From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #36 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, April 10 2011 Volume 10 : Number 036 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] The Smiths & REM [robert toren ] Re: [loud-fans] The Smiths & REM [treesprite@earthlink.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 22:29:00 -0700 (PDT) From: robert toren Subject: [loud-fans] The Smiths & REM haven't paid much attention to The Smiths - listening to The Queen is Dead for the first time - do they sound a hell of a lot like REM, or am I imagining things? esp There is a Light That Never Goes Out and The Boy with the Thorn in His Side... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 23:01:26 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: treesprite@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Smiths & REM It's funny, since they're the two bands I consider to be the most important of the 80's* I often think of them together, but I don't hear very many musical similarities at all aside from the jangly guitar aspects (which are very different to my ears.) In a recent MOJO article about The Queen Is Dead there's a short conversation with Peter Buck where he talks about how the two bands felt close and how they felt they were working towards similar ends, so I think my ears are drawn to the differences more than the similarities. That MOJO article is excellent, by the way, and draws attention to the fact that three of the best, most influential rock bands of the 1980's (REM, Smiths, Husker Du) featured frontmen who were gay. It's an interesting starting to point for a conversation about changing social dynamics as related to popular music and how someone like Kurt Cobain's personal politics were shaped and where his activism had, at least in part, its roots. B *I guess history has proven that U2 are probably the most important given their massive sustained popularity and influence. - -----Original Message----- >From: robert toren >Sent: Apr 9, 2011 10:29 PM >To: loud-fans@smoe.org >Subject: [loud-fans] The Smiths & REM > > haven't paid much attention to The Smiths - listening to The Queen is Dead for the first time - do they sound a hell of a lot like REM, or am I imagining things? esp There is a Light That Never Goes Out and The Boy with the Thorn in His Side... ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #36 *******************************