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"I am well aware of the Smiths' rise in recents years, and their affirmed position in our cultural heritage. It proves how taking risks can work beautifully … and if you don't take risks when you make music then what the hell are you doing making music? I am incredibly grateful to anyone who walked out to buy, or who stayed in to download, Smiths' music. The musicians are considered to be those who make the change, but the consumer plays an equal part by having faith. We're all in this together. It was always about a refusal to surrender to enemy propaganda - something I still face today just as much as I faced it in 1983, 84, 85, 86 and 87. The Smiths do not end."
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Love this post by M. Its obvious in his heat of hearts he knows The Smiths are the beaturful thing he ever created
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"I am well aware of the Smiths' rise in recents years, and their affirmed position in our cultural heritage. It proves how taking risks can work beautifully … and if you don't take risks when you make music then what the hell are you doing making music? I am incredibly grateful to anyone who walked out to buy, or who stayed in to download, Smiths' music. The musicians are considered to be those who make the change, but the consumer plays an equal part by having faith. We're all in this together. It was always about a refusal to surrender to enemy propaganda - something I still face today just as much as I faced it in 1983, 84, 85, 86 and 87. The Smiths do not end."
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Love this. The Smiths are the most remarkable fecking band, truly special. They were universal in so many ways but in some ways they were very fecking specific to a certain British and Irish mindset - working class, into intelligent pop-culture, tribal, refused the middle-class game. The Smiths really did speak for a lot of working-class people. The stone roses and The Jam, Oasis also spoke for the British working class, but the more basic elements of it.
You didn't have to have been there from the start like I was, but feck me, it was a truly great ride if you were. I will always love M because of how he waa then .
Someone above said M's career kept the Smiths going, that is kind of true, in a way but if he had died in 1988 , the Smiths would have still been as popular as they are now. The truth is, its The Smiths magic that kept M's career going. Im not having a dig at M, its just how I see it.
I think M looks back a lot at The Smiths days and they are as special to him, as they are to us the fans. Which is why it aches my balls, when people talk shit and claim Alain W or Jesse or Boz are as good as Johnny. No way. Not to the critics, not to most fans and not to M himself.
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"I am well aware of the Smiths' rise in recents years, and their affirmed position in our cultural heritage. It proves how taking risks can work beautifully … and if you don't take risks when you make music then what the hell are you doing making music? I am incredibly grateful to anyone who walked out to buy, or who stayed in to download, Smiths' music. The musicians are considered to be those who make the change, but the consumer plays an equal part by having faith. We're all in this together. It was always about a refusal to surrender to enemy propaganda - something I still face today just as much as I faced it in 1983, 84, 85, 86 and 87. The Smiths do not end."
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Fecking loved this from M
The Smiths were such a special band, and what was so special is it meant as much to the band as the fans. M gave so much of himself to the Smiths.
Morrissey the pop star is more worldly than The Smiths, yet the Smiths are both more universal and more specific to the British working class. They really did speak to a lot us in a deep way.
Even if you are not an old git like me, who was there at the start of The Smiths and followed them up and down the country, even if you are only 14 years old today, it doesn't matter. To love The Smiths, is to Love The Smiths, they are timeless
It's obvious The Smiths have always meant a lot to M, even when he tried to put them behind him, he knew in many ways that the band had the best of him. His relationship with Johnny is something he never really had with any other band member. You can tell he thinks of Johnny as an equal but there is no way on Earth he thinks Boz and AW and Jesee are. This is what makes me fecking laugh when you get fecking clowns saying AW and Jesse are as good as Johnny and they think because M bicthed about Johnny, it means he hates him (so being cult types they must fecking hate Johnny too) To know M, isn't to trust everything he says as his true feelings, its about reading between the lines. Which is part of the fecking fun.
I would love to see M do his own blog once every month or so, coming out with this stuff. I much prefer it when he is sharing positive feelings, Rather than punching the air in a vodka rant It must be odd, being a 64 year old man, watching yourself on the TV from the 80s. It must be like watching a strange family member, it's him and its also not him. That feeling can drive you crazy if you let it. It seems M is at peace with this kind of thing though.
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