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Old 01-10-2022, 04:43 PM   #11 (permalink)
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they were particularly popular in Spanish speaking parts of the world Moz still holds probably the most rabid Latino fanbase of any British performer ever
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Old 01-10-2022, 06:01 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I'm not emotionally invested in the popularity of The Smiths

it's just a fact that they remain incredibly relevant all across the world

nobody doubts a Smiths reunion would sell out arenas
This reads like ad copy. If The Smiths booked an arena in LA I suspect they would be sorely disappointed at the ticket sales.
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Old 01-10-2022, 06:03 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Ja COVID really hurt ticket sales for big events like that.
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Old 01-10-2022, 07:28 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Time for a new thread; think we've worn Clapton down to a nub at this point!
HaHa, that's true, although the "sucks" thread about Pink Floyd was about twice as long. Can we make the lazy inference, therefore, that P Floyd suck twice as much as EC ?

As for Morrissey, I don't think I've ever heard him, so from me, he gets a clear pass: doesn't suck at all.
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Old 01-10-2022, 07:54 PM   #15 (permalink)
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HaHa, that's true, although the "sucks" thread about Pink Floyd was about twice as long. Can we make the lazy inference, therefore, that P Floyd suck twice as much as EC ?

As for Morrissey, I don't think I've ever heard him, so from me, he gets a clear pass: doesn't suck at all.
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Old 01-10-2022, 08:21 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Thanks for choosing a song for me. It has quite a pleasant, poppy sound. To me, the lyrics, linking love and death have a kind of over-dramatic adolescent feel to them.

So, first impression: he doesn't exactly suck, but I'm already pretty close to Psy-Fi's neat dismissal:-

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The Smiths never interested me much and I couldn't care less about Morrissey outside of the Smiths.
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Old 01-11-2022, 05:14 AM   #17 (permalink)
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I'm not emotionally invested in the popularity of The Smiths

it's just a fact that they remain incredibly relevant all across the world

nobody doubts a Smiths reunion would sell out arenas
Yeah but the thread isn't what sucks about The Smiths...
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This reads like ad copy. If The Smiths booked an arena in LA I suspect they would be sorely disappointed at the ticket sales.
Not if they booked as The Triumphant Return of JFK Jr, with special guest star Donald Trump! Tickets would sell out in seconds to the QAnon crowd!
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Ja COVID really hurt ticket sales for big events like that.
Without question, the single biggest and most important impact Coronavirus has had on the world.
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HaHa, that's true, although the "sucks" thread about Pink Floyd was about twice as long. Can we make the lazy inference, therefore, that P Floyd suck twice as much as EC ?

As for Morrissey, I don't think I've ever heard him, so from me, he gets a clear pass: doesn't suck at all.
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how do you go your whole life without hearing The Smiths...well I guess you didn't now
Quite happily I would imagine. And again, thread is not about The Smiths but Morrissey himself. Personally, I can't get past his whiny, I'm-so-sad-everyone-is-against-me self-pitying college kid lyrics. But what sucks about him most is his quote that Hitler was left-wing. Jesus Christ on a jetski, completely out of control heading towards a cruise liner and unable to make course corrections in time, while a pod of dolphins close their eyes and wait!
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Old 01-11-2022, 05:40 AM   #18 (permalink)
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how do you go your whole life without hearing The Smiths...well I guess you didn't now
By being a normal person whose identity isn't based on music.
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Ah, but how can you mention Morrissey without mentioning the Smiths? That's like saying what sucks about Paul McCartney without mentioning the Beatles.
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Old 01-11-2022, 09:17 AM   #20 (permalink)
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how do you go your whole life without hearing The Smiths...well I guess you didn't now
Yes, thanks to Batlord, I'm no longer a Morrissey Virgin.

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By being a normal person whose identity isn't based on music.
Thanks for that endorsement! The fact is that partly from choice and partly from circumstance, I was pretty much disconnected from mainstream media for about two decades: no radio, only Mexican tv, no internet. Plus my friends were mainly recommending artists from the 60s and 70s - but then came the internet, MB and Batlord to bring me up to date.
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