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AHAHAHAHAMarr needed to stop tickling the guitar and play the fucking thing.
Most of the lads who were into metal in my school weren't really into music, I'm pretty sure. They just wanted to write band names in cool scripts on their bags
Great post Scutter and I completely agree with this statement. Marr's music is amazing on this record. Too often his music gets overlooked as The Smiths are generally spoken about in relation to Morrissey's lyrics; but Marr is astonishing on this record.Maybe this is controversial, but I always saw this more as a Johnny Marr album than a Morrissey album.
I'm finding this first listen very tough, it's so incredibly dreary and fey. The production is utterly horrible, every guitar tone is destroyed and thinned out. The melodies are playground jangles, there is nothing inspirational or passionate or innovative in this music. Morrissey's voice is a shit in my ear.
This song would be a highpoint of any bands career. The lyrics are up there with the best in pop music
Most of the lads who were into metal in my school weren't really into music, I'm pretty sure. They just wanted to write band names in cool scripts on their bags. In my day the most divisive schism was between Guns n roses and Nirvana
I remember when this came out, taking the trip into town to buy it, not being able to wait to get home to play it and then in the quiet of my bedroom putting it on and just being blown away. I'm not sure I'd even heard a single track off it beforehand (but memory being what it is, I'd probably heard whatever single came out in advance). That moment in "I Know It's Over" when Morrissey hits the bass note on the "over"; I actually thought my heart would stop.Hello Thumpeders, I have decided that 2016 has been so terrible so far in terms of losing David Bowie, that I need to do something positive relating to music, and perhaps the Thumped Album Club might be a good place to start, so just to contribute a tiny tuppence - this record, to my mind, is one of the most important of the twentieth century, and for me, it is because it is the perfect mingling of lyrics and melody - together they create something so beautiful. It is the fractious, profound, complicated dynamic of Morrissey and Marr.I just think it strikes a deeply moving, as well as blackly humorous atmosphere,and one that teenagers who don't feel understood relate to, and adults who were those teenagers, relate to, ooh and "Cemetery Gates", and the references to Keats, Yeats, and the triumph of Wilde - I suppose it harnesses the rambling romantic in me, that "dreaded sunny day". That probably makes no sense, but I suppose it's only a tuppence.
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