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    On this day

    @Famous when dead , my post was not intended to slight your diligence in any way. I am very grateful for your continual efforts to improve the content quality experience on this site. My comment was more a general observation, not a critique. A sincere mea culpa if it was taken as such.
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    On this day

    It's somewhat amazing - or perhaps indicative of M's current inertia - that yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the release of Vauxhall and I and there was no post commemorating it.
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    "The Smiths" album turns 40 - various articles (February 20, 2024)

    It's the one Smiths album I revisit as a "chore." If you replaced "Miserable Lie" and "Pretty Girls Make Graves" with "Accept Yourself," "These Things Take Time," or "Jeane," I would stand it up against the later albums unabashedly. I'm probably in the minority but I don't think either Troy...
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    Peter Doherty parle des Smith

    I scrolled past the picture first and thought it was Boz being accompanied on a record-shopping trip. It's nice to see Peter healthy and seemingly fully together. Having read his book, it's amazing he was able to pull out of the maelstrom before it was too late. I'm looking forward to the...
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    Morrissey Central "There Is A Happy Land." (February 14, 2024)

    Of all the certified classics in his canon, this one gets lifted up. Perplexing in 2008, perplexing now.
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    What's *the most* Morrissey lyric, in your view?

    Sixteen, clumsy and shy, I went to London and I, I booked myself in at the Y...WCA. I said: "I like it here, can I stay? I like it here, can I stay? Do you have a vacancy for a back-scrubber?"
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    Book of Condolence Thread

    The moment when Apollo realizes that Rocky will go the distance. Brilliant acting moment. https://makeagif.com/i/gOBGMP
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    Your favorite tracks that go unappreciated?

    I'm glad Alain has taken to performing Southpaw live. It's perhaps the one tragic oversight of M's live canon. But the performance seems hermetically sealed with that year, that line-up - which HMV as much as suggested in the 2009 reissue liner notes. It's hard to quantify what underscores...
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    Guardian: "Offending Ringo and probing Thatcher: Tom Hibbert, the man who ‘brought the bonkers’ to Smash Hits" (February 6, 2024)

    I imagine Morrissey had a "game respecting game" reaction to Hibbert's Colonel Sanders "gotcha."
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    The Tortured Poets Department.

    As a counterpoint, I would offer that I'm lucky enough to be married to an extremely accomplished, keenly intelligent woman in her mid-forties. She has discovered herself and then some. She also has followed TS since the late Aughts and her passion has only increased with the years. And it's...
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    'Bona Drag - Reassembled' Fan Edit

    Good point. I'm willing to bet it's Alain as co-writer's choice, though. Boz is known to spice up tracks with guitar esoterica so it could really be any one of them. "Issues" would also be a kinder box in which to place the matter of Alain's guitar work being buried a full fathom five in the...
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    'Bona Drag - Reassembled' Fan Edit

    Very erudite rendering of Bona as album rather than compilation. All in all, it's clear that they were at least 3-4 tracks shy of delivering a cogent, cohesive album. In answer to your first question, I would bet that it is an electric sitar, which is shaped and played like a guitar but also...
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    Kill Uncle and Southpaw Grammar - what ifs

    I think "reinvent" is perhaps too strong a word - he seemed to be exploring other personas throughout the Nineties. His wardrobe changes at the time felt like signal points. You had the head-on collision of glam with rockabilly in 1991-1992, with the diaphanous shirts and vintage rolled jeans...
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    What now? A frank and open deep conversation

    M once retrospectively described Southpaw Grammar as fixed in time, firmly stuck in 1995. For me, it's hard not to feel that an album like Bonfire, which was constructed in the quarantine period of pandemic, is suffering a similar fate - if unheard, by and large. Without Music The World Dies has...
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    Your 10 least favourite Morrissey tracks

    I listened to the full-length version of "Moonriver" for the first time in about 20 years on Friday. I hope I never make that mistake again.
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