One of the better Smiths covers I've heard in a while. I'm going to have to check this group out.

unbearable!!!

He couldn't do worse than that.

love this one.
and I always knew paul heaton was one of the good....
thanks for that.

I was a fan of The Housemartins, back in the 80's, and always thought that Paul Heaton was a very good vocalist.

However, this cover is everything I don't like from The Beautiful South. Where, Heaton's vocals used to sound soulful, angry and urgent, now they're aliken to a lazy lounge lizard.

That piano in the background is just insufferable. I always adored Johnny Marr's guitar on this song (the first Smiths single I ever bought), and to have it replaced by something which sounds like LesAlanos from Phoenix Nights, well .....

Listen to The Housemartins' London 0 Hull 4, for Paul Heaton at his best. If you want to get into The Beautiful South, the early compilation "Carry on up the charts" is the best place to start.

fucking shit.

Never realised before that Heaven Knows has such a weak vocal melody. It's the guitar line that makes the song isn't it? Take the guitar out and you get this pile of pants!
J

I don't think it's that bad boys & girls, compared to some other dreadful attempts I've heard over the years.

I played it the whole way thru without stopping, which is always promising.

Bloody Awful!

that weren't half bad...

seriously...

if you want to hear morrissey singing, listen to the original by the smiths... obviously if you have that expectation you will be sadly disappointed when you hear the cover.

7 out of 10.

keep in mind i am very, very lenient and completely senile.

They play it for laughs, which is what the song really is anyway. I can't deal with Heaton's lame-ass vibrato, though. Why does he always sound like a bird (the animal, not a woman)?

kind of reminds me of the slot on shooting stars when vic reeves would sing a popular song in the style of a pub singer

They make it sound like a Russian folk song... all the yearning and frustration is still intact.

Perfect for staring at rain dropped windows, wearing an indoor scarf, and eating peanut butter on toast.

I decree that every song should come complete with a weather condition.. and a window for viewing.

One of most offensive things I have heard for a very long time, at least since the Darkness album.

I could almost accept the vocal if it wasn't for the oom-pa tuba and ragtime piano.

Just reminded me why I don't like the Beautiful South.

Cazza

started out okay, and honestly is one of the better Smiths covers...but then that's not saying much.

sorta like a very sleepy Elton John singing over the theme to Sanford and Son

...are ugly, spiteful, pathetic creatures. They are the complete antithesis of everything Moz's lyrics embody. Christ.

god... i guess it is in line with the other farty-frumpy stuff beautiful south does... how soon we forget "perfect 10"...

probably worst musical arrangement of a smiths tune i have ever heard... but at least it is original? errmm, or i will say "special"

I think it's very good. Of course it's not like the original, but what would be the point of a cover version sounding exactly like the original? (Except to make money, of course, by being a talentless popstar with nothing to convey, pilfering other people's songs because they can't think up their own).