13. The SmithsLouder Than Bombs
Guitar-wise, Johnny Marr is awesome. He’s just carrying the whole thing melodically, just super cool. Great guitar playing, almost like a country twang but he’s just really playing the heck out of it melodically, all these notes around, single note picking not just chords. It’s super cool to define a sound.
…and then Morrissey this asshole singing, such arrogant British Anglophile crap – this struck us again in the suburbs of Texas surrounded by cow pastures. That record specifically, "I was looking for a job, and then I found a job / And heaven knows I’m miserable now", when you’re with the cowboys with a protestant work ethic and you think huh, yeah, I can see yeah I can see where you’re going…
He was a lettered man, and I was not surrounded by that, the only letters I read were St. Paul’s letters to the churches in the New Testament. They were the letters that I knew and this just blew my mind, the sentiment where you’re white, male and entitled – that’s not where I was coming from. Totally alien. The Cure, The Smiths, they were aliens to me.
