Their talents aren't really comparable. Morrissey is a great singer, performer and a lyricist, but ha can't play an instrument or compose a song, so he'll always need talented musicians to make music. Marr on the other hand is not much of a singer or a lyricist, so he's at his best when laying in background groundwork for more charismatic singers to shine. I wouldn't blame Morrissey's troubles solely on refusal to conform, because refusing to do interviews, fighting with record companies and cancelling gigs all the time without explanation are all valid reasons for his downfall too as well as the declining quality of his musical output.
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Aw, he’s adorable!Hope he does another one of these videos. Maybe channeling Dude?!
Is this true?
Not to be argumentative, but when you say Morrissey can't compose a song I would disagree. Morrissey composed all the vocal melodies for the Smiths music. I agree Marr created all the chord changes and such, but it is the vocal melody you remember. If you take the vocal melody away from any Smiths song, it is a nice backing track with some great guitar and the 3 piece band (Marr, Rourke, Joyce) were a tight unit, but it would be nothing without the vocal melody which is what you hum (so to speak) and remember. It would just be elevator music without Morrissey's vocal melody. But, you are spot on in regards to the management of his career. Marr really seems to have it together in a big way regarding the management of his career and seems to have surrounded himself with management and people that are really on the lookout for him as opposed to Morrissey who don't seem to care much about anything when it comes to his career other that to take a hatchet to it. Regarding his musical output, I agree except for Dog which I thought was his best record since Vauxhall. It is a shame he let Miley Cyrus hose Bonfire and Without Music seems to be Without a distributor so it could have been a great run if Morrissey if he even half cared about his career. Cheers!
Good catch! Yes. Recording new music + yatq 20 rehearsals in LA between now and those gigs.
Perfectly put.
I think he might have sent her a rough draft at the very least. It does sound very much like him. No one is lining up to interview him (he said he wouldn’t grant interviews anymore) so the only way to get his word out is by going through someone like Fiona who he can kind of control and who would never be critical of him.
Actually, I'm not sure The Draze Train is even good elevator music. Take away Morrissey's vocals and Morrissey's vocal melody lines that he composed himself from every Smiths song and see how far you get as in Nowhere Fast. That is not to say Marr, Rourke, and Joyce were not great at what they did, of course Smiths music is beautiful and fantastically played, but I don't think I would be much interested in Smiths records if you stripped away all the vocal melody lines which were all independently composed by Morrissey unless you consider the voice not to be a musical instrument. In which case, listen to the birds sing on a Spring morning and it is pure improvisational music with thousands of motifs, phrases, and melodic lines like no instrument can match.
Wether we consider him a truth-teller or not, we might all agree on the fact that Miley's vocals blocking the release of his album contributed to silence him.YES!
We need something like this to start a New Year.
Please, Moz.
nothing wrong with gb news,watch it everyday,right wing yes,certainly not far right.
acton only five hours and fifteen minutes till the new album comes out,get yer card at the ready to buy every version,get yer cans in the fridge.
