They're playing the Smiths at the Diesel

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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

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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.