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Comments / Notes
"If you must write prose and poems,
the words you use should be your own"
livingsign <[email protected]>
- Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 18:50:24 (PST) | #1
they really are a pathetic band.
the draise train
- Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:37:59 (PST) | #2
It took 5 years for them to make this album, and they can't even write their own lyrics?
Keep off the nod!
Crimson
- Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:24:45 (PST) | #3
I can´t see what´s wrong with quoting Morrissey. I feel like it´s pretty usual to quote those you adore. I remember something Justine Frischmann told once in an interview when she talked about her younger years, meeting Morrissey. All she could say (with a red face) was "Oh my god, you´re Morrissey" - All he replied was (In a pissed way): "I know I am", turning away.She also said that she has always been a big Smiths- and Moz-Fan.
Dorian Kray <[email protected]>
- Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:08:15 (PST) | #4
It also goes:
"What I want
Fifteen minutes with you
(...)
To kiss you until our lips are numb"
María
Barcelona - Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 09:34:14 (PST) | #5
Why shouldn't they quote him? Morrissey is constantly quoting other people, sometimes very subtly. I should think it's a kind of sincere flattery.
Jesse <[email protected]>
Mesa, Arizona - Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 14:15:50 (PST) | #6
i personally quote or make reference to Morrissey or his life in many of my poetry or songs. Seems like the most obvious thing to do. But make it in a original way. Remember "Heaven knows i'm missing him now" by Sandie Shaw. Morrissey does it all the time. Like said before in a subtle way. The way it is suppose to be done.
Moz cowboy <[email protected]>
long beach ca - Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 17:24:06 (PST) | #7
As a singer/songwriter here in New York City and a HUGE Moz fan, I must defend Elastica whilst simultaneously outing myself as another MOZ Plagarist....In my song "Undecided", I feature these lyrics in the final chorus: "Pure and undenying....Sure and undeciding...find the freedom and the guide..." Obviously lifted from "I Won't Share You". Sorry, couldn't resist. If anybody EVER noticed that I'd hug them. WW
Watt White <[email protected]>
New York, NY - Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 20:38:30 (PST) | #8
Whatt i to refer to Morrissey, either in context of his songs or just him in general.Here's a small part of "Seaside view" "oh please no
i don't want to hear bono
but could you please
hold me
to the tune of Morrissey
...well i wonder" Just a funny song i wrote about how sometimes Morrissey's the only voice that you can hear when you feel like when you need a gentle hug.
Moz cowboy <[email protected]>
long beach ca - Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 21:14:17 (PST) | #9
"...don't plagerize or take on loan..."
Kristen Elde <[email protected]>
- Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 14:09:43 (PST) | #10
just to make the point clear: in "cemetry gates"
morrissey`s intention is to say he objects the notion of "you shouldnt plagiarize" and the parallel notion of "you can if you mention the original". thats why he calls this annoying person "someone with a big nose"..morrissey connects ripping off people to the graveyard issue by saying that quoting them is a why of preserving their heritage and thus making them alive again (my inference..:).
noam <[email protected]>
israel - Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 06:52:44 (PST) | #11
But isn't Morrissey indirectly referring to himself when he says "someone, somewhere, with a big nose who knows"? I think there's little seperation between the speaker and Morrissey in this song. He says, "but I've read well" when he catches the deception. You're not suggesting that he views the plagurist favourably? Morrissey does indeed use some words of others in his songs, but they are not unlike the heavy allusions in "The Waste Land" or Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I think Elastica is paying tribute. You simply cannot footnote a song.
livingsign
- Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:57:04 (PDT) | #12
It could be worse , Imagine Elton John covering a Moz song........
Diogo <[email protected]>
Lisbon.Portugal - Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 17:02:54 (PDT) | #13
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