True enough. Smiths only played (as the Smiths) for five years, though.

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Jun 21, 2018
11:01:06am

jkccoug All-American

True enough. Smiths only played (as the Smiths) for five years, though.

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POLL: The Smiths or Joy Division

jkccoug

6/21/18 10:57am

joy division had barely got off the ground...hard to judge

jwf

6/21/18 10:59am

True enough. Smiths only played (as the Smiths) for five years, though.

jkccoug

6/21/18 11:01am

true...but a lot of good stuff in that time.

jwf

6/21/18 11:02am

Add Joy Division, New Order, and Electronic together and it's still the Smiths.

panguitch

6/21/18 11:04am

I think I agree, most days at least. Morrissey had a way of saying stuff

jkccoug

6/21/18 11:10am

Electronic is great stuff.

jwf

6/21/18 11:13am

This is a pole fail because the results should be 100% to 0 for The Smiths

pink22

6/21/18 11:04am

I saw the Smiths in Oakland for the "Meat is Murder" tour.

byujdmba

6/21/18 11:11am

Interesting take. Never got to see them live-- wasn't into them

jkccoug

6/21/18 11:12am

Strageways wasn't their best album but it's great. Girlfriend in a Coma was

pink22

6/21/18 11:18am

I've always thought Girlfriend in a Coma was some brilliant songwriting

jkccoug

6/21/18 11:27am

I think Johnny Marr's muisicianship trumps all of New Order combined.

BYU1982

6/21/18 1:12pm

Agreed. Hard to overestimate Marr's influence on

panguitch

6/21/18 2:21pm

Thanks for the great linked post. You introduced me to some new JM

yahtzee

6/22/18 10:07pm

YouTube is the best thing that ever happened to Joy Division. Their peak was so

BigD Coug

6/21/18 11:21am

Yeah I think this is a different conversation if Curtis had lived.

jkccoug

6/21/18 11:27am

I think his closest comparison is Morrissey. New Order = Smiths w/out Morrissey.

BigD Coug

6/21/18 4:41pm

New Order > The Smiths > Electronic > > Joy Division

Scooter

6/21/18 11:22am

Love & Rockets > New Order > Smiths > Joy Division

Paco

6/21/18 11:37am

Some of L&R's songs were pure gems.

byujdmba

6/21/18 12:23pm

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