BookishBoy
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Our song for today is this Morrissey/Whyte composition, one of the B-sides to yesterday's song, "Sunny" - recorded in March 1994 but not released for almost two years.
What do we think?
Interesting note courtesy of PJLM: "This song's working title was "The Dennis Cockall Song". It's how it is identified on the master tape."
PJLM states: "This song was recorded with producer Steve Lillywhite in March 1994 at a b-sides session for the "Hold On To Your Friends" single (studio unknown). "Moonriver" was also recorded during that session, it did appear on the latter single, but not "A Swallow On My Neck" which was shelved until the end of 1995 when EMI put together the "Sunny" single comprising songs which had been left aside, such as this one."I agree that the Sunny EP is one of his most underrated, I also discovered these songs many years after their release. More playful and upbeat than Sunny, it is every bit as good. A simple song from a simple man with an unexpected turn in the vocal harmony towards the end instead of repeating the chorus for a third time, simply genius.
I remember reading that Sunny was recorded as part of the Boxers sessions but saved for later. How about this one?
A combination of those things, I think? Vinyl was plummeting at that point, so the only one of Morrissey's four singles in 1995 to have a 12-inch version was "Boxers". The three after that were 7-inch / CD singles. (But then "Alma Matters" in mid-97 did have a 12-inch version!)Why no 12" at that point in time? Did they vanish from the surface in mid 95 or did EMI loose interest in good old Moz?
So it looks like this song was destined to romain in the vaults if it wasn’t for EMI‘s greed to make some more money on the back of Morrissey. Shocking.PJLM states: "This song was recorded with producer Steve Lillywhite in March 1994 at a b-sides session for the "Hold On To Your Friends" single (studio unknown). "Moonriver" was also recorded during that session, it did appear on the latter single, but not "A Swallow On My Neck" which was shelved until the end of 1995 when EMI put together the "Sunny" single comprising songs which had been left aside, such as this one."
Strange enough, all Maladjusted singles were avaialable as 12".A combination of those things, I think? Vinyl was plummeting at that point, so the only one of Morrissey's four singles in 1995 to have a 12-inch version was "Boxers". The three after that were 7-inch / CD singles. (But then "Alma Matters" in mid-97 did have a 12-inch version!)