The Smiths, This Charming Man, Watch (listen) to Mp3 Music Video and information.

Ahh, The Smiths.............

Very rarely will I dedicate as much text as I have to, “This Charming Man”.

ONLY when I feel a song especially warrants it!!

If you have a read of the following text, then maybes you too will appreciate what a monumental, influential and timeless classic this is, and if you haven't already heard it then I truly envy you.........(For you are about to discover a Classic, in every sense of the word!!)

If by some tragic consequence this tune doesn't GRAB you instantly, read the biog. Check out the Lyrics and for GODS SAKE, listen again!!

"This Charming Man" is considered to be one of the Smiths' signature songs, in large part because it manifested many of the band's defining musical motifs in a single three-minute pop song. As such, it has been very influential on later alternative rock bands, particularly those from Britain .

The song has been covered numerous times by different artists and in various styles. One of the earliest Death Cab for Cutie recordings is a cover version, dating from November 1996. It was released as part of the band's rarities collection You Can Play These Songs with Chords in 2002. Canadian indie-tronica outfit Stars released their own take on it in 2001. The heavily modified cover was featured on their A Lot of Little Lies For the Sake of One Big Truth EP, as well as their debut Nightsongs. Indie rock group Braid issued their cover of it on 2000's "Movie Music, Vol. 2" collection of compilation tracks and cover recordings.

In 2004, the song's melody was used on the Mitch Benn & The Distractions' satirical "Never Went Through a Smiths Phase" track off of their Too Late to Cancel album. Since its original release, the song has also been featured on seven themed compilations dealing with the underground music of the 1980s.

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Asides from being a fan favourite, the song has received nearly unanimous critical acclaim as well. Paul Morley of the NME, reviewing the single upon its original release, wrote "'This Charming Man' is an accessible bliss, and seriously moving. This group fully understand that the casual is not enough... This is one of the greatest singles of the year, a poor compliment. Unique and indispensable, like 'Blue Monday' and 'Karma Chameleon' - that's better!"

A contemporary review in The Face read "Where has all the wildness and daring got to? Some of it has found its way onto The Smiths' record, 'Charming Man'. It jangles and crashes and Morrissey jumps in the middle with his mutant choir-boy voice, sounding jolly and angst-ridden at the same time. It should be given out on street corners to unsuspecting passers-by of all ages."

Fan reaction was similarly ecstatic. In "This Is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco", Garry Mulholland wrote "It felt much bigger than No. 25. Jesus, it felt seismic. Everyone I knew (who wasn't a black-music obsessive) fell instantly in love with 'This Charming Man', and then whimpered like The S.O.S. Band for the attentions of Morrissey and Marr."
Lead singer of Suede, Brett Anderson, himself a teenager at the time, called it "a truly magical, beautiful song," remarking that "it's so ultimately charming and has some of the most brilliant lyrics ever ... incredibly idiosyncratic but incredibly self-confident within that."

All Music Guide's Ned Raggett noted that "Early Elvis would have approved of the music, Wilde of the words," calling it "an audacious end result by any standard." Tim DiGravina, of the same organization, writes that "Debating the merits of the track here would be a bit pointless, as it's a classic song from one of the last great classic bands. It might as well be called 'This Charming Song', as Johnny Marr's jangling, chiming guitar sounds as if it's being recorded in the heavens, and Morrissey's vocals are astonishingly deep. The song is dear to the heart of every fan of the band."

The guitar in the song is deceptively simple. In December 1993, Johnny Marr told Guitar Player magazine,
"I'll try any trick. With the Smiths, I'd take this really loud Telecaster of mine, lay it on top of a Fender Twin Reverb with the vibrato on, and tune it to an open chord. Then I'd drop a knife with a metal handle on it, hitting random strings. I used it on 'This Charming Man', buried beneath about 15 tracks of guitar. It was the first record where I used those highlife-sounding runs in 3rds. I'm tuned up to F# and I finger it in G, so it comes out in A. There are about 15 tracks of guitar. People thought the main guitar part was a Rickenbacker, but it's really a '54 Tele. There are three tracks of acoustic, a backwards guitar with a really long reverb, and the effect of dropping knives on the guitar — that comes in at the end of the chorus. "


Mp3 Song Lyrics For, The Smiths, This Charming Man.

Punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet ?
When in this charming car
This charming man

Why pamper life's complexities
When the leather runs smooth
On the passenger seat ?

I would go out tonight
But i haven't got a stitch to wear
This man said "it's gruesome
That someone so handsome should care"

A jumped-up pantry boy
Who never knew his place
He said "return the ring"
He knows so much about these things
He knows so much about these things

I would go out tonight
But i haven't got a stitch to wear
This man said "it's gruesome
That someone so handsome should care"
Oh, la-la, la-la, la-la, this charming man ...
Oh, da-da, da-da, da-da, this charming man ...

A jumped-up pantry boy
Who never knew his place
He said "return the ring"
He knows so much about these things
He knows so much about these things
He knows so much about these things

Some of the above information was obtained from the Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Charming_Man)