Quote Standee="Standee"a crap band, even at their height, even their "best" song didn't make the top ten.'"
  
 
As if "the top 10" is the yardstick for crapness!  (Are you a big Joe Dolce fan?)
Any band that God (Neil Young) picks to play a series of gigs as his support is, objectively, not a "crap" band. 
I'm no James fanatic but they are a fine band to watch, nowadays so crap that they most recently headlined on the Friday at Bestival last month -  and got invariably [url=http://www.supajam.com/review/show/Camp-Bestival---James-1fine reviews.[/url.  My lad was there and he says they were excellent and went down a storm.  On that basis alone, seeing them for free at the GF is a bit of a coup, tbh.
I'm not that into The Smiths either but although they hardly ever troubled the "Top 10" I don't think many would cite that as evidence they're "crap".