[^this thread] your favourite Smiths studio LP?
Strangeways is my favourite of the four, but weirdly contains none of my favourite Smiths tracks. Think it works best as a collection of songs, though, and some of the tracks seem lyrically poignant given they split up not long after, so for me, that.
Just ^this it lads, couldn't really give a shit about your general thoughts. Nobhead points on offer for sarcastic and/or dismissive mong posts.
Cheers.
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The Smiths.
Meat Is Murder.
The Queen Is Dead.
Strangeways, Here We Come.
i agree with the OP
(Catch-all i don't like the Smiths/i'm a nobhead/sarcastic post/i prefer their b-side albums stuff)
Bit of a weird one this
Liking Louder Than Bombs for instance isn't comparable to being a 'nobhead'. The Smiths were a great singles band and my vote goes this way.
what's their best song?
it's probably reel around the fountain isnt it*
*havent heard at least half of their stuff
Paint a Vulgar Picture
cheers
The Boy With A Thorn In His Side
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Tough one, but still. C'mon.
Death of a Disco Dancer
Still Ill.
...by some distance.
Headmaster Ritual or
Bigmouth or
Stretch out and Wait or
Paint a Vulgar Picture.
hmm...can't be done
The Queen Is Dead*
*havent heard at least half of their stuff
Rubber Ring
Cheers.
Never listened to them.
You're my hero
Kinda makes your opinions on music redundant then.
Cheers.
because the Smiths are that IMPORTANT
Yep.
Widely accepted as being one of the most important and influential bands, from unarguably the most influential country in terms of guitar music.
It's fair enough to not like them, but if you haven't listened to them properly it renders your opinion on music, particularly guitar music, pretty much pointless.
I didn't realize being from a particular country made your music meaningful or important
Shame it's also widely accepted that everyone they influenced was shite
Was gonna say.
because it's the norm to measure bands on how good those they influenced were.
go back to being wrong about rugby, you absolute ballsack.
*accepted*
*important*
*influential*
*unarguably*
*guitar music*
*kinda*
Can't help thinking it would be a more worthwhile venture
Than listening to Taylor Swift.
Probably, actually, since I'm not a T Swift fan
can't really imagine anything less worthwhile than listening to the smiths
listening to Morrissey's solo output
Troy Tate Sessions
No, not trying to get indie points, it genuinely is their best studio work. The sound of a band finally getting their chance and seizing it with both hands. Definitive versions of most of the songs that made up their debut album and Hatful of Hollow.
Of the "official" studio albums, I'd say Meat is Murder.
Hatful of Hollow's a great record...
but only half of it's made up of the sessions.
Meat is Murder
was my first Smiths LP so it'll always be special. Remember riding my bike to sixth form and trying to make sense of what he was bumbling on about in The Headmaster Ritual the first time I played it.
None of the studio albums
Touch the incendiary brilliance of Hatful of Hollow.
I actually prefer Louder Than Bombs.
I bought the The Smiths Complete box-set at the beginning of the year.
I always knew I loved them but had never really taken the time to pay much attention beyond the singles. January had me listening to the first album, February to Hatful of Hollow. It's March now and I'm on to Meat is Murder. Maybe the best start to any year in recent memory. What a band.
Hatful of Hollow
is missing and is my choice
It's not a studio LP, mate.
But a collection of other album tracks and sessions. I agree that it's a great record, but it doesn't count as one of their actual albums in anyones book.
It's a bit of an arbitrary distinction, though, isn't it?
Hatful of Hollow isn't a 'Greatest Hits' album, selected from songs recorded over many years and previously released on other albums. I would agree that it would be slightly odd to compare an album like that to 'studio albums'.
In the case of Hatful though, the whole record was recorded over the space of about 14 months between early 1983 and mid 1984 in about 6 recording sessions at two or three different studios. In that respect it is not much different from lots of records we happily consider as 'studio albums'
To have written and recorded so many brilliant songs in such a short period is a towering achievement, probably one not matched by any band since.
maybe I'm just hungover
but I really enjoyed this post, made me question my unwavering devotion to the 'Album' as the definitive reflection of an artist's creativity