The Best of the Smiths collections didn't work because they didn't have a sense of history and distorted the underlying sense of urgency that helped make the Smiths important. Singles simply collects all of the singles from one of the greatest singles bands since the Beatles. It's essential and influential guitar pop, presented in a way that makes sense and is endlessly listenable.
Ever read reviews about UK gigs or looked at album covers and wonder what the venues look like? Stick them into Google City View and have a look! Here's a few to get you started.....Salford Lads Club; http://tinyurl.com/cl4ykc . Abbey Road; http://tinyurl.com/cfyery . Barrowlands; http://tinyurl.com/dgpjuv . King Tuts; http://tinyurl.com/cc5gn2 . Battersea Power Station; http://...
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If you are Smiths fan, or really a fan of any band whose music changed your life...who you think the world is a better place for their music existing...please read this book.The author, MARC SPITZ is a senior writer at Spin magazine. His work has also appeared in Maxim, Nylon, the Washington Post, and the New York Post, as well as on MTV, M2, and VH-1. Spitz is the co-author (with Brendan Mulle...
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Just watched an incredibly bizarre interview of Morrissey and Johnny Marr of 'The Smiths' on an 80's kid's show. I love the ideas behind the 'The Smiths' being explained to school aged children. I don't quite know why but it's a both hilarious and sinister item even at this toned down level.Boy: "Why do you hold flowers when you sing?"Morrissey: "Why I hold flowers? I think flowers are very bea...
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You must suffer and cry for a longer timeYou just haven't earned it yet, baby I've been laying in bed in codeine-induced fog for the better part of four, going on five, days now. I finally caught that nasty flu bug that's been going around here. Shows me for going out on Saturday night without an umbrella. Ho hum.Spending warm Summer days indoorsWriting frightening verseTo a buck-toothed girl i...
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Sure, a song without lyrics can grab me emotionally. Whenever I hear the first tunes of Miles Davis' "It Never Entered My Mind", or Mozart's requiem even. And when on the Live At the Fillmore East album Allman hits the guitar solo on "Stormy Monday" it gives me goosebumps at the very least.However, a lot of songs use lyrics and don't have Allman guitar skills, and in order for a song to be spec...
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Does anyone else feel like sometimes music takes you to an entirely different time? maybe even one for which you weren't even alive? cause that definitely happens to me all the time. on a different note- My music professor is so freaking amazing. how many classes do you get that show you DVDs of rusted root or bela fleck performing? not many. and also- not that this is new to my knowledge or...
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...that sample at the beginning of that "*Hippy Chick/ Soho post*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/38494 I threw up the other day got me looking back to the Smiths' "*Meat is Murder album*":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++++5466&a_id=R++++18318&PersonID=P%20%20%20%20%205466&prodid=WB25269.2&si=rhino and I didn't even realize it at the time...(thanks Mikey)...
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Saw this the other day thought it was pretty good...
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Ever read reviews about UK gigs or looked at album covers and wonder what the venues look like? Stick them into Google City View and have a look! Here's a few to get you started.....Salford Lads Club; http://tinyurl.com/cl4ykc . Abbey Road; http://tinyurl.com/cfyery . Barrowlands; http://tinyurl.com/dgpjuv . King Tuts; http://tinyurl.com/cc5gn2 . Battersea Power Station; http://...
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.Reports say band are close to reunion dealOct 24, 2008.Speculation has renewed that The Smiths may be on the verge of reforming. . According to a report in The Sun today (October 24), the four original members are close to signing a deal that would see them performing at the Coachella festival in California next year. It is suggested that Morrissey's new manager - former MCA records boss Ir...
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It has long been suspected that every DJ is a frustrated musician, but rock stars seem to be turning into DJs. Bob Dylans 'Theme Time Radio Hour' highlighted this a couple of years ago but the are plenty more doing the same;Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) is on Los Angeles KDLE-FM.Guy Garvey (Elbow) is on bbc6music.Tom Petty is on XM's Weekly 'Buried Tresure'Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) is on bbc6mu...
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"in my life why do i smile at people who i'd much rather kick in the eye?"trying to muster up the gumption to get up and get to work.at least its friday.thanks for feeling it, too...morrissey & the smiths.how is everyone's friday?
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Ok, here goes. I was about 16 or so and in that time in my life I was known to get in a lot of trouble. This particular time brought me in front of the district magistrate for a list of charges that included unauthorized use of a vehicle, breaking and entering, so on and so on. So after all the damaged my friends and I had caused, my share of the bill was about $4500.(OUCH!) So in order to pay ...
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...that sample at the beginning of that "*Hippy Chick/ Soho post*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/38494 I threw up the other day got me looking back to the Smiths' "*Meat is Murder album*":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++++5466&a_id=R++++18318&PersonID=P%20%20%20%20%205466&prodid=WB25269.2&si=rhino and I didn't even realize it at the time...(thanks Mikey)...
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It would be easy to write "Panic" off as merely a bit of music snobbery. But switch out "DJ" with "VJ" and this tune is still the relevant, biting commentary on the state of pop music that it was in 1986. If you want to know why hip hop clichés and pop lolita posturing will never hold much significance in the long run, Morrissey's lyric takes a most incisive cut at it: "It says nothing to me a..
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Sure, a song without lyrics can grab me emotionally. Whenever I hear the first tunes of Miles Davis' "It Never Entered My Mind", or Mozart's requiem even. And when on the Live At the Fillmore East album Allman hits the guitar solo on "Stormy Monday" it gives me goosebumps at the very least.However, a lot of songs use lyrics and don't have Allman guitar skills, and in order for a song to be spec...
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My cable and internet were out for a few days, and I think I nearly died. But now I'm back. Yay!The other day a friend of mine, in another forum, posted about the song "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths. I hadn't thought about this song for years, and I was glad he posted about it, because it got me listening to it again. Then, a couple of days later, I was at a club and t...
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You must suffer and cry for a longer timeYou just haven't earned it yet, baby I've been laying in bed in codeine-induced fog for the better part of four, going on five, days now. I finally caught that nasty flu bug that's been going around here. Shows me for going out on Saturday night without an umbrella. Ho hum.Spending warm Summer days indoorsWriting frightening verseTo a buck-toothed girl i...
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While "How Soon Is Now" is the first Smiths song I heard and it will always be my favorite, their 1987 single "Shoplifters Of The World" is a close 2nd. When it came out as an import, it won a weekly best song competition on our local cool radio station (The Screamer Of The Week, on WDRE.) Morrissey hams it up in the video, like he's trying to make a few easy dollars in the Bus Station men's r...
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Ok so I'm sitting here reading for my class that's in an hour, but I feel so compelled on this topic, I have to post about it.I'm flipping through my mp3s, especially the ones that I've gotten lately. So there was there was a Ben Kweller song that reminded me of "there's a light that never goes out" by the Smiths. So I then feel the urge to listen to the Smiths. I have two Smiths records on my...
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If you are Smiths fan, or really a fan of any band whose music changed your life...who you think the world is a better place for their music existing...please read this book.The author, MARC SPITZ is a senior writer at Spin magazine. His work has also appeared in Maxim, Nylon, the Washington Post, and the New York Post, as well as on MTV, M2, and VH-1. Spitz is the co-author (with Brendan Mulle...
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I love this song."I would go out tonight,but I haven't got a stitch to wear."I also love covers of it.Canst thou recommend any?
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The weather of past week has been amazing, and I've had some songs come up on random which have been perfect for walking home. Here's my sunny day playlist:The Smiths - William, It Was Really NothingCrosby, Stills Nash & Young - Carry OnJack Johnson - Do You RememberBand Of Horses - The FuneralJoe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Coma GirlI know the lyrics of some of them say otherwise, but it works.
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