I'm really digging this band at the moment. I had their best of and Louder Than Bombs and I've just purchased Meat Is Murder. I love Morriseys eccentric style of singing and especially his lyrics. Johnny Marr is a wonderful guitarist too. All his work is so understated and perfect.

Is anyone here a fan?

Yeah The Smiths are great. Try 'Hatful of Hollow' their 2nd album and my favourite. 'The Queen Is Dead' is widely considered their masterpiece.

Marr is a big Keith fan and certainly looks like a mid 60s Keith in certain photos.



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Sorry, think they're very boring. Monotome and 13 in a dozen.

I love The Smiths. I agree with RedlandsRodge, The Queen Is Dead is an essential purchase. Morrissey is wrongly thought of as being depressing. I think he writes great lyrics and is very very funny. The title track of The Queen Is Dead being a great example.

a truly dreadful band

The Smiths have inspired some of my fave performers, and I love Morrisey's album titles. Johnny Marr is good too, but the Smiths themsleves are horrendous to me.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

Hmmm... there are some mixed feeling towards them here then!

I personally think they're great. RedlandsRodge is correct. Johnny Marr had a look of Keith circa 65-66. It's the hair.

Hatful Of Hollow is next up for me amd hopefully soon after I'll have all of them.

Best British band of the eighties, Mozz a genius. I saw him in 99 during his wilderness years, fanatastic.

About time The Smiths released a proper live album as Rank is rank (and of course a Faces live album too to replace Coast To Coast).

Fantastic band...and Mozza remains one of the finest songwriters (and performers) on the planet.

The Smiths, stylistically, lyrically, and musically, were the most significant band of the 1980's. Johnny Marr took a lot of his cues from Keith and Brian . . .

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The Smiths, in a word.... SUCK

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> The Smiths, stylistically, lyrically, and
> musically, were the most significant band of the
> 1980's


utter drivel

significant to who exactly? some student bed wetters without girlfriends? that's the only feckers i can remember liking em

Love 'em! One of my favorite bands after the Stones!

andy js Wrote:

> utter drivel
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> significant to who exactly? some student bed
> wetters without girlfriends? that's the only
> feckers i can remember liking em


Who did you like then? Wham? Bannanarama? or was it Culture Club?

They were the best band of the 80's. End of

hated them with a passion, when they were around in the 80's-

as i've matured and my musical tastes have widened, i've grown to appreciate and enjoy alot of their material.

Marr's superb playing and Morrisey's intelligent and humourous lyrics, particularily on tracks such as, 'How Soon Is Now' & 'There Is A Light...",
are a joy.
It's not all good- and it's not for everyone...
he's a very English songwriter.

Who did you prefer Adrian?

I've only really got into The Smiths in the past year or so. I always knew and liked tunes such as Panic, How Soon Is Now etc, but never thought i'd own anything by them.

Maybe it's just a phase, but it's pretty much Smiths, Smiths and more Smiths on my hi-fi at the moment.

I bought the 7" of The Killers When We Were Young yesterday though. Its getting scratched already! I've decided to only purchase vinyl from now on, but I'm thinking the novelty will wear off. CD's are so much more convinient.

The Smiths are a "hate them or love them" band. Even though their musical style isn't my bag, I've always really liked them. But, I much prefer the Moz solo albums. Your Aresenal is great and his last two are very good also.

in the 80's i was listening to alot of ska/ 2-tone.... Madness,Specials,
The Beat, Ian Dury etc, etc

was at Madstock @ Finsbury Park, on that mental august day in 1992,
when the ground literally shook (the legendary Madstock Earthquake),
and Morrisey got bottled off stage.

The anticipation, that day, for Madness to hit the stage , for the first time in 6-7 years, was something i've never experienced before or since.



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> Who did you like then? Wham? Bannanarama? or was
> it Culture Club?
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> They were the best band of the 80's. End of


put it this way. i'd rather listen to any of them than the @#$%& Smiths!

bunch of fey arse

i was listening then to the same as i listen to now. rock, rock n roll, punk, dub, electronica blah blah blah. anything but fey nancy boy student bedsit bollocks

They made some great music. No doubt about it. Open up your ears and LISTEN!!!!

no. close your ears and forget em. they were shit

i listened when they came out. i listened hard, and i laughed them off

I know they mean a helluva lot to many people, but I have to say I think the smiths are bloody awful... Don't like anything about them really...

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to be fair to em. they did mean a lot to some people. mainly students, who were sitting alone in their grey room, writing bad poetry, making greenpeace badges and carving their ex-lovers name into their arms whilst they're friends from Uni were out drinking jack daniels and copping off with any trollop they could whilst listening to GNR or something similar

I was a builder and most of the people I worked with loved the Smiths.

Drinking Jack Daniels, copping off with trollops and listening to Guns 'n' Roses? Uni students? Most people I knew who enjoyed those sorts of activities dropped out of school at 16!

The Smiths were a cultured and intelligent band and many young people back in the 80's were drawn into Morrissey’s way of thinking, but to suggest that all their fans were writing bad poetry and making Green Peace badges is absolute shite.

The GR is spot on.

Anyway, how did we get onto this? I started this thread to enquire as to whether there were many Smiths fans here in the hope we could strike up some good conversation. Since WHEN did the fans of the group become the main subject matter? Who cares about what the fans were like, my post is about THE BAND

Nah. i think i was spot on

the yogurt knitters loved em. the rest of us just fell about laughing when they appeared on TOTP when Mozza had that big bush hanging out of his arse

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> Nah. i think i was spot on
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> the yogurt knitters loved em. the rest of us just
> fell about laughing when they appeared on TOTP
> when Mozza had that big bush hanging out of his
> arse



No you are not! I'm a fan and I'm not any of the things you've described. I rather like Guns 'n' Roses too as it happens. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. At least we both like the Stones!

never cared much for Stephen Morrisey's solo work.
Though i make an exception, for 'Everyday is Like Sunday',
-a beautiful, haunting song which sends
a shiver down my spine, whenever i hear it.

Morrisey is an English curio, he's a bit of an enigma and he guards his private life and his sexuality with a vengeance.

However, alot of the lyrics in his songs, the imagery in the videos, and certainly a fair proportion of his fanbase, hint at homosexual tendancies.

A great outspoken wit, with integrity and passion for his beliefs.

Loved his retort, aimed in the direction of UK chat show host,
Richard Madeley, after a recent spat:-

"a little bit rich, coming from someone who married his own mother",
lol!!

I like his last two solo albums but lyrically; he's almost becoming a parody of himself. One of his recent songs, You Have Killed Me is just so OTT. Everything he records now seems to me anyway, to be an exadurated take on the kind of stuff he used to do so much better with the Smiths. There was always a subtlety to his lyrics and delivery, now it's all so in your face.