Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before - Let's Celebrate The Smiths!

It had to happen.  There had to be a music post about my favorite band of all time - The Smiths.  I was introduced to The Smiths by my aunt in 1984.  My aunt had alarmingly good taste in music and a killer vinyl collection.  In 1984, I was spinning records on my red turntable, listening to new wave tunes through baby blue fuzzy speakers.  I was so cool it hurt.  Now my whole record collection is stored on my mac and ipod.  Sadly, the blue speakers have gone by the wayside.  

 

This is, I think, my favorite of all time.  I just love the lyric, "Ask me, I won't say no. Why should I?" 

"Heaven knows I'm miserable now"- the quintessential maudlin Smiths song.   

"The boy with the thorn in his side. Behind the hatred, there lies a murderous desire for love."  Man, that's saying something.  Gotta love Morrissey - with his off the shoulder unbuttoned look.

Totally digging the swiveling dance moves going on in this video. Go on with your bad self Morrissey!

Okay, so if you know one Smiths song this is probably the one.  And if you hate The Smiths chances are you may still like this song. 

Here is an excellent cover of "There is a Light that Never Goes Out" by Neil Finn and friends.  Neil Finn is totally awesome and so is this cover!

Ahh, here is another cover... Radiohead covers "Headmaster's Ritual"  If Radiohead covers it it has to be good, right? 

This is also one of my favorites.  And I love this cover by Elefant.  Of course, there are so many other fantastic songs by The Smiths but I couldn't possibly post them all here.  I could but it would be an insanely long blog post.  And it might drive some ( I won't mention and names) to despair.

So if you don't like The Smiths I am sorry for this post.  No, no I am not.  Don't be a hater.  Take a listen.  You might surprise yourself.  You might like it...a little.

If you are a fan.... good show!

I will leave you all with this - "Nothing's changed, I still love you, oh, I still love you, Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love."