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 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
singing "You just haven't earned it yet, Baby!"
― Mark G, Monday, 14 November 2011 10:57 (fourteen years ago)
"How Soon Is Noël"
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 11:00 (fourteen years ago)
"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 (fourteen years ago)
"Still Ill"
... Boxingdayamirite?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 11:03 (fourteen years ago)
"Pretty Girls Make Gravies"
― Tim, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:05 (fourteen years ago)
"How Soon is Now" was used on a jeans advert YEARS ago, iirc
― bham, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:08 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
Was that not John Lewis as well?
― ailsa, Monday, 14 November 2011 11:45 (fourteen years ago)
prob.
― Mark G, Monday, 14 November 2011 12:09 (fourteen years ago)
yes, this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EosFNm78hGg
― koogs, Monday, 14 November 2011 12:10 (fourteen years ago)
xxxxpost "Paint a Vulgar Picture" (You could've said no if you'd wanted to...)
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 14 November 2011 12:54 (fourteen years ago)
shoplifters of the world unite.
― jed_, Monday, 14 November 2011 13:37 (fourteen years ago)
"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 (fourteen years ago)
"There have been better bands than the Smiths"
outrageous.
OUTRAGEOUS
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 November 2011 12:07 (fourteen years ago)
" 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 (fourteen years ago)
hm. can't get past outrageousness of the first part.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 November 2011 12:14 (fourteen years ago)
― 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 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
ha, it really is. wonder if there's some kinda rarities comp in the works?
― tylerw, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:15 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
3 new entries on tacky badge up btw
― tubbs farkas (electricsound), Saturday, 19 November 2011 00:30 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
8.1? get tae fuck.
― piscesx, Saturday, 19 November 2011 07:22 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
more updates.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 March 2012 00:41 (fourteen years ago)
yep!
these make a great listen as a whole
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Monday, 12 March 2012 02:45 (fourteen years ago)
Xpost*2 - It looks to me they only have one single left to do.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2012 09:35 (fourteen years ago)
well, that makes six at the time pisces said it.
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, 12 March 2012 11:56 (fourteen years ago)
Oh right.
They've been 'becalmed' for ages, fair enough.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2012 12:24 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.vice.com/read/chunklet-to-go-go-the-smiths
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:54 (fourteen years ago)
terrible piece
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 01:21 (fourteen years ago)
The last single was posted earlier, the next recycled project is REM! Excited for that one!
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:03 (fourteen years ago)
The Nitzer Ebb singles one sounds cool too.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:06 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
crisply denied by Marr
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:49 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.discountmugs.com/discountmugs/upload/cliparts/images/smithsreuniontemplate_1301415865.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)
It is never going to happen.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:41 (fourteen years ago)
seems like the best anyone could hope for is a marr/morrissey collab sometime in the future. but even that is unlikely, I think.
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:50 (fourteen years ago)
in the long run all bands reunite one day...
in the berlin program magazine tip there was a page announcing concerts of bands where i didn't even know that they still had living members. like bad company, mötley crüe, beach boys, blue öyster cult, lynyrd skynyrd, bachman turner overdrive. i was also surprised to hear that roger chapman and james taylor still have to tour...
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:49 (fourteen years ago)
But... The Smiths reunion with a Morrissey hologram! $$$$ £££ amirite?
― StanM, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:07 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah that Beatles tour was something.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:09 (fourteen years ago)
the beatles would have toured if only there hadn't been this crazy psychopath...
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:30 (fourteen years ago)
Ringo?
― StanM, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:35 (fourteen years ago)
the one that shot john lennon, i meant.
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:40 (fourteen years ago)
I know, sorry :-(
― StanM, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:46 (fourteen years ago)
i know that you knew, so that's ok ;-)
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:54 (fourteen years ago)