellbornelfchild]

A truly remarkable band.

[@chrisalberts9125]

Andy is so underrated

[@jacobmassey3897]

Its their own fault they don't receive recognition because they never signed the contract to say they were official members of the Smiths so they don't even receive royalties for their songs.

[@sethgauby8730]

The bass is so good in their songs! And really well mixed

[@alessiav1667]

That “rrrr” gets me every time

[@karenmerluzzi8173]

LOVE it !!

[@goeidebasil147]

Yes love it

[@elenapetrix7912]

It's look like the "R" Italian pronouncetion ahahahah

[@Lancer7117]

Truss me

[@insanedb]

wets you

[@kurtcobainpizza5606]

Johnny Marr only 22 at the time..fucking BRILLIANT

[@GrungeGirl83]

His voice is perfect.

[@renatopinheirodamota403]

GrungeGirl83 .... yes mem beatiful

[@ethanmiller631]

*says something racist or controversial

[@anikagh]

@@ethanmiller631 no one cares

[@ethanmiller631]

@@anikagh stfu if you have bateman as your pfp cunt

[@rachelbeekmann3782]

This is my favorite smith's song. There will never be another like them 🖤

[@1groovygreg]

That is a TIGHT live performance. These guys are bloody legendary.

[@benchwashere]

this has to be their best live perfomance, hands down.

[@stefanovitali2925]

check out live at the Tube 1984 there's a monumental version of Barbarism begins at home that is on par with this one

[@troyshen5715]

​@@stefanovitali2925Good suggestion, that was amazing too.

[@brincher]

Morrissey's accent is so cool on this one!

[@annavanwys7598]

What kind of accent is it? ( îm french). It is hard to do part of différents accents. Thanks

[@charliemorris4715]

@@annavanwys7598 he’s from Davyhulme, in Manchester, UK, where the band also formed.

[@annavanwys7598]

@@charliemorris4715 Thanks!

[@nicoles.1585]

He's rolling the "r" more than on the recorded version, I guess (not a native speaker too.. I'm swiss) :)

[@brincher]

@@nicoles.1585 Yeah, that's it. It is very Manchester. 01:40

[@f0x845]

Every single part of this band is astounding. The Smiths have a timeless sound thanks to every instrument, Morrisey's voice, and especially the lyrics. This is one of the few bands I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard them. I played their first album over and over for weeks.

[@julosx]

I've playing their records over and over for years… Decades even.

[@stevenhartlaub4557]

Vocals here are really top notch.

[@gregorybishop3886]

I honestly thought this was a lip sync until he RRRRRROLLED that "R"

[@72phinatic]

Watch Morrisey in this ... This is why people got so excited about The Smiths the short time they were together ...He was Top Dog in the 80's Britpop / New Wave movement ...

[@stonezone9689]

No band had four albums and only four albums like they did, all are immediate classics and frankly Strangeways is extremely under appreciated

[@TheDiamond2009]

I'm not sure Strangeways is under appreciated, it's just their fourth best album. Although The Smiths' fourth best album takes an awful lot of beating.

[@stuartschwartz234]

Police?

[@ptrkbnkr4043]

@@stuartschwartz234 Yep. But they had five ;-)

[@riskydigitsta1794]

Mia San Mia!

[@foto21]

Joyce knows how to set a pace with a groove and not to speed the song up. He does this on all Smiths songs. He nails the groove and never wavers. Rourke's bass on this is particularly great. Please don't tell me other drummers can do this easily because I don't hear it in the replacement drummers in the various modern incarnations. It's easy to diss Moz, but he brings a shitload of personality to the proceedings. And his lyrics are brilliantly personal and universal and very human.

[@Hoovercat]

The best band in the world.

[@Pazuzu82]

Hoovercat There not on the go now

[@karenmerluzzi8173]

Amen !!

[@vspj]

Please don't exaggerate. Rush is the best one. This is only average.

[@conduit242]

@@vspj Pffft, Morissey is easily the better front man. Everything after that is drums ;).

[@raulgonzalezart6006]

Hoovercat i agree

[@lecorsaire2283]

That jingle jangle. It’s glorious!

[@rjjcms1]

In the morning it'll come following you.

[@diamonddog4708]

Johnny Marr 🎸🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@sherrimarshall3760]

That's a killer Bass line!

[@JarmezGD]

My friend recommended I listen to The Smiths and I wish I’d started sooner, what an absolutely incredible band and this is one of my favourites so far

[@diamonddog4708]

I can't remember what Morrisey said in the press but it was controversial and landed him in trouble . . . . again 😄 Hence this song. It's sublime in every way.

[@bunnyandtheechomen]

His singing is just incredibly amazing

[@timwalker2778]

The bass player is really good.

[@francesroma1647]

That would be Andy Rourke

[@lauriegiemza4570]

RIP Andy

[@lukemccormack2796]

I WANT THEM BACK TOGETHER MAN!! :(

[@fuzmaginty5822]

Luke McCormack now that would be amazing

[@stefanogallo511]

All of us want it!

[@FFP_BF2]

I guess you can say… We want the one we can’t have… and it’s driving us mad. It’s written all over our faces.

[@68majortom]

As much as I hate Reunions cos most are about Cash, but I can't see that being the case if they were ever to do it, it would be purely a Musical thing possibly New Material considering the speed they got Work done, I would break my Rule and be 1st in line somehow?

[@erindaniel2310]

@@FFP_BF2 so clever 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ronaldothomejunior3702]

The fans can love Marr, but Andy Rourke commands the Groove in this album;)

[@saucyvinnie3812]

Criminally underrated bassist

[@seankilburn7200]

You wouldn’t have the music without marr.

[@6B8RX]

Rest in peace, Andy!

[@jehugo66]

As a 1983 American High School Exchange Student, ma famille de Francais took me to Rouen to where Joan of Arc was burned. I stood in front of what is now a small stone obelisk on the spot she was burned, staring while listening to my Walkman...

[@karenmerluzzi8173]

Very Freakin Cool !

[@mariomeiyama3832]

joan of arc was never burried, because she was sentence to crucifix and burned to death, her ashes was thrown to seine river.

[@prakharpant1711]

Surreal

[@brisleeadams]

@BestCanKeanRob2 The lyrics maybe?

[@franciscoprado5236]

Did your walkman melted?

[@leggomyeigonosensei]

Pure genius. Completely in the zone. You can't force that level of talent.

[@darrenp2225]

A performance i have to visit a few times a week…Smiths simply sublime.

[@Luciana-np1yv]

He dances like Chandler

[@sereen.]

Omg Just noticed!!! I want him to lipsync it!

[@TheReddevil821]

Chandler dances like Morrisey.

[@syedzaidi5726]

Chandler dance like Morrisy

[@HappyAppart]

Fuck you.

[@cherrybelle7956]

@@sereen. it's not top of pops it's old grey whistle test

[@noahsherwood2445]

I love how raw this version sounds

[@LauraChickk]

Why wasn't I around in the 80's? I was raised on the smiths because my dads such a huge fan, pity I

[@JamBadguy]

Laura Izod same I am so pissed off that I couldn't see them play so my one life ambition is to see Morrissey play.

[@SmelOdies]

Laura Izod I lived through the entire ‘80s without hearing one Smiths song. Heh. I may have heard OF them in the late ‘80s, when I was in high school, but that’s it.

[@victorhuertas4685]

Its better to know about the 80s and its sound, even dough not being born then..than to never know the Smiths at all.

[@yuliancoronado2737]

In my case I just decided to listen them. Also, I got very interested because of 500 days of Summer!

[@yuliancoronado2737]

@@victorhuertas4685 Agreee

[@dane279]

How are they gonna let Craig Gannon's guitar be louder than Johnny's?

[@williamrowland8957]

Dane Di Pierro i

[@MusicTeacherGuyNorristown]

I know!!!

[@PlanetoftheDeaf]

The BBC back then tended to be erratic when it came to mixing live music!

[@ashleywilson1208]

I bet that’s johnnys Ricky aswell

[@johnlucas2317]

@@ashleywilson1208 Probably.

[@diamonddog4708]

The 80's were the greatest time to be in your 20's. Best music ever

[@markarend8226]

Remember hear the smith while sitting at a cementary with a bottle of wine in the middle of the Night. Depressions feel better in the 80s

[@BrunoPereira-cb9gg]

Nobody sounds like The Smiths. No one ever will. What a band!!!! Mike Joyce is a solid drummer, Adam Rourke...simple bass lines but played with perfection, Johnny Marr...a guitar wizard and Morrissey...beatiful lyrics and a great voice...Class A singer!!!!

[@alfred0o_dev715]

What an incredible live performance, you should come to Hawaii 😀😀

[@paulafay8551]

In those days, people used to refer to family/loved ones as "Sweetness". Up North anyway. Noone seems to use the expression anymore.

[@madforit2]

Great introduction by the host

[@napomania]

Killer Song. With great bass lines , also

[@diamonddog4708]

What a brilliant vocal, and it's LIVE, yes kids LIVE. This is real music.

[@stevenhartlaub4557]

I know. At first a thought he might be lip syncing and then I realized he was singing live. It's flawless.

[@diamonddog4708]

@@stevenhartlaub4557 One of the best I've heard from Morrisey. It's very different from the studio recording.

[@jillcharlton9138]

I didn't know I loved them until I listened to this. Seems a long time ago. Timeless.

[@vicrattlehead6386]

Gotta love the smogey camera from 80s and early 90s

[@fionahairdresser]

They were a really excellent band.

[@1groovygreg]

Pure genius. Bloody brilliant.

[@gx2music]

Watched this live as a kid. Peak Smiths. They truely were the greatest band of the 80s

[@Cicero1690]

I listened to this song first a few months ago, maybe one or two, I have been completely hooked on the smiths since then, It's a shame they never made it to the 90s.

[@diamonddog4708]

The OGWT was the best music programme of ALL time. So many wonderful bands and they were performing live.

[@diamonddog4708]

Oh this is absolutely CLASSIC. My favourite Smiths song ever.

[@Neotokyovibes-WelcomeHome]

Anyone else think the presenter at the start really adds to the nostalgia? (Even if it got me nostalgic of Jimmy Saville on TV before bands played)

[@andrews527]

This Charming Man.

[@inonart]

The Smiths are so wonderful ❤ but I smile with sadness. Beautiful and sad sense always.

[@duster15670]

2019 just getting into them..49 but better late than never 🤠👌

[@raytonjd]

Andy D Right on!

[@selinaogorman8380]

This band is so awesome love it what a voice.

[@Kiln99]

Someone forgot to plug Johnnys guitar in lol. Drums (and everything else) are fkn superb but 😎

[@gabrielfrancisco3877]

This version is absolutely the best

[@Laura......]

That hahaha gets me every time. Andy Kershaw said what a lot of us are thinking.

[@superemepwr]

Such an original group

[@ericbaum228]

They were impossibly cool

[@SekhmetSecretWeapon]

'whistle test'............. 1986... WOW!!!!!! :))

[@bubblybubbles4326]

Love his Voice!

[@ninecosta3523]

Me too

[@1groovygreg]

Bloody brilliant.

[@fabriziogallo3658]

perfect voice

[@truthmatters5209]

Like some of the the other comments, what strikes me is how good the bass, drums and rhythm guitar are in this performance. They often get overlooked, but in this performance they are outstanding. Esp. 2.17 - 2.30 and after 3.14.

[@lastxp]

Love the sunglasses look

[@williamzeledon586]

How could I not love this?

[@lz389]

Sweetness Do you understand this music?? We understood it in 80's

[@Thisisspacemusic]

love these guys!

[@amandaprill1508]

Bass playing brilliant on this song

[@ericbaum228]

They were so brilliant! Why can't we have a reunion??

[@daviddundas4140]

Its sad that this may be one of the few bands that will never have a reunion, the feelings run too deep.

[@freya8133]

A reunion ruined the Sex Pistols for many people. A reunion of the Smiths may too.

[@catgirl8724]

because morrissey is a weirdo

[@jayden6341]

Because if they did. They’re bound to sue each-other again.

[@mitchconner1407]

Everything about this song and performance is wonderful.

[@MrCrrispy]

Iconic song from the era...

[@jonnys66]

Incredible performance…so much swagger with lyrics that are carried off perfectly with reckless abandonment. What a band and what a frontman !!!

[@flaviosoares5364]

INESQUECÍVEL 😢 saudades desse tempo maravilhoso

[@KirillAFilin]

+100 in repeat ezy!

[@danilos.dasilva7547]

The Smiths como é sensacional 🙏 saudações anos 80 eternamente

[@alexandremarques8641]

Chega a apertar o coração; me remete a minha juventude, meus 18 anos. Como dancei essa música; mexia com o brio da galera, PLAY HOUSE, na Praça Seca no Rio de janeiro, quanta CURTIÇÃO. ANOS 8O, os melhores da minha vida !!❤❤❤❤

[@helenmurray3276]

How Joan of Arc feeeeeellllT!

[@rachelfoxyfox2701]

Please the guitarists ARE SO FRICKIN COOL-

[@brizeeuk]

one of my favs

[@tonymgc82]

RIP Andy Rourke

[@JackFknTwist1]

Pure genius !

[@danilosouflamengoecampeaom7983]

Muuuuuito boa música, excelente banda e a época anos 80 que foi a melhor de todos os tempos 👍

[@OzzyDias]

Que banda♡♡♡

[@garagempedalcarzonta3387]

Show simplesmente!

[@plarm3186]

Fuck me the guitars sound so good in this....

[@clebersouzadacruz5463]

The Smiths, grande banda dos 80´s.

[@iranildocabraldacosta8109]

The smiths , vcs foram e vai ficar sendo a melhor banda do século com essas poesias maravilhas , salve os anos 80 salve os the smiths

[@danilosouflamengoecampeaom7983]

The Smiths marcou milhões de pessoas com as musicas 🖑 saudações The Smiths ✌🇧🇷🇧🇷 anos 80 melhor época de todos os tempos.

[@Annitalamariquita]

excelent...forever

[@anonymouslystrange8822]

melting

[@danilosouflamengoecampeaom7983]

Ah se existisse uma máquina do tempo eu voltaria nessa época maravilhosa dos anos 80 obrigado meu Deus por eu ter vivido nessa época maravilhosa 🖑 saudações The Smiths ✌🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@christostsantiridis8302]

80s for ever in my mind....

[@stannats2637]

perfection

[@MrRafloyd]

Sensacional! ☆

[@adrianc1264]

Damn, he's dressed so fine

[@HenrikBarteldspsy]

Great

[@fionahairdresser]

Possibly one of the be bands ever

[@desiguy55]

i listened countless time to the CD but 1st time i seen this on youtube. morrissey is not only singer but performer, love watching him love this band.

[@rentalsnake6542]

What an introduction, big ups to that guy