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Visions, Aug. 2004 (Germany) - Morrissey feature

posted by davidt on Thursday August 05 2004, @10:00AM
VIVAH8 writes:

In the newest issue of VISIONS (no.136/august 2004) ) is an 14- pages SMITHS/ MORRISSEY special. VISIONS is the biggest music magazine for alternative music in Germany. in the past issues they always had some MORRISSEY related news but they never really gave a damn about him until YATQ. so, i think they just want to be part of the new "hype".

i have to admit that i haven't read the article yet. it's mainly a short SMITHS- history,then a piece called "under the influence" where they list 10 records that would not have been possible without the music of MORRISSEY (such as R.E.M.'s 'Automatic For The People' and OASIS' 'Definitely Maybe'), then there is a JOHNNY MARR interview, some nobody from a german band called TOMTE (who the fuck is this?- i don't know!) talks about MORRISSEY and they talk about 6 SMITHS records (the regular albums and 'Hatful of...' and 'Louder than...'). also there's a short article about what came after THE SMITHS, and at least there's an 'exclusive' interview with MORRISSEY. in fact it's the german translation of the MOJO interview! i think it's quite a lot of stuff and definitely worth checking out, especially it's in german and MORRISSEY is very rare in german press...

sorry, i don't have the time to translate the whole thing, sorry! maybe someone has too much freetime and feels the desire to translate it!

VISIONS always comes with a free cd. on this issues cd is a band called HUNDRED REASONS, who cover 'HOW SOON IS NOW?'... is there any punishment for slaughtering a perfect song? if so, then this band has to be accused!
the scans are attached:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
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  • that is one of the best pics of Marr, ever!
    Anonymous -- Thursday August 05 2004, @10:39AM (#118082)
  • In my opinion Tomte is one of the best german bands... and their Music is really close related to Morrissey and The Smiths - for example there is a song called "Wilhelm das war nichts" and one of the bands on the same Hamburg label is also called "MARR"... so when you´re only slightly interested in german independant music buy a Tomte record.
    Ustilago -- Thursday August 05 2004, @02:00PM (#118108)
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  • TOMTE, fine...but what does David Hasselhoff think about Morrissey?
    Anonymous -- Thursday August 05 2004, @02:22PM (#118113)
  • because it's ALL stolen from the MOJO Special and NME (Interviews). Thanks. I hate when they put "Visions" before the questions, which never came from them.
    Anonymous -- Thursday August 05 2004, @03:27PM (#118120)
  • Thees Uhlmann, lead singer of Tomte, is an intelligent and interesting person and his wonderful music is inspired by Morrissey's. So tell me one reason not to let him talk a bit about what Morrissey means to him. That's more interesting than the rest of this special, which we already know anyway. Don't be so ignorant.
    MOritZ -- Thursday August 05 2004, @04:22PM (#118133)
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  • Whenever David Hasselhoff gets a mention, bet it's just an American expressing the common view about Germans (we like David Hasselhoff because he sells here). *yawn*

    (SO THERE'S NO NEED to explain anything, nor Tomte, to them. It was never about them.)

    >Don't be so ignorant.
    Anonymous -- Thursday August 05 2004, @06:16PM (#118139)
  • ha ha
    who are the Spermbirds?
    NIcky's Cousin -- Friday August 06 2004, @01:11AM (#118167)
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    ...first day with the jar...

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