I love The Smiths

but not so keen on Morrisey on his own if I'm honest


*sings* I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, and heaven knows I'm miserable now ....

I would go out tonight but I haven't got a stitch to wear

I found them quite melodic.

( Can I say that?     )

No.........and you just did 

Thread hijack alert.

Shoplifters Smiths Fans Of The World Unite, unite and make a stand... Random Smiths tracks that will force the unbelievers to concede The Smiths were in fact fantastic attempt numero uno...

Sorry Prom, nothing but nothing will make me turn.     

I bet you didn't even listen to it 

Well that was 3 minutes of my life I will not get back....

Less than two minutes wasted if you hate this one Issy

I didn't but like I said..........

Some classic Morrissey quotes




Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'. 


Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age. 


Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.


I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.


I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.


I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.


Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.


My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.


Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?


That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.


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




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


You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

I am capable of looking on the bright side – I just don’t do it very often.



Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.


I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong..

Clumsycat, me and my pal who thought he WAS Morrissey used to hang round graveyards because of that song!  And get drunk on cider, admittedly   Great places for snogs, cemetries


Slinki, Back to the Old House is one of my favourites, check out the acoustic version on youtube.  It will make your hairs stand on end it's that lovely.


Anyway, can't believe we've not had this one yet.  Love Johnny's effects on here, and the lyrics were perfect for the angst ridden teen.  This song is feckin genius.

Fracas - haven't seen you since the Dewsbury Dave days - hope you are well

You've just posted my favourite Smiths track.

Ahhh, the days of vinyl.  I must have played their albums till the needle went through :')


Got everything they ever did on my MP3 and all

Ello Miss S luv *snogz*, been away for a goodly while and popped back a bit since Xmas.  Hoping you are well and still eating curried spagetti and healthy oven chips


Yep, I love that song too, reminds me of my youth so much, definitely a desert island disc.  I think their early stuff is their finest and that's what I still tend to play most.

So there's a club if you'd like to go/ you could meet somebody who really loves you

So you go and you stand on your own and you leave on your own/ and you go home and you cry and you want to die.


Story of my teenage life  

I'm very well  - lol completely forgot about the spaghetti and chips

I thought you'd eloped with Our Lard - nice to see you back.



Agree about their early stuff  - have to say There is a Light That Never Goes Out is a close runner to HSIN for me.


I can honestly say that I could play The Smiths on a constant loop and never get bored - I'm in the process of transferring everything to my I-Pod - still have my vinyl though..

To die by your side
Oh the pleasure the privilege is mine!


There was nothing like it, absolutely unbeatable.


I loved their singles covers as well, they were class.  You had to have them all, didn't you?


And I loved Mozza for wearing the hearing aid in support of a hard of hearing fan...within days there were boys all over the place, aid in situ.  He did inspire complete devotion.

Oh the singles covers were fab - Pat Pheonix, Diana Dors - they were just so different to everything else going on at the time.

Who can forget the one for Hand in Glove.

I just have a fascination for Morrissey and they way he conducts himself and lives his life.
He has a dry sense of humour and comes across as a very shy, self deprecating man - he is just fascinating to listen to and his lyrics are, quite simply, genius.

The anti-pop song that was actually a very, very good pop song.

Prom -that was an awful song....

It is making light of something that really is not something to be made light of.

That song was just a great piece of writing behind a rather grim title.

I don't think he was serious. I call for the defence my first witness... his girlfriend, who doesn't exist and never has.

He didn't write this one by the way but I like his version...

Which is exactly my point. He should not presume to write about something so emotive if he has NO idea of what the emotions may be.
Can you imagine how anyone who may have had a loved one in a coma could have felt in hearing that song?

I love that song Slinki. The version they did for John Peel was amazing. I think you might be able to find it on youtube.

It's gorgeous.  And so is this.. 

Dunno.. that's a bit like saying " Hey Joe " should never have been recorded.. or even " Leader of the Pack" 

Gorrit, ta!  Found the Peel session " Back to the Old House" as well.. you're right Fracas, my unpardonably long hair's on end

I suppose so...

Oh it is all so complicated.

I think you're clutching at straws a bit Issy, really I do.


There was misplaced outrage about Suffer Little Children as people didn't understand what he was getting at.  It led to Morrissey meeting Lesley Anne Downey's mum and they became  firm friends.






Just beautiful  :'(

I wonder how many people in the world can't identify with this song, well, the song title at the very least...

ahhh, how could I have forgotten about " Suffer Little Children" . Absolutely beautiful.

I love the Peel Sessions Slinki (not just the Smiths as well), RIP Peely, another feature of my youth.

Ooops, cross-posting Slinki.  Unbearably sad song SLC which he got slated for at the time.

That's a great tune Prometheus, I am loving this thread

It's a bloody good thread  I feel a vinyl rummage coming on .. ( albums, not clothing! )

Oh, I dunno Slinki, I might quiff up and get the old plaid shirt back on for old times sake...now where's me Oxfam Crombie gone?

! I have a crombie in the hall cupboard.. beside the Ian McCulloch-stylee flasher raincoat

*stands around looking a bit moody with Slinki*