What I like about him is he keeps it simple and doesn`t feel the need to show off.

I`ve always thought a good guitarist should know what not to play as well as what to play. And I think this is where a lot of them fail.

I've just heard rumours that Morrissey could possibly represent Britain, in this years Eurovision Song Contest.
Apparently, he's appalled at the standard of Brit acts over the past few years.
Judging by the last effort (another fellow Mancunian and again I take the opportunity to apologize to the nation :o: ) I can't say I blame him.
After last years entry, I almost considered putting myself forward.

That would be great if that happened.
But he`d have to win a public vote to get there.And with the crap that got in last year it`s by no means definate he`d win.

I may be wrong here (not checked) but I'm sure I heard he was in talks.
Going by the context, I assumed that if it comes off, then we'll be spared the preliminaries.

Wishful thinking?

Why would a serious musician even consider doing something like that? Everyone knows that contest is a joke.

His friend Sandy Shaw won it once?

He's also probably gay and a drama Queen.
Ring any bells yet? ;)

C'mon admit it ...you'd love to represent Croatia.

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http://www.morrisseydance.com/

I mean, I uh dig the smiths.
<.<

I gotta be honest apart from one or two songs the majority of their stuff bores the **** out of me.

i liked the smiths..at least the more upbeat stuff like "bigmouth strikes again"

but i hate morrisey as a solo artist

Anybody heared the rumours of Morrisey doing the Eurovision this year?

No I hadn't heard that, I wonder where I could have...read about that...somewhere before this...Hmmm.

Smiths: Love 'em and New Order too.

I have two recommendations for you guys:

1) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (their self-titled debut is phenomenal)

2) Albert Hammond, Jr. (guitarist for the Strokes) has a solo album out, quite good

=D thats the best one ive seen so far

I have a thing for self-deprecating music and the smiths have always done it for me.. what, with lyrics like "I had a really bad dream/It lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days" in which moz is obviously referring to his life.

the first smiths album I ever got was the queen is dead and it is my favorite up to date.

i've never really ventured into any of moz' solo work

I think I might be the only person in the entire world who doesn't like the Smiths. I like their music a lot, but I just really hate Morrissey's voice a lot. It kinda makes me want to stab my ears with an icepick. Now you may viciously insult me because of that.

I like his voice. He's got an unusual and unique approach when singing repeated lines. He sings each repeat, different from the last.
It's one of the things that sets him apart from the usual.

'That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.'

-morrissey

I think we have to understand that Morrissey's voice is definitel an acquired taste, and I can definitely see why some people cannot get on with them. I myself hated them in my youth (i was never into melancholy at that time) but eventually I was won round by Jonny Marrs songwriting, and then an appreciation of Morrisseys brilliant lyrics; which as pointed out in a previous post are quintessentially English.

However I am not a massive fan and only have one compilation, much prefered NEW ORDER.

new order were very good, but i really prefer the smiths both for lyricism and general sound.

So I think the Smiths maybe the best band ever, not really but hotdamn that Morrissey can write. I'm now going to quote all my favorite smiths lyrics.

Spending warm, Summer days indoors, writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxemburg.

I don't dream about anyone except myself.

If you think peace is a common goal that goes to show how little you know.

I wear black on the outside cause black is how I feel on the inside.

I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar then it meant that you were a protest singer, oh I can smile about it now but at the time it was terrible.

Burn down the disco hang the blessed DJ, because the music that they constantly play its says nothing to me about my life.

I could have been wild and I could have been free but Nature played this trick on me.

She wants it now and she will not wait but she's too rough and I'm too delicate.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

So, I broke into the palace with a sponge and a rusty spanner she said, "I know you, and you cannot sing" I said "that's nothing you should hear me play piano."

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now.

I look at yours, you laugh at mine and "love" is just a miserable lie.

I've seen you smile but I never really heard you laugh.

So we go inside and we gravely read the stones all those people all those lives where are they now? With the loves and hates and passions just like mine they were born and then they lived and then they died seems so unfair and I want to cry.

I know it's over, and it never really began but in my heart it was so real.

Love is natural and real.

I danced my legs down to the knees but me and my true love will never meet again.

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head

It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate it takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I don't know.

Sixteen, clumsy and shy that's the story of my life.

Fame, fame, fatal fame it can play hideous tricks on the brain but still I rather be famous than righteous or holy, any day, any day, any day. But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill I want to live and I want to love I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.

She said "In the days when you were hopelessly poor I just liked you more"

I was delayed, I was way-laid, an emergency stop I smelt the last ten seconds of life I crashed down on the crossbar and the pain was enough to make a shy, bald, buddhist reflect and plan a mass murder.

Oh, so I drank one, it became four and when I fell on the floor I drank more.

Nothing's changed I still love you, oh, I still love you only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love.

If you ever need self-validation just meet me in the alley by the railway station it's written all over my face.

Gasping but somehow still alive this is the fierce last stand of all I am.

Last night I felt real arms around me no hope, no harm just another false alarm.

Because if it's not Love then it's the Bomb that will bring us together

Nature is a language can't you read?

I went to London and I, I booked myself in at the Y.W.C.A I said "I like it here can I stay?, I like it here can I stay? and, do you have a vacancy for a Back-scrubber?"

Haven't had a dream in a long time see, the life I've had can make a good man bad. So for once in my life let me get what I want, lord knows it would be the first time.

I had a really bad dream it lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days.

"there's too much caffeine in your blood stream and a lack of real spice in your life" I said "leave me alone because I'm alright, dad just surprised to still be on my own."

People who are weaker than you and I they take what they want from life.

Hand in glove, the good people laugh, yes we may be hidden by rags, but we've something they'll never have.

I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does.

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.

Oh, the alcoholic afternoons when we sat in your room they meant more to me than any living thing on Earth they had more worth than any living thing on Earth.

She said "I smoke cause I'm hoping for a nearly death and I need to cling to something."

Park the car at the side of the road you should know time's tide will smother you and I will too, when you laugh about people who feel so very lonely their only desire is to die well I'm afraid it doesn't make me smile I wish I could laugh but that joke isn't funny anymore.

It was dark as I drove the point home and on cold leather seats well, it suddenly struck me I just might die with a smile on my face after all.

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die and if a ten ton truck kills the both of us to die by your side, well the pleasure, the privilege is mine.

A dreaded sunny day so i'll meet you at the cemetery gates Keats and Yeats are on your side while Wilde is on mine.

and my favorite...

Fifteen minutes with you oh I wouldn't say no, oh people see no worth in you I do, oh I do. I dreamt about you last night and I fell out of bed twice, you can pin and mount me like a butterfly. Take me to the haven of your bed was something that you never said, two lumps please, you're the bee's knees but so am I.

just took the time to dl their discography, they deserve a full play through.

News is that Marr and Morrissey have stopped fighting enough to talk about re-releasing the Smiths catalog

LINK

You can never go wrong with The Smiths music. If you're ever unsure of what to throw in your stereo, consider the smiths.

the smiths are immortal

Loads of Smiths bootlegs to download here...

@kiraware - The Smiths & Morrissey Bootlegs

I'm scared to touch some of those Morrissey bootlegs. If it wasn't good enough for Kill Uncle then I really can't imagine how bad it must be, but more Smiths is always good. I can't wait to listen to the peel sessions.

The peel sessions are what made up Hatful of Hollow so you've probably heard them before

Ohhh, yeah I have Hatful of Hollow.

They do have their aborted first album , look up The Troy Tate Sessions

Back To The Old House on Hatful of Hollow is so beautiful and i'm finally getting around to listening to the Troy Tate Sessions. /curious

What would be the best(s) album or two to start with, I've been meaning to listen to The Smith for a while now and I figured I'd get around to doing that now.

I never considered The Smiths the best thing since sliced bread but they were a great band and Morrissey was an amazing frontman. I wish I'd been around to see them explode and I wish I'd gone to one of the early shows.

I'm downloading it now, I'll give it a listen later tonight.

Silly boy, Morissey doesn't have balls.

The comp was okay, I don't like it nearly as much as Ethan and Urban do, but it was pretty good.

The Smiths really should've called themselves "best band ever."

Great band, I think that 'The Queen is Dead' is one of the best albums of the 80's. Morissey is the Modfather, and the Smiths invented emo.