Unlucky Bear wrote:The Unique Modernist! wrote:I was a huge fan and often defend them on here, but people are allowed to dislike them and voice that dislike.
The way Penk is being admonished on here for simply voicing an opinion is ridiculous. Luckilly he is a good humoured chap who takes these things with a thick skin.
I am happy for people to dislike the Smiths. That is their right. We cannot all like everything. Penk is allying the Smiths to a certain audience, with certain needs. He is completely wrong. If he wants to say why he does not like them, that is fine...but his line has been more " why they are crap now" rather than " how they were rubbish then". It is unfair, and ridiculous to judge a band on how they are percieved out side of the their time frame. It is absolutely vital that a bands music is primarily assessed as a part of the culture of the time.
Yes it is, but when people who actually like the band say they have a hard time seperating them from their time frame and can only really see them as part of the culture of the time the existance of modern teen fans is thrown up as proof of their timeless greatness.
Thats why the conversation went that way in the first place.
The smiths 'they were great but you had to be there to really get the whole picture and yeah some of it was just whiney, especially meat is murder' is a fairly balanced summary