noely said:why did the sun want them banned?totallywired said:Never made a bad album, Johnny Marrs guitar playing is up there with anybody else. The lyrics, awesome, they only upset the mentally challenged. Saw them at the `Free Trade Hall` on the tour that the `sun` wanted them banned. Manchesters finest for quality and longevity.
Ducado said:MCFC BOB said:I think they're a decent band with a few excellent songs.Banned Tosspot said:The Smiths were shit!
Don't think they're anywhere near as good as people take them for.
You see that all depends, you are an angst ridden kid with nothing really to be angst ridden about, but when the Smiths came about there was plenty to be angst ridden about, it's more than music it's memories of a very bleak time in Manchester's history, a time of urban decay, hopelessness and change, the music kind of spanned eras, ushering us into this post industrial era, put with one foot firmly in the past, casting a beady eye over the debris of a one proud City and the people that lived in it.
If you look at them as just a band, you won't get it and will tire of them, but for those us that were in our formative years when they started to rise to prominence they mean a lot, because the music reflected the bleakness of the times
Oh I don't disagree with their social importance. I was just talking musically.Ducado said:MCFC BOB said:I think they're a decent band with a few excellent songs.Banned Tosspot said:The Smiths were shit!
Don't think they're anywhere near as good as people take them for.
You see that all depends, you are an angst ridden kid with nothing really to be angst ridden about, but when the Smiths came about there was plenty to be angst ridden about, it's more than music it's memories of a very bleak time in Manchester's history, a time of urban decay, hopelessness and change, the music kind of spanned eras, ushering us into this post industrial era, put with one foot firmly in the past, casting a beady eye over the debris of a one proud City and the people that lived in it.
If you look at them as just a band, you won't get it and will tire of them, but for those us that were in our formative years when they started to rise to prominence they mean a lot, because the music reflected the bleakness of the times
MCFC BOB said:Oh I don't disagree with their social importance. I was just talking musically.Ducado said:MCFC BOB said:I think they're a decent band with a few excellent songs.
Don't think they're anywhere near as good as people take them for.
You see that all depends, you are an angst ridden kid with nothing really to be angst ridden about, but when the Smiths came about there was plenty to be angst ridden about, it's more than music it's memories of a very bleak time in Manchester's history, a time of urban decay, hopelessness and change, the music kind of spanned eras, ushering us into this post industrial era, put with one foot firmly in the past, casting a beady eye over the debris of a one proud City and the people that lived in it.
If you look at them as just a band, you won't get it and will tire of them, but for those us that were in our formative years when they started to rise to prominence they mean a lot, because the music reflected the bleakness of the times
For example, the Sex Pistols are fucking shite. Sid Vicious couldn't even play bass when he joined them. Lydon was an awful twat and they were the biggest nobheads in the world at their peak. But they're the most important punk band of all time because punk is supposed to be shit and reflect how shit everything is. Shit. Shit.
A lot of people related to them in the way you've just sort of explained people related to the Smiths.
The Sex Pistols shit! There music was fuckin awesome, loud, angry in your face, made to upset the establishment. The alternative was to listen Genesis, with every perfect note in the perfect pitch with the perfect timing zzzzzzzzz.MCFC BOB said:Oh I don't disagree with their social importance. I was just talking musically.Ducado said:MCFC BOB said:I think they're a decent band with a few excellent songs.
Don't think they're anywhere near as good as people take them for.
You see that all depends, you are an angst ridden kid with nothing really to be angst ridden about, but when the Smiths came about there was plenty to be angst ridden about, it's more than music it's memories of a very bleak time in Manchester's history, a time of urban decay, hopelessness and change, the music kind of spanned eras, ushering us into this post industrial era, put with one foot firmly in the past, casting a beady eye over the debris of a one proud City and the people that lived in it.
If you look at them as just a band, you won't get it and will tire of them, but for those us that were in our formative years when they started to rise to prominence they mean a lot, because the music reflected the bleakness of the times
For example, the Sex Pistols are fucking shite. Sid Vicious couldn't even play bass when he joined them. Lydon was an awful twat and they were the biggest nobheads in the world at their peak. But they're the most important punk band of all time because punk is supposed to be shit and reflect how shit everything is. Shit. Shit.
A lot of people related to them in the way you've just sort of explained people related to the Smiths.
As you wish.....BTH said:Banned Tosspot said:The Smiths were shit!
I know it's BM heresy, but I'm with you Darren.
The only worthwhile Smiths-related thing I've ever seen or heard is that video you put on YouTube of you listening to one of their dirges. Now that was hilarious! Post a link...
BoyBlue_1985 said:Can we just make sure that nobody can view MES Posts or can he just jog on and join a smith forum and stop disturbing my eyes with his infatuation ;)
You are getting it all wrong mate!!Mad Eyed Screamer said:BoyBlue_1985 said:Can we just make sure that nobody can view MES Posts or can he just jog on and join a smith forum and stop disturbing my eyes with his infatuation ;)
Funnily enough I got slagged off on a Morrissey forum for posting too much City stuff!