despite Morrissey saying he'd "rather eat his own testicles"...there's rumours The Smiths might reform.... good idea or not? :unsure:

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...icle1849030.ece

.. He did an interview with Janice Long on BBC 6 Music where he in his own eloquent sardonic way had a go at John Lydon for selling out for £5,000,000 (so that is how much John Lydon thought his credibility was worth because he has completely lost it with me now, or as The Clash's Mick Jones said "Joe Strummer must be laughing his head off somewhere after all the $h!te and abuse he gave us ..... at least we did it for something iconic as Levi's...") to do those awful Country Life butter adverts..... where he ambiguously yet humourously and sarcastically implied that seeing that John Lydon has sold out then maybe he should do the same (seeing as he is a fellow "Irish Blood English Heart" whom has also had a autocation with the lead singer from Bloc Party).

 

.... That and the recent revelation by Johnny Marr that he & Stephen met up in Seattle to go out looking around second hand music stores for obscure music.

 

Personally, The Smiths ..... No. The Smiths belong to the 1980s before Pete Waterman & co destroyed it.

 

Morrissey & Marr ....... Yes please.

This was such a non-story on a slow Friday - when the dismissals of the rumours came out I was less than surprised. Gutterpress journalism.

 

Would be good if they did though :)

Personally, The Smiths ..... No. The Smiths belong to the 1980s before Pete Waterman & co destroyed it.

 

agreed.

I'm not sure if it's a good thing - I'm with tip - Moz and Marr should definitely work together again under a different guise.. I can't think of a single more fruitful, interesting and groundbreaking musical partnership before or since them. People harp on about The Beatles... but for every Beatles classic, there were 3 absolute humdingers... I can't see The Smiths ever performing dross like Yellow Submarine or O Bla Di.... The Smiths were, for me, the best British band ever.

 

Lyrically and musically - there's just nobody close to them. Moz's acerbic lyric, Marr's jangly, fluid guitar... the speaker-bothering bass of Rourke and powerhouse drumming from Joyce... what a unit they were.

 

I don't class them as an 80s act at all - but they're definitely a band "of their time" - they certainly didn't fit into the 80s category then or now.... they were always outsiders, always shunned by daytime radio and the happy-clappy music TV we had around that time (bar The Tube).

 

In fact, I worked in a record shop when they were at their height.... and how on earth they never had a number one single was always a mystery to us all - each and every single they released would outsell everything else that week by at least 4 to 1, in our store and the others across the country.... I think there were darker forces at work around this time.... the fact that The Smiths never had an 'official' number one single.... ridiculous. Every release was an 'event' - there wasn't a single band apart from them at that time where we'd open the shop to a queue of people waiting for a new release - apart from The Smiths - that first week of release was crazy. Yet they'd limp in the top 20...then disappear in week 2. Something wasn't right somewhere.

. People harp on about The Beatles... but for every Beatles classic, there were 3 absolute humdingers... I can't see The Smiths ever performing dross like Yellow Submarine or O Bla Di.... The Smiths were, for me, the best British band ever.

 

but in context, the beatles were at the begining of pop as we know it... ok, i agree o bla de was DIRE and by 69 the beatles were going off... but they were there leading music inovation in the early 60's... a debt we all owe them.

I would definitely agree on a Morrissey and Marr reunion and I believe MAYBE one day that might be possible but for many reasons I wouldn't want The Smiths themselves to reform. I just love the fact they were always labelled as 'depressing' when they've certainly done the opposite for me! :lol: I think it's pretty much guarenteed that NOTHING that I listen to would be around now without them. I would definitely put them as second behind The Beatles in the 'most influencial' category without a shadow of a doubt!

 

The great thing about them was always the fact that when you ask someone what their favourite Smiths song is you always get different responses rather than just one of the same few! I've never really known why Strangeways wasn't as popular as the rest of their albums though.. If I HAD to pick a least favourite of the proper studio albums it'd be Meat Is Murder and that would probably the best album of any other band if they released it!

The great thing about them was always the fact that when you ask someone what their favourite Smiths song is you always get different responses rather than just one of the same few! I've never really known why Strangeways wasn't as popular as the rest of their albums though.. If I HAD to pick a least favourite of the proper studio albums it'd be Meat Is Murder and that would probably the best album of any other band if they released it!

 

Just to prove a point... My favourite album is Meat is Murder. I think it hangs together much better that The Queen is Dead or Strangeways but really they are ALL brilliant.

I'm not sure if it's a good thing - I'm with tip - Moz and Marr should definitely work together again under a different guise.. I can't think of a single more fruitful, interesting and groundbreaking musical partnership before or since them. People harp on about The Beatles... but for every Beatles classic, there were 3 absolute humdingers... I can't see The Smiths ever performing dross like Yellow Submarine or O Bla Di.... The Smiths were, for me, the best British band ever.

 

Certain People I Know By Morrissey - thats his Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da...you can just imagine Marmalade covering it cant you..

 

hey anyway Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is from the white album and mojo magazine were like 'almost masterbating' all over it for the last couple of months inside the pages of the mag

 

More best ofs... this one even containing those infamous "extra tracks and a tacky badge!"

 

The Smiths "Singles Box" will come in a clamshell card box containing the first ten UK-issued singles in their original picture sleeves. The projected 4th single - "Still Ill" (which was pressed as DJ promo "A" label singles, but ultimately got passed over and replaced by "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"), presented in it's original form, and the Dutch release of "The Headmaster Ritual" housed in it's black & white "cowboy" sleeve - the rarest commercially issued single. The box is completed with four contemporary badges and a poster featuring the single artworks. All singles utilise the original production masters from the period. A must have item, and limited to 7500 copies only.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smiths-Vinyl-Singl...f=pd_sim_m_h__1

 

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/smithssingles.jpg

 

and the Johnny Marr remastered 'The Sound of The Smiths' (which comes housed in possinbly the ugliest sleeve I've seen from a band knownmn for gorgeous artwork)

 

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/smithssound.jpg

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-Smiths-Delux...ks_all_2#disc_2

.. He did an interview with Janice Long on BBC 6 Music where he in his own eloquent sardonic way had a go at John Lydon for selling out for £5,000,000 (so that is how much John Lydon thought his credibility was worth because he has completely lost it with me now, or as The Clash's Mick Jones said "Joe Strummer must be laughing his head off somewhere after all the $h!te and abuse he gave us ..... at least we did it for something iconic as Levi's...")

 

Well, at least Country Life butter aint made in dodgy sweatshops... :P Yeah, Levis, very "iconic".... I just wonder, Rich, is your problem with Lydon the fact that he "sold out" (and unlike The Clash, he didn't use any of his actual music for the ad, just himself...), or that he "sold out" for a product considered to be "uncool"...? I guess something as simple and everyday butter (which Lydon probably uses) isn't really as cool as a fashion item made in a sweatshop by people (usually Asian, Chinese or Latino) earning less than minimum wage..... -_-

 

As for the story, I dont think a Smiths reunion would really be a good thing tbh... The one thing that Rich is absolutely right about is that The Smiths belongs to that age where music actually DID matter more than marketing and hype....