The Smiths Top Latest Blurt Poll

It's a mandate for Morrissey and Marr! Too bad about that little detail regarding the lawsuit and the court case, however...

By Fred Mills

The BLURT readers have spoken, and it's a comparative landslide: a full 29 per cent of you who voted in our most recent poll want to see the original lineup of The Smiths to reunite. Call it a victory for the Bedsit Nation!

We asked you:

"Guided By Voices has announced their early/mid ‘90s incarnation will be touring! What other ‘classic era' lineup would you like to see tour?" In addition to the early ‘80s Smiths we included artists from the classic rock era (Rolling Stones, Grand Funk Railroad, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Monkees), core alt-rock acts (Hole, Pussy Galore, Royal Trux, Palace Brothers, the other GBV lineup) and a handful of wild cards - Roxy Music, Prince, Spacemen 3 and, er, M.I.A. ("back when she wasn't so goddam obnoxious").

As you can see from the chart tally, above, out of 101 votes cast, the Smiths snagged 29 of ‘em, for 29%. Nobody came close to matching that; the Rolling Stones and Roxy Music took 14% and 13% of the vote, respectively, with everyone else coming in at 6% or less.  (The Pavement mention was a goof, of course, but some dimbulb still cast a vote for the band.)

And you can analyze the statistics all day long, but there's just something oddly comforting at knowing that Grand Funk Railroad is almost as popular as M.I.A. among BLURT readers...