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We are both huge Smiths and Morrissey fans. We have every piece of vinyl and bootlegs they've done - our pride and joy 
Absolutely love them, never see or hear anything like them again.
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By *ourbonKiss OP Man
over a year ago
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"We are both huge Smiths and Morrissey fans. We have every piece of vinyl and bootlegs they've done - our pride and joy
Absolutely love them, never see or hear anything like them again.
Mrs "
true I don't think we'll ever see/ hear another set of music made like it |
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bragging rights here...
used to hang around with Andy Rourke and Johnny Marr in their pre Smiths days....loads of great memories but was never a big fan of the music, or of Morrissey  |
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"We are both huge Smiths and Morrissey fans. We have every piece of vinyl and bootlegs they've done - our pride and joy
Absolutely love them, never see or hear anything like them again.
Mrs
true I don't think we'll ever see/ hear another set of music made like it"
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By *ourbonKiss OP Man
over a year ago
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"bragging rights here...
used to hang around with Andy Rourke and Johnny Marr in their pre Smiths days....loads of great memories but was never a big fan of the music, or of Morrissey "
could you tell that Johnny marr would be one on the greatest guitarists when you knew him? |
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My college days were spent with headphones on listening to these amongst others. Happy memories Im humming 'Girlfriend in a Coma I know I know its serious....'  |
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Simply the best band ever, they have a back catalogue that song for song is better than anybody,
Lyrically amazing musically beautiful.
I fell in love with the smiths quite late I was 19 and it was a lightbulb moment, that first strain of "William it was really nothing" when I first played hatful of hollow was still to this day one of the best sounds I've ever heard and I was hooked.
and in that beautiful man that is Morrissey they had the greatest of frontmen, nobody prances about like a Nancy but is fawned over by men and women alike quite like him.
So again the best band ever!!
"So scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen, this means you really love me"
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They were definitely the outstanding band of their time and are still one of my benchmarks. Musically and lyrically, head and shoulders above many of their contemporaries.
As for Mozza, I think he's great. Outspoken, enigmatic, often controversial - you could never call him boring. |
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Why pamper life's complexities, when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat 
There definitely a Marmite band, me! I love Marmite.
And I love bands that do it their way, if your born in a crap, boring, job lacking place in Manchester in the 80s then sing about it, not everybody thinks a song has to be about sunshine and bird singing for it to be uplifting |
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"bragging rights here...
used to hang around with Andy Rourke and Johnny Marr in their pre Smiths days....loads of great memories but was never a big fan of the music, or of Morrissey
could you tell that Johnny marr would be one on the greatest guitarists when you knew him?"
With the amount of practice he did I'd have said he would have been a definate contender |
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"Just how good was morrisey and his band of merry musicians......
Lmao!
They weren't...
Just like the shitty beetles if you ask me.well overrated "
Did you mean the Beatles? |
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"Why pamper life's complexities, when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat
There definitely a Marmite band, me! I love Marmite.
And I love bands that do it their way, if your born in a crap, boring, job lacking place in Manchester in the 80s then sing about it, not everybody thinks a song has to be about sunshine and bird singing for it to be uplifting "
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"Just how good was morrisey and his band of merry musicians......
Lmao!
They weren't...
Just like the shitty beetles if you ask me.well overrated
Did you mean the Beatles? "
That's how much contempt I have for them! |
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I have just found out how exceedingly good they are after years of only listening to one track or two I listend to a few more more and Johnny marr he is the king of happy guitar rifts while morrisey is the king of doom and gloom match made in heaven |
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"Just how good was morrisey and his band of merry musicians......
Lmao!
They weren't...
Just like the shitty beetles if you ask me.well overrated
Did you mean the Beatles?
That's how much contempt I have for them! "
I love the smiths. But I agree about the Beatles. |
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"Absolutely love The Smiths. Favourite band of all time for both of us. There were a few raised eyebrows at our wedding reception when we had Cemetry Gates as our first dance "
We love that in ways words can't do justice!! |
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People who say the smiths are shit are people who have never sat down and actually listened to them,
It's like never having seen george best and saying he couldn't dribble. |
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I've got more respect for him as he's got older. I think the guitarist Johnny Marr I think his name was??? Was underrated as a player and did one of the all time greatest guitar riffs.
Glad he ditched the flowers hanging out of his back pocket. BTW loads of the ladies who followed him in the 80's and 90's were fit and intelligent to boot so concerts had a double incentive! |
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Actually sang hang the dj repeatedly at the dj doing my sisters 40th. I'm not ashamed. He played some right crap, and yes I know thats not exactly what panic was getting at but close enough for d*unk me lol. |
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"I've got more respect for him as he's got older. I think the guitarist Johnny Marr I think his name was??? Was underrated as a player and did one of the all time greatest guitar riffs.
Glad he ditched the flowers hanging out of his back pocket. BTW loads of the ladies who followed him in the 80's and 90's were fit and intelligent to boot so concerts had a double incentive!"
I don't condsider Johnny Marr underrated. He's widely accepted as a genius! |
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I meant he never got the recognition he deserved. A bit like the Taylor brother from Duran Duran.
Good players can get lost in pop but at the end of the day they earn a good living so maybe being on the back row is worth it. |
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I agree with you over the Smiths but Abba has to be the perfect pop group of all time.
Some of their dance stuff is cracking and the first girl I ever loved was a fan of Abba so they bring back fond memories. |
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I'm more into loud brash music, but The Smiths always made a connection somehow. They were quite contradictory in a way with the bright cheery riffs yet that doleful voice, strangely complimentary. I did see them once and the audience was almost as good as the band.
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I love them, but at the time I hated them, don't know why 
