This is interesting stuff. I remember reading that SG was originally conceived as a true follow-up to V&I, but that Morrissey changed his mind and instructed the band to pump up the volume and rock out. Listening to this demo reminds me of "Hated for loving", a better song for me.
Morrissey A-Z: "Best Friend on the Payroll"
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This is interesting stuff. I remember reading that SG was originally conceived as a true follow-up to V&I, but that Morrissey changed his mind and instructed the band to pump up the volume and rock out. Listening to this demo reminds me of "Hated for loving", a better song for me.
A shame that the Miraval Session of Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam" never survived the cutting room floor.
Make that M|A|R|R|S' "Pump Up the Volume"!
ZOOM FROM GLOOM
LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA!
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I love the color of the chords and general mood, thank you Alain.
The combination of disappointment and humor along with the originality of the songs subject matter ... wow ! what other artist
can do this?
Only Morrissey can.
MOZ - CLASSIC !!!
I love the color of the chords and general mood, thank you Alain.
The combination of disappointment and humor along with the originality of the songs subject matter ... wow ! what other artist
can do this?
Only Morrissey can.
MOZ - CLASSIC !!!
GirlAfraidWillNeverLearn
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Yes, Nobody Loves Us didn't come out of nowhere and sounds like a proper Vauxhall song.
The early takes sounded more like Vauxhall or the post-Vauxhall singles Boxers and Sunny.
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Janice
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Interesting picture
GirlAfraidWillNeverLearn
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Original photo is by Renaud Monfourny
The Dean image is a popular source for montages, here with Brando
Original with Julie Harris
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Mike Rourke
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Morrissey released a handful of really good songs in 1995 (e.g. Sunny, Nobody Loves Us, Boxers, Swallow on my Neck) but none of them were on Southpaw Grammar. The title track's OK, Boy Racer's not bad (apart from the last minute or so) and Reader Meet Author is nice enough, but the rest are just truly mediocre including this song. Why this album doesn't sit firmly at the bottom of everyone's list of Morrissey albums, I'll never understand.
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My view is that this song fits nicely into SG, a decent tune , a half decent album with the singes being really strong and hard hitting..
Can remember buying this and hating the opening track, really hating it....
Can remember buying this and hating the opening track, really hating it....
gordyboy9
You Filthy Beast.
always wondered what happened to damien after THE OMEN.
GirlAfraidWillNeverLearn
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He continued to be an evil brat in The Omen II.
Half a song, but one I love.
Morrissey's economical approach to the lyrics on Southpaw as a whole give the album a slightly unsatisfying ambiguity, but I think there's a world of pathos in a line like "I turn the music down / and I don't know why / this is my house." If he elaborated upon this observation, something in the poetry would be lost. "I could say more / but you get the general idea" he hints a couple songs earlier.
I like how the chaotic nature of the instrumental helps to illustrate the blurred boundaries of the subject at hand, with the minor chord verse barreling into the major chord chorus as if these were pieces of two separate songs.
Morrissey's economical approach to the lyrics on Southpaw as a whole give the album a slightly unsatisfying ambiguity, but I think there's a world of pathos in a line like "I turn the music down / and I don't know why / this is my house." If he elaborated upon this observation, something in the poetry would be lost. "I could say more / but you get the general idea" he hints a couple songs earlier.
I like how the chaotic nature of the instrumental helps to illustrate the blurred boundaries of the subject at hand, with the minor chord verse barreling into the major chord chorus as if these were pieces of two separate songs.
While I'm not saying this applies to everyone, I think for some people there is a sense of nostalgia for that whole era that allows them to overlook some faults (I'm guilty of that myself as I feel nostalgic towards Maladjusted which is far from perfect). We were all younger back then and it is easy to romanticize the past.
For Morrissey to issue an album with only 8 songs and with so few lyrical ideas was a mistake in any era, however.
SuedeMoz
The sanest days are mad
OMG, that acoustic version is far superior. It makes me wonder how SG would have turned out with more time and effort put into it. I liked stuff post SG, but it's where the cracks started to show for me.
Phranc & Open
Golden Years 88-97
Still he's called "Best friend on the payroll" not "Lover on the payroll".
A typical Morrissey moment: such a direct song and yet it doesn't address, what exactly it's about. Why can't brothers be lovers, ey? I always loved the album version with it's Hammerhead pop style. The Miraval version sounds flat and misses a lot of instrumentation.
The song is the key for Morrissey's "personal assistants" being more of a Scott Thorson character in general.
A typical Morrissey moment: such a direct song and yet it doesn't address, what exactly it's about. Why can't brothers be lovers, ey? I always loved the album version with it's Hammerhead pop style. The Miraval version sounds flat and misses a lot of instrumentation.
The song is the key for Morrissey's "personal assistants" being more of a Scott Thorson character in general.
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GirlAfraidWillNeverLearn
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Because everybody else does that and it would be fzcking boring.
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Nephew On The Payroll, is it going to work out?
That's Enough For Me
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I remember wondering whether Southpaw was going to serve up a song I could like after I'd heard this one and there weren't many left to listen to.
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southpawcomprehensive
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Mine too
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