Not at all, The Smiths had good music but Morrissey sounds like a strangled Bob Dylan (which is ****ing saying something). As a result they were average, at best. Johnny Marr has been playing the same ****ey jang-a-lang chords for 30 years in a number of bands and failed solo projects while endlessly slating others. Morrissey's solo stuff is preachy and boring and the guy is a Class-A ****. The Police and Sting. Just gash.
There`s really no point in us all arguing this until ER has pronounced which of the two was the biggest manufactured boy band.
I forgot there were loads of 80's kids on here. The Smiths are only acceptable if you look at them through an unrealistic haze of nostalgia. Much like The Happy Mondays, although at least they never pretended to be some form of high art.
The Police and Sting? Music for pretentious ****s. The Smiths and Morrissey? Music for depressed students who spend a few years roughing it at Uni before getting a job in a bank. All in all, a right load of bollocks.
Electronic The The Modest Mouse Plus, Andy Rourke did loads of dance music - he was in Freebass, Moondog and DJs as Jetlag. The Police, on the other hand are a collection of dyed pussies that should've been neutered without anaesthetic.
I'm just being a contentious ****er. Johnny Marr was alright the few times I saw him play with The Cribs.
Anyway, it's publicly acknowledged fact that all 70s and 80s bands with the exception of the Rezillos, Mary Chain and the Clash sook trampy bawsacks for the electronic music and shoegazing that happened at the start of the nineties.
Or the endless stream of Chimpanzee looking ****s that escaped from Manchester Zoo around the same time.
There's a generational "carpet-divider" that can cast folk's musical tastes pretty quickly. Plastikman/Richie Hawtin Yay, nay or never heard?
