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davidt
on Wednesday January 29 2003, @10:45AM
Anonymous-shnonymous writes:
I don't know if anyone reads this music magazine called Stereophile or not, but they had an issue about two months ago featuring an article titled "40 Essential Albums." Anyway, the list contained many clichéd, overrated albums and recordings by artists like the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Mariah Carey, of all people. In this month's issue, a Smiths fan wrote this letter to the editor: "Editor: What's this? No Smiths? I was glad to see one of my favorite bands listed in the 'Honorable Mention' section of last November's '40 Essential Albums,' but then I noticed the editor's interjection where Louder Than Bombs should have been: 'No Smiths.' What? What??? No Smiths? You included Beethoven, didn't you? You included The Beatles, you included Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, and Jimi Hendrix. So where's The Smiths? Not only did you exclude the Smiths, you pointed out your opposition to ever including one of their albums! Have you ever listened to The Queen is Dead or Meat is Murder? Every teenage guy who spent hour after lonely hour on a Saturday night wondering about that beautiful girl he met last weekend could take solace in their music. Listening to 'The Boy with the Thorn in His Side' or 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now,' you knew Morrissey had been there too. Let's try this again next year, Stereophile. And you better add Depeche Mode's Black Celebration or Music for the Masses. -Steven J. Wilder, Irving TX" --- And this is what the editor wrote in response: "'What? What??? No Smiths?' asks reader Steven J. Wilder in this issue's 'Letters,' regarding my interjection in the 'Honorable Mentions' sidebar of last November's '40 Essential Albums.' Hey, I think the Smiths suck -- ok, Mr. Wilder? Morrissey's self-absorbed adolescent whining had no place on a list that included music from such grownups as Morrison, Mitchell, and Mingus. I'm not alone in this sentiment. Jon Iverson, www.stereophile.com's webmaster, stapled together the pages of Mojo magazine's April 2001 retrospective of Morrissey's and Marr's music so he could skip over it without running the risk of the veins on his forehead exploding...[sic]" Then he goes on by saying that Mariah Carey had more number one hits than the Beatles and Elvis, blah blah blah, and how that compared to Morrissey, blah blah blah. Then he talks about classical music and how bad everyone's taste is and how Radiohead and Morrissey are dreadful, etc. This just goes to show you that statistics and conformity matter more to some music listeners. It isn't about relevance anymore, and it hasn't been in a long time.
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what a...... (Score:0)
he's correct you know.... (Score:1)
oopsssss
(User #4268 Info)
cancel my subscription to sterophile! (Score:1)
the world IS full of crashing bores indeed...
(User #4875 Info)
let me get this straight (Score:1)
methinks this dude needs to get his head out of his ass.
(User #6238 Info)
heres the article and their email address . . . (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?710:5
(link to the "no smiths" mention.)
[email protected]
(editor and author of the no smiths comment)
[email protected]
(webmaster who hates morrissey)
You know what I think... (Score:1)
(User #3249 Info | http://www.myspace.com/coldwarspies)
Grown Ups (Score:1, Interesting)
Gawd!
Give me strength!!
Barry Newman
Mariah Carey should cover "He Cried" (Score:1)
big hit potential - could do them both a lot of good.
Or what about some big folk/rock outfit doing "Ammunition" ?
(User #7241 Info)
Commercial Success = Relevance? (Score:2, Insightful)
What I've found with some "music lovers" is that they confuse commercial success with the relevance of the actual material. Let me tell you, just because Marey Carey, or the like, sells 20 million albums doesn't mean she's any good. She doesn't put raw emotion into her work. She doesn't talk of life experiences, hoping to somehow better her listeners' lives with her songs. Morrissey does this. Morrissey may not be the million dollar man, but he has a strong following of devoted fans. So, comparing Mariah Carey to Morrissey is no comparison at all. She's a shitty singer with a shitty voice who just happens to have a legion of blind (and obviously deaf) fans.
And the people that I know who don't like Morrissey say that he's nothing but a whiner. Give me a break. They apparently can't see talent if he stood right in front of them and hit them with his enormous...wit and charm, of course (unless someone else knows otherwise. If so, please email me).
Thank you, and goodnight. ;)
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Who cares? (Score:1)
(User #1342 Info)
DOORS are great! Jim Morrison was one of the best! (Score:0)
Hey, I like both Smiths and Doors.
They are different, yet I consider Doors one of the most deep and sublime of all musicians. I had a pleasure to see alive Paul Krieger (guitar) and Densmore (drums) at Santa Monica Pier at 2000! Even Jimless gray-haired Doors were a pleasure! I could only be jealous of peoples who saw Jim alive at 60s!!!
One could like both rock'n roll intellectuals (like Morrissey and Costello) and mystics (like Jim Morrison, Patti Smiths, Brian Hitchcock or Nick Cave).
Response! (Score:0)
important to many peoples lives.
I am not arguing with your like for Morrissey and his music Chris, merely
expressing my opinion about his music. You also seemed to have missed the
point of my As We See It, which was to state that in matters of taste there
can be no dispute.
Thanks for writing. I may well publish your comments in a forthcoming issue
of Stereophile.
Sincerely
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
music editor equals starf*ucker? (Score:1)
(User #2801 Info)