Leonardo

Any Smiths fans here? Or maybe you prefer Morriseys solo stuff? I have to say, The Queen is Dead is an album I keep close to my heart.

matious

meh. Some of it is a little too melo-dramatic for me. "BigMouth Strikes Again" is a fun song, there wasn't too much else that i liked.

Figure8

Meat Is Murder and The Queen Is Dead are my favorite albums. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is my favorite song, the chorus is amazing. Really good band.

I, Brian

I've got a couple of "singles" compilations, and most of the tracks are just great.

Aside from the ones mentioned above, "How soon is now", "The boy with the thorn in his side", "Ask" and of course "Girlfriend in a coma".

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Rawr

This should so be in the indie thread. The Smiths are the perfect indie band. They went into mainstream without "selling out". Morrissey is the saddest person in the world, for sure.

lover.

Asleep = love.

lazyeye

the smith and Morrisey are gods among men

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riverman

I know a local band called The Rivers Of Sound and they are the closest thing to the Smiths!!

maggermagger

huge fan here.. queen is dead and meat is murder, both pure brilliant records.

Johnny Taronja

I'm a really big fan. I'm kinda growing out of Morrissey now...I guess too much money and fame is bound to affect your inspiration. But they 've been one of my top bands since my school days. And you can see exactly why they stood out in the 1980s. "Strangeways Here We Come" and "The Smiths" are my 2 fav albums.

ogle Sam

Agreed. This should definitely be in the Indie thread. The Smiths are the predecessors of Indie. A lot of bands from the last 20 years owe a lot of their sound and inspiration to The Smiths.
Anyone who is a The Smiths/Morrisey/Colin Meloy/The Decemberists fan should get Colin Meloy Sings Morrisey. Meloy covers six songs and puts a little acoustic-folk spin on them.

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dallasrockscene

I agree. So good...so good.

HaoXiaoXi

Morrissey played a show here in Dallas about 4-5 months ago. It was good, but he wasn't on stage for long.

Smudger

One of my all time favourite bands.

The Queen Is Dead is most definitely their finest album, closely followed by their first album The Smiths.

My favourite track by them is How Soon Is Now.

Saw them live in Manchester in 85, they were god-like on stage, a night I will never forget.

HaoXiaoXi

It's too bad that neither Morrissey or Marr's projects after The Smiths have come close to equally what they were able to do during just those few years that The Smiths were together. They're both really talented, but that chemistry just isn't their in their solo work.

I had a really hard time trying to listen to Boomslang all the way through, and a lot of Morrissey's solo work sounds overly melodramatic.