Johnny Marr new single "Hi Hello" calls back to 'instinctive sensibilities with its jangly guitars'

just awesome song. Chills.

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Link posted by Surface:

Johnny Marr Says 'Hi Hello' to the Old Style in New Single, Video: Exclusive - Billboard

Excerpt:

Johnny Marr is making a reintroduction to a new world on his latest single “Hi Hello” from his forthcoming third solo record Call The Comet.

‘It was one of the songs that just fell into my hands and mind as I was playing,” Marr tells Billboard. “The tune evoked something natural so I just followed it and it felt like I had to sing something personal, something we might all feel about someone sometime.”

The song loosely follows the overarching concept of the next record, which is informed by an alternate utopian reality, even as Marr looks ahead at a dystopian future. It calls back to some of the former Smiths songwriter’s most instinctive sensibilities with its jangly guitar and gloomy keyboard melodies, but they’re presented with a new depth that is distant yet inviting.

 

[vegan.cro spirit# 852]

First we had "the Tracers"
song no 2 Hi Hello

NOW the THIRD SINGLE:

 

[TheHarshTruth]

Do you all lack knowledge of musical history? This song is complete rip
off of M by The Cure 1980’s seventeen seconds album. Not a good achievement. A guitar genius desperate not to use his own advanced style ending up copying a minimalist primitive guitar playing invented 40 years ago. We want to see guitar art. If we want musicians that cannot play we will listen to Morrissey’s party band.

Has it been released? Where can we hear it?

 

[Joe90]

They never review him in context with other musicians, but just in context with Morrissey.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...eview-islington-assembly-hall-london#comments

https://www.standard.co.uk/go/londo...enormous-talent-without-the-ego-a3841371.html

Indeed, The Guardian seem to have an agenda...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/17/johnny-marr-review-islington-assembly-hall-london


Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr review – Manchester rock royalty wrests legacy back from Morrissey

Islington Assembly Hall, London

Marr plays Smiths showstoppers, spliced with songs from new album Call the Comet, and is unafraid to tackle Morrissey’s vocal pirouettes

"This song is about the rise of the right wing,” Johnny Marr says ahead of Bug, his third solo album’s most overt political swipe. A pause for a mischievous sneer. “Or so I’ve read.”

Marr must never tire of reminding interviewers, every time his erstwhile colleague Morrissey opens his once-loving mouth, that it’s been 30 years since they were in a band together. But history binds the pair, though they are about as likely to do a reunion tour as Yanny and Laurel or Cain and Abel. Even today their careers are unintentionally symbiotic, with Moz using official online statements to promote far-right party For Britain on account of their accidental animal rights policies (being anti-Islam means being anti-halal, which is Morrissey catnip). Marr is now the guilt-free Smiths experience.

He’d never acknowledge it, but he plays up to the billing with panache. Striding on stage at this low-key showcase for new album Call the Comet in a shiny bomber jacket and the perfectly imperfect bed-hair of Manchester rock royalty, within two songs he’s into Bigmouth Strikes Again as if out to rescue his heritage from the political plughole. His gruffer, but by no means unrefined, vocals lend fresh flavour to the Smiths tracks he drops intermittently into the set; his fired-up Bigmouth, stabbed through with trademark arpeggios, seems designed to remind us that the Smiths were as much gobby post-punk rabble as they were foppish ego cult, while The Headmaster Ritual could be Daytripper-era Beatles with switchblades up their blazer sleeves.

 

[Orson Swells]

I've noticed a lot of Johnny Marr reviews seem to be classic examples of virtue signalling.

 

[Amy]

I've noticed a lot of Johnny Marr reviews seem to be classic examples of virtue signalling.

Good Smith v Bad Smith?

 

[vegan.cro spirit# 453]

Indeed, The Guardian seem to have an agenda...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/17/johnny-marr-review-islington-assembly-hall-london


Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr review – Manchester rock royalty wrests legacy back from Morrissey

Islington Assembly Hall, London

Marr plays Smiths showstoppers, spliced with songs from new album Call the Comet, and is unafraid to tackle Morrissey’s vocal pirouettes

"This song is about the rise of the right wing,” Johnny Marr says ahead of Bug, his third solo album’s most overt political swipe. A pause for a mischievous sneer. “Or so I’ve read.”

Marr must never tire of reminding interviewers, every time his erstwhile colleague Morrissey opens his once-loving mouth, that it’s been 30 years since they were in a band together. But history binds the pair, though they are about as likely to do a reunion tour as Yanny and Laurel or Cain and Abel. Even today their careers are unintentionally symbiotic, with Moz using official online statements to promote far-right party For Britain on account of their accidental animal rights policies (being anti-Islam means being anti-halal, which is Morrissey catnip). Marr is now the guilt-free Smiths experience.

He’d never acknowledge it, but he plays up to the billing with panache. Striding on stage at this low-key showcase for new album Call the Comet in a shiny bomber jacket and the perfectly imperfect bed-hair of Manchester rock royalty, within two songs he’s into Bigmouth Strikes Again as if out to rescue his heritage from the political plughole. His gruffer, but by no means unrefined, vocals lend fresh flavour to the Smiths tracks he drops intermittently into the set; his fired-up Bigmouth, stabbed through with trademark arpeggios, seems designed to remind us that the Smiths were as much gobby post-punk rabble as they were foppish ego cult, while The Headmaster Ritual could be Daytripper-era Beatles with switchblades up their blazer sleeves.

Reading this Left loon lunacy you'd think DJ was touring stadiums and releasing CDs on BMG.
Change the title of the song to the Biggurgle Strikes Again when he 'sings' it.

 

[g23]

Do you all lack knowledge of musical history? This song is complete rip
off of M by The Cure 1980’s seventeen seconds album. Not a good achievement. A guitar genius desperate not to use his own advanced style ending up copying a minimalist primitive guitar playing invented 40 years ago. We want to see guitar art. If we want musicians that cannot play we will listen to Morrissey’s party band.

I have to say, listening to M and Hi Hello back to back, I'm not hearing it. There are too many layers to Hi Hello, the guitar playing isn't rigid, and the vibes of both songs are totally dissimilar. The two chord up-down thing isn't enough for me to note an influence there. Robert Smith is a guitar god in his own right, but Johnny has a feather touch and "bounce" that Smith doesn't really employ often.

 

[Anonymous]

Reading this Left loon lunacy you'd think DJ was touring stadiums and releasing CDs on BMG.

FYI, Johnny Marr's records are released through Warner Bros in the UK and Sire in the US. New Voodoo is Johnny's personal imprint, just as Etienne is for Morrissey.

 

[g23]

FYI, Johnny Marr's records are released through Warner Bros in the UK and Sire in the US. New Voodoo is Johnny's personal imprint, just as Etienne is for Morrissey.

Warner Bros? Must be one of those independent boutique labels. I've never heard of them.

 

[Anonymous]

Warner Bros? Must be one of those independent boutique labels. I've never heard of them.

I think it’s one of those socialist labels as capitalism is clearly not working for anyone

 

[g23]

I think it’s one of those socialist labels as capitalism is clearly not working for anyone

At least not as far as selling records goes! It's okay though. There's plenty of great new music out there if a person is willing to look for it.

 

[vegan.cro spirit# 852]

FYI, Johnny Marr's records are released through Warner Bros in the UK and Sire in the US. New Voodoo is Johnny's personal imprint, just as Etienne is for Morrissey.

' Warner Music Artist & Label Services' according to wiki. No mention of DJ or NV on the WB website or and associated labels.

Moz gets paid by BMG he doest pay them to hawk his homemade cds.

Whats a day without a little DJ?

 

[Surface]

FYI, Johnny Marr's records are released through Warner Bros in the UK and Sire in the US. New Voodoo is Johnny's personal imprint, just as Etienne is for Morrissey.

Yes he does but Vegan can't get his head around that as he struggles with facts. Just spends his days slagging Johnny off for some reason.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/37120-Johnny-Marr

 

[vegan.cro spirit# 852]

Yes he does but Vegan can't get his head ar
ound that as he struggles with facts. Just spends his days slagging Johnny off for some reason.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/37120-Johnny-Marr

Discogs?
I would think if you went to Sire records or Warner Brothers records website and look for DJ or and
NV records there would at least be a mention. There is dude by the name of Keg Leg on Sire but no
sign of our DJ ditto for WB..... this is very odd, you search google for BMG and Morrissey and a huge
beautiful page of Moz activities BMG comes right up. You dont even to do a minute search or investigation
like you have to do with this NV Record label.

I mean if he is on WB and Sire he should at least be mentioned. Maybe someone should call them at once
and let them know! This is what may be holding back the CALL THE COMET release! The record label may not know they have to release. This seems like a plausible explanation.

There does seem to be a Doughnuts and Voodoo Record label, is it possible DJ recently changed the name?

 

[Anonymous]

Will the B-side ‘Jeopardy’ be available for download?

 

[Anonymous]

I think it's okay for Johnny to sing SOME songs but not this one because he just can't feel this song. He always had someone.

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[messengers]

Saw Johnny live in Amsterdam yesterday. So great to hear the original guitar parts of Bigmouth, How soon is now, Headmaster Ritual, Please please please, Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me, There is a light.... his guitar ability is not diminished at all.
Strange to hear him sing Morrissey's parts. Morrissey is such a unique personality with such personal lyrics, no one else can really feel these lyrics IMO. Johnny really looked his age with dyed hair, and he was charming on-stage without talking too much.

Johnny's top songs Easy money, New town velocity and Hi hello could kind of compete with the Smiths songs, I can imagine Morrissey singing to them. I had the feeling the other solo songs could not compare at all, they're less delicate and less subtle. All in all, I liked this concert better than the Morrissey one I saw a few years ago, purely as Johnny played seven Smiths songs, with the original guitar parts, and Morrissey played only three and concentrated on WPINOYB songs, and no I don't care too much for most of the music that Morrissey put out after Vauxhall.

Watching their concerts is like watching two butchered parts of the Mona Lisa in two different museums. They're so much more together than the sum of their parts. But I'm not telling anything new I guess. And I'm much more a Smiths fan than a solo fan, the solo work is diminishing returns for me, still I love songs like Everyday, Suedehead, Hairdresser, Glamorous Glue, the whole of Vauxhall, Irish Blood, New Town Velocity, Dashboard and Hi hello...

I still feel like a reunion, which is not going to happen, would yield amazing concerts, as Morrissey still sings great and Johnny's still great on guitar, nothing's lost there.

 

[Peppermint]

I think it's okay for Johnny to sing SOME songs but not this one because he just can't feel this song. He always had someone.

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[video]

Probably true. But my God, the music is so glorious I forgive him.

 

[Peppermint]

Watching their concerts is like watching two butchered parts of the Mona Lisa in two different museums.

Such a good description, messengers!

 

[messengers]

Thank you.
It also reminded me of my recent trip to Rome. Lots of great ruins of the Roman Empire, very beautiful. But the ancient Romans are long gone.
I am too young to have seen the Smiths live and I only REALLY got into them about six years ago, but they're my favourite band since then.
At their respective concerts, I hear and see echoes of what once was, slightly better than a cover band. One of the members is there, be it much older and changed. Part of the original sound is there, as beautiful as always, when a Smiths song is played live by Morrissey or Johnny. But part of it is distorted, when Johnny sings lyrics that belong to Morrissey only, or when Morrissey's backing band butchers The Smiths band parts. Distorted echoes, it's the fate that real Smiths fans live with and will have to live with. At least we have the original recordings that will live on. It's great that they're still alive, releasing new music and performing old Smiths songs. And isn't melancholy and longing for a monochrome past an integral part of being a Smiths fan?!?