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Smiths make Top 10 in Best Bands of the 80s list (Dutch papers)

posted by davidt on Saturday March 27 2004, @10:00AM
Curt Woyte writes:

Here's one for Dutch-reading fans. Regional newspaper Het Parool and national music mag Oor have compiled a definitive list of 80 classic Eighties bands, and The Smiths make the Top 10. I won't spoil the (predictable) #1 but Sarah, it isn't Iron Maiden — they're #37.

Link to Parool site: De Tachtig van Tachtig. All entries include a short bio and web site links (Passions Just Like Mine gets mentioned, but alas — no Morrissey-Solo!)
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  • of course idve moved thesmiths up further and sent metalica towards the back some, but all in all its a good one. really, stuff like this, all you can ask is that they hav them all the bigones there [theyll never get the order right].

    glad to see they left off heavyweights like david bowie and aerosmith in the realization that they blew in the eighties [and in aerosmith's case, always blew].
    chrisarclark <[email protected]> -- Saturday March 27 2004, @02:28PM (#92617)
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    "I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civilized and maybe I'll even arrive, maybe I'll even arrive..."
  • Too bad they forgot to include R.E.M., who did most of their best work in the 80's. Apparently they preferred Wham! Crap list.
    Anonymous -- Saturday March 27 2004, @04:43PM (#92654)
  • that Oor had Morrissey on the cover, or even
    a big [3 or 4 page] intervieuw.
    They [Oor] can't ignore him now [ with the upcoming album and major PR given to it]

    Same about 't uur van de wolf'a VPRO programme,
    mostly music docs, it's about time they make a
    doc about the Smiths>>>Morrissey
    Celibate Cry <[email protected]> -- Saturday March 27 2004, @11:58PM (#92689)
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    and the hills are alive with celibate cries
  • Of course, there are a couple of bands that were truly essential and crucial to the cesspool that was the Eighties - but, for the love of Christ, do they always have include perennial bores like U2, Madonna and so on?

    Madonna was great but she has nothing to do with music whatsoever. She is the art of celebrity personified. She just comes into the studio and sings her bit and fucks off to some lunch-annex-shopping spree with her entourage. End of fucking story.
    Ramon -- Sunday March 28 2004, @01:50AM (#92693)
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    "I'm all over you...like a vulture, like impending death"
  • enough said...And where are other great 80s bands like The Triffids, The Go-Betweens, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, James, The Church etcetra, etcetra! CFrap list indeed!
    Johan de Witt <[email protected]> -- Sunday March 28 2004, @06:41AM (#92706)
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  • Here's some they must have forgot, god knows how!

    Stone Roses
    REM
    Magazine
    Clash
    Jam
    Felt
    Wedding Present
    Teardrop Explodes
    James
    Nirvana
    The the

    I don't mind U2 at number 1 so much as The Smiths being so far down the pecking order, and the above glaring omissions.
    Baz -- Sunday March 28 2004, @11:58AM (#92741)
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  • Weet iemand of er nog een Nederlandse Moz/Smiths-party komt? Die waren toch altijd zeer de moeite waard?
    Johan
    Anonymous -- Monday March 29 2004, @03:34AM (#92801)
  • All credit for having a Smiths (compilation) in the Tachtig van Tachtig, but to me Dutch music journalists will always be silly little also rans, who know nothing about music, but think they do, as one can perhaps notice from the ridiculously pretentious languege employed.

    And all copies of Oor should be burned on the stake. They're worse tan q magazine.

    VIVA HATE!
    Spineless Swine <[email protected]> -- Wednesday March 31 2004, @11:27AM (#93175)
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    Leave your future behind you.

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