Great stuff. Thanks for posting that. Interesting that the often Moz-baiting Harris notes that "2014 arguably finds Morrissey's esteem at an all-time high..."
Where's the complete track listing? You guys are slipping
Don't really understand why the first review dismisses My Love Life as "woeful".
It's not up there with Everyday Is Like Sunday or First of the Gang to Die, but I've never seen it considered among critics to be a particularly bad song.
I always thought it was quite an entrancing little gem. Saint John of Peel even liked it, his reason being 'it sounds like The Smiths'. But who are we to argue against the critical heft of John 'eyes akimbo' Harris?
During the interview AN brings up the subject of Englishness and Johnny makes a point about how he wanted to record 'The Messenger' back in England, but did a bit in Berlin to show that he's not a Little Englander, not into Nationalism of any kind. He always felt himself to be "Irish Mancunian" anway.
The reviews aren't good enough. This is a 10/10 album...the one that came after it is too.
My Love Life is wonderful. So is the song. Hypnotic.
He is into national identity really then, as he identifies as being Irish ahead of being English or British. He's just a Little Irelander rather than being a Little Englander. Should he not seek Irish nationality in that case? What would be the tax implications? Apart from horrendous, I mean. Not that that would be a consideration at all. Oh no. This is a moral issue, surely?
Who in their right mind would buy an album recorded in England and immediately think "Hmmm... He must be a Little Englander." It would be a ludicrous assumption, nearly as ludicrous as "I despise all notions of nationalism. Let's record in... Berlin." Uh-huh. That would be the same Berlin not so very long ago famous for history's most appallingly extreme form of nationalism. Where will he record next? Oslo because he hates snow? Bogota because he doesn't like heights?
Like many pop stars he's torn between being honest and being cool, not something you could say of Morrissey, always happy to be often very honest about his beliefs and often faintly to extremely ridiculous. Marr hates his English roots, is happy to slag England off at the drop of a hat to massage his dwindling career, but continues to travel the world on a British passport. Time to hand it in Johnny Boy and get yourself over to the Republic. They've never had nationalism ever at all, oh, no, and they've not supported the Nazis fully since 1945. They just looked after a few war criminals afterwards, but it was only the Jews, eh? f*** 'em.
Your inaccurate comments about Ireland are ignorant to say the least. Obviously you know nothing about the tax system here for artists and less about the tiny handful of people who tried to use Nazi help to rid the country of the blight of an English invading force whose modus operandi was attempted genocide under a blood marinated flag. Read some history books and open your eyes to your own history. Or we're those pages torn out?
Your inaccurate comments about Ireland are ignorant to say the least. Obviously you know nothing about the tax system here for artists and less about the tiny handful of people who tried to use Nazi help to rid the country of the blight of an English invading force whose modus operandi was attempted genocide under a blood marinated flag. Read some history books and open your eyes to your own history. Or we're those pages torn out?
Well said, barleycorns foot in mouth syndrome would fit in well in the orange order, no doubt he prefers their "music" to that of morrissey