Morrissey wasn't the only twat in the Smiths...

[rosstheboss]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21509772

Yawn....tory scum.....yawn.....I'm so cool and working class..........yawn......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Guitar106Music]

To be honest, I think David Cameron shoud be banned from listening to the Smiths. What next, is he going to proclaim his love for the Clash!

 

[02gf74]

What a pair of bufoons, morrisey and marr. The shouldn't record music if they don't want people to listten to it and it is nothing to do with them who listens to it.

Don't Cammeroon but he should be allowed to listen to whatever he wants.

 

[Alison]

I must say I've always loved the Smiths and am surprised that Cameron likes them. I imagine when you make music for a sector and someone who is against everything you and your music stand for likes it it could be a bit infuriating like they are infiltrating your cliquey group.

Alison

 

[rosstheboss]

The Smiths did more for the UK than Cameron's crowd ever will.

Please expand!

As a musician you might not like someone, but to tell them they aren't allowed to listen to your music is absolute head up your own arse arrogance of the highest order. I'm no DC fanboy, but Johnny Marr is just making himself look like a prize nobhead saying this, funnily enough just after his God Like Genius Award too, I can see his head swelling from here.

 

[ajm]

Despite the significant Rickenbacker content, I have always found the Smiths unbearable to listen to. Dingy, dismal dirges without any kind of redeeming merit, sung badly.

It was quite fascinating for me a few years ago to discover Daniel Earwicker's one-man instrumental Smiths covers/"interpretations" on YouTube - they were great! Not exactly earth-shattering in inventiveness but played tunefully and without that awful unbearable groaning superimposed.

Morrisey and the Smiths were and are about as musically significant as a particularly smelly blocked drain. David Cameron's fondness for them is just further proof of his lack of suitability for the position of responsibility he occupies...

 

[Koupe]

Didn't DC once rate Eton Rifles as one of his favourite songs? Pretty much sums up his level of musical knowledge...

 

[jonnyboy666]

I have always found the Smiths unbearable to listen to. Dingy, dismal dirges without any kind of redeeming merit, sung badly.

couldn't have put it any better.

and as far as the politics goes, how pathetic that someone says they like something and the band member says they can't, what a prat, regardless of the bloke they don't like being the PM.

it always seems to be considered uncool to say you're a tory, well for the record i don't think he's any better or worse than any other previous PM. that said, hated Brown! and blair, such a man of the people with his millions of pounds mep salary and private school for his kids :roll:


there's the grenade then, make of that what you will!

 

[t-stoff]

But this was funny
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sitAQkQFCBU

 

[Harryburgundy]

Marr is one of the greatest musicians to have walked the earth, and was in one of the most iconic bands of all time. If anyone's achievements merit a swollen head Marr's do.

He knows he cannot personally select his fans. He says as much if anyone cares to put things in context.

That leaves his remarks as clear irony, and arrogance is never ironic.

Hear, hear

Despite the significant Rickenbacker content, I have always found the Smiths unbearable to listen to. Dingy, dismal dirges without any kind of redeeming merit, sung badly.

I have never understood why people do not 'get' The Smiths, I can only imagine they have never listened to the music, really listened that is