Wont Be Burned Again Punk Song
| "Panic" | ||||
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| Unmarried by The Smiths | ||||
| from the anthology The Earth Won't Listen | ||||
| Released | 21 July 1986 | |||
| Recorded | May 1986 | |||
| Studio | Livingston Studios, London | |||
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| Length | two:20 | |||
| Label | Rough Merchandise | |||
| Songwriter(due south) | Johnny Marr, Morrissey | |||
| Producer(s) | John Porter | |||
| The Smiths singles chronology | ||||
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"Panic" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, released in 1986 and written past vocalizer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr. The first recording to feature new fellow member Craig Gannon, "Panic" bemoans the state of contemporary pop music, which "says nothing to me well-nigh my life", and exhorts listeners to "burn down downwards the disco" and "hang the DJ" in retaliation. The song was released by Rough Merchandise as a single and reached No. 7 on the Irish Singles Chart and No. 11 in the UK Chart. Morrissey considered the song's appearance on daytime British radio a "tiny revolution" in its own way, as it aired among the very music it criticised.[2]
It was after included in the compilation albums The World Won't Mind and Louder Than Bombs.
Background and recording [edit]
"Panic" was recorded at London'southward Livingston Studios in May 1986. It was the group'due south first recording sessions since they completed work on their third album The Queen Is Expressionless six months earlier.[3] During the interim period, bassist Andy Rourke had been fired due to his heroin addiction, which had interfered with his playing. The band hired Craig Gannon to replace him, but after they rehired Rourke, guitarist Johnny Marr offered Gannon a position every bit second guitarist.[4]
The then v-piece ring worked with producer John Porter; this was his commencement piece of work with the group in two years. He was concerned that the song was too short, so he copied the band'south first accept from v May and spliced a repetition of the first verse at the end to increase its length. The grouping was unimpressed and opted to leave the song equally they originally structured information technology.[5]
Composition and lyrics [edit]
A story circulated equally the basis for the song holds that Marr and Morrissey were listening to BBC Radio 1 when a news report announced the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Straight afterwards, BBC disc jockey Steve Wright played the song "I'g Your Man" past pop duo Wham! "I recollect actually saying, 'What the fuck has this got to do with people's lives?'" Marr recalled. "Nosotros hear about Chernobyl, then, seconds later, nosotros're expected to jump around to 'I'm Your Human being'". While Marr subsequently stated that the account was exaggerated, he commented that information technology was a likely influence on Morrissey's lyrics.[2] The band subsequently commissioned a T-shirt featuring Wright's portrait and the phrase "Hang the DJ!"[seven]
"The anecdote might well be true," writes Tony Fletcher in A Light That Never Goes Out, his biography of the Smiths, but he states that "I'one thousand Your Human being" had been off the UK pop charts for several months by the fourth dimension of the Chernobyl disaster and that "Morrissey hardly needed farther provocation to attack Wright, whose highly ranked afternoon show treated all popular music as secondary to his madcap party format". (The antagonism was apparently mutual; one-time Smiths manager Scott Piering says that at a 1985 coming together, Wright and his producer both made articulate that they disliked the band'south music.)[viii] Moreover, the song itself makes no mention of the radio.[ix]
The song begins with Morrissey mentioning anarchy unravelling throughout Britain and Republic of ireland (specifically mentioning London, Birmingham, Grasmere, Carlisle, Leeds, Dublin, Dundee, and Humberside). In the second office of the song, he reveals that the source of this anarchy is pop music, which "says nothing to me near my life". In reaction, he implores listeners to "burn down the disco" and "hang the DJ", the latter lyrics repeated with the addition of a chorus of schoolchildren.[2] Journalist Nick Kent described "Panic" equally a mandate for "rock terrorism".[2] John Luerssen calls it a "commentary on the tepid state of pop music in 1986" and a "chiming guitar vocal," based effectually a rotation between the K major and E modest chords. Simon Goddard has said it mimics "Metal Guru" past the glam rock ring T. Rex.[v] Luerssen calls the song Marr's homage to the T. Rex song.
Release and reception [edit]
The song "extended The Smiths' unorthodox tradition of releasing a non-anthology A-side" as a single. It reached number 11 on the Uk Singles Chart and stayed on the nautical chart for eight weeks.[10] The unmarried too stayed on the Irish Singles Nautical chart for five weeks, reaching a peak of number 7,[11] and reached number 32 on the Dutch Peak forty.[12] "Panic" was voted Single of the Year by the annual NME readers poll, and also ("somewhat incongruously", noted Goddard) ranked 6th in the Best Dance Record category.[13]
"Panic" drew negative reaction from critics who construed Morrissey's lyrics to have a racist connotation. Paolo Hewitt in the NME wrote, "If Morrissey wants to accept a go at Radio 1 and Steve Wright, then fine [merely] when he starts using words like disco and DJ, with all the attendant imagery that brings up for what is a predominantly white audience, he is being imprecise and offensive." Fletcher says that the lack of any explicit indication the song was about radio meant "Panic" "could be construed equally reviving the racist and homophobic 'Disco Sucks' campaign of belatedly 1970s America."[nine] Scritti Politti's Green Gartside accused the song and the band of racism.
Morrissey denied the accusation, and in a September 1986 Melody Maker interview with Frank Owen decried Owen's suggestion that he was leading a "black pop conspiracy". Boosted criticism was sparked by the same interview, wherein Morrissey was quoted naming reggae every bit "the near racist music in the entire world." Marr, in particular, was incensed by the commodity and in a 1987 NME interview threatened to "kick the living shit" out of the writer if he met him, such was his anger at the commodity's slant. He besides countered that "disco music" could not be just equated with "blackness music", proverb, "To those who took offence at the 'burn downward the disco' line [...] I'd say please show me the black members of New Order!"[15]
Fletcher suggests the vocal was non as much nearly race or sexuality as it was about the culture of British popular music. "For British Smiths fans," he writes,
... the 'disco' of 'Panic' was mostly presumed to mean the longstanding city-middle meet market, which suggested exclusivity by enervating patrons article of clothing a necktie, or at least to 'clothes smart,' but where drinks were overpriced, fights routine, and both the disc jockeys and the commercial Summit forty music that they played was almost embarrassingly disconnected from the neighbouring streets. Then once again, when the Smiths performed 'Panic' to nearly fifteen,000 white American higher kids, outdoors in the suburbs of Massachusetts, such reference points, vaguely stated in the first place, were easy to misconstrue.[16]
In 2007, NME placed "Panic" at number 21 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.[17]
In 2017, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone placed the song number six in his ranking of 73 songs by the Smiths.[18]
At Glastonbury 2017, a Smiths tribute band led the audience in a protest confronting Theresa May by irresolute the lyrics "hang the DJ" to "hang Theresa".[19]
Track listing [edit]
All songs written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr except where noted.
- 7" vinyl record
- "Panic" – 2:20
- "Vicar in a Tutu" – 2:21
- 12" vinyl record and CD
- "Panic" – 2:xx
- "Vicar in a Tutu" – two:21
- "The Draize Train" (Marr) – v:x
Artwork and matrix message [edit]
An epitome of a young Richard Bradford, known for his lead office equally individual eye McGill in the 1960s British TV hazard series Man in a Suitcase, features on the sleeve cover.
The run out on the British vii" unmarried read "I DREAMT ABOUT STEW LAST NIGHT", a pun on a lyric from "Reel Around the Fountain" ("I dreamt nigh you final night"), while the 12" version did not have a matrix bulletin. The German 12" read "HANG THEM Loftier MONIKA/HANG THEM Loftier MONIKA".[ commendation needed ]
Charts [edit]
| Chart | Superlative position |
|---|---|
| Dutch Peak 40 | 32 |
| Irish Singles | seven |
| UK Singles | 11 |
Certifications [edit]
Appearances in media [edit]
"Panic" appears in the 2004 picture show Shaun of the Dead and in "Hang the DJ", a 2017 episode of the tv set series Blackness Mirror. The latter episode takes its title from the chorus of the song. The song also appeared in the 1986 Italian horror sequel "Demons 2".
The title of an episode of The Simpsons, "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" – which features parodies of Morrissey and The Smiths – is based on the lyrics of "Panic".
Notes [edit]
- ^ "The best songs by The Smiths". Radio Ten. 31 October 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d Goddard 2002, p. 193.
- ^ Goddard 2002, p. 191.
- ^ Goddard 2002, pp. 192–193.
- ^ a b Goddard 2002, p. 195.
- ^ Goddard 2002, p. 194.
- ^ Fletcher 2012, p. 504.
- ^ a b Fletcher 2012, p. 547.
- ^ Roberts, David, ed. (1977). British Hitting Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Hitting Amusement (published 2006). p. 510. ISBN1-904994-10-5.
- ^ "The Irish Charts – All there is to know". Irish gaelic Recorded Music Association. 2008. Retrieved on 3 August 2009. Note: User needs to enter "Panic" in the "Search past Song Title" field and click "search".
- ^ "Nederlandse Top40: 18 Oktober 1986 Week 42" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Top40. Retrieved on 3 August 2009.
- ^ Goddard 2002, p. 196.
- ^ Goddard 2002, p. 193–194.
- ^ Fletcher 2012, pp. 547–548.
- ^ "The Greatest Indie Anthems Ever – Number 1 is getting close". NME. 2 May 2007. Retrieved 3 August 2009.
- ^ Sheffield, Rob (1 Baronial 2017). "The Smiths: All 73 Songs, Ranked". Rolling Rock . Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ Ian Dunt wp:newsblog (28 June 2017). "Ooooh Jeremy Corbyn: Never chant a politico's name". politics.co.united kingdom.
- ^ "British single certifications – Smiths – Panic". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
Bibliography [edit]
- Goddard, Simon (2002). The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life . Richmond: Reynolds & Hern Ltd. ISBNone-903111-47-ane. OCLC 1280821539 – via the Internet Archive.
- Fletcher, Tony (2012). A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths . New York: Crown Archetype. ISBN978-0-307-71595-1. OCLC 1285654126 – via the Internet Archive.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_%28The_Smiths_song%29
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