Author Topic: I never went through a Smiths phase.  (Read 3165 times)

Really Ancien

I never went through a Smiths phase.
« on: 29 September, 2008, 04:46:34 pm »
I was too old anyway.

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Damon.

Re: Inever went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #1 on: 29 September, 2008, 04:46:55 pm »
Me neither...
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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #2 on: 29 September, 2008, 04:47:54 pm »
Never got what people saw in the Smiths...  Morose caterwauling was not my thing.
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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #3 on: 29 September, 2008, 05:27:58 pm »
Good guitarist though. Didn't make up for the rest of them.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #4 on: 29 September, 2008, 05:42:05 pm »
Me neither.

Not at all interestingly, Mitch Benn used to do a comedy double act with a very tall guy called Ian Kendall, who I sort of know a bit and who used to do magic tricks in the Old Orleans restaurant in Edinburgh.
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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #5 on: 29 September, 2008, 07:11:52 pm »
Hey! Some of us are still in our Smiths phase y'know!
 >:(


Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #6 on: 29 September, 2008, 07:37:25 pm »
Nor me.  I got all that kind of introspective shit from literature.  Musically i liked the funk.

JT

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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #7 on: 29 September, 2008, 08:19:05 pm »
I used to actively dislike The Smiths because of the people who did like them. I always had a soft spot for This Charming Man though.

I still don't really like them much.
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andrew_n

Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #8 on: 29 September, 2008, 08:42:41 pm »
Hey! Some of us are still in our Smiths phase y'know!
 >:(



Too right! I've seen Moz live a few times and think he's god. Must be a Manchester thing....

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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #9 on: 29 September, 2008, 08:54:18 pm »
Hey! Some of us are still in our Smiths phase y'know!
 >:(



Too right! I've seen Moz live a few times and think he's god. Must be a Manchester thing....

Well most of the "great" Manchester bands are over-rated if you ask me. Apart from The Buzzcocks.

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Really Ancien

Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #10 on: 30 September, 2008, 09:39:34 am »

Well most of the "great" Manchester bands are over-rated if you ask me. Apart from The Buzzcocks.



I always had a soft spot for early 10CC, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kShTUmYRyCw&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/kShTUmYRyCw&rel=1</a>
and so topical, what goes around comes around.

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MercuryKev

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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #11 on: 30 September, 2008, 09:49:48 am »
I have always hated the Smiths. I'm more of a Cure man myself.

andrew_n

Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #12 on: 30 September, 2008, 12:58:59 pm »
I have always hated the Smiths. I'm more of a Cure man myself.

I love The Cure too. I've got most of their stuff and think Disintegration is their best album.

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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #13 on: 30 September, 2008, 01:16:21 pm »
I went off The Cure after their first album (The Cure cover a Jimi Hendrix track!!) and never liked The Smiths in the first place.  I shall now go and listen to AC/DC until my ears explode ;D
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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #14 on: 30 September, 2008, 03:18:45 pm »
Hey! Some of us are still in our Smiths phase y'know!
 >:(



+1 ;D
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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #15 on: 30 September, 2008, 03:20:52 pm »
Hey! Some of us are still in our Smiths phase y'know!
 >:(




Never mind.  You'll get over it...  ;)
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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #16 on: 30 September, 2008, 03:26:53 pm »
My older sister liked the Smiths, so it was against the rules for me to like them.

I quite like some of their choons now, but that's more down to Marr's excellent guitar work rather than Morrisey's punchable persona.

They also remind me of the pretentious losers in the 6th form who would turn the lights out in the common room whilst listening to the Smiths and drawing disturbing images all over the walls.

The rest of us played football, went down the pub and listened to proper music. Then came back to the common room, whipped out the Smiths cassette and smashed it into a million pieces.....
Those wonderful norks are never far from my thoughts, oh yeah!

clarion

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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #17 on: 30 September, 2008, 03:32:24 pm »
I saw the Smiths at college in 1983.  They were OK.
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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #18 on: 30 September, 2008, 03:43:54 pm »
I remember when they came with a little blue paper twist of salt inside the packet.

rogerzilla

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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #19 on: 30 September, 2008, 06:53:53 pm »
Some kind person has uploaded the South Bank Show feature on them, which I watched at university when it was first shown:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/YkhU_REp71w&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/YkhU_REp71w&rel=1</a>

Melvyn Bragg gets it wrong though - Morrissey wasn't promoting celibacy, he was complaining about it.
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Really Ancien

Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #20 on: 30 September, 2008, 07:56:18 pm »
Shame we had to have The Smiths in that film, I was enjoying George Formby.

Damon.

Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #21 on: 02 October, 2008, 09:11:21 am »
The only reason I started listening to The Smiths was cos a girl I fancied listened to them...

I didn't get anywhere with her.  Useless Morrissey.

border-rider

Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #22 on: 02 October, 2008, 09:49:01 pm »
Just heard What Difference Does it Make on t'radio

I defy anyone to deny that song :)

If you don't like that then you just don't like jangly indie guitar pop music

I can take or leave most of the rest of the Smiths, but that and This Charming Man..

Corvine

Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #23 on: 03 October, 2008, 09:15:53 pm »
It's not a phase, mum! You don't understand me!

I'm going to my room with Morrissey. He understands me.

Julian

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Re: I never went through a Smiths phase.
« Reply #24 on: 03 October, 2008, 09:32:27 pm »
I had a Smiths phase when I was about fourteen.

Then Morrissey wrecked it with his interview on Jonathan Ross by being an insufferable c*nt.  When he got onto the song I laughed so much I think I might have peed slightly.  He lost the idol status after that.