Johnny Marr sings "What difference does it make" now.
― Mark G, Monday, 3 October 2011 08:47 (twelve years ago) link
they arrived. nicely packaged, tiny recreations of the sleeves (and stickers). (what looks like the back of the box on the amazon pictures is just stuck on with a couple of sticky labels but is easily removed.)
but they are louder and more trebly. i'm not sure i like that. (ok, have only listened to Hatful so far, and only then on the laptop)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6048/6215245496_2a6d45c2d5.jpg
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
what does that picture tell you?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
btw I didn't really know you liked the Smiths.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
it tells me that they're louder but it doesn't look brickwalled at all really imo. rhino vinyl released tQiD a awhile back and it sounds sublime
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Friday, 7 October 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
well these sound amazing. warmer, more treble definitely; best remasters since The Beatles.
― piscesx, Sunday, 9 October 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
I'll be happily surprised if they come close to the recently released Pink Floyd remasters. I think those are on par with (or maybe even slightly better than) The Beatles reissues.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 October 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
which ones EZ? the 'immersion' Dark Side tracks i've heard sound fantastic.
― piscesx, Monday, 10 October 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
I bought the remasters of Dark Side, Animals and Meddle and they are all amazing. I've heard the same about the clarity and dynamism of The Wall and Wish You Were Here. I'd love to hear the Immersion set but I don't have that kind of cash.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 October 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile:
http://smithsrecycle.blogspot.com/2011/09/etaatb-09-rtt181-shakespeares-sister.html
― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, am I on the Pink Floyd thread?
No I Am Not.
― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
I think I'm going to have to wait for Christmas for these, but I'm excited.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 10 October 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
Mike Joyce playing 2 hours of Smiths songs:http://www.eastvillageradio.com/content/content.php?id=2257
― john. a resident of chicago., Thursday, 13 October 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for the link. listening now. his commentary is great.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 13 October 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
It's here:
John Lewis Christmas Advert 2011
― Alba, Friday, 11 November 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
404 not found on that link, somehow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSLOnR1s74o
― koogs, Friday, 11 November 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
That has got to be the best advert I have ever seen!...will stay with me for a long time. Very well done J.L
PATROLMAN2056 1 hour ago 7 thumbs up
― DavidM, Friday, 11 November 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
Holy crap! That melted my Grinchy heart!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 11 November 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
I totally thought he was getting the Smiths box set.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 11 November 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
Ha. Me too.
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 November 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
ugh
― jed_, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
bad
― conrad, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
would be so much better if it was the original. fuck you sensitive female slow cover version women.
but still, the enjoyment of angry indies being annoyed about this keeps on giving.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
The horrible plinky cover version is the least of its crimes. I could even stand the shitty payoff, but the way it channels some kind of ghastly pastiche of every twee/innocent/nu-indie/mumblecore/shane meadows advert conceit into 90 creatively bereft seconds brakes my hart. Fuck's sake grossly overpaid ad agency, just *try* to do something original.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
i'm seriously surprised there haven't been any adverts with slow females covering anything from 69 love songs yet
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
How long will it be before The Smiths become sufficiently retro and neutral that it would be OK for a firm like John Lewis to use the original in an ad? The people I know who do most of their Christmas shopping there (i.e. my mum and the like) still hate Morrissey: "Eh, I know you and you cannot sing" etc.
Still surprised that Morrissey/Marr agreed to this (and the This Charming Man intro earlier this year). Don't think they've ever explicitly said they wouldn't let their music be in ads, but I always thought that was implied. At the very least I would've expected Morrissey in his weird way to say no because JL sell leather coats/sofas and Waitrose sell meat.
― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
Not understanding the hate here, maybe it's a UK thing where Morrissey's been overexposed. I quite liked that cover.
And, hey, Marr's gotta eat, given the blazing unsuccess of his solo album.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 12 November 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
oh i think he's probably doing alright
― jed_, Saturday, 12 November 2011 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
how can you believe that, he's only been a full-time touring-and-recording member of three or four internationally successful bands since that solo album
― ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶ (sic), Saturday, 12 November 2011 05:50 (twelve years ago) link
Marr might not be the draw he was 20 years ago but I'm sure he's living comfortably enough. As for Mike Joyce...
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Saturday, 12 November 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
Morrissey has apparently been bankrupt for the last four years so presumably needs the money. Also has to finance a daft libel action, atm, and they can get expensive.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 November 2011 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
Morrissey has apparently been bankrupt for the last four years
I think that's just in respect to his songwriting...
― Mark G, Monday, 14 November 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
Didn’t cry at the advert.
The visuals are OK but the song doesn’t sit comfortably alongside them (since it’s not about Christmas or consumerism) and enough please-hit-me wispy cover versions please. Apparently John Lewis are planning a whole album of this muck for the season.
The ad would have been much better if Morrissey and Marr had turned up at the end as Santa and his helper. You decide who would play whom.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 14 November 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
singing "You just haven't earned it yet, Baby!"
― Mark G, Monday, 14 November 2011 10:57 (twelve years ago) link
"How Soon Is Noël"
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
"I Started Something I Couldn't Finish"
... we've all experienced that at Xmas dinner, eh?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
"Still Ill"
... Boxingdayamirite?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
"Pretty Girls Make Gravies"
― Tim, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
"How Soon is Now" was used on a jeans advert YEARS ago, iirc
― bham, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, and come-on you remember "This Charming Man" soundtracking some indie lad making a mixtape, for some product I forget.
― Mark G, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
Was that not John Lewis as well?
― ailsa, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
prob.
― Mark G, Monday, 14 November 2011 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
yes, this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EosFNm78hGg
― koogs, Monday, 14 November 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
xxxxpost "Paint a Vulgar Picture" (You could've said no if you'd wanted to...)
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 14 November 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
shoplifters of the world unite.
― jed_, Monday, 14 November 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
"Hang the tinsel, hang the tinsel/Hang the tinsel, hang the tinsel/Hang the tinsel hang the tinsel hang the tinsel" etc.
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
"There have been better bands than the Smiths"
outrageous.
OUTRAGEOUS
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 November 2011 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
" There have been better bands than the Smiths, but there has never been a more perfect band, in the sense of having a distinct, deliberate, powerful aesthetic shaped by the tensions of collaboration, combined with the ability to articulate that aesthetic."
Context, dude!
― Mark G, Friday, 18 November 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
hm. can't get past outrageousness of the first part.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 November 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:31 PM (3 days ago)
^ May never get this out of my head.
― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 18 November 2011 13:28 (twelve years ago) link