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davidt
on Tuesday May 07 2002, @09:00AM
half-a-person writes:
Playlouder's Paula Peabody, in response to the NME article naming The Smiths as the most influential artist ever, has written a piece naming The Smiths as "the single WORST fucking thing that ever happened to British pop music." According to the article, the existence of The Smiths resulted in "the dull, grey, self-pitying arse-dribble of indie, of Travis, Starsailor, Turin Brakes, The Doves, Badly Drawn Boy blah blah blah bleeeeeeurgh, Whining, stinking, slimy, irritating, boring, tiny-mouse-cocked student fucking cunt music." AAARGH! SHUT THE FUCK UP NME! YOU'RE WRONG! - by Paula Peabody
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The Smiths: "the worst thing that ever happened to British pop" - playlouder.com
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...so I won't even try to... (Score:1)
I could say so many f-words and s-words now but I'm not even going to sink to this woman's level.
I'm just going to say that the Smiths have proven their worth. They ARE the most important British band of the last 20 years and they've stood the test of time.
I think it's fine if somebody has a different opinion about the Smiths than I do, but there's a way to express it and using such language certainly is NOT the way.
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Who is she? (Score:1)
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influence (Score:3, Insightful)
blame (Score:2, Funny)
...and it's a common and convenient mistake to put smiths/mozboy under the same label... and that's her crime - how dare she blame smiths for all those mediocre tossers in travis et al?
don't forget that smiths were sexy; handsome; zesty; slappy in the facy etc, and so are their fans (i've never actually met a bland, miserable weight-watching fan,,, then again, i've never been to america, is that where they all reside?)
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Waspish Premonitions (Score:1)
"Self-appointed judges judge,
more than they have sold."
I say a gang of us go round to her house on a hot summer afternoon when she is in her back garden exposing her peabody to carcinogenic UV rays, then lob a nest of angry wasps over the fence and witness the dance of panic. Hehehehe, that'll give her something to be bitter about.
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Oh, poor, poor Paula.... (Score:0)
Paula....dear....
Anger management sessions seem to be in order.....
or better yet...save us the trouble and just go have yourself committed...
*Jesus Christ* it's only NME not the fucking book of "All That is True and Correct in the World"...!
still, i hope that (like a good bowel movement) you got it all out, thus sparing us any future eruptions of that shit dribble you may call writing...now run along, pop in a Clash CD, have a little orgasm, smoke a fag, and call it a day...
A Clash of Unintelligence ! (Score:0)
Paula Peabody doesn't exist!!!!! (Score:2, Informative)
Love to everyone.
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Mr Napalm Death rears his ugly head. (Score:1, Insightful)
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Bah Humbug you silly moo (Score:0)
also would you rubbish the contribution of The Velvet Underground,Iggy Pop etc just because the dire Strokes are influenced by them. You can't blame a band for dodgy bands who have taken influence from them. Morrissey was the finest songwriter from 84-94 and nobody will alter my view.
Darrow
paula peabody et all of her ilk (Score:1)
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well whoever it was..... (Score:0, Troll)
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Smiths (Score:0)
All I have to say is, it makes me very proud to be
a Smiths fan to know that they have pissed off someone like that so severely.
the ultimate paradox (Score:1)
Paula Peabody misses the point, because he [or she] cannot be bothered to unravel the difference between The Smiths and Morrissey. Morrissey was only one half of the deal and has never existed since the departure of Mr Marr. McCartney gave us the best single song ever by a country mile, Hey Jude, whilst in the Beatles - Mozzer wrote the lyrics for the second, How Soon is Now, whilst in the Smiths. Respectively, both later gave us the Frog Song and Dagenham Dave. I think Mozzer may be the worst thing to happen to British music - he, but moreso YOU, created an unsustainable legend. A man who never really deep deep down matched your post-smiths expectations,
Fuck Starsailor. And Travis. And ultimately Moz. find something new. The man is old and should be forgotten. Like Jonny Rotten and Lennon. Adore something new and fresh. Revitalise you fools.
Listen to the Smiths - the 2nd best band the world has ever seem, but don't be frightened by the fact that you were in nappies [diapers in the USA] when it all happened. Embrace the future. Fuck, the next Prodigy LP will kill allcomers.
Luge
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Helen is neither right nor wrong (Score:1)
I admire you. You sat at your keyboard wound up by my succint, yet cystally accurate comments. I liked that. When I was at school and the Queen is Dead came out I used to say such brilliantly circus like comments as, and I quote:
"Oh by the way The Smiths and Morrissey have always pissed on The Beatles!"
Because I devoured Moz interviews, I wanted to be as quotable. And your comment is genius! How do you arrive at the conclusion that the Smiths "pissed" on the Beatles? You are as ageist as you make me out to be? You view the Beatles as 'my folks' music. You do not see the lineage, the evolution. The Smiths did not piss on the Beatles, just as the Jam did not piss on the Smiths. There has been a great British lineage [the USA is simply a footnote save Nirvana and the Beach Boys. And Paul Simon maybe]. There is a place for the Smiths at the highest table. But they must share.
Yet your ignorance, and sincere naivety is touching.
You wouldn't know the Strokes if they hit you in the face and I really must applaud that.
The Smiths are are the most important band Peabody has ever probably lived through. Moz is beyond a fat bloated pantomime. Save Viva Hate and V & I.
The Smiths were important because they demanded it. Moz seems to bleed for past glories.
Wake up, build a new website to a band you discovered in a small bar. Leave Moz to buy Gucci candles and remember the good times like you remember your first girlfriend. You get over her I hope? Oh you must...
Luge
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Well I wonder... (Score:1)
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Don't u believe in MOZ Paula? He believes in you. (Score:1)
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Miss Peabody, have a word with yourself. (Score:0)
Who cares (Score:1)
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Paula Peabody (Score:0)