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Mark E. Smith

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Musician compared to Slavoj Žižek for having a prolific output, opaque political ideology, and incomprehensible speaking style.

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"We all like Lou Reed and Mark E. Smith. But the chance that the singer in your art school post punk band has the sauce to properly emulate those guys is pretty low."
Enough with the talk-singing · u/Low-Interaction-8763 · ↑173 · 2025-06-24
"- write a ridiculous number of books/albums, many of which even diehard fans have never read or listened to - have political ideologies that are equal parts baroque and opaque - be married several times despite being unimaginably difficult to live with - talk shit all the fucking time - maintain a s"
slavoj žižek and mark e. smith are the same · u/in_take · ↑30 · 2021-04-12
"We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them"
Mark.E.Smith · u/BeorgeGush_ · ↑23 · 2023-10-30
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