FabSwingers.com forum: The Smiths

By *ourbonKiss OP Man
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester

Just how good was morrisey and his band of merry musicians......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Musically great, as a man, Morrisey strikes me as a bit of a cock.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The best. I have listened to songs like Asleep, Still ill & well I wonder every week for the past 6-7years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its all subjective, I can appreciate the songwriting but never did it for me personally. I prefer a more upbeat vibe

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Great band, shit singer

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By *ourbonKiss OP Man
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester

"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

a land up north..... of leicester

"Its all subjective, I can appreciate the songwriting but never did it for me personally. I prefer a more upbeat vibe "

but some songs did have an Upbeat vibe to them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bloody rubbish

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just how good was morrisey and his band of merry musicians......"

Merry?

I love them, but at the time I hated them, don't know why

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Last Night i dreamed somebody loved me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My bro used to call me big mouth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They are as good as it gets

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By *ourbonKiss OP Man
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester

"They are as good as it gets"

thought you might like them

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By *ourbonKiss OP Man
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Massive fan here, pure poetry! Wish id have seen them back in the day but thankful I saw Morrisey...a God amongst men! (her)

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By *ourbonKiss OP Man
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester

"Massive fan here, pure poetry! Wish id have seen them back in the day but thankful I saw Morrisey...a God amongst men! (her)"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love The Smiths, great songs, certainly with a woeful edge but I like that

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"Great band, shit singer

I couldn't agree more... and some of the songs are so very, very depressing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The opening rift in how soon is now consistently gets voted in the top 5 of the greatest openings ever!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Ring Around The Fountain' is getting played at my cremation.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By *ath_Neil_bifunCouple
over a year ago

near cardiff

"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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Why pamper life's complexities, when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat

There definitely a Marmite band, me! I love Marmite.

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By *ath_Neil_bifunCouple
over a year ago

near cardiff

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *dam_TinaCouple
over a year ago

Hampshire

Johnny Marr is one of my favourite guitarists....totally unique

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A very entertaining performer I must admit great with those uplifting chord progressions might stick him on just now

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By *ourbonKiss OP Man
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester

"Johnny marr he is the king of happy guitar rifts while morrisey is the king of doom and gloom match made in heaven "

you know you've hit the nail on the head there

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By *ain n MableWoman
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Absolutely fucking brilliant. End of.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By *ilkynmyzzyCouple
over a year ago

Bridlington

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

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *icklybitMan
over a year ago

Ayrshire

One of the bands I always go back to, a guilty pleasure.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"One of the bands I always go back to, a guilty pleasure. "

A guilty pleasure?

Abba is a guilty pleasure, the smiths are a necessity!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *icklybitMan
over a year ago

Ayrshire

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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By *eneral HysteriaMan
over a year ago

Newcastle

"Just how good was morrisey and his band of merry musicians......"

Crock-o-shit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bernard Manning sings the Smiths no more said.

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