The Smiths: supercrap or not crap?

[Crannadict]

What do you think? it is time to the most british overra... overplayed band from the 80s. I believe the only one a little talented was Johny

 

[Throbbing Angel]

May I be first to say bin/ban/bone etc.

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

somewhere between the two.

some reasonably good stuff if you overlook how much of a twat morrissey has turned in to...

 

[Olly7]

Not crap. I am like a Radiohead fan and Morrissey Johnny Marr is my god

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I love The Smiths so definitely Not Crap.

 

[Crannadict]

Not crap. I am like a Radiohead fan and Morrissey Johnny Marr is my god

 

[Yossarian]

Present-day Morrissey represents such a gigantic explosion of crap that it has reached back in time decades and splattered even the earliest Smiths songs with diarrhea - the instrumental tracks still sound good though.

 

[Crannadict]

Present-day Morrissey represents such a gigantic explosion of crap that it has reached back in time decades and splattered even the earliest Smiths songs with diarrhea - the instrumental tracks still sound good though.

Agreed

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Present-day Morrissey represents such a gigantic explosion of crap that it has reached back in time decades and splattered even the earliest Smiths songs with diarrhea - the instrumental tracks still sound good though.

Such a fucking shame, innit? I used to love The Smiths. I was almost late for my math 'O'level because I was listening to The Smiths.

Happy days.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Most people are just people. Morissey is one of them, but he's also a complete twat. And he hasn't got a thing to wear, apparently, which is good because he might stay indoors forever.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Present-day Morrissey represents such a gigantic explosion of crap that it has reached back in time decades and splattered even the earliest Smiths songs with diarrhea

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Exhibit A



Exhibit B

Ed Gamble on Twitter: "lent my “fuck the guardian” T-shirt to someone and they’ve stretched it to shit. Livid" / Twitter

 

[Crannadict]

Such a fucking shame, innit? I used to love The Smiths. I was almost late for my math 'O'level because I was listening to The Smiths.

Happy days.

I don't think The Smiths were a remarkable band, they had a competent guitarist for nothing else. Morrissey's lyrics are pedantic and aseptic, those who elevate their lyrics to poetic status do so because they are blind and deaf.
They obey the fanatic phenomenon. Morrissey was a presumptuous lyricist, who copied some of the lyrics of the greats of literature

 

[han]

Dull, self pitying shite. Always thought they were awful, always will, and that was BEFORE Morrisey outed himself as a Nazi

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I love The Smiths and a fair chunk of Morrissey's solo output as well.

He's an amazing lyricist. He's also a complete twat. It is possible to be both.

 

[Cid]

I'd just like to remind everyone of Peter Serafinowicz singing the first page of Morrisey's autobiography:



And page 2.

 

[Pickman's model]

I quite like the smiths. Much funnier than they're given credit for.

 

[Sue]

The Smiths were great, even if some of their more over the top miserabilism was a bit (I'm looking at you, Girlfriend in a Coma).

 

[mx wcfc]

Never got the Smiths, though a lot of my uni mates loved them. Saw them once at one of the GLC freebies whenever that was. Music was fine, but the whining twat with flowers hanging out of his arse................

 

[Kaka Tim]

I was 17, poor, looking for love and inspiration for my guitar playing. I was living in a tiny bedsit having just left home.
The smiths couldn't have been more perfect for me.
Makes morriseys descent into gammon wank all the more painful.

 

[Kaka Tim]

they had a competent guitarist

Said nobody ever who knows anything at all about playing the guitar.

 

[Crannadict]

Said nobody ever who knows anything at all about playing the guitar.

And?

 

[Flavour]

Well I think morissey is a very special man with a big heart that is full of pain and poetry and his voice, his dancing, his taste in clothes and hearing aids was something that we've never seen before and won't see again, it is just a shame he is still alive otherwise I could get offended by these snide comments being thrown his way but as long as the hero of Manchester is still alive, wherever he may be, we can smile at the petty envy in the hearts of people who don't really understand what music is

 

[Throbbing Angel]

I don't think The Smiths were a remarkable band, they had a competent guitarist for nothing else. Morrissey's lyrics are pedantic and aseptic, those who elevate their lyrics to poetic status do so because they are blind and deaf.
They obey the fanatic phenomenon. Morrissey was a presumptuous lyricist, who copied some of the lyrics of the greats of literature

And?
#opinioninnit

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Well I think morissey is a very special man with a big heart that is full of pain and poetry and his voice, his dancing, his taste in clothes and hearing aids was something that we've never seen before and won't see again, it is just a shame he is still alive otherwise I could get offended by these snide comments being thrown his way but as long as the hero of Manchester is still alive, wherever he may be, we can smile at the petty envy in the hearts of people who don't really understand what music is

Sorry, i was forgetting that the fucking Nazi halfwit was so very, very special. I do so envy him.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Well I think morissey is a very special man with a big heart that is full of pain and poetry and his voice, his dancing, his taste in clothes and hearing aids was something that we've never seen before and won't see again, it is just a shame he is still alive otherwise I could get offended by these snide comments being thrown his way but as long as the hero of Manchester is still alive, wherever he may be, we can smile at the petty envy in the hearts of people who don't really understand what music is

This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say: "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say: "Haven't you heard? Rik is dead! The People's Poet is dead!"

 

[Aladdin]

The Smiths
Morrissey

 

[Hollis]

Best band of the 80s.

 

[ska invita]

I'd just like to remind everyone of Peter Serafinowicz singing the first page of Morrisey's autobiography:



And page 2.

What has happened to Peter Serafinowicz, anyone know? Off social media for 4 years now.

 

[Flavour]

Sorry, i was forgetting that the fucking Nazi halfwit was so very, very special. I do so envy him.

There is no way you took my post seriously.