The Smiths - The Greatest Indie Band of All Time?

https://youtu.be/1jaSoo9hPi4

Some more original american music that the brits copied and tried to pass off as their own
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https://youtu.be/rGRjQ7WOmq8

Shaun Ryder is a better lyricist than Morrissey.

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Shaun is superb

Neil Armstrong
Astronaut
He had balls bigger than King Kong!
Fay Wray!
First big suit on the moon
And he starts to play golf!
Hole-in-one!

Jesus was a black man
No, Jesus was Batman
No, no, no, no, not at all
That was Bruce Wayne

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:smiley:

Iā€™ll go back to what I said after the Manchester bomb.

Noel Gallagher wrote and writes songs of hope and healing that bring people together.

ā€œDonā€™t Look Back Angerā€ was already one of the greatest songs of all time but after the bomb it took on a whole new context that transcends music - one song served as the focal point for bringing a whole community together in the face of evil and disaster. Thatā€™s an incredibly powerful thing.

After the Manchester bomb, Morrissey went on a drunken rant against all Muslims.

He must have been terribly annoyed that his little ditty about a ten ton truck crashing into people and killing them didnā€™t quite capture the mood of his city at the time.

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Lads who pin up Morrissey as some sort of lyrical genius are the type of guys who wear thick rimmed glasses and carry around a copy of Ulysses by James Joyce. Itā€™s all optics, itā€™s just for effect.

He was a dreadful vocalist as well, but he carried dead flowers on stage and wore thick rimmed glasses so he must have been very smart.

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Who is Anger?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbZtvLvwTCU

and when weā€™re in your scholarly room who will swallow whom?

John Lydon said Anger is an energy.

Metallica said Anger was a saint.

So thereā€™s differing views on the topic.

How does carrying dead flowers make you look smart?

Hand in Glove is one of my all time favourite songs, ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-pxlE0zxp0

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In fairness youā€™re right on the Donā€™t Look Back in Anger thing.

I havenā€™t seen a song to galvanise a nation so much since Candle in the Wind.

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Or since Making your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz.

I donā€™t have any problem with people reading Ulysees or wearing thick-rimmed glasses if they want to as I donā€™t believe any of those things makes one a twat. I donā€™t even think carrying dead flowers on stage makes one a twat.

My main problem with Morrissey is that heā€™s a miserable, curmudgeonly old fart with a boring singing voice which generally makes me want to turn my radio off if one of his songs comes on.

What do you think of the Smiths, mate?

Outstanding -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S32kh1aM0r0

I am right and thatā€™s a rather fatuous comparison youā€™ve tried to make there.

All you needed was Coldplay or U2 to come along and sing it.

Oh wait.

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