Oh, Morrissey. One day you may actually stop lamenting!
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"Also, I would prefer a back seater over the extra gas any day. I would have 80 pounds of flesh to eat and a pair of glasses to start a fire." --F/A-18 Hornet pilot
Yes there are some pretty sarcastic undertones in that one. Probably very illustrative of the Manchester scene at the time. Which reminds me of another product of that somewhat depressing town (well at least based on some of the popular music coming out of there in the early eighties)
Oh, Morrissey. One day you may actually stop lamenting!
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he he. One of our 'dares' in college was to go to a used CD store and lick a Morressy or Smiths cd. Never could get anyone to do it.
"He's not just a regular moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived."
I saw Morrissey back in the summer, he did a mixture of his own stuff and The Smiths, it was great, lots of arm waving to be had!
Iggy Pop was on before and that man seriously f****n rocks for a 64 year old!
That Farrow bloke you executed today, are you sure he's dead? Well I chopped his head off, that usually does the trick. Yes, don't get clever with me Baldrick. I just thought you might have lopped off a leg or something by mistake. No, the thing I chopped off had a nose.
Morrissey still does put on a good show, you can tell he still doesn't take himself too seriously and is still having fun with it, Johnny Marr is still quite active too with other bands...
Maybe it's just me but I think The Smiths' music has aged pretty well and much better than most other 80s acts I still listen to it from time to time.
"Manchester so much to answer for..." then again The Hacienda in Manchester was also responsible for lots of the early Acid House Music (techno) scene, when I was stationed in Germany in '89-'90 I wanted to do a road trip to Manchester to visit the famous Hacienda...
That Farrow bloke you executed today, are you sure he's dead? Well I chopped his head off, that usually does the trick. Yes, don't get clever with me Baldrick. I just thought you might have lopped off a leg or something by mistake. No, the thing I chopped off had a nose.
"Manchester so much to answer for..." then again The Hacienda in Manchester was also responsible for lots of the early Acid House Music (techno) scene, when I was stationed in Germany in '89-'90 I wanted to do a road trip to Manchester to visit the famous Hacienda...
Ah, yes, but alot of the Acid House came from Chicago. In fact, Maurice, who is featured in that video, was a DJ here in Chicago for some time. And in the mid-80s, Chicago's Hot Mix 5 paid a visit to the UK to introduce their house mixing there which started the ball rolling.
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"Also, I would prefer a back seater over the extra gas any day. I would have 80 pounds of flesh to eat and a pair of glasses to start a fire." --F/A-18 Hornet pilot
This was the first Smith's song I can recall hearing circa 1984 in the States. I still gives me pause to listen.
Then there was the time outside the college dormitories where some guy had put his speaker system up into the dorm windows and blared it all over campus.
Ah, yes, but alot of the Acid House came from Chicago. In fact, Maurice, who is featured in that video, was a DJ here in Chicago for some time. And in the mid-80s, Chicago's Hot Mix 5 paid a visit to the UK to introduce their house mixing there which started the ball rolling.
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Yeah even in Germany we all knew House came from Chicago, but it was a huge fun House Music clubbing scene there (at least Germany and UK), when I came back stateside in 1990 I was disappointed when at clubs in Austin and Seattle no-one seemed to know much about "House Music", I think it was big in Chicago and maybe other big nightlife cities like Detroit, NY, LA but somehow never took off here in the US outside those areas much until the later popularity of techno.
Another personal favorite Smiths song with very questionable lyrics not sure how Moz kept from getting in trouble with this one, but he was ever trying to shock in those days:
You either 'get it', or you don't. Good luck. All the best.
Strangeways, here we come!
Not my favorite release by the smiths, but it does have some excellent tunes!
Nothing's changed I still love you, oh, I still love you ...Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love
I will be watching Morrissey live next Thursday Morrissey's solo material rocks, but nothing like the Morrissey/Marrs combo! Here's hoping Morrissey plays this Smiths tune...
"Manchester so much to answer for..." then again The Hacienda in Manchester was also responsible for lots of the early Acid House Music (techno) scene, when I was stationed in Germany in '89-'90 I wanted to do a road trip to Manchester to visit the famous Hacienda...
iirc, the red riding trilogy of films (on my 'must see' list) is also based loosely on these events. edit...i stand corrected. this film series refers to the Yorkshire murders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Riding
Boy, I miss the days of pulling out the latest album and putting it on the turntable for radio airplay. It's amazing all these years later I still play all the 80's alternative groups along with todays music.
Here's a nice one I found a while ago
Cure's Robert Smith doing a back stage cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart. I can't think of better combination.
That "mixed up" album is great, one of the few where the remixes are actually superior to the originals IMHO, at least for me whenever I listen to The Cure these days, it is either that album or "Staring at the Sea", both still hold up very well.
