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Smiths in the media
Posted on Sat, Jan 23 1999
by David T. <[email protected]>
In Italy, from Stefano Falda:

In some Italian cinemas before the film is showed a beer commercial with "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" as background music. The images have no connection with the music, they show ordinary life scenes, if I remember right. Anyway it's great to hear a Smiths song in a big and modern cinema... the sound is terrific.

In Germany, The Queen Is Dead as an album to better understand the 80's, from Stefan Krix:

In the February Issue of the German music magazine 'Musikexpress / Sounds' the title story is about the 80's and a possible revival of this music.

For 'a better understanding' of this decade, they list 12 Albums who are typical. One of those is The Queen Is Dead.

'Morrissey und seine Smiths preßten das Lebensgefühl der ewig Pubertierenden in knappe, unsterbliche Textzeilen: "And if a double-decker bus / crashes into us / to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die".

Nie war Larmoyanz gepflegter in den 80ern - und Zeilen wie diese und prägnante Analysen der Thatcher-Ära halfen einer ganzen Generation beim Erwachsenwerden.'


Comments / Notes



Could someone please translate this from german, no matter how simple it is? Thanks.
maladjusted matt <[email protected]>
- Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 23:54:07 (PST)



My German's not great, but this is my translation.

Morrissey and his Smiths spelled out the feeling of eternal puberty in brief undying verses: "And if a double-decker bus..."
Never was noisiness(?) so cultivated in the 80's, and lyrics like these pithy analyses of the Thatcher era helped a whole generation grow up.


Halbmensch
- Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 00:30:54 (PST)



I just can't see myself ever even haveing the desire to learn german..therfore I don't care what it says
particleman
- Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 15:17:08 (PST)



Larmoyanz: whining (not sure what the noun of this is), mawkishness/sentimentality
HollyG <[email protected]>
D - Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:02:02 (PST)





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