'Panic' by from the album Released 21 July 1986 Format 7', 12', CD Recorded May 1986 Length 2: 20, singles chronology ' (1986) ' Panic' (1986) ' (1986) ' Panic' is a song by the English band, released in 1986 and written by singer and guitarist. The first recording to feature new member, 'Panic' bemoans the state of contemporary, which 'says nothing to me about my life', and exhorts listeners to 'burn down the ' and 'hang the ' in retaliation. The song was released by as a single and reached No. 7 on the and No. Morrissey considered the song's appearance on daytime British radio a 'tiny revolution' in its own way, as it aired amongst the very music it criticised. It was later included in the compilation albums. Contents.

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Background and recording 'Panic' was recorded at London's Livingston Studios in May 1986. It was the group's first recording sessions since they completed work on their third album six months earlier. During the interim period, bassist had been fired due to his addiction, which had interfered with his playing. The band hired to replace him, but after they rehired Rourke, guitarist Johnny Marr offered Gannon a position as second guitarist. The then five-piece band worked with producer; this was his first work with the group in two years. He was concerned that the song was too short, so he copied the band's first take from 5 May and spliced a repetition of the first verse at the end to increase its length.

The group was unimpressed and opted to leave the song as they originally structured it. Composition and lyrics A story circulated as the basis for the song holds that Marr and Morrissey were listening to when a news report announced the. Straight afterwards, BBC disc jockey played the song ' by pop duo 'I remember actually saying, 'What the fuck does this got to do with people's lives?' ' Marr recalled. 'We hear about Chernobyl, then, seconds later, we're expected to jump around to 'I'm Your Man'. While Marr subsequently stated that the account was exaggerated, he commented that it was a likely influence on Morrissey's lyrics. The band later commissioned a T-shirt featuring Wright's portrait and the phrase 'Hang the DJ!'

'The anecdote might well be true,' writes in A Light That Never Goes Out, his biography of the Smiths, but he states that 'I'm Your Man' had been off the UK pop charts for several months by the time of the Chernobyl disaster and that 'Morrissey hardly needed further provocation to attack Wright, whose highly ranked afternoon show treated all popular music as secondary to his madcap party format'. Ninja aadat song. (The antagonism was apparently mutual; former Smiths manager says that at a 1985 meeting, Wright and his producer both made clear that they disliked the band's music.) Moreover, the song itself makes no mention of the radio. The song begins with Morrissey mentioning chaos unravelling throughout Britain and Ireland (specifically mentioning, and ). In the second part of the song, he reveals that the source of this chaos is pop music, which 'says nothing to me about 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. Journalist described 'Panic' as a mandate for 'rock terrorism'.

John Luerssen calls it a 'commentary on the tepid state of pop music in 1986' and a 'chiming guitar song,' based around a rotation between the G major and E minor chords. Has said it mimics ' by the band. Luerssen calls the song Marr's homage to the T.Rex song.

Release and reception The song 'extended The Smiths' unorthodox tradition of releasing a non-album A-side' as a single. It reached number 11 on the and stayed on the chart for eight weeks. The single also stayed on the for five weeks, reaching a peak of number 7, and reached number 32 on the. 'Panic' was voted Single of the Year by the annual readers poll, and also ('somewhat incongruously', noted Goddard) ranked sixth in the Best Dance Record category. 'Panic' drew negative reaction from critics who construed Morrissey's lyrics to have a racist connotation. Paolo Hewitt in the wrote, 'If Morrissey wants to have a go at and, then fine but when he starts using words like and, with all the attendant imagery that brings up for what is a predominantly white audience, he is being imprecise and offensive.'

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Fletcher says that the lack of any explicit indication the song was about radio meant 'Panic' 'could be construed as reviving the racist and homophobic ' campaign of late 1970s America.' 's accused the song and the band of racism. Morrissey denied the accusation, and in a September 1986 interview with Frank Owen decried Owen's suggestion that he was leading a 'black pop conspiracy'. Additional criticism was sparked by the same interview, wherein Morrissey was quoted naming as 'the most racist music in the entire world.' Marr, in particular, was incensed by the article 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 article's slant.

He also countered that 'disco music' could not be simply equated with 'black music', saying, 'To those who took offence at the 'burn down the disco' line. I'd say please show me the black members of!'

Fletcher suggests the song was not as much about race or sexuality as it was about the culture of British popular music. 'For British Smiths fans,' he writes. The 'disco' of 'Panic' was generally presumed to mean the longstanding city-centre, which suggested exclusivity by demanding patrons wear a tie, or at least to 'dress smart,' but where drinks were overpriced, fights routine, and both the disc jockeys and the commercial that they played was almost embarrassingly disconnected from the neighbouring streets. Then again, when the Smiths performed 'Panic' to nearly 15,000 white American college kids, outdoors in the, such reference points, vaguely stated in the first place, were easy to misconstrue. In 2007, NME placed 'Panic' at number 21 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

The TV series features the song in the season 4 episode ', also giving it its title. The song also features in the 2004 film. Track listing All songs written by and except where noted.

7' vinyl record. 'Panic' – 2:20.

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'Vicar in a Tutu' – 2:21 12' vinyl record and CD. 'Panic' – 2:20.

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'Vicar in a Tutu' – 2:21. 'The Draize Train' (Marr) – 5:10 Artwork and matrix message An image of a young, known for his lead role as McGill in the 1960s British TV adventure series, features on the sleeve cover. The British 7' vinyls read 'I DREAMT ABOUT STEW LAST NIGHT', a pun on a lyric from ' ('I dreamt about you last night'), while the 12' version did not have a matrix message.

The German 12' read 'HANG THEM HIGH MONIKA/HANG THEM HIGH MONIKA'. Charts Chart Peak position 7 11 32 Notes.