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Originally Posted by Screen13
Looking back on my decision of The Smiths, I still stand by it. Johnny Marr's music was a perfect fit for Morrissey's sharp lyrics and singing. Their great singles, a few choice songs on the first two albums, plus The Queen is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come said more in a few years than the entire Cure catalog no matter how great it sometimes got.
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Said? I love those Smiths albums and Morrissey was a clever writer but I don't rate the band by what they said. It wasn't all that special.
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Originally Posted by Andregan
The Cure is good... Very good but the songwriting from The Smith's destroys The Cure in my opinion. I was into The Cure for awhile, but I don't think they evoke the same emotion that The Smiths' do, though they try. Please please please let me.. get what I want... lord knows it would be the first time.
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And this is ridiculous.
Please please please let me get what I want this time/Lord knows it would be the first time.
That's what depressed people say outright. They just say it, or think it. That's not poetic lyricism, that's conversation.