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Morrissey music heard on working class doc

posted by davidt on Tuesday July 12 2005, @09:00AM
Nick writes:
Music from Morrissey and others was used Sunday night to illustrate a Channel 4 documentary on the working classes in the UK. Writer Michael Collins explained how the white working class had been left disenfranchised and disenchanted.
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  • Everytime I hear a song Morrissey or Smiths song on a documentry I think of posting it on here, but then I think, " no people will take the piss '. I recently heard How Soon Is Now on ITV.
    Does that count for anything, anyway the Working Class documentry was fantastic, I enjoyed it.
    Hello Indie -- Tuesday July 12 2005, @09:18AM (#170919)
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  • You need to have watched this documentary. It was all there.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday July 12 2005, @09:35AM (#170926)
  • "There Is A Light" was on a BBC documentry thing called "Car Nation" a while ago, but they only used the beginning up to "driving in your car". Boring Programme though.

    Oh yeah, The Smiths are mentioned in "Going Out" by Scarlett Thomas too, very briefly.
    EEP -- Tuesday July 12 2005, @11:50AM (#170983)
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  • the way "Reader Meets Author" was used was excellent. It sums up how the "working class" people are seen these days. Bad & useless. It's not the whole true thou people. They are the salt of the earth!
    shoplifter71 -- Tuesday July 12 2005, @02:40PM (#171032)
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  • Low-life (Score:2, Informative)

    I had meant to catch this, hope it’s repeated again.

    In his 1995 interview with Stuart Maconie in Q Magazine, he asked Morrissey: Is "low life" the right term for what you write about?

    "No, it's my life actually. It's not affected in the least. Working-class culture isn't particularly going anywhere. On the song you mention, I sing, "The year 2000 won't change anyone here" and that's true. It won't change their lives. They won't be catapulted into space age culture and mobile fax machines. The poor remain poor. Someone has to work in Woolworth's."

    And it could have been you?
    "No. I haven't got the legs."
    goinghome -- Tuesday July 12 2005, @03:23PM (#171040)
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    • Hey hey !! by Hello Indie (Score:1) Wednesday July 13 2005, @03:37AM

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