FIRST TIME REACTING! This Song SADDENED Me | The Smiths

FIRST TIME REACTING! This Song SADDENED Me | The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes

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@GavinHitchens 10 ай бұрын

"The beat feels so good, but it sounds like hes singing about some dark stuff" you have summarised the essence of the band 👍 I really loved your reaction man

@KingGreatnessKG 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Gavin!

@jani724 11 ай бұрын

The bass played on this is top tier. Shits hypnotizing. Love that his voce is appreciated

@gdbssa 8 ай бұрын

Andy Rourke. He passed away earlier this year.

@omac425 11 ай бұрын

great review! the smiths are one of my favourite bands from their time and i'd recommend checking out songs like "please please please let me get what i want", "there is a light that never goes out", "i know its over", and "heaven knows im miserable now". if you want to check out a full length album "the queen is dead" is my favourite and imo one of their best.

@KingGreatnessKG 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for recommendations!

@gary2kr1 10 ай бұрын

The Smiths lyrics are generally dark and joyously depressing. But sometimes a little cheeky. My favorite band

@ijustneedmyself 5 ай бұрын

I'd say they were regularly cheeky!

@jamesstridgen6320 5 ай бұрын

The Smiths were voted the most influential band to come out of England. I love them. They were influential in the Manchester sound that created great bands like stone roses, happy Monday’s, inspirel carpets etc. what a great time to be from such a fantastic northern city with band like these and two great football teams. Like Jonny Marr I am blue👕👕👕

@GamerGod_99 3 ай бұрын

Okay putting them as the most influential instead of The fucking Beatles is crazy 🤣

@hanssquirrel302 24 күн бұрын

@@GamerGod_99 In fact, the beatles had more influance around the world espacially to the US and the smiths were very influantial within the UK, i guess that's why some UK magazines voted them the most influantial band of the UK

@losthope9909 9 ай бұрын

Been one of my favourite Smiths songs for 40 years, can't believe it's been that long!

@MattDavey68 9 ай бұрын

The song is based on a Shelagh Delainey film called A Taste of Honey. You missed the opening line "In a river, the colour of lead Immerse the babies head Wrap her up in The News Of The World Dump her on a doorstep, girl" The chorus "Oh you did a good thing" (You had the baby not an abortion) followed by "Oh you did a bad thing" (You killed the baby) It is typical The Smiths. Cheerfull music and a very dark lyric or theme. One of the best bands of the 80's, they changed the musical world forever. They were only around for a few years. Johny Marr was the genius guitarist. Andy Rourke RIP the bassist, and one of my personal heros. And the singer - Morrissy. Well, one of our most amazing singers and lyricists. Listen to Reel Arround the Fountain. There's A Light Thant Never Goes Out, Unhappy Birthday, Paint An Ugly Picture.... They are all so good!!

@Lunatic4Bizcas 3 ай бұрын

*Paint a Vulgar Picture*

@leomessiuuu5447 3 ай бұрын

no way bro called the Smiths a cheerful band

@danielkirkby3601 21 күн бұрын

Poor Mike

@eng605 11 ай бұрын

If you're into that jazzy-soul-chill feel, I think you'd also enjoy the track "I don't owe you anything" "Peaceful sadness" is a good definition of the mood of the song. Great review.

@KingGreatnessKG 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@glenngastonjonsson7954 10 ай бұрын

For me this song was on the subject of abortion. The Smiths never shyed away from anything. Kept me alive through the 80's. Brilliant band from Manchester. Vocals: Morrissey, guitars: Johnny Marr, bass: Andy Rourke, drums: Mike Joyce. Thanks, man.

@KingGreatnessKG 10 ай бұрын

I thought about that subject as well. Thanks

@leviuloth1998 8 ай бұрын

The song is about a play called “ a taste of honey”

@leedickson2701 5 ай бұрын

Yes I always interpreted it as that, perhaps even a teenage pregnancy

@user-db1mq5sf9s 3 ай бұрын

This song is about an abandoned baby and the struggle and reminder of the choice the mother made.

@heckinbasedandinkpilledoct7459 3 ай бұрын

“The dream is gone but the baby is real” I don’t know; that doesn’t sound like an abortion

@AnAbsurdExistence 11 ай бұрын

one of my favorite tracks by them, try out more of their stuff!

@KingGreatnessKG 11 ай бұрын

Will do!

@ronaldmilner8932 10 ай бұрын

Your reaction to This Night Has Opened My Eyes was very good- I just subbed

@KingGreatnessKG 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Ronald! Welcome to the Greatness Gang community ❤️👑

@ronaldmilner8932 10 ай бұрын

@@KingGreatnessKG Keep up the good work!

@jons.105 4 ай бұрын

Still listening in March 2024. "A peaceful sadness." Indeed!

@TiltonRD 11 ай бұрын

The song is based on a play written by Shelagh Delaney. A Taste Of Honey set in the mid 1950s in Salford Manchester where the band is from. Shes on the cover of the album. The girl in the song is a 17 year old who gets pregnant. Hope it helps 👍

@KingGreatnessKG 11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@chrisbarlow2131 7 ай бұрын

Oh my - you've found The Smiths! Keep sipping the nectar my man. To cheer you up a bit after This Night Has Opened My Eyes, try This Charming Man.

@monte2115 10 ай бұрын

Such an underrated Smiths song

@BruceLee-bn7xo 9 ай бұрын

One of my favourite bands of all time!

@Simon-zm5pp 11 ай бұрын

enjoyed your review. made me think of the first time i remember hearing this song myself. it also stopped me in my tracks. i recommend the song 'how soon is now?' from the same album

@KingGreatnessKG 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for recommendations!

@themilkman4772 10 ай бұрын

Another good track with this vibe is “I know it’s over”

@brussellchitchens 7 ай бұрын

This is a reluctant father and he's actually worried about the young mother and what she could have become

@IrTehDrOddball 7 ай бұрын

Damn man. Watching this was awesome and I don't typically watch too many reaction videos like this. It's like the same gratifying feeling you get when you show your friend something really cool for the first time and they dig it just as much as you! I also love your enthusiasm and how into the music you get for it only being your first time listening to it. Not only passively listening, but analyzing the lyrics in conjunction with the music too. Great stuff keep it up!!

@KingGreatnessKG 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your time!

@BruceLee-bn7xo 9 ай бұрын

Check out the Headmaster Ritual by The Smiths…amazing lyrics, music…etc!

@MrWestie1985 10 ай бұрын

Superb reaction to a brilliant song from one of the very best bands to ever come from these shores 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧. Subbed. Honestly anything from the Smiths is gold but I'd go for Pretty Girls Make Graves or Hand In Glove next ✌️

@KingGreatnessKG 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the recommendations! Welcome to the Greatness Gang community ❤️👑

@robs1873 8 ай бұрын

Ive been listening to The Smiths for 30 years. Still the best band ive ever heard

@agdgdgwngo 10 ай бұрын

Dude, you seemed to really enjoy that. The Smiths are a band from Manchester that make music like the song you just heard. They are characterised by jangly guitars, Morisseys distinctive voice, melodic basslines. If you wanna hear the cheerier side of the Smiths listen to William it was Really Nothing, it's insanely catchy and hilariously gay. They're just very unique and solid band. The lyrics are predominantly depressing, rebellious, queer, vegetarian, 80s, like lefty studenty but like you actually love them for it. Morissey is an extraordinarily clever lyricist who can be super sarcastic, or funy, or really deep and sincere. Johnny Marr's guitar playing is so good I frequently listen to it on it's own. "Some Girls are Bigger than Others" is his masterpiece, please check it out. The bass is always catchy and memorable, the drumming is brilliant, the production, songwriting, oh man I go on .

@nicksass9995 2 ай бұрын

“a peaceful sadness” absofuckinglutely

@HLTulner 10 ай бұрын

Great post dude, spot on about the baseline and the voice! One of my favorites ever…But the Smiths are especially loved for their life performences witch were asthonishing! Old bootleg ‘i stole and then i lied’ recorded in my hometown Amsterdam in 84 gives the best baselines ever with ‘this night has opened my eyes’ on it, bootleg’Oxford 85 from the BBC is equally brilliant and ofcourse the official ‘Rank’ has put the standard on how a life recording should sound. Hope you check them out! Cheers! HT

@KingGreatnessKG 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the recommendations HT!

@gary2kr1 10 ай бұрын

Loved your reaction. Please react to all Smiths songs. It wouldnt be a waste of your time

@KingGreatnessKG 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

@oscillatewildly6553 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for your great reaction, please do more Smiths from a happy new subscriber from Australia!

@KingGreatnessKG 10 ай бұрын

Welcome to the Greatness Gang community 🇺🇸 👑 ❤️

@andyayala1450 9 ай бұрын

Yea you got the lyrics spot on.

@johngallacher7360 2 ай бұрын

yout interpretation of the song is spot on

@KingGreatnessKG 2 сағат бұрын

Thanks ❤️

@ngsplt45 5 ай бұрын

listen to “How Soon Is Now” and “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me”

@cristiannorambuena6952 8 ай бұрын

Good choice!!

@drdarbyj 3 ай бұрын

It's so much deeper.....than a child. It's relationships, family, environment. Morrissey...the Smiths are everything 😢

@33interzona 9 ай бұрын

The album Meat is Murder is absolutely beautiful.

@conorsherry4229 6 ай бұрын

Nice one! Sounds like you'll really enjoy exploring The Smiths, if you aren't already! I think your adjectives are spot on. Groovy, always groovy, melancholy, positivity and grandeur. I'd recommend as good next ones to check out: Girl Afraid, Some Girls..., and then Last Night I Dreamt

@KingGreatnessKG 5 ай бұрын

Thanks! Stay tuned!

@alexgonzalez3045 2 ай бұрын

Morrissey lyrics are based from the Great POET OSXAR WILDE...

@berrr288 9 ай бұрын

First The Smiths song ive heard

@andtheywept4303 19 күн бұрын

What the lyrics didn’t tell you is the part where he says “ohhhhh you murder”

@billybuddproductions2323 11 ай бұрын

Wow! Grate reaction!

@KingGreatnessKG 10 ай бұрын

Thank you

@Lunatic4Bizcas 3 ай бұрын

While I was once a pretty big Smiths fan, this song was always my personal favorite. Something deeply saddening about this song indeed. 'Hatful of Hollow' was not a proper Smiths album by the way; more like a collection of B Sides/Singles. You picked one of the Smiths best and most unique songs hands down. A classic that is even sometimes overlooked, but certainly very special.

@KingGreatnessKG 3 ай бұрын

Special song

@western-oud1898 4 ай бұрын

I always took it that that this song was about a young girl who had a baby and left it wrapped up on a doorstep in news paper. "wrapped up in the news of the world" for someone to find and thinks about that child for the rest of her life and wondering for the rest of her life who her baby turned out to be..thats what I always thought this song was about..but then I've also heard its about abortion..but in the actual lyrics morrissey sings that the baby was left wrapped up in the news of the world "which was a news paper here in the uk".. to me the baby was born but then abandoned on a doorstep for someone to find

@marcorobertini9943 3 ай бұрын

ciao re complimenti per fare ascoltare gli smiths mi sono quasi sempre piaciuti vorrei che tu facessi ascoltare una canzone dei the sound gruppo inizi anni 80 sono dei grandissimi con stima, arrivederci

@KingGreatnessKG 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Marco

@desertbee08 3 ай бұрын

News of the World = newspaper in England. 'Wrap her up in thr News of the World..."

@KingGreatnessKG 3 ай бұрын

I sensed he was referring to a newspaper 🤔

@desertbee08 3 ай бұрын

@@KingGreatnessKG It was a tabloid newspaper. So the lyrics make sense: "In a river the color of lead, Immerse the baby's head, Wrap her up in the news of the world, Dump her on a doorstep, girl." The river with a color of lead = the ink. Clever lyrics.

@DanielLopez-br6yk 4 ай бұрын

I recommend “I Don’t Owe You Anything” by The Smiths 💯

@brussellchitchens 7 ай бұрын

Good job DC - PG County boy

@aw4808 18 күн бұрын

Bro, you nailed this. Do me a huge favour and see “A Taste of Honey” either stream or, if you get the chance at a theatre. You’ll TRIP! Trust me on this.

@KingGreatnessKG 16 күн бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation

@THIStm 5 ай бұрын

reel around the fountain

@johnsmythe9701 4 ай бұрын

can you review 'well i wonder' by the smiths my fav song

@laineynova Ай бұрын

Morrissey is a genius. He wrote the lyrics and designed all tje sleeves. The song is about abortion. The title refers to the fact, she is full of regret and is haunted by the decision to kill her baby and she'll never sleep again as her conscience won't let her. The doctor who aborted the baby told her " He said he'll cure your ills' She could have been a poet or she could have been a fool. She will never know.

@mightguy123456 10 ай бұрын

“The beat feels so good, but it sounds like he’s singing about some dark stuff”= The Smiths. Great observation…or, they’re the opposite: the song sounds sad, but he’s singing about some funny stuff.

@KingGreatnessKG 10 ай бұрын

🎯

@mikeortizjr.2186 7 ай бұрын

MORRISSEY!!!!

@soakedbearrd 9 ай бұрын

I’m not familiar with the smiths at all aside from How soon is now, and boy oh boy I’m really digging this. Thanks for exposing me to it, I might have to do a deeper dive

@ijustneedmyself 5 ай бұрын

Did you do it? 😃

@soakedbearrd 5 ай бұрын

@@ijustneedmyself Yes I listened to a greatest hits album on KZfaq. They have an interesting almost post punk version of old rock and roll. Familiar yet unique.

@miraclemax9093 5 ай бұрын

Check out "We'll I wonder" by the Smiths, meat is murder album

@warpnweft2192 7 ай бұрын

This song is not about abortion. The song clearly states at the beginning the person already having the baby in their hands, aka they were already born, then drown it in a river, wrapped it in newspaper, and then dumped it on a doorstep. Murder is what happened. A couple the age of 25 who were not ready to have a child and took the most heinous approach possible. “He kicked and cried like a bullied CHILD / a GROWN MAN of 25”

@ijustneedmyself 5 ай бұрын

I'm so confused that people are suggesting that 😅

@MercurtioCor 11 ай бұрын

I think THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE would be something you will enjoy. (Enjoy is the wrong word 😊)

@danniellegonzalez5666 11 ай бұрын

honestly one of my fav songs, kind of underrated imo!!

@AnAbsurdExistence 11 ай бұрын

that song hits too close to home, too near the bone.

@KingGreatnessKG 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for recommendation!

@alexm2930 10 ай бұрын

I consider This Joke isn't funny anymore like the sequel to This Charming Man

@wynpharoh1777 8 ай бұрын

How Soon is Now. React to this please. Guitar is inspirational and possibly Morissey's most signature piece of vocals and lyrics.

@robs1873 8 ай бұрын

Morrissey

@Moz23 3 сағат бұрын

Whenever you react to the smiths or morrissey always pull up the lyrics

@bpwn3r 3 ай бұрын

This song rings about abortion to me. My son would've been 15 now... And it breaks my heart every day..

@creepycraig73 9 ай бұрын

You only have one.

@renebonilla2070 10 ай бұрын

It’s about abortion.

@Maxwellish 5 ай бұрын

it’s based on A Taste Of Honey, the Shelagh Delaney play.

@drdarbyj 3 ай бұрын

Not everything is meant to be taken literal

@hoppy2829 9 ай бұрын

Singers brain is also pretty smooth.

@KingGreatnessKG 9 ай бұрын

Thanks

@antoniociani4513 11 ай бұрын

Dear friend, I can recommend you some songs that you may like: That joke isn't funny anymore What's the difference does it make? I know it's over and about 76 other songs, to be taken in one breath, like a healthy medicine

@KingGreatnessKG 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for recommendations!