Love Will Tear Us Apart vs William, It Was Really Nothing
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Not my favorite tracks by either band but The Smiths song is recorded and played better and Morissey is a far better singer/songwriter than Curtis.
Tough call but I give it to the Smiths who in the end imho were a more meanigful band though both had a big influence on later music and bands. Sadly Joy Division didnt last long and I didnt care for New Order dance pop style. The Smiths were lauded by many Brit critics and other musicians and some called them the most vital band of the 80's.
"n Q, Simon Goddard argued in 2007 that the Smiths were "the one truly vital voice of the '80s" and "the most influential British guitar group of the decade". He continued: "As the first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms (their second album proper, 1985's Meat Is Murder, made Number 1 in the UK), they elevated rock's standard four-piece formula to new heights of magic and poetry. The Smiths have been widely influential. Ian Youngs of BBC News described them as "the band that inspired deeper devotion than any British group since the Beatles".[140] Marr's guitar playing "was a huge building block for more Manchester legends that followed the Smiths".(Wiki)
Joy Division had their fans also and "Despite their short career, Joy Division have exerted a wide-reaching influence and achieved widespread critical acclaim. John Bush of AllMusic argues that Joy Division "became the first band in the post-punk movement by ... emphasizing not anger and energy but mood and expression, pointing ahead to the rise of melancholy alternative music in the '80s" (Wiki) Joy Division have influenced many bands, including their contemporaries U2, the Cure and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.[106][107] In 1980, U2 singer Bono said that Joy Division were "one of the most important bands of the last four or five years"(Wiki)
Tough call but I give it to the Smiths who in the end imho were a more meanigful band though both had a big influence on later music and bands. Sadly Joy Division didnt last long and I didnt care for New Order dance pop style. The Smiths were lauded by many Brit critics and other musicians and some called them the most vital band of the 80's.
"n Q, Simon Goddard argued in 2007 that the Smiths were "the one truly vital voice of the '80s" and "the most influential British guitar group of the decade". He continued: "As the first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms (their second album proper, 1985's Meat Is Murder, made Number 1 in the UK), they elevated rock's standard four-piece formula to new heights of magic and poetry. The Smiths have been widely influential. Ian Youngs of BBC News described them as "the band that inspired deeper devotion than any British group since the Beatles".[140] Marr's guitar playing "was a huge building block for more Manchester legends that followed the Smiths".(Wiki)
Joy Division had their fans also and "Despite their short career, Joy Division have exerted a wide-reaching influence and achieved widespread critical acclaim. John Bush of AllMusic argues that Joy Division "became the first band in the post-punk movement by ... emphasizing not anger and energy but mood and expression, pointing ahead to the rise of melancholy alternative music in the '80s" (Wiki) Joy Division have influenced many bands, including their contemporaries U2, the Cure and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.[106][107] In 1980, U2 singer Bono said that Joy Division were "one of the most important bands of the last four or five years"(Wiki)
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