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Gig tracklisting criticised in The Guardian

posted by davidt on Wednesday October 16 2002, @09:15AM
danbutt writes:

This Saturday's "Guardian" newspaper contained a piece by Colin Paterson criticising Prince and Morrissey for the limited number of singles played in their shows:

"Exhibit B: Morrissey. Last month's Albert Hall gig was heralded as a triumphant return. Except by those wanting to hear his hits. Suedehead and Everyday Is Like Sunday were the only seven inchers given an outing, excluding greying quiffs. This meant a tiny 11.77% of the set list was hit-based, which is almost as pathetic as my having just worked that out on my TI-30X solar scientific calculator."

Quite apart from how this misses the point as to which Moz songs are fan favourites, it ignores the fact that "There is a Light" was eventually released as a single. Anyway, full article:

Get your hits out - Oct. 12, 2002
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  • Weren't Prince and Morrissey to make a single together back in the early ninties?

    Anyway, I can't speak for Prince's music, but as for Morrissey... well, his singles are no more or less powerful than his b-sides, so really, it doesn't matter whether or not he plays hit singles because most of his songs are gems anyway. Besides, his hits were never really "hits" anyway. How often was he ever played on MTV?
    haze <[email protected]> -- Wednesday October 16 2002, @09:29AM (#45604)
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  • Mr Paterson,

    May I suggest you invest in a couple of Morrissey albums, listen to the whole album (as opposed to skipping through until you reach the 'hits') and stop moaning.

    The singles are all well and good, but the album tracks are were it's really at.

    Funny - I didn't see one person complain about the lack of 'singles' played during the Albert Hall set.

    Thanks.
    Anonymous -- Wednesday October 16 2002, @10:12AM (#45618)
  • hello? this reviewer is a moron. everyone knows that morrissey's singles are not necessarily his best songs. many a gem has confounded us, having been hidden away as a b side or album track.

    i love all of morrissey's songs, but seriously, only lame-o's would bitch about something like this.

    at least he admits he's a saddo, having whipped out his calculator.

    i bet he's one of those people who claims to love morrissey but only knows suedehead and the more you ignore me...
    joans_walkman -- Wednesday October 16 2002, @01:50PM (#45634)
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  • This guy seemed to have trouble finding acts to suit his thesis, so despite the lauded reviews morrissey received, he has to bend the facts to match his stoooopid article.

    Blow it out Your Arsenal!
    Xhris -- Wednesday October 16 2002, @09:53PM (#45680)
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  • Prince and the Smiths - 2 best acts to come out of the '80s'.
    Prince and Morrissey -2002, failing to recreate the magic they produced in the 80s.
    Prince - Musician in most all areas of music + one of the very best.
    Morrissey - Lyricist/poet in rock/pop/rockabilly/ballads and the best lyricist in all of music...ever...no1 better!
    Prince - feel good, positive music
    Morrissey - feel bad, mostly negative music
    Prince - dance to the music
    Morrissey - can't possibly dance to the music

    A duet between the 2 would b hilarious!!
    love 'em both!
    Saw morrissey in royal albert hall, london on Sept 17th
    Saw prince play in apollo london, thur 3rd, fri 4th, sat 5th Oct and point theatre dublin thur 10th and dublin after-show gig in spirit niteclub
    Morrissey played just over an hour
    Prince played~2hrs45mins each nite
    Prince was far superior - professional musicians
    Morrissey's current backin band are good but nothing to write home about. esp. drummer - pretty poor lets be honest.
    Morrissey's new songs are good but need a great producer - the demo's from radio2 session suck big time.
    Just my opinions....!
    Anonymous -- Thursday October 17 2002, @11:48AM (#45751)
  • the article criticies Morrissey for not playing enough of his "hits" and singles.

    But they give the gig four stars anyways?

    that reeks of hipocrisy...
    geofferz -- Friday October 18 2002, @07:23AM (#45862)
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  • so i don't know what everyone else thinks but uhm...having seen this setlist many times now i must say that it seems to me that moz is giving his fans what they want, while making himself happy in the process. we all said we wanted new songs and now we have them. many big moz fans say "speedway" and "late night maudlin st" are their favorites - he's playing them both. he's even playing songs from his back catalogue never before played live ("little man what now"). i doubt that someone who has not had a record deal in ages is worried about playing the "hits". moz has a fanbase so screw the rest of the world...including reviewers like this one. the hits aren't all that matters. oh, and if "there is a light" isn't a crowd pleaser, i don't know what is.
    neal -- Friday October 18 2002, @09:59PM (#45933)
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