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You know, I wonder if the minimal effort that's required to obtain music these days is why so many of you are so casually dismissive of hardworkin', great bands.

Electrical can be a bit farcical sometimes. Oh yeah, we like Nina Nastasia and Brainiac and that's IT!

I may prefer other styles of music, but I can at least appreciate that the Smiths were very, very good at what they did. I personally think Morrissey was a hoot.

NC

I recently decided to get The Smiths' compilation Singles and their debut, The Smiths, when I realized I hadn't really listened to any Smiths. So...I like 'em very much, but I think they have some flaws and aren't anywhere near perfect. While their music all seems very beautiful, it is all of a piece with itself. For me, it is pretty easy to get Smithed out after about three or four songs. And their songs - at least on the debut - have a tendency to blend in with each other. Plus, sometimes they're just inconsistent, plain and simple: "Miserable Lie" is one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my life. That lead vocal is just horrifically bad. Falsetto is not Morrissey's forte.

Still, though: "How Soon Is Now". "Reel Around The Fountain". "Ask". "Bigmouth Strikes Again". These are great songs. So I'll give 'em a not crap, but it seems to me like the Smiths were really just a great singles band, because the debut often feels like one 45-minute mopey, croony jangle-pop song.

tocharian wrote:
Electrical can be a bit farcical sometimes.

NC

Peripatetic wrote:

rysie wrote:

Champion Rabbit wrote:I am confused as to how anybody could vote CRAP?

NOT CRAP.

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what that man said there.

What that man there said that that man said there.

Two years later, what that man there said that that man said that that man said there.

CRAP. This is music with a sense of entitlement.

Ace wrote:CRAP. This is music with a sense of entitlement.

entitlement to what?

this band gets my crap vote.

simmo wrote:

Ace wrote:CRAP. This is music with a sense of entitlement.

entitlement to what?

Spill it, Ace.

guilty pleasure.

Not Crap


i have a friend who, as a teenager, had an entire side of a mix tape consisting of only Girlfriend In A Coma...

that was crap

Not crap because, although I don't enjoy them as much as I did, they pulled out some great tunes, such as The Queen is Dead and Big Mouth Strikes Again.

However, anyone who sat mouthing Smiths lyrics in a morose kind of way is Definitely CRAP.