The importance of The Smiths

Sonic Youth?
MBV?

What, no double pack, photograph, extra track or tacky badge? We wuz had!

I'd include The Sundays here as well -- at least on their first album. A lot of bands tried the jangly-Marr guitar route, but Gavurin's playing appears to me as a sort of refinement to this style. Meanwhile, Wheeler's take on Englishness in her lyrics are somewhat akin to Morrissey's, although I wouldn't necessarily postulate direct in***ence.

The penguin classics autobiography cracks me up whenever i see it. I was an intern at penguin but before. Wish i could have sat in on a meeting when they were debating which imprint the book should be published under

It wasn't a debate: Morrissey insisted on the 'penguin classics' livery, when they tried to issue it on a more 'ahem, fitting' cover he had a mini-fit and withdrew permission and was going to take it some other publisher, so they acquiesced.

(I'm not an insider, that's from news-stories from around the time)

lol that's the worst thing i've ever heard about morrissey

Between "fits" I can only imagine he is fidgeting in a chair somewhere looking at the clock.

If it hadn't already been done to death, I'd have launched a Smiths website. But too many already. So I decided instead to launch a website around the music of two other great songwriters - Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan. On https://coughlanohagan.com/, I think I'm building up something worthwhile. Hope you enjoy it.

weishite

*If it hadn't already been done to death*

Pity you didn't exercise the same restraint by not bombing loads of threads completely unnecesarily (and making me think The Smiths were getting back together).

Was hoping they were obit bumps

not a good time for garbage fansites with "cough" in the title ... way too soon!

Guy's doing a great job of making people hate Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan.

Can't believe this thick cunt wasn't banned the first time around

weirshite too

when a spamming cunt can't even be bothered to spam the right threads they are beyond beyond contempt

oh I see they spammed the appropriate thread 2 months ago to no avail

I must admit, as a fan of Cough Lanohagan, linking them to the Smiths is doubly irritating.

Suggests the poster hasn't quite grasped what Lanohagan is all about.