I was resting, smoking a little bit of weed, just tired and at ease when the algorithm suggested The Smiths 4th May 1984 Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany. The thumbnail looked good, Morrisey looked good tbh, and I started listening watching the performance, something just clicked. The disposition, the sweet gloomy romanticism of it all. So good, it made my previous general dismissiveness of their most well known work unexplainable, I still don't understand why I'm more attuned to it now than before when my highschool friends where all over it.
I don't care really I just feel that this new sense is expanding, unfolding this new horizon of music I had been instinctively recalcitrant to get into. I associate this sound with a lot of stuff I had avoided as well but that now I feel I will understand with my heart, stuff like Pulp (thanks to Chris Wade), New Order, Joy Division, are they all New Wave acts? I don't know anything about this scene, maybe you can help me find more stuff to love.
I feel that I should also mention that I really like Interpol and that I had years of getting my ears full of shoegaze. Now I listen to wallpaper music mostly.
I love New Order. In addition to what others have recommended, I’ll also recommend The Cure (Disintegration is such a great album and it is peak gloomy romanticism), Echo and the Bunnymen, Siouxie and the Banshees, and Depeche Mode.
Also don’t read anything about morrissey unless you want to be very disappointed. Ignorance is bliss
Pumped for you honestly, its great music. Johhny Marr is just so good, I think my favorite of theirs is still "bigmouth."
You do need to listen to Pulp, that's a fun discovery journey. Other New Wave or post-punk stuff:
- Elvis Costello, This Year's Girl (I don't think he's made anything listenable in a long time but his earlier albums are classic and have that Morrissey-esque aggrieved quality)
- Soft Boys (more New Wave, try Underwater Moonlight) and Robyn Hitchcock in the 80s (more folk-influenced), try I Often Dream of Trains first
- Jonathan Richman/The Modern Lovers
- The Fall (very consistent in sound and a huge catalog so you can start anywhere, I like Dragnet or Country on the Click)
- OMD/Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (still making decent albums imo)
- Pere Ubu
The Fall might be a tuff sell to someone looking for more stuff like the smiths lol. I loooove the fall though. You can go about as deep as you want with their shit. Saw an interview when mark e smith died where he basically said 'stalin did nothing wrong' hah.
BTW to op I'd recommend checking out the band Felt for sure. Also maybe orange juice and talk talk
Lol not a single downvote on a post praising a fascist’s music on chapo lol.
I guess if you’re not from the UK its easier to separate the music from the twat that he is but still...
Yeah it's weird. Being from the US I had no idea at all that morrissey was such a horrible person. And I would have never guessed it from the music and his image. They never really got a ton of press over here and were always a cult band so all I really knew was the music itself.
Morrissey was actually sorta labour leftist when he started, but he went further and further right.
