"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
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 (twelve years ago) link
ha, it really is. wonder if there's some kinda rarities comp in the works?
― tylerw, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
3 new entries on tacky badge up btw
― tubbs farkas (electricsound), Saturday, 19 November 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
8.1? get tae fuck.
― piscesx, Saturday, 19 November 2011 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
more updates.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 March 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
yep!
these make a great listen as a whole
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Monday, 12 March 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
Xpost*2 - It looks to me they only have one single left to do.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2012 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
well, that makes six at the time pisces said it.
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, 12 March 2012 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
Oh right.
They've been 'becalmed' for ages, fair enough.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.vice.com/read/chunklet-to-go-go-the-smiths
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
terrible piece
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
The last single was posted earlier, the next recycled project is REM! Excited for that one!
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
The Nitzer Ebb singles one sounds cool too.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
crisply denied by Marr
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.discountmugs.com/discountmugs/upload/cliparts/images/smithsreuniontemplate_1301415865.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
It is never going to happen.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
But... The Smiths reunion with a Morrissey hologram! $$$$ £££ amirite?
― StanM, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that Beatles tour was something.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
the beatles would have toured if only there hadn't been this crazy psychopath...
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Ringo?
― StanM, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
the one that shot john lennon, i meant.
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
I know, sorry :-(
― StanM, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
i know that you knew, so that's ok ;-)
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 28 April 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
I appreciate the bands that reunite every once in a while but don't tour, like zep.
Ccr hasn't reunited yet, but could. Same with husker du, but they're far less likely than Smiths.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 April 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
still baffled that the so called Complete box set is missing not only 5 of the original non album single tracks but that there is STILL after 3 decades no complete BBC/ Peel session stuff available. it's the 21st century, The Smiths are regarded as the 2nd best UK band since The Beatles yet there's a Smiths *Peel session* of How Soon Is Now that isn't on CD. i mean.. words fail me.
― piscesx, Saturday, 28 April 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
What are the 5 tracks?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 29 April 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
Wonderful Woman Work Is A Four Letter WordJeanneI Keep Mine HiddenThe Draize Train
plus if one wanted a *complete* catalogue in the box you really ought to have the Kervorkian 'New York Mix' of This Charming Man, the live James cover of What's The World (from the B side of the CD EP of I Started Something..) and the alt version of Accept Yourself.
― piscesx, Sunday, 29 April 2012 07:24 (twelve years ago) link
"Jeane", "Wonderful Woman", and the NY "This Charming Man" are on the deluxe The Sound Of The Smiths, along with "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" at its original speed.
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 April 2012 07:45 (twelve years ago) link