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  1. BookishBoy

    Off-topic discussion thread / moved as clogging other threads

    Welcome back to you and your utterly non-existent sense of humour.
  2. BookishBoy

    New Morrissey photo posted by Ryan Lowry on his Instagram (May 22, 2024)

    Given the current climate, I'd be wary of being in a photo that could be so easily cropped to say "TORY".
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    Your favourite Smiths single?

    I've gone for "Panic". The older I get, the more absurd it seems that a song like that was a hit. It's just an absolute glam blast of absurd lyrical genius and to end it with the "Hang the DJ" refrain, it's just magical and brave and silly and provocative... (Obviously so many of these others...
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    Morrissey turns 65 - May 22, 2024

    And also, of course, the 7th anniversary of the actual bonfire of teenagers. I hope all those families are doing OK today. The mother of one of the victims, Martyn Hett, was at Downing Street today [nothing else going on there today, right?] to hand over a letter calling for new terror laws.
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    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    No, it's all very vague, simply "assembled with the help of artists and experts"...
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    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    One for the kids there, at #30! I'm assuming most of the Top 10 will be Beyonce and Taylor Swift.
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    American Songwriter: "The Story Behind Electronic’s “Getting Away with It” and How It Parodies a 1980s Icon" (May 14, 2024)

    Unrelated, but imagine writing a song that parodies "Joe le taxi" - that would get confusing.
  8. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    There's more chance of seeing a Gary Glitter album on a list like this than a Morrissey album, at this point...
  9. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    Some more wonderful records in those 10, but I've never, ever understood the appeal of that Janet Jackson album (or any of her stuff). It just sounds so horrifically of its era, and overproduced, and - ugh. Maybe just bad memories, I guess.
  10. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    No problem with most of those, but Arctic Monkeys should be nowhere near a list like this. (They're fine, but...greatest records ever made?!)
  11. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    I'm still holding out for Low in High School to be the surprise #1 pick...
  12. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    You're right, that is an odd quote. I'm no kind of Johnny Marr expert and it's not something I've ever read before - can anyone else shed any light on where it's from? (Or did Apple Music perhaps reach out for a quote from him, for this project?)
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    See Steve Albini Has Died

    I'm too much of a lame-assed indie kid to care about 99% of Albini's work (that's my problem not his, obviously!), but holy hell what he did with the Wedding Present's sound on Seamonsters was astonishing.
  14. BookishBoy

    James and Johnny Marr US Tour

    I mean, yes, you're right, those Morrissey lyrics are pretty bad. But to me they still have a drunk uncle charm to them, whereas the Tim Booth lyrics from earlier in the thread just reek of pseudo-profound, half-assed, cod-Coldplay, mass singalong, cringe-infused earnestness.
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    James and Johnny Marr US Tour

    Yes, agree. Is there any kind of female equivalent to Dad-Rock? (I guess "Mom-pop" has a bizarre feel to it...)
  16. BookishBoy

    James and Johnny Marr US Tour

    100% true. "If Things Were Perfect" and "Hymn From a Village" are incredible songs.
  17. BookishBoy

    James and Johnny Marr US Tour

    Every time I see something like this (and it's happening more and more regularly these days), my first thought is: God, what must Morrissey think? (I realise this means I'm mentally ill / unhealthily obsessed - that's fine, whatever - but he must surely, on some level, care? Does it niggle...
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    Big Issue / Robin Ince: "You can grow up to be Morrissey or you can grow up to be Johnny Marr – which are you?" (April 30, 2024)

    Well yes. He's never going to get much in the way of coverage / airplay via the BBC / music press / broadsheets unless in some way he addresses the perception that has (fairly or unfairly) grown around him. You may be right that "most" ordinary people would agree with him - but then it's hard...
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    Big Issue / Robin Ince: "You can grow up to be Morrissey or you can grow up to be Johnny Marr – which are you?" (April 30, 2024)

    What if the choice was Morrissey or Michael Jackson, though?!
  20. BookishBoy

    Big Issue / Robin Ince: "You can grow up to be Morrissey or you can grow up to be Johnny Marr – which are you?" (April 30, 2024)

    Maybe some people just have very low expectations of pop lyrics making much sense? I blame Kajagoogoo.
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