The Wedding Present - Kennedy

[@lauticureboca9277]

The wall of sound coming little by little in the last two minutes is one of the greatest and most powerful moments of all time. Greetings from Argentina.

[@stepanhaskovec5514]

I agree totally, the only song that tops it ( the best end ever)…. Is Static by Godspeed You Black Emperror….best from Prague…

[@sickboyeddi]

Agreed, same with Take….

[@wook5ter268]

I'm 49 and the middle brother of three boys. We were all different and fought in our teens. I was naughty and got sent away to school and my elder brother stayed local. My younger brother was a goth and followed me away to school. When he was 19 my elder brother moved to a flat in Bournemouth and one day invited me around. He was with his mates and they played their favourite music - the Wedding Present came on as they passed a joint around and suddenly we were bonded and found common ground. 32 years later we are tight - all three of us -all with children and we still bond over a smoke. This tune reminds me of the day we became tight and the rift at the end send shivers down my spine to this day. We saw the Wedding Present together in Amsterdam in the early noughties amongst other places. I love my brothers. x

[@frflinstone]

Well done mate. So good to hear a positive story for a change.

[@goldsmithstrings6842]

It's Riff not rift

[@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor]

Keep them as tight you can fellow brother

[@richardjeffreys2437]

Was Gareth there ? x

[@stephenroche5107]

Bully for you.

[@marksherwood5155]

I'm 50 year old now and followed the Weddoes all over, top band, class cannot be bought @!!

[@robertjohnston4280]

This should have been No. 1 in the UK charts.

[@TestyMcTestypants]

for weeks.

[@tommiatkins3443]

The Wedding Present are the kind of band that will smash their guitars on stage, then sweep up afterwards themselves.

[@gaztafari]

That is one of the best postings I've ever read...and soooo true ha ha ha ha

[@herbertrichard614]

Geddie is Jesus.

[@JMarinelli]

"...erm...sorry for the mess."

[@domfletcher2641]

Ridiculously good comment, I don't recall such intellect in my youth!

[@inova11901]

Gedge is a true gentleman.

[@BritStang]

One of my favourite songs back then, and still is now. Those chords....loud & aggressive, yet beautifully melodic. The playing is tighter than a gnats chuff.

[@joethekelly335]

Gnats chuff 😂

[@herbertrichard614]

Best guitars in human history.

[@germalina9879]

I met my partner when I was 37, he was 35. This is one of our overlap bands that we both loved when we were 18, 19 ish. We still, 10 yrs later, dance together in the kitchen to the Weddoes ❤

[@briancox9357]

You've got to pick some people up, you've got to let some people go. What a lyric, what a song and what a band. Reminds me of my youth.

[@frflinstone]

Yeah that lyric is so true and you realize just how true the older you get.

[@thogdad1]

Possibly their best tune

[@akis723]

nope but up there

[@GLOWoftheABYSS]

Nobody else will ever jangle like the Wedding Present.

[@captainawasome8985]

Deerhunter makes a good try in "Desire Lines"

[@pigglesy]

How on earth to you get desire lines from Kennedy?

[@yamit465]

Incredidble Stuff ! .......

[@tommiatkins3443]

George Formby came close

[@rkiss6114]

Give Unrest a try.

[@jollyjetsetter]

What's not to love here? A headlong rush, wall of noise, and a tune which has proven it's timeless status many years down the line

[@draculasneeze6681]

it's got a start a middle and an end, and the end is really the end. A song as a statement.

[@squareinsquare2078]

The drummer is really good at playing when he's spinning upside down.

[@davidsterckx7358]

A cure for depression. Magnificent song.

[@frflinstone]

If you ever feel down then listen to this song with the volume at max, it's a stunning piece of music and may be the best VU inspired song ever !

[@sentinela8775]

I’ve just listened to the last part of the song and It made me cry. I’m 48 and It’s so sad to see the world transitioning from my generation to this new world order and, man, it’s really sad. I wish I could go back in time and do everything all over again. If you are listening to this track in 2022, I want you to know that, no matter where you are from, you are a cool person. Portugal 🇵🇹

[@draculasneeze6681]

The world changes, and welcomes the new. Meanwhile I have a few drinks, and stick these tunes on and say ... they'll never feel like this.

[@Andy-ct8be]

That's the nostalgia talking old man. You've decided the world is worse, so it looks worse to you. If you were looking at the world now through the eyes of your younger self, you'd see it a lot differently

[@ER-gw2xz]

I feel like that sometimes. Keep the faith.

[@Beardbloke]

@@Andy-ct8be As a gay Wedding Present fan, 2022 is *immeasurably* better than 1989. Of that, there is no doubt

[@Beardbloke]

@Sentinela Why? It was in response to Andy's comment. The world is immeasurably better for me, as someone gay, in 2022 than in 1989. I can enjoy the music of my youth - and I do, a great deal! - but I keep nostalgia a little distantly, because it was a dark, dark, time to be gay. So, I am pleased to still be listening to 1989s music, but in the present day :-)

[@richardstill8689]

this is was and always will be the greatest song ever

[@friautz]

For me there are 2 bands who are the best guitar bands ever. The Wedding Present and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

[@stephenbaker7344]

I'm with you there! First gig was the wedding present in 1987. I ended up following the Marychain round for several years. Happy times.....

[@steed9064]

just smashed my living room up.

[@shaunlondon4638]

Once a year I destroy things to this. Most often my rotatoror cuff.

[@Duncan_1971]

Good job! You need some new furniture anyway.

[@MorrisseysMonkey]

Nice one. Just threw out my remote control out me velux window.

[@MrScottcoleman77]

You had wrong house and wrong fuckin living room lol😂

[@martinhansen5021]

Wall of sound. 4 Guitars. The sound of my youth.

[@Rorke993]

19 years old heard this on radio 1. Blew my damn mind way open to a world of new music, and i doubt there's another song ever recorded capable of making me feel as euphoric as this can.

[@tarheel8494]

see, kids, this is what music can be

[@233Runner]

The Wedding Present is one of the best bands to see live (of all time). I saw them in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) in the early 1990s at a club called “Masquerades” and the space was on an upstairs level. When this song came on the entire crowd started pogoing (jumping in unison) and the fucking floor started to buckle! It bent, but fortunately didn’t break. 😁

[@herbertrichard614]

No question on that score. What do you think of the extended guitar solo(es) that close the song? I have never heard anything like it. It is very exciting.

[@cromptoniser]

Great band, I was at Bradford Uni 86-89, Wedding Present playing on that lake, New Model Army and the 1 in 12 club Chumbawumba Thatcher on Acid Heresy etc. Nearly as good as 77-80.

[@jonasreus]

When this was produced (1989) I was 17 yo. Damn time flies.

[@sadiemcloughlin690]

I was 11, all my friends were into stonk hateken and wataloadofshitman. To be fair that stuff runs rings round the pish they play on capital radio:)

[@leopold7562]

I was 18 and these guys were part of the soundtrack of my late teens and early twenties. Good times.

[@233Runner]

Who’s dancing in their kitchen to this energetic song during this Pandemic? 🕺🏼💃🏼💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼

[@herbertrichard614]

Yeah, I'll do it! Geddie is Jesus. The extended guitar outro is staggering brilliance.

[@bschuler6216]

Get Down! Get Up! Get Up! And Get Down!

[@stephanebsardou4479]

Saw them in Tourcoing at the Grand Mix one week ago, mainly "Bizarro" tracks : grey haired but blazing energy !!! So good !

[@markweber4678]

How did I miss this band? They rocked it! Trolled every vinyl bin and never ran across them in the US… but still love the sound! 😎

[@odothedoll2738]

I’m actually here because I was talking to my parents friend about bands that never got big in America and I thought their band name was really weird so it stuck in my mind

[@aroundsounds66]

Sounds as good now as the day it was born.....Great track...XXXX

[@andrewhamilton9284]

Tumblers Bradford early to mid nineties dancing around to this with can of red stripe to hand bloody happy memories

[@crose7412]

Yep, August '94 was my first time in Tumblers.

[@PhilFraser]

Leeds' finest !!! Great sound. Brilliant band in their prime when there was a dearth of good bands around - look up the album George Best.

[@jedilegoarts9882]

Fanbloodytastic... I have goosebumps. Only good thing about being a kid was the music... Oh .. And no mortgage!

[@robyngolden-hann3407]

That bass!

[@talesfromthescrypt]

Never we gets old. But I do.

[@thorstenschlitt2725]

I see Wedding Present 1987 in Marburg/Lahn small town in West-Germany - Great !

[@andrewmcinnes72]

Masterpiece of indie rock

[@newtnevesyt4641]

Amazed at how many people don't realize this song is about the rich and powerful disposing of John F. Kennedy and American's disillusionment with government. "Aris walks away with Johnny's wife" Millionaire Aristotle Onasis married Jackie Kennedy. "If Lee's name does come up" is Lee Harvey Oswald. "Everybody loves a TV show" is the Oswald Killing on live TV, and the Zapruder Film.

[@david_4739]

Under-rated comment. I remember a friend 30 years ago hypothesising that the "apple pie" lines are a reference to a poison the CIA used to murder people. Not sure if that's a Monroe reference or what. But like you I've always been curious about the deeper meaning of the song regarding the Kennedy family.

[@ntleaver29]

Saw them in Wolverhampton last week, superb!

[@miseryloveco]

When I heard this song when it was first issued, I knew my life would never be the same again. Thank you, David - I have had an interesting life ever since Kennedy.

[@herbertrichard614]

Love that! The 3 minutes of other-worldly guitar clatter that closes the song is unparalleled in modern rock history. These guys were definitely onto something totally unique. Geddie is Jesus.

[@herbertrichard614]

Best guitar song I've heard.

[@francescaruby1150]

Listening in 2024

[@elijosintetico2847]

1986 loading msdos 3.2 from a floppy disk

[@christopherwelch136]

Who wouldn’t?

[@krash1968]

Still sounds good

[@MorrisseysMonkey]

Aye

[@nigellangridge1975]

1:39 Keith Gregory’s bass!!! Love TWP, they got me through some difficult times... Bizarro and the monolith that is Seamonsters are their finest albums.

[@BS-jr3dl]

Saw these at the Reading Festival in 1990 (I think, can't quite remember the date!) and they were amazing. Then I went to uni in Leeds and saw them I don't know how many times. Wish I could go back and do it all again! Absolute genius.

[@cobblers02]

remember seeing these at Reading festival early 90s.loads of bonfires with people jumping through them.Happy days.

[@flurwerk]

Playing in Dublin soon! Best news I heard today.

[@ianrobinson4200]

Forgot how fucking brilliant this track is,first time I've heard it in years!

[@blah7657]

I remember this song from years ago…found it on a compilation cassette. It hits different here though. Glad I found it on a quick search.

[@Crookslingmusic]

Still a banger all these years later

[@northernmonkey8652]

I remember when i first heard this band on the John Peel show and then managed to get into the Leadmill to see them which was lucky because I was underage. When we were drinking a pint in the bar before the show David Gedge came up to us and talked to us. So genuine just like his music.

[@magicjoeblack5761]

Everlasting adjectival genius.

[@GerWalshTube]

one of my all time favourite tunes, such energy!

[@guyphawkes]

This was the song that caught me on the hook for these guys. I am now a world class fan, I have piles of the vinyl and CDs all signed. Met them as WP and as Cinerama. I never get tired of these guys, I got a few bootlegs of theirs I recorded somewhere. I asked Gedge if he was ok with me filming, and they were THRILLED with it. So many memories to this band, when my senior year in high school was proving that life was going to shit and very quickly, this album, (and several 12" singles) got me through some rough times. 30+ years later, they still hit the spot.

[@wendymason5493]

I bought the 12"of this,and its feckin FANTASTIC!!-Had to order it,as back in the day it werent easy getting to hear indie music,let alone buy it,and on 12"!!!glad groups like this pulled the wall down and gave us a better choice than'bros,kylie,and stock,aitken etc..'We owe the wedding present and other independents,rough trade SO MUCH.🙏

[@dedabole]

I remember this song blew up my mind when I was a kid

[@sm3107]

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhrrrrrggg. Tee shirt off around the head song. Brilliant memories.

[@frflinstone]

You mean underpants surely !

[@britpacked]

Wrecking on the dance floor to this around 1993 👊❤️

[@paultouhig7288]

Whirling...Fantastic dervish!...of energy!!!...Bravo!...

[@dinoramone6761]

I love The Fall-like repetition of the same hook until the song builds to a crescendo. They did that a lot.

[@jamesward7721]

David Gedge is a big fan of the fall.

[@southerner4566]

But they were far better than that load of shite The Fall

[@JMarinelli]

“It’s not repetition, it’s discipline.” - MES

[@herbertrichard614]

Exactly, in that respect it is also like Velvet Underground.

[@ashleymonday298]

Yeah, Guided By Voices do this sometimes too. Great way to construct a song.

[@nicgarner1812]

Heard this years ago when I was a teenager, on the John Peel show on Radio 1. Tried to drum along on my kit.... Failed !!! Top drums Top guitar Top song

[@simonpringle3219]

breaks my heart, the Weds, great great great band

[@vanillaorchid]

One of the best bands ever. Happy memories jumping around to this at their gigs.

[@Sacha1967]

The layers man, the LAYERS!

[@captaincluster316]

Fond memories of driving around at night with my mates and this playing loud in the car. Oh to be young again 😦

[@johnfrodsham1124]

Whirling around, shirts over our heads, not a care in the world, to this at 42's and 5th Ave... Ooh happy days........

[@Tr4veller]

I forgot about this track. I stumbled on it from a link listening to Carter USM, genuinely freaked out remembering dancing to this at Chicos in Hanley. Dear God, how did I ever forget how good this was?

[@blacksunwolves1572]

Ahhhhh, Chicos! :-)

[@fortyfour1654]

Handily placed to catch the bus in and flag down a taxi from the other side of the road.... Them were the days duck....

[@leerothwell3742]

Can't beat this live at the front in the moshpit 😍😍😍

[@ThePegasus101]

seen weddos many times in 90s...always brilliant.leeds uni

[@masahiroueno3250]

ノリのいい曲。映像もセンスがあって素晴らしい！

[@grizcuz]

One of my favourite gig memories involved the Weddoes. Bradford Festival mid to late 80's. They played in a park on a stage erected in the middle of a shallow boating lake. A few songs into their set and they played Kennedy. Dozens of people decided to wade into the lake and try and invade the stage. Which meant the band leaving in a hurry and pleas for the stage invaders to return to the shore. Water plus many thousands of volts of live sound obviously being a very dangerous situation. I can remember Gedge pissing himself whilst attempting to appear serious at the situation unfolding in front of him. Free gig as well.

[@jameselliott8203]

I was there that night too,Lister Park and they were amazing loved them ever since .

[@justMe-rd4sw]

fuckin brilliant,what a great band

[@garrybye4415]

I first heard this at the Bristol Bierkeller when they were also the support act for an evening of Ukrainian folk music, and I’ve had the privilege to hear it live many times since.

[@AndySeventy3]

This could cure covid. Epic energy. Lost on this generation, hoping to be found. X

[@herbertrichard614]

Good note. The 3 minutes of guitar clatter that closes the song is unrivaled in modern rock history. It is like plates hitting a stone floor successively for that length of time.

[@herbertrichard614]

Taking a solid melody through incredible noise. Very accomplished art.

[@osamabinliner9781]

Cure what 🤔 ffs

[@ewenaj]

the best single released that year - what a tune!

[@manuniac498]

This was a top era for music, I was 16 that year so I remember all this kind of stuff vividly. The Stone Roses LP came out and She Bangs The Drums was released in 89(I think) and that's a hell of a single. The Wonder Stuff were sh*t hot too. It is a hell of a tune though.

[@CubeduBorg]

Why I can't hear so well anymore. Thanks Mr. Gedge!

[@ThePegasus101]

seen weddos loads of times brilliant..leeds uni colne municiple hall

[@davewilson4171]

Bizarro....a giant of an album. So underated , still gives me an adrenaline rush after 30 years.

[@leerothwell3742]

Bizzaro Tour this year, got my tickets 👌❤️

I don´t know if the band still goes on but I just want them to know that this song makes me very happy!

[@silentface6547]

Top tunage of the highest order.

[@rubbersteel2]

What fantastic memories. Introducing this tune to my 6 year old son now!

[@malcolmpayne8211]

Hope your 16 year old is still rocking to this masterpiece!

[@halldorsigururkjartansson7482]

I love them sound fresh still, in the bucket-list to see them live,

[@l1ckyd0g]

You must. David is still nailing it. Saw them 2 nights ago for the bizarro tour. Astonishing how he can still deliver the frenetic pace of this, and Take Me. The man is a Goliath.

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Wedding Present - Kennedy 1357pm 28.8.23 nice to hear the fall again playing some thrilled skinny tunes...

[@grahamjones5664]

The greatest song ever - fact !

[@fooman65]

probably the best song and vid from the 80's, what a bass sound!!

[@stuartogden1660]

One of the best songs of all time in my opinion, incredible guitar-playing especially towards the end. My most-played song in the last 12 months. Seen them live a few times

[@MF-qx7vt]

whole lotta love from japan

[@Dr_Rig]

If you could survive the last 2 minutes of this gem in the mosh pit then you didn’t need to prove yourself in any other way.

[@jmamv133]

que banger......... mais uma banda pra me aprofundar na discografia

[@speaktomybeadlehand]

How good does this still sound remember like yesterday if u don't like it speak to my tiny hand.

[@kevinrrrrrrrrrr]

this song kills

[@peterbrown6434]

.ucking Brilliant,putting this ultra Gem on the old Dukebox in my local tonight!!!

[@pintofmild8359]

Best. Song. EVER!

[@26ruben1]

Wildly underrated band ... this song is amazing ....but so is so much of their material

[@ovinesongs]

I played this as a warm up on my first gig and demo and we played this as a soundcheck for years....the build up in the outro is especially good for pedals and more gain levels...awesome.

[@Sinistar8u]

I just discovered this band while listening to an 80's new wave playlist on Spotify. So I checked out the Bizarro album and was hooked! Can't believe it took me this long to discover the greatness of The Wedding Present, I completely wasted my life. lol

[@gaspanda]

They still do gigs - great live and David Gedge's vocals are a bit softer these days.

[@Sinistar8u]

@@gaspanda Nice I'll check out their tour dates.

[@simonflower3025]

A truly great song and always a special moment when you hear those opening chords at a Weddoes gig. Never gets old.

[@adrianround5213]

Those were the days.proper music

[@michaelwendt3714]

Thank you, John Peel! ...and of course W.P.!!!!!

[@erdingtonsfinest937]

Fantastic drumming. Can't understand how I never heard this song until last month. Love it.

[@johnforkan1492]

Erdingtons Finest reminds of 'James' album tracks

[@dropdeadgorgeous6]

Saw these play this on my 21st birthday. 3rd Feb 1990 Wolves Civic. It was a good night but I can;t remember any of it ;o)

[@jethropike1964]

I remember this coming out in late '89, they used to play it on alternative night at my local nightclub, the place used to erupt every time it came on,

[@peretz34]

Used to listen to this while getting mortal before going to a cheap indie club back in my youth... now it's a great track for thrashing it in the gym! how life changes...