Tacky, smug, foolish, annoying -- that's The Smiths for you.
Tacky, smug, foolish, annoying -- that's The Smiths for you.
Um, ever hear of "Bad Company?"
Fitting that you should start a thread to whine and cry about it. Oh boo hoo, life is so very very dreadful for the OP to know that there is a band that is so very very overrated.
F*** that Paul Rodgers is the best rock singer there is.
Your wrong
They were not "main stream" in the States, so not overrated by any means. Yes they were a POP band, and not for everyone, still one of the great icons of the 80s.
XY wrote:
Your wrong
My wrong?
Oasis gets my vote.
Oh come on. This is Lets Run.
I would have thought anyone who sang.....
Sweetness, sweetness
I was only joking
When I said I'd like to
Smash every tooth in your head
Sweetness, sweetness
I was only joking
When I said by rights
You should be bludgeoned in your bed
would be lauded to the skies on here.
90s Kid wrote:
F*** that Paul Rodgers is the best rock singer there is.
If by "best" you mean "worst", then I agree with you.
The Smiths were terrific. Oasis totally blew.
Just about the greatest band ever. I can still remember buying the extended play single "What Difference Does it Make?", listening to Johnny Marr's amazing intro and wearing out the grooves in my house by the beach in Victoria, BC.
I happily remember years ago hearing one of the local jocks on the alternative radio station state, "Morrissey has a new album coming out. Better load up on the Prozac!"
Way off.
Great band; Great singer.
His autobiography, on the other hand, is pure rubbish.
I take it the OP is really digging the new Fall Out Boy album! Or maybe he is into Lana Del Ray?
[quote]Poison Ivy Runner wrote:
Great band; Great singer.
His autobiography, on the other hand, is pure rubbish.
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Backed for sure on the first two points. And while I haven't read the book, I can probably safely assume you're correct on your third point.
suburbanxcore wrote:
And while I haven't read the book, I can probably safely assume you're correct on your third point.
There is some good information in there, but he could have gone without the odd stream-of-consciousness writing style. It is like 400 pages of rambling on about he and his sisters wandering through the streets of England.
I got the feeling that he actually opened a laptop and wrote the dman thing himself without an editor.
And I'm sick of your tattoos, and the way you always criticize the Smiths...and Morrissey.
I think the OP is on to something, I'd also add Green Day & Linken Park.
they were among the most underrated bands in their time, hardly heard by anyone as we were all subject to blue oester cult and bryan adams and peter gabriel and so on, and didn't get to hear any of the great '80s alternative bands. Danceable and peppy, yet with heavily depressing lyrics, but you don't think that is some kind of feat???
jjjjjjjjj wrote:
they were among the most underrated bands in their time, hardly heard by anyone as we were all subject to blue oester cult and bryan adams and peter gabriel and so on, and didn't get to hear any of the great '80s alternative bands. Danceable and peppy, yet with heavily depressing lyrics, but you don't think that is some kind of feat???
Speak for yourself - when I was in college, the Smiths were a staple at every disco I attended. And why not? Danceable and peppy they certainly are.
Morrisey himself seems an utter narcissist however. How he treated his bandmates when it came to royalties beggars belief. The judge who heard the claim from the other band members for a fair share of the Smiths royalties took the rare step of describing the credibility of Morrisey during the trial. He described him as "devious, truculent, and unreliable."
Well done to those of you who read his autobiography. By all accounts a herculean feat of literary self-flagellation, on a par with reading the turgid Atlas Shrugged.