The Miracle of the Smiths

well he was talking about the record before it was finished so maybe he intended to do that but didn't manage it. there's certainly nothing as hard as the title track of TQID on strangeways.

nowadays I'm glad we got Viva Hate/Bona Drag than a Smiths albums sounding like Electronic or The The.

I <3 a lot of early solo Moz (discovered The Smiths through Last Of The Famous International Playboys!) but Getting Away With It / Electronic / Disappointed and Mind Bomb / Dusk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Viva Hate

(and the difference between those two bands suggests that any further Morrissey/Marr work wouldn't have sounded anything like either)

(discovered The Smiths through Last Of The Famous International Playboys!)
me too!!!
i bought the cassingle and my mom thought i was crazy because i kept going around the house singing "have i faaaaaaaaaiiiiiled" and she was like yes, you have please stop singing that song immediately

The Smiths took a lot of stick in the 80s music press for their classicist approach, which is understandable, even though, as Taylor Parkes pointed out, their records sounded terribly of their time. But I am glad that they didn't add a fifth album with more blatantly 1989 indie-dance sounds.

Last of the Famous Int. playboys is totally baggy!

I think you mean Interesting Drug (or November Spawned A Monster), but I take your point.

yes, interesting drug, you're right.

I remember really loving "November Spawned A Monster" at the time and wishing Moz would do more songs like that.

Recently, I played the song again and found the lyrics incredibly cringeworthy and awful, the wordless shrieking in the bridge representing the "monster" flat-out reprehensible, and Moz's singing to be outrageously constipated and forced.

At this point, the only Moz songs from that era I have any time for are "Alsatian Cousin", "Little Man, What Now?" and "Late Night, Maudlin Street" and that's partially because I haven't gone back to them in about a decade to see if I still like them.

Alsatian Cousin is amazing.

What about Disappointed?

zero memory of it; generally speaking I would like to set Bona Drag on fire

(one minute in and I vastly prefer Electronic's song)

woah....bona drag is like moz's hatful imo

that's a crazy opinion bro

when you consider that this was all right at the beginning of Moz's "I'm gonna be a spiteful bigot for a hot minute" phase, it's less crazy

yeah but then i guess there's no morrissey you would like right?

just feel like the early singles and viva hate are pretty great as a period for him

yeah but then i guess there's no morrissey you would like right?

a few exceptions aside, this is a very accurate description of my position on Morrissey

Had a discussion about the Smiths with my girlfriend, who now rates them as duds. Her reason is that "Marr's guitar playing sounds like a machine." I can actually see her point, although I still love them.

kinda surprised we never did a Bona Drag poll.

I'd love to hear working versions of Viva Hate songs, particularly the ones with more Vini Reilly.

Meanwhile, looks like Morrissey's book is actually coming out in a couple of weeks: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Autobiography-Morrissey/dp/0141394811/.

Hmmm, it's not listed on Penguin's site.

"Full confirmation is expected from Penguin Books within the next 24 hours" it says on Morrissey Solo, so we'll see.

lol does this ever happen with books? like a book with a very major publisher may or may not exist at all?

Autobiography covers Morrissey's life from his birth until the present day.

well tbh Penguin's site has always been a fucking mess. You can now pre-order it from Amazon!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24396482

and everywhere, it seems, by mid oct.

Ha yes of course - I only mentioned that as I went to the link to look up the ISBN.

Jon Savage (or a sub editor) has swiped the thread title!
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/oct/16/morrissey-autobiography-smiths

I swiped the thread title for Jon's piece. Seemed perfectly apposite.

hahaha

Why didn't you just call it "Morrissey: Why Is He So Bad And Hated?"

cos he has a terribly annoying writing style. music and lyrical work was definitely the right option.

LOL . . .
http://i.imgur.com/cAiVbnn.jpg?1

Is this real?

http://www.passionsjustlikemine.com/legacy/legacy.htm

!!! official remasters of the troy tate shit??? damn

I'm not buying all of these again. Sorry, Smiths.

It's fake I think. An early April Fools thing or something.

no Golden Lights?

Wow :-/

My other half works back catalogue at Warner Music, I'll ask her if she knows anything about it when she gets home.

somehow i can't look at morrissey without thinking of kramer from seinfeld

UPDATE Feb. 18:
As noted by several people in the comments, the release is an early April Fools' Day joke.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Legacy Reissues (via PJLM) started by Ryan. View original post
http://www.morrissey-solo.com/content/1665-The-Smiths-And-Morrissey-Legacy-Reissue-Series-(April-2014-via-Passions-Just-Like-Mine)

comedy genius!

For all that is good and holy, can we or someone please, please, please write an essay dissecting and tearing apart this clown's act?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/james-francos-art-school-duo-daddy-preps-smithsinspired-album-20141111

I know, he's not worthy of being written about, but still. I hope there is enough venom in Smiths fans to put this joker in his place.

What's funny is that, of all people, the man who became the band's enemy is working with him, which tells you a lot about James Franco and Andy.

Does it really matter?

The songs are bigger than he is, and will survive this slight assault.

I guess I can say that, we will doubtless never hear it over here.

(additional note to UK people who don't know: It's not his actual Daddy funding this)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10997480_10153038111028818_4345256183170354917_n.jpg?oh=ff1b340b4ecf1203db75ac81ebd41ae3&oe=55576B94&__gda__=1431476459_a286a7124c7fcc4e23c9e928dd4ea00b

did we ever have a poll about the best thread on ilm? this is it, i'd say.

this has just been repeated:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01msf1r

"Bob Harris telling the story of the live session recordings The Smiths made for the BBC."

features morrissey in the radio 1 studio talking to kid jenson during a playback of that early session they did.

more reunion rumours..

I honestly hope the Smiths never reform. There would be so much hype, such high expectations, an insane rush for tickets and massive resale markups... it stresses me out to think about it.