The people who get The Smiths are fortunate to experience something unique and special.

Phil’s genuine passion for music is inspiring. He is so unpretentious and authentic!

he gets the humour of the smiths wasn't expecting that

Cemetery gates,the most metal easter egg ever

love Pantera and love the Smiths!

"Extreme music comes in all genres" Phill Anselmo.

i am a phil fan, i am a smiths fan, i am happy.

I love Pantera AND I love the Smiths. Just more proof that Phil is cool as hell.

Can we just get videos of Phil Anselmo talking about his opinions on like, everything? He's so compelling to listen to :')

I wanna see a video of Morrissey gushing over Pantera now ;)

Pantera and the Smiths are both favourite bands of mine! Morrissey and Anselmo look like they are polar opposites at first but have a lot in common; Both honest, humourous and not afraid to speak their mind, great frontman, great lyricists and songwriters and both wrote a song called Cemetery gates!

He's a bit of a tradicionalist but Phil has showed that he has grown an matured a lot. Like, everything that comes out this mans mouth now a days is the pure truth and shines like gold. Moar Anselmo, pls.

Love Pantera. Love The Smiths.

I want to gradually get drunk with Phil while listening to the smiths! Make a wish come true!

I have a new found admiration for Phil. :)

I think it's so awesome that a beast like Phil (meant as a pure compliment) can dig a band like The Smiths. To hear him speak so eloquently about them as well just makes me admire him all the more. To hang out with Phil for a day would def be a bucket list kind of thing!!!

I've liked the Smiths since I first saw them in '86. Good music, whether its Pantera or the Smiths just goes to show variety is the spice of life.

so fucking right about this charming man. I've been playing guitar for 10 years still can't play it clean. more metalheads these days should be like Phil. good music is good music. I love metal with all my heart but it gets too fucking inclusive.

Just when I thought Anselmo couldn't get much more awesome I find out he's a Smiths fan. I'm from Manchester and round here, they are so deeply ingrained in the local culture that its almost inescapable but in the best way possible. The Queen is Dead is one of my favourite albums of all time and I've always said that they have a lot in common with metal. My dad who's a huge Smiths fan but not the biggest fan of metal saw me watching an Iron Maiden show on the TV and asked "I don't see how you can like this and still say you like the smiths" But they both appeal to similar demographics: Outsiders. They both appeal to the weird, alienated kids who never fit in at school. And like a lot of my favourite metal bands, it doesn't matter how many times I listen to their music, it never for one second ceases to amaze me.

This guy knows the Smiths like the back of his hand. That's awesome.

Smiths fans and metalheads of the world unite! 🤘🏻

I love both the Smiths and Pantera, it's very cool listening to Phil's thoughts on them. Good stuff, Phil!

Props to Phil, very kind words! Morrissey is a genius for sure!

I am a Metalhead through and through but I love The Smiths, and I love when a fellow metalhead talks about the band exactly how I talk about them!!! Thanks Phil, you are a true artist!

The Smiths are my favourite band first equal with The Beatles. Glad to see that Phil Anselmo 'gets it' especially re Morrissey's humour. Can totally hear Oscar Wilde's influence on Morrissey due to the fact that he's both painstakingly melancholy but utterly comical at the same time. That takes a rare and unique talent.

I would have never guessed that Phil listens to the Smiths, that's pretty cool.

I'm a metalhead in my heart but I LOVE all kinds of different music, I've been like that whole my life, so this is pretty much how people should view music... Be open mined, take what you like, leave what you don't behind and enjoy the gift of music.

"I think they're heavy in their own way", "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, they could be singing about me" never paid attention to Pantera but this man is great. He totally got what The Smiths were about, give a voice to the voiceless, to the common people from all over the world that don't have a cheesy love story to share or a story about success to tell. The Smiths were at a time when people was singing shit like "Oh, living on a prayer" or "All we hear is Radio GaGa" or "You're in the jungle baby", and even the artists that tried to write something smart, something that "says something about our lives", like Moz would say, failed at connecting to the audience, like Overkill by Men at Work, or Senses Overworking by XTC. And failing at connecting to the audience doesn't make them bad, those are great tunes, but Morrissey truly knew how to say exactly what people were going through, and many times say something that makes people realise what they were going through. He's one of the few persons that can say "I know how you feel" and actually know how you feel. He was fascinated with the image of the popstar, that's why most of his stuff is like that, but then again, he ended up being probably the best popstar of all time. That's why The Smiths are great, leaving aside the music, which combined with the lyrics makes them one of the greatest of all time. Also love his voice when he quotes their songs, this man is charming (yes, I pun intended)

Well, this was unexpected...

Deep dark, depression love it!! He is very intelligent and love his critique of The Smiths

my favourite clip on you tube, a real Smiths fan, respect

I love Iron Maiden, Cradle of Filth and also The Smiths, the Stone Roses and Oasis. It's all rock and roll!

Phil ansmelo likes the smiths that's brilliant

Asleep is one of the most heart wrenching songs ever. Patently he's talking about something darker than sleeping. The Smiths are awesome.

The man the legend: Mozza Or Phil. Both equally inspiring and ludicrous in equal measure. Little youtube clips like this warm my (sometimes) cold, barren heart.

I'm a huge fan of The Smiths too Anselmo!

Smiths' always been an outcast, closer to punk or heavy metal than pop. It's not easy to figure ir out, but Anselmo is a clever guy.

I'm from Manchester, so the Smiths are incredibly meaningful to me, as I see what Morrissey was writing about, every day. I've found that a lot of heavier music is influenced by the Smiths. Dave Verellen of Botch/Narrows is a Smiths/Morrissey fan, too! Maybe it's exactly what Phil Anselmo says in this clip - the Smiths were brutally honest in everything they did. The lyrics blatantly showed the darker side of life, and the music was stark and bold. Both of these traits are the basics of heavier music.

The smiths help me with depression

Phil has a great taste in music! I've seen Phil with Megadeth, Helmet, Darkthrone, Sepultura, Carnivore, Soundgarden, Dark Angel, Mayhem, Discharge, Negative Approach, Black Flag, Possessed, Confessor, Ghost, Exodus, Samhain, Exhorder, Venom, Graveyard Rodeo, Righteous Pigs, Crowbar, Eyehategod, Saint Vitus, Mind Over Four, Slayer, Corrosion of Conformity, Deathspell Omega, King Parrot, Ramones, Witchfinder General, Doom, Celtic Frost, Evil Army, Deicide, Sadistik Exekution, Portal merchandise on.

My entire idea of Anselmo and Pantera just melted. They're more open-minded and free thinking than I ever gave them credit for.

Morrissey just has such a unique voice. Something about his voice just goes so well with the music The Smiths write. His voice was made for sad and beautiful songs - kind of like Jeff Buckley's voice.

"Pantera! Clean up your room and turn down your Smiths records! I'm trying to bake a cake!"

What an extremely modest and humble musician good on you mate for appreciating others artworks i have never listened to pantera but i definitely have tespect for this man 👍

The Smiths and Morrissey are Amazing!

Phil seems a great guy

Love Phil's honesty and appreciation for an amazing band from a different genre. He gets the dark humor and doesn't assume The Smiths and their fans are all gothy, sad kids.

It truly is funny to see and hear someone like Phil to praise The Smiths. I've been a Smiths fan since 1986 (that's when I first heard them) and Pantera fan since 1993 (that's when I first heard them). If you think of Morrisey and Anselmo, they are both very straightforward and honest human beings. Great singers and stage personas both of them. Hats off folks!

Deep down, I had always hoped there was a Cemetery Gates Pantera/Smiths connection. My life is one step closer to being complete.

Crazy that when I first heard of Cemetry Gates I thought of Panteras Cemetery Gates. To think that there could be a further relation besides the name is even crazier! Love both bands dearly

I love the honesty of Phil. This is damn respectful. I loved, and still do, The Smiths and I got a lot of shit from my metal/punk counterparts when I was young in the early 90s. But unlike Phil, I do love "Frankly, Mr. Shankly"

Also Jeff Buckley was greatly influenced by The Smiths, and to most people his most popular cover song of Hallelijah, has the same guitar rhythm as that other version of Back to the old house song that Phil was talking about. Buckley also did amazing cover of I know its over.

Good music is good music regardless of genre. I came out of the womb hearing my mom play The Smiths, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode, The Cranberries, Sex Pistols, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bauhaus, The Church, etc. My teenage cousins got me into metal when I was a toddler. So lucky my family had good taste in music.

The metal riff solo in Shoplifters would change any die-hards mind, mind.

Grande Anselmo! Amamos la música, ¡hay que escuchar y disfrutarlo todo!

This is old news people,Phil`s been saying it for years, I read it in Metal Edge I think about ten years ago in big section called guilty pleasures where they asked different metal musicians they guilty pleasures

I just realized I do not have a smiths record... LOVE the smiths and it's very illuminating hearing a musician gush over them :)

Thats why i was listening and still listen to metal!

i always loved the smiths. not a fan of morrisey's solo stuff but i love what he did with the smiths. johnny's guitar always tripped me out too.

I liked Phil Anselmo. Now i like him more.

Phil is a real motherfucking G!

Now, I've seen it all!

Love for all kinds of music!

Genius, is genius. It comes in many forms lyrically and instrumentally. You can judge the quality of an artist, by the multitude of genres that have influenced them, and whom they've influenced in return. Rap, Metal, Pop,Rock, Indie,etc. artists from all of those genres have listed The Smiths and/or Morrissey as an influence. Love or hate an artist, you should acknowledge the quality of the mark that they leave, by whom they've influenced and how relevant they stay as time goes by. The Smiths, disbanded more than 25 years ago, and they still get the cover of magazines pretty regularly. Morrissey, didn't even have a label until recently, and he went without one for YEARS!! Despite that, he sells out every single appearance he makes within hours, and sometimes minutes. That's a mark of success and longevity. You can't buy that, but you sure as hell earn it and it speaks volumes.

Quien en 2021 aun escucha A Phil Anselmo , y Smiths ?? , who is listtening Smiths and Phil Anselmo , Morrissey the best U.K. pop singer , and Phil , the best voice in Hard Rock

I unexpectly boarded my fan ship for The Smiths in '93 when I won the double best of tapes from a music T.V show in N.Z. I listen to Pantera and Morressey and this was unexpected!

Not a big metal fan, but props to Phil for giving the smiths the respect they deserve 💁🪻👸💀

always knew I liked him but now even more so!

Tons of respect to the man. He has no fear at all to show the passion and love he have for one of the most incredible bands of all the time like The Smiths are. Metalheads always have good taste on music watching technics and musical skills on musicians. Its a fact, all the metalheads has been listen at least once classical music or Vivaldi and stuff like that. Anyway, the thing is I respect a lot Phillip Anselmo as the lead singer of Pantera, Down, Superjoint and many other proyects but I respect him more for his musical taste.

Never thought Phil would like the smiths !!

Me encanta este video. The great Phil Anselmo talking about the king, Morrissey!!!

Phil was the one who introduced me to Dr Johns “Gris Gris Gumbo Ya-Ya”, and bands like Captain Beefheart. He’s got a great taste in music

Pantera my gate away to Rock'n Roll. Great Phil Anselmo!

Well another GOOD reason to love Phil!

The Smiths are freaking awesome. R.E.M. are proof that The Smiths influence is prevalant. I am glad that one of my all time favorite vocalists likes another one of my all time favorite vocalists.

I have such a deep appreciation for musicians who love people from disparate genres, like Big Boi (OutKast) and his love of Kate Bush.

Full of surprises is our Phil..

Love this 👏

We need a Pantera & Smiths 'Cemetary Gates' mix

I’m loving life. Phil and Morrissey in the same universe loL Wonderful

Brother everything you said about The Smiths dead on. I had know idea he was a fan. Just made me consider Pantera someone I should listen too a lil more. Awesome! Couldn't have said it better myself. I think The Smiths are the most unique and greatest band of all time. Peace out 🙏

I'm still gushing over this!! I'm a dark metal fan and I always fantasized Cemetry Gates by the Smiths was linked to Pantera and it actually is!!

Yes!!! I'm a metal head but love the smiths

Wow. I like Phil a lot more now.

The Sound. The Railway Children. The icicle works. INTERPOL....

This is dope. I have loved Pantera and Down and love Morrissey, I dig that Phil loves the Smiths

HOW SOON IS NOW - fav song forsure!

This man can be on the same stage with White Zombie, Type O Negative, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Biohazard, Rigor Mortis, Voivod, Stormtroopers of Death, Morbid Angel, and Alice in Chains.

I feel so validated

Huge respect

The day my head exploded..

Moz loves ya Phil. Good video.

Metal heads are going to explode! First Charlie Benante comes out as a fan of Nirvana's music on an episode of Amoeba's "What's In My Bag?" and now Phil Anselmo, formerly of Pantera, is publicly coming out as a fan of The Smiths and Morrisey. I absolutely love that Metal musicians are opening up and showing that they are not just Metal heads like their fans! Love all forms of music, or at least appreciate what they have to offer--especially the really good stuff--because that is what is important. Shitting on other forms of music is just pretentious bullshit with a very narrow view. It is insane ridiculousness to act as though Heavy Metal, Jazz, Punk Rock, or whatever it is you listen to is the only good music around. Like what you want, and if you don't like something don't listen to it, but stop the dumping on other forms of music because your opinions are pure shit when you say a genre is so terrible that it should be wiped from the face of the Earth. If you don't like a particular artist in that genre, that's understandable, but to say a whole genre is worthless--that to me is pretentious bullshit.

Saw this video in my KZfaq feed. KZfaq gets me a bit more than I am comfortable with.

love hearing Smiths fans x

the thing i like about phil the most is he is the same person he was back in the day and now....his self affirming head nod at the end of a sentence....his cheesy attempts at humor when he feels the mood is too serious....his no bullshit opinions....not cocky just convinced PERSONA PERSONIFIED!!!!

Why are people shocked that metal people enjoy and are influenced by other genres besides metal? I could easily see Tom Araya listening to Sinatra, having a cocktail or something.

I love The Smiths! Great Phil!!!

Louder than bombs was the first album/compilation I ever bought from the smiths

I was a member of the Smiths fan club,- the wittiest of 'zines. I attended their 86 tour in Montreal tape recorded it Then lost the tape next weeks in Europe...Props to Phil