ugh
― jed_, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
bad
― conrad, Friday, 11 November 2011 23:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh i think he's probably doing alright
― jed_, Saturday, 12 November 2011 03:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
singing "You just haven't earned it yet, Baby!"
― Mark G, Monday, 14 November 2011 10:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
"How Soon Is Noël"
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
"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 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Still Ill"
... Boxingdayamirite?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 11:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Pretty Girls Make Gravies"
― Tim, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
"How Soon is Now" was used on a jeans advert YEARS ago, iirc
― bham, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was that not John Lewis as well?
― ailsa, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
prob.
― Mark G, Monday, 14 November 2011 12:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes, this one
― koogs, Monday, 14 November 2011 12:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
xxxxpost "Paint a Vulgar Picture" (You could've said no if you'd wanted to...)
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 14 November 2011 12:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
shoplifters of the world unite.
― jed_, Monday, 14 November 2011 13:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
"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 (1 year ago) Permalink
"There have been better bands than the Smiths"
outrageous.
OUTRAGEOUS
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 November 2011 12:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
" 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 (1 year ago) Permalink
hm. can't get past outrageousness of the first part.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 November 2011 12:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
― 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 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's a really good review by Douglas Wolk. I've always liked his reviews of James Brown's singles volumes for P4k and his review of The Fall's Peel Sessions (for Believer) was great.
Kind of shocked that they didn't include 'Jeane' in the complete box set. That's insane.
― righteousmaelstrom, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha, it really is. wonder if there's some kinda rarities comp in the works?
― tylerw, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
less insane to leave shit out than to include some stuff twice and not remaster all of it
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
3 new entries on tacky badge up btw
― tubbs farkas (electricsound), Saturday, 19 November 2011 00:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
mostly on account of that blog i think the smiths are my most listened to band this year. that single version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (prolly my fave tune of theirs) is flippin' brilliant
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
8.1? get tae fuck.
― piscesx, Saturday, 19 November 2011 07:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, the rating is a joke. never trust ratings, esp. from s&p and pitchfork. the article is good though.
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 19 November 2011 08:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm finding the drums and other percussive elements on some tracks of these remasters a little hard to take. far too foregrounded for my taste, i think i'll stick with my old versions.
― jed_, Saturday, 19 November 2011 17:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
many updates on the smiths 'extra track and a tacky badge' blog since we last revived this http://smithsrecycle.blogspot.com/they've still got a fair few singles to go mind..
― piscesx, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 04:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
more updates.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 March 2012 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep!
these make a great listen as a whole
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Monday, 12 March 2012 02:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Xpost*2 - It looks to me they only have one single left to do.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2012 09:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
well, that makes six at the time pisces said it.
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, 12 March 2012 11:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh right.
They've been 'becalmed' for ages, fair enough.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2012 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.vice.com/read/chunklet-to-go-go-the-smiths
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
terrible piece
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 01:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
The last single was posted earlier, the next recycled project is REM! Excited for that one!
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Nitzer Ebb singles one sounds cool too.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
hmmmhttp://www.music-news.com/shownews.asp?H=The-Smiths-to-reform&nItemID=51298
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
crisply denied by Marr
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink