The Smiths
I am just now getting into The Smiths (I know, I'm very behind on this one) and they are simply greatness. And Morrissey's solo stuff is also wonderful.
I can't believe I resisted so long just to piss my oldest brother off. (Huge Morrissey fan.)
I can't get "You're The One For Me, Fatty" out of my head.
I can't believe I resisted so long just to piss my oldest brother off. (Huge Morrissey fan.)
I can't get "You're The One For Me, Fatty" out of my head.
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He's having a lot of fun rubbing my face in it.
I hadn't heard any of Morrissey's recent material until a few weeks ago. 'I Have Forgiven Jesus' is a return to form, after what I considered to be 2 or 3 albums of remarkably boring singles.
Yeah, so The Smiths are up there, but nothing can knock My Bloody Valentine from #1 on my list.
Originally posted by BRussell
I loved 'em when I was in college. Love in a very schadenfreude-istic kind of way, as in "wow that guy's pathetic, and he writes great songs about how pathetic he is."
I don't think he hates himself or anything, I think he loves himself to an almost incomprehensible degree. I think he's having a blast. I take it as mean-spirited and cutting, which is just loads of fun.
I find Rubber Ring and Oscillate Wildly to be their top two songs.
As per Morrissey, have you listened to his 'Kill Uncle' album? Greatness, I tell you. Greatness.
Johnny Marr + Morrissey were stunning at times.
Morrissey's latest doesn't do much for me - he's got one tone and I'm bored with it.
One small Morrissey story:
I was with friends at The Cat & Fiddle in Hollywood one night and my friend says, "Jeez, Look at that guy. He so thinks he's Morrissey or something".
I look over at the guy and it is Morrissey. Look back to my friend to correct him, but he's smiling and laughing.
I bit and took the bait.
Originally posted by tonton
Right you are, but I didn't say they weren't. I said they were important to British music. They were certainly much more important to British music than they were to American music. Can and Kraftwerk were also important to British music, by the way (again, much more than to American music).
ahh tonton ever the provocateur! I read that statement with eye brow askance, but I knew what you meant.....but by far the most influential american band (other than elvis and chuck berry obviously) has got to be the ramones.
not one single punk band doesn't sight them as THE major influence.
i have a can album that I adore....soon over balbuma. it's quite cool.
in my opinion, (my turn to provoke) no punk then no smiths, no U2, no new order, joy division etc, it all sprung from that original attitude.
oh and by the way if only for the slide riff in "how soon is now" johnny marr's admittance into heaven is guaranteed.
Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
Nico is german.
And the drummer was a girl.
Anyway, I am a bastard, because a) I hate The Smiths, and b) I saw The Smiths play at the St Austell Coliseum in Cornwall on the Queen Is Dead tour. Actually, they rocked. Johnny Marr wore a suit and nearly got into a fight with someone in the audience who threw something at him.
Later, a year or so after Bona Drag came out, my then girlfriend played me 'Last of The Famous International Playboys' and explained the lyrics to me. I realized that not only was it a great song, but that Morrissey was an amazing lyricist. I had to go back and reevalute and now kind of feel like I missed out by not being a huge Smiths fan when they were still around. Never got too into Morrissey's later stuff though.