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Ditto for Hatful of Hollow

This is the thing about albums, innit? Same with an artist - is Iggy Pop good or shit? Depends on what you judge him by. Nowadays I think Teh Song is the only thing that matters, and almost never listen to albums anymore, or develop allegiances to artists

... but then discord is part of the cut and thrust of thumped innit?

You know what? This is good fun innit? I even kinda enjoyed listening to the Slayer album, to my surprise (so long as I concentrated hard and ignored the lyrics) Oh, you know something else - at a book club (according to my Ma anyway) you're recommended not to select your favourites, cos if...

Ah lads. I think the world would be a better place if aging music fans like ourselves refrained from pretending that we've some kind of overarching perspective on the Importance Of Art edit: ... well, maybe not that much better, but I find Pronouncements of this sort a little unseemly

Is there really no-one else who shares my regard for The Smiths rhythm section? Hmmph Why do you see it as a Marr record @scutter ? Do you have some insight into the making of it that I don't know about, or are you just saying that based on what you hear?

Haha fair point Some girls are bigger than others actually sounds very REM-ish. Never noticed that before

Isn't it mad how people's musical tastes reflect their tribal allegiances in school so much? Not so much if you're not from a big city though (fewer tribes in smaller schools I suppose)

Actually now that Bigmouth is playing I do like the guitar in that. It's the bass that's really scratching my itch though. And I love the way "bigmouth strikes again" is all one note in the vocal but the harmony changes underneath on "strikes"

I've never understood the reverence for Marr. I came to love The Smiths on the dancefloor in McGonagle's in 1989/90, and the songs I love best I like primarily because of the bass and drums (like in What Difference Does I Make - not on this one I know, but whatever), after that it's the lyrics...