go matt go

One of my all-time favourite bands, never tire of hearing this.

Nothing makes a song quite so bad as repeating the insipid hook for 5 minutes straight.

LOVE older TheThe and this is one of my favorite songs by Matt Johnson.

First year university, 1984, unhappy relationships, navel-gazing, and The The playing constantly on the cassette player. How I made it out alive, I'll never know.

FAY wrote:

Absolutely

Best THE THE song is Uncertain Smile. I love them.

Still as relevant now as then...

shayde wrote:

There's no confusion, it's just new wave from the 80's that sounds a bit similar because of the singers... Could name more that's in the same vain.

Okay, someone help me out. These guys sound just like Shriekback (and by inference, Happyhead)... but I also heard somewhere they're not related at all. Can someone clear up the confusion?

Egrey wrote:

Agreed. The song is from '89, but it might as well have been written after 9-11.

Islam is rising
The Christians mobilising
The world is on its elbows and knees
It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds

Excellent lyrics. Very dark, though, but, unfortunately, very true.

But God didn't build himself that throne
God doesn't live in Israel or Rome
God doesn't belong to the yankee dollar
God doesn't plant the bombs for Hezbollah
God doesn't even go to church
And God won't send us down to Allah to burn
God will remind us what we already know
That the human race is about to reap what it's sown

I see this track is also on this compilation CD.

If you like The The, check out the song, "Armageddon Days are Here (Again)," from Mind Bomb.

An interesting song and, sadly, very topical.

At the risk of sounding like an old fart, this is a perfect summing up of the UK in the 1980's. I used to listen to this a lot as I caught the bus to work in East London...

" This is the land where nothing changes
The land of red buses and blue blooded babies"

Opus_two wrote:Absolutely agree! Don't know this band well, but love it anyway

Good Good Song Song

This brings back memories.

Great. I'm a longtime fan but have never heard this tune. Saw him open up for Depeche Mode years ago.

Favorite The The... Jealous of Youth, This Is The Day, True Happiness This Way Lies, Gravitate to Me, much more. I really need to check out his new CD.

Hearing The The gives me an uncertain smile...

And the lyrics are as appropriate today as when they were written. Some things never change.

Fabulous song, glad to hear it on RP

Schmackdown wrote:
hmm. I uploaded this from a "best of" collection...I must admit I've never heard the Infected version. Is it better?
This is probably my favorite The The tune. :)

Rock on Bill!!!!!

Haven't heard this in ages and ages. What a great tune.

Never heard of the album before, but the track is great. This copy sounds a little raspier than I'm used to from Infected. Oooh, and it's a bit truncated towards the end, too- the refrain starts again a bit sooner than the other version. Hm.

First The The song I heard...and still one of the best.

lyrics, originally released on the Infected album.