The new album does sound intriguing. Love some of the song titles e.g. 'Saint in a stained glass window' and the fact that there's a whole new team onboard.
Just wish the whole thing wasn't named after the Manchester bombing - smacks a little of sensationalism and it sounds like only one of the...
Bragg has covered several Smiths songs (including Ask and Never Had No-one Ever) and has always been mates with Marr so I wouldn't say he was jealous of them. In response to another comment, he has challenged Morrissey's muddled political comments/stance in the past, way before the For Britain...
What are the comments about? His support for the far right?
If so, he needs a clear statement retracting this support (that can be linked to). Until he does, no-one can really post anything solid in his defence.
As a pop fan and someone who hates indie snobbery, I've tried to be positive about this whole thing but Rick really seems to mishandle these songs. He just belts most of them out at top volume without tone or nuance. Credit where it's due, though, the rendition of Well I Wonder is a beauty.
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Marr won't do it until/unless Morrissey unambiguously and publicly retracts his official support for a far-right political group, which he has yet to do. Marr is simply too decent a person to be associated with that ugly world, and as long as Morrissey remains a far-right sympathiser (on record...
The context of this song partly explains the polarised opinions. At the time it seemed pretty bog standard - nowhere near the sparkling quality of the Bona Drag era singles (from just over 18 months before) and further still from the genius of The Smiths. But looked at nowadays, and given the...
A plain dreary old song - hard to believe that Jesse T would go on to write such musical delights as Knockabout World, Hurling Days, What Kind of People etc. And bonkers to think this was the closest Morrissey ever got to a UK #1 single, due to the post-Quarry hype and a singles chart at its...
It's damning with faint praise but this is way better than pretty much everything on Southpaw Grammar. A sturdy tune and evocative, haunting lyrics beautifully sung with some really great harmonies in the final minute or so courtesy, presumably, of Mr Alain Gordon Whyte. Really looking forward...
I like this whole concept and Richard clearly means well but his singing voice is a bit ... yuck. He just seems to belt out everything at top volume without any light or shade, a bit like Liam Gallagher. Nuance-free cover versions. Still, maybe some good will come of the whole thing...
You missed off his sympathy for Tommy Robinson.
But his criticism of Sadiq Khan is actually fair enough and is absolutely nothing to do with Khan's ethnicity. Khan does what Blair used to drop - speak in a contrived way to try and sound like the common man e.g. by dropping his t's, and the 'g'...
Really don't like this one at all. Foolish, unfunny lyrics set to boring plodding music.
The worst lyric is probably:
"Lock-jawed popstars, thicker than pig-shit, nothing to convey,
So scared to show intelligence, it might smear their lovely career"
If they're deliberately not showing...
Really love this song. It's a beauty and so different to the standard post-Vauxhall fare he was churning out in the mid to late 90s. One of four truly great songs on Maladjusted. Wonderful arrangement with the dreamy guitars, the woodwind and some lovely backing vocals presumably courtesy of Mr...
I think there's actually some great music on High School but it's often ruined by really awful lyrics which render several of the songs almost unlistenable. If you removed the singing, it's probably one of his stronger albums, musically. Certainly more interesting musically than the joyless...
There are some very damaged people hanging out round here. A lot of them effectively based their whole persona on Morrissey/the Smiths back in the day. The clothes, the hair, the posters on the wall, the brilliantly witty quotes from interviews, the hatred of Thatcher, the meat industry, royal...
Decimated is a bit of an exaggeration but it has definitely reduced considerably since he publicly endorsed far-right politics in 2018/2019. Probably down by 50% in the UK and perhaps around a third elsewhere. It's still the size of many a middling indie group's fanbase (e.g. Flaming Lips...
I don't know what the situation is like elsewhere but in the UK, Marr is outperforming Morrissey in almost every aspect. His albums receive much more critical acclaim - Call the Comet scored 78/100 on average (Metacritic), Morrissey's last two have scored 59 and 62.
Since Morrissey's mass fan...
Was never a top-tier song but part of the problem is the arrangement/production on the album.
The live (Beethoven Was Deaf) version is massively better - the guitar melodies and overall energy just sound much stronger
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