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The Smiths 'This Charming Man'

🕑 Added 2025-07-19 06:00:04 +0000 UTC

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Kieran B

I definitely had a Smiths phase, love this song but it also makes me think of the comedy Early Doors - I think you’re the only reactors that would really get that, it’s incredibly dry

Daz Parker

Great reaction guys. As someone born pretty much after The Smiths were together, I think most of us go through a 'Smiths Phase' when growing up. Nice to see thats extended to your lads!

Ryan Naylor

This is one of my favourites! You should check out girlfriend in a coma, ask and how soon is now! 3 of their best in my opinion.

Ryan Totney

Please react to more of there music this is very upbeat song, listen to There is a Light and it Never Goes Out it's great!

Ash Jeffries

Fantastic song from a great band. Released the year I was born. Definitely seems more timeless than many songs released that year!

BrizeeB

Brilliant band, they have some more classics worth checking out.

Alexander Bond

That's funny, I started liking him more with his anti-immigration rhetoric. Also, being anti-apartheid is not incompatible with being against mass immigration, they are two separate topics - well, unless you classify anyone who voices concerns about mass immigration as a drooling racist, which you obviously do.

buster

Just ANOTHER brilliant British band, my goodness how does this tiny island keep producing music time and time again

Wheaty

I was lucky enough to see them live, in 1984, at the Tower Ballroom, Birmingham (England as opposed to Alabama)

White Dwarf

"Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?"

Mr Snrub

Johnny Marr 🔥🔥

Josh Read

Could you make yourselves bigger on the screen?

Andy Oliver

I have a really complicated history with The Smiths: I loved them back in the 80s, they spoke to the lonely, disenfranchised teenage boy in his bedroom,; Johnny Marr's jangly guitars always at odds with Morrissey's arch, often dour, lyrics they were just the right mix of hope and despair (or, at least, yearning), their anti-capitalist stance, a middle finger to Thatcherism, greed and all things corporate fed me politically. I was genuinely upset when they split, I had already seen them play live twice (once at Wood's Leisure Centre in Colchester and once at the Ipswich Gaumont), but had missed their final gig at Brixton Academy because I had pneumonia. That love became indifference then anger when Morrissey began voicing his anti-immigration rhetoric, his support for far-right political movements and songs like Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want were co-opted by Trump and MAGA. Ironic, really, that that final gig was played out under the banner of Artists Against Apartheid. I still follow the career of Johnny Marr, a man who still has the integrity to turn down a lucrative paycheck for a couple of reunion concerts, but Morrissey? Morrissey can go eff himself. Rant over, sorry.

Mark

It was a big part of the film ‘500 Days of Summer’. A Guilty pleasure movie

Ben Dunning

Rough trade!

Captain Cardboard

Label?

Steve Cox

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out is my personal favourite. Perfection.

Paul

Great song, great reaction, memories of a simpler time….

Simon Cross

A couple of more modern Morrisey songs which I think you might like are the upbeat 'First of the gang to die' and the mellow 'Come back to Camden'

Dandelion

PEEP SHOW next please! I just wanna see Jess CRINGE!!! :-)

Spencer Chou

Suedehead is a Morrissey solo song!

John Laverty

Morrisey would swing the gladioli around (though some argue these were daffodils). The Smiths have so many great songs, Suedehead being one of my favourites.