Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Really Ancien on 29 September, 2008, 04:46:34 pm
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I was too old anyway.
YouTube - Mitch Benn never went through a Smiths Phase (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VVQfJcN0Tqw)
Damon.
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Me neither...
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Never got what people saw in the Smiths... Morose caterwauling was not my thing.
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Good guitarist though. Didn't make up for the rest of them.
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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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Hey! Some of us are still in our Smiths phase y'know!
>:(
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Nor me. I got all that kind of introspective shit from literature. Musically i liked the funk.
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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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Hey! Some of us are still in our Smiths phase y'know!
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Too right! I've seen Moz live a few times and think he's god. Must be a Manchester thing....
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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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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, YouTube - Wall Street Shuffle - 10cc (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kShTUmYRyCw)
and so topical, what goes around comes around.
Damon.
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I have always hated the Smiths. I'm more of a Cure man myself.
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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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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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Hey! Some of us are still in our Smiths phase y'know!
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+1 ;D
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Hey! Some of us are still in our Smiths phase y'know!
>:(
Never mind. You'll get over it... ;)
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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.....
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I saw the Smiths at college in 1983. They were OK.
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I remember when they came with a little blue paper twist of salt inside the packet.
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Some kind person has uploaded the South Bank Show feature on them, which I watched at university when it was first shown:
YouTube - The Smiths - The South Bank Show (part 1) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhU_REp71w)
Melvyn Bragg gets it wrong though - Morrissey wasn't promoting celibacy, he was complaining about it.
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Shame we had to have The Smiths in that film, I was enjoying George Formby.
Damon.
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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.
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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..
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It's not a phase, mum! You don't understand me!
I'm going to my room with Morrissey. He understands me.
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I had a Smiths phase when I was about fourteen.
Then Morrissey wrecked it with his interview on Jonathan Ross (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvkhPtqfAtQ) 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.
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Oh, I remember that interview. I thought he came across very well, but then I'm an old git from another generation :-[.
TBH, I don't really like Morrissey's solo stuff. I saw him live in the mid '90's (I think) and I thought he was pretty crap.
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He's had a return to form in recent years - "First of the Gang to Die" from "You Are The Quarry" is a really good song - look it up on YouTube.
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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..
And Bigmouth Strikes Again.
I just downloaded it. I haven't had any Smiths on my iPod because I have them all on vinyl. But I've finally worked out that I am never going to spend the time to digitise my records. Plus the fact there are probably only 30 songs that I would really want to have digitally it seems a lot of trouble to save 25 quid.
In the same vein I also downloaded Lady Marmalade, Raspberry Beret, Animal Nitrate and added the new Pink song So What, which is rip-roaringly catchy... I'd love to know what the Genius app makes of that little lot.
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I visited the flat of a well-respected music journalist and he'd been given one of Marr's old Rickenbackers. I played him The Boy With The Thorn In His Side on it :thumbsup:
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I used to listen to other music, but then I was Cure-d! ;)
Still not sure whether I like The Smiths/Morrissey or not...
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i didn't like them
then I decided I did and I went to see them
then I decided I didn't again
when I was younger I don't think I appreciated the humour of their songs
more recently I have been listening to "hat full of hollow" which is a kind of greatest hits LP and which I recommend to anyone.
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It's a compilation of Peel sessions and other bits; it doesn't suffer from the over-produced sound of the first album which is why it sounds so good. The version of "This Charming Man" on HOH is superior.