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[TheSmiths_1985]

He clearly sells enough to warrant a record deal and I've bought all of his solo albums but I've never thought any of them were brilliant. Each one has its moments but I probably enjoy 50/60% of the songs on them. Sprit Power is my favourite as it basically captures all of the tracks I like from each of the albums and includes the standalone singles Armatopia and Somewhere which are my favourite songs of his.

Day In Day Out is my go-to Marr song, when the mood takes me.

 

[Juan Dulces]

The Messenger and Call The Comet were both pretty good. Not listened to much of his newer stuff; songs about spirits and power and soul aren’t my cup of tea.

You are right - those were pretty good albums! Each album after sounds very similar to the ones you've mentioned but the quality of the songs vary. I personally think The Messenger has his best songs from THIS era. The Boomslang album (w/the Healers) musically was pretty good as well.

 

[Jamie]

You are right - those were pretty good albums! Each album after sounds very similar to the ones you've mentioned but the quality of the songs vary. I personally think The Messenger has his best songs from THIS era. The Boomslang album (w/the Healers) musically was pretty good as well.

Playland is the one I return to least. I quite like the "completeness" of Fever Dreams - there's really only one or two songs I skip on the album. The Best of is a nice "one and done" if you want to dip your toes and get the creme de la creme. I'm probably in the minority by far, but I quite like "The Priest," his collaboration with Maxine Peake.

 

[Anonymous]

They were all crap though, there's not one song you would want as a Smiths b-side....
Most of those attending are literally clinging on to their past.... zoom in, the room's full of baldies and old ladies wishing they weren't so miserable now....... but at least they get their 7 Smiths songs eh....
Do you know you can go top 10 some weeks by selling about 8,000 units......

I was at that Hammersmith gig, almost all teenagers and people in their 20s standing around me in the front 5-6 rows and I saw loads more on my way out afterwards.

Over 3,000 people singing along to every word... was spine tingling!

 

[marred]

Morrissey is obsessed with them, there are loads of Central Posts from him on chart position , he even posts chart positions in charts that no one else can see.

I know about his obsession with the charts. I was wondering why you were touting Marr's position in the charts as in do you care?

 

[BurgerButt]

I was at that Hammersmith gig, almost all teenagers and people in their 20s standing around me in the front 5-6 rows and I saw loads more on my way out afterwards.

Over 3,000 people singing along to every word... was spine tingling!

Yeah alright Johnny, we believe you....

 

[Surface]

I was at that Hammersmith gig, almost all teenagers and people in their 20s standing around me in the front 5-6 rows and I saw loads more on my way out afterwards.

Over 3,000 people singing along to every word... was spine tingling!

No idea how many people were singing but that gig was sold out so 5300 people there.

 

[Billy A]

Maybe label execs saying no to Morrissey should watch this:

 

[Anonymous]

No idea how many people were singing but that gig was sold out so 5300 people there.

If you'd told me 20 years ago that johnnyboy would one day be playing the same size venues as Morrissey - on his own - I would've asked you to give me some of whatever it was you were smoking!

Hats off to him, he's worked his skinny little arse off for it. Dont think I've seen another 80s player who's gone from relative obscurity to being absolutely everywhere. Support slots, festivals, TV performances, 1000s of podcasts/radio shows/interviews and so on, for the last 10-15 years. not to mention the mile long list of collaborative work, the books, the guitar line, etc etc.

And he's only cancelled 1 or 2 live shows in all that time (due to passport and lost luggage issues) and has worked pretty hard on his voice. Still sounds like he's twelve pints under at the karaoke bar when he sings stuff like HSIN and Panic, but he's got a nice upper register and looks like he's having a blast.

i think the guys from new order once said his work ethic was so strong, it drove them nuts. hed be the first one in the studio and the last one to leave. Morrissey could learn a thing or two. Less time shitposting on Central and ignoring his emails, more time out on the road and keeping his fans happy.

 

[SuedeMoz]

It seems incredible, though perhaps telling as well as ironic, that aptly-notorious murderer Ian Brady once managed to have a book published while imprisoned, complete with a foreword by a respected author(!), and yet Morrissey is deemed untouchable by - at least - major labels. This bizarre contrast in apparent eligibility/acceptability seems to me a little like the old truth about American censorship of the movies (in former decades at least): "It's fine if you, the director, show someone shooting countless people but no way will we let you show a breast being exposed onscreen."

For perspective, it's worth remembering that Morrissey had a deal to release BOT on Capitol. Had he not run it into the ground, maybe we'd have both BOT and WMTWD through Capitol. At what point do you start holding Morrissey responsible for where he's at instead of everyone else?

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

 

[Cornflakes]

Maybe label execs saying no to Morrissey should watch this:

Not clear whether you think Morrissey is a knave or a diva.

 

[robertw93]

For perspective, it's worth remembering that Morrissey had a deal to release BOT on Capitol. Had he not run it into the ground, maybe we'd have both BOT and WMTWD through Capitol. At what point do you start holding Morrissey responsible for where he's at instead of everyone else?

True. We would have had Without Music probably this year. If he'd taken Miley off Veronica it might have been the lead single and maybe even had promotion of some kind.

Rebels was the poorest single release so far, not song wise but promotion wise. Even Central wasn't mentioning it, very weird.

 

[brody]

Rebels was doomed from the get-go. It dropped randomly on a major American holiday with absolutely no promotion. Only reason I found out about it was because of an instagram post the day of. Plus it sounds shite

 

[BurgerButt]

ffs give it up.... i'd rather eat a dogbab sarnie than listen to this

 

[thejusticecode]

If anybody would know it would be Richard Blade.

 

[trans]

marrs music is fine but his most played song is still im spideman. easy money is next at 12 mill new town velocity at maybe 5mill. a couple of other songs just crossed over the 1 mill mark (3 maybe 4 songs out of five albums). most of the messenger and call the comet, my fav, album tracks have less han 400,000 plays. not a dig but hes not as famous here as people are making out. his shows seem to be much more popular than the actual music on record so its not hard to see how some might get the impression that people might want to see hear some smiths songs and that this is a big part of the live appeal as just wanting to see marr since they grew up with his music. i also dont know what his deal would be like to put out these albums. morrissey seems to want to give very little though thats his decision to make. some live percentage, merch maybe etc. almost everything on dog without a chain and low in high school break his numbers here. even rebels without applause with 1.5 million plays is more than almost anything on call the comet also accomplished with no airplay which i guess is still big in briton for some reason.

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

ffs give it up.... i'd rather eat a dogbab sarnie than listen to this

 

[JoeSellMozza]

Please stop all the Marr stuff. He cannot sing!

 

[JoeSellMozza]

The tour seems to be on