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Bigmouth strums again: was Andy Burnham’s Smiths jam in Kyiv the perfect soundtrack to a Britain in freefall?
By Zoe WilliamsThe UK prime minister clearly still adores the band. Perhaps he’s attracted to songs about sham justice and murderous meat factories, shot through with nihilism and exquisite despair
#TheSmiths #AndyBurnham #Morrissey #Politics #TheGuardian #ZoeWilliams
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How Soon Is Now - Johnny Marr Live At The Crazy Face Factory
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G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up – 6/26/26
I check out an album by the Smiths, and the latest release from Fiend.
Favorite Videos include JUNNY on MW HAUS, De La Soul live, and more!
I also showcase last week's LastFM stats.
https://g-nitro.com/g-nitros-daily-music-wrap-up-6-26-26
#Music #1001albums #TheSmiths #Fiend #Junny #MWHaus #DeLaSoul
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The bit that you skip #177: The Smiths – How Soon is Now?
A song with a strange lifecycle. Originally a B-side to William it was really nothing, How Soon is Now? carved a place of its own on indie darlings and their mixtapes. A song that you could dance alone to, specially if you were as terminally shy as the narrator. Sonically, it’s a far stride from what The Smiths were peddling. Jangly guitars, tambourine, and a slightly distant mixing now were replaced by studio trickery, tremolos, and a slick production.
Nothing wrong on both styles of The Smiths. They can coexist. The styles, not the band, though.
Always feels weird how so many classic bands like Joy Division, The Beatles, and The Smiths had songs with major appeal that weren’t on albums. Sure, the US edition of Meat is Murder has How Soon is Now? but for the United Kingdom, it was there, sandwiched between William it was really nothing and Please, please, please let me get what I want (at least on the 12 inch edition).
I was too young to “get” The Smiths when they were on radio. And to be honest, I think I was too much into The Cure or Depeche Mode to go for the poetic intimacy of The Smiths. What piqued my interest was Love Spit Love’s deft cover for The Craft, a movie almost all Gen Xer was attracted due to its cast and college radio friendly soundtrack.
Then This is England had Clayhill’s heartwrenching cover of Please Please Please let me get what I want. Then I really paid attention to The Smiths. It finally sink to me its importance. I remember going a few times to The Cookie Club in Nottingham on the gothic night, seeing people happily dancing by themselves listening to great tracks and not a single time was How Soon is Now? spared from being on the playlist.
I’ve mentioned before that you can accumulate a pile of “I’ll listen/read/watch later” stuff in your life and I know it’s unreasonable to believe you’ll be able to consume all of it. But start today, do a little bit. A page or two. An episode or two. Half an hour (or an act). A couple of songs. Never get stuck into a rut, listen to something new today, even if it was released decades ago. You won’t regret expanding your tastes.
-Sam J. Valdés López
https://youtu.be/hnpILIIo9ek?si=IF1lYf2SSm_-KpWs
#HatfulOfHollow #HowSoonIsNow #LoveSpitLove #music #Nottingham #Review #Reviews #Rock #TheCookieClub #TheCraft #TheSmiths #writing -
THE SMITHS
meat is murder
suédée par Hugues Baum
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.#pochettededisque #thesmiths #meatismurder #pochettehommage #pochettepirate #facticepochette
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Riot Fest Drafts Preemptive Morrissey Cancellation Tweet
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The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
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DiscogsDienstag: The Smiths – The World Won’t Listen
„Und immer, wenn wir traurig waren, und traurig waren wir ziemlich oft, gingen wir zu dir nach Hause und da hörten wir die Smiths“ singt Farin Urlaub im Refrain seiner zweiten Solo-Single „Sumisu“ (MusicCloud) aus dem Jahr 2001. Damit hat er auch mein Lebensgefühl der späten Achtzigerjahre sehr schön getroffen. The Smiths waren für mich damals sehr wichtig und ich habe mich in den Texten von Sänger Morrissey wiedergefunden. Mein Einstieg in ihre Musik war 1987 die Kompilation „The World Won’t Listen“, eine Zusammenstellung von Singles und deren B-Seiten, einige der berührensten Songs der Band. Heute bin ich ambivalent, was die Smiths angeht, nachdem Morrissey den Weg zu Xenophobie, Rassimus, Islamophobie und Verschwörungstheorien (Musikexpress) gefunden hat. Es stellt sich mir die ewige Frage, kann und soll man die Kunst vom Künstler trennen?
Ich lernte Morrissey musikalich als empfindsamen Sänger kennen, der sich für Tierrechte aussprach und gegen Thatcher, Monarchie und die allgemeinen Zustände in seiner Heimat. Vieler seiner Texte waren zudem sehr persönlich und trafen auch meinen Nerv. Heute kann ich The Smiths dagegen nicht mehr unbeschwert (was für ein Attribut in dem Zusammenhang!) hören und ich habe selbst im GothDiscoInferno erst ein Lied von ihnen gespielt, „What Difference Does It Make?“ in der Ausgabe 31. Dabei mag ich ihre Musik nach wie vor.
Jedenfalls ist „The World Won’t Listen“ ein sehr guter Einstieg gewesen. Nach den ersten drei Alben „The Smiths“ (1984), „Meat Is Murder“ (1985) und „The Queen Is Dead“ (1986) war es bereits die zweite Kompilation nach „Hatful Of Hollow“ (1984). Wie bereits erwähnt, wurden hauptsächlich die Singles zusammengestellt und mit „Panic“, „Ask“, „London“ und „Bigmouth Strikes Again“ geht das Album schon gut los. Es folgen „Shakespeare’s Sister“, nach dem sich die fast gleichnamige Band benannte, „There Is A Light That Never Goes Out“, „Shoplifters Of The World Unite“ und „The Boy With The Thorn In His Side“. „Bigmouth“ und „There Is A Light …“ stammen von Album „The Queen Is Dead“ und wurden nicht als Singles veröffentlicht.
Die zweite Seite der LP beginnt mit den sehr emotionalen B-Seiten „Asleep“, „Unloveable“, „Half A Person“ und „Strech Out And Wait“, gefolgt von der Single „That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore“. Den Abschluss bilden das instumentale „Oscillate Wildly“, „You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby“, das ursprünglich auch als Single erscheinen sollte, was dann aber nicht geschah und „Rubber Ring“.
Der Albumtitel soll darauf zurückgehen, dass Morrissey der Auffassung war, kommerzielle Radios und Plattenkäufer würden die Band nicht angemessen würdigen. Da hatte er im Grunde ja auch Recht.
Das Cover basiert auf einem Bild des deutschen Fotografen Jürgen Vollmer aus dem Buch „Rock ‚N‘ Roll Times: The Style and Spirit of the Early Beatles and Their First Fans“.Es war schon ein großer Glücksfall, dass sich die vier Musiker in Manchester zusammengefunden haben. Das Gitarrespiel von Johnny Marr ist extraordinär und auch Bassist Andy Rourke, der leider heute, am 19. Mai, vor 3 Jahren im Alter von 59 Jahren starb und Schlagzeuger Mick Joyce trugen ihre außergewöhnlichen Parts bei. Nach diesem Album erschien im selben Jahr noch „Strangeways, Here We Come“ bevor sich die Smiths trennten. Es folgte noch das Live-Album „Rank“ (1988) und in den Neunziger Jahren einige Best-Of-Alben. Ab 1989 gab es Rechtsstreitigkeiten um Geld, Andy Rourke und Mick Joyce verlangten eine höhere Beteiligung an den Tantiemen, die hauptsächlich Morrissey und Marr zuflossen, die allerdings auch die allermeisten Songs der Band geschrieben hatten. Rourke begnügte sich mit einer Pauschalzahlung, Joyce kämpfte gerichtlich weiter, was bis heute ungeklärt ist.
Ich war von der Musik so begeistert, dass ich mir auch das Songbook zu „The World Won’t Listen“ gekauft und mich auf der Gitarre an den Songs versucht habe.
#AndyRourke #IndieRock #JohnnyMarr #MickJoyce #Morrissey #PostPunk #TheSmiths -
"William, It Was Really Nothing" is a song by the English #rock band #theSmiths. It was released as a single in August 1984, featuring the B-sides "#PleasePleasePleaseLetMeGetWhatIWant" and "#HowSoonIsNow", and reached No. 17 in the #UKSinglesChart. The song is featured on the compilation albums #HatfulOfHollow and #LouderThanBombs, as well as other best of and singles collections. In 2004.
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"William, It Was Really Nothing" is a song by the English #rock band #theSmiths. It was released as a single in August 1984, featuring the B-sides "#PleasePleasePleaseLetMeGetWhatIWant" and "#HowSoonIsNow", and reached No. 17 in the #UKSinglesChart. The song is featured on the compilation albums #HatfulOfHollow and #LouderThanBombs, as well as other best of and singles collections. In 2004.
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"Meat is Murder," the second record by the Smiths, was released 40 years ago yesterday. Tiernan Cannon became a fan of the band long after it became obvious that lead singer Morrissey is a bad egg, "a battle-hardened culture warrior of the right wing, a man whose political views have slipped far beyond the point of contrarianism into straight-up chauvinism." The problem, says Cannon, writing for @PasteMagazine, is that Morrissey — back in the day, at least — was also an exquisite songwriter, capable of eliciting empathy, calling for compassion, taking the side of the underdog. Here's Cannon's story on what to do when the artist is a genius, but the human being is "pathetically, tragically flawed." What's your perspective — can you separate the art from the artist?
#Music #TheSmiths #Morrissey #Entertainment #MeatIsMurder #Poll
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Een goeie dag om integraal één van de beste albums ooit te draaien.
Meat is Murder van The Smiths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQTc4GolJt4&list=OLAK5uy_mz0YHCuq_IeMVDk67mtgUccsBqg-DOzvM&index=2
Dit album is vandaag precies 40 jaar oud.
#meatismurder #thesmiths #1985
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‘I was always obsessed with death’: how Linder turned pornography and trauma into art https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/10/i-was-always-obsessed-with-death-how-linder-turned-pornography-and-trauma-into-art #MuseumofModernArt #SouthbankCentre #Graphicdesign #Lifeandstyle #Artanddesign #Pornography #SexPistols #Manchester #Buzzcocks #Morrissey #TheSmiths #JohnLydon #LadyGaga #Culture #Punk #Art
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Selected influences (part 1)
#Radiohead #TheVerve #Verve #Debussy #Satie #Ravel #Pixies #TheClientele #Deerhunter #Doves #PearlJam #U2 #ThomYorke #DevendraBanhart #JonnyGreenwood #Grouplove #TameImpala #Slowdive #Violens #Suede #Ride #TheBeatles #Beatles #Björk #Bjork #JorgeElbrecht #CocteauTwins #FlyingLotus #Beck #TheStoneRoses #StoneRoses #Oasis #OtherLives #NoJoy #TheSmiths #Tamaryn #GrizzlyBear #SigurRós #SigurRos #Swervedriver #Japan #LUNASEA #AnnaCalvi #Dungen #BoardsOfCanada #REM #Elbow
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Hoy descubrí este cover de «How Soon is Now?» de The Smiths hecho por una banda llamada Snake River Conspiracy, a quienes tampoco conocía. Me gustó harto, así que se va mi playlist de covers.
#SnakeRiverConspiracy #HowSoonIsNow #TheSmiths #Covers #Rock #Música
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#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingMidMorningBiscuitNotNews... #NotNearly24... #OftenLess... #FrequentlyFewer...
#TheKiller is a #BitOfADisappointment; #NoSpoilers, or #Anything... But...
You'd be #BetterOff with my #ShaggyDogStory and a #CompilationAlbum of #TheSmiths...
#WellDone to #TrentReznor and #AtticusRoss for #PhoningItIn...
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I knew there must have been a reason that the first song I chose for #FridayRockShow today just happened to be #HowSoonIsNow by #TheSmiths
Did I have a gut feeling about this? I'd not seen/heard any news site at all today... Was out all morning until at least 2pm.
So here it is again
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Not done #FridayRockShow for ages... and it's not really gonna be rock today either... but #choons from my youth all the same.
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It's like The Smiths without Morrissey:
How Soon Is Now - Johnny Marr Live At The Crazy Face Factory - Invidious
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=mY8eKQFyRJk
