ITS BEEN A LONG TIME......
When I first heard this it sort of floored me. Well, is that really it?
No. It tormented me and I tried vainly to get out of my mind. It was
really disturbing.
From the album, "Strangeways Here We Come". The title lost complete meaning in America. Strangeways is actually a mental hospital in East Manchester. The video retraces all the familiar steps of Morrissey and The Smiths from their inner sleeve graphics for, "The Queen is Dead". This video shows a bunch of kids who took on Stephen Morrisseys disillusioned persona.
The bike ride thing really sort of confused me when I first saw it. It took the sting out of the song.... somewhat. The streets are cold and barren. The shot of the girl pushing the carriage through the dirty alley and holding a bag of trash is sad and a little reminescent of the line, "... in the cold dark streets that trap them". A line from the song, "Ordinary Boys".
Sometimes in life.. or often, depending on your position in this world you come to the realization that people, (for what ever reason) will choose not to love you back. This thing will jar you from your sleep if you let it.
Course past a certain age this sort of attachment fades. Hormones are a strange thing. Director, Franc Roddam, (Quadrophenia) said that young people are strongly attached to certain people but after a certain age it slips. That is to say that it doesn't last -- at least not at that intensity. This song sort of captures that.
It's a very desperate song -- and album too for that matter. It would prove to be the Smiths last LP. The band was caught up in a rush of stardom and fame and lots of things started to overshadow the band, (Morrisseys popularity, Andy Rourkes Heroin addiction.... more possible tours etc.) New Music - or post punk was becoming the IN THING to a lot of kids at this time. Then the band broke up in a pub from an argument which stemmed from being served "mushy peas" of all things.
These songs stood up and stand out -- even today. I still find this album disturbing for another reason. It was the same locale where child killers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady lived and worked. Some of the victims were Morrisseys age and this left an impression on him for life.
Morrissey said he would never move from this area no matter how famous he got. These streets inspired him to write the songs. He was inspired by these very streets that we see in this video. To finally see them in full color, (and not the pea green overcast like in the Queen is Dead shots) are somewhat alarming.
Its so stark and barren.
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cantu fascube 2006
When I first heard this it sort of floored me. Well, is that really it?
No. It tormented me and I tried vainly to get out of my mind. It was
really disturbing.
From the album, "Strangeways Here We Come". The title lost complete meaning in America. Strangeways is actually a mental hospital in East Manchester. The video retraces all the familiar steps of Morrissey and The Smiths from their inner sleeve graphics for, "The Queen is Dead". This video shows a bunch of kids who took on Stephen Morrisseys disillusioned persona.
The bike ride thing really sort of confused me when I first saw it. It took the sting out of the song.... somewhat. The streets are cold and barren. The shot of the girl pushing the carriage through the dirty alley and holding a bag of trash is sad and a little reminescent of the line, "... in the cold dark streets that trap them". A line from the song, "Ordinary Boys".
Sometimes in life.. or often, depending on your position in this world you come to the realization that people, (for what ever reason) will choose not to love you back. This thing will jar you from your sleep if you let it.
Course past a certain age this sort of attachment fades. Hormones are a strange thing. Director, Franc Roddam, (Quadrophenia) said that young people are strongly attached to certain people but after a certain age it slips. That is to say that it doesn't last -- at least not at that intensity. This song sort of captures that.
It's a very desperate song -- and album too for that matter. It would prove to be the Smiths last LP. The band was caught up in a rush of stardom and fame and lots of things started to overshadow the band, (Morrisseys popularity, Andy Rourkes Heroin addiction.... more possible tours etc.) New Music - or post punk was becoming the IN THING to a lot of kids at this time. Then the band broke up in a pub from an argument which stemmed from being served "mushy peas" of all things.
These songs stood up and stand out -- even today. I still find this album disturbing for another reason. It was the same locale where child killers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady lived and worked. Some of the victims were Morrisseys age and this left an impression on him for life.
Morrissey said he would never move from this area no matter how famous he got. These streets inspired him to write the songs. He was inspired by these very streets that we see in this video. To finally see them in full color, (and not the pea green overcast like in the Queen is Dead shots) are somewhat alarming.
Its so stark and barren.
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cantu fascube 2006
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