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Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb picks over the fly-blown carcass of this month's music press - Maggoty Lamb Guardian blogs

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For all the many very annoying things and unsatisfactory things about The Word's fifth birthday edition, this issue contains one piece of writing so invigoratingly impassioned and astute that it justifies the existence of the whole magazine. The article concerned is an all-out frontal assault on the aesthetic and ethical shortcomings of Morrissey's latest Greatest Hits.
But more important than either its subject matter, or its acuity, or even the rumours that its well-aimed barbs have stung their target into his now seemingly reflex threats of legal action (Can you be sued for saying that Morrissey and his band 'sound like Will Young and Nine Below Zero rehearsing in a very bad pub'? I don't think any court in the land would convict.) is how closely the identity of its author - 1980's NME survivor turned Harry Hill helpmeet David Quantick - conforms to the standard Word contributor's template.

Perhaps the biggest problem for this magazine in trying to establish an authentic editorial voice has been the disjunction between its own status relative to the rest of the media (which is essentially that of a tubercular Dickensian waif peering poignantly in through the steamed-up windows of a well-populated pudding shop) and that of its contributors (many of whom are quite prestigious individuals, with long careers in the upper echelons of the content-generation business behind them). The great thing about Quantick's magisterial proclamation is the way its sense of moral grievance is not so much undermined by his own extensive experience as a music media insider, as underpinned by it.
'Once Morrissey made music that talked about the underdog, the victim and those in the minority. Now he makes music that excludes those people.' You do not necessarily have to agree with these two sentences to appreciate their dramatic impact. And in demonstrating that rarest of all qualities in the contemporary music press - gravitas - Quantick has shown The Word a possible way out of its ongoing malaise.
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