The motherfucking smiths

[Guest saturnmark4life]

Just like to express my delight at the NME's top 50 artists having THE SMITHS as the greatest band ever. Ahhhh. Thank god for the smiths.

[Guest Anorak]

I hate the NME with a passion, does anyone but that rag anymore? It ought to be put out of its misery. The Smiths were always the archetypal NME band, pompous student windbags of the world unite.

[Guest Kinetic]

While I agree that the NME is a joke, let's not drag The Smiths into this.  They weren't the best band ever or anything, but they certainly recorded their fair share of great songs.  There's nothing wrong with being a literate songwriter, either.

[Guest goodhelmet]

"William It Was Really Nothing" -Best Song Ever!!!! (well, not really but it has sentimental value)

[Guest Dr. Wrestlingphysics]

This lyric from "The Queen Is Dead" always amuses me:

 

She said "I know you, and you cannot sing"

I said "That's nothing, you should hear me play piano"

[Guest]

NME?

[Guest Kinetic]

New Musical Express.  It's a U.K.-based music magazine.

 

U.K. stands for United Kingdom, by the way.

[Guest]

Why is it a joke? And of course I know what UK means. Im not an idiot.

[Guest saturnmark4life]

Basically when compiling this list the NME took into account along with all the usual stuff, the number of features of the artists in the NME. The NME had a lot to do with splitting up the smiths, even though it was already going that way. Morrissey still hates them, but then he hates you and I and our mothers also.

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

Not that it means anything, I'm glad Smiths were no 1. I wouldn't have been surprised if they'd picked Oasis or something.

[Guest saturnmark4life]

The rest of the list is HIGHLY questionable, with the strokes beating the rolling stones. I can't understand putting them at like no17, they can't be THAT influencial cos they've only got 1 record which isn't a year old.

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

Yeah, that was a strange decision. They also left out the Beach Boys, which I think is fairly criminal.

[Guest Kinetic]

The rest of the list is HIGHLY questionable, with the strokes beating the rolling stones. I can't understand putting them at like no17, they can't be THAT influencial cos they've only got 1 record which isn't a year old.

Hence, the NME being a complete farce.  I like the Strokes, but come on.

[Guest muzanisa]

All these lists are stupid because they always have a new flavour of the month too high up. I don't like the Strokes but even if I did NUMBER 17? I do like OK Computer but it aint the best album of all time. Mystery said it best if this was 95 it would have been Oasis.

Saying that the Smiths aren't a bad choice.

[Guest goodhelmet]

ok, so this article compiled the best british bands of all time, right? not the last 20 years but ever! If that's the case, then the Beatles would be #1, Stones #2, led Zeppelin #3, The Who #4, the Kinks #5 and so on and so on. Maybe the Smiths would be in the top ten but there is no way in holy fucking hell the Smiths are the best or most influential band EVER! And I like the Smiths music, really I do, BUT to blatantly ignore the contributions of the Beatles or Stones or whoever to not only music but to pop culture as a whole is just fucking asinine. Death to NME!!!!

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

Beatles were number two. In fairness to the NME, they wern't saying who were the best or most influential, but who had had most relevance to the NME as a paper. If you look at it on that level, I think the Smiths are a good choice.

 

The NME is an pale, ailing version of its former self though, so who really cares.

[Guest muzanisa]

If it was the best British bands of all time then what are the strokes doing at number seventeen?

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

It wasn't British bands, it was any act.