So, what do other Smiths/Morrissey fans listen to
besides the aforementioned geniuses? :)
Why, peruse the below featured facts and find out!
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MOPE SURVEY, SPRING 1996
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#3. Favorite bands besides the Smiths or Morrissey
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1. Suede (32/8)
2. The Cure (28/10)
3. Gene (24/6)
4. REM (22/6)
5. Stone Roses (18/5)
6. Blur (17/5)
7. Radiohead (16/6)
8. Pulp (12/4)
9. Oasis (11/5)
10. Depeche Mode (10/4)
11. Joy Division (10/3)
12. Violent Femmes (8/3)
13. (tie) Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (8/2)
13. (tie) Bjork (8/2)
15. (tie) James (7/3)
15. (tie) Beastie Boys (7/3)
17. (tie) U2 (7/2)
17. (tie) Catherine Wheel (7/2)
17. (tie) New Order (7/2)
17. (tie) Nirvana (7/2)
21. (tie) The Beatles (6/2)
21. (tie) Charlatans (6/2)
21. (tie) Cocteau Twins (6/2)
21. (tie) Echo & the Bunnymen (6/2)
21. (tie) Portishead (6/2)
26. Beautiful South (5/3)
27. (tie) The Pixies (5/2)
27. (tie) Seal (5/2)
29. (tie) Leonard Cohen, the Cranes, Roxy Music/Bryan
Ferry, Eurythmics/Annie Lennox, Hot House Flowers,
the Sundays, Blumfeld, Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac (5/1)
38. (tie) Felt (4/2)
38. (tie) Tindersticks (4/2)
40. (tie) Housemartins, Orbital, Midnight Oil, Jane's Addiction,
The Clash, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, New Model Army,
Crowded House, the B-52's (4/1)
50. (tie) Bluetones, Waterboys, Dead Milkmen, Auteurs,
Mighty Might Bosstones, Sex Pistols, Madonna,
Marc Almond, The Who, Lloyd Cole, C.S.I. (3/1)
61. (tie) Leftfield, Cypress Hill, Moby, Led Zeppelin,
Replacements, Matthew Sweet, Sonic Youth, the Kinks,
Jeff Buckley (2/1)
70. (tie) Ocean Blue, Elvis Presley, Alan Parsons Project,
Supergrass, Porno for Pyros, Billy Bragg, PJ Harvey,
Elastica, Pet Shop Boys, Jesus and Mary Chain (1/1)
Yes, well...
So, what do we as a group think kind of... sucks?
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MOPE SURVEY, SPRING 1996
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#4. Least fave bands/artists
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1. Michael "the Hand the Rocks the Cradle" Jackson (26/6)
2. (tie) Bon Jovi (21/5)
2. (tie) Green Day (21/5)
4. Hootie and the Blowfish (19/5)
5. Mariah Carey (19/4)
6. Pearl Jam (16/4)
7. (tie) Boyz II Men (11/3)
7. (tie) Silverchair (11/3)
9. (tie) Whitney Houston (10/3)
9. (tie) Live (10/3)
11. Alanis Morrissette (10/2)
**perhaps we're just mad about finding Morrissey CD's in her bin?**
12. Phish (9/2)
13. Collective Soul (8/2)
14. (tie) Oasis, East 17, The Cure, Barry White, Guns N Roses,
Van Halen, Dave Matthews Band, Pink Floyd, Boston,
the Hooters, Roxette (5/1)
25. (tie) Smashing Pumpkins, Bush, Foo Fighters, Soul Asylum,
Grateful Dead, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Blur, Simply Red, Nirvana,
Rage Against the Machine, the Tractors, Genesis, Kansas,
Sheryl Crow, Lush (4/1)
40. (tie) KMFDM, Pulp, Take That, Madonna, Aerosmith, Korn,
Stone Temple Pilots, Ace of Base, Chicago, DJ Bobo,
the Rembrandts, the Bee Gees, Metallica (3/1)
No real big surprises I suppose.
Next... you may have noticed some duplication between the
faves and not so faves. So did I. I've ranked them by the
descending similarity between their scores, so I can call
this little chart...
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THE BANDS/ARTISTS SMITHS/MORRISSEY FANS
AS A GROUP LOVE TO HATE
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1. Madonna (#50 Liked, #40 Disliked)
2. Nirvana (#17 Liked, #25 Disliked)
3. Oasis (#9 Liked, #14 Disliked)
4. Pulp (#8 Liked, #40 Disliked)
5. Blur (#6 Liked, #25 Disliked)
6. The Cure (#2 Liked, #14 Disliked)
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Perhaps these are the bands we can agree to disagree about?
I believe its largely a coincidence that they just happen
to reflect inversely their own chart positions on the fave list.
(although the fave list's higher voter turnout doesn't hurt)
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