Solo Ricky Reacts to The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

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  • @SoloRicky_
    @SoloRicky_  Před 6 měsíci +54

    TIMESTAMPS
    2:33 The Queen Is Dead
    8:16 Frankly, Mr. Shankly
    11:02 I Know It's Over
    17:50 Never Had No One Ever
    21:25 Cemetry Gates
    26:18 Bigmouth Strikes Again
    29:33 The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
    33:13 Vicar in a Tutu
    35:29 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
    39:29 Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
    43:46 FINAL THOUGHTS

    • @FeralFreyaForreal
      @FeralFreyaForreal Před 6 měsíci +5

      Pro tip: if you add these timestamps to the description of the video, then it will appear on the timeline as chapters. Just make sure the first timestamp is 0:00, e.g. "0:00 Intro" and then the rest of the timestamps for songs.

    • @briancohenthepfjmassive.4769
      @briancohenthepfjmassive.4769 Před 5 měsíci +3

      Cemetery gates . Is about a game being played in a graveyard. Keates yates and Wilde are 3 poets. People who like poets walk around cemeteries scoring points of headstones by identifying what poems are on them and by whom. I have never played it myself BTW.

    • @davidtaylor6663
      @davidtaylor6663 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Love you understnding this album on first listen...wait until your fourth, fifth, 20th time listening to it. Its exceptional and you get it.

  • @O0othiago0o0o0o
    @O0othiago0o0o0o Před 2 měsíci +27

    "It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, it takes guts to be gentle and kind"

  • @lindsayarmstrong845
    @lindsayarmstrong845 Před 6 měsíci +57

    My favourite lyrics of all time “ and when you want to live how’d you start, where’d you go, who’d you need to know?”

    • @odw_99
      @odw_99 Před 5 měsíci +1

      In the feels…every time!

    • @timeweston
      @timeweston Před 4 měsíci

      And when you want to live
      How'd you start?
      Who're you to know?

  • @seamusburke639
    @seamusburke639 Před 6 měsíci +39

    "Bigmouth" is one of my all-time favorite songs.

  • @Tomes23
    @Tomes23 Před 6 měsíci +59

    Who remembers hearing this on cassette tape? I remember listening to it nonstop on my Walkman.

    • @williamr3840
      @williamr3840 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Until it began to make a funny noise... and your Walkman groaned and clicked to a halt? :0/

    • @danakerjbam
      @danakerjbam Před 5 měsíci

      I bought it on vinyl, and recorded it to a long playing TDK for a single side playthrough. Good times. Thanks for reminding me. And thanks Ricky for the chance to go back and remember what it was like the first time. Subbed and here for the journey. Can I suggest the other great Brit Band of rhe 80’s - The Cure. I’d start with either In Between Days (early) or their absolute masterpiece Disintegration. I think that one will destroy you. Huge albums. In all ways. Peace.

    • @cardo2577
      @cardo2577 Před 5 měsíci

      that is the joke that has to be made, good job
      @@prehistoricmeatloaf

    • @HLTulner
      @HLTulner Před 3 měsíci

      Still do…. At least once a year…😂

  • @billpaulk1058
    @billpaulk1058 Před 3 měsíci +9

    I remember listening to this album as a high schooler in 1986 with the same joyful exuberance you have shown! Go Smiths!

  • @caiominamyzawa
    @caiominamyzawa Před 5 měsíci +16

    "he asking the important questions!!""

  • @mctrashpedal
    @mctrashpedal Před 6 měsíci +31

    You get it, sir! When you hit the middle of "it's over" I saw you eff'n get it. And then "cemetery gates" and and and...❤

  • @John-uz4et
    @John-uz4et Před 3 měsíci +4

    Best album opening EVER. First 30 seconds is electrifying and grips you for the entirety of the album

  • @notimportant1047
    @notimportant1047 Před 6 měsíci +24

    Hope you do some more Smiths! All of their albums are amazing. One of the best bands ever

  • @davidthompson9495
    @davidthompson9495 Před 6 měsíci +22

    I love that your one of the few who's not just listening to it, but feeling it. Welcome!

  • @cyberhermit1222
    @cyberhermit1222 Před 6 měsíci +23

    Favourite Smiths album..Meat is Murder

  • @Tomes23
    @Tomes23 Před 6 měsíci +12

    6:41 I feel it.
    15:39 it does take guts
    24:43 it is live saving. Things get better.
    I’m glad you enjoyed it!

  • @seaJ2
    @seaJ2 Před 6 měsíci +20

    Great reaction! The Yeats in Cemetry Gates is referring to the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
    Most Smiths lyrics are references to bygone poets, artists, writers and films/actors from which Morrissey drew inspiration.
    Many from his childhood but also people like Oscar Wilde from an even earlier time.

  • @punker-gamer-trucker-guy
    @punker-gamer-trucker-guy Před 6 měsíci +15

    Three things
    First you need to go back and listen to Meat is Murder, then move on to their last album Strangeways, Here We Come.
    Second you need to listen to the Stone Roses self-titled album, and lastly listen to Happy Mondays' pills n thrills and bellyaches.
    I can tell you like the upbeat dancier side of the Smiths and I think youd dig these two records.

    • @doglog3934
      @doglog3934 Před 6 měsíci +3

      And their Compilation album, Louder than Bombs as well

    • @SoloRicky_
      @SoloRicky_  Před 6 měsíci +6

      I’ll give em a listen and let you know what I think

  • @diorsse
    @diorsse Před 4 měsíci +3

    13:51 average smiths listening experience

  • @mr._baum153
    @mr._baum153 Před 6 měsíci +11

    If you love "Frankly, Mr. Shankly" then check out "Here's Where The Story Ends" by the Sundays. It has EXACTLY the same Vibe, speed and energy!!! I couldn't believe it when I found that song.

    • @joshjackson1450
      @joshjackson1450 Před 6 měsíci +1

      agreed!! l

    • @SoloRicky_
      @SoloRicky_  Před 6 měsíci +2

      That song and “Wild Horses” made me fall in love with the Sunday’s 🥲

    • @RandomJane104
      @RandomJane104 Před 6 měsíci

      Yep. The Sundays singer is like a female Morrissey.

  • @larrycohen5553
    @larrycohen5553 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Ha love how Johnny Marr hits your soul.

  • @hunnnithechad
    @hunnnithechad Před 6 měsíci +22

    hey man loved your video, i reckon youd probably like the cure theyre kinda similar to the smiths, their album disintegration is a 10/10

  •  Před 4 měsíci +4

    Bae, I was 19 where this dropped. It drove me crazy. I got it on vinyl and it spun countless times. It is certainly one the best of The Smiths' albums. My favorite songs are: I Know It's Over, Cemetry Gates and There Is a Light.
    At that time, I was also listening a lot to another great young artist: Bob Marley. I suggest you check his records too.
    I love your vibes bud. Take care!

  • @billpaulk1058
    @billpaulk1058 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Closing guitar riff on Some Girls is pure magic! Fire!

  • @MixedMediaArtByTrina
    @MixedMediaArtByTrina Před 2 měsíci +3

    27:16 it’s hitting! 👀 This album is still so damn good! Love your energy. 😍

  • @rickb.4168
    @rickb.4168 Před 6 měsíci +6

    Mancunian here, born in the same hospital as Morrissey. Park Hospital(now Trafford General) in Urmston. The very first NHS hospital.

  • @davidtaylor6663
    @davidtaylor6663 Před 4 měsíci +3

    your immediate reactions to these songs are exactly what they got from me in 1987 and almost everyone that really listens to thee songs for the first time.

  • @kylewoolsey6635
    @kylewoolsey6635 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Never Had No One Ever is right there with Every Breath You Take by the Police for 80s stalker songs. When he sings "I hate to intrude, but I'm alone and I've never has no one, ever, " - shivers! "I Know its Over" is such a grower. Singing about "It takes strength to be gentle and kind" while being the odd one out in a broken relationship is just incredible. Glad you loved the record. Its just as impactful today, as in 1985.

  • @jeffarredondo
    @jeffarredondo Před 5 měsíci +4

    This is the BEST Smiths review I've ever witnessed. Fantastic review!

  • @ForbiddenDisco
    @ForbiddenDisco Před 2 měsíci

    The last minute of "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. That guitar, my God!

  • @davidtaylor6663
    @davidtaylor6663 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Well the Queen is Dead is one of the best albums ever. Knock this one out :) Johnny Marr's guitar is incendiary ;)

  • @beefywelly
    @beefywelly Před 6 měsíci +5

    please listen to grace by jeff buckley, i think its one of the most beautiful album ever made...

  • @derrickchannel1
    @derrickchannel1 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Love this album it just hits different!

  • @pommemelon7026
    @pommemelon7026 Před 5 měsíci +3

    I love your energy 😂 I discovered this channel with the Radiohead albums, now the Smiths. Makes me rediscover them. I wish you'll do a Joy Division sometime !

  • @libertyjustice1620
    @libertyjustice1620 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Fantastic reaction. So honest and passionate.

  • @HJSTRUDUM
    @HJSTRUDUM Před 6 měsíci +2

    Love your content! Keep up the amazing work!

  • @objectiveperspective777
    @objectiveperspective777 Před 6 měsíci +5

    I'm serious. You should react to their song This night has opened my eyes. that's the best smiths song hands down... And it's not on any of their albums. Just compilation albums.

    • @SoloRicky_
      @SoloRicky_  Před 6 měsíci +5

      That one has been on my playlist for awhile! Believe me when I say after I heard it for the first time, I was stuck on it for weeks 😭

    • @objectiveperspective777
      @objectiveperspective777 Před 6 měsíci

      @SoloRicky_ that riff. 😭

  • @Gittoplo
    @Gittoplo Před 6 měsíci

    Good reaction. Enjoyed it, Great album!

  • @cdecent
    @cdecent Před 4 měsíci

    You seem to be letting it loose and getting into this shit, I'm here for it. Salute.

  • @joshjackson1450
    @joshjackson1450 Před 6 měsíci +4

    great reaction as usual! would love to see you react to Reading, Writing and Arithmetic by The Sundays. Easily the closest band to mirror the effects of The Smiths music without ripping them off

    • @SoloRicky_
      @SoloRicky_  Před 6 měsíci +2

      Thanks man!! They’ve always reminded me of The Cranberries, before I started listening to The Smiths more often. Now I can definitely hear their influence on The Sunday’s

    • @joshjackson1450
      @joshjackson1450 Před 6 měsíci

      @@SoloRicky_ No worries! one of the best reaction channels out there rn , keep it up :)

  • @djbeema
    @djbeema Před 5 měsíci +3

    I think my favorite Smiths song is whichever one I've just listened to 😅
    (except for Golden Lights,screw that song lol)
    I think theres a pretty strong case for this being the Smiths best album. As you said, "Mr Shankly," "Vicar," and "Some Girls" are its weak points, but the rest is so insanely good it more than makes up for them. Hell, "There Is a Light" alone could carry the whole album. But choosing a favorite Smiths album is often like choosing a favorite child

    • @ijustneedmyself
      @ijustneedmyself Před 5 měsíci

      I can agree on Shankly and Vicar, but Some Girls 😅 Whew. You guys couldn't be more wrong! 😂

    • @joruijor7531
      @joruijor7531 Před 4 měsíci

      IMO some girls is one of the best, I also like Frankly Mr shankly a lot, my biggest Hot take is that Big mouth is the song that I second like the least from the whole album

    • @silentserenitys7102
      @silentserenitys7102 Před 2 měsíci

      Do fans of the smiths just agree that golden lights suck?

  • @EgghuntRecords
    @EgghuntRecords Před 5 měsíci +1

    Love this vid! The Smiths are timeless!

  • @bloofz
    @bloofz Před měsícem +1

    13:57 😭😭 funny af

  • @harrysittlington4214
    @harrysittlington4214 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Great reaction bro, keep it up 💪🏻

  • @ladydominion8632
    @ladydominion8632 Před 5 měsíci +2

    If you liked "I Know It's Over", do yourself a favor and listen to the "Rank" live version of the song from 1986 - in my opinion, it's perhaps the best live version of any song ever.

  • @bordercollie6593
    @bordercollie6593 Před 4 měsíci +2

    came across your channel bro and i read a comment about how you used to lowkey like indie music but felt like your peers would think its weird. ima be honest, not many people our age listening to multiple genres. theres such a vast and immersive world of music, sure everyone can like whatever they want but some people will legit put you down for your music taste (my american friends always call english music trash) which sucks, more people should be expanding their music tastes. every day i always feel like ive expanded my musical knowledge. some bands like The Cure go crazy when stoned too, Steely Dan is godtier when high! you a hero for the videos you be putting out, allows me to potentially like some albums ive never heard of. i never subbed to a reaction channel before except for you because i can tell you are geuine and love making these kinds of videos. keep up the good work brother, you got a good community building up with each video, you probably wondering why im typing all of this to a stranger online, but hey, gotta give credit where credit is due :)

  • @ilikemysugarwithcoffeeandcream
    @ilikemysugarwithcoffeeandcream Před 6 měsíci +5

    YOOOOOOOOOOO RICKY WHATS GOOD FAM LETS GET IT

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 4 měsíci

    I can never get enough of you or Morrissey and the Smiths...❤❤❤❤

  • @davidtaylor6663
    @davidtaylor6663 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Shankly is a satire. I know its Over is one of the best songs about dread, if there can be one. :)

  • @sacramento60
    @sacramento60 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Would love for you to react to Primus. They have an extremely unique sound which lead many to say "they are a genre unto themselves". Tommy the Cat (live at Bonaroo) is a great place to start. Jerry Was a Race Car Driver and Wynona's Big Brown Beaver are very popular too.

  • @Garmonbozia
    @Garmonbozia Před 5 měsíci +1

    The Smiths is hands down one of the best acts in music history and I don't care if anyone disagrees because that's the T. ❤

  • @deathkampdrone
    @deathkampdrone Před 5 měsíci

    What an enjoyable watch. Yeah, Some Girls is pretty hilarious xD

  • @goofball808
    @goofball808 Před 5 měsíci +1

    You should listen to Grace - Jeff Buckley. The vocals, instrumentals, production and everything are insane.

  • @charliegeorge9393
    @charliegeorge9393 Před 4 měsíci

    Subscribed, great reaction

  • @HLTulner
    @HLTulner Před 2 měsíci

    Please review the whole smiths catalogue man, you rock The Smiths totally!! Hatfull of hollow, meat is murder, and strangeways here we come please!!

  • @miraclemax9093
    @miraclemax9093 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Great reaction, try all the Smiths albums, and Morrissey's albums too

  • @ZIPPPR
    @ZIPPPR Před 4 měsíci +3

    Bro you gotta listen to disintegration by the cure

  • @mattreynolds612
    @mattreynolds612 Před 3 měsíci

    Only ½ way thru but No!!!
    This is the BEST REACTION EVER!!!
    MY BOY IS FEELING IT FOR REAL FR fr! 😂🎧🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🔥💯

  • @miguelotero9218
    @miguelotero9218 Před 3 měsíci +1

    You have great taste my man

  • @caiominamyzawa
    @caiominamyzawa Před 5 měsíci +1

    im loving ur videos reviwing some goooooood ass albuns

  • @iainprendergast8311
    @iainprendergast8311 Před 5 měsíci

    Go Ricky go!

  • @bensonchannel8676
    @bensonchannel8676 Před 6 měsíci +2

    I think you'd like The Cure's debut album too

  • @nikan_arami
    @nikan_arami Před měsícem +1

    You look good my guy.

  • @marianomaldonado4024
    @marianomaldonado4024 Před 5 měsíci

    Great video bro

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 4 měsíci

    I have every song original start to finis of The Smiths and Morrissey ❤❤❤

  • @Maxwellish
    @Maxwellish Před 12 dny

    I so often wish Morrrissey wasn’t such a bad guy, because it would let me admire his good voice more lol.

  • @deona267
    @deona267 Před 6 měsíci +1

    The queen is dead is an album

  • @doglog3934
    @doglog3934 Před 6 měsíci +2

    You gotta check out
    Car seat headrest's Twin fantasy
    The cocteau Twin's Heaven or Las Vegas

  • @Lunatic4Bizcas
    @Lunatic4Bizcas Před 3 měsíci

    New to your channel. The Queen is Dead is an excellent Smiths album and an overall classic. I was wondering what sort of equipment you film on, the video quality looks vintage in a cool way. Very much like a 90's sort of analogue quality. Great video.

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 3 měsíci

    He sang "you're so very good looking, why do you sleep alone tonight"❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ It's just because you haven't made your mind up... And then met moi tonight..... In New Orleans la50uisian4.,.........(830 why are you alone t99night. Your low score on any schedule is 75......... You coul perhaps

  • @BatmansButtsack
    @BatmansButtsack Před 4 měsíci

    Seeing I know its over ruin you made me very happy, because it ruins me whenever I think of it. Always remember: It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 4 měsíci

    Sóoooó 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @l1477
    @l1477 Před 3 měsíci

    damn i wish i could hear cemetery gates for the first time again

  • @davidtaylor6663
    @davidtaylor6663 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Dude...Cemetry Gates is your new favorite?....wait until the album gets going....Every song on this album is a classic....after this go check out videos of them live...then listen to their last album "Strangeways Here Them Come"....

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 4 měsíci

    I never thought I here or see someone who appreciates the Smiths or Morrissey. I have fallen in love with you bae ...........❤

  • @thomasmason5198
    @thomasmason5198 Před 5 měsíci

    this is great man. think you might like 'Automatic for the People'

  • @TheInfamousLegend27
    @TheInfamousLegend27 Před 3 měsíci

    for context, Some Girls isn't a fat-shaming song or anything offensive. my guess, taking into account the extra verse he added in the live version**, is that it's either:
    1. a jab about men's obsession with breasts
    OR
    2. a jab at people shaming bigger women
    i know a lot of people out there have a very surface level opinion about these lyrics, or claim it "rUiNs JoHnNy's gUiTaR mElOdY" xD
    **the verse in question:
    "on the shop floor, there's a calander, as obvious as snow...as if we wouldn't know"

  • @davidtaylor6663
    @davidtaylor6663 Před 4 měsíci

    Solo Ricky I can help explain what Morrissey is talking about. Its not what you are thinking. This album is classic...

  • @ProjectGhouls
    @ProjectGhouls Před 4 měsíci

    React to the sundays - reading writing and arithmetic

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 4 měsíci

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @cdecent
    @cdecent Před 4 měsíci

    Go with Gaffers tape. It doesn't leave a residue.

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 4 měsíci

    Dude..did you just "like flat Stanley"....I gave him a tour of New Orleans for my niece in grammar school..got all kinds of pics with me and Flat...... love to share Dem wit ya sometime 😅😮❤

  • @Alien_friend15
    @Alien_friend15 Před 2 měsíci +1

    ‏‪25:20‬‏ should we tell him?
    😿😿😿

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 3 měsíci

    Morrissey is delivering always and is delicious😢😢😢😢😢

  • @tokilladaemon
    @tokilladaemon Před 5 měsíci

    Glad you liked this one, its a special album. Shame what morrissey turned into lol but i kind of view it similar to smashing pumpkins, i can enjoy the old shit without thinking about the old shit i guess

  • @rzarectz
    @rzarectz Před 6 měsíci

    You should def check out some BA Johnston albums

  • @timeweston
    @timeweston Před 4 měsíci

    'life is very long when you're lonely'

  • @MJ-00001
    @MJ-00001 Před 6 měsíci +2

    I know Sus Solo was salivating for that 28:38 ⚡💯💀
    _Don't think we don't know Ricky_

  • @SidFreeman0
    @SidFreeman0 Před 4 měsíci

    Listen to The Stone Roses debut album

  • @hardtobear4876
    @hardtobear4876 Před 4 měsíci

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @danakerjbam
    @danakerjbam Před 5 měsíci +2

    Subbed and here for the journey. Can I suggest the other great Brit Band of rhe 80’s - The Cure. I’d start with either In Between Days (early) or their absolute masterpiece Disintegration. I think that one will destroy you. Huge albums. In all ways. Peace.

  • @pommemelon7026
    @pommemelon7026 Před 5 měsíci

    18:48 😂😂

  • @Sasha-il1oq
    @Sasha-il1oq Před 23 hodinami +1

    You're good looking, dude

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 4 měsíci

    I love you..... you get me. Ohhhb

  • @deona267
    @deona267 Před 6 měsíci

    Check out Specimen

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 4 měsíci

    New Orleans is good for skipping in the streets

  • @marcorobertini9943
    @marcorobertini9943 Před 2 měsíci +1

    ciao,
    anche a me piacciono tanto gli smiths
    vorrei che tu ascoltassi e publicassi
    un album degli echo and the bunnymen, a tua scelta
    magari heaven up here
    con stima ti saluto

  • @drdarbyj
    @drdarbyj Před 4 měsíci

    I'm still watching and listening.....come to NOLA. I do love you. But ím a dude🎉you don't have to do anything........I cook, clean, wash and just need one dude to appreciate 😮

  • @unlucky_charm29
    @unlucky_charm29 Před 5 měsíci +2

    if it means anything, i think you're good looking

  • @O0othiago0o0o0o
    @O0othiago0o0o0o Před 2 měsíci

    Did he skip Meat Is Murder????

  • @iainprendergast8311
    @iainprendergast8311 Před 5 měsíci

    Every tune is incredible, but, I know it’s over…. stops me in my tracks every time.

  • @mollykeane2571
    @mollykeane2571 Před měsícem

    Next: Meat Is Murder

  • @onepz9614
    @onepz9614 Před 6 měsíci

    you should react to pink floyd