The Smiths

[Nationwider]

Can't remember if there's been a Smiths poll/thread here in living memory, so as its Thursday, I thought I'd start one.

Always guaranteed to divide opinion....

....so I'll start off by saying that they were ruddy marvellous, and far from being miserablists, wrote some of the funniest, sharpest songs ever. Gawd bless 'em.

My top 5 for today:

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Cemetry Gates

Well I Wonder

Frankly Mr Shankly

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want This Time

[Katy]

Can't remember if there's been a Smiths poll/thread here in living memory, so as its Thursday, I thought I'd start one.

Always guaranteed to divide opinion....

....so I'll start off by saying that they were ruddy marvellous, and far from being miserablists, wrote some of the funniest, sharpest songs ever. Gawd bless 'em.

My top 5 for today:

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Cemetry Gates

Well I Wonder

Frankly Mr Shankly

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want This Time

Its Friday me duck but ill let you off as youve started a thread on my most favourite band in the whole wideness of the world.

Morrissey is by far and away my absolute hero and got me through my relatively unhappy childhood and understood when nobody else did. It was Morrissey who inspired me to stay a vegetarian when the rest of my family went back to meat, it was The Smiths who made me pull away from the crowd and stand up for what I believed in at an early age and not follow the crowd just to be liked, which ultimately lead to me being bullied. I could go on!

My top 5 at the moment

Bigmouth strikes again

There is a light that never goes out (my favourite song ever)

Heaven knows im miserable now

Death of a disco dancer

These things take time

[Alexikokopops]

Alex likes.

[Head Honcho]

Fantastic band saw them live in New York in 1985.

Best live band ever

[Nationwider]

Its Friday me duck but ill let you off as youve started a thread on my most favourite band in the whole wideness of the world.

Morrissey is by far and away my absolute hero and got me through my relatively unhappy childhood and understood when nobody else did. It was Morrissey who inspired me to stay a vegetarian when the rest of my family went back to meat, it was The Smiths who made me pull away from the crowd and stand up for what I believed in at an early age and not follow the crowd just to be liked, which ultimately lead to me being bullied. I could go on!

My top 5 at the moment

Bigmouth strikes again

There is a light that never goes out (my favourite song ever)

Heaven knows im miserable now

Death of a disco dancer

These things take time

Well spotted.

[Cat Burger]

I like them, I'm a relativer newcomer to them though. Boy with a thorn in his side is probably my favourite

[Alexikokopops]

Anyone heard At The Drive-In's cover of "This Night Has Opened My Eyes"?

I was listening to that today.

[The People's Hero]

Bigmouth strikes again is actually one of my favourites too.

What a band.

[Libertine]

Seeing as it's all that gets played in our house, I know quite alot of their songs and I quite like some of 'em.

[Deathside]

Not exactly my thing - BUT far more listenable than a lot of other not my kind of thing bands - If you can make sense of that??!!?

Therefore - MAYBE

[Guest]

The irony was lost on a lot of people. Morrissey is a comical genius.

[Ultra]

The irony was lost on a lot of people. Morrissey is a comical genius.

..and also an exceptional lyricist.

None of the current generation of songwriters even come close!

[Lester LXXIV]

Pure Class IMO...

[Alexikokopops]

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[Katy]

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Ahhh Strangeways Here We Come is a cracking album

[Oli]

I have had their album for a while, but have never listened to them. But since the thread came up on here, I haven't stopped listening to them.

Favourite song is:

Please please please, let me get what i want.