History YMMV / TheSmiths

* SignatureSong: "How Soon Is Now?", "This Charming Man," and "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out".

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: According to Tony Fletcher's biography, Music/JohnnyMarr, Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke recorded the 15-minute jam that became the instrumental track to "How Soon Is Now?" while heavily stoned.

* FaceOfTheBand: Shockingly enough, there were two other guys in the band besides Music/{{Morrissey}} and Music/JohnnyMarr.

* MostWonderfulSound: Morrisey's voice in general is very pleasing and melodious. "How Soon Is Now" also has a unique guitar riff that's impossible to forget.

* {{Wangst}}: While some of their songs are definitely [[TrueArtIsAngsty angst-ridden]], this has been [[NeverLiveItDown seriously exaggerated]] by [[MisaimedFandom people who miss the humor in Moz's lyrics]]. Electronic (Johnny's next band, a side-project of Bernard Sumner from fellow Manchester alternative rock band Music/NewOrder) took some pot shots at this in their song "Getting Away With It".

-->'''[[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny:]]''' [[https://clips.twitch.tv/WanderingNaiveCormorantDxCat?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed Alright Morrisey,]] we get it. You make funny noises with your mouth.

-->'''Morrissey:''' Do you know how animals die?

* SophomoreSlump: ''Meat Is Murder'', which - despite containing two of their best known songs, "How Soon Is Now?" (as a bonus track in US edition only) and "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" and fan favorites "The Headmaster Ritual", "Barbarism Begins at Home" and "Nowhere Fast" - is still considered their least enjoyable record due to the amount of filler surrounding those five songs. As mentioned before, it's also seen as their most alienating album on the basis of the heavily-{{anvilicious}} title track. Still an excellent album and critically acclaimed.

-> "There's a club if you'd like to go. [[HopeSpot you could find somebody who really loves you]]. So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, [[YankTheDogsChain and you go home, and you cry and you want to die."]]
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as well as
-> "When you say it's gonna happen now, when exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long, and [[DespairEventHorizon all my hope is gone."]]
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** Debates about whether The Smiths will ever reunite come off as this, especially every time there's speculation, either Morrissey, Johnny Marr or ''both'' will just deny it all while saying ''several reasons'' as to why there won't be a reunion, either annoying fans to no extend or making some laugh.
** A meme around the time of the anniversary of ''Meat Is Murder'' last year was a copy pasta, the formula being "a smiths reunion but with [x] as the new frontman to piss off Morrissey, who obviously didn't want to cooperate": Suggested singers included Robert Smith, David Cameron, and The Queen. There were in fact a number of Smiths memes on the relatively small Tumblr community, now mostly dead due to copyright claims by Paul Slattery, the most prominent probably being Milk Juice, [=MorrisseyMakingNoises.mp3=], Moobissey and [=FlowerBoy55=].

* SignatureSong: "How Soon Is Now?", "This Charming Man" or "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out".

** The [[AuthorTract title track]] from ''Meat Is Murder'', to the point where it's alienated more than a few people from listening to the album or even the band as a whole.

* MemeticMutation: Debates about whether The Smiths will ever reunite come off as this, especially every time there's speculation, either Morrissey, Johnny Marr or ''both'' will just deny it all while saying ''several reasons'' as to why there won't be a reunion, either annoying fans to no extend or making some laugh.
** A meme around the time of the anniversary of ''Meat Is Murder'' last year was a copy pasta, the formula being "a smiths reunion but with [x] as the new frontman to piss off Morrissey, who obviously didn't want to cooperate": Suggested singers included Robert Smith, David Cameron, and The Queen. There were in fact a number of Smiths memes on the relatively small Tumblr community, now mostly dead due to copyright claims by Paul Slattery, the most prominent probably being Milk Juice, [=MorrisseyMakingNoises.mp3=], Moobissey and [=FlowerBoy55=].

* TheWoobie: The protagonist in "How Soon Is Now?", who seems to have some sort extremely introversion, possibly even a condition like ''UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome'', and is alone and miserable as a result. Particularily sad are the verses:

** With Music/TheCure, thanks in no small part to the feud that Morrissey had with Robert Smith back in the day.