Fortunately some of us, even in their tender teenage years could see them for total f***ing frauds.
The Smiths are on another level.
This, aye

I mean, even just having a spin through the singles Haydn, if you can listen to (for example), Ask, How Soon Is Now and Girlfriend In A Coma and not approve of any of it, then aye, maybe they're not going to be for you. Fair enough if that's the case, but you genuinely miss the point if you dismiss it as woe-ridden misery as so many folk have before you. He was funny as f***, he just hid it pretty well. He was a proto-Jarvis Cocker, a northern lad writing little songs about ordinary folk and their ordinary lives.
Personally speaking, just the first ten or fifteen seconds of How Soon Is Now is always enough to remind me that I'm listening to one of the best bands that ever existed
