By far my favourite Smiths song. Just pure genius. The Marr Morrissey combo has never been equalled for the portrayal of the awkward teenage years suffering the bullying of sadistic teachers in a bygone era when they could gets hands on and make life miserable for the sensitive kids who didn’t fit in.

Every time I hear a Smiths song played by one of Morrissey's newer line-ups, the absence of Andy Rourke's much under-rated bass playing becomes apparent. Great song, all the same.

I was there it was amazing. You are the quarry had just been released, new material, and old. Immense. One of the best gigs I've seen.

I can't believe that I saw a commercial with chicken and bacon before a MORRISSEY VIDEO

He sang "bruises as big as dinner plates"! That's what Johnny once has suggested instead of "bigger than dinner plates" but Moz rejected it :D

Morrissey is a legend.

What a voice.!😅❤❤❤! And the band sounds really. Is Great!

I love this song and dear Morrissey .❤

amazingly lovely vocal

Does a great job on this. Whole band A++

Such a presence on stage n off , massive part of my life 😊

i know - the band didnt even have it in open E tuning. its totally missing everything.

They need 2X the guitars to produce even .00000001% of the sound that Johnny Marr produces!

the best song ever from The Smiths!! great...

Fantástico. Morrissey

Uma das minhas preferidas. Moz está gatinho.

if this was Jonny Marr i think the crowd would be going a little more nuts and youd just KNOW if Marr was on the same stage as The Moz which is something we`ll sadly never see.

I just wish I was there!!! me jealous all of ...

No Marr = No Party

Maravilloso Morrissey

Play at 1.1x speed and it sounds much better

The voice's still there...

that guitar player looks like johnny but doesnt sound like him, doesn't he?

speed it up to about 1.25x and it sounds alright

verry good

Um espetáculo de perfeição.

Marr e Rourke fazem muita falta nesse time

Actually a pretty good version for playing along with my bass guitar :)....I am a beginner by the way....

Did the crowd even know him?? They're so dead 😠

this applys to anytime if you attended a school i did and i'm sure the majority of you did too.

Zlatan on drums

Secretly and he'd hate admitting it, no one and I mean no one can play those riffs the way Marr does. Patch it up, lads.

hmm I agree rwm89 trouble is this song should be played in an open tuning to hear the subtle notes that are missing when its played in standard tuning and also the picked notes aren't there, you can't just play chords. Great to hear Moz doing this one though

i bet he misses the old band

Too slow for my taste to be honest, but it's still Moz.

morrissey will always be the lyrical king but i do wonder about the musicians he has been using of late

❤️

does that crowd know morrissey is there :S

missing Johnny

What a dead crowd.

Why are people complaining that it's too slow?This is NOT The Smiths,maybe Morrissey like this version better than the original,maybe!

MORRISSEY is so fucking big that opaque everything.

@JavierEmbora its Little Barry who took over at short notice after Alain left the band.

He does the military two step down the nape of my neck

@catoes Listen to the Smiths live stuff, it's no great shakes sonically. It wasn't until they added Graig Cannon as an extra guitar player, did they have any real power live. In the studio, a differant story of course.

Arturo vidal antes del bayern

Saw him on this tour - it was a good one, but the Alain's replacement just didn't cut the mustard on this one ("Little..." someone or other).

Without Johnny Marr this song is dead. I have to agree.

this whole gig was particularly lethargic, i don't think morrissey wanted to be there, i saw them at redding festival not long after and it was great!

Mr. Butter worth on the drumming

Terrible version. Sounds like Moz with four dudes randomly chosen to play in your neighborhood's pub.

Sad to see this cabaret version :-(

still do!....

@kieran4594 but this is not the usual guitar player of the morrisey band, I think is Lem or Noel (the hair). The guitarist of this band plays headmaster quite good. Its strange they dont shoot the man on stage.

The guitars are not miked right and off pitch. Marrs attention to detail and arrangement so missed.

i don't know about that. the guitarist is a professional, face it after singing the same song for 20 odd years it's up to moz how he wants to sing it, personally i prefare it slowed down

Packed in like lemmings. Oh, the inhumanity!

Being Morrisseys musical director,i would say he had a lot to do with the instrumental arrangement of the set-list. Even if he did not,im sure he would have put steered barrie cadogan in the right direction. :)

When did he start touring with accountants on stage?

@23melodicas maybe that becoz johnny marr uses overdubs??

His voice is a little rough around the edges in this one, but I can't blame him, he's beautiful for continuing too belt this sound out, and the band didn't do terribly at all, even without Marr.

its so much better with the smiths!!

Realmente creo que están sobredimensionando terrible a Marr, su mayor mérito fue haber conocido a morrissey, nada más, el sonido de the smiths y los primeros albums de morrissey suenan muy similar, dentro de la banda morrissey lo era todo, jhonny marr no era más que un acompañante. Morrissey siguió sin marr y tiene una carrera solista increíble, para el the smiths fue solo el comienzo, para marr su debut y despedida.

@louisalive It must be really hard knowing that this song cannot be played better than Jonny Marr...if I was Moz I would never let my guitarist go throught that!

dont worry folks, when the cash gets sufficiently mind boggling we will have a smiths reunion...supported by the stone roses...woo hoo cant wait!!

The Smith's were THE SMITHS.nothing else comes close.

great song but that was painful

mozzer ichiban!

What a massacre of that fabulous intro. A fantastic singer, pulled down by a poor band.

No where near as good as The Smiths version

Sounds horrible. Johnny's band kick ass on this song.

@Nothereisnolight coincido con vos pero ambos fueron parte de un todo ---The Smiths----- igual que los otros miembros,despues las carreras particulares de cada uno son otra cosa,,,,,,,,,

...and the name of the pretty good-looking drum player?!

jesus christ the band is diabolical

drummer sounds bored

Is it just me who thinks at a glance the bloke on lead guitar looks like Johnny Marr from a distance coz it certainly doesnt look like Jesse Tobias to me.

That guy does look like Marr. Last I heard they don't get along. Almost looks like a mix between Marr and a Gallagher.

what year was this people :)? looks like mid 2000's.

I just simply don't get this, why are the tempos being dropped on this. This is the second one that I've heard by him over a span of so many years and without that upper tempo it loses that drive of the song It's just not there. The song is being played but you can tell, that drive is just not within

Compared to his recent crowds i think they're pretty good at least he's not being pelted with beer cups.

@louisalive Yeah so could I mate. Ain't great is it?

Not bad for a live version, but Matt doesn’t sing it as well as Moz does, where as these guys don’t play as well as a Johnny, Andy and Mike, Boz was a good guitarist on the solo stuff and I have enjoyed his works on other projects.

Pardon?

Funny...isnt that Barrie Cadogan on guitar? The direct sound was mixed horribly and is very apparent in this video. Snare too loud, lead guitar too loud, Boz was too low, and Gary could have been tad bit up the mix. I wanna say Dani wasnt well rehearsed. I like how Moz decided to slow it down. Also, they never play it note for note like Johnny, and Andy on any Smiths song...

I fucking love this version ! better than the smiths ! :D !

@WillClarkMusic to be fair the song he was playing was hardly easy was it, and he didnt do to bad a job to be fair Although If im honest Boz Boorers the only one who seems to give a shit about the performance :)

...um...what? What does Boz have to do with this?

@tranmer3 Thats what you call a paid musician who is employed by a artist such as Morrissey! This aint the Smith's performing in this clip!

@tranmer3 LOOK i dont want one of these youtube arguments! This is Morrissey, i dont care how long these guys have played with him, the name morrissey is on stage incase you didnt see it! Maybe the guys having a bad day on lead guitar, maybe the sound man shit but i personally think he sounds shite! And since there is a comments box for me to leave my opinion....thats what ill do! If you dont agree or like my views then fair enough, just leave it.

I think this whole Glastonbury performance he plays everything too slow. It's like an acoustic session at a garden party.

Like you would know how it should have been arranged? Maybe you should tell Boz he got it wrong.. or maybe they wanted to try their own cover...wtf

sorry, where are the Smiths?

i didnt call any of his albums poor did i?

Downtempo

You're correct he doesn't. He doesn't even use the correct type of guitar tuning (Open E) for this song...*sigh*...

Hell no!!

LOL@THE 2 DISLIKES FUNNY

The guitar is so slow and misses so many notes. Moz should take this off his list of oldies until he reunites with Marr.

dafuq with that guitarist

had to play this shit at 1.25 speed for it to sound right