The Smiths - Page 2

[savannah smiles]

The Queen is Dead is my favorite album but all of them are good. Who hasn't wanted to sing, "Frankly, Mr. Shankly" when dealing with an annoying boss?

[lisalou]

The radio station I listened to growing up used to do a lot of stuff for April Fool's Day. One year the dj launched into this whole, very serious, discussion about how they don't normally do requests but this guy called from the hospital and his girlfriend was very sick and he wanted to know if they could play a song for him. So the dj said he'd make an exception. The song? "Girlfriend in a Coma". It was very funny.

I've always liked the Smiths and now I find the new bands I like usually site them as a big influence, like the Decemberists.

[muse]

oh boy you are all bringing back such memories! me, 20 years ago ( can that be right?!), jet black hair, little paisley skirts, black monkey boots, nose stud, spending hours hanging about outside Rough Trade records in London, as if Morrissey really would just drop by any minute...and a special pilgrimage up to Manchester in honor of him..saw them live in london and it was as good as i'd dreamed. i was a lost cause, a total morrissey-obsessive...but you know that guy got me through the toughest years of adoelscence fairly safe and sound, and feeling a bit less alone.

i really got turned off him though when he did his solo thing and started waving the union jack around and making some anti-immigration comments...can't remember what exactly but enough to leave me disillusioned i really haven't hrard his music lately, maybe i should give it a chance?

[GoldBerry]

Muse, that is much more exciting than what I was doing 20 years ago stuck in the western Pennsylvania coal mining town. I sooo wanted to be in London.

The other day when I was listening to How Soon is Now, I got all mad that Charmed (or the Cleavage Sisters as my dh calls them) used the song as a theme. O.k., it has a wonderful kind of spooky guitar riff, but the lyrics! What in the goddess' name does the song have to do with witches? And not particularly lonley witches at that!

Then I calmed down.

[Jazzmin]

Ooohh, I The Smiths. I listened to them all through high school. I have three albums on my ipod now. I enjoy working out to What She Said, good beat. So many of their songs I associate with events in my teenage years.

[boongirl]

Big Smiths fan here, too. Have been since the first album came out. I bought it on tape to listen to at school on my walk-man. Remember those!?!? Saw them in concert once, too, but hated how pretentious Morrissey was. What a poseur. Very annoying, distracted from the great guitar playing of Johnny Mars, one of my musical heros. I had tickets to see them again a few months later but I gave them to my then boyfriend, now husband. The tickets were fairly close to the front row. He got so high on lord know's what that he jumped the security wall, ran around the guards, climbed up on stage, and danced with Morrissey for all of the crowd at Irvine Meadows Ampitheater to see! He got to dance with Morrissey until the song was over and then was thrown off the stage. That is one of his favorite stories!

My fave song is "please, please, please, let me get what I want" from my fave album, Louder than bombs. Between dh and I, we have all of their albums and a few tapes. I've downloaded some of them from itunes to listen to when I drive but hearing them on dh's stereo, on album, with the diamond needle and the awesome speakers, that is AWESOME! They sound great in digital but in analog they move you more deeply.

Not a Morrissey fan. His lyrics are good, rather brilliant, but the music was always my draw. Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke, and Mike Joyce are among the best musicians ever. Nobody could do the jangling guitar sound quite like Johnny Marr. To this day, we can recognize his sound from more recent recordings, like Billy Bragg and Beck. That man is a genius.

[Skim]

Oh, how I love the old smiths too. *sigh*

How soon is now is definitely one of my favorite songs. They got me through many terrible emotional dramas - mine and others' - back in the day.

Too bad dd1 doesn't like them - I can only listen to them when she's out or feeling patient.

[little-g]

Boongirl - please, please, please, let me get what I want is my fave too, and always makes me think of that scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( I could start a whole thread on that one!). I think it may have also featured in Pretty In Pink?? Correct me if I'm wrong... (uh-oh - now I'm heading down an 80s teen flick memory lane moment... )

I also love 'you're the one for me, Fatty' by Morrissey. What a classic tune.

[iggaboo]

The Smiths will forever be one of my all time favorites, *sigh*. Without them I don't know how I would have survived the years 12-16, and I still love them.

Here is my son posing as Baby Morrissey

[ericaz]

I have loved the Smiths/Morrissey for as long as I can remember. It's like I went right from The New Kids on The Block to Depeche Mode, The Cure and The Smiths. My mom was stunned, to say the least.

I think I like just about every Smiths song but stopped being Morrissey after Bona Drag. Your Arsenal was decent, but a little too Rockabilly for my blood.


Favorite Smiths songs include:
This Charming Man
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Half a Person
Sheila Take A Bow
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Ask
Still Ill
Girl Afraid
Last Night I dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Favorite Morrissey songs include:
Everyday is Like Sunday
Little Man, What Now?
Suedehead
Hairdresser on Fire
Interesting Drug
The Last of the Famous International Playboys


Dh doesn't get it. He always makes fun of Morrissey and tries to impersonate his singing style. Such a dork. Ahhh...to each their own.

[ZenMamaJen]

Originally Posted by ericaz

He always makes fun of Morrissey and tries to impersonate his singing style. Such a dork. Ahhh...to each their own.

My dh does this, too! I find it amusing. He does a pretty good Bono, too.

[EVC]

I love the Smiths! Frankly Mr. Shankly is probably one of the best songs ever. Also, The Headmaster Ritual. Hand that Rocks the Cradle kind of creeps me out, though

[Jazzmin]

I was cleaning out underneath my bed and found Hatful of Hollow. I gave it to my son and hopefully he will enjoy it as much as I do. His last name is Smith so he was kind of excited that it was the bands name too.

[boongirl]

Originally Posted by little-g

Boongirl - please, please, please, let me get what I want is my fave too. I think it may have also featured in Pretty In Pink?? Correct me if I'm wrong... (uh-oh - now I'm heading down an 80s teen flick memory lane moment.

It is on the soundtrack, which I also have....on tape. Anyone listen to tapes anymore? I have likd 500, all from the 1980s and I never listen to any of them anymore. But, I keep them. I am way too nostalgic about vintage clothes and music.