One of my favourite songs back then, and still is now. Those chords....loud & aggressive, yet beautifully melodic. The playing is tighter than a gnats chuff.
I met my partner when I was 37, he was 35. This is one of our overlap bands that we both loved when we were 18, 19 ish. We still, 10 yrs later, dance together in the kitchen to the Weddoes ❤
19 years old heard this on radio 1. Blew my damn mind way open to a world of new music, and i doubt there's another song ever recorded capable of making me feel as euphoric as this can.
I got married in 2002. A friend DJed at the reception. I got up and played for 30 minutes to give him a break. I spun this last (from my 12" purchased in KG Discs, Waterford September 1989) and the whole place went into mosh overdrive. A perfect end to a perfect day.
I'm 49 and the middle brother of three boys. We were all different and fought in our teens. I was naughty and got sent away to school and my elder brother stayed local. My younger brother was a goth and followed me away to school. When he was 19 my elder brother moved to a flat in Bournemouth and one day invited me around. He was with his mates and they played their favourite music - the Wedding Present came on as they passed a joint around and suddenly we were bonded and found common ground. 32 years later we are tight - all three of us -all with children and we still bond over a smoke. This tune reminds me of the day we became tight and the rift at the end send shivers down my spine to this day. We saw the Wedding Present together in Amsterdam in the early noughties amongst other places. I love my brothers. x
The Wedding Present is one of the best bands to see live (of all time). I saw them in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) in the early 1990s at a club called “Masquerades” and the space was on an upstairs level. When this song came on the entire crowd started pogoing (jumping in unison) and the fucking floor started to buckle! It bent, but fortunately didn’t break. 😁
No question on that score. What do you think of the extended guitar solo(es) that close the song? I have never heard anything like it. It is very exciting.
I’m actually here because I was talking to my parents friend about bands that never got big in America and I thought their band name was really weird so it stuck in my mind
The wall of sound coming little by little in the last two minutes is one of the greatest and most powerful moments of all time. Greetings from Argentina.
Saw these at the Reading Festival in 1990 (I think, can't quite remember the date!) and they were amazing. Then I went to uni in Leeds and saw them I don't know how many times. Wish I could go back and do it all again! Absolute genius.
One of my favourite gig memories involved the Weddoes. Bradford Festival mid to late 80's. They played in a park on a stage erected in the middle of a shallow boating lake. A few songs into their set and they played Kennedy. Dozens of people decided to wade into the lake and try and invade the stage. Which meant the band leaving in a hurry and pleas for the stage invaders to return to the shore. Water plus many thousands of volts of live sound obviously being a very dangerous situation. I can remember Gedge pissing himself whilst attempting to appear serious at the situation unfolding in front of him. Free gig as well.
When I heard this song when it was first issued, I knew my life would never be the same again. Thank you, David - I have had an interesting life ever since Kennedy.
Love that! The 3 minutes of other-worldly guitar clatter that closes the song is unparalleled in modern rock history. These guys were definitely onto something totally unique. Geddie is Jesus.
1:39 Keith Gregory’s bass!!! Love TWP, they got me through some difficult times... Bizarro and the monolith that is Seamonsters are their finest albums.
You must. David is still nailing it. Saw them 2 nights ago for the bizarro tour. Astonishing how he can still deliver the frenetic pace of this, and Take Me. The man is a Goliath.
This was a top era for music, I was 16 that year so I remember all this kind of stuff vividly. The Stone Roses LP came out and She Bangs The Drums was released in 89(I think) and that's a hell of a single. The Wonder Stuff were sh*t hot too. It is a hell of a tune though.
I remember when i first heard this band on the John Peel show and then managed to get into the Leadmill to see them which was lucky because I was underage. When we were drinking a pint in the bar before the show David Gedge came up to us and talked to us. So genuine just like his music.
Heard this years ago when I was a teenager, on the John Peel show on Radio 1. Tried to drum along on my kit.... Failed !!! Top drums Top guitar Top song
This was the song that caught me on the hook for these guys. I am now a world class fan, I have piles of the vinyl and CDs all signed. Met them as WP and as Cinerama. I never get tired of these guys, I got a few bootlegs of theirs I recorded somewhere. I asked Gedge if he was ok with me filming, and they were THRILLED with it. So many memories to this band, when my senior year in high school was proving that life was going to shit and very quickly, this album, (and several 12" singles) got me through some rough times. 30+ years later, they still hit the spot.
I forgot about this track. I stumbled on it from a link listening to Carter USM, genuinely freaked out remembering dancing to this at Chicos in Hanley. Dear God, how did I ever forget how good this was?
I’ve just listened to the last part of the song and It made me cry. I’m 48 and It’s so sad to see the world transitioning from my generation to this new world order and, man, it’s really sad. I wish I could go back in time and do everything all over again. If you are listening to this track in 2022, I want you to know that, no matter where you are from, you are a cool person. Portugal 🇵🇹
That's the nostalgia talking old man. You've decided the world is worse, so it looks worse to you. If you were looking at the world now through the eyes of your younger self, you'd see it a lot differently
@Sentinela Why? It was in response to Andy's comment. The world is immeasurably better for me, as someone gay, in 2022 than in 1989. I can enjoy the music of my youth - and I do, a great deal! - but I keep nostalgia a little distantly, because it was a dark, dark, time to be gay. So, I am pleased to still be listening to 1989s music, but in the present day :-)
I first heard this at the Bristol Bierkeller when they were also the support act for an evening of Ukrainian folk music, and I’ve had the privilege to hear it live many times since.
Good note. The 3 minutes of guitar clatter that closes the song is unrivaled in modern rock history. It is like plates hitting a stone floor successively for that length of time.
I played this as a warm up on my first gig and demo and we played this as a soundcheck for years....the build up in the outro is especially good for pedals and more gain levels...awesome.
This should have been No. 1 in the UK charts.
I'm 50 year old now and followed the Weddoes all over, top band, class cannot be bought @!!
Listening in 2024
1986 loading msdos 3.2 from a floppy disk
Who wouldn’t?
just smashed my living room up.
Once a year I destroy things to this. Most often my rotatoror cuff.
Good job! You need some new furniture anyway.
One of my favourite songs back then, and still is now. Those chords....loud & aggressive, yet beautifully melodic. The playing is tighter than a gnats chuff.
Gnats chuff 😂
Best guitars in human history.
I met my partner when I was 37, he was 35. This is one of our overlap bands that we both loved when we were 18, 19 ish. We still, 10 yrs later, dance together in the kitchen to the Weddoes ❤
You've got to pick some people up, you've got to let some people go.
What a lyric, what a song and what a band.
Reminds me of my youth.
Yeah that lyric is so true and you realize just how true the older you get.
The Wedding Present are the kind of band that will smash their guitars on stage, then sweep up afterwards themselves.
That is one of the best postings I've ever read...and soooo true ha ha ha ha
Geddie is Jesus.
"...erm...sorry for the mess."
Ridiculously good comment, I don't recall such intellect in my youth!
Gedge is a true gentleman.
The drummer is really good at playing when he's spinning upside down.
19 years old heard this on radio 1. Blew my damn mind way open to a world of new music, and i doubt there's another song ever recorded capable of making me feel as euphoric as this can.
I got married in 2002. A friend DJed at the reception. I got up and played for 30 minutes to give him a break. I spun this last (from my 12" purchased in KG Discs, Waterford September 1989) and the whole place went into mosh overdrive. A perfect end to a perfect day.
Love it
Possibly their best tune
nope but up there
What's not to love here? A headlong rush, wall of noise, and a tune which has proven it's timeless status many years down the line
it's got a start a middle and an end, and the end is really the end. A song as a statement.
Nobody else will ever jangle like the Wedding Present.
Deerhunter makes a good try in "Desire Lines"
How on earth to you get desire lines from Kennedy?
Incredidble Stuff ! .......
George Formby came close
Give Unrest a try.
I'm 49 and the middle brother of three boys. We were all different and fought in our teens. I was naughty and got sent away to school and my elder brother stayed local. My younger brother was a goth and followed me away to school. When he was 19 my elder brother moved to a flat in Bournemouth and one day invited me around. He was with his mates and they played their favourite music - the Wedding Present came on as they passed a joint around and suddenly we were bonded and found common ground. 32 years later we are tight - all three of us -all with children and we still bond over a smoke. This tune reminds me of the day we became tight and the rift at the end send shivers down my spine to this day. We saw the Wedding Present together in Amsterdam in the early noughties amongst other places. I love my brothers. x
Well done mate. So good to hear a positive story for a change.
It's Riff not rift
Keep them as tight you can fellow brother
Was Gareth there ? x
Bully for you.
this is was and always will be the greatest song ever
see, kids, this is what music can be
If you ever feel down then listen to this song with the volume at max, it's a stunning piece of music and may be the best VU inspired song ever !
Wall of sound.
4 Guitars.
The sound of my youth.
Sounds as good now as the day it was born.....Great track...XXXX
Never we gets old. But I do.
My dad taught me how to use his vinyl player and I was looking through his old vinyls and found Bizarro. Now it's my favourite album.
Great dad.
+ThatStupidBritishPrick Good lad and well done to your dad who is obviously a bloke to be admired.
my dad is the guitarist. I win.
ThatStupidBritishPrick
It's an indie classic , why wud anyone listen to hum drum monotonous euro pop ????
You're Pete Solowka's son?
That bass!
Masterpiece of indie rock
Who’s dancing in their kitchen to this energetic song during this Pandemic? 🕺🏼💃🏼💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼
Yeah, I'll do it! Geddie is Jesus. The extended guitar outro is staggering brilliance.
Get Down!
Get Up! Get Up!
And Get Down!
I see Wedding Present 1987 in Marburg/Lahn small town in West-Germany - Great !
The Wedding Present is one of the best bands to see live (of all time). I saw them in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) in the early 1990s at a club called “Masquerades” and the space was on an upstairs level. When this song came on the entire crowd started pogoing (jumping in unison) and the fucking floor started to buckle! It bent, but fortunately didn’t break. 😁
No question on that score. What do you think of the extended guitar solo(es) that close the song? I have never heard anything like it. It is very exciting.
fuckin brilliant,what a great band
Tumblers Bradford early to mid nineties dancing around to this with can of red stripe to hand bloody happy memories
Yep, August '94 was my first time in Tumblers.
How did I miss this band? They rocked it! Trolled every vinyl bin and never ran across them in the US… but still love the sound! 😎
I’m actually here because I was talking to my parents friend about bands that never got big in America and I thought their band name was really weird so it stuck in my mind
Fanbloodytastic... I have goosebumps. Only good thing about being a kid was the music... Oh .. And no mortgage!
When this was produced (1989) I was 17 yo. Damn time flies.
I was 11, all my friends were into stonk hateken and wataloadofshitman. To be fair that stuff runs rings round the pish they play on capital radio:)
I was 18 and these guys were part of the soundtrack of my late teens and early twenties. Good times.
this song kills
The wall of sound coming little by little in the last two minutes is one of the greatest and most powerful moments of all time. Greetings from Argentina.
I agree totally, the only song that tops it ( the best end ever)…. Is Static by Godspeed You Black Emperror….best from Prague…
one of my all time favourite tunes, such energy!
Fond memories of driving around at night with my mates and this playing loud in the car. Oh to be young again 😦
how the fuck can this only have 122k views??? the world is fucked
Not enough people know about this band.. they should tho
ashtree50
15 Spastics !
Totally agree,you have good taste.
Wrecking on the dance floor to this around 1993 👊❤️
breaks my heart, the Weds, great great great band
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhrrrrrggg. Tee shirt off around the head song. Brilliant memories.
You mean underpants surely !
I remember this song blew up my mind when I was a kid
Saw them in Wolverhampton last week, superb!
Gedge the ledge!!
remember seeing these at Reading festival early 90s.loads of bonfires with people jumping through them.Happy days.
Forgot how fucking brilliant this track is,first time I've heard it in years!
" too much apple pie "
didn't know so stupid lyrics could sound so good
Gedge is a magician
definitely
Whirling...Fantastic dervish!...of energy!!!...Bravo!...
Leeds' finest !!! Great sound. Brilliant band in their prime when there was a dearth of good bands around - look up the album George Best.
Top tunage of the highest order.
Saw these at the Reading Festival in 1990 (I think, can't quite remember the date!) and they were amazing. Then I went to uni in Leeds and saw them I don't know how many times. Wish I could go back and do it all again! Absolute genius.
masterpiece
Best.
Song.
EVER!
ノリのいい曲。映像もセンスがあって素晴らしい！
Jangle-Thrash - the one and only and best band to play it.
One of my favourite gig memories involved the Weddoes. Bradford Festival mid to late 80's. They played in a park on a stage erected in the middle of a shallow boating lake. A few songs into their set and they played Kennedy. Dozens of people decided to wade into the lake and try and invade the stage. Which meant the band leaving in a hurry and pleas for the stage invaders to return to the shore. Water plus many thousands of volts of live sound obviously being a very dangerous situation. I can remember Gedge pissing himself whilst attempting to appear serious at the situation unfolding in front of him. Free gig as well.
I was there that night too,Lister Park and they were amazing loved them ever since .
Everlasting adjectival genius.
I remember this song from years ago…found it on a compilation cassette. It hits different here though. Glad I found it on a quick search.
When I heard this song when it was first issued, I knew my life would never be the same again. Thank you, David - I have had an interesting life ever since Kennedy.
Love that! The 3 minutes of other-worldly guitar clatter that closes the song is unparalleled in modern rock history. These guys were definitely onto something totally unique. Geddie is Jesus.
Best guitar song I've heard.
Playing in Dublin soon! Best news I heard today.
1:39 Keith Gregory’s bass!!!
Love TWP, they got me through some difficult times... Bizarro and the monolith that is Seamonsters are their finest albums.
Those were the days.proper music
seen weddos many times in 90s...always brilliant.leeds uni
What fantastic memories. Introducing this tune to my 6 year old son now!
Hope your 16 year old is still rocking to this masterpiece!
Perfect......
The greatest song ever - fact !
probably the best song and vid from the 80's, what a bass sound!!
seen weddos loads of times brilliant..leeds uni colne municiple hall
whole lotta love from japan
I love them sound fresh still, in the bucket-list to see them live,
You must. David is still nailing it. Saw them 2 nights ago for the bizarro tour. Astonishing how he can still deliver the frenetic pace of this, and Take Me. The man is a Goliath.
the best single released that year - what a tune!
This was a top era for music, I was 16 that year so I remember all this kind of stuff vividly. The Stone Roses LP came out and She Bangs The Drums was released in 89(I think) and that's a hell of a single. The Wonder Stuff were sh*t hot too. It is a hell of a tune though.
The layers man, the LAYERS!
I love The Fall-like repetition of the same hook until the song builds to a crescendo. They did that a lot.
David Gedge is a big fan of the fall.
But they were far better than that load of shite The Fall
“It’s not repetition, it’s discipline.” - MES
Exactly, in that respect it is also like Velvet Underground.
Yeah, Guided By Voices do this sometimes too. Great way to construct a song.
Can't beat this live at the front in the moshpit 😍😍😍
One of the best bands ever. Happy memories jumping around to this at their gigs.
I remember when i first heard this band on the John Peel show and then managed to get into the Leadmill to see them which was lucky because I was underage. When we were drinking a pint in the bar before the show David Gedge came up to us and talked to us. So genuine just like his music.
Why I can't hear so well anymore. Thanks Mr. Gedge!
love this song
Brilliant tune :)
A fucking pleasure to see played live
Heard this years ago when I was a teenager, on the John Peel show on Radio 1. Tried to drum along on my kit.... Failed !!! Top drums Top guitar Top song
beauty
This was the song that caught me on the hook for these guys. I am now a world class fan, I have piles of the vinyl and CDs all signed. Met them as WP and as Cinerama. I never get tired of these guys, I got a few bootlegs of theirs I recorded somewhere. I asked Gedge if he was ok with me filming, and they were THRILLED with it. So many memories to this band, when my senior year in high school was proving that life was going to shit and very quickly, this album, (and several 12" singles) got me through some rough times. 30+ years later, they still hit the spot.
I forgot about this track. I stumbled on it from a link listening to Carter USM, genuinely freaked out remembering dancing to this at Chicos in Hanley. Dear God, how did I ever forget how good this was?
Ahhhhh, Chicos! :-)
Handily placed to catch the bus in and flag down a taxi from the other side of the road....
Them were the days duck....
Whirling around, shirts over our heads, not a care in the world, to this at 42's and 5th Ave... Ooh happy days........
A truly great song and always a special moment when you hear those opening chords at a Weddoes gig. Never gets old.
Fecking brilliant
I don´t know if the band still goes on but I just want them to know that this song makes me very happy!
How good does this still sound remember like yesterday if u don't like it speak to my tiny hand.
I’ve just listened to the last part of the song and It made me cry. I’m 48 and It’s so sad to see the world transitioning from my generation to this new world order and, man, it’s really sad. I wish I could go back in time and do everything all over again. If you are listening to this track in 2022, I want you to know that, no matter where you are from, you are a cool person. Portugal 🇵🇹
The world changes, and welcomes the new. Meanwhile I have a few drinks, and stick these tunes on and say ... they'll never feel like this.
That's the nostalgia talking old man. You've decided the world is worse, so it looks worse to you. If you were looking at the world now through the eyes of your younger self, you'd see it a lot differently
I feel like that sometimes. Keep the faith.
@@Andy-ct8be As a gay Wedding Present fan, 2022 is *immeasurably* better than 1989. Of that, there is no doubt
@Sentinela Why? It was in response to Andy's comment. The world is immeasurably better for me, as someone gay, in 2022 than in 1989. I can enjoy the music of my youth - and I do, a great deal! - but I keep nostalgia a little distantly, because it was a dark, dark, time to be gay. So, I am pleased to still be listening to 1989s music, but in the present day :-)
What a band !!
I first heard this at the Bristol Bierkeller when they were also the support act for an evening of Ukrainian folk music, and I’ve had the privilege to hear it live many times since.
Wildly underrated band ... this song is amazing ....but so is so much of their material
For me there are 2 bands who are the best guitar bands ever. The Wedding Present and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
I'm with you there! First gig was the wedding present in 1987. I ended up following the Marychain round for several years. Happy times.....
Shabba 🕺👌
This could cure covid. Epic energy. Lost on this generation, hoping to be found. X
Good note. The 3 minutes of guitar clatter that closes the song is unrivaled in modern rock history. It is like plates hitting a stone floor successively for that length of time.
Taking a solid melody through incredible noise. Very accomplished art.
Cure what 🤔 ffs
Though not FDA approved, these walls of sound are therapy for a little of this, little of that.
Superb!!!
I played this as a warm up on my first gig and demo and we played this as a soundcheck for years....the build up in the outro is especially good for pedals and more gain levels...awesome.
Memories of my youth in blackburn top track