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The Smiths debut album in The Observer's "50 albums which we think changed everything"
posted by davidt on Tuesday July 25 2006, @10:00AM

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The 50 - The Observer

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42 The Smiths
The Smiths (1984)

Yearning, melodic, jangly, and very northern, The Smiths' first album was quite unlike anything that had gone before. It helped that Morrissey was a one-off and that Johnny Marr had taken all the best riffs from Sixties pop, punk and disco and melded them into his own unique style. But there was something magical about their sound that endless successors have tried to replicate.

 
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Add Queen is dead too! (Score:2, Insightful)
I think that a choosen album by The Smiths should be much higher than 42 for influence on the musical landscape. "The Queen Is Dead" was also an album that "changed everything"....some might not be impressed with "The Smiths" being the primary chose, but remember that often when you are speaking of the musical landscape it has nothing to do with overall sales, whether or not its a classic album, or even the band's best...nothing sounded like it at the time and many bands took notice and it did have a major effect from then on...
defari -- Tuesday July 25 2006, @10:56AM (#229669)
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Spice and Pistols (Score:0)
"Never Mind The Bollocks" is not included, "The Spice Girls" is. Nice company for The Smiths ...!
Anonymous -- Wednesday July 26 2006, @04:01AM (#229739)
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    Largely irrelevant (Score:1)
    Such surveys are generally populist and lazy, although the Observer one is pretty good all told. "The Smiths" being at 42 is laughable - it is the best Smiths album (for various reasons) which by definition makes it the greatest album of all time! ....and it changed/influenced more than we'll probably ever know......
    AHappyRocket -- Wednesday July 26 2006, @07:06AM (#229760)
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      Spice Girls??? (Score:1)
      If the person writing this couldn't think of anyone they influenced, why are the listed? And further more, why listed above bands like The Smiths???

      I get why TQID couldn't be placed, though it is a shame...
      Elsie -- Wednesday July 26 2006, @08:34AM (#229770)
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       "The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional bore"
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        stop me if you've....... (Score:0)
        Blah blah blah...should be higher...whine whine...I can't believe it....moan moan moan etc etc etc.
        (repeat for every time a chart like this comes out)
        Anonymous -- Wednesday July 26 2006, @08:51AM (#229772)
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        i disagree (Score:0)
        "In parallel with Jeff Buckley, Radiohead's Thom Yorke popularised the angst-laden falsetto"

        I thought that was Moz?
        Anonymous -- Wednesday July 26 2006, @12:00PM (#229800)
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          Re:i disagree (Score:2, Interesting)
          Thom Yorke would probably agree with you, seeing as their early album "The Bends" was made, according to them, while they obsessively listened to "Vauxhall and I".
          goinghome -- Wednesday July 26 2006, @03:01PM (#229817)
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          • Re:i disagree by veradicere (Score:1) Wednesday July 26 2006, @08:17PM
            • Re:i disagree by jehova's witless (Score:1) Saturday July 29 2006, @05:38AM
          • Re:i disagree by Anaesthesine (Score:1) Monday July 31 2006, @05:02AM
            Strangeways changed everything for me (Score:0)
            While I am a great admirer of all the Smiths albums, it was the last one that led me to all the rest. Recently I decided to create a blog chronicling my obsession with The Smiths and Moz. Check it out sometime at:

            http://smithsmoz.blogspot.com/

            All comments on my posts, however negative, are much appreciated.
            Anonymous -- Wednesday July 26 2006, @03:18PM (#229818)
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              no. 51 www.morrissey-solo.com (Score:1)
              without this...there'd be no us, tons of fascinating opinions and comments, insightful-dull-offtopic-redundant-funny-flamebait , scores, morrissey lawyer whisperer and etc etc etc

              never better
              Peter Marr -- Wednesday July 26 2006, @08:14PM (#229836)
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                pah!! (Score:0)
                these silly chart and polls are never acurate though, are they? i'm sure that in a few months tme, we'll be reading one saying that The Arctic Monkeys are the most influential band of all time, and that the greatest album of 2006 was by Shayne Ward or Gnarls Barkley. Even the Observer, newspaper of the intelligent (apparantly) doesn't give our man the credit he deserves. At least he has us on here, eh?
                anotherordinaryboy -- Friday July 28 2006, @04:26AM (#229982)
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                 Let me get my hands on your mammary glands....
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