4/27/15 The Smiths

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:02 am

What is your favorite Smiths song?

user · Post by **user** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:10 am

"Asleep"

johndisk0 · Post by **johndisk0** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:52 am

Of course it's "How Soon Is Now". I frequented a goth club back in 1996 and often heard this song. It was the only one that made the crowd move more than others. I love this song!

-jd0

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:16 am

Mine is "Panic."

glennny · Post by **glennny** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:47 am

Ask

Uptempo pop brilliance! There are dozens of choices with these guys, so many excellent songs!
Best new wave band of the 80s by far. One of the best bands ever.

How Soon is Now is such an Anomaly for them, to me it sounds like a different band. I love it, it is sublime.

Billy's Little Trip · Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:02 am

Please, that sounds like a made up name. cha.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:53 pm

All of them

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:18 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:All of them

Not familiar with that one, can you hum me a few bars?

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:28 am

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote:All of them
Not familiar with that one, can you hum me a few bars?

Well - I really meant that I couldn't pick my favourite, they are all so good.

But I have picked my favourite now - the wonderful song they sang about Charles Dickens:

(I'm sure I have posted that before on here - but that is quite simply my favourite video of all time. And I love how whenever The Smiths come on my iPod - my daughter always goes" Oh..It's the Charles Dickens Band!

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:16 am

Honorable mention to "This Charming Man", "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" and "This Night Has Opened My Eyes".

My favorite is Bigmouth Strikes Again.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:37 am

I just love the guitar and vocal stuff in How Soon Is Now, that really makes it for me, but I admit I do not know very many of their songs.
-bill

Jerkatorium · Post by **Jerkatorium** » Fri May 01, 2015 9:44 am

In college my friends would make fun of The Smiths for being pretentious and whiny, but I always thought they were hilarious. "There's a club and you'd like to go / You could meet someone 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." I still laugh at that, it's brilliant. Who in the world could take that seriously?

My favorite The Smiths song is probably "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out". Citizen did a good, simple and earnest cover of it a few years ago:

My favorite Morrissey song is probably "Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself".

Chumpy · Post by **Chumpy** » Fri May 01, 2015 11:54 am

Omg, that cover sooo good, and I love G&G. I love the Smiths in the same way I love Belle and Sebastian, Elliott Smith, and Nick Drake. I guess I'm a sucker for melancholy. Why does sadness make me happy?

Chumpy · Post by **Chumpy** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:02 pm

The Peel Session version of 'Handsome Devil' rocks so hard. Too many great songs to choose a favorite, but this one I remember well.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue May 12, 2015 2:39 pm

I'm with Niv. Bigmouth Strikes Again. That lyric is my life. So much love for it I did this lousy cover of it back in 2008.

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