The Smiths: Classic or Dud?

Geir, you make my head hurt.

So, classic, then.

for a long time I have said "Geir's not so bad, give him a break".

but now I say GEIR MUST BE DESTROYED.

It means his pop life (from my POV) is irreversibly impoverished as a result, but it allows all manner of other material through for him to enjoy without the contextual baggage that might put other people off.

I don't have a problem with him at all - he just doesn't experience pop music in anything like the same way I do.

but when he disses the Smiths - that's out of order.

can't wait!

I can't get excited about this Mojo thing, though. I mean, 1995? It all sounds kindof far fetched, or yeah, probably overblown.

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Why does this make me think of Our Friends In The North?

there, i've always wanted to say that in a public place. i'm going to run away now and hide.

you know it's true, though. you KNOW it's true.

NOOOOO! No one is allowed to call that song to mind in my brain! OUCH!

I want to have surgery, pluck the cells involved with that song out of my brain forever please. I swear I'm innocent. I didn't know that was lurking in my memory. I'll even take...well no, I won't take "shiny happy people", it's not that bad, but..

How can The Smiths be a poor man's Wedding Present when the guitarists and their sound are so completely different? One would NEVER imagine Steve Albini producing The Smiths, for example. I wouldn't care to hear the grunge Smiths, come to think of it. Or the hardcore Smiths. Even if you hate the Smiths, let's just leave them as they are shall we? They're in a land quite a few hills away from the Wedding Present.

A major, major understatement.

Now if they had only ever made a song as beautifully melodic and harmonic as "Made Of Stone" or "Bye Bye Badman"...

Few bands evoke such strong feelings of loathing in me -- maybe it's just because I've had to have this argument so many times with incredulous fans who can't fathom someone not liking The Smiths. There is no band that I like that I can't at least fathom someone else not liking. But I cannot fathom the utter reverence for The Smiths. Dud Dud Dud Dud Dud.

Classic duh duh duh

it's more to do with the emotional milieu in which the bands work: the poor indie loser out of step with the world. mind you, even that's not much of a comparison, i admit. i'm not sure where my patented "poor man's weddding present" comparison came from, but it certainly winds people up in the pub. perhaps that's the only reason i came up with it, actually ;)

Now if they had only ever made a song as beautifully melodic and harmonic as "Made Of Stone" or "Bye Bye Badman"...

GREATEST. TROLL POST. EVER.

I say Classic.

could someone explain bo diddley in how soon is now (according to the nyt)? humming would be okay.

the rotochorus (or whatever it is) on the main guitar kind of does a bump babump babump babump-bump thing

that's less cringey than reuters' subhead of 'influenced rockers from elvis to u2'

yeah the accents resemble the Bo Diddley beat with all the swing taken out