All top class songs!
Interesting selection...
"My favorite songs I've written and most proud of are these.The Edges Are No Longer Parallel, Ganglord, Life's A Pigsty and Ambitious Outsiders. I'm proud of all of them but these are top 4."
From this thread on Facebook...
Thanks for the link, UncleSkinny. Interesting how his top favorite co-writes are all from his later Morrissey-period. I'm surprised nothing from Your Arsenal or Vauxhall made his list. And wasn't Southpaw Grammar his favorite Morrissey album for a while? Unless I'm terribly mistaken, of course! Guess he really did feel that he and Moz progressed quite nicely down the road together.
Also, one last thing...Alain didn't even play on Ganglord. He did write it but it was Jesse and Boz on guitars with that one. I believe that was the start of the post Alain-playing compositions, lasting until World Peace is None of Your Business.
Alain is suddenly opening up a bit on Facebook - a few other interesting snippets for those who might have missed them:
"Mark Nevin wrote great tracks and he gets a bad rap. He dropped out otherwise he would have been in the band in Boz's shoes. He wrote my favourite song Our Frank and Sing Your Life"
"Marks radio noise backing track was still in there and he did come down to the studio for that song when we were recording the Arsenal album"
"I think Kill Uncle was ahead of time as that soft approach would favor better now."
Alain's cryptic comment to Moz before his own departure was most likely in reference to B, no?
Could you refresh my memory on this, please?
Morrissey recently said how much he enjoyed writing with Alain and now Alain is talking. Who knows?
Morrissey's childish disdain for Alain was the one thing that dissapointed me the most in autobiography as it was a top class partnership.