WAS's Awesome New Wave Song Of The Week #44: The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Ah, the last week of summer … a time when autumn is approaching much too fast, school is about to start and those warm nights spent hanging out end …. and often that brief fling or torrid summer romance either burns out or just fades away…  

This week’s Awesome Song aways brings back memories of such summer crushes and wild romance, steamy dalliances during the hot months while summer lasts … before you go back to school, or work, or end vacation.  And who better to bring us a song about such things than that hopeless romantic... the doyenne of drama… Stephen Patrick Morrissey!   Morrissey scored a mammoth #25 on Marc's Top 200 with another romantic ballad from his solo career, "Every Day Is Like Sunday”.  But today we go way back to his original band The Smiths, who in 1986 released their third (and best!) album, The Queen Is Dead, and the incredibly beautiful and sad “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out”.  I remember hearing this in New Jersey in the summer it came out, while having and ending one of those relationships, on a little-known but fantastic radio station called WHTG-FM.  Those synthesized strings are a work of absolute wonder ….  the song still brings back happy, sad and bittersweet memories to this day. Enjoy The Smiths!

But wait .. there’s more!  Lest we conclude on a depressing maudlin note, here’s another song on the same topic … with powerful emotive vocals and synth galore!   Images In Vogue nailed the end of romance very well too with “Breaking Up” …  enjoy!