I like this. I shall buy the album.
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Johnny Marr - The Messenger - Video
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realitybites
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Love the music--especially the guitar riff around the 2:30 mark and the ending.
I have to say I didn't like this as much as I hoped I would. The song was kind of uninteresting to me until the sort of breakdown around 2:25, and towards the end it started to drag a bit. Maybe I need to get it in my head some more. I can't decide if I like the video or not. Parts of it are cool.
Amy
from the Ice Age to the dole age
It's weird choice, I don't think it's as good as "European Me" and I assumed that EM would be the obvious first single. Then again..
The Seeker of Good Songs
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Johnny Marr - The Messenger
Johnny Marr - The Messenger. Taken from his forthcoming 2013 self-titled record
edit: sorry didn't see this posted in the General Discussion forum.
Johnny Marr - The Messenger. Taken from his forthcoming 2013 self-titled record
edit: sorry didn't see this posted in the General Discussion forum.
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ARI
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I, too, really like the music, the vocals aren't bad at all (in my view), and the video is pretty cool. I doubt it'll be my favourite off the album though; the snippets of "The Trap" and "European Me" were just outstanding.
Same thoughts here.
It's weird choice, I don't think it's as good as "European Me" and I assumed that EM would be the obvious first single. Then again..
Same thoughts here.
I remember when Johnny and the band played at the Deaf Institute - I thought Generate! Generate! was fantastic. Can't wait to hear the studio version.
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MORRIZSEY
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Depends on the vocal melody, but I don't think the guitar riffs are anything amazing if that's what you mean? I doubt his style would fit with some of the licks
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When was the last time you heard an "amazing guitar riff" in a Morrissey song? It's been years as far as I'm concerned...
MORRIZSEY
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How does that qualify The Messenger?
Oh dear - it's heartbreaking isn't it?
It's not the best thing Marr's ever done, but the music is just light years better than almost everything Morrissey's put out in the last 10 years.
Crisp, clear, melodic guitar lines, interesting rhythms, instantly appealing chord progressions. How wonderful would it be to hear Morrissey singing beautifully over this, compared with the horrible joyless bluster of the likes of People Are The Same Everywhere?
The lyrics aren't great but the singing's ok. I will definitely buy the album. Presumably with all this (slightly misleading) talk of first solo album, it will just be marketed as Johnny Marr (i.e. not the Healers)? It will be interesting to see how the songs are received critically and commercially. It's surely catchy enough (and Marr is cool enough) for radio stations to play it (maybe Radio 2, Xfm, Absolute). If it does reasonably well, commercially, and picks up some decent reviews, I expect Marr will continue on this trajectory. If it gets mauled by the critics and ignored by radio, he'll have to reconsider his options...
It's not the best thing Marr's ever done, but the music is just light years better than almost everything Morrissey's put out in the last 10 years.
Crisp, clear, melodic guitar lines, interesting rhythms, instantly appealing chord progressions. How wonderful would it be to hear Morrissey singing beautifully over this, compared with the horrible joyless bluster of the likes of People Are The Same Everywhere?
The lyrics aren't great but the singing's ok. I will definitely buy the album. Presumably with all this (slightly misleading) talk of first solo album, it will just be marketed as Johnny Marr (i.e. not the Healers)? It will be interesting to see how the songs are received critically and commercially. It's surely catchy enough (and Marr is cool enough) for radio stations to play it (maybe Radio 2, Xfm, Absolute). If it does reasonably well, commercially, and picks up some decent reviews, I expect Marr will continue on this trajectory. If it gets mauled by the critics and ignored by radio, he'll have to reconsider his options...
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The Seeker of Good Songs
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Well he won't get played much, if at all, on what used to be the bastion of all things Smiths, the World Famous KROQ... Marr didn't even finish in the top eleven in their poll "Who’s The Greatest Guitar Player In Alternative Rock?".
http://www.morrissey-solo.com/threa...ive-Rock-Guitarists?highlight=greatest+Guitar
http://www.morrissey-solo.com/threa...-Rock-(Johnny-Marr)?highlight=greatest+Guitar
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It makes it musically better than anything Morrissey has released since 1997.
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So you like The Messenger, I take it? Not sure how that logic works though. Saying Morrissey hasn't provided a great guitar riff for years doesn't work as a defence for Johnny's being poor, or prove that it's good?
Amy
from the Ice Age to the dole age
I'd think it was a f***ing massive improvement, but that doesn't make it good. It just makes it "not awful".
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