r/thesmiths

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The Smiths, live at Beacon Theatre, New York City, 18 June 1985.

Meaty, punchy low end, solid midrange, smooth, not harsh highs. I’d give the sound quality probably a B or B+.

Meat Is Murder tour. Nothing all too notable about this one. I suppose the biggest thing is that it’s unedited (outside of some little dropouts and similar hiccups that I fixed), so it’s a whole lot more filled out (one hour 25 minutes! nice.) than Rank. This one is just a standard audience bootleg that I fixed up, so it doesn’t sound as good as Rank, but is definitely worth a listen. I used the version which is on YT, which is audio only, and sounds terrible.

You’ll hear that they play several songs quite a bit faster than the album versions, noticeably fast. I could have slowed those down to get them closer to the album version tempos, but I said, nah, if they want to play the songs fast, I’ll let them.

Also, in fixing those little dropouts, sometimes I had to shorten up the drum stick four counts introducing the songs. Some I had to cut down to a two count, I’m sure there are a couple three counts, too, which sounds like it would be really awkward, but it’s not as bad as it sounds. I’m pretty sure I got rid of a couple four counts altogether.

I have no idea why they vamp that last song out to 12 minutes. Maybe there was something happening on stage which required a super long instrumental section? Some sort of Morrissey shenanigans?

I found a jpg poster from that tour for some other city/venue, but I covered up those details and put in this NYC date. The original is that green one above, but I made a bunch of different variations, different colors, different styles. Use whichever you’d like, or use them all.

Hope you like it. Thanks for listening.

Anders / Humorless Productions

Download (320 mp3s) or stream here-

https://archive.org/details/The-Smiths-live-in-New-York-City-1985

Visualizer for Johnny Marr's Spin. Currently on the BBC Radio 6 playlist!

Music has evolved a lot since the 1980s. Sampling, which was first practiced by such musical pioneers as Brian Eno or the Sugarhill Gang over forty years ago, is now ubiquitous. What are some of the songs that borrow directly from The Smiths' catalogue either through a very close reworking or through sampling?

That is all

I was rizzing in the haze of a faded hour

But chat, you know I'm skibidi now

I was looking for a gyat and then I found a gyat

And chat you know I'm skibidi now

In my life

Why do I waste valuable rizz

On baddies who don't care if I

Rizz or die

Two sigmas intwined

Pass me by

And chat, you know I'm skibidi now

I was looking for a gyat and then I found a gyat

And chat you know I'm skibidi now

In my life

Why do I waist valuable time

On baddies who don't care if I

Rizz or die

What she asked of me

At the end of the day

Kai Ce-nat would have blushed

Oh you've fanum taxed too long she said

And I

Naturally edged

In my life

Why do I try

For school gyats who I'd much rather

Rizz up in Ohio

I was rizzing in the haze of a faded hour

But chat, you know I'm skibidi now

I was looking for a gyat and then I found a gyat

And chat you know I'm skibidi now

In my life

Oh why do I give valuable zaza

To gyatts who don't care if I

Rizz or die

Can anyone else hear what seems to be a chimp screeching at 2:16 in the song. Like the classic chimp noise from the movies. It always stuck out to me and I can’t be the only one who noticed it.