When you first became a fan.....

[Drew a swallow]

Not....not U2???

Don't rake up my mistakes!

.....Sorry I kind of hinted to that rakedom, didn't I.

 

[Sharron Needles]

Exactly this. The boy who played the Smiths for me first told me they'd just broken up, so that was that, and my mouth gaped in a "no fair" expression. He said I might like the Housemartins or Lloyd Cole as a substitute. Uh, no.

Yeah, the guy that played them for me put Strangeways on when we were skating a ramp in my friend's backyard, and said we would like it but they just broke up. I remember I knew who they were when I was even younger because I used to go over to my cousin's house, and he had the LP's. I didn't know anything about them, but I used to sit and stare at the covers, and get mesmerized by them, especially TQID.

 

[Drew a swallow]

They weren't bad, until right after Achtung Baby, when they completely lost their minds, the thread, and all integrity.

Hmmmm, I kind of agree with that. Achtung Baby still stands up as a good album to me now. After that they became even more parodies of parodies of their own parodies.

 

[Deego]

Greatest Hits, 2008. I got into him in early 2007.

This.

Got 'into him' late 2006. Just missed him playing in Greenock!!

 

[Sharron Needles]

Don't rake up my mistakes!

.....Sorry I kind of hinted to that rakedom, didn't I.

You would have loved my sister then!

 

[I am a Ghost]

This.

Got 'into him' late 2006. Just missed him playing in Greenock!!

Greenock was great! He threw the set list out that night and it's now framed and on me wall

Exactly this. The boy who played the Smiths for me first told me they'd just broken up, so that was that, and my mouth gaped in a "no fair" expression. He said I might like the Housemartins or Lloyd Cole as a substitute. Uh, no.

Give Lloyd with or without The Commotions a chance if you haven't already, Pregsy, Rather good

 

[EPbabe]

This.

Got 'into him' late 2006. Just missed him playing in Greenock!!

I missed him playing in my hometown in 2006...

 

[bluemask68]

my brother was going to CMU in Pittsburgh at the time-- around 1985-- his artsy friends listened to Prefab Sprout, Cure, Smiths... his friends had a large subway poster of Meat is Murder hanging in their dorm room.

I had to know who these Smiths were. I saw them in P'burgh in '86. WOW! Been a fan ever since. Favorite album is by far Vauxhall. That's the measuring stick I hold his other albums to.

 

[Drew a swallow]

You would have loved my sister then!

I'm usually quite disdainful to everyone's sister's.

 

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Give Lloyd with or without The Commotions a chance if you haven't already, Pregsy, Rather good

Not bad, but not Morrissey.

 

[I am a Ghost]

Not bad, but not Morrissey.

Nor indeed are The Housemartins

 

[The Youngest]

Ringleader Of The Tormentors

My dad got a tape of You Are The Quarry a few months after it was released. I listened to it over and over again until it broke!

Then I bought every Morrissey and Smiths album just in time for the release of ROTT!

 

[Deego]

Greenock was great! He threw the set list out that night and it's now framed and on me wall

Where are you from? Greenock is my home town, so I'm seriously gutted I missed that gig. Sitting in your local boozer, then just walk over to the gig to see your idol. Magic.

Of course at the time I'd have been too young for the pub so I can't really complain.

 

[Sharron Needles]

London 0 Hull 4 was also an integral part of my adolescence, fortunately or unfortunately, whichever way you look at it.

 

[nugz]

YATQ b/c I became a fan in 2002.

 

[oscillate wildly]

Ringleader just came out.

but is not at all the reason I became a fan.

 

[mozmal]

This Charming Man.

 

[I am a Ghost]

Where are you from? Greenock is my home town, so I'm seriously gutted I missed that gig. Sitting in your local boozer, then just walk over to the gig to see your idol. Magic.

Of course at the time I'd have been too young for the pub so I can't really complain.

From Dublin. Myself and my mate went over for Sterling and did Glasgow also. Sterling was one of the best Moz gigs I ever attended. We sat in what was probably your local boozer and then went over

 

[Absurd]

You Are the Quarry, I think.

 

[Comtesse]

I became a fan at the time that "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" was released, so the next release I eagerly awaited was "William, It Was Really Nothing". The first album release date I pined over was Meat Is Murder.