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Italian suicide pop instigators Spiritual Front have shared another track, "How Soon Is Now?", from their upcoming The Smiths tribute album The Queen Is Not Dead, scheduled for release on 21 July.
"How Soon Is Now?" has probably earned the title of "best known The Smiths song" also due to a Love Spit Love cover of the track ending up as the theme song for all eight seasons of the popular US-TV series Charmed. The composition of singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr began its successful career as the B-side of The Smiths' 1984 single "William, It Was Really Nothing", but then ended up on the album Meat Is Murder (1985) and subsequently got released as a single twice, reaching the UK Singles Chart at #24 in 1985 and at #16 in 1992. There have been several cover versions of "How Soon Is Now?", including insular doom pioneers Paradise Lost and Russian pop act t.A.T.u., who released it with their Eurovision Song Contest entry.
Spiritual Front comments: "If there was an official anthem of juvenile mal de vivre, it would be 'How Soon Is Now?' for sure", Simone Salvatori muses. "Melancholic, touching, and stunning - but also tragically perfect: this song describes the unease of an entire generation in just a few lines. It does so without being annoying or mincing words. These are sharp words, words that describe a radical and suave sense of not belonging without frills. They contain so much: the will to be loved, a request for help, an absence that needs to be filled, the inability to adapt to a deaf and hostile world, and a life that should be lived intensely again. Marr's guitar playing on this track is already legendary. From the first note, it makes psychedelic, sinuous moves, over almost tribal textures of Rourke and Joyce, and builds layer upon layer, until is builds the perfect foundation of an epochal, unique song. 'How Soon Is Now?' remains carved in all our hearts."
"How Soon Is Now?" is right below, while previously released "Bigmouth Strikes Again", and more info is HERE. Link
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