re: The Smiths - Most Influential Band Since the Beatles?

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They're pretty influential, I'd say. Guitar wise - absolutely. Lyric wise - absolutely. I'm more surprised that Rolling Stone would give a band like them that title. I'd assume they would give that to like Iggy Azalea or some shite. I'm personally a big fan, So, I'm probably biased. However, they were one of the first "indie" bands that were critically and commercially successful. In that sense, they are probably indirectly, if not directly, responsible for the surge of the indie movement. Which has become a huge facet of pop culture and music in general. It makes sense. From the Beatles to the Smiths, I can't think of many bands that influenced music as an art as well as a business as much as they did.

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