Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Smiths
Posted by IanP on 5 February 2011 - 9:50pm.
are on Sky Arts in 10 minutes. If anyome can burn a copy I will be forever in your debt. And if anyone has live at the Derby Assembly Rooms, I'll do a swap for my first born
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if it's
repeated later, I should be able to do one for you
edit:
it is, so that'a yes
all you had to do was "Ask me, ask me, ask me" :D
PM en route
Good God.
Johnny Marr is an ASTONISHING guitarist. They're playing Barbarism Begins At Home at the moment and his fluency is just blowing me away.
Agreed...
It's just such a shame that he had to have such an arse as a frontman
Didn't it all
just work though?
No.
I've never been able to really listen to them seriously, simply because of Morrissey - the mannered vocal style, the hearing aid, the kitchen-sink affectation, the flowers up the arse, the "Of course, we've all taken Prozac, it's so 90's" pronouncements, the borderline racism, etc etc.
A terrible, terrible band, albeit one with a good guitar player.
Fair enough
I love them Morrissey and all.
I respect your opinion absolutely Mr Stimpy
but I wonder if the band had been the other three and a different frontman would you have even heard of them?
My guess is 90% of their original profile and maybe 60% of their enduring appeal worldwide is because of The Moz.
Even if he is a tosser, and I'm pretty sure he is, he's the sort of tosser that encourages fanatical devotion.
'it's so 90s'?!
The Smiths split up in 1987.
Most of what Morrissey has come up with and come out with since then hasn't meant a lot to me but when I was 15 and Hand In Glove came out he could do little wrong. He was quite brave back in those Smiths days believe it or not, whether it was making a stand against videos, or thugs attacking him on stage or the media witchhunts re some of his lyrics. All that AND he luminated Top Of The Pops when it was all balloons and rara skirts.
Saw The Smiths three times and they were outstanding.
As for your comment that the frontman is an arse - aren't they all? Is Jagger not an arse, or at least ars-ish? Steve Tyler? Liam Gallagher? Paul Simon? Ian Astbury? What kind of character do you want exactly as a frontman...someone sensible?
Whoa yeah
The Rockpalast gig we've just seen isn't on YouTube, but this nugget is:
Shit the BED.
Andy Rourke's bass playing is pretty sodding jaw-dropping too.
(I'm doing commentary for Ian's benefit).
very unsmiths
in a way, but he rocka like a mutha
even at the time
I thought they smelled of wee and cat tray, I hope you appreciate what I'm doing here?
You are indeed
Gentleman Jim Blast
What if...
...there were a website where devoted, technically-accomplished fans created and shared complete DVDs - with menus, "extras" and artwork - of Smiths gigs with one another? And it was free for anyone to register and participate?
Yes, that would be quite nice.
www.smithstorrents.co.uk