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  1. BookishBoy

    Big Issue / Robin Ince: "You can grow up to be Morrissey or you can grow up to be Johnny Marr – which are you?" (April 30, 2024)

    Well yes. He's never going to get much in the way of coverage / airplay via the BBC / music press / broadsheets unless in some way he addresses the perception that has (fairly or unfairly) grown around him. You may be right that "most" ordinary people would agree with him - but then it's hard...
  2. BookishBoy

    Big Issue / Robin Ince: "You can grow up to be Morrissey or you can grow up to be Johnny Marr – which are you?" (April 30, 2024)

    What if the choice was Morrissey or Michael Jackson, though?!
  3. BookishBoy

    Big Issue / Robin Ince: "You can grow up to be Morrissey or you can grow up to be Johnny Marr – which are you?" (April 30, 2024)

    Maybe some people just have very low expectations of pop lyrics making much sense? I blame Kajagoogoo.
  4. BookishBoy

    Big Issue / Robin Ince: "You can grow up to be Morrissey or you can grow up to be Johnny Marr – which are you?" (April 30, 2024)

    There was a huge thread on Twitter the other day, sparked by someone admitting they had only just discovered that the lyric is son/heir and not sun/air - and it turned out that soooooooooo many people have always thought the same thing. Weird!!
  5. BookishBoy

    Morrissey Central "Beethoven U.S.A." (April 25, 2024)

    I suspect, like for way too many of us, his identity is way too closely tied up with his work. If he stops writing songs and stops performing in front of a crowd, I'm not sure he'd have any reason to live.
  6. BookishBoy

    Big Issue / Robin Ince: "You can grow up to be Morrissey or you can grow up to be Johnny Marr – which are you?" (April 30, 2024)

    ...is done. (b) It's just a shit article anyway. You might as well be George W. Bush and say "you're either with us or against us". It's just so f***ing dumbed down. Can't we have nuanced articles about the human flaws that can, magically, lead to the creation of great art? Can't we put...
  7. BookishBoy

    Strange/unexpected Moz references?

    Worth reading just for the phrase "the Pennsylvanian grievancemonger" :ROFLMAO:
  8. BookishBoy

    Fiona Dodwell: "Morrissey Was Rejecting Toxic Masculinity 30 Years Before It Was Fashionable" (April 27, 2024)

    I love how she says "My piece for Gabfest" as if someone's commissioned her to write it. When it's just her own website.
  9. BookishBoy

    Morrissey Central "INTERLUDE CHART POSITION" (April 27, 2024)

    That's exactly what he was implying, yes. I'm sure all the major labels by this point are well aware of the rabid Morrissey/Smiths collector demographic and - this being late capitalism and all - they will happily fleece that market for as much as they can and for as long as they can.
  10. BookishBoy

    Fiona Dodwell: "Morrissey Was Rejecting Toxic Masculinity 30 Years Before It Was Fashionable" (April 27, 2024)

    I guess the young Dudwell was too busy blu-tacking Michael Jackson posters to her bedroom wall in 1985 to have ever heard "The Headmaster Ritual". Sigh.
  11. BookishBoy

    "Interlude" enters Official Vinyl Singles Chart at #9 (April 26, 2024)

    That's no way to talk about Dodwell!
  12. BookishBoy

    "Interlude" enters Official Vinyl Singles Chart at #9 (April 26, 2024)

    This hasn't yet been mentioned on Morrissey Central. (Maybe it still will be, who knows?)
  13. BookishBoy

    "Interlude" enters Official Vinyl Singles Chart at #9 (April 26, 2024)

    IANADOAC charted at #3 and disappeared from the Top 100 in its second week. For comparison, Johnny's "Fever Dreams" album in 2022 charted at #4 and disappeared the next week. It's pretty common these days.
  14. BookishBoy

    "Interlude" enters Official Vinyl Singles Chart at #9 (April 26, 2024)

    ((And for anyone who cares about such things, James' new album went from #1 to #77, which is actually a decent showing these days for a second week on the chart by an indie / cult band.))
  15. BookishBoy

    "Interlude" enters Official Vinyl Singles Chart at #9 (April 26, 2024)

    (In related news, both The Sound of The Smiths and Hatful of Hollow went back up the UK album chart again this week...)
  16. BookishBoy

    "Interlude" enters Official Vinyl Singles Chart at #9 (April 26, 2024)

    Literally the only thing this tells us is that "Interlude" was the 9th most popular vinyl single released for RSD this year, behind offerings from artists like Olivia Rodrigo, Kate Bush, Queen, and John Lennon - but ahead of RSD releases by Daft Punk, The Charlatans and David Byrne. There's...
  17. BookishBoy

    Strange/unexpected Moz references?

    Amazing, really, that the Guardian can publish an article like this without mentioning Morrissey. (So I guess this is an unexpected non mention...) I absolutely Nia Archives, by the way: twee drum 'n' bass isn't something I ever thought I'd hear, but it's excellent.
  18. BookishBoy

    Morrissey Central "Beethoven U.S.A." (April 25, 2024)

    I mean, you'd think someone could at least have ironed the shirt for him...
  19. BookishBoy

    What cover version would you most like to hear Morrissey sing?

    Given that this was written as an homage to/ piss-take of Morrissey (I've never been quite sure, although I remember Harvey talking about it somwhere), it would be so great to hear him belt it out:
  20. BookishBoy

    Strange/unexpected Moz references?

    I can't believe this piece from The Onion is 20 years old now. It's still an all-time classic of its kind. Opening paragraph: Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the f***ing vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out...
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