The Smiths.
A great, inventive pop guitarist, solid rhythm section brown showered over by a bloke who really should get some sunshine, red meat and that shit out of his hair wanking on about daffodills and how rubbish living in Manchester is.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:04, 12 replies)

An alarming number of people
have asked me if I like The Smiths. And I don't know why.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:11, closed)

You can usually ALWAYS spot them.
Slightly too slim, vaguely effete haircut, affecting a disdain for fun stuff and pretending to be bisexual to impress girls.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:14, closed)

you forgot the habitual sneer

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:25, closed)

'Man doesn't like the Smiths'

(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:31, closed)

In all fairness, the entire question is 'I don't like..'

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:32, closed)

True, true...

(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:36, closed)

I don't mind The Smiths
in much the same way that I don't mind Westlife. For some reason, this seems to be more offensive to Smiths fans than saying I loathe them.
( Kroney, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:31, closed)

If you say you loathe them
a Smiths fan can feel utterly superior because you're clearly a philistine. If you don't mind them then they can't really lecture you or despise you and it's all very disappointing.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:33, closed)

They're just not really worth having an opinion on

( Kroney, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:34, closed)

I totally see your point here, one lot are made up of effete wankers putting out saccharine hackneyed bilge to an easily-pleased crowd of easily led teens and the others are Westlife.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:33, closed)

I always feel let down by The Smiths
Fantastic musically, some really upbeat stuff, really rather talented. Then Morrissey starts singing and you want to kill yourself.

It's like seeing a kitten having its eyes pecked out by crows on a warm summers' day in a meadow.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 14:07, closed)

Somebody once described Morrisey to me as
"The John Major of pop singers."
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 14:15, closed)