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Hello gang. Richard here with a bit of Friday nonsense. I thought we needed some new ending music for the podcast and that, for no real reason, it should be a sort of medium-paced ballad-style song. I think it might have been because I’d heard Just Like Jesse James by Cher and/or watched that excellent Netflix documentary about the making of We Are The World. Anyway, this week I was desperately avoiding doing actual work and came up with this. Appearing soon in a podcast near you.

Have a great weekend. 

R

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Jamie W

I wish my procrastination proved so fruitful…. 😂

Adam

Excellent work avoidance Rich… I shall now skilfully avoid work by listening to it!

TD

First

Gabriel Grist-Parker

Bring the back DNB remix, spat my tea out at my desk when it came on

Martin Johnson

Could have done with a picture of you with earphones just on one ear looking very heartfelt

Andy N

I hope Adam Buxton listens to this gold, he'd be proud!

david marden

Deadlines? Fuck Deadlines...

Robin Lewis

Why do I like this a bit too much 😂. Excellent work!

Gavin Wells

Looking forward for the "Sniff and Pervert Pies"

Alec

This is grade A, top-tier nonsense!

Nathan Henstock

The unmistakable sound of midi. The ties should be a discreet yellow and black stripe with an S&S monogram at the bottom, on the back it should say "on the back side of things" or some sort of pun of that nature

Adam

The Manchester music scene really missed out when you decided to go into television

Julian Hale

Richard spends so much time making music to avoid doing actual work that he should become a professional 'artist' to rival DJ Khaled.

Ian Phillip

40 seconds in and I found myself waving a lighter in the air, which came as a surprise as I don't own one. That's the magic of a light-to-medium weight pop ballad.

Paul Gaish

Reading about you avoiding work now has me listening also avoiding work. Ffs haha

Nathan Henstock

I'm a coach driver and promise to find a short sleeve shirt and waistcoat to wear it with, probably woolarding the tag axle on full lock

Kristis

You guys should definitely charge more for patreon. This is premium content.

CB

Unique podcast ending Find another!

Jem Barnard

I'd guess the work you've been avoiding is spectacularly important judging by the care and attention to detail in the layering of these tracks!

AL Dickens

You really didn't want to do the work did you !! Great effort

Martin Laver

I encourage you all to listen at 1.75 times as well. Strangely entrancing, like Madonna’s song, when played, backwards encouraging devil worship. On that side of things.

Formula Whine

In an effort to avoid doing any actual work on a Friday too, as soon as I spotted the Patreon notification I had to down tools and have a listen.

Nipam Shah

Looking forward to the Stellantis mix of this

Kevin Webb

Cheesetastic Richard! Please tell me that back in the day, you got a grade A for GCSE music composition. Because if you didn’t, you were robbed sir!

HAP

The cult of Smith and Sniff anthem!

Willy

My god, this is beautiful

Andrew Cannon

By the end of the year I hope you'll have an album to release (and a Christmas single). On the subject of music, have you heard the new song by Kings of Leon called Mustang? It's got a line in it that goes "There’s a Mustang in the city and it's calling me out". Wondered what Mustang and what city it could be? Vee-hicle related of course

Adam

Providing you havent been nicked for that contract killing

Myron Vernis

I can hear Lionel Richie’s influence all through this. Just missing Cyndi Lauper’s solo

Nathan Henstock

Chemical toilets have some very powerful chemicals in them and so do the tanks we empty then into

Adam

Or take acid and listen at 0.5. Proper fear and loathing!

Tom Howroyd

Ethereal. Just needs an 8 bar slow wailing guitar solo, with heavy reverb.

Richard Fitton-Perkins

Looking at the attached picture, I was waiting for Sting to pipe in with, “the bitter sting of tears…” OTSOT Spoowwaat-aah!

Mike Follows

Got some writing deadlines to avoid?

David Nickolls

Great work, sounds like a collaboration between The Flaming Lips and rent a ghost.

MarkWilliams

An excellent piece of work avoidance (although the last 45 seconds does remind me of the piano section of Layla and where they find all the dead bodies in GoodFellas)

Thinfourth

Richard is writing songs. This can mean only one thing.....He has some really important writing todo

Rupert

Richardagainagainagainagain

Noel Huggett

Wasted talent Richard, wasted talent, my ‘down time’ is never this fruitful!

Stephen Hollingsworth

So moving and heartwarming... And as a drummer, I appreciate the cliche fills...

Dandydandan

You Sir, are, a ‘creative’.

Newark Jr

Still getting to grips with Auto-Tune Rich? 😂

Matthew Pointon

I just played this to two Japanese exchange students. “Wow, nice song”.

Adam McConkey

I didn’t know we needed the answer to the question: what if Kate Bush and The Smiths made a song but here we go.

Fistenburger

It's got a John Grant vibe. But then the cast is the GMF after all !

Wilson Lin

If there’s more work to be avoided in future, do consider making a MV out of this lol

Stuart Maxwell

I'm getting a vision of seas of mobile phone lights, swinging in unison in front of a polygonal stage (not a pyramid, that's taken) in basically Somerset... That's some premium grade work avoidance, right there 😂 Also, as a lapsed musician myself, you are annoyingly good at this stuff, Mr Sniff 😘👏

Kevin Rushton

Wonders if there are any other songs with an OTSOT? Possibly not, so for that reason, this is genius! 👍🏻

Simon Smyth

How much is a session vocalist? Only Dennis is capable of both writing and singing the theme toon.

Daniel Brown

Wonder if there’s a section of the podcast awards devoted to epic podcast outro’s? Sweet sweet outro

Alex Fell

Superb. Right up there with the much-missed Car and Classic advert song

Tigran Khamoian

Incredible work, I can already picture the overly soft-focused video for this.

Kristof Kiraly

Genius! I appreciate the classic lazy fade out.

Adam Kiddle

Wow, what was it that you were supposed to be doing, probably for financial recompense, that you fucked off to pull this beauty out of your grey?

Chris Armstrong

Midway when Ionny’s listing the merch, I caught a whiff of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Or am I crazy?

Gigavox!

There was a deadline due wasn't there...

Dean Hempshall

Are you procrastinating from doing actual work again Richard? Brilliant outro 👌🏻

Rikard Ottosson

Wow, the layers! You’ve really procrastinated the heck out of this thing. I mean, you could have gone even harder with some wailing guitar really low in the mix just to make those hours disappear

MedicalFlyer

I wonder if any of the people that pay Richard actual cash monies knows this is what he gets up to when they're chasing deadlines :-p

Rick Bean

Is your Evo deadline is coming up fast?

Peter Heamon

I'm now listening to this instead of preparing a presentation for work...

Rick Bean

Scratch my last comment about deadlines. This is sublime.

Jim Galbraith

It’s for a worthy cause people.

Jim Galbraith

You need to do a mock breakfast TV interview set in 2044 where you’re asked about how you were inspired to write this anthem, 20 years ago today.

Ste

I think I have something in my eye

Rob

Needs a music video, Richard and Jonny skipping in slow motion, through rain

Peter Heamon

Isn't that 'One Day' by SulzArt?

George Wade

Well that's just brightened up a wet Friday afternoon. 👍🏻 Top work Richard.

Chris Jarrett

I'm not sure what's just happened... 🤯

Will

Nice sentiment, but what a load of shit ! stellantis it ain’t Nnn-tss, Nnn-tss, Nnn-tss

Book of the Future

Sounds like it would be the 'secret' last song on a Lightning Seeds album

Kevin Cochrane

The Rutles on a raised platform at some rural, overgrown and long forgotten racetrack, serenading a drifting and somewhat out-of-control Lada Samara Flyte, as two elderly men in black beanies, huddle under a tartan blanket, each with a tear in their eye.. Shot in sepia and slow motion, naturally.. On That Side of Things.... 🏁

Willy Weedon

When are you shooting the film clip for this song? I'm seeing white suit, white piano, choristers in the background?

Mike K.

Definitely vibes of black & white footage of Jonny and his brother wandering through the auto junkyard on his birthday as old Rare, but Nobody Cares vehicles get plucked off the heap and cubed in the background.

Wayne Brook

I admire your creativity Richard, you clearly have some talent. Being honest, I don't get that warm fuzzy feeling that I would expect from closing lyrics. I get the "need" for liking, subscribing, reviewing and buying merch etc. but can we have a bit of love to go along with it (and maybe a teeny bit higher on the tempo)?! xxx

Nigel Hancock

It's OK but I'm afraid its not as good as your seminal work, "Basically in Nottingham"

Peter Grogan

I think it’s fine starting off slow but needs to go all drum and base a minute in!

Andy Pinchock

I got some ideas on them there pies... Audi Apple, Metro Mince, Orange Opel, Skoda Strawberry ..

Damian

When will we get a Smith n Sniff Live performance of all the classic tunes?

Michael k-b

Comfortably dumb! lol love it!

John Hammond

I hope at the next live show to see a sea of lighters in the air as this plays out. In the background plays a black and white montage of Jonny trying desperately to start a barn find MK4 Zodiac with a poorly Essex 3.0.

Mark

I can see a music video to accompany with a soft focus Renault Fuego driving off …

TD

With a Tesco bag full of shit in the distance

Foxy

Definitely an album ending track. It is 70s vibes I'm sniffing (no pun, etc), with only the barest hint of cheese.

Lorne Smyth

Flippin awesome!! Love it!!

Adam

Long time listener/viewer first time Patreon supporter. You got me with the effort you put into the new song. Still love the old outro too.

Dan W

The level of work avoidance is genuinely commendable

Matt Stanford

At least in the old days you could leverage it into advertising for whatever that mob was before the show ;-) This is a lovely variation.

AndyM

Any chance on a hardcore D&B mash up? Loving it though!