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vick3ie — 13 years ago(January 08, 2013 09:35 AM)
I'm from NY and I've been a fan since the mid 80s. My sister had The Smiths on tape and we used to listen to it in the car. I had quite a few on tape, now many on CD.
I go through phases, haven't given either The Smiths or Morrissey a listen in a few years. Since You Are The Quarry was new as a matter of fact.
Hm. Not like I really have to listen, it's all part of my brain's soundtrack.
Why did the white bear dissolve in water?
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Fac063 — 13 years ago(January 29, 2013 07:01 AM)
First Name:
Fac
Last Name:
063
Sex:
Yes pleaseI meanMale
Native Country:
USA (Chicago, IL)
Current Residence:
Dallas, TX
Age:
39 (wow, it feels so old when I type it..oh wait, nevermind, I AM OLD..hahaha.{;0p)
Fan Since:
early 90's. A friend of mine introduced me to them/him when I was in college. Been a fan ever since.
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Martinipink — 13 years ago(February 15, 2013 05:20 PM)
I grew up in south Florida. For my 14th birthday my best friend gave me a tape (that dates me, lol) of "Strangeways Here We Come". I literally listened to that album every day for about 2 years. Later it was replaced in heavy rotation by "Louder than Bombs". I fell in love with my first husband primarily due to his love of The Smiths and Morrissey (if only that were enough to make a relationship work!). Suffice to say they've been a huge part of the soundtrack of my life, still are, even though my current husband (who is Canadian) NEVER heard of them (shocking).
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activista — 9 years ago(October 01, 2016 10:48 PM)
I first heard the Smiths as a high school student back in the mid '80s (the summer of '86, to be preciseyep, I'm old and decrepit,lol) while growing up in southwest Michigan. The first song I heard by them was the fun & lively,bouncy and catchy "This Charming Man"took me a while to find the name of it, though. The one song that I really got into by them was "How Soon Is Now", which is a classic unto itselfthat and the fact that it sounds nothing like any of their other songs, so it really stands out as uniqueone of those "this could have only been made in the '80s" kinds of songs. I didn't even know it was a Smiths song until I saw the video on MTV's underground video show late one Sunday night not long afterward. They never had a mainstream hit in America back in their heydaythey probably only had a very small cult following here at the time, and I only heard their songs late at night on a local radio station that played alternative music. "How Soon Is Now" sounded so mysterious tome because I only heard it at night, and also because the Smiths, for some reason, never made a lot of videos either. My fave Smith songs are "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out", "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before"that's a really pretty tune, and "Bigmouth Strikes Again" which I always thought was kind of funny in a sick wayanyone who know the lyrics knows what I'm talking about. Plus Morrissey always had a nice, strong and pleasant voice with his own unique phrasing and tone. He always sounded to me like an old-school balladeer that just happened to get plopped sown in the '80sjust my opinion.
I found out that they broke up when it was announced on USA's Night Flight (just as I was getting into their music) a popular '80s alternative/underground movie/music show that showed a lot of cool and genuinely edgy stuff you'd never see on MTV (or anywhere else,for that matter) back then. I have to admit it took a while for Morrissey to grow on me as a solo artist-for some reason, something about him just rubbed me the wrong way at the time, and I couldn't even stand seeing his picture on an album cover. A couple of years later when I got more into his music (only because a local Canadian station played all his stuff and the Smiths' stuff on a regular basis.) Liked his stuff up until the mid;'90s, but don't recall much from him after that. He then made comments over the years that just basically convinced me that he's become an old bitter close-minded, narcissistic, miserable racist bastard, so screw him. I haven't heard anything he's done in over a decade. I'm still getting me The Queen Is Dead by the Smiths,rhough, because I've always wanted to get that anyway.
