https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/why-im-breaking-up-with-morrissey/
This is a great piece imo
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
Written by one of my best friends, full disclosure
fixed link
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
in the midst of life we are in death et ceteraet cetera et cetera et cetera et ceterain the midst of life we are in death et cetera
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
debt iirc
― otm into winter (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
ex cetera iirc
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:36 (four years ago) link
The etcs are a great fadeout lyric and indeed were in 1966 when Jackie Lee used it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RQBCuxKDnmA
― everything, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 02:03 (four years ago) link
Would happily buy tickets for a Smiths reunion with Peter Cetera
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 05:58 (four years ago) link
omg it is death
― greta van thunberger fleetwig (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 06:02 (four years ago) link
anyone recommend a good morrissey bio?
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 07:29 (four years ago) link
Mein Kampf
― Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
lolNot exactly a bio but Simon Goddard's Songs That Saved Your Life is a great read xp
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
i keep forgetting morrissey wrote a memoir and somehow convinced penguin to publish it as a "penguin classic"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ufnBs8a.jpgwish i knew how to photoshop morrissey's bio onto this
― greta van thunberger fleetwig (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Morrissey's autobio is hilarious tbrr
if you want a bio of the Smiths the one to read is Fletcher's "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" imo
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
morrissey's autobio is quite funny. there is much more on the court case about the smiths' royalties than there is about the 5 years of the band the smiths existing. lots of stuff about how the smiths singles didn't sell as well because of the incompetence of rough trade - they didn't send enough copies to the shops to meet the demand! - but also about how solo singles of his charted higher than any smiths single, which proves solo moz is better than the smiths!
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
yeah it is rife with bitchy score-settling, which, I mean, what else would you expect
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
i also have never forgotten this line from early in the book, when talking about the dilapidated manchester of his youth, which is something like "streets to define you, streets to confine you". very teenage poetry
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
Anyone get past the first page of his novel?
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
Iirc, it is "death" one time and "debt" the other.
― With considerable charm, you still have made a choice (Sund4r), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
thanks all
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 13 February 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-MaNn8BB3N/?utm_source=ig_embed
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
(Socially isolated Johnny Marr answering questions and taking requests)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-uV_IQh_OV/
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
He's turning into Jeff Beck in his old age
― fetter, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
lol @ this thread title.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
^ came here to post this
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
the PF is a good guy of old ilx and has started some legendary threads that are still going strong. This one though and it's bloody title! .. it reeks worse than a dead badger that has been decomposing in a septic tank all summer!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
Wasn't the title just based on a website of the same name that did a deep dive into every Smiths release?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
some people don’t get humor it’s ok
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
it’s weird that people ever liked the smiths, let alone might possibly still do. actually maybe it’s funny? lol? what could anybody possibly like about this band???
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
sorry, still lolling over the thread title. I mean, it’s really funny. By the way I have really great taste in music.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
If you need to ask, it's the unlikely synthesis between the folk-pop jangly guitar tradition and the Northern English camp tradition.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
if you have to keep posting, it’s called American sarcasm
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
god you’re dumb
Dude.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
No Fighting In The Smiths Thread!
(Take That Shit Over To A Moz One)
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
It's cool, I'm just getting sonned over an American sarcasm beef by someone who hasn't read the first post itt and who leaped to conclusions as to why the thread title made me lol in the first place.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
If it hadn't already been done to death, I'd have launched a Smiths website. But too many already. So I decided instead to launch a website around the music of two other great songwriters - Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan. On https://coughlanohagan.com/, I think I'm building up something worthwhile. Hope you enjoy it.
― weirwrite, Saturday, 23 May 2020 06:51 (three years ago) link
FFS let it go. you posted this once in a microdisney thread and that's enough?
― akm, Saturday, 23 May 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
The Miracle of Cross-spamming
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 May 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
What the fuck is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MfG80SID6I
― pomenitul, Saturday, 26 June 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
that is horrifying
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 June 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
that was the worst two minutes of my life and I have fled from an actual bear
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 26 June 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
I’m pleased this was made
― Alba, Saturday, 26 June 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
Morrissey at gunpoint
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 26 June 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link
I know, I knowIt’s serious
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 26 June 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
Been trying to find a Smiths-era quote from either Morrissey or Marr in which one of them says something like "If [famous 60s band/producer/label] had had Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce as their rhythm section they would have been even bigger". Anyway, RIP Andy Rourke, you were great.
― Alba, Friday, 19 May 2023 07:47 (eleven months ago) link
Still haven't found the original quote but here's Mike Joyce's recollection of it:
Johnny once said that if Elvis had had me and Andy as his rhythm section he would’ve been an even bigger artist, which is just an incredibly sweet thing for him to have said. Now, from my perspective I don’t know how proud Morrissey and Johnny are of The Smiths, but I know Andy and I are incredibly proud of it.
― Alba, Friday, 19 May 2023 07:51 (eleven months ago) link