The Smiths - The Greatest Indie Band of All Time?

farmerinthecity · August 30, 2024, 12:52pm

Vauxhall and I’s bookends are superb.

The Stones Roses debut is still better probably,

backinatracksuit · August 30, 2024, 12:56pm

The live version??

Out of this world

farmerinthecity · August 30, 2024, 3:30pm

Even the album version.

backinatracksuit · August 30, 2024, 4:09pm

It’s by far the best think on Beethoven was Deaf (live from Paris), better than anything on Rank IMO

Hard to think a smiths fan wouldn’t admire a lot of Morriseys solo efforts

farmerinthecity · August 30, 2024, 4:50pm

Now My Heart is Full off Vauxhall and I is his best effort I think.

It made me check out the book Brighton Rock by Graham Greene which is a masterpiece.

‘Dallow, Spicer, Pinkie, Cubitt’

backinatracksuit · August 30, 2024, 4:57pm

Every jammy Stressford poet
Loafing oafs in all-night chemists
LOAFING OAFS in all-night chemists

But I prefer Speedway from that album, God the man was some piece of work

Fagan_ODowd · August 30, 2024, 5:10pm

I’m not sure if I mentioned this before but I saw the Smiths play the Savoy Bingo Hall in Waterford in November 1984, supported by James. 40 years ago, where does the time go.

Kyle · August 30, 2024, 5:13pm

Says the guy that’s into rap

Alphakrul1 · August 30, 2024, 6:27pm

James had a great sound.

farmerinthecity · August 30, 2024, 8:29pm

You did but it’s worth repeating.

farmerinthecity · August 30, 2024, 8:32pm

I don’t know if you caught him in Vicar Street last summer. He was brilliant,

He played Speedway completely unexpectedly based on his previous setlists,

And all those lies, written lies, twisted lies
Well they weren’t lies, they weren’t lies, they weren’t lies

backinatracksuit · August 30, 2024, 8:37pm

I probably have hearing loss from listening to the intro on full blast on my Walkman hundreds of times back in the days when there was no limiters on the headphones to save snowflake eardrums

Well worth it

farmerinthecity · August 30, 2024, 8:40pm

I listened to the debut Smiths today driving down the country.

What an album. Suffer Little Children, Morrissey’s song about the Moors Murders in Manchester is a thing of beauty. And you have uninformed idiots calling him a joke.

Spidey · August 31, 2024, 6:44am

I’d happily listen to Half a Person on repeat all day

farmerinthecity · September 3, 2024, 1:41pm

Marr’s finest moment perhaps.

This Night Has Opened My Eyes

farmerinthecity · September 3, 2024, 1:59pm

I was there.

Kyle · September 3, 2024, 2:13pm

I’m not happy and im not sad…

farmerinthecity · September 3, 2024, 2:16pm

Apparently it’s the story from A Taste of Honey by Sheelagh Delaney which Morrissey was obsessed with.

farmerinthecity · September 3, 2024, 2:19pm

Lesley-Anne and your pretty white beads

[Shudder]

Kyle · September 3, 2024, 2:20pm

It’ll be no House Of Dolls which i read based on the song of another mancunian band