It makes me sad too but I don't think he's got much of a choice.
I wrote about it as a commodity only from the standpoint of the general music-buying public. Of course we all know that there are genuine artists making good music that's much more than mere "product". But in today's world...
Ha, well to answer your question I'm going to get even more cynical!
(My answer is also extremely arbitrary and subjective-- but that's never stopped any of us before!)
There are no casual fans, you're right. But there are plenty of casual buyers. One group is shrinking and the other is...
But you answered your own complaint. We will be able to buy the new songs a la carte through iTunes or as a single. There is no need to buy the album. And even if one track is not available anywhere else, I still see that as Decca's decision, not Morrissey's.
I don't think there's a big...
Comtesse, sickened? Not you! Surely not you!
I don't pay attention to these compilations. They are the spawn of record companies and nothing more. Go into a record store and look at the product for any band with a history longer than five years. Half of the CDs are worthless...
Well, you may not need reminding.
The disconnect between the cover photo and the date on our wall calendars only underlines how silly and unnecessary the compilation is. The photo, the lame track listing, the obviously crass and opportunistic release of the album at the outset of his jump...
Sure, that's fair to point out. Morrissey made money off the deal. That's true. All I meant by my statement is that when an artist turns his life into a work of art and shares it with millions of strangers, imbuing an otherwise trashy art form with sublime amounts of honesty, humor, emotion...
You're right about that, but to me his comment also illustrates the more fundamental fact that Lydon is more politically aware than Morrissey. He knows the right answers ahead of time (and, unlike so many, he probably even believes in them). I think Morrissey agrees with Lydon but doesn't have...
I wasn't going to buy this anyway. I haven't bought a Morrissey compilation since "Bona Drag" and even that one I pretty much bought just for the artwork. By the time these things come out I already own all the songs and I'm sure that's true for most of us.
Dave, you seem to be-- I don't...
Never played live as a solo artist, but (useless trivia alert) the cover of the single was used as the stage backdrop for the Wolverhampton gig in 1988.
Of course not. His style is instantly recognizable and we would know. I do think, as many others have also speculated, that he has people reading the boards, at least once in awhile. There was a girl a few years back who did that and admitted as much.
I've noticed that Dave and I sometimes sound alike too. Maybe we are schizos and WormDave escaped into the past from a grim totalitarian future that dwarfs even the worst horrors imagined by Philip K. Dick.
The Smiths' breakup felt like you were suddenly pushed down a thirty-foot well into pitch-black freezing cold darkness, trapped and helpless, a heap of broken bones and oozing blood-- and yet, at the same time, having a vivid awareness of the outside, too: a horrified witness to the shove in the...
Agree, it's a silly claim to make. But some other critics are doing just that, like Sasha Frere-Jones in The New Yorker.
People like Reynolds seem to forget that The Smiths were one half Johnny Marr. Johnny wasn't exactly hostile to "black music", as his post-Smiths music proves-- not that...
Me and lots of people here. Once again you are far too kind-- let's, um, let's change the subject back to what's really important.
I was appalled at Simon Reynolds' recent article in Salon. About The Smiths, Reynolds says they were “a critical force in the drift away from the dance floor...
Puh-leeeeze. Do me a favor and don't repeat this ridiculous claim, even though you are jesting. It tends to invite abuse on my poor little head.
Of course, in this thread I richly deserve it. :)
Ever since Oscar Wilde died you're the only one. You and maybe Merlin Holland*.
I just read it again last weekend actually. I really liked it. I'm hot and cold about that novel. Sometimes I think it's a mess, but this time I appreciated it more than I have in years. I noticed Lord...
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