Do bands or recording artists with limited commercial success actualize their own influence on their own?
Do the Smiths realize that despite them not selling a billion records that they are one of the most influential and cited bands ever? Actually, if all the people I know that say they listened to the Smiths in the 1980s actually listened to the Smiths in the 1980s, the band would've had a couple of gold records.
Anyway, these albums were important for a lot of teenagers in the 1980s who watched "The Breakfast Club" and thought that it was their life. Their life was shit. And six years later they became accountants and started buying Tracy Chapman albums.
The most surprising aspect of the Smiths is how good of musicians they were. I could live or die without Morrissey, but that rhythym section and Johnny Marr are great.
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