ONE SONG BY THE SMITHS....A SERIES FOR SATURDAYS (Part 37)

Today's words were originally provided by great friend Ctel from the constantly wonderful Acid Ted blog when he composed a guest post for TVV in May 2009:-

This is listening to John Peel.

This is a special new world.

The excitement of something new and vital when music had seemed to go downhill in the aftermath of the demise of The Jam.

This is snobbish rejection of mere ‘chart pop’.

This is the exclusivity of the ‘in’ and the ‘unknown’.

This is identifying with sensitivity whilst being at a rugby-dominated University (it was Wales after all).

This is rejecting accepted norms of masculinity.

But not a love like the adoring Smiths fans, who even then seemed to verge on the deranged in their fervour. There is admiration for Morrissey (untainted by time and events) for being prepared to assert himself in this way. I remember him playing at University and coming to the front of the stage and admiring his bravery at being prepared to face not only the adulation but the hatred of the non-believers. And the shock of seeing homophobia in the raw.

mp3 : The Smiths - This Charming Man

APRIL 2011 UPDATE FROM JC

There are off course loads of different mixes of this, the song that made The Smiths famous, all of which have been featured on TVV before. But somehow just posting the original mix seems appropriate today.