Paint A Vulgar Picture

So tempted to post derogatory reply as Smiths fan(s) have been abusive about others tastes on other threads, but will refrain.

Hope you find some good quality pressings.

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Hope you find some good quality pressings.

I won't refrain.

I hope you find some music,unlikely!

Probably sound no worse than the originals, but I don't like to make derogatory comments about bands others may like and I've no intention of breaking this rule even for a band as dull and boring as The Smiths.

So at next summer's Naim meet up is there going to be a 70's vs 80's music tag team fight, or wresting match?

The 70's fans will have the stamina from surviving to all those 20 minute tracks, but the 80's fans will be younger and faster.

In defence of The Smiths, although I am not a fan of much of their music, they did produce one track that might appeal to us old goats who love 70's music.

'How Soon is Now' has a guitar sound that is so huge and powerful, and a driving rhythm that could grace any Pink Floyd stadium light show (and I know part of the point of The Smiths was not to have a such a light show, but in terms of reference).

Give it a try, I own one Smiths album pretty much for that track alone.

I will also add that I have hardly ever met a guitarist who does not have great respect for Johnny Marr's playing. Not the mass of notes of a Jimmy Page or Steve Howe solo, but an inventiveness, feel and sharpness to his rhythm playing and chord use that has been an inspiration to many.

Johnny Marr is also a fan, and collaborator with guitarist Bert Jansch, formerly of 70's folk group Pentangle, so both 70's and 80's camps will have to digest that one.

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So tempted to post derogatory reply as Smiths fan(s) have been abusive about others tastes on other threads, but will refrain.

Oh dear, look what I've done!!!!

I'm not sure about the wretling match idea, but we could have a five mile run between the proggers and the indies!!

Nigel

I bought all four. Fantastic stuff. I know the Queen is Dead is the critics favourite but I especially enjoy Strangeways Here We Come. Rush & A Push followed by I started Something I Couldn't Finish is about as strong a start to an album as it gets in my world. You get a free voucher for the Mpeg download if you are also that way inclined.

To me, these are great pressings of four LPs from one the most important bands of the 20th century. Class act all the way.

Andy

Sorry, the fish ain't biting.

Andy1912 - thank you, I'll get them for Christmas - my favourite as a 'whole' is 'Meat Is Murder'.

In general - how do the Rhino releases stand up on sound quality grounds?

Cheers,
OW

Very good.

Clearly the Smiths were one of the very best bands around in the early '80s.

I'd say the album to go for is Hatful of Hollow. Is Rhino re-issueing this one does any one know? It was a compilation and contains the excellent Peel session version of Reel Around The Fountain and the delightful Please Please Please Let me Get What I Want This Time (amongst many other gems of course).

Morrissey's Desert Island Disc selection was worth a listen too.

Seems odd that some people knock the Smiths when they were so good and original. Can't understand it myself.

Toodle pip,
Ghettoyout.

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Originally posted by Ghettoyout:
Morrissey's Desert Island Disc selection was worth a listen too.

It was very good radio, but I'm afraid to me he came across as a smug idiot stuck so far up his own sanctimoniousness as to sound almost like someone doing a comedy impression of him.

I though Kirsty did a very good job, but with every question she sounded scared that what she was about to say might offend him into taking a huff.

I really like some (not all) of his/The Smiths work - "Hairdresser on Fire" is pure genius - but, sorry, he has done nothing recently to lead me to believe that he is anything other than a grade-a tosser.

Still, maybe that's what he wants people to think.