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davidt
on Wednesday December 31 2003, @12:00PM
Danny writes:
SomethingAwful, a popular internet humor site, has included a bit about The Smiths and Morrissey in the latest "Your Band Sucks" column. Your Band Sucks: "Indie's Sacred Cows" by Dr. David Thorpe "The Smiths, if you've never heard of them, were just a tornado of teenage repression, bad pseudo-literate jokes, failed attempts at witty turns of phrase, and Morrissey's pained, tuneless holler..."
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If you have to... (Score:1)
But, now that I think about it, Johnny Marr does sound alot like Steve Miller!
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Dr. Thorpe is a talent-challenged meanie. (Score:1)
"I bear more grudges, than lonely high court judges" -- Moz
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hah (Score:0)
hah! (Score:1)
Joy Division sucked because Ian had siezures? good arguement.
name dropping Pavement doesn't win any brownie points, but name dropping The Black Gestapo (for no reason what so ever) does? the Black Gestapo is pretty cool though-Mac from Night Court cuts off a guy's nutsack and flushes it down the toilet...still didn't get what that had to do with the Smiths.
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a point for intellectualism (Score:0)
I don't thinks he hates them... (Score:0)
And, if he really dislikes these bands, he has written a very poor article to prove his points.
O, How terribly obscure am I? (Score:0)
yAwN (Score:0)
some mistakes (Score:1)
Anyway:
1. "semi-incompetent". Well, of course Joy Division were absolutely incompetent when they started. But after all they wrote things like "Atmosphere". And that´s what you can call a well-crafted tune.
2. "No energy????": Joy Division had no energy? Energy can be measured easily, it is not an opinion. Just take a look at the "Something Else" performance in the BBC in 1978. Could you ever imagine any rhythm section so viscerally strong as the one formed by Peter Hook and Stephen Morris?.
3. Only managed two albums before they squeezed..." Since when the quality of art is measured by the quantity?. Following that rule, Modern Talking, Bon Jovi or Status Quo are much more important in music history than The Velvet Underground, The Sex Pistols or The Stooges.
4. Bauhaus... dreadful synth-pop". Erm... in which Bauhaus record is there a synth-line?
5. "The Black Gestapo". No comments.
6. What´s the problem with homosexuality and rockabilly?. It would be much more funny if Sting was homosexual and made some rockabilly records, rather than a premature senile guy who looks like the most desirable person for any girl´s mum.
7 and final: And this what gets makes me really angry. What´s wrong with the latino Morrissey following? Well, I´m spanish, I don´t consider myself part of a latino culture or something like that and I like Morrissey and The Smiths. Ethnocentrism isn´t that funny at all.
I don´t like Pavement, but the arguments used to criticize them are even weaker, ridiculous and exent of any kind of wit. The same for the MBV piece. And if you like "overrated sacred cows" criticism, I recommend a section in Uncut magazine that was called "Sacred Cows". I don´t know if it still exists. That was really witty, funny and well-written. Even when you liked the band. Evidently, the "Something Awful" piece is third-rate criticism. I´m sure that this David Thorpe can write better things. If not, he should give up and form an AOR band.
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You guys know he's taking the piss, right? (Score:1)
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He's right about one thing (Score:1)
Being into popmusic and sying you like the Smiths and Joy Division is like a trucker saying he drives a truck, eh? Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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Something to do in 2004 (Score:1)
He is too funny for his own good.
Next time, do The Cure (probably his favourite group, the feeble monkey)
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was Kelly Osbourne overwhelming his tastebuds? (Score:1)
I am willing to gout on a ledge and say that if this isn't the case..then he's been watching Kelly Osbourne videos or worse American Idol and confusing talent (where Clarkson and Aiken and Ruben have somehow STUNNED a Brit Cowell-not that Cowell knows talent either) into believing that somehow the preteen boppers (too many purely sad bands to name)are the best thing to hit the industry. While I have always known Moz to be the Anti-pop and for good reason...
I find it humorous that it takes a doctorate and the information which he probably stole from a biography (a la Cemetry Gates, a song he knows by heart) to write his own sad editorial on a group that has probably influenced his life more than even the Descendants are willing to admit.
As my wife would say in her most Beautiful BRAZILIAN VOICE..I'm so sorry!!!!
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Funny Article (Score:1)
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Hehehe (Score:1)
The only difference between Nickelback and The Smiths is that Smiths fans dress slightly better and don't beat their girlfriends as hard.
If you get your panties all in a bunch over this, you seriously need to get your head checked.
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'Pale nerds' (Score:1)
If anyone is going to get too seriously mad about this, just remember, it's a joke site, and whoever wrote that article is probably a Morrissey fan to know so much.
But whatever faults Ian Curtis' singing voice may have, you'll notice he didn't even try to touch the lyrics. Except to say they are too depressing. Because Ian Curtis writes perfect lyrics.
"The poet-laureate of whiny crybaby rock"
Haha!
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Well he has some points (Score:1)
But anyone who tries to champion the merits of punk rock has zero credbibility in my eyes. Punk is the most inexcusable musical shit.
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Oh it's all tongue-in-cheek (Score:1)
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Actually ... (Score:1)
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Some of you people are just very very sad persons (Score:1)
Some of you seems to be really big big followers of Morrissey (and so am I) in every words and actions... Didn't "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" showed you how it was healthy to poke fun at yourself? Or are you still of those who thinks it was litteral?
Morrissey is one of the wittiest, funniest pop lyricist, and if he ever read that article, I'm pretty sure he'd laugh...
Stop taking yourself to seriously, for god's sake!
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Look, it's SomethingAwful (Score:0)
The whole site is about satire, David Thorpe is not trying to make a valid point. He doesn't even exist (most likely).