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  1. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    One for the kids there, at #30! I'm assuming most of the Top 10 will be Beyonce and Taylor Swift.
  2. BookishBoy

    American Songwriter: "The Story Behind Electronic’s “Getting Away with It” and How It Parodies a 1980s Icon" (May 14, 2024)

    Unrelated, but imagine writing a song that parodies "Joe le taxi" - that would get confusing.
  3. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    There's more chance of seeing a Gary Glitter album on a list like this than a Morrissey album, at this point...
  4. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    Some more wonderful records in those 10, but I've never, ever understood the appeal of that Janet Jackson album (or any of her stuff). It just sounds so horrifically of its era, and overproduced, and - ugh. Maybe just bad memories, I guess.
  5. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    No problem with most of those, but Arctic Monkeys should be nowhere near a list like this. (They're fine, but...greatest records ever made?!)
  6. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    I'm still holding out for Low in High School to be the surprise #1 pick...
  7. BookishBoy

    Apple Music's 100 Best Albums: "The Queen Is Dead" #66

    You're right, that is an odd quote. I'm no kind of Johnny Marr expert and it's not something I've ever read before - can anyone else shed any light on where it's from? (Or did Apple Music perhaps reach out for a quote from him, for this project?)
  8. BookishBoy

    See Steve Albini Has Died

    I'm too much of a lame-assed indie kid to care about 99% of Albini's work (that's my problem not his, obviously!), but holy hell what he did with the Wedding Present's sound on Seamonsters was astonishing.
  9. BookishBoy

    James and Johnny Marr US Tour

    I mean, yes, you're right, those Morrissey lyrics are pretty bad. But to me they still have a drunk uncle charm to them, whereas the Tim Booth lyrics from earlier in the thread just reek of pseudo-profound, half-assed, cod-Coldplay, mass singalong, cringe-infused earnestness.
  10. BookishBoy

    James and Johnny Marr US Tour

    Yes, agree. Is there any kind of female equivalent to Dad-Rock? (I guess "Mom-pop" has a bizarre feel to it...)
  11. BookishBoy

    James and Johnny Marr US Tour

    100% true. "If Things Were Perfect" and "Hymn From a Village" are incredible songs.
  12. BookishBoy

    James and Johnny Marr US Tour

    Every time I see something like this (and it's happening more and more regularly these days), my first thought is: God, what must Morrissey think? (I realise this means I'm mentally ill / unhealthily obsessed - that's fine, whatever - but he must surely, on some level, care? Does it niggle...
  13. 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...
  14. 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?!
  15. 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.
  16. 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!!
  17. 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.
  18. 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...
  19. BookishBoy

    Strange/unexpected Moz references?

    Worth reading just for the phrase "the Pennsylvanian grievancemonger" :ROFLMAO:
  20. 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.
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