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"The Smiths File Online" - new Smiths and Morrissey website

posted by davidt on Thursday January 31 2008, @01:00PM
Buck-toothed girl writes:
Great new Smiths and Morrissey website - The Smiths File Online. The site includes select magazine and newspaper articles, album and single reviews, news items, photos and scans. Also boasts a sizable collection of Smiths live reviews, including the first ever live review to appear in NME. Also of interest are items (articles, reviews) from the New Zealand-only rock publication Rip It Up. All the material is presented chronologically and in a manner similiar to a book - it's a kind of 'e-book', if you like - and tells the story of Morrissey and The Smiths through the pages of the music press and other print media. Overall, a thorough summary of the press coverage received by both Morrissey and The Smiths. http://www.plunderingdesire.com/
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  • Looks like another great site. :)
    vicarinatutugal -- Thursday January 31 2008, @01:37PM (#293517)
    (User #14646 Info)
  • Look like someone copied all the relevant smiths and moz sites that other people have put hours and hours of work into and then put it into his own site. The copyright notice is annoying. As if the "purpose of profit" criterium is of any relevance, and then stating that we should refrain from using this material.....

    no kudos here, and yes I am a glass half empty man.
    Anonymous -- Thursday January 31 2008, @01:48PM (#293526)
    • Re:oh no! by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday January 31 2008, @03:48PM
  • Great site. Plenty of new material available here. Well worth checking out. A good one-stop Smiths/Morrissey site.
    Anonymous -- Thursday January 31 2008, @04:20PM (#293551)
  • Could spend hours. Did spend hours, actually! Became totally nostalgic re-reading some of the reviews and enjoyed reading many for the first time. It is a great complilation.
    Von Sulstrus -- Thursday January 31 2008, @08:24PM (#293570)
    (User #8425 Info)
  • Brilliant, comprehensive site. Great for (trying to) source that long forgotten quote.

    Actually, this one (from Q, 1995) is good:

    If you were forced to leave England at the point of a gun, where would you go?
    Jersey, Guernsey, anywhere with a decent postal service.

    Not Los Angeles?
    No. I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice but people once they get there cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfilment is not good for the human spirit. We all need rain and good old depression. Life can't be all beer and skittles. .... interesting.

    Keep it up Jason.
    LawrenceM -- Thursday January 31 2008, @08:52PM (#293573)
    (User #3228 Info | http://listen.to/orangejuice)
    "I wore my fringe like Roger McGuinn"
  • It's a copy of Comtesse's site, he only added
    everything after 1997

    Celibate Cry <[email protected]> -- Friday February 01 2008, @12:50AM (#293580)
    (User #220 Info)
    and the hills are alive with celibate cries
  • Talent borrows, genius steals. Just ask Morrissey ... I like this site. Concise, varied, easy to use, everything in one place. Shall be checking this site often.
    Anonymous -- Friday February 01 2008, @01:31AM (#293581)
  • A colossal archive, original in both design and content. Stupendously splendiferous!!
    Anonymous -- Friday February 01 2008, @02:42AM (#293584)
  • I like this site, it has some great pictures on it that I haven't seen before like http://www.tiptopwebsite.com/photos3/thesmithsfile /wall.jpg or http://www.tiptopwebsite.com/photos3/thesmithsfile /defeated.jpg
    Mozzarella -- Friday February 01 2008, @03:05AM (#293585)
    (User #864 Info | http://www.bozboorer.com/)
    If I wasn't a cat, I'd be a girl.
  • Thanks for this I don't think I will be doing any work ever again WOW what a brilliant site.

    Oh well at least I won't be bored............
    Kaymozzerfan -- Friday February 01 2008, @04:50AM (#293588)
    (User #16622 Info)
    There is a light that truly never goes out!
  • Make Morrissey's current reviews seem ecstatic. How funny to read them being slagged off for "becoming parodies of themselves". Seems critics never get any new lines.
    Anonymous -- Friday February 01 2008, @05:42AM (#293593)
  • What's not to love about this site? A fresh and unique approach, informative and illuminating. Some websites are better than others. (Less spelling mistakes and typos too!) Forget about the red herrings. A new benchmark. Plunder on!!!
    Anonymous -- Friday February 01 2008, @05:44AM (#293594)
  • An archivist's dream - what a place to get lost in.

    All that ancient history that I had forgotten.

    It makes Morrissey's current situation seem even more remarkable.

    Anaesthesine -- Friday February 01 2008, @06:35AM (#293598)
    (User #14203 Info)
    If Moz did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
  • There's a light that never goes out. A now we have a backup in case of a complete black-out. Thank you.
    MILVA -- Friday February 01 2008, @07:53AM (#293607)
    (User #12729 Info)
    no previous convictions
  • Nice to see a site that fully realizes the potential of this whole online archive thang. Most of the other sites needed a bit of a weeding out anyway. You can only read about Oscar Wilde, James Dean (love them!) so many times. All the best, leaves the rest. This is more than just the slaverings of fans. Takes it all in a new direction. A keeper.
    Anonymous -- Friday February 01 2008, @03:15PM (#293760)
  • Great site. And some photos I haven't seen before, for example,
    Appendix A, great pic of the band labeled 'huddle'.
    Also under Appendix B, there's a gorgeous picture of Mike.
    THANK YOU!
    A Proud Smiths fan-
    Hidden By Rags -- Friday February 01 2008, @09:47PM (#293835)
    (User #10262 Info)

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