They're playing the Smiths at the Diesel

[kitchen_kink]

I was obsessed with this band in high school, and haven't listened to them in any concentrated way in years. I'd forgotten how much joy Johnny Marr's jangly guitar work and Morrissey's hilariously moribund lyrics bring to my life. I also underestimated the degree to which I still retain all of the lyrics to the album Louder Than Bombs, which is now running in its entirety. A number of gems come to mind as I hear it again, but my probable favorite just went by in the song, "Shakespear's Sister," amid a wall of British new wave sound:

I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar
then it meant that you were
a protest singer.

Oh, I can smile about it now,
but at the time it was terrible

Comments

(just between you and I)

[rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com]

...if you haven't listened to it, Morrissey's solo album "you are the quarry" is incredibly brilliant.

Re: (just between you and I)

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Innnnteresting. I loved Viva Hate, and sort of gave up after that - each subsequent album seemed to have one good song ("Our Frank" and "Sing Your Life" come to mind), and then a lot of crap. Has he improved again? Gotten a new lead guitarist?

[frobzwiththingz.livejournal.com]

Thats a great icon. w00t!

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Thankye! Courtesy ragingamazon.

[vesper2000.livejournal.com]

My particular favorite Smiths/Morrissey lyric for today:

I went looking for a job,
and then I found a job
Heaven knows, I'm miserable now!

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Sixteen, clumsy and shy,
I went to London and I,
I booked myself in at the Y...WCA
I said I like it here can I stay?
I like it here, can I stay?
And do you have a vacancy for a backscrubber?

Ah, dear, misspent youth...

Hating your job today, are you? I'm sorry.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Actually, to be more responsive to your quote, I should have written, from later in the same song:

She was left behind and sour
And she wrote to me equally dour
She said in the days when you were hopelessly poor,
I just liked you more

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Love The Smiths. They were the soundtrack to my 20s.

[gatopreto.livejournal.com]

Young bones groan and the rocks below say: "Throw your skinny body down, son!" But I am going to meet the one I love so, please don't stand in my way.

Also one of my favorites. The Smiths is one of a few bands where I said, "Oh, I'll see them next tour" and then they broke up, wankers.

[unknownrockstar.livejournal.com]

I still listen to them. Moz is a brilliant lyricist, and Marr, a vastly underrated axeman. one of the most quotable chaps of our age.

[preraphaelite.livejournal.com]

Beware I bear more grudges
Than lonely high court judges...