Your thread title was too long and rather silly, so I decided to edit it.
Are you happy now?
Blah, blah, blah...
The Smiths are the best band in the history of music because of Mozzer being the best/strongest/most brilliant musical/poetic force in history, Marr being a melodic genius and Joyce/Rourke being the tightest and most well rehearsed rhythm secvtion ever.
The fact that Moz/Marr never ever wrote an unworthy song says quite a bit why they should be revered as the best band ever as well. Not one band comes near.
Its the sum of all the parts.....just a moment in time where the planets aligned and it totally was like
Morrissey has reaped the rewards from Johnny's work and efforts.
Jukebox Jury
Back to revering and praising them:
[YOUTUBE]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rQjgJWmmRtA&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rQjgJWmmRtA&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]
Blah, blah, blah...
The Smiths are the best band in the history of music because of Mozzer being the best/strongest/most brilliant musical/poetic force in history, Marr being a melodic genius and Joyce/Rourke being the tightest and most well rehearsed rhythm secvtion ever.
The fact that Moz/Marr never ever wrote an unworthy song says quite a bit why they should be revered as the best band ever as well. Not one band comes near.
Its the sum of all the parts.....just a moment in time where the planets aligned and it totally was like
Who could've died in car crash? Morrissey or Marr? I know that Marr crashed in 1987-86...
Without Johnny knocking on Morrissey's door, Morrissey would still be stuck in his bedroom and living at home with his mum and this website wouldn't exist. The Smiths was Johnny's band.
Jukebox Jury
Of course Morrissey today is doing well. But like I said..... Morrissey wasn't looking for Johnny - or anybody. His last band The Nosebleeds ended 4 years before The Smiths. Yet Johnny went looking for Morrissey. Without Johnny, Morrissey would be still writing letters to the NME and signing on.
Without Johnny there would not have been the outlet for his lyrics. Johnny formed The Smiths, ran The Smiths and ended The Smiths. Morrissey has reaped the rewards from Johnny's work and efforts.
Jukebox Jury
Hear, hear!
Now, back to the music...
You cannot possibly be serious??
it works both ways, Jukebox. You could just as easily make the assumption that without Morrissey, Johnny would still be sat in a bedsit in Wythenshawe, smoking pot with Angie and gigging on weekends for £40/50 a night like most of the other unsigned bands/artists in big cities. The Smiths were so great because the two came together at the right time, were lucky enough to get a break, and had the drive to keep their creative output considered and inspired instead of sitting back counting their money.
If Marr never found Morrissey, Moz would either be a celebrated cult poet or writer or he'd become a talking head like Paul Morley or Stuart Maconie but less annoying
Back to revering and praising them:
[YOUTUBE]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rQjgJWmmRtA&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rQjgJWmmRtA&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]
The reason why The Smiths are the best band ever is because of the Marr-Morrissey dynamic. The other two could've been anybody.
Yesterday I had this little mental meltdown because something happened that reminded me of this awful past I had and I basically went into a crying jag. So I do a lot of housesitting, sleeping in other beds and not really having a home, I mean I do, but it's not mine, it's my mom's house. So one thing that I constantly battle is wanting to "go home" but the problem is, I don't really have a home to go to. So in the middle of my meltdown I kept thinking that I wanted to go home, then I'd bawl and feel so lost because that place doesn't exist for me at the moment. What Morrissey does here, it seems, is similar, but he wails in the glossalalic scat sort of thing, it's similar to crying, quite emotional, but it's his song. It's so beautiful. I've always loved this song, to see him singing it so young is fascinating and heartbreaking for me.