The Smiths, and Morrissey

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:04 pm

Anyone like this band? I'm really getting into them and I like Morrissey's solo work too.

I want to get Louder Than Bombs. Seems to be the place to start.

Post by **Queeaqueg** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:18 pm

I like Morrissey, but he was better with the Smiths...

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:31 pm

They did some alright stuff.

Post by **Brinn** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:30 am

Big Fan!!!! Love Here is now!

Post by **dennisrwood** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:28 am

the Smiths were great. I would start out with...

The Queen Is Dead. (I have very fond memories of hanging out with friends, drinking and listening to this, I still sing some of the songs in the shower)

then go with Meat Is Murder (the first album of theirs that I bought back in highschool)

but Louder Than Bombs is a great review. and you can give it to a friend when you buy all the other albums!

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out...

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their
Home, and I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
(But then a strange fear gripped me and I
Just couldn't ask)

Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one, da ...
Oh, I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Oh, There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out

Post by **Loredoctor** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:52 am

How Soon is Now = brilliance.

Post by **Phantasm** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:52 pm

Superb.

Off to dig out my old vinyl now.

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:15 pm

On my vaca I bought a sweet Smiths bootleg - Live in Paris '84. Good stuff.

Post by **Nav** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:54 am

Don't forget Hatful of Hollow. It's so good you won't believe it's a b-sides compilation.

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:04 pm

My Smiths/Morrissey collection currently looks like this:

The Queen Is Dead
Hatful of Hollow (yeah, great collection Nav)
Live in Paris '84
A Kind of Loving: Live at the Apollo Theatre, Oxford '85
Best of...Vol. 1
Louder Than Bombs
Strangeways, Here We Come
Live in Madrid
Thank Your Lucky Stars

Morrissey: You Are the Quarry
Live at Earls Court (has Smiths and Moz songs)
Live in Germany '91 (on the same disc as Paris)
Who Put the 'M' in Manchester? DVD
Viva Hate
Vauxhall and I
At KROQ
Viva Hate Outtakes
Live at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Your Arsenal
Bona Drag
Beethoven Was Deaf - Live at The Zenith, Paris '92
My Early Burglary Years
Live in 2004

These guys made great music.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:21 pm

The Smiths just refused a $5 million offer to rejoin:

news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060317/music_nm/morrissey_dc

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:53 pm

good for them. I would like to see them, but on their own terms.

Post by **Lorelei** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:04 pm

Unless Johnny Marr ever changes his mind, it's never going to happen.....from what I gather most every one else is up for it......

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:06 pm

and Johnny Marr made the Smiths. so the others should never do it without him. have some integrity guys!

Post by **Lorelei** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:11 pm

I believe that is why they are not doing it.....integrity.

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:10 pm

Well yeah, The Smiths had their day. I don't think they could ever re-create that sound. Their music lives forever basically. And as a fan, I'm content with that. Plus, Morrissey's new album Ringleader of the Tormentors is fantastic. An aside: Johnny Marr has sucked it up since the breakup - he was in a very average supergroup band (Electronic, I think) and he recently cut an album with his band The Healers which was awful. Which is really too bad, because he was the most talented songwriter of his era. By the way, I don't think either Morrissey or Marr are really up for a reunion. Plus, neither would get back together with Mike Joyce, who swindled them in a court deal a couple years ago. Joyce & Marr were playing Smiths songs recently, and practically all of Morrissey's tours have included a few Smiths tunes.

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:59 am

music - wise, they could be like the Pixies and sound great. but internal strife from the sounds of it.

Post by **danlo** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:03 am

Listening to The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get one of my all time favorite songs!

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:45 am

Good call.

Post by **danlo** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:30 am

now? First of the Gang to Die-Morrissey, You Are the Quarry

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

The Smiths, and Morrissey

The Smiths, and Morrissey