The Smiths

[Bjornebye]

Probably a thread to these already but fucked if i'm searching. Off to see the Smyths at portsmouth wedgewood rooms tonight. had them on the last hour. Fucking boss band. I'm a bit bevvied too.

 

Take me out.... tonight.

[lifetime fan]

Too fashionable to slate them now...

 

There is a light that never goes out is my favourite.

[Woo]

Anyone who doesn't love The Smiths should forfeit their basic human rights, for they are clearly not of sound mental health.

[brucespanner]

Shite.

 

Morrisey never really captured the feeling of anger and self loathing he did with 'The Nosebleeds'. Anything that came after was second rate.

 

*Strokes beard and stares almost pityingly in to the middle distance*

[cochyn]

If Mozart had bothered to learn the electric guitar he'd have sounded like Jonny Marr.

[Kemlyn King]

Went to see Marr at the O2 last month best £20 I've ever spent.

Proper guitar hero without all the wankin off bullshit. Made it seem effortless.

The messenger is worth getting hold of if only to keep him in hair dye!

[Lurtz]

If Mozart had bothered to learn the electric guitar he'd have sounded like Jonny Marr.

 

To be fair Ludwig would have kicked Marr's arse on guitar.

[Pony Princess]

Is Marr back with them? If not, it isn't really the Smiths. A Morrissey/Marr fight mid-gig would be awesome. Didn't Morrissey vow never to come back to Liverpool after he got a bottle of water in the kipper a few years ago at the Echo arena?

[Johnny Cougar]

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I smoke because I'm hoping for an early death...and I need to cling to something.

[stringvest]

As Woo says. The Smiths were fantastic. These days, two words come to mind. They both have two r's, and two s's.

 

Morrissey and embarrassment.

 

Painful to watch now.

[RJ Fan club]

Anyone who doesn't love The Smiths should forfeit their basic human rights' date=' for they are clearly not of sound mental health.[/quote']

 

I'm with Woo. Anything else and you're a tasteless meff.

 

Ps Hatful of Hollow (I except it not a "true" album in every sense), for me. Or poss The Queen is dead.

[Woo]

Stumbled across these a few months ago. Fucking boss:

 

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[G Richards]

Top reminder. I hadn't listened to The Smiths in years. Was listening to Ask the other day. Me and six year lad were enjoying it turned up loud while Mrs G and daughter were out. Great guitar work in that song.

[Tom R]

Worst band the world has ever seen.

 

Would rather be forced to listen to John Prescott having a shit for an hour than sit through an album of that utter fucking herpes.

 

Have a fucking word with yourselves, you pathetic emo wankers.

[Tom R]

Top reminder. I hadn't listened to The Smiths in years. Was listening to Ask the other day. Me and six year lad were enjoying it turned up loud while Mrs G and daughter were out. Great guitar work in that song.

 

You are going to hell for this abuse.

 

Serious.

[Joso]

Asleep is my favorite.

[razor]

Anyone who doesn't love The Smiths should forfeit their basic human rights, for they are clearly not of sound mental health.

 

Worst band the world has ever seen.

 

{insert whistling smilie}

 

 

I am the son and the heir

Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

I am the son and heir

Of nothing in particular

 

There's a club

If you'd like to go

You could meet somebody

Who really loves you

So you go and you stand on your own

And you leave on your own

And you go home

And you cry and you want to die

 

 

And that's before we even start to think about those 3 unique guitar sounds that the bob-haired one delivered.

 

That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

What Difference Does It Make?

The Queen Is Dead

Bigmouth Strikes Again

How Soon Is Now?

Sheila Take A Bow

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

 

Would all be in the top songs written by almost anybody.

 

They brought a world of interesting black and white to a world of vacuous technicolour. They were the perfect counterpoint to the Thatcherite plan.

 

Humour, depth, empathy, intelligence, The Smiths had it all.

 

Anybody who doesn't get that, I suspect, hasn't really listened.

[joeyk]

Worst band the world has ever seen.

 

Would rather be forced to listen to John Prescott having a shit for an hour than sit through an album of that utter fucking herpes.

 

Have a fucking word with yourselves, you pathetic emo wankers.

 

Am I fucking seeing things here ?

Johnny Marr was in that band.

Christs sake Tomarse.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Worst band the world has ever seen.

 

Would rather be forced to listen to John Prescott having a shit for an hour than sit through an album of that utter fucking herpes.

 

Have a fucking word with yourselves' date=' you pathetic emo wankers.[/quote']

 

At last. Some sense in this thread.

[lifetime fan]

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[Captain Turdseye]

I like a few of their songs, that's about it.

[Bjornebye]

apparently they were boss. I was fucking smashed before we got there. still am now.

 

tom r..... go and get fucked by herpes.

[redheart]

If you like Morrissey then you like these and that is just plain wrong

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[razor]

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For any guitarists out there, I challenge you to try to replicate that guitar sound from the first 4 bars.

 

Then you have that slide guitar that makes the song famous. See if you can replicate that.

 

And then you have the picking part around 3 minutes in. Replicate that.

 

That is THREE unique guitar sounds. In ONE song.

 

Then you have the chugging bass, steady beat and incredible lyrics and vocal line.

 

What a song, what a band.

 

And this isn't even their best song!

[Tom R]

apparently they were boss. I was fucking smashed before we got there. still am now.

 

tom r..... go and get fucked by herpes.

 

Your ma collects footy stickers and she's got a baldy 'ead.