Anybody agree with me that this is probably The Smiths most underrated song?

only the smiths could compose a song where the whole chorus is only melancholic moaning

Such an underrated track

The sadness of this song is art.

i hear pain in his voice.. it makes this song pure gold

Wish I could know the true story behind this beautiful song, Morrissey is so genuine here and you can feel how sad he is singing this song!

Maybe the best band ever ... The most melodic for sure

Ice water for blood, with neither heart nor spine.....

THE SMITHS are the oxygen at my lungs! the veins and arteries in my blood! the essence of my soul! the reason I keep on living! LONG LIVE THE SMITHS!!!!!!!!!! the best band ever walked on the face of planet earth. period.

Johnny's guitar is simply mesmerizing!

They were The Smiths!!! . There will never be a band like this ever again :(

Wow!! A rare Smiths track indeed and possibly the only footage of them doing this song, fantastic stuff and pretty damn good quality. How many bands in their infancy could ever hope to sound that good live??

So glad someone has this. Wonderful Woman was the first smiths track I ever had (taped from the radio 1 Kid Jensen session - aired just before this gig and the best version for my money). By the time I got to see them for the first time (oct 83), they had dropped it from the set - and never played it again live (to my knowledge). It was always a hope, but the 17 times I saw them the buggers never once played it! I was always gutted. But so good to see this gig and this song here. Priceless!

Sublime. This is one of the earliest videos you will see of The Smiths. I wonder if Morrissey had any inkling of the important contribution he would make to music in the decades ahead. I did.

Probably their most melodic song I love it

That very last note he sings 3:04 going through the last two open chords is just wonderful. I heard this song for the first time a week ago. Listened to it tons of times. Learnt it on guitar and now realizing that some notes Morrisey is singing are quite dissonant in order to make melodies and harmony more complex, makes me value this band each time more.. He had a really peculiar, unusual sense of music such as Marr sense of rhythm. So melancholic and gloomy. Just love it

He means the entire world to me

the smiths are the best.

Worst of all, it's a band that can come back because all its members still live, but it seems it is not possible.

Been a fan since 82 and this is the first time I have listened to this ... fantastic.

A jaw droppingly naked performance of a rear rarity. They truly were one on a kind.. 🎶🌷🖤

Im 50 now & was a RELIGIOUS Smiths " fan in the 80s , had all there vinyl , but it wasent till 1996 that i bought a bootleg seethrough vinyl and i heard this for the 1st Time & It was like a Gift from GOD !!! It basically Was a Track that Should have been on the 1st : Smiths "" album , That Absolute Haunting Meloncholic , Hopeless Romantic sound , that No band have ever captured since !!! A True MASTERPIECE From Morissey & Marr !!!! ❤❤❤❤

The Smiths took maudlin to a new level and the clumsy and shy teenagers loved it and felt comforted with these songs that saved our lives back then.

Simply Britain's finest band !!

Incredible.Just brilliant.

how could you need anything more than this?

One of my favourite songs now.

Let's talk about why I love love love this song. First things first, the chords. There is so much flitting between sixth chords and fifth chords in the intro, creating a sense of joy and heating up to me, conflicting with the emotionally cooler minor chord. whenever I hear this song, I picture two people in bed together, kind of sheltered from the world, so that's why I enjoy the bursts of major chords throughout this minor key songs that act like pockets of energy. now lets talk about that chorus that absolutely intoxicates me on a good day. it's just melancholic moaning sounds really. again, the flitting between minor and major chords. makes it sound like something on life is coming together despite a sense of melancholy in the world around

andy wrote ALL the bass lines, the whole "writing rights" thing is based on the fact that legally the smiths were defined as "morrissey/marr" in the contracts and all the songs were credited that way (plus marr and moz wrote songs together as a duo for almost a year prior to the band forming), but andy and mike wrote their parts. Morrissey and Marr both have credited andy in later interviews saying that his bass playing sealed their success.

I love this song -- utterly beautiful, sorrowful -- this pain in his voice,he suffers--which can only Mozz sing so,it drives me start crying!!!!! Great!! Thanks for posting!

Oh Manchester, so much to answer for...

This is probably the best popsong I have ever heard

This song (this performance more specifically) makes me feel so much pain... not bad pain, but whenever Morrissey moans the chorus it almost feels like this catharsis of emotion, and its just so in sync with the music... idk man

Like The Beatles they managed to transcend the styles of the day and become a benchmark for musicianship. No, they didn't develop like The Beatles but we were all left wanting more of what they did.

Perfect performance.

Astonishing song. Also Jeane. The hopelessness of forlorn love, straight out of the working class sadness of early 80s bedsits, turned into romantic beauty. It's poetry and its genius

never before, never again... but it's one of those songs that make you wish all other songs were this emotive, genuine, and endearing-thank god for 'repeat' .

I am spanish and I have been listening to the smiths songs for 17 years man 17 years !!!!! and I am 33, they were my fav bad now and then .

This is absolutely brilliant. To be playing this great, folk-style, sorrowful sound in the Hacienda of all places--the stomping ground of New Order and the rave scene. New Order's "Blue Monday" was an enormous hit in 1982-1983, the dance anthem of Manchester arguably. It is so fantastic to see The Smiths opting to do something so entirely different, and so beautiful! I wish this song had had a wider release. Thanks for posting gem!!

Great song, fantastic rendition, thanks!

The smiths are the BEST band ever!!!

beautiful

he's so cute..

Raw performance of a genuine artist...goes far beyond the neo-classical post-punk genre.

This band is a real and pure treasure among all the bullshit and crap....... both in music and in life!!!!! because their music is the real thing, even better than the real thing!!!!!

There is less art, more matter in what Morrissey says. That's why they jerked the volume up 50 % compared to other bands. It's like he's reading his diary out loud, put to the most beautiful music imaginable. Even if you can't relate to everything Moz has experienced, like all great art you still enjoy listening to it. Just the heartfeltness of his voice is enough. However, it doesn't hurt that most things he sings about are clear and easy to grasp.

The crowd is either blown away or completely bored. They're just standing there. Lol

I'm looking for more Wonderful Woman in live :( anyone??

At the time, I had this song recorded on a tape, studio version. I was lucky! Loved it ever since.

Marr's guitar melody on this made me realise he is actually Bach

Andy's bass is incredible here. Rest in peace buddy. Still missed.

The bass is amazing.

you eloquently put the longing into words. smiths forever in my heart and under my pillow...yours too it seems

killin as usual

Thank you so much for posting this! I agree this is one of the best Smiths songs. This was the kind of b-sides the Smiths put out in 1983. Pure class.

The best band, for sure 🖤

best Band ever 👌

Eu amo essa música 💙

I love them so much, a band that changes lives

I love this song. Utterly adore it.

I agree, pure genius - their early stuff was the best of the lot!

THE best....

This song is painfully and hauntingly beautiful, oh Morrissey:/

Thanks for posting...great stuff...keep it coming, long live the Smiths!

Fantastic lyrics...

"Sketch for summer" is the best instrumental ever written period, the struggle continues and always will mate

Yes pure class !!!!!!!!!

for sure, it's amazing

Wow!

Wow! Thanks dude! I didn't know they played this live! Thanks so much for posting!

I Love you tube! without it these vids would be gone forever.Its nice to see a whole new generation appreciating the smiths.

Spot on. I couldn't have put it better.

"Ooh! But when she calls me I do not walk, i run..."

This is THE SMITHS!!!!

So good...

I had this on repeat during quarantine

The Smiths just have such replay value.. actually replay value is to weak of a term IMO... its that feeling of Rediscovering songs by them you have heard Countless times and falling in love with it all over again.. like a Wonderful Women that never gets old or boring... and i think ive met one...

This was the best line up ever, listen to those guitars and drums! please reform just for us, xx

ooooooohhhh aaaaahhhh

I think you're right about the Ritz. The first gig at the Hacienda was December 82 (this July 83 gig was the second one there). The 82 gig featured the version of Handsome Devil that's the B-side of Hand in Glove. They also played "What do you see in him?" at that gig which is the first version of Wonderful Woman. I have a mixing desk copy of the gig. They were very raw back then - but still excellent!

perfeito igualzinho a musica !!!amo!!!*-*

for the best girl girl ever...she is in zagreb and I'm not there by her side :(((((

yeah, this and jeanne are well their best songs i reckon

Andy Rourke is a bass god...

Yessss

Why oh why was Moz so very pretty

art

wow, what a find. i have this show on VINYL!

I can't understand why this song was never released on an album in the U.S.

emozionante

i seen them 9 times first time dec 83 trinity college dublin last time fairways dundalk 86 at the gig in RAH also then again if i lived in England i think i would have seen em 109 times ur a cool dude man bye and its such a beautiful tune isnt it

❤

That 'mixing desk copy' is called Handsome Devils. It was their third performance ever. Indeed very good, but they were playing very low (and because of that Morrissey sounds a bit frightening), I think Marr didn't tuned his guitar up already at that gig. Also I think it is in What Difference Does It Make, there is a second voice next to Moz', I think it's Marr (it sounds awful). That LP/Bootleg is some great time-document.

good song

The Smiths in the 80s were what The Beatles were in the 60s. No doubt about it, they were just that impactful to music as a whole.

amazing song! well underated. i have a studio verision wich isnt found on there mainstream albums, but on a bootleg album called 'hand that rocks the cradle ' a compilation of rare smiths tracks both live and studio

and I thought I'd heard every Smiths song....

Dermot - Good man! We share a gig! I was at Dundalk too! The June Brides supported (I was a big fan of them too). So I always remember that gig as being double good - my two favourites together! Also came away with a bit of Morrisey's shirt. And yes - a beautiful song!

Andy my love ur one hell of a bass player, & no1 fucking no1 can take that away from u. Rourke & Hook the best bass players of all times.

I cannot wait for the day Lord calls me and I cannot walk to *Him* -I run to *Him* 💚🙏👑🤗😋🥰👑🌻💗!!!